Events on Friday, February 17
Friday 2/17 @ The Bowery Hotel
You'll likely start wishing every Friday was a School Night! after hitting this free musically fit shindig that, while relatively new...
The Freedom Party w/ DJ Herbert Holler , DJ Cosi and DJ Marc Smooth
Friday 2/17 @ (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 2/17 @ The Standard, New York
Dark Disco Featuring: Kingdom (night Slugs) * Kaviar Disco * Doyo (ruben Xyz)* Mess Kid Hosted By: Zebra Katz & Njena...
Sleigh Bells w/ Wet Witch, Black Bananas
Friday 2/17 @ Terminal 5
Based in Brooklyn, NY, Sleigh Bells is the musical collaboration of Derek E. Miller (songwriter, guitarist, producer) and Alexis Krauss (vocals)....
Friday 2/17 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Kori Gardner (keyboard/vocals) and Jason Hammel (drums/vocals) were both playing guitar and singing in the Kansas music metropolis of Lawrence before...
Mondo Indie Dance Party w/ DJs Miss Modular, Kevington and Dr. Maz
Friday 2/17 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Mondo is New York City's most celebrated indie dance party. Called "the gold standard for New York indiepop" by BrooklynBased, Mondo...
Live From Home with Lost in the Trees
Friday 2/17 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
An intimate benefit evening with Lost in the Trees, orchestral folk from North Carolina. Lush clusters of piano, a mysterious sound...
Casino O'Fortune Entertainment presents: Gameshow Speakeasy with host Neil O'Fortune
Friday 2/17 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
New York's favorite guessing game returns! This classic guessing game (picked four times by Time Out New York as one of...
Harlem in the Himalayas: Tim Berne / SNAKEOIL
Friday 2/17 @ Rubin Museum of Art
SNAKEOIL is a potent blend of new voices and new ideas. Oscar Noriega (woodwinds), Matt Mitchell (keyboards) and Ches Smith (percussion)...
Friday 2/17 @ 92YTribeca
Jean Claude Van Damme (with a legendary mullet) stars as a Cajun tough guy who sets out to stop Lance Henriksen...
Friday 2/17 @ 92YTribeca
This Cannon Films produced action flick stars Chuck Norris as the one guy to put invading mercenaries in the ground as...
The Thalia Follies: Primary Colors
Friday 2/17 @ Symphony Space
It’s primary season, and the Follies takes a comically charged look at what has been happening, what is happening, and what...
Friday 2/17 @ Brooklyn Bowl
At the outset of the 1970s, a teenaged DeWayne Jessie had a promising start to an acting career, just at the...
The Observant Eye—Celebrating Black History Month: Power and Leadership in the Arts of Africa
Friday 2/17 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This Friday evening join other college and graduate students and young professionals and take part in this unique opportunity for close...
Ongoing Events
Friday 2/17 @ Camel Art Space
The artists in this group show explore the problems that arise when an artist realizes that what she wants to achieve...
Surviving Life: Collages by Jan Svankmajer
Friday 2/17 @ 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...
Friday 2/17 @ Blackston Gallery
This group show features five young Brooklyn artists, who all reference simultanéisme, a term coined in the early 20th century by...
Friday 2/17 @ 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 2/17 @ 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 2/17 @ SCRATCHbread
The SCRATCHbread Focaccino window is a portal into deliciousness. On Select days, SCRATCHbread, the mothership of artisanal breads that are sprouting...
Joaquín Sorolla & The Glory of Spanish Dress
Friday 2/17 @ 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...
Friday 2/17 @ Walter Reade Theatre
James Franco, David Wain, Kenneth Lonergan, and Aleksandr Sokurov are among those drafted by Film Comment for the magazine's annual salute...
Friday 2/17 @ 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...
Special Secret Chocolate Whiskey
Friday 2/17 @ 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 2/17 @ 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 2/17 @ Workshop Theater (312 West 36th St)
The Navigator is a whip-smart comedy that fulfills the promise of a great premise. Dave is between jobs and struggling to...
Friday 2/17 @ 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...
The Game of Kings: Medieval Ivory Chessmen from the Isle of Lewis
Friday 2/17 @ 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 2/17 @ 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 2/17 @ New Museum
With the Occupy Wall Street movement and revolutionary uprisings world-wide, it's only appropriate that the New Museum dedicates its space to...
Friday 2/17 @ Barrow Street Theater
Nina Raine continues the "kitchen sink" tradition of British theatre with her wrenching family drama, Tribes. Billy (Russell Harvard) is the...
Friday 2/17 @ 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 2/17 @ Landmark Sunshine
The Giants may have taken the Superbowl, but the West Memphis Manassas Tigers and coach Bill Courtney will likely win your...
Friday 2/17 @ 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...
The Permanent Collection Vol. 2: My Own Private Serpico
Friday 2/17 @ English Kills
English Kills has long been (in Bushwick years, that is) one of the pre-eminent galleries in the Bushwick arts scene. Founded...
Friday 2/17 @ 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 2/17 @ Jerry Orbach Theater
In the intimate Jerry Orbach theater (now aka the Snapple Center, groan), this simple, warm, and wonderful production is the first...
Newspaper Fiction: The New York Journalism of Djuna Barnes
Friday 2/17 @ Brooklyn Museum
While Djuna Barnes is best known for her modernist novels and plays like Nightwood (1936) and The Antiphon (1958), from 1913-1921,...
Paul D'Agostino: Appearance Adrift in the Garden
Friday 2/17 @ 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 2/17 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
For two weeks each year, MoMA populates its film schedule with recent documentary films that explore the connection between contemporary art...
Friday 2/17 @ 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 2/17 @ 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 2/17 @ 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 2/17 @ Soho Rep
An incisive, bitterly funny and surprisingly insightful comedy, The Ugly One continues Soho Rep's remarkable run of recent mainstage productions and...
Friday 2/17 @ Lehmann Maupin
German-born photographer Juergen Teller is most known for his cheeky refusal to keep his commercial fashion photography distinct from his most...
The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2012
Friday 2/17 @ 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 2/17 @ Booth Theatre
Wow. In our humble opinion, this is the best play on Broadway right now — the kind of intelligent reflection of...
Friday 2/17 @ 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...
New Fun Music Time w/ Supernature
Friday 2/17 @ Manhattan Inn
Friday nights are always a good time to check in with the Manhattan Inn for their DJ dance parties. Tonight the...
Friday 2/17 @ 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...
System Introspection: Nicolas Maigret
Friday 2/17 @ Devotion Gallery
The Art of Failure collective, Nicolas Maigret and Nicolas Montgermont, take as a starting point the imperfections that allow us to...
Friday 2/17 @ 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 2/17 @ 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...
Charles Atlas: The Illusion of Democracy
Friday 2/17 @ Luhring Augustine Bushwick 25 Knickerbocker Avenue Brooklyn, NY 11237
Luhring Augustine, a Chelsea gallery founded in 1985, opens shop in the still burgeoning arts district of Bushwick with an inaugural...
Friday 2/17 @ 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 2/17 @ 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...
Jem Cohen: NYC Weights and Measures
Friday 2/17 @ 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...
The Extraordinary Voyage (2011) with Restored A Trip to the Moon (1902)
Friday 2/17 @ 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 2/17 @ 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...
The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs
Friday 2/17 @ 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...
We Are Cinema: 50 Years of the Film-Makers' Coop
Friday 2/17 @ Microscope Gallery
This month-long exhibition and screening series, We Are Cinema, celebrates the "oldest and largest artist-run cooperative in the world," the Filmmakers'...
Friday 2/17 @ 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 2/17 @ MoMA PS1
Anthology is a new project by artist Clifford Owens that merges photography, video, and live performance. For this show, Owens' first...
Martin Bromirski, Rachel LaBine, & Elizabeth Riley
Friday 2/17 @ Storefront Bushwick
Martin Bromirski, Rachel LaBine, and Elizabeth Riley look to contemporary reality, and the nature of our experience in it, as a...
Friday 2/17 @ 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 2/17 @ 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...
Friday 2/17 @ e-flux 311 East Broadway New York NY 10002 212.619.3356
If you think you can handle the truth about the neo-conservatives, the Iranian Revolution, DDT, and a host of other controversial...
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Friday 2/17 @ STORY
STORY is a new shop and exhibition space, recently launched by Nerve gal and retail pro Rachel Shechtman, with rotating themes,...
Friday 2/17 @ 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 2/17 @ The Palace Theatre
Priscilla Queen of the Desert, the outrageously fabulous musical that took London and Australia by storm, has finally hit New York....
Friday 2/17 @ 7Eleven Gallery
Alchemy, the process of turning base metals into gold, is the starting point for the group show Alchemy in the West...
Friday 2/17 @ Knitting Factory
Two years ago the three men of Moon Hooch started playing in NYC and BK subways for no other reason but...
Friday 2/17 @ Film Forum
Like a Todd Solondz film, Markus Schleinzer's debut feature Michael is a squirm-inducer that makes you feel dirty for having watched...
Three Solo Shows: Tamara Gayer, Stephen Sollins, and Heeseop Yoon
Friday 2/17 @ Smack Mellon
Three solo exhibitions take over the enormous space at Smack Mellon in DUMBO. Brooklyn-based artists Tamara Gayer, Stephen Sollins, and Heeseop...
Friday 2/17 @ St. Ann's Warehouse
For Early Plays, a unique collaboration between the Wooster Group and the New York City Players, Richard Maxwell directs Eugene O’Neill’s...
Friday 2/17 @ Glasslands Gallery
Manhattan's Mercedes-Benz-driven fashion fête may have come to close but the week isn't truly over until the designers at this faithful...
Friday 2/17 @ 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...
The Radical Camera: New York's Photo League, 1936-1951
Friday 2/17 @ The Jewish Museum
The Radical Camera offers a comprehensive look at the Photo League, a group of politically engaged street photographers who captured city...
Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution: Fu Baoshi (1904-1965)
Friday 2/17 @ 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...
Aretha Franklin @ Radio City Music Hall
Friday 2/17 @ The Bowery Presents
2 nights of Aretha Franklin at Radio City Music Hall!
New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia
Friday 2/17 @ 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...
Tragedy: The Kings of Metal Disco
Friday 2/17 @ Brooklyn Bowl
Tragedy is the #1 Heavy Metal Tribute to the Bee Gees in the Tri State Area. They Rock Sweet Balls and Can...
Testimonios: 100 Years of Popular Expression
Friday 2/17 @ 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...
Friday 2/17 @ 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 2/17 @ 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 2/17 @ 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...
Friday 2/17 @ 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 American Wing Galleries for Paintings, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts
Friday 2/17 @ 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 2/17 @ 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 2/17 @ 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)...
Simone Leigh: You Don't Know Where Her Mouth Has Been
Friday 2/17 @ The Kitchen
Opening Reception: Wednesday, January 18, 6-8pm This solo exhibition presents the New York premiere of Simone Leigh’s most recent sculptural...
Rob Pruitt's "The Andy Monument"
Friday 2/17 @ 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...
Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi, 1707-1857
Friday 2/17 @ 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...
Sanja Iveković: Sweet Violence
Friday 2/17 @ 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...
Friday 2/17 @ 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...
Victorian Electrotypes: Old Treasures, New Technology
Friday 2/17 @ 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,...
Michael Sailstorfer: "Tornado"
Friday 2/17 @ Public Art Fund
Rising more than 30 feet to meet the treetops of Central Park, "Tornado" brings together a series of opposite terms. It...
Friday 2/17 @ (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...
The Body Unbound: Modernist Art from India
Friday 2/17 @ 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 2/17 @ 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...
Friday 2/17 @ 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...
Spies in the House of Art: Photography, Film, and Video
Friday 2/17 @ 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...
Vanessa Anspaugh / Jen Rosenblit Armed Guard Garden; In Mouth
Friday 2/17 @ New York Live Arts
Vanessa Anspaugh asks what exists before we name it? Does the map precede the territory? Questioning how we maintain or reinforce...
The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini
Friday 2/17 @ 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...
Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron & Son
Friday 2/17 @ 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...
Hero, Villain, Yeti: Tibet in Comics
Friday 2/17 @ 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 2/17 @ 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...
