Events on Saturday, February 6
Saturday 2/ 6 @ Central Park
If the X Games last weekend and the upcoming Olympics have got you anxious for some winter sports closer to home,...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ Cullman Education and Research Building at MoMA
Admission to a modern art museum may be only $20, but souvenir monographs and exhibition catalogs cost a pretty penny. Which...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ Symphony Space
It's a half-pint dance party unlike any other, with positive hip-hop music, and awesome storytelling about dragons, mermaids, robots, and sea...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Saturday, February 6, 2010, 8pm
Brazilian Guitar Quartet
"They play together like a dream…an evening...
Shellshag / Forgetters / Screaming Females
Saturday 2/ 6 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Don Giovanni Records Showcase: Shellshag / Forgetters / Screaming Females The Measure (SA) / Black Wine / Groucho Marxists...
Moon over Manhattan - Celebrate the Lunar New Year!
Saturday 2/ 6 @ Asia Society and Museum
Ring in the Lunar New Year at Asia Society! Enjoy a professional lion dance, an excerpt from the Peking Opera classic...
Galaxie Presents: Pre-Vday Sleazecore Explosion
Saturday 2/ 6 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Saturday 02.06.10
Galaxie Presents:...
Reverend Billy & The Life After Shopping Gospel Choir
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 92YTribeca
"It's an act, a kind of performance art, almost a form of religion."
—New York Times
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Version City Party: A Bob Marley Birthday Celebration with King Django Septet
Saturday 2/ 6 @ Knitting Factory Brooklyn
King Django Septet
Hub City Stompers, Outernational, Royal City Riot, Wareika Hill,
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Saturday 2/ 6 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Singles and couples of all ages and levels welcome. A group lesson is held during the first hour of each party....
Samulnori Drums & Dances: Noreum Machi
Saturday 2/ 6 @ Symphony Space
Spectacular percussion dialogues, shamanic chants, and acrobatic dances. Korea's Noreum Machi troupe has been acclaimed for its innovative performances of the...
Jewish Giants of the American Songbook: Harold Arlen
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
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Joelle Wallach will interview.
The Iron Mule Short Comedy Film Festival
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 92YTribeca
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This month's guest judge, writer/comedian Ritch Duncan, will join hosts Jay Stern and
Moritz von Oswald Trio w/ Levon Vincent , Ensemble LPR, and music of Ravel and Mussorgsky
Saturday 2/ 6 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Saturday 02.06.10
Stand-by tickets available: Attention all Mad Men fans...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Mad Men creator Matt Weiner is the latest in a long list of personalities to join The Red Book Dialogues at...
Ongoing Events
Jeffrey Vallance and Mark Dion
Saturday 2/ 6 @ Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
Jeffrey Vallance is an artist of all trades, whose prolific work often results in sculptural assemblages, installations, and conceptually based series,...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ Metropolitan Opera House
There's something about Carmen — for her, men cast aside principles to fall headlong into a life of crime. Directed by...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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."...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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,...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ Playwrights Horizons
Bruce Norris' darkly comedic riff on A Raisin in the Sun explores the racial tensions in a Chicago neighborhood on the...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ The Brazen Head
Boerum Hill mainstay the Brazen Head expands its cask offerings from two to twelve as manager Lou Sones and grassroots beer...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ Biltmore Theater
Known for exhilarating solo shows, Eric Bogosian makes his Broadway debut in Donald Margulies' well-observed play about the unintended casualties of...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ Classic Stage Company
David Ives, best known for his whimsical and witty short plays like Variations of the Death of Trotsky, ventures into the...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ IFC Center
Paul Verhoeven's futuristic extravaganza envisioned a world at the mercy of powerful technology corporations; the fact that its leading man would...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Saturday 2/ 6 @ The Morgan Library
Taking apart a rare book can be cultural barbarism but that is what the Morgan Library has done to show off...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Red Riding: Special Roadshow Edition
Saturday 2/ 6 @ IFC Center
"Dickens on bad acid" is a description that captures the unsparing, paranoiac nature of the Red Riding Quartet, David Peace's cult...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Patti Smith and Steven Sebring
Saturday 2/ 6 @ Robert Miller Gallery
Iconic musician and artist Patti Smith and filmmaker Steven Sebring, director of the moving and evocative biopic on the legendary cultural...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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,...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ Various locations
NYC Restaurant Week is back for those whose delicate palates suffer the need to choose frugality over taste. From the fashionably...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ Artists and Fleas
The independent vendors at Artists and Fleas supply the essentials — jewelry, vintage clothing, fashion, crafts, books, and vinyl — to...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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
Saturday 2/ 6 @ BAM
Sam Mendes' lush production of Shakespeare's As You Like It is a marvelous revelation that breathes new life into the play...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ The Duke Theater
Until the Royal Shakespeare Company sets up camp at The Armory in summer 2011, New Yorkers have to make do with...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ City Center Studios
The recent death of Merce Cunningham is a pretty good reason to moan over the lost art of selecting music worthy...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ IFC Center
In François Truffaut's playful adaptation of David Goodis' noir Down There (1956), the French chanteur Charles Aznavour plays Charlie, a crestfallen...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ Metropolitan Opera House
Plácido Domingo of the legendary Three Tenors takes it down a notch to sing the baritone title role in Verdi's Simon...
Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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,...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ Various locations
Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
40 Years of Documentary Premieres at Film Forum
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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....
Visions of the Cosmos: The Known Universe
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
The Drawings of Bronzino - Free Met Podcast
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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
Saturday 2/ 6 @ International Center of Photography
Paris of the '20s and '30s — with its serrated rooftops, Haussmann streamlines, and bustling arrondissements — was a wellspring for...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ BLT Gallery
Bowery art outpost BLT Gallery — so named for owner Billy Lee Thompson — presents work by Herb Brown, an under-recognized...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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,...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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:...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ Second Stage Theatre
Douglas Carter Beane tackles the growing blur of journalism and fiction in his new acerbically funny play. The title characters, played...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ Daryl Roth Theatre
Avid fans of spectacular spectacle De La Guarda are rejoicing with the arrival of Fuerza Bruta: Look Up, a sort of...
Nikhil Chopra: Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing IX
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 92YTribeca
92YTribeca is pleased to present a gallery exhibition of alumni chosen from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture’s 1999-2008 classes....
Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Ponty
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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. ...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Velázquez Rediscovered
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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,...
Last Chance—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Monthly 30% Off Sale: All Day February 6th and 7th.
Saturday 2/ 6 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
30% off all books, movies and music in the store.
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: An Evening with Photographer Robert Frank
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Ads by Richard Maxwell / NYC Players - EXTENDED AGAIN - NOW THROUGH FEB 6!
Saturday 2/ 6 @ Performance Space 122
"Boundary-pushing" "Novel" "Provocative" - Charles Isherwood, The New York Times [Richard Maxwell is] "One of the most innovative and essential artists...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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....
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ New Museum
The H BOX program was initiated in 2006, directed by Benjamin Weil. Each year, four artists are invited to produce a...
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Kimberly Bartosik/daela: The Materiality of impermanence
Saturday 2/ 6 @ New York Live Arts
“Remarkable, heart-stopping … a beautiful and wrenching enigma.” - Village Voice ”I believe in the visceral possibilities of performance and the...
Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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
Saturday 2/ 6 @ 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...
