Events on Friday, February 10
Friday 2/10 @ Santos Party House
Analog Fire is the rare-these-days electronic band with a live show that actually blows away any and all pre-conceived expectations. Tonight,...
Friday 2/10 @ Word
Commiserate with hip hop artist Jean Grae who hosts this special installment of Just Working On My Novel, in honor of...
The Case of Nicolas Chauvin: An Evening with the White Review
Friday 2/10 @ Cabinet Magazine Space
Cabinet Magazine gathers a group of great writers and intellectuals to present yet another one of its unusual investigations, this one...
Adam Gopnik and the Creative Process
Friday 2/10 @ New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute
One of our favorite New Yorker contributors, Adam Gopnik, visits with Dr. Lois Oppenheim, discussing his creative process and career thus far....
What's In A Name? A Lunchtime Naming Workshop
Friday 2/10 @ General Assembly
Google, Apple, Chrome, The iPad. Sometimes the right name for a new product or business can feel like a work of...
The Freedom Party w/ DJ Herbert Holler, DJ Cosi and DJ Marc Smooth
Friday 2/10 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
The Freedom Party NYC is New York City's longest running weekly Friday night dance party. Recently the winner of Papermag's highly...
Friday 2/10 @ 92YTribeca
Five years after The Searchers, John Ford returns to Comanche hostage-bartering and virulent frontier race-hate, in a cynical, all-around tough 1961...
American Songbook: Elaine Paige
Friday 2/10 @ Lincoln Center
Elaine Paige is the undisputed queen of British musical theater. Currently starring as Carlotta in Broadway’s Follies, this Olivier Award winner...
The Prince and Michael Jackson Experience
Friday 2/10 @ Brooklyn Bowl
Prince and Michael Jackson fans go toe-to-toe on the dance floor as dj’s mix album cuts, remixes, rare tracks and hits from the...
Friday 2/10 @ 92YTribeca
An Army captain and former P.O.W. is court martialed back home for treasonously embracing Commie brainwashing in this little-screened Korean War...
Ongoing Events
Friday 2/10 @ Music Box Theatre
If you thought meeting the real William Shatner required going to a Star Trek Convention or ComicCon, think again. At nearly...
Friday 2/10 @ Blackston Gallery
This group show features five young Brooklyn artists, who all reference simultanéisme, a term coined in the early 20th century by...
Friday 2/10 @ Angelika Film Center
From his outlandish comments — calling George W. Bush an asshole or admitting to be a Nazi — to his profound fear...
Three Solo Shows: Tamara Gayer, Stephen Sollins, and Heeseop Yoon
Friday 2/10 @ Smack Mellon
Three solo exhibitions take over the enormous space at Smack Mellon in DUMBO. Brooklyn-based artists Tamara Gayer, Stephen Sollins, and Heeseop...
Joaquín Sorolla & The Glory of Spanish Dress
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
New Fun Music Time w/ Supernature
Friday 2/10 @ Manhattan Inn
Friday nights are always a good time to check in with the Manhattan Inn for their DJ dance parties. Tonight the...
Friday 2/10 @ Cinema Village
Cinema is alive and well in Turkey. In addition to churning out its domestic blockbusters, the Muslim nation has a flourishing...
Park Here: The Indoor Pop-Up Park
Friday 2/10 @ Openhouse Gallery
Dodge the SADs (Seasonal Affective Disorder) with a play date at Park Here, Nolita's very own indoor park, plush with grass...
Martin Bromirski, Rachel LaBine, & Elizabeth Riley
Friday 2/10 @ Storefront Bushwick
Martin Bromirski, Rachel LaBine, and Elizabeth Riley look to contemporary reality, and the nature of our experience in it, as a...
Surviving Life: Collages by Jan Svankmajer
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
The Extraordinary Voyage (2011) with Restored A Trip to the Moon (1902)
Friday 2/10 @ The Film Society of Lincoln Center
We wax poetic about many films here at Flavorpill, but nothing we've chattered about in the past approaches the newly restored...
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
Jem Cohen: NYC Weights and Measures
Friday 2/10 @ The Jewish Museum
NYC Weights and Measures is filmmaker Jem Cohen's observational portrait of New York City, a document of Cohen's wanderlust as he...
Friday 2/10 @ La MaMa E.T.C.
Her influence is surpassed only by her complexity — something composer Brendan Connelly, playwright Karinne Keithley Syers, composer Rick Burkhardt, and playwright...
Friday 2/10 @ Booth Theatre
Wow. In our humble opinion, this is the best play on Broadway right now — the kind of intelligent reflection of...
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
Friday 2/10 @ The Morgan Library
In celebration of the bicentennial of the birth of Charles Dickens, the Morgan Library & Museum presents Charles Dickens at 200...
Friday 2/10 @ IFC Center
Wim Wenders pays poetic tribute to friend and influential German choreographer Pina Bausch using 3D technology. On the surface, it seems...
Newspaper Fiction: The New York Journalism of Djuna Barnes
Friday 2/10 @ Brooklyn Museum
While Djuna Barnes is best known for her modernist novels and plays like Nightwood (1936) and The Antiphon (1958), from 1913-1921,...
Friday 2/10 @ Camel Art Space
The artists in this group show explore the problems that arise when an artist realizes that what she wants to achieve...
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
Friday 2/10 @ Jerry Orbach Theater
In the intimate Jerry Orbach theater (now aka the Snapple Center, groan), this simple, warm, and wonderful production is the first...
The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2012
Friday 2/10 @ IFC Center
Face it, the Oscars are more fun to follow when you've actually seen the nominated films, and thanks to ShortsHD and...
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
Friday 2/10 @ Lehmann Maupin
German-born photographer Juergen Teller is most known for his cheeky refusal to keep his commercial fashion photography distinct from his most...
Friday 2/10 @ Cinema Village
British filmmaker Ben Wheatley retains his spot on our watch list with his meaty Down Terrace follow-up, Kill List. Co-written with...
Friday 2/10 @ The Front Room
Each of the artists in this exhibition IN-HABITAT interprets the concept of habitat, and the meaning of inhabiting this world in...
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
Friday 2/10 @ City Life Wellness
The Dream Love Festival is an invitation to dance, sing, stretch, mingle, feast, and create. With live painting installations, a healing...
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
Friday 2/10 @ The Palace Theatre
Priscilla Queen of the Desert, the outrageously fabulous musical that took London and Australia by storm, has finally hit New York....
Svetlana Mircheva: Possible Exhibitions
Friday 2/10 @ NURTUREart Gallery
For her first solo exhibition in the United States, Possible Exhibitions, Svetlana Mircheva presents a handful of diminutive dioramas from an...
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
Friday 2/10 @ MoMA PS1
Anthology is a new project by artist Clifford Owens that merges photography, video, and live performance. For this show, Owens' first...
Paul D'Agostino: Appearance Adrift in the Garden
Friday 2/10 @ Norte Maar
Norte Maar, one of Bushwick's leading galleries presents the work of Paul D'Agostino, an artist who recreates images through cutting, layering,...
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
Friday 2/10 @ Various Locations
Just in time to alleviate both your thinning wallet and your shrinking waistline: NYC's Winter Restaurant Week offers steep discounts on...
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
Friday 2/10 @ BAM Harvey Theater
The Bridge Project seals its final season with a stellar pairing of Academy Award winners Kevin Spacey and Sam Mendes in...
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
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Friday 2/10 @ STORY
STORY is a new shop and exhibition space, recently launched by Nerve gal and retail pro Rachel Shechtman, with rotating themes,...
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
Friday 2/10 @ SCRATCHbread
The SCRATCHbread Focaccino window is a portal into deliciousness. On Select days, SCRATCHbread, the mothership of artisanal breads that are sprouting...
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
Friday 2/10 @ 7Eleven Gallery
Alchemy, the process of turning base metals into gold, is the starting point for the group show Alchemy in the West...
Special Secret Chocolate Whiskey
Friday 2/10 @ Greene Grape Wine Store
It all began when the guys behind Kings County Distillery visited the Mast Brothers Chocolate factory. The purveyors of artisanal Brooklyn...
Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
Friday 2/10 @ 59E59 Theaters
A funny, offbeat, and thoroughly entertaining new rock musical, LoveSick arrives just in time to be a perfect Valentine's date. The...
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
Friday 2/10 @ 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 Game of Kings: Medieval Ivory Chessmen from the Isle of Lewis
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
Friday 2/10 @ 3LD Art & Technology Center
Sex, drugs, and... botany? Plants will never seem the same after Jim Findlay's Botanica, an original, mesmerizing, and disturbing piece of...
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
Friday 2/10 @ 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....
The Coe Collection of American Indian Art
Friday 2/10 @ 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,...
Mirror of the Buddha: Early Portraits from Tibet
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
An Evening with Amanda Loulaki and Levi Gonzalez
Friday 2/10 @ The Kitchen
Choreographers Amanda Loulaki and Levi Gonzalez share an evening premiering two new works. Amanda Loulaki’s solo work explores the ways that...
Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi, 1707-1857
Friday 2/10 @ Asia Society and Museum
Delhi has served as a cultural center of North India for more than a millennium in different incarnations. This exhibition focuses...
New American Wing Galleries for Paintings, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker in New York
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
Friday 2/10 @ 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)...
Michael Sailstorfer: "Tornado"
Friday 2/10 @ 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"
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
Sanja Iveković: Sweet Violence
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
Victorian Electrotypes: Old Treasures, New Technology
Friday 2/10 @ 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,...
The Body Unbound: Modernist Art from India
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
Tragedy: The Kings of Metal Disco
Friday 2/10 @ Brooklyn Bowl
Tragedy is the #1 Heavy Metal Tribute to the Bee Gees in the Tri State Area. They Rock Sweet Balls and Can...
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
Spies in the House of Art: Photography, Film, and Video
Friday 2/10 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Since the 1980s, a number of contemporary artists working in photography, film, and video have taken as their subject the art...
The Radical Camera: New York's Photo League, 1936-1951
Friday 2/10 @ The Jewish Museum
The Radical Camera offers a comprehensive look at the Photo League, a group of politically engaged street photographers who captured city...
The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron & Son
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
From Inspiration to Transformation: Art from Africa and Works of Contemporary Art
Friday 2/10 @ 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
Friday 2/10 @ 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:...
Friday 2/10 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Every Friday I'm at the legendary Freedom party, an event I started 6.5 years ago because music sucked, parties were boring, and...
Testimonios: 100 Years of Popular Expression
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution: Fu Baoshi (1904-1965)
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
Simone Leigh: You Don't Know Where Her Mouth Has Been
Friday 2/10 @ The Kitchen
Opening Reception: Wednesday, January 18, 6-8pm This solo exhibition presents the New York premiere of Simone Leigh’s most recent sculptural...
Friday 2/10 @ 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...
