Events on Wednesday, February 10
Red Book Dialogues: Meredith Monk
Wednesday 2/10 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Meredith Monk has a voice that simply embeds itself in the consciousness. Tonight, the ever-experimental composer/singer goes psychoanalytic to interpret a...
Harper's Magazine Presents "Love: A Rebuke," with Colson Whitehead, Heidi Julavits, and Sam Lipsyte
Wednesday 2/10 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
Famed literary pub Harper's Magazine assembles a handful of its best contributors to offer a witty rebuttal to that crazy amorous...
Happy Ending Music & Reading Series
Wednesday 2/10 @ Joe's Pub
Amanda Stern ushers in another star-studded edition of her wildly successful Happy Ending Music & Reading Series tonight at Joe's Pub....
Holding It Down feat. Vijay Iyer & Mike Ladd
Wednesday 2/10 @ Harlem Stage
Pianist Vijay Iyer's compositions are ferociously paced and fractured with a sense of urgency that informs each note he plays. His...
Channel 101: NY Monthly Screening
Wednesday 2/10 @ 92YTribeca
At Channel 101, the destiny of TV entertainment is in your hands! During this monthly screening, new five-minute shows from the...
Wednesday 2/10 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Citizen Cope is both a person (Clarence Greenwood) and a band. Born in Memphis, Greenwood is obviously the leader of the...
Nine at the Moment: Israeli Art Jewelry
Wednesday 2/10 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Deganit Stern-Schocken
Join curator Deganit Stern-Schocken, one of Israel's leading contemporary studio...
Tim Hecker, Radian, Tape & Mountains @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Wednesday 2/10 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
David Ellis Closing Party w/ DJ Cerock
Wednesday 2/10 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Epidemiology: The Case of Swine Flu
Wednesday 2/10 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
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Barry Kreiswirth
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David Ellis Closing Party @ LPR
Wednesday 2/10 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Come celebrate David Ellis and his works that have been on display at LPR! David Ellis w/ DJ Cerock...
Richard Goode, piano & Jonathan Biss, piano
Wednesday 2/10 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Wednesday, February 10, 2010, 8pm
Richard Goode, piano
Jonathan Biss, piano
Goode has “spectacular...
A Translator's Discoveries with Alberto Manguel
Wednesday 2/10 @ Symphony Space
The master translator, anthologist, and booklover (the library in his medieval presbytery home houses 30,000 volumes) hosts an evening of performances...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 2/10 @ American Airlines Theater
Nicholas Martin's madcap revival of Present Laughter scores some big laughs, even if the subtlety of Noel Coward's original wit becomes...
Wednesday 2/10 @ Baryshnikov Arts Center
The woman whose name took over One Christopher Street was an influential choreographer, teacher, and lecturer. In honor of Anna Sokolow's...
Wednesday 2/10 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Although Tim Burton is best known for whimsically macabre classics like Beetlejuice (1988) and Edward Scissorhands (1990), the prolific filmmaker also...
Wednesday 2/10 @ Playwrights Horizons
Bruce Norris' darkly comedic riff on A Raisin in the Sun explores the racial tensions in a Chicago neighborhood on the...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Wednesday 2/10 @ City Hall Park
Peter Coffin, the artist who flew a UFO over the Baltic Sea in summer 2008, takes over City Hall Park with a...
Wednesday 2/10 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Wednesday 2/10 @ The Joyce Theater
Remember Me is the ambitious collaboration between choreographer David Parsons and East Village Opera Company's Tyley Ross and AnnMarie Milazzo. This...
Wednesday 2/10 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
For this exhibition, Pablo Bronstein (born in 1977) has created two new bodies of work that address the nature of the...
Death Bear: My Bloody Valentine
Wednesday 2/10 @ Your Brooklyn Apartment
Nate Hill has been putting his mark on the city with inventive projects that walk a fine line between performance art...
Wednesday 2/10 @ Classic Stage Company
David Ives, best known for his whimsical and witty short plays like Variations of the Death of Trotsky, ventures into the...
Wednesday 2/10 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/10 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
A typographic manual and manifesto, Jan Tschichold's 1928 The New Typography heralded a "see" change in how the printed page was...
Wednesday 2/10 @ The Acorn at Theatre Row
Ethan Hawke revives Sam Shepard's 1985 play about an act of violence that sets off a strange series of events. This...
Wednesday 2/10 @ American Museum of Natural History
Hop aboard a stuffed camel for this four-city ancient trade route, making stops in X'ian, Turfan, Samarkand, and Baghdad. AMNH invites...
40 Years of Documentary Premieres at Film Forum
Wednesday 2/10 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Springing up in 1970 UWS as a weekends-only screening room, Film Forum is now the Houston Street mecca for tri-state cinephiles....
Wednesday 2/10 @ New York City Center
Bill Cain's fascinating new play gives us a glimpse into the day-to-day lives of Shakespeare and his acting company, the King's...
Wednesday 2/10 @ BAM
On May 30 of last year, Brooklyn-based artist Penelope Umbrico keyed "sunset" into Flickr's search engine and received 5,537,594 matches. The...
Wednesday 2/10 @ American Folk Art Museum, Lincoln Square branch
"Give it a sweet melody" was the aesthetic must for Vestie Davis, a painter who froze mid-century New York in winsome,...
Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe
Wednesday 2/10 @ Rubin Museum of Art
The title of this Rubin exhibition cites the "churning" sea of Hinduism's creation belief and the West's for-science explorations of the...
Wednesday 2/10 @ Cort Theatre
Arthur Miller's modern tragedy A View from the Bridge could easily veer into melodrama in less skilled hands, but Gregory Mosher's...
Wednesday 2/10 @ The Duke Theater
Until the Royal Shakespeare Company sets up camp at The Armory in summer 2011, New Yorkers have to make do with...
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Wednesday 2/10 @ The Morgan Library
Taking apart a rare book can be cultural barbarism but that is what the Morgan Library has done to show off...
The Drawings of Bronzino - Free Met Podcast
Wednesday 2/10 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Curator Carmen Bambach discusses the life and work of the painter, draftsman, teacher, and poet Agnolo Bronzino (Italian, 1503-1572) on the...
Wednesday 2/10 @ Laurie Beechman Theater
Book editor Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis never wrote a memoir. It's appropriate, then, that Karen Finley begins The Jackie Look with a...
Wednesday 2/10 @ Museum of the Moving Image
Sure, some of us like a microbrew to accompany our vintage video-gaming — and for that, we head to Barcade. But...
Wednesday 2/10 @ Theater for the New City
Veteran playwright and actor Charles Busch aims his flamboyant and acerbic wit at the cinematic depiction of convent life in this...
Wednesday 2/10 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/10 @ The High Line, Chelsea Market Passage
Brooklyn-based artist Spencer Finch is a man in search of lost time. He feeds viewers a Proustian Madeleine for their senses,...
Wednesday 2/10 @ August Wilson Theatre
Like the signs on the buses say: The hits just keep on comin' — five years now for this crowd-pleasing bio-musical...
Wednesday 2/10 @ DUMBO Arts Center
The pair collaborates à la a game of Exquisite Corpse, aware of the other's involvement but blind to specific compositional details,...
Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey
Wednesday 2/10 @ Museum of Arts and Design
Although she produced art in many mediums, from painting to photography, Viola Frey's lasting imprint can be found in ceramics. As...
Wednesday 2/10 @ CINY (511 W 25th St)
This week-long celebration of chocolate satisfies a wide variety of sweet tooths with an inventive lineup of top-notch confectionaries. A sample...
Wednesday 2/10 @ Whitney Museum of American Art
Take the Whitney lift to floor five if a) you missed the past 80-or-so years of Biennials or b) your inner...
Wednesday 2/10 @ Linda Gross Theater
Sam Shepard's new one-act two-hander flows effortlessly and ends too quickly, humorously highlighting the fleeting nature of life. After being thrown...
Wednesday 2/10 @ Metropolitan Opera House
Peter Gelb's decision to bring in theatrical directors to revive the Met's classic repertoire has paid off nicely, introducing opera lovers...
Wednesday 2/10 @ Metropolitan Opera House
There's something about Carmen — for her, men cast aside principles to fall headlong into a life of crime. Directed by...
Wednesday 2/10 @ New York Public Library
On the 250th anniversary of the publication of Candide, Voltaire's masterpiece attacking the philosophical doctrine of Optimism made popular by writers...
Wednesday 2/10 @ Biltmore Theater
Known for exhilarating solo shows, Eric Bogosian makes his Broadway debut in Donald Margulies' well-observed play about the unintended casualties of...
Red Riding: Special Roadshow Edition
Wednesday 2/10 @ IFC Center
"Dickens on bad acid" is a description that captures the unsparing, paranoiac nature of the Red Riding Quartet, David Peace's cult...
The Bridge Project: As You Like It
Wednesday 2/10 @ BAM
Sam Mendes' lush production of Shakespeare's As You Like It is a marvelous revelation that breathes new life into the play...
Wednesday 2/10 @ Various locations
Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried...
Wednesday 2/10 @ Film Forum
Ahead of Akira Kurosawa's centenary on March 23, Film Forum more or less runs through the auteur's consummate filmography (on queue:...
Wednesday 2/10 @ Ohio Theatre
Playwright Charles Mee, a frequent collaborator with Anne Bogart/SITI Company and Martha Clarke, has penned a loving send-up of French culture....
Wednesday 2/10 @ CINY (511 W 25th St)
Cacao alchemists and chocolate aficionados gather under the same roof for an ecstatic chocolate excursion through the senses, courtesy of Migration...
Wednesday 2/10 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Wednesday 2/10 @ Second Stage Theatre
Douglas Carter Beane tackles the growing blur of journalism and fiction in his new acerbically funny play. The title characters, played...
Wednesday 2/10 @ American Folk Art Museum
A prolific 19th-century painter who was once considered "America's first modern" for his prepossessing, flat-color land- and seascapes, Thomas Chambers is...
Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris
Wednesday 2/10 @ International Center of Photography
Paris of the '20s and '30s — with its serrated rooftops, Haussmann streamlines, and bustling arrondissements — was a wellspring for...
Wednesday 2/10 @ Irish Repertory Theatre
The delightful cast of Ernest in Love doesn't let a weak score get in the way of this whimsical story about...
Wednesday 2/10 @ The Gallery at the LeRoy Neiman Center
Only a footnote by David Foster Wallace could inspire a constellation of artists and filmmakers to make real what was dreamt....
Oscar's Docs 1953–75: Nature and Humanity
Wednesday 2/10 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
In terms of pure wonder, the Planet-Earth documentaries of yesteryear can definitely compete with today's HD beauties. See Cousteau's 1964 World...
Wednesday 2/10 @ International Center of Photography
"If you want to be famous, you have to do whatever you're doing worse than anyone else in the whole world."...
Wednesday 2/10 @ Walter Kerr Theatre
Stephen Sondheim's melancholic farce receives a stirring revival due to Trevor Nunn's expertly delicate touch. Nunn elicits several nuanced performances from...
Wednesday 2/10 @ Various locations
Poland's Unsound Festival, a blowout for experimental, club, and post-classical music, comes to New York with a slew of concerts, films,...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Wednesday 2/10 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The exhibition Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania, on view at the Met through September 6, 2010, is the first...
Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage
Wednesday 2/10 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
In the 1860s and 1870s, long before collage techniques were being used by avant–garde artists of the early 20th century, aristocratic...
Skowhegan at 92YTribeca An Alumni Exhibition
Wednesday 2/10 @ 92YTribeca
92YTribeca is pleased to present a gallery exhibition of alumni chosen from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture’s 1999-2008 classes....
Last Chance—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Wednesday 2/10 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! In 1975, the Met acquired, by gift and purchase, more than 400 works...
Wednesday 2/10 @ New Museum
The H BOX program was initiated in 2006, directed by Benjamin Weil. Each year, four artists are invited to produce a...
Wednesday 2/10 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
This summer's installation in The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden celebrates the bold use of color in modern and contemporary sculpture....
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: An Evening with Photographer Robert Frank
Wednesday 2/10 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Photographer Robert Frank discusses his groundbreaking publication The Americans with Jeff Rosenheim, curator at the Met, and Sarah Greenough, curator at...
Messerschmidt Bust Enters the Collection - Free Met Podcast
Wednesday 2/10 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Curator Ian Wardropper discusses the Met’s recent acquisition of its first work by Franz Xaver Messerschmidt (1736-1783), the Austrian sculptor best...
Wednesday 2/10 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Taste of RMA tours offer museum visitors an introduction to Himalayan art, exploring process, materials, iconography, religion, and cultural influence along...
Nikhil Chopra: Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing IX
Wednesday 2/10 @ New Museum
Nikhil Chopra combines approaches associated with theater, portraiture, landscape drawing, photography, art actions, and installation to chronicle the world through live...
Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Wednesday 2/10 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Artist Pablo Bronstein and curator Gary Tinterow discuss Bronstein’s new drawings and etchings that suggest mythical histories and hypothetical futures of...
Wednesday 2/10 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Paul Sietsema’s ethereal drawings, sculptures, and films explore combinations of color, space, and movement through subjects spanning a broad geographic and...
The BodyCartography Project: 1/2 Life
Wednesday 2/10 @ Performance Space 122
Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Wednesday 2/10 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! The Du Paquier ceramic manufactory, founded by Claudius Innocentius du Paquier in Vienna...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Wednesday 2/10 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Curator James David Draper discusses the attribution to the teenage Michelangelo of the marble sculpture now on special loan to the...
Wednesday 2/10 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
With a body of work that is unique in its formal power and intellectual rigor, Gabriel Orozco (Mexican, b. 1962) emerged...
Wednesday 2/10 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This show from the Met’s permanent collection features the 1971 mural-size collage The Block by Romare Bearden (American, 1911–1988), as well...
FRESH TRACKS Performance and Residency Program
Wednesday 2/10 @ New York Live Arts
“The venerable showcase of ground-breaking dance in Manhattan…” – The New York Times Created in 1965, Fresh Tracks is Dance Theater...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Wednesday 2/10 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
See the exhibition before it closes on Sunday! Beginning in the remote desert community of Papunya in the early 1970s, Australia's...
Wednesday 2/10 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Victorious Ones: Jain Images of Perfection is the Rubin Museum's newest exhibition and latest offering of Himalayan art and culture. ...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Wednesday 2/10 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Co-curators Jeffrey Munger and Meredith Chilton discuss the details of a delightful dessert table with culinary historian Ivan Day. This table...
Wednesday 2/10 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
For the first time in the Museum's new building, MoMA presents an installation featuring the full group of Claude Monet's late...
Wednesday 2/10 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The exhibition The Drawings of Bronzino, on view through April 18, is the first ever dedicated to Agnolo Bronzino (1503-1572), and includes nearly...
Wednesday 2/10 @ Performance Space 122
FINAL CHANCE: Guarantee a high-performance Valentine’s
Purchase (or use) a PS122 Passport between NOW and FEBRUARY 15 and be entered...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Wednesday 2/10 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Take a break from city life and visit the Met’s blog dedicated to your neighboring medieval garden! July 1, 2009 marked the first anniversary...
Arts of Ancient Viet Nam: From River Plain to Open Sea
Wednesday 2/10 @ Asia Society and Museum
Presented for the first time to U.S. audiences, this remarkable exhibition brings together more than one hundred extraordinary objects from ten...
