Events on Thursday, February 4
Elena Fanailova and Marina Temkina
Thursday 2/ 4 @ The Russian Samovar
CEC Arts and Brooklyn-based Ugly Duckling Presse host a literary salon celebrating new poetry published by Moscovite Elena Fanailova and Saint...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ The Bell House-
For all those who wish it was summer but can't afford to hop a plane to the Caribbean, the folks at...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Thursday 2.04.10
BEHIND...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Thursday, February 4, 2010, 8 pm
Panocha Quartet
“One of the finest quartets in the...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 92YTribeca
Director Emily Abt in person for post-screening Q&A.
At a politically correct...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ Symphony Space
unWINEd at Symphony Space is pleased to present the Gypsy funk, Arabesque trance, deep Latin grooves, and soulful vocal and instrumental...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
Kelli Rudick plus Brent Arnold and Emily Hope Price In a post-industrial Brooklyn loft strewn with guitars, drums, all manner...
India and Pakistan: Back from the Brink?
Thursday 2/ 4 @ Asia Society and Museum
"Keeping Peace on the Subcontinent" Series
Featuring:
C. Raja Mohan, Henry Alfred Kissinger...
Haiti Ladies: A Benefit for Doctors Without Borders
Thursday 2/ 4 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Thursday 02.04.10
Haiti Ladies: A...
Patti Lupone with Leonard Lopate: The Broadway Life
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Tony-winning actress Patti LuPone has wowed Broadway audiences for years, starring in hits like Sweeney Todd, Gypsy and Evita. Enjoy a...
WFUV Presents: Josh Rouse w/ Christina Courtin
Thursday 2/ 4 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Comedy Below Canal™: Bro'In Out with Leo & Tony Featuring Paul Rudd and More
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 92YTribeca
Somewhere between The Dick Cavett Show and After Dark with Hugh Hefner lies "Bro'In Out with Leo & Tony." In this...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Alberta Cross are a folk rock band created by song-writing partners Petter Ericson Stakee & Terry Wolfers in London’s East End....
Ongoing Events
The Drawings of Bronzino - Free Met Podcast
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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
Thursday 2/ 4 @ International Center of Photography
Paris of the '20s and '30s — with its serrated rooftops, Haussmann streamlines, and bustling arrondissements — was a wellspring for...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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."...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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:...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ Second Stage Theatre
Douglas Carter Beane tackles the growing blur of journalism and fiction in his new acerbically funny play. The title characters, played...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ Kaufman Center
This unique series pairs modern composers with classic silent films to answer a question that's been floating around in our heads...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ Metropolitan Opera House
There's something about Carmen — for her, men cast aside principles to fall headlong into a life of crime. Directed by...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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....
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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....
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
40 Years of Documentary Premieres at Film Forum
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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....
Thursday 2/ 4 @ Playwrights Horizons
Bruce Norris' darkly comedic riff on A Raisin in the Sun explores the racial tensions in a Chicago neighborhood on the...
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Thursday 2/ 4 @ The Morgan Library
Taking apart a rare book can be cultural barbarism but that is what the Morgan Library has done to show off...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ Atlantic Stage Two
The intricate wit of downtown darling David Greenspan has time and again charmed theatergoers who demand a strong dose of smarts...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ Various locations
NYC Restaurant Week is back for those whose delicate palates suffer the need to choose frugality over taste. From the fashionably...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ Various locations
Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ Classic Stage Company
David Ives, best known for his whimsical and witty short plays like Variations of the Death of Trotsky, ventures into the...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ Biltmore Theater
Known for exhilarating solo shows, Eric Bogosian makes his Broadway debut in Donald Margulies' well-observed play about the unintended casualties of...
Patti Smith and Steven Sebring
Thursday 2/ 4 @ Robert Miller Gallery
Iconic musician and artist Patti Smith and filmmaker Steven Sebring, director of the moving and evocative biopic on the legendary cultural...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ BLT Gallery
Bowery art outpost BLT Gallery — so named for owner Billy Lee Thompson — presents work by Herb Brown, an under-recognized...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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,...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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,...
Jeffrey Vallance and Mark Dion
Thursday 2/ 4 @ Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
Jeffrey Vallance is an artist of all trades, whose prolific work often results in sculptural assemblages, installations, and conceptually based series,...
The Bridge Project: As You Like It
Thursday 2/ 4 @ BAM
Sam Mendes' lush production of Shakespeare's As You Like It is a marvelous revelation that breathes new life into the play...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ Anthology Film Archives
Made in 1977 by the ad hoc Mariposa Film Group, this seminal record of LGBT life in America plaits together 26...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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,...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Velázquez Rediscovered
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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,...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Last Chance—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Arts of Ancient Viet Nam: From River Plain to Open Sea
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Ads by Richard Maxwell / NYC Players - EXTENDED AGAIN - NOW THROUGH FEB 6!
Thursday 2/ 4 @ Performance Space 122
"Boundary-pushing" "Novel" "Provocative" - Charles Isherwood, The New York Times [Richard Maxwell is] "One of the most innovative and essential artists...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ New Museum
The H BOX program was initiated in 2006, directed by Benjamin Weil. Each year, four artists are invited to produce a...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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....
Kimberly Bartosik/daela: The Materiality of impermanence
Thursday 2/ 4 @ New York Live Arts
“Remarkable, heart-stopping … a beautiful and wrenching enigma.” - Village Voice ”I believe in the visceral possibilities of performance and the...
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Nikhil Chopra: Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing IX
Thursday 2/ 4 @ New Museum
Nikhil Chopra combines approaches associated with theater, portraiture, landscape drawing, photography, art actions, and installation to chronicle the world through live...
Skowhegan at 92YTribeca An Alumni Exhibition
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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.
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage
Thursday 2/ 4 @ 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...
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