Events on Wednesday, February 24
Afghanistan and the Spectre of Vietnam
Wednesday 2/24 @ Asia Society and Museum
More than a few experts and cable news commentators have made the Vietnam-Afghanistan link. Tonight's panel examines the parallels and parses...
How I Learned to Lie, Cheat, or Steal
Wednesday 2/24 @ Happy Ending
Blaise Allysen Kearsley's monthly series brings together writers, comedians, storytellers, and bloggers for an evening of "lessons learned" on a rotating...
Wednesday 2/24 @ Symphony Space
The Sixties exists as a montage for those of us who came a decade or two too late. Cue the sex...
John Banville and Colum McCann
Wednesday 2/24 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
This bill of two generations of great Irish writers pairs the philosophically inclined John Banville with the adventurous Colum McCann, whose...
Stephen Lang (Avatar) and Cynthia Nixon (Sex and the City) perform at Selected Shorts: The Sixties
Wednesday 2/24 @ Symphony Space
Take a trip to that swinging decade of questioning, experimentation, and change as actors Cynthia Nixon, Stephen Lang, Selected Shorts Host...
The Ghosts in the Eye: Experimental Documentaries
Wednesday 2/24 @ 92YTribeca
Hosted by Bianca Ahmadi and Juan David Gonzalez Monroy, with the premiere of their new documentary And It Was Good.
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The CD release party of JOE CUBA
Wednesday 2/24 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Wednesday 02.24.10
The CD Release Party of JOE CUBA
w/ CHICO MANN,...
Bookforum Reads: Mary Gaitskill, Hari Kunzru, and Ed Park
Wednesday 2/24 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
Acclaimed authors Mary Gaitskill, Hari Kunzru, and Ed Park appear in a reading presented by Bookforum.
Lunch Matters: The Backbone of Night
Wednesday 2/24 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Want an interesting lunch date? Come to the Rubin Museum for a series of lectures based on themes of a current...
Wednesday 2/24 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Buddies (Matthew Dear and M.A.N.D.Y.) in the gallery!
10 pm
Free!
21+
Please visit us here...
Ceramics Now: Betty Woodman with Janet Koplos
Wednesday 2/24 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Betty Woodman and Janet Koplos
Betty Woodman is one of the most...
Wednesday 2/24 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Wednesday 02.24.10
John and Molly Get Along
7:30pm
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Ensemble ACJW: 2009-10 LPR Residency
Wednesday 2/24 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Wednesday 02.24.10
6:30pm doors |...
Joe Cuba CD Release @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Wednesday 2/24 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Fania records & Wax poetics present:
The CD release party of JOE CUBA
Doors @...
Does Judaism Equal Israel?: Zionism, Anti-Zionism and Jewish Identity
Wednesday 2/24 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Marc H. Ellis, Roger Cohen and Hannah Mermelstein / Adam Horowitz, moderator
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Wednesday 2/24 @ Rubin Museum of Art
The author of The Modern Book of Feng Shui engages with the noted member of the Academy for Neuroscience in Architecture...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 2/24 @ Second Stage Theatre
Douglas Carter Beane tackles the growing blur of journalism and fiction in his new acerbically funny play. The title characters, played...
Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris
Wednesday 2/24 @ International Center of Photography
Paris of the '20s and '30s — with its serrated rooftops, Haussmann streamlines, and bustling arrondissements — was a wellspring for...
Wednesday 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ BAM
The Tempest is both an amorphous fantastical tale, and Shakespeare's farewell to the theatre. Sam Mendes embraces both aspects in his...
Wednesday 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ Abrons Arts Center
After trekking around the globe performing from England to Australia, downtown theatre group WaxFactory returns home for a three-month retrospective of...
The Drawings of Bronzino - Free Met Podcast
Wednesday 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ Playwrights Horizons
Bruce Norris' darkly comedic riff on A Raisin in the Sun explores the racial tensions in a Chicago neighborhood on the...
Wednesday 2/24 @ Laurie Beechman Theater
Ms. Celebrity Apprentice 2009 is workshopping her latest standup act — a part of Joan Rivers' job description that gratefully does...
Wednesday 2/24 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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...
Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey
Wednesday 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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...
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Wednesday 2/24 @ The Morgan Library
Taking apart a rare book can be cultural barbarism but that is what the Morgan Library has done to show off...
Wednesday 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ The Duke Theater
Until the Royal Shakespeare Company sets up camp at The Armory in summer 2011, New Yorkers have to make do with...
Wednesday 2/24 @ Biltmore Theater
Known for exhilarating solo shows, Eric Bogosian makes his Broadway debut in Donald Margulies' well-observed play about the unintended casualties of...
The Bridge Project: As You Like It
Wednesday 2/24 @ BAM
Sam Mendes' lush production of Shakespeare's As You Like It is a marvelous revelation that breathes new life into the play...
Wednesday 2/24 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Wednesday 2/24 @ Film Forum
Many a musical pales in comparison to this Technicolor fantasia — or Pantone tonic, if you will. Directed by Michael Powell...
Wednesday 2/24 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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...
William Kentridge: Five Themes
Wednesday 2/24 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
South African artist William Kentridge paints stark images of apartheid, colonialism, and totalitarianism. Through a wash of pastel and charcoal, he...
Wednesday 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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,...
Wednesday 2/24 @ Under St. Marks
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Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe
Wednesday 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ Galerie Lelong
Emilio Perez' particular method of generating entirely abstract compositions through layering acrylic and latex pigments on wood, and then distressing the...
Wednesday 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Wednesday 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: An Evening with Photographer Robert Frank
Wednesday 2/24 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/24 @ 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...
Messerschmidt Bust Enters the Collection - Free Met Podcast
Wednesday 2/24 @ 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...
The 185th Annual: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
Wednesday 2/24 @ National Academy Museum
The National Academy presents ...
Wednesday 2/24 @ 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...
Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Wednesday 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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....
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Wednesday 2/24 @ 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...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Wednesday 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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 “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Wednesday 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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...
Skowhegan at 92YTribeca An Alumni Exhibition
Wednesday 2/24 @ 92YTribeca
92YTribeca is pleased to present a gallery exhibition of alumni chosen from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture’s 1999-2008 classes....
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: A Musical Setting for Bronzino
Wednesday 2/24 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/24 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Unwind every Wednesday evening with 10% off selected wines, specialty teas, and snacks in the Café @ RMA; see exceptional examples...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Wednesday 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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...
Last Chance—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Wednesday 2/24 @ 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...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Wednesday 2/24 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/24 @ 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...
Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage
Wednesday 2/24 @ 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...
WaxFactory : Quartet v4.0 at the Abrons Art Center
Wednesday 2/24 @ Performance Space 122
WaxFactory continues its Year 11 Retrospective at the Abrons Arts Center* with the newly reimagined version of its 2002 hit production,...
Wednesday 2/24 @ New Museum
The H BOX program was initiated in 2006, directed by Benjamin Weil. Each year, four artists are invited to produce a...
Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Wednesday 2/24 @ 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...
Bardo: Tibetan Art of the Afterlife now open
Wednesday 2/24 @ 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...
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