Events on Saturday, February 9
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Brooklyn Public Library
Maverick violinist/composer Leroy Jenkins (1932-2007) characterized his music as "American," having no use for what he viewed as the artificial constructs...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Elizabeth Harper and the Matinee are a patch of green, Anglophilic moss thriving in the shade of the monolith that is...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Warsaw
Created from little more than a massively fuzzed-up guitar and ferociously pounded drum kit, No Age's sloppy, restless sound is true...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 12-Turn-13
When you get sick of going to the same three clubs, head to 12-Turn-13's Clinton Hill loft for a stacked DJ...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Webster Hall
Kaiju Big Battel is a parody of monster mayhem. Costumed wrestlers (who oddly resemble oversized and overzealous trick-or-treaters) tussle in an...
Joakim and His Ectoplasmic Band
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Studio B
A cofounder of the pleasingly freaky electronic-music label Tigersushi, Parisian Joakim Bouaziz also cultivates his own delightfully wobbly, colorful production aesthetic....
Ongoing Events
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Danziger Projects
Scott Schuman is the August Sander of contemporary cool. Usually known by his blog handle, "the Sartorialist," the fashion photographer captures...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Anton Kern Gallery
It takes more than a first glance at Anne Collier's photographs to understand what you're looking at. Books, magazines, and other...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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),...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Foxy Production
Even with all the new technology available, the grand arc of Western art continue to hold sway over young artists. Michael...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Paula Cooper Gallery
The venerable Paula Cooper hosts a miniretrospective of Hans Haacke. Haacke was an early practitioner of "institutional critique," an offshoot of...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ The American Theatre of Actors
Low-tech superhero-action-dramedy Save the World is a theatrical escapist treat. A crew of five superheroes and one superheroine (with super armor,...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Apex Art
Apex Art blurs the boundary between art and advertising in The (Self) Promotion Show. The 19 publicly submitted commercials on view...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Jack Shainman Gallery
African American photographer Carrie Mae Weems marks her return to
Saturday 2/ 9 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
The colorful woodcuts of Gert and Uwe Tobias are the stuff of Grimm fairy tales — narrow paths worn through the...
Oscar's Docs: 1941–1945, Bravery and Bias
Saturday 2/ 9 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
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...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Perry Rubenstein Gallery
Argentinean artist Santiago Cucullu's chaotic cut-out vinyl works dominate gallery walls and museum hallways wherever they're shown. At one of Perry...
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Saturday 2/ 9 @ Atlantic Stage Two
Taking his first shot at writing for the stage, cinematic colossus Ethan Coen tells tales of anxiety, identity, and of God...
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Saturday 2/ 9 @ P.S. 122
A veteran of the Israeli army, choreographer Deganit Shemy spent four months in an intensive, all-female medical course — and this...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Whitney Museum of American Art
Wordsmith/conceptualist Lawrence Weiner is best known for all the things he doesn't do with his visually ascetic artwork. In his gigantic,...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Sikkema Jenkins & Co.
Mark Bradford scours LA, collecting the billboard advertisements that make up his massive paper collages. Bradford layers the posters on top...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ The Kitchen
Melbourne-based, genre-defying dance company Chunky Move returns to New York with Glow, a short (under an hour), yet entirely satisfying encounter...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Salon 94 Freemans
Katy Grannan's series Lady into Fox at Salon 94 Freemans depicts a pair of middle-aged transsexuals, Gail and Dale, living their...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Imperial Theatre
Set in present-day
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Fabrik: The Legend of M. Rabinowitz
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Urban Stages Theatre
Through its cast of expressive marionettes (and their fine-tailored manipulators), Fabrik: The Legend of M. Rabinowitz tells the story of Moritz,...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ The Joyce Theater
Experimentalist Trisha Brown is one of America's most revered contemporary choreographers; at first, she worked with mostly untrained dancers and presented...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Zach Feuer Gallery
Miami-born artist Luis Gispert takes over West 24th Street with works in film, sculpture, and photography. At Zach Feuer, the artist...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Lombard-Freid Gallery
Dan Perjovschi recently took over one of MoMA's massive interior-courtyard walls. Working on a mechanical lift during open hours, the Romanian...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ The Morgan Library
Although photographer Irving Penn has worked in a variety of styles (including fashion spreads and early forays into painting), he is...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ International Print Center New York
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...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Aperture Gallery
Chicago-based photographer Dawoud Bey's series Class Pictures depicts teenagers from a high school on Chicago's South Side, a New England prep...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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...
New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006
Saturday 2/ 9 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
With New Perspectives in Latin American Art, 1930-2006, MoMA rolls out more than 200 recently acquired works by Latin American artists,...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ John Connelly Presents
Godfather to queer artists everywhere, AA Bronson has made all varieties of artworks during his decades-long practice, focusing on a poetic...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Film Forum
A guide, fully decked-out as Bach, leads tours of Leipzig. Two truck drivers bang out a melody. A subway car rings...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Studio Dante
Russell Barr wrote and stars in this emotionally charged monologue directed by Michael Imperoli (of Christopher Moltisanti Sopranos fame). The cluttered,...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Smith-Stewart
At the LES' cozy Amy Smith Stewart gallery, Jen DeNike presents two new videos and a photo series, disparate projects united...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Gladstone Gallery
Iran-born, US-educated photographer Shirin Neshat takes stirring, subversive pictures of Muslim women, forcefully engaging the troubling boundaries that separate men and...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Wallspace
Donelle Woolford is a young African-American artist, currently living and working in Harlem, who fashions handsome, cubist-inspired assemblages from lumber scraps....
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Marianne Boesky Gallery
The Masked Portrait is a snapshot of postwar Japanese art, featuring work by 30 artists from the late '40s to the...
The Slug Bearers of Kayrol Island
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ David Zwirner
Taking her cue from W.B. Yeats' "The Second Coming," Diana Thater presents a two-room video installation depicting the bond between falconers...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Whitney Museum of American Art
In 2000, Beth Campbell first exhibited in
Atsuko Tanaka and Akira Kanayama
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Paula Cooper Gallery
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...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Minetta Lane Theatre
After 25 years of tedious number crunching, Mr. Zero finds out that he is being replaced by an adding machine. Driven...
Amanda Ross-Ho & Kirsten Stoltmann
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Guild & Greyshkul
Friends and LA-studio neighbors Amanda Ross-Ho and Kirsten Stoltmann team up for this collaborative exhibition at Guild & Greyshkul. Both artists...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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,...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
Few Americans really grasp the breadth of Russian film in existence: we tend to treat film imports from that country as...
Saturday 2/ 9 @ Various locations
Seeing other people's apartments in the city is pleasingly voyeuristic, a sanctioned invasion of space. How clever, then, that the Foundry...
