Events on Friday, February 19
Friday 2/19 @ Flux Factory
Flux Factory celebrates/breaks in its new digs by adorning the entire space with installation after installation — over 100 at that....
Friday 2/19 @ Terminal 5
Editors' moody introspection brings to mind what Joy Division might sound like if they were still playing today. Pulsating bass lines...
Can ASEAN Lead Asian Integration?
Friday 2/19 @ Asia Society and Museum
As ASEAN works toward its own deeper economic integration, can it also lead Asian integration? How much does ASEAN's significance depend...
2001: A Space Odyssey Screening at the RMA!
Friday 2/19 @ Rubin Museum of Art
1968, UK/U.S., Stanley Kubrick, 141 minutes Free with $7 bar purchase, cocktails welcome in the theater. Arthur C. Clarke...
Interactive Seminar—The Observant Eye: Medieval Art
Friday 2/19 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Here’s your chance to expand your knowledge of Medieval art! This Friday evening come and take part in this unique opportunity...
Lee Fields & The Expressions / Charles Bradley and The Menahan Street Band
Friday 2/19 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Lee was born and raised in the small town of Wilson, North Carolina,one of 4 children. He spent his adolescence years...
Absolute Bach Kristian Järvi's Absolute Ensemble w/ Simone Dinnerstein at (Le) Poisson Rouge
Friday 2/19 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Founded by Kristjan Järvi in 1993...
The Future of U.S.-India Relations
Friday 2/19 @ Asia Society and Museum
As the Obama Administration enters its second year, domestic concerns dominate news headlines. President Obama's 'new era in U.S. foreign relations"...
Tumblr Reads: Internet Writers IRL
Friday 2/19 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
Join the Tumblr community for an open bar reception and live performance to celebrate writing, reading, and the art of the...
Friday 2/19 @ Asia Society and Museum
The Freedom Party w/ DJ Cosi , DJ Marc Smooth and DJ Herbert Holler at (Le) Poisson Rouge
Friday 2/19 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
The Freedom Party NYC, NYC's #1...
Kevin Geeks Out About...Monkeys!
Friday 2/19 @ 92YTribeca
Part of the series Kevin Geeks Out.
Kevin Geeks Out is the...
The Ben Williams Trio at the Rubin Museum
Friday 2/19 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Ben Williams, bass Aaron Diehl, piano Joseph Saylor, drums Bassist Ben Williams recently received a Master's degree from the Juilliard...
Ongoing Events
Friday 2/19 @ 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,...
Friday 2/19 @ 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,...
Friday 2/19 @ 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...
Friday 2/19 @ 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...
Friday 2/19 @ Film Forum
Many a musical pales in comparison to this Technicolor fantasia — or Pantone tonic, if you will. Directed by Michael Powell...
Friday 2/19 @ 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,...
Friday 2/19 @ 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
Friday 2/19 @ 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...
Friday 2/19 @ 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...
Friday 2/19 @ 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...
50 Years of the Other Spanish Cinema
Friday 2/19 @ Anthology Film Archives
This ode to Spain's avant-garde cinema since the late '50s says adios to Dalí and Buñuel and introduces a whole directory...
Friday 2/19 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Friday 2/19 @ Biltmore Theater
Known for exhilarating solo shows, Eric Bogosian makes his Broadway debut in Donald Margulies' well-observed play about the unintended casualties of...
Friday 2/19 @ 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...
Friday 2/19 @ Sputnik
Sometimes it feels like NYC's got as many "DJ"s as it does "actors." But, if you're a budding turntablist serious about...
Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey
Friday 2/19 @ 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...
Friday 2/19 @ Classic Stage Company
David Ives, best known for his whimsical and witty short plays like Variations of the Death of Trotsky, ventures into the...
Friday 2/19 @ The Duke Theater
Until the Royal Shakespeare Company sets up camp at The Armory in summer 2011, New Yorkers have to make do with...
40 Years of Documentary Premieres at Film Forum
Friday 2/19 @ 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....
Friday 2/19 @ 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...
Friday 2/19 @ 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...
Friday 2/19 @ Metropolitan Opera House
There's something about Carmen — for her, men cast aside principles to fall headlong into a life of crime. Directed by...
Friday 2/19 @ Landmark Sunshine
Upon its 1980 release, this long-banned exploitation title left director Ruggero Deodato in a thorny situation with Italian authorities who thought...
Friday 2/19 @ Galerie Lelong
Emilio Perez' particular method of generating entirely abstract compositions through layering acrylic and latex pigments on wood, and then distressing the...
Friday 2/19 @ 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...
Friday 2/19 @ 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...
Friday 2/19 @ 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...
Friday 2/19 @ 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...
Friday 2/19 @ 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...
Friday 2/19 @ BLT Gallery
Bowery art outpost BLT Gallery — so named for owner Billy Lee Thompson — presents work by Herb Brown, an under-recognized...
Friday 2/19 @ 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...
Friday 2/19 @ BAM
The Tempest is both an amorphous fantastical tale, and Shakespeare's farewell to the theatre. Sam Mendes embraces both aspects in his...
Friday 2/19 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Friday 2/19 @ 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...
Friday 2/19 @ Guggenheim Museum
It's been eight-plus decades since the six arresting paintings in this exhibition have been shown together. Their emphatic use of color...
Friday 2/19 @ 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...
Friday 2/19 @ 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....
Friday 2/19 @ 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...
Friday 2/19 @ 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)
Friday 2/19 @ 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...
Friday 2/19 @ 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...
Friday 2/19 @ 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....
Friday 2/19 @ 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...
Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe
Friday 2/19 @ 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...
Friday 2/19 @ 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...
Friday 2/19 @ Baryshnikov Arts Center
What better way to ensure that the work of prized Gallic scribe Marguerite Duras jumps from the page than to enlist...
Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris
Friday 2/19 @ International Center of Photography
Paris of the '20s and '30s — with its serrated rooftops, Haussmann streamlines, and bustling arrondissements — was a wellspring for...
Friday 2/19 @ IFC Center
The recent statuette-throwing at Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi might leave most of us scratching our heads, mostly because we know...
Friday 2/19 @ 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...
Friday 2/19 @ 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...
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Friday 2/19 @ The Morgan Library
Taking apart a rare book can be cultural barbarism but that is what the Morgan Library has done to show off...
Friday 2/19 @ 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...
Friday 2/19 @ 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...
Friday 2/19 @ Various locations
Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried...
Friday 2/19 @ Second Stage Theatre
Douglas Carter Beane tackles the growing blur of journalism and fiction in his new acerbically funny play. The title characters, played...
Friday 2/19 @ 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
Friday 2/19 @ BAM
Sam Mendes' lush production of Shakespeare's As You Like It is a marvelous revelation that breathes new life into the play...
Friday 2/19 @ 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...
Friday 2/19 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
For the past decade, Film Comment has handpicked art-house, festival, and repertory musts for NYC cinephiles. This trend continues with a...
Friday 2/19 @ 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...
Friday 2/19 @ 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...
Friday 2/19 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Art workshops for students in the 8th-12th grade to develop their portfolio, increase artistic skills, or just have fun. ...
Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Friday 2/19 @ 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...
Friday 2/19 @ 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...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Friday 2/19 @ 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...
Friday 2/19 @ 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...
Friday 2/19 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Every Friday night, beginning at 6:00 p.m., the Rubin Museum of Art’s colonnade transforms into the K2 Lounge, complete with a...
Skowhegan at 92YTribeca An Alumni Exhibition
Friday 2/19 @ 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.
Friday 2/19 @ 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...
NY Debut of Yannick Nezet Seguin with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
Friday 2/19 @ Lincoln Center
" One of classical music's hottest conductors" — Time Out NY "One of the hottest properties in the music business.”...
Friday 2/19 @ 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...
SPECIAL $10 TICKETS Thalia Follies: Which Way, America? PLUS The ThreeTrillionDollar Opera
Friday 2/19 @ Symphony Space
Special perormance on February 19 at 10pm. Tickets only $10 with promotional code 10BUCKS. The Thalia Follies continues its sixth...
Last Chance—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Friday 2/19 @ 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...
Friday 2/19 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Braid your challah and take it home to bake! PLUS, decorate cookies and color your very own reusable Shababa Bakery tote...
Friday 2/19 @ 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...
Friday 2/19 @ 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 185th Annual: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
Friday 2/19 @ National Academy Museum
The National Academy presents ...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Friday 2/19 @ 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...
Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage
Friday 2/19 @ 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...
Arts of Ancient Viet Nam: From River Plain to Open Sea
Friday 2/19 @ 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...
FREE Friday nights at the Rubin Museum
Friday 2/19 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Every Friday night from 7-10pm, the Rubin Museum is free to everyone. Have a drink with friends in the K2 Lounge,...
Tom Murrin: The Talking Show (The Magical Ridiculous Journey of Alien Comic)
Friday 2/19 @ Performance Space 122
Fairy godfather of downtown performance Tom Murrin (aka Alien Comic) takes us on a talking tour of his life - and...
Friday 2/19 @ New Museum
The H BOX program was initiated in 2006, directed by Benjamin Weil. Each year, four artists are invited to produce a...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Friday 2/19 @ 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
Friday 2/19 @ 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...
Friday 2/19 @ 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
Friday 2/19 @ 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—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Friday 2/19 @ 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...
Friday 2/19 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Admission is free for all visitors during Target Free Friday Nights, sponsored by Target, every Friday evening, 4:00–8:00 p.m. Tickets for...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: An Evening with Photographer Robert Frank
Friday 2/19 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: A Musical Setting for Bronzino
Friday 2/19 @ 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...
STUDIO SERIES: Kathy Westwater
Friday 2/19 @ 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...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Friday 2/19 @ 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...
