Events on Tuesday, February 9
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ B.B. King Blues Club & Grill
While many of his protégés (Eric Clapton, former Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor) have gone on to flashier careers, veteran bluesman...
Zuill Bailey @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Zuill Bailey is considered one of the pre-eminent cellists of his generation. Celebrate the release of his Bach Cello Suites...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
The music of Brooklyn's Yeasayer is an eclectic, genre-bending journey into pop, druggy rock, Middle Eastern and African musics, folk, and...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ The Bowery Presents
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Gretchen Rubin: Your Happiness Project
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
Gretchen Rubin is the author of The Happiness Project, an account of the year she spent testing the wisdom of the...
Changing Gears in China and the US, with Peter Hessler
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ Asia Society and Museum
When journalist Peter Hessler (Oracle Bones) started sneaking his Chinese rental car out of Beijing for ever-lengthening trips along the route...
Punch up your life: Free comedy with surprise guests
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
Punch up your life: free comedy with surprise guests Watch our Facebook and Twitter for updates!...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 92nd Street Y (92Y)
David Brooks's op-ed column in The New York Times started in September 2003. He has been a senior editor at The...
Sean Walsh & the National Reserve, Neighbors & Eastern Midwestern @LPR
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
10pm doors | 10:20pm show
$10
18+
Sean Walsh and the National Reserve are a group...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Red Riding: Special Roadshow Edition
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ IFC Center
"Dickens on bad acid" is a description that captures the unsparing, paranoiac nature of the Red Riding Quartet, David Peace's cult...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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....
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ The Duke Theater
Until the Royal Shakespeare Company sets up camp at The Armory in summer 2011, New Yorkers have to make do with...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ CINY (511 W 25th St)
This week-long celebration of chocolate satisfies a wide variety of sweet tooths with an inventive lineup of top-notch confectionaries. A sample...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ Metropolitan Opera House
There's something about Carmen — for her, men cast aside principles to fall headlong into a life of crime. Directed by...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ Biltmore Theater
Known for exhilarating solo shows, Eric Bogosian makes his Broadway debut in Donald Margulies' well-observed play about the unintended casualties of...
Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes)
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ Various locations
Finally, a solution to all those pesky construction-site eyesores downtown. Downtown Alliance, in a stroke of genius, has developed and carried...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ The People's Improv Theater
Sometimes it feels like we're stuck in Bizarro world, with too much cash and too few quality comics to purchase. Luckily,...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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:...
The Hours of Catherine of Cleves
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ The Morgan Library
Taking apart a rare book can be cultural barbarism but that is what the Morgan Library has done to show off...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ Second Stage Theatre
Douglas Carter Beane tackles the growing blur of journalism and fiction in his new acerbically funny play. The title characters, played...
Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ International Center of Photography
Paris of the '20s and '30s — with its serrated rooftops, Haussmann streamlines, and bustling arrondissements — was a wellspring for...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Oscar's Docs 1953–75: Nature and Humanity
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
In terms of pure wonder, the Planet-Earth documentaries of yesteryear can definitely compete with today's HD beauties. See Cousteau's 1964 World...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ Barbès
While punk outfits like Devotchka and Gogol Bordello boldly appropriate traditional Eastern European music, their gypsy-inspired mosh pits lack a certain...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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."...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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,...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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...
The Drawings of Bronzino - Free Met Podcast
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ Playwrights Horizons
Bruce Norris' darkly comedic riff on A Raisin in the Sun explores the racial tensions in a Chicago neighborhood on the...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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,...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ Imperial Theatre
The dark economic times spurred by Wall Street and the new political landscape serve as the perfect backdrop for Billy Elliot,...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ Baryshnikov Arts Center
The woman whose name took over One Christopher Street was an influential choreographer, teacher, and lecturer. In honor of Anna Sokolow's...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ CINY (511 W 25th St)
Cacao alchemists and chocolate aficionados gather under the same roof for an ecstatic chocolate excursion through the senses, courtesy of Migration...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ Classic Stage Company
David Ives, best known for his whimsical and witty short plays like Variations of the Death of Trotsky, ventures into the...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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...
40 Years of Documentary Premieres at Film Forum
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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....
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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...
The Bridge Project: As You Like It
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ BAM
Sam Mendes' lush production of Shakespeare's As You Like It is a marvelous revelation that breathes new life into the play...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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,...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ Performance Space 122
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Purchase (or use) a PS122 Passport between NOW and FEBRUARY 15 and be entered...
“Medieval Garden Enclosed” on the Met Blog.
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Skowhegan at 92YTribeca An Alumni Exhibition
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 92YTribeca
92YTribeca is pleased to present a gallery exhibition of alumni chosen from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture’s 1999-2008 classes....
Last Chance—Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from Australia
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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: An Evening with Photographer Robert Frank
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Arts of Ancient Viet Nam: From River Plain to Open Sea
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Messerschmidt Bust Enters the Collection - Free Met Podcast
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Pablo Bronstein - Free Met Podcast
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Nikhil Chopra: Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing IX
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ New Museum
Nikhil Chopra combines approaches associated with theater, portraiture, landscape drawing, photography, art actions, and installation to chronicle the world through live...
Last Chance—Five Thousand Years of Japanese Art: Treasures from the Packard Collection
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Last Chance—Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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...
The “Young Archer” Attributed to Michelangelo - Free Met Podcast
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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. ...
Tuesday 2/ 9 @ 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...
