Events on Friday, February 5
Fascinating Rhythms: Gershwin & Joplin
Friday 2/ 5 @ World Financial Center
There is no better balm for hard times than the music that soothed a similarly cash-strapped set in the early-20th century....
Friday 2/ 5 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
During its 35-minute runtime, Blow Job's camera loiters on the contorting expressions of a fellow receiving the titular act. Kiss is...
The Freedom Party w/ DJ Cosi, DJ Herbert Holler, and DJ Marc Smooth
Friday 2/ 5 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Friday 2/ 5 @ Terminal 5
Performing with special guest Tea Leaf Green With the release of their sixth album, From the Corner to the Block, the...
Joshua Nelson: Shabbat Dinner + Kosher Gospel Performance
Friday 2/ 5 @ 92YTribeca
For Joshua Nelson, kosher gospel is a way to claim both parts of his identity as a Black Jew. For audiences...
Friday 2/ 5 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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DJ DEEJAY PRESENTS... "MMP!"
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Saxon Shore / The American Dollar
Friday 2/ 5 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
At the time of recording The Exquisite Death in June 2005, Matthew Doty (guitar, keyboards) was still working with line-up changes...
Lit Magazine's Issue 17 Launch
Friday 2/ 5 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
The literary journal of The New School’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing Program presents the best contemporary writing by...
Friday 2/ 5 @ Asia Society and Museum
NYC's hottest happy hour! Asia Circle, the Society's young patrons group, hosts a cocktail evening. Reunite with friends, network with...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 92YTribeca
New York Premiere. One of the Deagol Brothers in person for post-screening Q&A.
FRIDAY: Gary Lucas performs live score to The Golem
Friday 2/ 5 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Grammy-nominated songwriter and composer Gary Lucas will perform an electric guitar score to The Golem, a classic German silent film from...
Sounds Like Brooklyn: Ra Ra Riot + The Antlers
Friday 2/ 5 @ BAM
RA RA RIOT + THE ANTLERS Part of the 2010 Spring Season and Sounds Like Brooklyn Music Festival
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Interactive Seminar—The Observant Eye: Roman Art
Friday 2/ 5 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Here’s your chance to expand your knowledge of Roman art! This Friday evening come and take part in this unique opportunity...
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Screening
Friday 2/ 5 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Pop-up book artist Matthew Reinhart kicks off three-month long 'Cosmic CabaretCinema' series, when he introduces the cult classic: The Hitchhiker’s Guide...
Friday 2/ 5 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Every decade or so a new group comes along that completely shakes up Nashville's dismissal of its hillbilly heritage and turns...
WFUV Presents: Josh Rouse w/ Christina Courtin
Friday 2/ 5 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
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Ongoing Events
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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:...
Friday 2/ 5 @ New York Theatre Ballet, The Dance Gallery
The centerpiece of New York Theatre Ballet's second installment of Dance on a Shoestring is a rare showing of Agnes de...
Friday 2/ 5 @ Sputnik
Sometimes it feels like NYC's got as many "DJ"s as it does "actors." But, if you're a budding turntablist serious about...
Friday 2/ 5 @ Second Stage Theatre
Douglas Carter Beane tackles the growing blur of journalism and fiction in his new acerbically funny play. The title characters, played...
Red Riding: Special Roadshow Edition
Friday 2/ 5 @ IFC Center
"Dickens on bad acid" is a description that captures the unsparing, paranoiac nature of the Red Riding Quartet, David Peace's cult...
The Drawings of Bronzino - Free Met Podcast
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris
Friday 2/ 5 @ International Center of Photography
Paris of the '20s and '30s — with its serrated rooftops, Haussmann streamlines, and bustling arrondissements — was a wellspring for...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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,...
40 Years of Documentary Premieres at Film Forum
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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....
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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."...
Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 5 @ The Brazen Head
Boerum Hill mainstay the Brazen Head expands its cask offerings from two to twelve as manager Lou Sones and grassroots beer...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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,...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 5 @ Playwrights Horizons
Bruce Norris' darkly comedic riff on A Raisin in the Sun explores the racial tensions in a Chicago neighborhood on the...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 5 @ IFC Center
In François Truffaut's playful adaptation of David Goodis' noir Down There (1956), the French chanteur Charles Aznavour plays Charlie, a crestfallen...
The Bridge Project: As You Like It
Friday 2/ 5 @ BAM
Sam Mendes' lush production of Shakespeare's As You Like It is a marvelous revelation that breathes new life into the play...
Friday 2/ 5 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Friday 2/ 5 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 5 @ New York Theatre Ballet, The Dance Gallery
Spread throughout its season, these NYTB evenings showcase its current projects and establish closer ties to the audience. The company's exploration...
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Friday 2/ 5 @ The Morgan Library
Taking apart a rare book can be cultural barbarism but that is what the Morgan Library has done to show off...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 5 @ Classic Stage Company
David Ives, best known for his whimsical and witty short plays like Variations of the Death of Trotsky, ventures into the...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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,...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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....
Friday 2/ 5 @ Various locations
NYC Restaurant Week is back for those whose delicate palates suffer the need to choose frugality over taste. From the fashionably...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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,...
Friday 2/ 5 @ Atlantic Stage Two
The intricate wit of downtown darling David Greenspan has time and again charmed theatergoers who demand a strong dose of smarts...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Jeffrey Vallance and Mark Dion
Friday 2/ 5 @ Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
Jeffrey Vallance is an artist of all trades, whose prolific work often results in sculptural assemblages, installations, and conceptually based series,...
Friday 2/ 5 @ BLT Gallery
Bowery art outpost BLT Gallery — so named for owner Billy Lee Thompson — presents work by Herb Brown, an under-recognized...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 5 @ IFC Center
Paul Verhoeven's futuristic extravaganza envisioned a world at the mercy of powerful technology corporations; the fact that its leading man would...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 5 @ City Center Studios
The recent death of Merce Cunningham is a pretty good reason to moan over the lost art of selecting music worthy...
Friday 2/ 5 @ Metropolitan Opera House
There's something about Carmen — for her, men cast aside principles to fall headlong into a life of crime. Directed by...
Patti Smith and Steven Sebring
Friday 2/ 5 @ Robert Miller Gallery
Iconic musician and artist Patti Smith and filmmaker Steven Sebring, director of the moving and evocative biopic on the legendary cultural...
Friday 2/ 5 @ Biltmore Theater
Known for exhilarating solo shows, Eric Bogosian makes his Broadway debut in Donald Margulies' well-observed play about the unintended casualties of...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 5 @ Various locations
Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Skowhegan at 92YTribeca An Alumni Exhibition
Friday 2/ 5 @ 92YTribeca
92YTribeca is pleased to present a gallery exhibition of alumni chosen from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture’s 1999-2008 classes....
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 5 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Admission is free for all visitors during Target Free Friday Nights, sponsored by Target, every Friday evening, 4:00–8:00 p.m. Tickets for...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Velázquez Rediscovered
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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,...
Nikhil Chopra: Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing IX
Friday 2/ 5 @ New Museum
Nikhil Chopra combines approaches associated with theater, portraiture, landscape drawing, photography, art actions, and installation to chronicle the world through live...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 5 @ New Museum
The H BOX program was initiated in 2006, directed by Benjamin Weil. Each year, four artists are invited to produce a...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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. ...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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....
Friday 2/ 5 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Every Friday night, beginning at 6:00 p.m., the Rubin Museum of Art’s colonnade transforms into the K2 Lounge, complete with a...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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!
Friday 2/ 5 @ Performance Space 122
"Boundary-pushing" "Novel" "Provocative" - Charles Isherwood, The New York Times [Richard Maxwell is] "One of the most innovative and essential artists...
Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Arts of Ancient Viet Nam: From River Plain to Open Sea
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
FREE Friday nights at the Rubin Museum
Friday 2/ 5 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Every Friday night from 7-10pm, the Rubin Museum is free to everyone. Have a drink with friends in the K2 Lounge,...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Braid your challah and take it home to bake! PLUS, decorate cookies and color your very own reusable Shababa Bakery tote...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: An Evening with Photographer Robert Frank
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Last Chance—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Friday 2/ 5 @ 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...
Kimberly Bartosik/daela: The Materiality of impermanence
Friday 2/ 5 @ New York Live Arts
“Remarkable, heart-stopping … a beautiful and wrenching enigma.” - Village Voice ”I believe in the visceral possibilities of performance and the...
