Events on Friday, February 29

Escort w/ T.H. White, DJ Ayres, and Kool Kear
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Music: Rock/Pop
Escort
@ Southpaw
Considering Escort's dozen-plus band members, it makes sense that they'd be happy (relieved, even) to avoid their exorbitant travel costs and...  View details »
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[NEW VENUE!] High Places w/ Lucky Dragons
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Music: Rock/Pop
[NEW VENUE!] High Places
@ Silent Barn
Awash in naïve, everygirl croons and minimalist electronics, lo-fi duo High Places toe the line between Animal Collective's artifice and Beat...  View details »
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Month_02 Friday Day_29
More Flavor: Party
One Step Beyond feat. DJ Jazzy Jeff
@ American Museum of Natural History
Whether you remember him for inventing the transformer scratch or from watching the Fresh Prince's best friend get kicked out of...  View details »
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Trouble & Bass feat. Tayo
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Music: DJ
Trouble & Bass feat. Tayo
@ Love
If Love's rave cave is equipped for anything, it's Trouble & Bass' signature low-end beats. Their track selections range from UK...  View details »
Keren Ann w/ Dean & Britta
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Music
Keren Ann w/ Dean & Britta
@ Music Hall of Williamsburg
The sultry sounds of chanteuse Keren Ann evoke a Mazzy Star-like vision of a weary world. The French singer/songwriter's self-titled fifth...  View details »
The New Salon: Fiction Writers in Conversation feat. Amy Hempel
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Reading
Amy Hempel
@ Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House
Amy Hempel's short stories are at once highly specific — full of vintage pop-culture references and quirky anecdotal information — and...  View details »
Free
Easy Lover feat. Move D
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Music: DJ
Move D
@ APT
David Moufang (aka Move D) has released clicky dance-floor cuts on Philpot; sublime, deep house on Workshop and Compost Black Label;...  View details »
Evangelicals
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Music: Rock/Pop
Evangelicals
@ Union Hall
Evangelicals' nutty psych-pop is tailor-made for folks who think the Flaming Lips don't have enough in common with Queen. Wrapping massive...  View details »

Ongoing Events

<em>The Vision and Art of  Shinjo Ito</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Art
The Vision and Art of Shinjo Ito
@ Milk Gallery
Master sculptor, calligrapher, engraver, and photographer Shinjo Ito was a devout Buddhist who founded his own branch of the religion that...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Questa</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Performing Arts: Theatre
Questa
@ Wings Theatre
Victor Bumbalo's new play, Questa, focuses on Paul, a young victim of an attempted gay-bashing, who accidentally kills his attacker in...  View details »
Ongoing
Robert Mapplethorpe: <em>Certain People</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Art: Photography
Robert Mapplethorpe
@ Sean Kelly Gallery
Famous for his sensual photographs of flowers and notorious for his S&M images, Robert Mapplethorpe also took excellent portraits. Sean Kelly...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>The Unforeseen</em>
Month_03 Saturday Day_01
Film: Documentary
The Unforeseen
@ Angelika Film Center
For a treatise on suburban sprawl and its impact on the environment, The Unforeseen is surprisingly soft-spoken. Maybe that's because this...  View details »
Ongoing
Lucian Freud: <em>The Painter's Etchings</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Art
Lucian Freud
@ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Known for mountainous, fleshy portraits, like the painting of Leigh Bowery's backside at the Met, Lucian Freud (grandson of Sigmund) seemingly...  View details »
Ongoing
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CineKink
Month_03 Saturday Day_01
Film
CineKink
@ Various locations
For the fifth year running, CineKink showcases screen-legal perversions — legal, at least, in this city — with nearly a week...  View details »
Ongoing
Tara Donovan
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Art
Tara Donovan
@ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Bringing new meaning to the term "pack rat," sculptor Tara Donovan accumulates everyday objects such as Styrofoam cups and drinking straws...  View details »
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<em>Gray Area</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Performing Arts: Theatre
Gray Area
@ Barrow Group Theatre
When a jaded New York City theatre critic berates Civil War re-enactors on the radio, his cruel jests reach the ears...  View details »
Ongoing
Irving Penn: <em>Close Encounters: Portraits of Artists and Writers</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Art: Photography
Irving Penn
@ The Morgan Library
Although photographer Irving Penn has worked in a variety of styles (including fashion spreads and early forays into painting), he is...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Fuerza Bruta: Look Up
</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fuerza Bruta: Look Up
@ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...  View details »
Ongoing
Gustave Courbet
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Art
Gustave Courbet
@ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gustave Courbet was the Damien Hirst of his day, never shying away from controversy; he was also a terrific artist, making...  View details »
Ongoing
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Month_02 Friday Day_29
Performing Arts: Theatre
Rum & Coke
@ June Havoc Theatre
In Carmen Peláez's one-woman show Rum & Coke, the protagonist begins a search for beauty and a forgotten Cuba after finding...  View details »
Ongoing
Thicker Than Water 2008
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Performing Arts: Theatre
Thicker Than Water 2008
@ Ensemble Studio Theatre
Showcasing the young and the talented is Ensemble Studio Theatre's Thicker Than Water, a collection of one-acts from the company's ensemble...  View details »
Ongoing
<I>New York States of Mind</I>
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Art
New York States of Mind
@ Queens Museum of Art
Possibly a veiled reference to the Billy Joel song, New York States of Mind is curator Shaheen Merali's look at what...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Adding Machine</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Performing Arts: Theatre
Adding Machine
@ Minetta Lane Theatre
After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven...  View details »
Ongoing
Michel Gondry: <em>Be Kind Rewind</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Art
Be Kind Rewind
@ Deitch Projects
In his newest film, Be Kind Rewind, Michel Gondry tells the story of two childhood friends who work to recreate a...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Paragraph
Month_03 Saturday Day_01
More Flavor: City Gem
Paragraph
@ Paragraph
Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing...  View details »
Ongoing
Cai Guo-Qiang: <em>I Want to Believe</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Art
Cai Guo-Qiang
@ Guggenheim Museum
Inopportune: Stage One is characteristic of Cai Guo-Qiang's grand ambitions and themes — a cascade of nine upended cars exploding with...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Grace</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Performing Arts: Theatre
Grace
@ Lucille Lortel Theatre
Playwright Mick Gordon calls his plays "theatre essays" because they analyze a specific subject in hand, while portraying the lives of...  View details »
Ongoing
Sterling Ruby: <em>CHRON</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Art
Sterling Ruby
@ The Drawing Center
Soho's venerable Drawing Center hosts a broad range of 2-D works by LA-based sculptor Sterling Ruby in its Drawing Room project...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island, or, The Friends of Dr. Rushower</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island
@ Vineyard Theatre
Ben Katchor's epic indie-rock musical The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island, or, The Friends of Dr. Rushower returns, upgrading to the...  View details »
Ongoing
Nayland Blake: <em>What the Whiskey Said, What the Sun Is Saying </em>
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Art
Nayland Blake
@ Matthew Marks Gallery
For many years, Nayland Blake's surrogate was a big white bunny that showed up in his drawings and sculptures. But in...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Jasper Johns: <em>Drawings 1997-2007</em>
Month_03 Saturday Day_01
Art
Jasper Johns
@ Matthew Marks Gallery
While the Met hosts a survey of Jasper Johns' gray-hued works, Matthew Marks shows 40 of the artist's drawings from the...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<i>Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now</i>
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Art
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
@ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
MoMA's permanent collection gobbles up so many artworks that many aren't ever seen again, which is why Multiplex: Directions in Art,...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>It's a Free World... </em>
Month_03 Saturday Day_01
Film
It's a Free World...
@ BAM Rose Cinemas
British director Ken Loach (The Wind That Shakes the Barley, 2006) just may be the reigning king of cinematic socialist realism....  View details »
Ongoing
Cao Fei: <em>RMB City</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Art
Cao Fei
@ Lombard-Freid Gallery
Chinese artist Cao Fei's RMB City is a virtual metropolis designed for the online world Second Life, and Lombard-Freid Gallery is...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Paradise Park</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Performing Arts: Theatre
Paradise Park
@ Signature Theatre
Charles Mee's work might not be terribly straightforward, but his collage-like storytelling should suit the multitasking, ADD-prone masses. Paradise Park, the...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Design and the Elastic Mind</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Art: Architecture/Design
Design and the Elastic Mind
@ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
As technology slowly stretches past the limits of sci-fi fantasy, designers must work within the rapidly evolving space between scientific innovation...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Hunting and Gathering</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Performing Arts: Theatre
Hunting and Gathering
@ 59E59 Theaters
Hunting and Gathering's simple, sweet appeal lies in its hyper-real portrait of young NYC. Ruth is a thirtysomething who keeps her...  View details »
Ongoing
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Jasper Johns: <em>Gray</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Art
Jasper Johns
@ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In Jasper Johns' Gray, the Met culls a rigorous collection of work from the mid-'50s to the present. Johns, a pop...  View details »
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<i>August: Osage County</i>
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Performing Arts: Theatre
August: Osage County
@ Imperial Theatre
Set in present-day Oklahoma, Tracy Letts' August: Osage County has a bad case of "the plains," as...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>The Play About the Naked Guy</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Play About the Naked Guy
@ Baruch Center for the Performing Arts, Nagelberg Theatre
Fast-paced and exuberantly profane, The Play About the Naked Guy skewers Off-Broadway's longstanding "art vs commerce" debate. Christopher Borg's Eddie saves...  View details »
Ongoing
Francis Alÿs: <i>Fabiola</i>
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Art
Francis Alÿs
@ Hispanic Society of America
While Dia searches for a new home, the arts org has teamed up with Washington Heights' Hispanic Society on a three-year...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Jump</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Performing Arts: Theatre
Jump
@ Union Square Theatre
After achieving worldwide success, Korean phenomenon Jump has landed at Union Square — and it's easy to see what makes its...  View details »
Ongoing
<I>Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century</I>
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Art
Unmonumental
@ New Museum of Contemporary Art
The new New Museum inaugurates its faux-gritty emporium with three-part exhibition Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century. An ace curatorial...  View details »
Ongoing
<I>blog.mode: addressing fashion</I>
Month_03 Saturday Day_01
More Flavor: Exhibition
blog.mode
@ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Fashion is a relative newcomer to the reputable Metropolitan, but now the Upper East Side institution is stepping into the fracas...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>The Art of Marvin Franklin</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Art
Marvin Franklin
@ New York Transit Museum
Marvin Franklin spent more than two decades of his life working as a night-shift track inspector for the MTA. This may...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Betrayed</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Performing Arts: Theatre
Betrayed
@ Culture Project
George Packer's complex and devastating new play draws on extensive interviews with Iraqi interpreters for US forces over the past five...  View details »
Ongoing
Luc Tuymans: <em>Forever</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Art
Luc Tuymans
@ David Zwirner
Belgian painter Luc Tuymans makes every effort to stymie easy interpretation of his blurry, photo-derived paintings. A history painter in a...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>Looking Up</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Performing Arts: Theatre
Looking Up
@ Theater for the New City
Trapeze-theatre piece Looking Up seamlessly combines two unlikely mediums into a surprisingly nice little love story. Solo trapeze artist Wendy and...  View details »
Ongoing
Jen DeNike: <em>Thirteen</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Art
Jen DeNike
@ Smith-Stewart
At the LES' cozy Amy Smith Stewart gallery, Jen DeNike presents two new videos and a photo series, disparate projects united...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
The Black Comedy Experiment
Month_03 Saturday Day_01
Performing Arts: Comedy
The Black Comedy Experiment
@ The Tank
Formulaic 'hood classics and Def Comedy Jam reruns wither and die in the face of this weekend's lineup of local standup...  View details »
Ongoing
Carrie Mae Weems: <em>A Survey</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Art: Photography
Carrie Mae Weems
@ Jack Shainman Gallery
  African American photographer Carrie Mae Weems marks her return to New York with a mini-retrospective at Chelsea's...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
John Zorn: <em>The Dreamers</em> and <em>Essential Cinema</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Music: Classical
John Zorn
@ St. Ann's Warehouse
Tzadik impresario, East Village-composer kingpin, and MacArthur Grant recipient John Zorn can rustle up a fine racket, but...  View details »
Ongoing
Matt Leines: <em>The Righteous Age</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Art
Matt Leines
@ Clementine Gallery
Matt Leines' New York solo debut features his signature drawings, an installation, and a new, limited-edition series of flags. Leines, who...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
<em>The 39 Steps</em>
Month_03 Saturday Day_01
Performing Arts: Theatre
The 39 Steps 
@ American Airlines Theater
Throughout The 39 Steps, Patrick Barlow's quick-witted adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock's classic spy movie (originally a 1915 novel by John Buchan),...  View details »
Ongoing
Jan de Cock: <em>Denkmal 11</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Art
Jan de Cock
@ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
A relentless photographer and image archiver, Jan de Cock collects his findings in hefty books dubbed denkmals (German for "monument"). The...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Life in a Marital Institution</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Performing Arts: Theatre
Life in a Marital Institution
@ 59E59 Theaters
In the funniest, most bizarre scene in James Braly's Life in a Marital Institution, Braly's wife Susan drags him to a...  View details »
Ongoing
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Lee Friedlander: <em>A Ramble in Olmsted Parks</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Art
Lee Friedlander
@ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Lee Friedlander made his name wandering across the US in the '50s and '60s, taking pictures of motel television sets, shop...  View details »
Ongoing
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<em>Sunday in the Park with George</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Performing Arts: Theatre
Sunday in the Park with George
@ Studio 54
Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's Sunday in the Park with George is a concept musical based on the beyond-famous Georges Seurat...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Passing Strange</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Performing Arts: Theatre
Passing Strange
@ The Belasco Theatre
The loose autobiography-in-song of one Mark Stewart (aka Stew), Passing Strange tells the story of a restless Youth (the excellent Daniel...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Art
Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
@ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
France's first superstar painter, Nicolas Poussin trained in Rome during the baroque era, at the height of Italy's artistic dominance. His...  View details »
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Yanira Castro + Company: <em>Center of Sleep</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Performing Arts: Dance
Center of Sleep
@ Dance Theater Workshop
Blurring the lines between dance and installation art, Yanira Castro + Company's new Center of Sleep is an immersive multimedia experience....  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Pricked: Extreme Embroidery</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Art
Extreme Embroidery
@ Museum of Art and Design
Following the success of its Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting exhibition, the Museum of Arts and Design again draws glares from...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Pop Subversion</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Art
Pop Subversion
@ Ad Hoc Art
Over 30 artists fill Ad Hoc's walls with twisted fairy-tale imagery, tortured visages, and disemboweled beauties in Pop Subversion. Some confront...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Jaishri Abichandani: <I>Reconciliations</I>
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Art
Jaishri Abichandani
@ Queens Museum of Art
Born in Bombay (now Mumbai), Jaishri Abichandani immigrated to Queens when she was 14 and has since become both an accomplished...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Open House</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Performing Arts: Theatre
Open House
@ Various locations
Seeing other people's apartments in the city is pleasingly voyeuristic, a sanctioned invasion of space. How clever, then, that the Foundry...  View details »
Ongoing
Xu Zhen:<em> Just Did It </em>
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Art
Xu Zhen
@ James Cohan Gallery
A masterful obfuscator of facts and images, Xu Zhen (in his artworks, at least) has waged armed assaults on China's neighboring...  View details »
Ongoing
Free
Blue Coyote Theater Group: <em>Happy Endings</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Performing Arts: Theatre
Happy Endings
@ Access Theater
In a revolt against love-story banality, Blue Coyote Theater Group commissioned nine playwrights to write shorts based on the lives of...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution</em>
Month_02 Friday Day_29
Art
WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution
@ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
With Hillary Clinton in the political limelight, WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution couldn't be more timely. A survey of 120...  View details »
Ongoing
<em>Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art </em>
Month_03 Saturday Day_01
Art: Photography
Archive Fever
@ International Center of Photography
Exploring identity and memory through archived imagery, curator Okwui Enwezor has collected over 20 artists to explore the often formal institution...  View details »
Ongoing
Tully Tini @ AT65
Month_02 Friday Day_29
More Flavor: Food/Wine
Tully Tini @ AT65
@ Lincoln Center
In the Lincoln Center area? Looking for a quick bite or drink?  Check out AT65 at Alice Tully Hall.
 ... 
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