Events on Wednesday, February 3
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ American Museum of Natural History
Some will let out a pshaw to a such-titled conversation — isn't the x, why, and z for it totally, palpably...
Stories in High Fidelity feat. David Byrne w/ Dan Kennedy and Nicole Atkins
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Stories in High Fidelity merges the music and literary worlds at the Bowery tonight in an event that should feel like...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ Town Hall
Renée Fleming gives divas a good name. She is one of the handful of singers (another is the last Three Tenors,...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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The Constellations @ Brooklyn Bowl
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ The Bowery Presents
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Wednesday 2/ 3 @ Harlem Stage
Come join us for the screening of 761st by Pete Chatmon. The 761st Tank Battalion—the first African-American armored unit—were the “Tuskegee...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 92YTribeca
Part of the Closely Watched Films series.
Trapped in a suffocating marriage,...
SIC InC - Yale College New Music: A Night of Young Composers @ LPR
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Featuring sixteen of Yale’s most talented undergraduate musicians, SIC InC presents amplified chamber music in shows that assault the senses, combining...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Tom Colicchio, Dan Barber, Jacques Torres and Andre Soltner / Dorothy Hamilton, moderator
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ Playwrights Horizons
Bruce Norris' darkly comedic riff on A Raisin in the Sun explores the racial tensions in a Chicago neighborhood on the...
Jeffrey Vallance and Mark Dion
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
Jeffrey Vallance is an artist of all trades, whose prolific work often results in sculptural assemblages, installations, and conceptually based series,...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ Various locations
NYC Restaurant Week is back for those whose delicate palates suffer the need to choose frugality over taste. From the fashionably...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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,...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ Biltmore Theater
Known for exhilarating solo shows, Eric Bogosian makes his Broadway debut in Donald Margulies' well-observed play about the unintended casualties of...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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...
40 Years of Documentary Premieres at Film Forum
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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....
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ Laurie Beechman Theater
Ms. Celebrity Apprentice 2009 is workshopping her latest standup act — a part of Joan Rivers' job description that gratefully does...
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ Atlantic Stage Two
The intricate wit of downtown darling David Greenspan has time and again charmed theatergoers who demand a strong dose of smarts...
The Bridge Project: As You Like It
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ Anthology Film Archives
Made in 1977 by the ad hoc Mariposa Film Group, this seminal record of LGBT life in America plaits together 26...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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....
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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...
The Drawings of Bronzino - Free Met Podcast
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ Film Forum
Ahead of Akira Kurosawa's centenary on March 23, Film Forum more or less runs through the auteur's consummate filmography (on queue:...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ Various locations
Poland's Unsound Festival, a blowout for experimental, club, and post-classical music, comes to New York with a slew of concerts, films,...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ Kim Foster Gallery
Although completely abstract, New York artist Augustus Goertz' paintings are not unlike JMW Turner's 18th-century contemplation of the impending clash between...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ Second Stage Theatre
Douglas Carter Beane tackles the growing blur of journalism and fiction in his new acerbically funny play. The title characters, played...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ Irish Repertory Theatre
The delightful cast of Ernest in Love doesn't let a weak score get in the way of this whimsical story about...
Patti Smith and Steven Sebring
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ Robert Miller Gallery
Iconic musician and artist Patti Smith and filmmaker Steven Sebring, director of the moving and evocative biopic on the legendary cultural...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ Teatro Circulo (64 E 4th St, 212.505.1808)
Like a McDonald's hamburger, Clay McLeod Chapman's Teaser Cow is made up of countless parts whose origins are hard to trace....
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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...
Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ 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....
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ New Museum
The H BOX program was initiated in 2006, directed by Benjamin Weil. Each year, four artists are invited to produce a...
Skowhegan at 92YTribeca An Alumni Exhibition
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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.
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Velázquez Rediscovered
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Keith Christiansen and Michael Gallagher of the Met discuss their research and conservation of an extraordinary portrait recently reattributed to Velázquez,...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Paul Sietsema’s ethereal drawings, sculptures, and films explore combinations of color, space, and movement through subjects spanning a broad geographic and...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Arts of Ancient Viet Nam: From River Plain to Open Sea
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: An Evening with Photographer Robert Frank
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Did you know that the musical heritage of China is one of the oldest continuously documented traditions with roots reaching back...
Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ New Museum
For his first large-scale solo presentation in an American museum, Urs Fischer has taken over all three of the New Museum’s...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Victorious Ones: Jain Images of Perfection is the Rubin Museum's newest exhibition and latest offering of Himalayan art and culture. ...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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/ 3 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
A technical examination and cleaning of one of the Met’s paintings, formerly ascribed to the workshop of Velázquez, has revealed a...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Nikhil Chopra: Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing IX
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ New Museum
Nikhil Chopra combines approaches associated with theater, portraiture, landscape drawing, photography, art actions, and installation to chronicle the world through live...
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Wednesday 2/ 3 @ Performance Space 122
"Boundary-pushing" "Novel" "Provocative" - Charles Isherwood, The New York Times [Richard Maxwell is] "One of the most innovative and essential artists...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Kimberly Bartosik/daela: The Materiality of impermanence
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ New York Live Arts
“Remarkable, heart-stopping … a beautiful and wrenching enigma.” - Village Voice ”I believe in the visceral possibilities of performance and the...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Kevork Mourad & Kinana Azmeh @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Artists Kevork Mourad and Kinana Azmeh explore the Epic of Gilgamesh through the art forms of music and painting, using them...
Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/ 3 @ Asia Society and Museum
The first solo New York museum exhibition of Japanese artist Yoshihiro Suda features a new work, inspired by pieces from Asia...
