Events on Saturday, February 13
Saturday 2/13 @ Museum of Art and Design
In the nonstop hustle of Columbus Circle, MAD offers a place of calm, hosting a paper-cutting workshop as part of its...
Saturday 2/13 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
The Witching Hour Burlesque; where art and burlesque meet. A Troupe of enigmatic dancers give you burlesque like you’ve never seen...
"Crooked Disco" feat. DJ Morsy & DJ Kestar at (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Hanne Hukkelberg / Alexa Wilding
Saturday 2/13 @ The Mercury Lounge
LE BINGO! with Murray Hill & Linda Simpson at (Le) Poisson Rouge
Saturday 2/13 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
LINDA SIMPSON AND MURRAY HILL EXPAND...
Radio Happy Hour w/ Jolie Holland and Jessi Klein at (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Saturday 2/13 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Citizen Cope is both a person (Clarence Greenwood) and a band. Born in Memphis, Greenwood is obviously the leader of the...
Saturday 2/13 @ The Bowery Presents
Town Hall 123 West 43rd Street, New York, NY (212) 997-1003 http://the-townhall-nyc.org Yes are an English progressive rock band that formed...
Saturday 2/13 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Noe Venable, Two Loons for Tea, Odessa Chen, Lee Moretti
"Progressive music featuring predominantly exquisite feminine vocals with proficient and tasteful...
Saturday 2/13 @ Symphony Space
Described by one reviewer as "Syd Barrett meets Hank Williams," Key Wilde and Mr. Clarke's upbeat and quirky tunes are filled...
40 Oz to Freedom (Sublime Tribute)
Saturday 2/13 @ The Mercury Lounge
40 Ounces to Freedom formed in March of 2007 and has been turning heads from day one. They have a uniquely...
Saturday 2/13 @ The Bowery Presents
Yes are an English progressive rock band that formed in London in 1968. Their music uses complex arrangements, unusual time signatures,...
Saturday 2/13 @ 92YTribeca
New York Premiere. Director Lee Kazimir in person for post-screening Q&A.
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Radio Happy Hour w/ Jolie Holland and Jessi Klein at (Le) Poisson Rouge
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The Beautiful Person (La Belle Personne)
Saturday 2/13 @ 92YTribeca
Christophe Honoré's recent film, inspired by the celebrated 17th Century novel La Princesse de Cleves, transposes the action from the court...
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Saturday 2/13 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Adult students may participate in a fun-filled performance for friends and family on the Kaufmann Concert Hall stage. Please speak to...
Radio Happy Hour w/ Jolie Holland and Jessi Klein at (Le) Poisson Rouge
Saturday 2/13 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Saturday 2/13 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Jonathan Richman was one of rock's most eccentric and unpredictable cult figures, a performer whose eternally childlike public persona and seeming...
Saturday 2/13 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Join Jose Rosario and Yvonne Vasquez from Salsa-NY for an exciting evening of Latin dancing including salsa, merengue, rumba, cha-cha and...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ Biltmore Theater
Known for exhilarating solo shows, Eric Bogosian makes his Broadway debut in Donald Margulies' well-observed play about the unintended casualties of...
Saturday 2/13 @ The Duke Theater
Until the Royal Shakespeare Company sets up camp at The Armory in summer 2011, New Yorkers have to make do with...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
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Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Oscar's Docs 1953–75: Nature and Humanity
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ Playwrights Horizons
Bruce Norris' darkly comedic riff on A Raisin in the Sun explores the racial tensions in a Chicago neighborhood on the...
Saturday 2/13 @ IFC Center
The recent statuette-throwing at Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi might leave most of us scratching our heads, mostly because we know...
Death Bear: My Bloody Valentine
Saturday 2/13 @ Your Brooklyn Apartment
Nate Hill has been putting his mark on the city with inventive projects that walk a fine line between performance art...
Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris
Saturday 2/13 @ International Center of Photography
Paris of the '20s and '30s — with its serrated rooftops, Haussmann streamlines, and bustling arrondissements — was a wellspring for...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ BLT Gallery
Bowery art outpost BLT Gallery — so named for owner Billy Lee Thompson — presents work by Herb Brown, an under-recognized...
Saturday 2/13 @ Various locations
Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried...
Saturday 2/13 @ Classic Stage Company
David Ives, best known for his whimsical and witty short plays like Variations of the Death of Trotsky, ventures into the...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ Metropolitan Opera House
There's something about Carmen — for her, men cast aside principles to fall headlong into a life of crime. Directed by...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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 2/13 @ Galerie Lelong
Emilio Perez' particular method of generating entirely abstract compositions through layering acrylic and latex pigments on wood, and then distressing the...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Saturday 2/13 @ The Morgan Library
Taking apart a rare book can be cultural barbarism but that is what the Morgan Library has done to show off...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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,...
Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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,...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
40 Years of Documentary Premieres at Film Forum
Saturday 2/13 @ 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....
Saturday 2/13 @ 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,...
Saturday 2/13 @ St. Luke’s Theatre (308 West 46th Street)
Award-winning writer/director Layon Gray’s Black Angels Over Tuskegee addreses an overlooked part of history: the first African-American fighter pilots in the...
Saturday 2/13 @ Anthology Film Archives
First, a proviso: what you are going to see in this series is categorically loco. With five rarities slated, this Anthology...
The Drawings of Bronzino - Free Met Podcast
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ The Brick Theater
The Debate Society's (Hannah Bos, Paul Thureen, Michael Cyril Creighton, Oliver Butler) concoction of misfires is a fast-moving hour of genuine...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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."...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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:...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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,...
Saturday 2/13 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Saturday 2/13 @ Second Stage Theatre
Douglas Carter Beane tackles the growing blur of journalism and fiction in his new acerbically funny play. The title characters, played...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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....
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ Museum of the Moving Image
Cowboy, Indian, and Horse wreak havoc in this slapstick stop-motion animation film, based on a cult Belgian TV series distributed by...
The Bridge Project: As You Like It
Saturday 2/13 @ BAM
Sam Mendes' lush production of Shakespeare's As You Like It is a marvelous revelation that breathes new life into the play...
Nikhil Chopra: Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing IX
Saturday 2/13 @ New Museum
Nikhil Chopra combines approaches associated with theater, portraiture, landscape drawing, photography, art actions, and installation to chronicle the world through live...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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. ...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
FRESH TRACKS Performance and Residency Program
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Saturday 2/13 @ Rubin Museum of Art
In this fascinating exhibition, the Tibetan Buddhist belief that death provides an important opportunity for spiritual enlightenment is explored. Upon the...
Last Chance—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: An Evening with Photographer Robert Frank
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ Performance Space 122
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Purchase (or use) a PS122 Passport between NOW and FEBRUARY 15 and be entered...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Arts of Ancient Viet Nam: From River Plain to Open Sea
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
The BodyCartography Project: 1/2 Life
Saturday 2/13 @ Performance Space 122
Lyrics & Lyricists™ Presents On a Clear Day: The Musical Vision of Burton Lane
Saturday 2/13 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
One of the Songbook's great melodists, Burton Lane wrote the scores to Finian's Rainbow, Royal Wedding, On a Clear Day You...
Skowhegan at 92YTribeca An Alumni Exhibition
Saturday 2/13 @ 92YTribeca
92YTribeca is pleased to present a gallery exhibition of alumni chosen from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture’s 1999-2008 classes....
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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....
Messerschmidt Bust Enters the Collection - Free Met Podcast
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ New Museum
The H BOX program was initiated in 2006, directed by Benjamin Weil. Each year, four artists are invited to produce a...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
Saturday 2/13 @ Performance Space 122
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Saturday 2/13 @ 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...
