Events on Wednesday, February 1
The Chemical Brothers: Don't Think
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Various Locations
The Chemical Brothers: Don't Think is a concert film revelation. Capturing the British big-beat music maestros' awe-inspiring performance before 50,000 people...
Touré: Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness?
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Brooklyn Public Library
We've heard very little from the generation of African Americans who have benefitted from the civil rights movement, about what the...
Props w/ Rich Medina and Akalepse
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
21+ "PROPS", Wednesday nights at LPR's Gallery Bar is the continuation of Rich Medina's infamous Li'l Ricky's Rib Shack parties on...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
The term ‘Canyengue,’ pronounced “Ca-jen-geh,” refers to the early style of tango – raw, provocative, sensual – that developed on the...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ The Standard, New York
Le Bain Presents : Mercury Nights for your pleasure. Tonight we're going to party it up like the Kennedy's with our...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ 3rd Ward
The course outline includes an introduction to materials: paints, papers, brushes, care for materials, and paint quantity. You will focus on...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Lincoln Center
A wistful chanteuse, a syncopated femme fatale, a self-styled "singer-songwriter-composer-producer-engineer," Keren Ann splits her time between the demimondes of Paris and...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ 92YTribeca
Hoodlums and Heartbreak in Old New York! It’s gentrification 1930’s-style, as the slum-dwelling Dead End Kids find themselves living next door...
Bosco Delrey feat. TEEN and Jailbait
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Brooklyn Bowl
Bosco Delrey, producer and purveyor of experimental pop and rock n roll, spent early 2011 playing in support of like-minded, genre-blurring...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Joe's Pub
Huffington Post named Gabe Dixon's One Spark album among The "Best Music Of 2011," Record Collector says Dixon is "a fresh...
Ask Roulette with Starlee Kine, David Carr, Kurt Braunholer and Dave Hill
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
During Ask Roulette, strangers ask each other any question they want, big or small, in front of a live audience. It’s...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Cinema Village
We're glad that writer/director Kenneth Lonergan and Fox Searchlight finally let Margaret come out to play theatrically. In the can since...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ The Morgan Library
In celebration of the bicentennial of the birth of Charles Dickens, the Morgan Library & Museum presents Charles Dickens at 200...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
"Yummy" might be the best word to describe Rirkrit Tiravanija's current installation at MoMA. The conceptual artist's Untitled (Free/Still), which can...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Film Forum
Iran's entry for Best Foreign Language Oscar and winner of Berlin's Golden Bear, A Separation is a complex family drama that...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Museum of the Moving Image
If Sesame Street was your primary baby-sitter back when you were a kid, and you considered Kermit and Miss Piggy some...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ The Clurman at Theater Row
A one-man virtuoso acrobatic performance that cleverly skews the audience's perspective on gravity, LEO is a showcase for the effortlessly talented...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ The McKittrick Hotel
Don't let the extraordinary experience that is Sleep No More pass you by. Dubbed immersive theatre by its parents, the award-winning...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Mary Boone Gallery 541 West 24th St New York, NY 10001
Sunflower Seeds, the installation by internationally renowned artist and activist Ai Weiwei, is on view for the first time in New...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Angelika Film Center
Adapted from Lionel Shirver's best-selling novel, Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin places us inside the head...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ SCRATCHbread
The SCRATCHbread Focaccino window is a portal into deliciousness. On Select days, SCRATCHbread, the mothership of artisanal breads that are sprouting...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ IFC Center
Wim Wenders pays poetic tribute to friend and influential German choreographer Pina Bausch using 3D technology. On the surface, it seems...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Winter Garden Theatre
Seen by over 45 million people around the world, MAMMA MIA!, is celebrating over 4,000 performances in its tenth smash hit...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ The Journal Gallery
Artist Chris Martin curates this all-woman exhibition about which he says: "Some of these artists are old friends. Some of them...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Cameo Gallery
If the giggles elicited by clowning around with your friends aren't evidence enough, Big Terrific proves that hearty laughs can be...
Newspaper Fiction: The New York Journalism of Djuna Barnes
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Brooklyn Museum
While Djuna Barnes is best known for her modernist novels and plays like Nightwood (1936) and The Antiphon (1958), from 1913-1921,...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ 2econd Stage Theatre
How I learned To Drive is not a feel-good story, a tender tale of the loss of teen innocence. It is...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Regal Union Square Stadium 14
Seven years have passed since Alexander Payne's Best Director Oscar for Sideways went to Clint Eastwood. And just as he was...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ The Palace Theatre
Priscilla Queen of the Desert, the outrageously fabulous musical that took London and Australia by storm, has finally hit New York....
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ International Center of Photography
Legendary photojournalist and newspaper freelancer of the 1930s and 1940s, Weegee has made his fame capturing gruesome murder scenes and high-profile...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Landmark Sunshine
Sex addiction in New York City is laid bare in award-winning artist-turned-feature-filmmaker Steve McQueen's Shame. Michael Fassbender, who teamed with McQueen...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ 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/ 1 @ Storefront for Art and Architecture
To the naked eye, Allard van Hoorn's 007_Urban_Songline looks like a room filled with strings; a child-like maze for visitors to...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Regal Union Square Stadium 14
Writer Diablo Cody and director Jason Reitman defy the sophomore slump with Juno follow-up Young Adult, an unconventional homecoming dramedy starring...
Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
See works from Diego Rivera's first NYC exhibition, which took place at the MoMA back in 1931. Yes, sketches and designs...
The Game of Kings: Medieval Ivory Chessmen from the Isle of Lewis
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
You may remember the Lewis Chessmen from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone. These chess pieces, dating from the twelfth century...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ New York City Center
David Hyde Pierce and Rosie Perez each play themselves, to an extent, in Leigh Silverman's (Chinglish) production of Close Up Space....
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Roulette
Dance Roulette effectively eliminates any possible excuse for not yet visiting Roulette's new Brooklyn home. The festival brings together an internationally celebrated...
Surviving Life: Collages by Jan Svankmajer
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Museum of the Moving Image
Crafting bizarre cinematic head-trippers for over 45 years, Jan Svankmajer is an award-winning Czech animator who has inspired several generations of...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ 59E59 Theaters
In The Fall to Earth, Deborah Hedwall gives a nearly flawless performance as Fay, a mother who has traveled across the...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ 7Eleven Gallery
Alchemy, the process of turning base metals into gold, is the starting point for the group show Alchemy in the West...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Booth Theatre
Wow. In our humble opinion, this is the best play on Broadway right now — the kind of intelligent reflection of...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Cinema Village
Having just walked off with the Palme d'Or at Cannes, Terrence Malick's latest film, The Tree of Life, which stars Brad...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Eugene O'Neill Theatre (230 W 49th St)
We hestitated to lend our voices to the chorus of adoration for this show — only because we were afraid of being...
Three Solo Shows: Tamara Gayer, Stephen Sollins, and Heeseop Yoon
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Smack Mellon
Three solo exhibitions take over the enormous space at Smack Mellon in DUMBO. Brooklyn-based artists Tamara Gayer, Stephen Sollins, and Heeseop...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Various Locations
Just in time to alleviate both your thinning wallet and your shrinking waistline: NYC's Winter Restaurant Week offers steep discounts on...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Slice
West Village pizzeria Slice isn't your average pie shop. And its Connect Four Smackdown isn't your average night of bar board...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Blackston Gallery
This group show features five young Brooklyn artists, who all reference simultanéisme, a term coined in the early 20th century by...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Minetta Lane Theatre
Fast-moving and frequently hilarious, Standing on Ceremony is a staged reading of nine ten-minute plays focusing on gay marriage, with proceeds...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
The HIDE/SEEK exhibition is known best for the controversy it caused in Washington, DC when it opened in October 2010 at...
The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ The Public Theater
As the saying goes, ignorance is bliss, which could be a reason to bypass Mike Daisey's well-played indictment of, uh, we...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ New World Stages
Freud's Last Session is a battle of the brains, with plenty of wit and thought-provoking dialogue. Two brilliant actors, particularly Martin Rayner...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ HERE Arts Center
A winter highlight, Culturemart both previews and celebrates works-in-progress from HARP, HERE's artist residency program. The lineup includes five works by...
Park Here: The Indoor Pop-Up Park
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Openhouse Gallery
Dodge the SADs (Seasonal Affective Disorder) with a play date at Park Here, Nolita's very own indoor park, plush with grass...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ The Frick Collection
White Gold: Highlights from the Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain will feature approximately seventy of Henry Arnhold's promised gift of 131...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ P.S. 122
Judging from the rapid yearly deterioration of New York's Fringe Festival, it's no wonder it took Silence! The Musical, a 2005...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Music Box Theatre
If you thought meeting the real William Shatner required going to a Star Trek Convention or ComicCon, think again. At nearly...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ BAM Harvey Theater
The Bridge Project seals its final season with a stellar pairing of Academy Award winners Kevin Spacey and Sam Mendes in...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ David Zwirner Gallery
Doug Wheeler has achieved something that defies comprehension in his illuminating large-scale installation currently housed at David Zwirner Gallery. Along with...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Angelika Film Center
From his outlandish comments — calling George W. Bush an asshole or admitting to be a Nazi — to his profound fear...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Jerry Orbach Theater
In the intimate Jerry Orbach theater (now aka the Snapple Center, groan), this simple, warm, and wonderful production is the first...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ The Acorn at Theatre Row
Like New Group's previous Burning, Russian Transport is another seriocomic, well-written depiction of a dysfunctional family perfomed by a cast that is belivable...
Joaquín Sorolla & The Glory of Spanish Dress
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Queen Sofia Spanish Institute
Two fashion greats, Oscar de la Renta and Vogue's André Leon Talley, team up to bring you this seminal exhibition on...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Cinema Village
Cinema is alive and well in Turkey. In addition to churning out its domestic blockbusters, the Muslim nation has a flourishing...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ New World Stages
Avenue Q is the story of Princeton, a bright-eyed college grad who comes to New York City with big dreams and...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ The Clocktower
Winds howl, crickets chirp, and coyotes yodel in Canyon Candy, a site-specific installation that expands a wild western-themed 16-minute music video...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Public Art Fund
Like the atmospheric transformation of a cloud into rain, some works of art have the potential to change their form and meaning....
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Berlin-based artist Haris Epaminonda is internationally known for her photo-collages and assemblages constructed from books and magazines from the 1950s and...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ National Academy Museum
Featuring works by over 100 artists and architects, the Annual reveals the cross-generational dialogue occurring in the art world by juxtaposing...
Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution: Fu Baoshi (1904-1965)
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Perhaps the greatest figure painter and landscapist of China’s modern period, Fu Baoshi successfully integrated Western and traditional artistic influences to...
Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron & Son
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This exhibition features a selection of early 20th-century reproductions of now-famous works of art from Sir Arthur Evans’s historic excavations of...
Mirror of the Buddha: Early Portraits from Tibet
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Rubin Museum of Art
In early Tibetan painted portraits, founding masters of important Buddhist schools were often represented as holy personages. Using artistic conventions developed...
Michael Sailstorfer: "Tornado"
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Public Art Fund
Rising more than 30 feet to meet the treetops of Central Park, "Tornado" brings together a series of opposite terms. It...
Rob Pruitt's "The Andy Monument"
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Public Art Fund
Rob Pruitt's monument to Andy Warhol, the father of Pop Art and one of New York's enduring cultural icons, is installed...
The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
It has been said that the Renaissance witnessed the rediscovery of the individual. The 15th century was certainly the first great...
The Coe Collection of American Indian Art
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Drawn from works given and bequeathed to the Met Museum during the past decade by Ralph T. Coe of Santa Fe,...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ 3rd Ward
We provide the beer and the model. You bring your drawing tools and creativity. Hosted in the Gallery of 3rd Ward,...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Asia Society and Museum
Sarah Sze: Infinte line is the first exhibition to focus specifically on her process. It is an exploration of line across...
New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
More than 1,000 works from the distinguished collection of the Met Museum's Department of Islamic Art—one of the most comprehensive gatherings...
FUNDAMENTALS OF PASTEL Instructor Janet Cook
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ National Academy Museum
This class is aimed at those who want to learn how to use the medium of pastel. The student will either...
Simone Leigh: You Don't Know Where Her Mouth Has Been
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ The Kitchen
Opening Reception: Wednesday, January 18, 6-8pm This solo exhibition presents the New York premiere of Simone Leigh’s most recent sculptural...
Testimonios: 100 Years of Popular Expression
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ El Museo del Barrio
Testimonios examines potent works by non-traditionally trained makers. This exhibition celebrates and witnesses mankind’s myriad artistic manifestations by highlighting works that...
New American Wing Galleries for Paintings, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This third and final phase of the American Wing renovation project comprises 26 renovated and enlarged galleries for the Met Museum’s...
The Body Unbound: Modernist Art from India
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Rubin Museum of Art
The first exhibition in the three-part Modernist Art from India series, The Body Unbound focuses on representations of the figure and...
From Inspiration to Transformation: Art from Africa and Works of Contemporary Art
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ National Academy Museum
The exhibition From Inspiration to Transformation: Art from Africa and Works of Contemporary Art showcases new art projects from National Academy...
Hero, Villain, Yeti: Tibet in Comics
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Rubin Museum of Art
Characters as diverse as Mickey Mouse, the historical Buddha, Tomb Raider Lara Croft, and the Green Lama have something in common:...
Victorian Electrotypes: Old Treasures, New Technology
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
For the first time in nearly a century, the Met Museum is displaying a selection from its large collection of electrotypes,...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Japan has enjoyed a long tradition of narrative painting, one that continues even today with the popular contemporary Japanese cartoon (manga)...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ Haunch of Venison
Haunch of Venison is pleased to present the first U.S. exhibition of Thomas Heatherwick, one of Britain’s most celebrated architect designers. <!--StartFragment-->The...
Sanja Iveković: Sweet Violence
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
A feminist, activist, and video pioneer, Iveković came of age in the early 1970s during the period known as the Croatian...
Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker in New York
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Referred to during his lifetime as the "United States Rage," Duncan Phyfe (1768-1854) remains to this day America's best-known cabinetmaker. This...
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ El Museo del Barrio
This exhibition features works that explore the vast diversity and complexity of the Caribbean basin, as an accompaniment to El Museo’s...
Art in Renaissance Venice, 1400-1515: Paintings and Drawings from the Museum’s Collections
Wednesday 2/ 1 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This installation of Renaissance Venetian art from the Met Museum’s collections features 44 paintings and drawings by preeminent artists active in...
