All events on Wednesday February 06

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Film: Documentary
The Healing Gardens of New York
Wednesday Feb 6 (6:15–7:30pm) @ Horticultural Society of New York
For those who, itching for the buds of spring, have found an oasis in city gardens' rural sanctuaries, The Healing Gardens of New York illustrates... View details »
The Healing Gardens of New York
Music: Rock/Pop
The Music of Lefty Frizzell
Wednesday Feb 6 (8pm) @ Kaufman Center
Giveaway
Despite his indelible influence on American music, having inspired everyone from Roy Orbison to Merle Haggard, Lefty Frizzell is all but unknown among most casual... View details »
The Music of Lefty Frizzell
Music: Rock/Pop
[SOLD OUT] Cat Power
Wednesday Feb 6 (8pm) @ Terminal 5
Sold Out!
Chan Marshall regularly slips bits of other tunes into her own work — turning the chorus of Carly Simon's "Nobody Does It Better" into a... View details »
[SOLD OUT] Cat Power
More Flavor: Discussion
Secret Science Club: Go Cellular
Wednesday Feb 6 (7:30pm) @ Union Hall
Free
Union Hall's Secret Science Club is a monthly injection of amazing observations and advancements in science-y pursuits from astrophysics to zoology. Tonight's discussion features Dr.... View details »
Secret Science Club: Go Cellular

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Art
Tara Donovan
Wednesday Feb 6 (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 »
Tara Donovan
Performing Arts: Theatre
August: Osage County
Wednesday Feb 6 (2 & 7:30pm) @ Imperial Theatre More times »
Set in present-day Oklahoma, Tracy Letts' August: Osage County has a bad case of "the plains," as one character describes the... View details »
August: Osage County
Art
Extreme Embroidery
Wednesday Feb 6 (10am–6pm) @ 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 »
Extreme Embroidery
Art
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Wednesday Feb 6 (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 »
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Art
New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006
Wednesday Feb 6 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
With New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006, MoMA rolls out more than 200 recently acquired works by Latin American artists, many of whom —... View details »
New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006
Art
Francis Alÿs
Wednesday Feb 6 (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 »
Francis Alÿs
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fuerzabruta
Wednesday Feb 6 (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 »
Fuerzabruta
Art
Gert & Uwe Tobias
Wednesday Feb 6 (10:30am–5:30pm) @ MoMA More times »
The colorful woodcuts of Gert and Uwe Tobias are the stuff of Grimm fairy tales — narrow paths worn through the woods, ominous mountain ranges,... View details »
Gert & Uwe Tobias
Performing Arts: Theatre
Jump
Wednesday Feb 6 (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 »
Jump
Art
Lawrence Weiner
Wednesday Feb 6 (11am–6pm) @ Whitney Museum of American Art More times »
Wordsmith/conceptualist Lawrence Weiner is best known for all the things he doesn't do with his visually ascetic artwork. In his gigantic, often blocky slogans, tagged... View details »
Lawrence Weiner
Art
Beth Campbell
Wednesday Feb 6 (11am–6pm) @ Whitney Museum of American Art More times »
In 2000, Beth Campbell first exhibited in New York with her installations of two identical, but otherwise nondescript, bedrooms. While there was nothing... View details »
Beth Campbell
Art
Lucian Freud
Wednesday Feb 6 (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 »
Lucian Freud
More Flavor: Exhibition
blog.mode
Wednesday Feb 6 @ 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 »
blog.mode
Art
New York States of Mind
Wednesday Feb 6 (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 »
New York States of Mind
Performing Arts: Dance
Trisha Brown Dance Company
Wednesday Feb 6 (7:30pm) @ The Joyce Theater More times »
Experimentalist Trisha Brown is one of America's most revered contemporary choreographers; at first, she worked with mostly untrained dancers and presented pieces in odd spaces... View details »
Trisha Brown Dance Company
Art
Jaishri Abichandani
Wednesday Feb 6 (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 »
Jaishri Abichandani
Art
Unmonumental
Wednesday Feb 6 (noon–6pm) @ 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 »
Unmonumental
Art
Dan Perjovschi
Wednesday Feb 6 (10am–6pm) @ Lombard-Freid Gallery More times »
Free
Dan Perjovschi recently took over one of MoMA's massive interior-courtyard walls. Working on a mechanical lift during open hours, the Romanian artist covered several building... View details »
Dan Perjovschi
Art
Lee Friedlander
Wednesday Feb 6 (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 »
Lee Friedlander
Art
Jasper Johns
Wednesday Feb 6 (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 »
Jasper Johns
Art
AA Bronson
Wednesday Feb 6 (10am–6pm) @ John Connelly Presents More times »
Free
Godfather to queer artists everywhere, AA Bronson has made all varieties of artworks during his decades-long practice, focusing on a poetic obsession with the profundity... View details »
AA Bronson
Art
Santiago Cucullu
Wednesday Feb 6 (10am–6pm) @ Perry Rubenstein Gallery More times »
Free
Argentinean artist Santiago Cucullu's chaotic cut-out vinyl works dominate gallery walls and museum hallways wherever they're shown. At one of Perry Rubenstein's two small 24th... View details »
Santiago Cucullu
Art
Michael Bell-Smith
Wednesday Feb 6 (11am–6pm) @ Foxy Production More times »
Free
Even with all the new technology available, the grand arc of Western art continue to hold sway over young artists. Michael Bell-Smith's conceptual animations deal... View details »
Michael Bell-Smith
Art
Diana Thater
Wednesday Feb 6 (10am–6pm) @ David Zwirner More times »
Free
Taking her cue from W.B. Yeats' "The Second Coming," Diana Thater presents a two-room video installation depicting the bond between falconers and their falcons. Set... View details »
Diana Thater
Art
Donelle Woolford
Wednesday Feb 6 (11am–6pm) @ Wallspace More times »
Free
Donelle Woolford is a young African-American artist, currently living and working in Harlem, who fashions handsome, cubist-inspired assemblages from lumber scraps. At Wallspace Gallery, Woolford... View details »
Donelle Woolford
Art
Katy Grannan
Wednesday Feb 6 (11am–6pm) @ Salon 94 Freemans More times »
Free
Katy Grannan's series Lady into Fox at Salon 94 Freemans depicts a pair of middle-aged transsexuals, Gail and Dale, living their lives as females on... View details »
Katy Grannan
Art
Amanda Ross-Ho & Kirsten Stoltmann
Wednesday Feb 6 (11am–6pm) @ Guild & Greyshkul More times »
Free
Friends and LA-studio neighbors Amanda Ross-Ho and Kirsten Stoltmann team up for this collaborative exhibition at Guild & Greyshkul. Both artists make collages with a... View details »
Amanda Ross-Ho & Kirsten Stoltmann
Art
Luis Gispert
Wednesday Feb 6 (10am–6pm) @ Zach Feuer Gallery More times »
Free
Miami-born artist Luis Gispert takes over West 24th Street with works in film, sculpture, and photography. At Zach Feuer, the artist mounts a series of... View details »
Luis Gispert
Art: Photography
Anne Collier
Wednesday Feb 6 (10am–6pm) @ Anton Kern Gallery More times »
Free
It takes more than a first glance at Anne Collier's photographs to understand what you're looking at. Books, magazines, and other media sit upon neutral,... View details »
Anne Collier
Art
Shirin Neshat
Wednesday Feb 6 (10am–6pm) @ Gladstone Gallery More times »
Free
Iran-born, US-educated photographer Shirin Neshat takes stirring, subversive pictures of Muslim women, forcefully engaging the troubling boundaries that separate men and women, Islam and secularism,... View details »
Shirin Neshat
Art
Mark Bradford
Wednesday Feb 6 (10am–6pm) @ Sikkema Jenkins & Co. More times »
Free
Mark Bradford scours LA, collecting the billboard advertisements that make up his massive paper collages. Bradford layers the posters on top of one another and... View details »
Mark Bradford
Art
Jan de Cock
Wednesday Feb 6 (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 »
Jan de Cock
Performing Arts: Theatre
Fabrik: The Legend of M. Rabinowitz
Wednesday Feb 6 @ Urban Stages Theatre More times »
Through its cast of expressive marionettes (and their fine-tailored manipulators), Fabrik: The Legend of M. Rabinowitz tells the story of Moritz, a Norwegian Jewish garmento... View details »
Fabrik: The Legend of M. Rabinowitz
Art
Marvin Franklin
Wednesday Feb 6 (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 »
Marvin Franklin
Art
New Prints: Winter 2008
Wednesday Feb 6 (11am–6pm) @ International Print Center New York More times »
Free
Elevating fine-art printing beyond the standard three-color poster, the International Print Center's new-season highlights include rodent-infested Victorian wallpaper, silhouettes of million-dollar homes, battle scenes with... View details »
New Prints: Winter 2008
Performing Arts: Theatre
Sisters, Such Devoted Sisters
Wednesday Feb 6 (8pm) @ Studio Dante More times »
Russell Barr wrote and stars in this emotionally charged monologue directed by Michael Imperoli (of Christopher Moltisanti Sopranos fame). The cluttered, childlike bedroom stage sets... View details »
Sisters, Such Devoted Sisters
Film
Envisioning Russia
Wednesday Feb 6 @ Walter Reade Theater More times »
Few Americans really grasp the breadth of Russian film in existence: we tend to treat film imports from that country as jewels rarely produced. The... View details »
Envisioning Russia
Film: Documentary
Oscar's Docs: 1941–1945, Bravery and Bias
Wednesday Feb 6 @ MoMA More times »
By declaring February "docs month," MoMA deserves the 2008 award for successfully curing the annual slim-pickings-in-cinema blues. This week's program highlights a fascinating era in... View details »
Oscar's Docs: 1941–1945, Bravery and Bias
Film
The Silence Before Bach
Wednesday Feb 6 @ Film Forum More times »
Giveaway
A guide, fully decked-out as Bach, leads tours of Leipzig. Two truck drivers bang out a melody. A subway car rings out with an impromptu... View details »
The Silence Before Bach
Performing Arts: Theatre
Rum & Coke
Wednesday Feb 6 (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 »
Performing Arts: Theatre
Almost an Evening
Wednesday Feb 6 @ Atlantic Stage Two More times »
Sold Out!
Taking his first shot at writing for the stage, cinematic colossus Ethan Coen tells tales of anxiety, identity, and of God kicking himself in the... View details »
Almost an Evening
Performing Arts: Theatre
Grace
Wednesday Feb 6 (7pm) @ 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 »
Grace
Art: Photography
Archive Fever
Wednesday Feb 6 @ 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 »
Archive Fever
Film
Build a Ship, Sail to Sadness
Wednesday Feb 6 @ Anthology Film Archives More times »
Giveaway
As lonesome visionary Vincent, Magnus Aronson is a bit of a holy fool. The star and cowriter of shaggy musical travelogue Build a Ship, Sail... View details »
Build a Ship, Sail to Sadness
Art
The (Self) Promotion Show
Wednesday Feb 6 (11am–6pm) @ Apex Art More times »
Free
Apex Art blurs the boundary between art and advertising in The (Self) Promotion Show. The 19 publicly submitted commercials on view are presented in an... View details »
The (Self) Promotion Show
Art
Atsuko Tanaka and Akira Kanayama
Wednesday Feb 6 (10am–6pm) @ Paula Cooper Gallery More times »
Free
Two of Japan's best-known artists, Atsuko Tanaka and Akira Kanayama, passed away in recent years. Original members of the Osaka-based avant-garde group Gutai Art Association... View details »
Atsuko Tanaka and Akira Kanayama
Performing Arts: Theatre
Hunting and Gathering
Wednesday Feb 6 (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 »
Hunting and Gathering
Art: Photography
Irving Penn
Wednesday Feb 6 (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 »
Irving Penn
Art
Hans Haacke
Wednesday Feb 6 (10am–6pm) @ Paula Cooper Gallery More times »
Free
The venerable Paula Cooper hosts a miniretrospective of Hans Haacke. Haacke was an early practitioner of "institutional critique," an offshoot of conceptual art that applied... View details »
Hans Haacke
Art
The Masked Portrait
Wednesday Feb 6 (10am–6pm) @ Marianne Boesky Gallery More times »
Free
The Masked Portrait is a snapshot of postwar Japanese art, featuring work by 30 artists from the late '40s to the present. Curator Midori Nishizawa... View details »
The Masked Portrait
Art
Jasper Johns
Wednesday Feb 6 @ 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 »
Jasper Johns
Art
Xu Zhen
Wednesday Feb 6 (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 »
Xu Zhen
Performing Arts: Theatre
Apt 3A
Wednesday Feb 6 (8pm) @ The Beckett Theatre at Theatre Row More times »
In this tale of love, God, and the sex lives of polar bears, writer Jeff Daniels (yes, that Jeff Daniels) brings us into the crumbling... View details »
Apt 3A
Art
Nayland Blake
Wednesday Feb 6 (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 »
Nayland Blake
Performing Arts: Theatre
The 39 Steps 
Wednesday Feb 6 @ 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 »
The 39 Steps 
Performing Arts: Dance
Iodine [YOD]
Wednesday Feb 6 (8pm) @ P.S. 122 More times »
A veteran of the Israeli army, choreographer Deganit Shemy spent four months in an intensive, all-female medical course — and this after living with a... View details »
Iodine [YOD]
Performing Arts: Theatre
The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island
Wednesday Feb 6 (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 »
The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island
Art: Photography
The Sartorialist
Wednesday Feb 6 (11am–6pm) @ Danziger Projects More times »
Free
Scott Schuman is the August Sander of contemporary cool. Usually known by his blog handle, "the Sartorialist," the fashion photographer captures everyday fashionistas in their... View details »
The Sartorialist
Art: Photography
Dawoud Bey
Wednesday Feb 6 (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 »
Dawoud Bey
More Flavor: City Gem
Paragraph
Wednesday Feb 6 @ 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 »
Paragraph