Events on Sunday, February 28
Sunday 2/28 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
It's safe to say that This American Life host Ira Glass' brand of humor is slightly dryer than the ebullient comedian...
92nd Street Y Community Orchestra
Sunday 2/28 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Open to qualified community and professional musicians. A public concert ends the semester on Sunday, June 6. Call 212.415.5580 to schedule...
Medieval Costume Demonstration at The Cloisters
Sunday 2/28 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Come to The Cloisters this Sunday—the branch museum of the Met devoted to the art and architecture of medieval Europe—and see...
Housing Works Playhouse Presents Brady Rymer and the Little Band That Could
Sunday 2/28 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
2009 GRAMMY nominees Brady Rymer and the Little Band That Could “might just be the best-sounding band in children’s music,” according...
Sunday 2/28 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
Performing with: Still Life Still Wild Beasts are a 4 piece band from Kendal, United Kingdom now based in Leeds, UK....
Kristin Cashore's Fire (the companion to Graceling)
Sunday 2/28 @ Symphony Space
The author talks about the companion to her mesmerizing debut novel for fantasy lovers, which was an Indies Choice Book Award finalist, with...
Inside Haydn’s Keyboard with András Schiff
Sunday 2/28 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Sunday, February 28, 2010, 11am
András Schiff, speaker & piano
András Schiff explores Haydn’s compositions...
Sunday 2/28 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Writer, performance artist, and Tibet activist Canyon Sam speaks on her first book, Sky Train, at the Rubin. Sky Train recounts...
Ongoing Events
The Drawings of Bronzino - Free Met Podcast
Sunday 2/28 @ 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...
Sunday 2/28 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
This celebratory trifecta of "live dance documentary" brings together professionals and students to share their thoughts about working and studying at...
Sunday 2/28 @ 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...
Sunday 2/28 @ 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...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Sunday 2/28 @ 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...
William Kentridge: Five Themes
Sunday 2/28 @ 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...
Sunday 2/28 @ 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."...
Sunday 2/28 @ 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,...
Sunday 2/28 @ The Kirk at Theatre Row
The full title of Susanna Centlivre's Restoration comedy is The Wonder: A Woman Keeps a Secret! Director Rebecca Patterson's adaptation shortens...
Sunday 2/28 @ 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...
Radiohole: Whatever, Heaven Allows
Sunday 2/28 @ Performance Space 122
A limited number of $1.22 tickets are available
Sunday 2/28 @ IFC Center
From the popular, boy-cut clothing line to Quentin Tarantino's production company, Band of Outsiders has been a favorite reference for hep...
Sunday 2/28 @ 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...
Sunday 2/28 @ Metropolitan Opera House
There's something about Carmen — for her, men cast aside principles to fall headlong into a life of crime. Directed by...
Sunday 2/28 @ 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...
Sunday 2/28 @ BAM
The Tempest is both an amorphous fantastical tale, and Shakespeare's farewell to the theatre. Sam Mendes embraces both aspects in his...
Sunday 2/28 @ 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...
Sunday 2/28 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Sunday 2/28 @ Ontological Theater at St. Mark's Church
When three modern-day music buffs hole up in a wintry cabin to seek warmth and wet their whistle, they find themselves...
Sunday 2/28 @ 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...
Sunday 2/28 @ Second Stage Theatre
Douglas Carter Beane tackles the growing blur of journalism and fiction in his new acerbically funny play. The title characters, played...
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Sunday 2/28 @ The Morgan Library
Taking apart a rare book can be cultural barbarism but that is what the Morgan Library has done to show off...
Sunday 2/28 @ 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...
Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris
Sunday 2/28 @ International Center of Photography
Paris of the '20s and '30s — with its serrated rooftops, Haussmann streamlines, and bustling arrondissements — was a wellspring for...
Sunday 2/28 @ The Duke Theater
Until the Royal Shakespeare Company sets up camp at The Armory in summer 2011, New Yorkers have to make do with...
Sunday 2/28 @ 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,...
Sunday 2/28 @ 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...
Sunday 2/28 @ 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...
Sunday 2/28 @ BAM Rose Cinemas
With just three features to his name, Bong Joon-ho has planted himself on the shortlist for favorite South Korean export. Suspense...
Sunday 2/28 @ Various locations
Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried...
Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe
Sunday 2/28 @ 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...
Sunday 2/28 @ 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...
Sunday 2/28 @ 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...
Sunday 2/28 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Sunday 2/28 @ 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...
Sunday 2/28 @ Playwrights Horizons
Bruce Norris' darkly comedic riff on A Raisin in the Sun explores the racial tensions in a Chicago neighborhood on the...
The Bridge Project: As You Like It
Sunday 2/28 @ BAM
Sam Mendes' lush production of Shakespeare's As You Like It is a marvelous revelation that breathes new life into the play...
Sunday 2/28 @ 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
Sunday 2/28 @ 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...
Sunday 2/28 @ 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...
Sunday 2/28 @ 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...
Sunday 2/28 @ Under St. Marks
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Sunday 2/28 @ 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...
Sunday 2/28 @ 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...
Sunday 2/28 @ 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...
Sunday 2/28 @ 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...
Sunday 2/28 @ 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...
Sunday 2/28 @ William J. O'Shea Junior High School
As its name suggests, GreenFlea combines two ecologically sound practices — eating locally and buying used items — into one big...
Sunday 2/28 @ Biltmore Theater
Known for exhilarating solo shows, Eric Bogosian makes his Broadway debut in Donald Margulies' well-observed play about the unintended casualties of...
Sunday 2/28 @ 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...
Sunday 2/28 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Sunday 2/28 @ Film Forum
Two years after he made Head with the Monkees, director Bob Rafaelson lensed a not-yet-famous Jack Nicholson going ape-beep over toast....
Sunday 2/28 @ BLT Gallery
Bowery art outpost BLT Gallery — so named for owner Billy Lee Thompson — presents work by Herb Brown, an under-recognized...
Sunday 2/28 @ 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...
Sunday 2/28 @ 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...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Sunday 2/28 @ 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...
Children’s Book Sale: All day 2/27 and 2/28
Sunday 2/28 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
All paperbacks are $1 and all hardcovers are 30% off. Plenty of new and special stock, from board books through young...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Sunday 2/28 @ 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
Sunday 2/28 @ 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
Sunday 2/28 @ 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...
Sunday 2/28 @ 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...
WaxFactory : Quartet v4.0 at the Abrons Art Center
Sunday 2/28 @ Performance Space 122
WaxFactory continues its Year 11 Retrospective at the Abrons Arts Center* with the newly reimagined version of its 2002 hit production,...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Sunday 2/28 @ 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...
Sunday 2/28 @ 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...
Israeliness™: Israeli Family Programs
Sunday 2/28 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Israeliness™ is an Israeli-style, bi-weekly program for families with young children, focusing on Israeli culture and conducted entirely in Hebrew. Moms,...
Last Chance—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Sunday 2/28 @ 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...
The 185th Annual: Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art
Sunday 2/28 @ National Academy Museum
The National Academy presents ...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Sunday 2/28 @ 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...
Sunday 2/28 @ 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
Sunday 2/28 @ 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...
Sunday 2/28 @ 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...
Skowhegan at 92YTribeca An Alumni Exhibition
Sunday 2/28 @ 92YTribeca
92YTribeca is pleased to present a gallery exhibition of alumni chosen from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture’s 1999-2008 classes....
Tom Murrin: The Talking Show (The Magical Ridiculous Journey of Alien Comic)
Sunday 2/28 @ Performance Space 122
Fairy godfather of downtown performance Tom Murrin (aka Alien Comic) takes us on a talking tour of his life - and...
Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Sunday 2/28 @ 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
Sunday 2/28 @ 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: An Evening with Photographer Robert Frank
Sunday 2/28 @ 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...
Sunday 2/28 @ 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
Sunday 2/28 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: A Musical Setting for Bronzino
Sunday 2/28 @ 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
Sunday 2/28 @ 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...
Sunday 2/28 @ 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....
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