All events on Thursday February 28
Previous day|Next day- Performing Arts: Comedy
- The Black Comedy Experiment
- Thursday Feb 28 @ The Tank More times »
- Giveaway
- Formulaic 'hood classics and Def Comedy Jam reruns wither and die in the face of this weekend's lineup of local standup talent. Founded by two... View details »
- Music: Global
- Akoya Afrobeat
- Thursday Feb 28 (9pm) @ S.O.B.'s
- Giveaway
- Upon moving to the States, Kaleta was baffled to find that the Nigerian protest music he'd played as part of Fela Kuti's Egypt 80 was... View details »
- More Flavor: Discussion
- Mos Def in Conversation
- Thursday Feb 28 (8pm) @ 92nd St Y
- Hip-hop renaissance man Mos Def has built his career from political, introspective lyrics, a mix of sci-fi silliness and hardcore beats, and carefully chosen acting... View details »
- Music: DJ
- Dirtybird feat. Tanner Ross
- Thursday Feb 28 (8pm) @ APT
- Free
- Since kicking off in May last year, the monthly Dirtybird rager has been a rollicking, shenanigan-filled party each and every time — quite an accomplishment... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Passing Strange
- Thursday Feb 28 (8pm) @ The Belasco Theatre More times »
- The loose autobiography-in-song of one Mark Stewart (aka Stew), Passing Strange tells the story of a restless Youth (the excellent Daniel Breaker) who flees his... View details »
- Music: Global
- Balkan Beat Box
- Thursday Feb 28 (8–10pm) @ Brooklyn Masonic Temple
- Mixing electronic grooves and hip-hop beats with elements of Eastern European and Gypsy music, Balkan Beat Box deliver a fresh take on traditional tunes. The... View details »
- Music: Electronic
- Cobblestone Jazz
- Thursday Feb 28 (10pm) @ Cielo
- Giveaway
- Cobblestone Jazz channel the soul of Charles Mingus, then route it through a TB-303 synth. The Canadian trio, headed up by established solo producer and... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- St. Vincent
- Thursday Feb 28 (9pm) @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
- Giveaway
- Twenty-five-year-old Annie Clark tosses out quite the maelstrom of ideas. Luckily, she also has a wholly capable musical persona with which to steady them. Taking... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Fred Armisen
- Thursday Feb 28 (8pm) @ Knitting Factory
- SNL fave Fred Armisen harbors a not-so-secret passion for instructional drumming videos. These serve as the inspiration for his latest project with (or as, depending... View details »
- Music: Rock/Pop
- Apes & Androids
- Thursday Feb 28 (10pm) @ Hiro Ballroom
- Apes & Androids are one of the most flamboyantly fun live acts this side Of Montreal. The NYC psych five-piece is steadily gaining momentum; now's... View details »
The following events are ongoing.
- Art
- Tara Donovan
- Thursday Feb 28 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
- Bringing new meaning to the term "pack rat," sculptor Tara Donovan accumulates everyday objects such as Styrofoam cups and drinking straws and uses the material... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- August: Osage County
- Thursday Feb 28 (7:30pm) @ Imperial Theatre More times »
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- Art
- Extreme Embroidery
- Thursday Feb 28 (10am–8pm) @ Museum of Art and Design More times »
- Following the success of its Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting exhibition, the Museum of Arts and Design again draws glares from grandmas everywhere with Pricked:... View details »
- Art
- Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
- Thursday Feb 28 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
- MoMA's permanent collection gobbles up so many artworks that many aren't ever seen again, which is why Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now is... View details »
- Art
- Francis Alÿs
- Thursday Feb 28 (10am–4pm) @ Hispanic Society of America More times »
- Free
- While Dia searches for a new home, the arts org has teamed up with Washington Heights' Hispanic Society on a three-year collaboration. The first showcase... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Fuerzabruta
- Thursday Feb 28 (8pm) @ Daryl Roth Theatre More times »
- Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerzabruta, a sort of a follow-up to the Argentine smash hit... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Jump
- Thursday Feb 28 (7pm) @ Union Square Theatre More times »
- After achieving worldwide success, Korean phenomenon Jump has landed at Union Square — and it's easy to see what makes its appeal so universal. Almost... View details »
- Art
- Lucian Freud
- Thursday Feb 28 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
- Known for mountainous, fleshy portraits, like the painting of Leigh Bowery's backside at the Met, Lucian Freud (grandson of Sigmund) seemingly paints with a chisel,... View details »
- More Flavor: Exhibition
- blog.mode
- Thursday Feb 28 @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
- Fashion is a relative newcomer to the reputable Metropolitan, but now the Upper East Side institution is stepping into the fracas of the fashion blogosphere.... View details »
- Art
- New York States of Mind
- Thursday Feb 28 (10am–5pm) @ Queens Museum of Art More times »
- Possibly a veiled reference to the Billy Joel song, New York States of Mind is curator Shaheen Merali's look at what has made New York... View details »
- Art
- Jaishri Abichandani
- Thursday Feb 28 (10am–5pm) @ Queens Museum of Art More times »
- Born in Bombay (now Mumbai), Jaishri Abichandani immigrated to Queens when she was 14 and has since become both an accomplished curator and a practicing... View details »
- Art
- Unmonumental
- Thursday Feb 28 (noon–10pm) @ New Museum of Contemporary Art More times »
- The new New Museum inaugurates its faux-gritty emporium with three-part exhibition Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century. An ace curatorial squad brings together 30... View details »
- Art
- Lee Friedlander
- Thursday Feb 28 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
- Lee Friedlander made his name wandering across the US in the '50s and '60s, taking pictures of motel television sets, shop window reflections, and odd... View details »
- Art
- Jasper Johns
- Thursday Feb 28 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
- In Jasper Johns' Gray, the Met culls a rigorous collection of work from the mid-'50s to the present. Johns, a pop artist for his use... View details »
- Art
- Jan de Cock
- Thursday Feb 28 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
- A relentless photographer and image archiver, Jan de Cock collects his findings in hefty books dubbed denkmals (German for "monument"). The Belgian artist brings his... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Adding Machine
- Thursday Feb 28 (8pm) @ Minetta Lane Theatre More times »
- After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven by rage — and... View details »
- Art
- Marvin Franklin
- Thursday Feb 28 (10am–4pm) @ New York Transit Museum More times »
- Marvin Franklin spent more than two decades of his life working as a night-shift track inspector for the MTA. This may not seem like a... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Open House
- Thursday Feb 28 (8pm) @ Various locations More times »
- Seeing other people's apartments in the city is pleasingly voyeuristic, a sanctioned invasion of space. How clever, then, that the Foundry Theatre stages Open House... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Rum & Coke
- Thursday Feb 28 (7:30pm) @ June Havoc Theatre More times »
- In Carmen Peláez's one-woman show Rum & Coke, the protagonist begins a search for beauty and a forgotten Cuba after finding her great-aunt Amelia Peláez's... View details »
- Art
- Pop Subversion
- Thursday Feb 28 (1–8pm) @ Ad Hoc Art More times »
- Free
- Over 30 artists fill Ad Hoc's walls with twisted fairy-tale imagery, tortured visages, and disemboweled beauties in Pop Subversion. Some confront the frustrations of city... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Betrayed
- Thursday Feb 28 (8pm) @ Culture Project More times »
- George Packer's complex and devastating new play draws on extensive interviews with Iraqi interpreters for US forces over the past five years. Betrayed follows three... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Grace
- Thursday Feb 28 (8pm) @ Lucille Lortel Theatre More times »
- Playwright Mick Gordon calls his plays "theatre essays" because they analyze a specific subject in hand, while portraying the lives of real people. On Religion,... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Archive Fever
- Thursday Feb 28 @ International Center of Photography More times »
- Exploring identity and memory through archived imagery, curator Okwui Enwezor has collected over 20 artists to explore the often formal institution with a creative eye.... View details »
- Art
- Gustave Courbet
- Thursday Feb 28 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
- Gustave Courbet was the Damien Hirst of his day, never shying away from controversy; he was also a terrific artist, making modern paintings before the... View details »
- Performing Arts: Comedy
- The Apple Sisters
- Thursday Feb 28 (8pm) @ The People's Improv Theater More times »
- Giveaway
- 1940s Americana isn't typical sketch-comedy fodder, but that doesn't deter the Apple Sisters, who lovingly recreate the radio era onstage with endearing chemistry and a... View details »
- Art
- Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
- Thursday Feb 28 (9:30am–5:30pm) @ Metropolitan Museum of Art More times »
- France's first superstar painter, Nicolas Poussin trained in Rome during the baroque era, at the height of Italy's artistic dominance. His intellectual classicism didn't find... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Hunting and Gathering
- Thursday Feb 28 (8pm) @ 59E59 Theaters More times »
- Hunting and Gathering's simple, sweet appeal lies in its hyper-real portrait of young NYC. Ruth is a thirtysomething who keeps her stuff in storage while... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Irving Penn
- Thursday Feb 28 (10am–5pm) @ The Morgan Library More times »
- Although photographer Irving Penn has worked in a variety of styles (including fashion spreads and early forays into painting), he is best known for iconic,... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Happy Endings
- Thursday Feb 28 (8pm) @ Access Theater More times »
- In a revolt against love-story banality, Blue Coyote Theater Group commissioned nine playwrights to write shorts based on the lives of sex workers. Presented as... View details »
- Art
- Be Kind Rewind
- Thursday Feb 28 (noon–6pm) @ Deitch Projects More times »
- Free
- In his newest film, Be Kind Rewind, Michel Gondry tells the story of two childhood friends who work to recreate a video store's entire inventory... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Thicker Than Water 2008
- Thursday Feb 28 (7pm) @ Ensemble Studio Theatre More times »
- Showcasing the young and the talented is Ensemble Studio Theatre's Thicker Than Water, a collection of one-acts from the company's ensemble of up-and-coming playwrights. Amazingly,... View details »
- Art
- Jasper Johns
- Thursday Feb 28 @ Matthew Marks Gallery More times »
- Free
- While the Met hosts a survey of Jasper Johns' gray-hued works, Matthew Marks shows 40 of the artist's drawings from the last decade. Johns, now... View details »
- Art
- WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution
- Thursday Feb 28 (noon–6pm) @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center More times »
- With Hillary Clinton in the political limelight, WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution couldn't be more timely. A survey of 120 international female artists working... View details »
- Art
- Xu Zhen
- Thursday Feb 28 (10am–6pm) @ James Cohan Gallery More times »
- Free
- A masterful obfuscator of facts and images, Xu Zhen (in his artworks, at least) has waged armed assaults on China's neighboring countries with remote-controlled toy... View details »
- Art
- Nayland Blake
- Thursday Feb 28 (11am–6pm) @ Matthew Marks Gallery More times »
- Free
- For many years, Nayland Blake's surrogate was a big white bunny that showed up in his drawings and sculptures. But in his new pieces at... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Robert Mapplethorpe
- Thursday Feb 28 (11am–6pm) @ Sean Kelly Gallery More times »
- Free
- Famous for his sensual photographs of flowers and notorious for his S&M images, Robert Mapplethorpe also took excellent portraits. Sean Kelly Gallery presents nearly 50... View details »
- Art: Architecture/Design
- Design and the Elastic Mind
- Thursday Feb 28 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
- As technology slowly stretches past the limits of sci-fi fantasy, designers must work within the rapidly evolving space between scientific innovation and consumer culture. In... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Life in a Marital Institution
- Thursday Feb 28 (8:30pm) @ 59E59 Theaters More times »
- In the funniest, most bizarre scene in James Braly's Life in a Marital Institution, Braly's wife Susan drags him to a liberal commune in upstate... View details »
- Performing Arts: Dance
- Center of Sleep
- Thursday Feb 28 (7:30 & 9:30pm) @ Dance Theater Workshop More times »
- Giveaway
- Blurring the lines between dance and installation art, Yanira Castro + Company's new Center of Sleep is an immersive multimedia experience. Exploring the extreme shifts... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Looking Up
- Thursday Feb 28 (8pm) @ Theater for the New City More times »
- Trapeze-theatre piece Looking Up seamlessly combines two unlikely mediums into a surprisingly nice little love story. Solo trapeze artist Wendy and fast-talking bartender Jack "meet... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The 39 Steps
- Thursday Feb 28 @ American Airlines Theater More times »
- Throughout The 39 Steps, Patrick Barlow's quick-witted adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock's classic spy movie (originally a 1915 novel by John Buchan), there are sly references... View details »
- Film
- Milos Forman Retrospective
- Thursday Feb 28 @ MoMA More times »
- Given the terrific contribution he's made to cinema, it's surprising that director Milos Forman isn't more of a household name. His relatively under-the-wire profile may... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island
- Thursday Feb 28 (8pm) @ Vineyard Theatre More times »
- Ben Katchor's epic indie-rock musical The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island, or, The Friends of Dr. Rushower returns, upgrading to the Vineyard after its successful... View details »
- Film
- CineKink
- Thursday Feb 28 @ Various locations More times »
- Giveaway
- For the fifth year running, CineKink showcases screen-legal perversions — legal, at least, in this city — with nearly a week of naughty clips and... View details »
- Art
- Luc Tuymans
- Thursday Feb 28 (10am–6pm) @ David Zwirner More times »
- Free
- Belgian painter Luc Tuymans makes every effort to stymie easy interpretation of his blurry, photo-derived paintings. A history painter in a media-saturated era, he's tackled... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Questa
- Thursday Feb 28 (8pm) @ Wings Theatre More times »
- Victor Bumbalo's new play, Questa, focuses on Paul, a young victim of an attempted gay-bashing, who accidentally kills his attacker in self-defense. Paul's resulting guilt... View details »
- Art
- Sterling Ruby
- Thursday Feb 28 (10am–6pm) @ The Drawing Center More times »
- Free
- Soho's venerable Drawing Center hosts a broad range of 2-D works by LA-based sculptor Sterling Ruby in its Drawing Room project space. In addition to... View details »
- Art
- Matt Leines
- Thursday Feb 28 (11am–6pm) @ Clementine Gallery More times »
- Free
- Matt Leines' New York solo debut features his signature drawings, an installation, and a new, limited-edition series of flags. Leines, who studied illustration at RISD,... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Dawoud Bey
- Thursday Feb 28 (10am–6pm) @ Aperture Gallery More times »
- Free
- Chicago-based photographer Dawoud Bey's series Class Pictures depicts teenagers from a high school on Chicago's South Side, a New England prep school, and classrooms in... View details »
- Art
- Jen DeNike
- Thursday Feb 28 (noon–6pm) @ Amy Smith Stewart More times »
- Free
- At the LES' cozy Amy Smith Stewart gallery, Jen DeNike presents two new videos and a photo series, disparate projects united by a recurring motif... View details »
- Art
- The Vision and Art of Shinjo Ito
- Thursday Feb 28 (10am–9pm) @ Milk Gallery More times »
- Free
- Master sculptor, calligrapher, engraver, and photographer Shinjo Ito was a devout Buddhist who founded his own branch of the religion that reached out to people... View details »
- Art: Photography
- Carrie Mae Weems
- Thursday Feb 28 (10am–6pm) @ Jack Shainman Gallery More times »
- Free
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- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Paradise Park
- Thursday Feb 28 (8pm) @ Signature Theatre More times »
- Charles Mee's work might not be terribly straightforward, but his collage-like storytelling should suit the multitasking, ADD-prone masses. Paradise Park, the playwright's third and final... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Gray Area
- Thursday Feb 28 (8pm) @ Barrow Group Theatre More times »
- When a jaded New York City theatre critic berates Civil War re-enactors on the radio, his cruel jests reach the ears of three Southern enthusiasts... View details »
- Performing Arts: Theatre
- Sunday in the Park with George
- Thursday Feb 28 (8pm) @ Studio 54 More times »
- Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Sunday in the Park with George is a concept musical based on the beyond-famous Georges Seurat painting A Sunday Afternoon... View details »
- More Flavor: City Gem
- Paragraph
- Thursday Feb 28 @ Paragraph More times »
- Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing center, the proverbial room... View details »
