Events on Tuesday, February 21
Tuesday 2/21 @ The Mercury Lounge
There's a thin line between rock n' roll and religion, and nowhere thinner than in the intense, sharp, sweat-drenched, dueling-guitar euphoria...
Third Annual Two Boots Mardi Gras Benefit Ball
Tuesday 2/21 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Rosario Dawson (!) hosts tonight's spectacular Southern fête, bringing NOLA to New York for the third-annual Two Boots Mardis Gras Ball....
The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and the Third Reich
Tuesday 2/21 @ Deutsches Haus at New York University
Once considered above criticism, the Berlin Philharmonic has firmly entered the 21st century. The company has expanded its repertory and audiences in...
Tuesday 2/21 @ BookCourt
Eli Schwartz is a "loser par excellence" suffers the indifference of his family, the loss of his home, and has trouble...
The Anti-Foodie Foodies: Has Food Worship Jumped the Shark? Amanda Hesser, Tracie McMillan & More
Tuesday 2/21 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
To celebrate the publication of her book, The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee’s, Farm Fields and the Dinner...
Tuesday 2/21 @ 3rd Ward
This single session workshop will teach you the simple and beautiful process of marbling silk. Learn to float colors on a...
Ongoing Events
Tuesday 2/21 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/21 @ Landmark Sunshine
The Giants may have taken the Superbowl, but the West Memphis Manassas Tigers and coach Bill Courtney will likely win your...
Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art
Tuesday 2/21 @ 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...
Charles Atlas: The Illusion of Democracy
Tuesday 2/21 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/21 @ 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...
Surviving Life: Collages by Jan Svankmajer
Tuesday 2/21 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/21 @ Barrow Street Theater
Nina Raine continues the "kitchen sink" tradition of British theatre with her wrenching family drama, Tribes. Billy (Russell Harvard) is the...
Jem Cohen: NYC Weights and Measures
Tuesday 2/21 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/21 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/21 @ 59E59 Theaters
A funny, offbeat, and thoroughly entertaining new rock musical, LoveSick arrives just in time to be a perfect Valentine's date. The...
Tuesday 2/21 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/21 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/21 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/21 @ 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...
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Tuesday 2/21 @ STORY
STORY is a new shop and exhibition space, recently launched by Nerve gal and retail pro Rachel Shechtman, with rotating themes,...
Tuesday 2/21 @ 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...
The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2012
Tuesday 2/21 @ IFC Center
Face it, the Oscars are more fun to follow when you've actually seen the nominated films, and thanks to ShortsHD and...
Tuesday 2/21 @ 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 Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs
Tuesday 2/21 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/21 @ 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...
Special Secret Chocolate Whiskey
Tuesday 2/21 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/21 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/21 @ Jerry Orbach Theater
In the intimate Jerry Orbach theater (now aka the Snapple Center, groan), this simple, warm, and wonderful production is the first...
Tuesday 2/21 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/21 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/21 @ Soho Rep
An incisive, bitterly funny and surprisingly insightful comedy, The Ugly One continues Soho Rep's remarkable run of recent mainstage productions and...
Joaquín Sorolla & The Glory of Spanish Dress
Tuesday 2/21 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/21 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/21 @ The Palace Theatre
Priscilla Queen of the Desert, the outrageously fabulous musical that took London and Australia by storm, has finally hit New York....
The Game of Kings: Medieval Ivory Chessmen from the Isle of Lewis
Tuesday 2/21 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/21 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/21 @ IFC Center
Thom Powers and Raphaela Neihausen's documentary series, Stranger Than Fiction, makes for an excellent weekly retreat during the cold, dark winter...
Tuesday 2/21 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/21 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/21 @ BAM Harvey Theater
The Bridge Project seals its final season with a stellar pairing of Academy Award winners Kevin Spacey and Sam Mendes in...
Tuesday 2/21 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/21 @ Booth Theatre
Wow. In our humble opinion, this is the best play on Broadway right now — the kind of intelligent reflection of...
Tuesday 2/21 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/21 @ Lehmann Maupin
German-born photographer Juergen Teller is most known for his cheeky refusal to keep his commercial fashion photography distinct from his most...
Tuesday 2/21 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/21 @ Music Box Theatre
If you thought meeting the real William Shatner required going to a Star Trek Convention or ComicCon, think again. At nearly...
Tuesday 2/21 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/21 @ 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...
The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini
Tuesday 2/21 @ 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...
Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi, 1707-1857
Tuesday 2/21 @ 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...
The Body Unbound: Modernist Art from India
Tuesday 2/21 @ 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...
New American Wing Galleries for Paintings, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts
Tuesday 2/21 @ 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...
Rob Pruitt's "The Andy Monument"
Tuesday 2/21 @ 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...
Spies in the House of Art: Photography, Film, and Video
Tuesday 2/21 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/21 @ 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)...
Less Than Jake with Samiam and Flatfoot 56
Tuesday 2/21 @ Brooklyn Bowl
It's been a wild and crazy ride for Gainesville's Less Than Jake, who first met at the University Of Florida over...
Tuesday 2/21 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/21 @ 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....
FUNDAMENTALS OF PASTEL Instructor Janet Cook
Tuesday 2/21 @ National Academy Museum
This class is aimed at those who want to learn how to use the medium of pastel. The student will either...
The Coe Collection of American Indian Art
Tuesday 2/21 @ 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,...
Tuesday 2/21 @ 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...
The Radical Camera: New York's Photo League, 1936-1951
Tuesday 2/21 @ The Jewish Museum
The Radical Camera offers a comprehensive look at the Photo League, a group of politically engaged street photographers who captured city...
Hero, Villain, Yeti: Tibet in Comics
Tuesday 2/21 @ 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:...
Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker in New York
Tuesday 2/21 @ 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...
Simone Leigh: You Don't Know Where Her Mouth Has Been
Tuesday 2/21 @ The Kitchen
Opening Reception: Wednesday, January 18, 6-8pm This solo exhibition presents the New York premiere of Simone Leigh’s most recent sculptural...
Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron & Son
Tuesday 2/21 @ 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...
Testimonios: 100 Years of Popular Expression
Tuesday 2/21 @ 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...
Mirror of the Buddha: Early Portraits from Tibet
Tuesday 2/21 @ 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...
Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution: Fu Baoshi (1904-1965)
Tuesday 2/21 @ 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...
Sanja Iveković: Sweet Violence
Tuesday 2/21 @ 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
Tuesday 2/21 @ 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,...
New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia
Tuesday 2/21 @ 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...
Tuesday 2/21 @ 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...
