Events on Thursday, February 18
Thursday 2/18 @ Charles A. Dana Discovery Center
For this installment of Central Park's engaging get-together for adults, wildlife authority Shane Hobel leads a workshop about the park's many...
The Moth StorySLAM! Theme: Tradition
Thursday 2/18 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
10 stories, 3 teams of judges, 1 winner. $7 at the door. This event always sells out. Limited seating. Please arrive...
DRE DAY w/ Nick Hook / Egg Foo Young / Project Matt - A Celebration of Dr. Dre’s Birthday
Thursday 2/18 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
DRE DAY: A Celebration of the Life and Music of Dr. Dre. February is quickly approaching, and it’s time to celebrate...
Thursday 2/18 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Once again it’s a chance for wisecracking Linda Simpson and Murray Hill and their dazzling posse of downtown celebrity...
Flashy & Trashy w/ DJ Jay McElfresh @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Thursday 2/18 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
10pm
FREE
21+
Gallery Event Thursday night from 10pm-4am in the gallery bar you'll find...
Thursday 2/18 @ 92YTribeca
92YTribeca presents The News Distillery, New York's first live news comedy game show. Our panel of current event "experts," including comics,...
Thursday 2/18 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Since the quartet’s formation in December 2007 through to their introductory debut EP in July, Mumford & Sons have finely chiseled...
Cooking with Winter Vegetables: Root Vegetables and Sturdy Greens
Thursday 2/18 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Chef Mike Colameco
Chef Mike Colameco presents monthly cooking demonstrations at the...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ 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...
Thursday 2/18 @ 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,...
Thursday 2/18 @ 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,...
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
Thursday 2/18 @ Various locations
Back in their respective days, Hiroshima Mon Amour(1959) and The Lover (1984) caused quite a scandal for author Marguerite Duras, who may or may...
Thursday 2/18 @ BLT Gallery
Bowery art outpost BLT Gallery — so named for owner Billy Lee Thompson — presents work by Herb Brown, an under-recognized...
Thursday 2/18 @ Playwrights Horizons
Bruce Norris' darkly comedic riff on A Raisin in the Sun explores the racial tensions in a Chicago neighborhood on the...
The Drawings of Bronzino - Free Met Podcast
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
Thursday 2/18 @ The Duke Theater
Until the Royal Shakespeare Company sets up camp at The Armory in summer 2011, New Yorkers have to make do with...
Thursday 2/18 @ Rubin Museum of Art
The Rubin's annual festival for the inquisitive brings together artists, scientists, and even a Tibetan lama to explore the ways of...
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
Thursday 2/18 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Thursday 2/18 @ Biltmore Theater
Known for exhilarating solo shows, Eric Bogosian makes his Broadway debut in Donald Margulies' well-observed play about the unintended casualties of...
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
Thursday 2/18 @ Classic Stage Company
David Ives, best known for his whimsical and witty short plays like Variations of the Death of Trotsky, ventures into the...
Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
Thursday 2/18 @ Metropolitan Opera House
There's something about Carmen — for her, men cast aside principles to fall headlong into a life of crime. Directed by...
Thursday 2/18 @ Galerie Lelong
Emilio Perez' particular method of generating entirely abstract compositions through layering acrylic and latex pigments on wood, and then distressing the...
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
Thursday 2/18 @ BAM
The Tempest is both an amorphous fantastical tale, and Shakespeare's farewell to the theatre. Sam Mendes embraces both aspects in his...
Thursday 2/18 @ 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....
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
Thursday 2/18 @ 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 2/18 @ 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....
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
Thursday 2/18 @ 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."...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
40 Years of Documentary Premieres at Film Forum
Thursday 2/18 @ 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....
Thursday 2/18 @ 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,...
Thursday 2/18 @ IFC Center
The recent statuette-throwing at Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi might leave most of us scratching our heads, mostly because we know...
Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris
Thursday 2/18 @ International Center of Photography
Paris of the '20s and '30s — with its serrated rooftops, Haussmann streamlines, and bustling arrondissements — was a wellspring for...
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Thursday 2/18 @ The Morgan Library
Taking apart a rare book can be cultural barbarism but that is what the Morgan Library has done to show off...
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
Thursday 2/18 @ Various locations
Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried...
Thursday 2/18 @ Second Stage Theatre
Douglas Carter Beane tackles the growing blur of journalism and fiction in his new acerbically funny play. The title characters, played...
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
The Bridge Project: As You Like It
Thursday 2/18 @ BAM
Sam Mendes' lush production of Shakespeare's As You Like It is a marvelous revelation that breathes new life into the play...
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: A Musical Setting for Bronzino
Thursday 2/18 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Curator Carmen Bambach talks to composer Bruce Adolphe about how he translated the art and ideas of Agnolo Bronzino (Italian, 1503-1572)—whose...
Thursday 2/18 @ New Museum
The H BOX program was initiated in 2006, directed by Benjamin Weil. Each year, four artists are invited to produce a...
Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Thursday 2/18 @ 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
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
Skowhegan at 92YTribeca An Alumni Exhibition
Thursday 2/18 @ 92YTribeca
92YTribeca is pleased to present a gallery exhibition of alumni chosen from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture’s 1999-2008 classes....
Thursday 2/18 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Art workshops for students in the 8th-12th grade to develop their portfolio, increase artistic skills, or just have fun. ...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
Last Chance—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
Thursday 2/18 @ 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....
The 185th Annual: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
Thursday 2/18 @ National Academy Museum
The National Academy presents ...
STUDIO SERIES: Kathy Westwater
Thursday 2/18 @ New York Live Arts
The Studio Series offers an opportunity for research and development in a creative residency format, providing resources of time, space, and...
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
Tom Murrin: The Talking Show (The Magical Ridiculous Journey of Alien Comic)
Thursday 2/18 @ Performance Space 122
Fairy godfather of downtown performance Tom Murrin (aka Alien Comic) takes us on a talking tour of his life - and...
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
Messerschmidt Bust Enters the Collection - Free Met Podcast
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
SPECIAL $10 TICKETS Thalia Follies: Which Way, America? PLUS The ThreeTrillionDollar Opera
Thursday 2/18 @ Symphony Space
Special perormance on February 19 at 10pm. Tickets only $10 with promotional code 10BUCKS. The Thalia Follies continues its sixth...
Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: An Evening with Photographer Robert Frank
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
Thursday 2/18 @ 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...
