Events on Thursday, February 26
Thursday 2/26 @ The Strand
Jonah Lehrer, author of Proust Was a Neuroscientist, holds court at the Strand to explain the choices people make every day....
Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy
Thursday 2/26 @ LIVE from the NYPL
WIRED magazine and the New York Public Library present this talk exploring our zeitgeist-y "remix culture." You'd be hard-pressed to find...
Brooklyn Philharmonic w/ Clogs and Bell Orchestre
Thursday 2/26 @ BAM Howard Gilman Opera House
For two classical-influenced, experimentalist acts like Clogs and Bell Orchestre, tonight's ménage à trois with Brooklyn Philharmonic is probably a dream...
Ongoing Events
Douglas Dunn & Dancers: Pulcinella
Thursday 2/26 @ Citigroup Theater at the Ailey Studios
With a résumé like Douglas Dunn's (Jacob's Pillow, Martha Graham, Joffrey, Merce Cunningham), it's no shocker that his own troupe —...
Warhol from the Sonnabend Collection
Thursday 2/26 @ Gagosian Gallery
Almost as much of a force in the NYC art world as the works presented in this exhibit, Ileana Sonnabend's taste...
Thursday 2/26 @ Various locations
Some die-hard Woody Allen fans may insist the poster-child for neurotic, narcissistic New Yorkers has still got it in him, but...
Thursday 2/26 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Like many early 20th-century painters, Pierre Bonnard retreated to the hinterland for his twilight years. But rather than twiddling his artistic...
Thursday 2/26 @ World Financial Center Winter Garden
For the month of February, dance enthusiasts and Financial District busybodies alike bear witness to daily, site-specific dance interludes in the...
Thursday 2/26 @ Angelika Film Center
English actress Kristin Scott Thomas possesses a bristly elegance that has always restricted her options in English-language films. So it makes...
Thursday 2/26 @ American Airlines Theater
Hedda Gabler Tesman is neither subtle nor delicate, which is why Christopher Shin's adaptation and Ian Rickson's production of Ibsen's classic...
Thursday 2/26 @ Various locations
Despite his apparent disdain for American suburbs, British director Sam Mendes (American Beauty, 1999) has revisited them — in mid-'50s Connecticut,...
Thursday 2/26 @ The Theatre at Saint Peter's
Enter Laughing: The Musical is old-school musical comedy at its best. Joseph Stein, who wrote the book for Fiddler on the...
Thursday 2/26 @ Museum of the City of New York
The South Bronx, cradle of hip-hop, was ironically an urban tomb of crumbled buildings and deserted streets during the music genre's...
Thursday 2/26 @ Richard Rodgers Theatre
There's a lot more color and zing on the Great White Way with the addition of In the Heights, an ebullient...
Thursday 2/26 @ James Cohan Gallery
Simon Evans debuts his artistic pluralism at the James Cohen Gallery with Island Time, a series of works inspired by island-survival-as-metaphor....
Thursday 2/26 @ The Flea Theater
Kaspar Hauser (Preston Martin) is one little boy who should have stayed lost. The real-life 19th-century Nuremberg foundling is the spirited...
Thursday 2/26 @ Symphony Space
A global financial crisis, war and terrorism, a major building project in Flushing: not this new year, but 1939. Reflecting simultaneous...
Thursday 2/26 @ 59E59 Theaters
Working Man's Clothes' gritty production of Fresh Kills is reminiscent of top-notch TV drama, but with a lot more emotional honesty....
Thursday 2/26 @ V&A
Erik Lindman is a talented young artist whose work reflects both a mature sensibility and a goofy sense of humor. House...
Thursday 2/26 @ American Folk Art Museum, Lincoln Square branch
For Recycling & Resourcefulness, the American Folk Art Museum unfurls 12 quilts that were sewn together from secondhand fabrics by women...
Thursday 2/26 @ Invisible-Exports
Lisa Kirk's stellar career reached a new high with last year's solo show at P.S.1, but the artist's latest project is...
Thursday 2/26 @ 2econd Stage Theatre
Becky Shaw mixes screwed-up pseudo-siblings, a lightning-fast marriage, and an awkward blind date into one fantastic screwball romance of a play....
This Is Not a Fashion Photograph
Thursday 2/26 @ International Center of Photography
The work of famed documentarians in this exhibit — including classic snaps by Weegee, Walker Evans, and Danny Lyon — captures...
Thursday 2/26 @ Laura Pels Theatre
In Distracted, ADHD permeates the entire play, down to its structure: short, fast scenes shift focus on a dime. Even the...
Walker Evans and the Picture Postcard
Thursday 2/26 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
From setup to snap and on through to print, the picture postcard of the early 1900s aimed to be a simple,...
Thursday 2/26 @ Cinders Gallery
Known for her kaleidoscopic highlighter-bright designs, but also for venturing through organic patterns and naturalistic wood-panel drawings, Maya Hayuk is a...
Thursday 2/26 @ Various locations
The premise — gossipy and gorgeously spun — is irresistible: Anne Hathaway (finally palatable) has been sprung from rehab to stand...
Thursday 2/26 @ The Culture Project @ 45 Bleecker
Comedian Mike Birbiglia walks a fine line between standup and theatre in his one-man off-Broadway debut Sleepwalk With Me. He tells...
Thursday 2/26 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
Kenneth Anger's supernaturally influential, six-decade-long career is not without its sighing what-ifs: several adaptations never went past maybe steps; famed shorts...
Thursday 2/26 @ Linda Gross Theater
Billy Claven dreams of leaving Inishmaan for Hollywood when director Robert Flaherty arrives on a neighboring island to shoot his new...
Thursday 2/26 @ Vineyard Theatre
Downtown docu-musical-theatre collective the Civilians created This Beautiful City from interviews they conducted in Colorado Springs, the conservative evangelical capital of...
Thursday 2/26 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Art and life are inseparable for Tehching Hsieh. The Taiwan-born artist, who literally jumped ship into the US in 1974, created...
Thursday 2/26 @ Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center
Lincoln Center Theater's revival of Rogers and Hammerstein’s South Pacific is one of those rare, magical experiences that makes musical theater...
Thursday 2/26 @ Gana Art Gallery
The erotic monstrosities of Hieronymus Bosch's The Garden of Earthly Delights meets Giacometti's minimalist haunted-house sculpture, The Palace at 4 a.m.,...
Thursday 2/26 @ P.S. 122
The National Theater of the United States of America (NTUSA) is much more subversive than its official name implies. This fearless...
Thursday 2/26 @ Wollman Rink
While it's always hard to simply shrug off those long, warm summer days and dive right into winter, the small perks...
Thursday 2/26 @ The Collapsable Hole
Chuck. Chuck. Chuck. is a jolting introduction to William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying. Immediate Medium takes full advantage of the...
Thursday 2/26 @ Deitch Projects
Giving a proper showcase to the late Stephen Sprouse's full range of artistic influence, Rock on Mars is both a retrospective...
Thursday 2/26 @ Angelika Film Center
This flick's been out for a while, but since we almost missed out on it, we thought we'd pass the gem...
You're Welcome America: A Final Night with George W. Bush
Thursday 2/26 @ Cort Theatre
Obama's entering the White House, but one downside to this otherwise fairly hopeful fact is that we have very few Will...
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Thursday 2/26 @ Various locations
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, director David Fincher's adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald short story about a man born...
Thursday 2/26 @ Playwrights Horizons
Crazy is relative in Evan Smith's very funny new play about a born-again evangelical door-to-door missionary, played with farcical exuberance by...
Thursday 2/26 @ Forum Gallery
Russian artist Alexander Melamid is a master at finding humor in serious situations, from totalitarian regimes to the plight of endangered...
Thursday 2/26 @ The Joyce Theater
Doug Varone's Alchemy receives its New York premiere as the centerpiece in tonight's program. Inspired by the beheading of Wall Street...
Thursday 2/26 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Thursday 2/26 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
He may be best known for his innovative mobiles and wire sculptures, but as his current show at the Met attests,...
Thursday 2/26 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Israel-born artist Ofri Cnaani now resides in NYC, which serves as the urban backdrop for her noir, graffiti-inspired drawings. In contrast...
Thursday 2/26 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Thursday 2/26 @ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center
The connection between Paris Hilton and America's ill-fated military interventions might seem tenuous, but after viewing Jonathan Horowitz's sculptures and video...
Thursday 2/26 @ Landmark Sunshine
Israeli filmmaker Ari Folman's version of memory lane is like none the world has ever really seen before. At the beginning...
Thursday 2/26 @ Classic Stage Company
If you prefer your celebrity couples in period costume, this production of Uncle Vanya is a smart choice; Peter Sarsgaard and...
Thursday 2/26 @ Various locations
Just in time to alleviate both your thinning wallet and your shrinking waistline: NYC's winter Restaurant Week offers steep discounts on...
Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge
Thursday 2/26 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Design is not always pretty. Sometimes it is blunt and aggressive, especially when it is meant to deliver a clear message...
