Events on Tuesday, February 23
Lectures on Writing: Colson Whitehead
Tuesday 2/23 @ The Center for Fiction
Tonight's a rare opportunity for emerging scribes and fans to receive a lesson from acclaimed novelist Colson Whitehead. He's been compared...
Tuesday 2/23 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
"Captain Kirk is climbing that mountain. Why is he climbing that mountain?" William Shatner ponders this over and over in a/v...
Tuesday 2/23 @ Alice Tully Hall (1941 Broadway, 212.671.4050)
This final concert in the Beethoven Cycles series features the dynamic Miro Quartet. The Oberlin-trained musicians met in 1995 and recently...
A Discussion About Pulitzer and Murdoch
Tuesday 2/23 @ Strand Bookstore
When inked with hearsay and hyperbole, the pen is indeed mightier than the sword, and might lead to actual hostilities (see:...
Gallery Talk: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–1744
Tuesday 2/23 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Join curator Jeffrey Munger as he visits the special exhibition Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44, on view now...
David Rogue / Open Till Midnight
Tuesday 2/23 @ The Mercury Lounge
About a year into his music career, DAVID ROGUE has already transformed himself into an iconic presence. After spending the previous...
Shear Madness: Charles King Gets a New ‘Do!
Tuesday 2/23 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
Miklós Perényi, cello & Benjamin Hochman, piano
Tuesday 2/23 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Tuesday, February 23, 2010, 8pm
Miklós Perényi, cello
Benjamin Hochman, piano
Perényi’s “playing has...
Tuesday 2/23 @ 92YTribeca
Screening plus conversation with film editor Tim Squyres and author Bobbie O'Steen.
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Alarm Will Sound and Friends w/ music of Caleb Burhans
Tuesday 2/23 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Tuesday 02.23.10
Alarm Will Sound and Friends
perform the music of Caleb Burhans
Eve Ensler: I Am an Emotional Creature
Tuesday 2/23 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Eve Ensler is a best-selling author and acclaimed playwright whose work for the stage includes The Vagina Monologues and The Good...
Tuesday 2/23 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Patricia Bowden-Luccardi, LMT, CNMT
Learn about the anatomy of breath and the...
Tuesday 2/23 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Savage Ballet
7pm
FREE
21+
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 2/23 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/23 @ BAM
The Tempest is both an amorphous fantastical tale, and Shakespeare's farewell to the theatre. Sam Mendes embraces both aspects in his...
Tuesday 2/23 @ Galerie Lelong
Emilio Perez' particular method of generating entirely abstract compositions through layering acrylic and latex pigments on wood, and then distressing the...
Tuesday 2/23 @ 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
Tuesday 2/23 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/23 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/23 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/23 @ 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...
Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris
Tuesday 2/23 @ International Center of Photography
Paris of the '20s and '30s — with its serrated rooftops, Haussmann streamlines, and bustling arrondissements — was a wellspring for...
Tuesday 2/23 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/23 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/23 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/23 @ 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...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Tuesday 2/23 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/23 @ Second Stage Theatre
Douglas Carter Beane tackles the growing blur of journalism and fiction in his new acerbically funny play. The title characters, played...
Tuesday 2/23 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/23 @ 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 Bridge Project: As You Like It
Tuesday 2/23 @ BAM
Sam Mendes' lush production of Shakespeare's As You Like It is a marvelous revelation that breathes new life into the play...
Tuesday 2/23 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/23 @ 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."...
Tuesday 2/23 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/23 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/23 @ Various locations
Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried...
Tuesday 2/23 @ Playwrights Horizons
Bruce Norris' darkly comedic riff on A Raisin in the Sun explores the racial tensions in a Chicago neighborhood on the...
Tuesday 2/23 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/23 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/23 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/23 @ Biltmore Theater
Known for exhilarating solo shows, Eric Bogosian makes his Broadway debut in Donald Margulies' well-observed play about the unintended casualties of...
Tuesday 2/23 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/23 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/23 @ Film Forum
Many a musical pales in comparison to this Technicolor fantasia — or Pantone tonic, if you will. Directed by Michael Powell...
Tuesday 2/23 @ 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,...
Tuesday 2/23 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/23 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/23 @ Barbès
While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain...
Tuesday 2/23 @ Metropolitan Opera House
There's something about Carmen — for her, men cast aside principles to fall headlong into a life of crime. Directed by...
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Tuesday 2/23 @ The Morgan Library
Taking apart a rare book can be cultural barbarism but that is what the Morgan Library has done to show off...
Tuesday 2/23 @ BAM
Mark Morris is known as one of the most musical choreographers working today, making an effort to use live musicians when...
The Drawings of Bronzino - Free Met Podcast
Tuesday 2/23 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/23 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/23 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Tuesday 2/23 @ The People's Improv Theater
Sometimes it feels like we're stuck in Bizarro world, with too much cash and too few quality comics to purchase. Luckily,...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Tuesday 2/23 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Tuesday 2/23 @ 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...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Tuesday 2/23 @ 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...
Bruno Beltrao/Grupo de Rua: H3
Tuesday 2/23 @ New York Live Arts
Brazilian choreographer, Bruno Beltrão makes his NYC debut in an anticipated first ever US tour that highlights his remarkable fusion of...
Tuesday 2/23 @ 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
Tuesday 2/23 @ 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...
The 185th Annual: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
Tuesday 2/23 @ National Academy Museum
The National Academy presents ...
Messerschmidt Bust Enters the Collection - Free Met Podcast
Tuesday 2/23 @ 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...
Arts of Ancient Viet Nam: From River Plain to Open Sea
Tuesday 2/23 @ 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...
Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Tuesday 2/23 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/23 @ 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...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Tuesday 2/23 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: An Evening with Photographer Robert Frank
Tuesday 2/23 @ 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
Tuesday 2/23 @ 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...
Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Tuesday 2/23 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/23 @ 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...
Skowhegan at 92YTribeca An Alumni Exhibition
Tuesday 2/23 @ 92YTribeca
92YTribeca is pleased to present a gallery exhibition of alumni chosen from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture’s 1999-2008 classes....
Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage
Tuesday 2/23 @ 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...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Tuesday 2/23 @ 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
Tuesday 2/23 @ 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...
