Events on Wednesday, February 22
Props w/ Rich Medina and Akalepse
Wednesday 2/22 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Decades before house music got Westerners all loose-limbed and wiry on the dance floor, Nigeria's polyrhythmic Afrobeat sound was doing the same thing...
Barbara Paul Robinson: Rosemary Verey, Queen of Horticulture
Wednesday 2/22 @ Wave Hill
Join us for the second session of Wave Hill's Horticultural Lectures. This series is devoted to landscape design and the meaning...
Ski Beatz Celebrates the release of "24Hr Karate School Presents Twilight"
Wednesday 2/22 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
With Ski Beatz and the Senseis , CPlus , Rugz D.Bewler , Da$h , McKenzie Eddy , Sean O'Connell + more...
Wednesday 2/22 @ Lincoln Center
Thomas Adès, conductor and piano Pekka Kuusisto, violin Britten Sinfonia, one of Europe’s most dynamic chamber orchestras, makes its U.S....
Behind the Music-al: Teenage Dreams
Wednesday 2/22 @ 92YTribeca
Behind the Music-al is an exciting behind-the-scenes look at the next generation of musical theater composers. In this installment of Behind...
Wednesday 2/22 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
“Brother-and-sister team John and Molly Knefel skip the sibling rivalry in favor of joke-telling, making charming videos and populating their monthly...
Wednesday 2/22 @ 92YTribeca
In the middle of editing the pilot episode of "Twin Peaks," David Lynch read and fell in love with Barry Gifford’s...
Wednesday 2/22 @ Live Nation
Biophilia live show and education series. In partnership with The Creators Project and New York Hall of Science.
The Rumpus Presents: Letters in the Mail with Stephen Elliot, Jonathan Ames, and More
Wednesday 2/22 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
The Rumpus and Housing Works Present: Letters In The Mail. A Celebration of Printed Correspondence. Featuring Stephen Elliott, Jonathan Ames, Emily...
Wednesday 2/22 @ The Bowery Presents
A Night To Get Drunk And Celebrate The Music Of The Rolling Stones!! with special guests Norah Jones, Adam Green, Jesse...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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 2/22 @ The Local 269
If you live in the city but find yourself longing for the sweet sounds of the country, come down to the...
Charles Atlas: The Illusion of Democracy
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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...
Three Solo Shows: Tamara Gayer, Stephen Sollins, and Heeseop Yoon
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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 2/22 @ 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 2/22 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
From the use of ancient printmaking techniques, which today are sometimes used alongside digital technologies, to the ubiquity of self-published artists’...
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/22 @ Roseland Ballroom
As artists go, few have lived in their element as thoroughly as Björk. Performing since she was a child, the Icelandic...
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Wednesday 2/22 @ STORY
STORY is a new shop and exhibition space, recently launched by Nerve gal and retail pro Rachel Shechtman, with rotating themes,...
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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 2/22 @ 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...
Joaquín Sorolla & The Glory of Spanish Dress
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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 2/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/22 @ Booth Theatre
Wow. In our humble opinion, this is the best play on Broadway right now — the kind of intelligent reflection of...
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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 2/22 @ 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 2/22 @ 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 2/22 @ Cameo Gallery
If the giggles elicited by clowning around with your friends aren't evidence enough, Big Terrific proves that hearty laughs can be...
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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 2/22 @ 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 2/22 @ 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 2/22 @ The Palace Theatre
Priscilla Queen of the Desert, the outrageously fabulous musical that took London and Australia by storm, has finally hit New York....
Special Secret Chocolate Whiskey
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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 2/22 @ Barrow Street Theater
Nina Raine continues the "kitchen sink" tradition of British theatre with her wrenching family drama, Tribes. Billy (Russell Harvard) is the...
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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 2/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/22 @ Landmark Sunshine
The Giants may have taken the Superbowl, but the West Memphis Manassas Tigers and coach Bill Courtney will likely win your...
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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 2/22 @ 59E59 Theaters
A funny, offbeat, and thoroughly entertaining new rock musical, LoveSick arrives just in time to be a perfect Valentine's date. The...
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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...
Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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...
The Game of Kings: Medieval Ivory Chessmen from the Isle of Lewis
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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 2/22 @ 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...
The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2012
Wednesday 2/22 @ IFC Center
Face it, the Oscars are more fun to follow when you've actually seen the nominated films, and thanks to ShortsHD and...
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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 2/22 @ Lehmann Maupin
German-born photographer Juergen Teller is most known for his cheeky refusal to keep his commercial fashion photography distinct from his most...
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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...
Surviving Life: Collages by Jan Svankmajer
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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 2/22 @ SCRATCHbread
The SCRATCHbread Focaccino window is a portal into deliciousness. On Select days, SCRATCHbread, the mothership of artisanal breads that are sprouting...
Newspaper Fiction: The New York Journalism of Djuna Barnes
Wednesday 2/22 @ Brooklyn Museum
While Djuna Barnes is best known for her modernist novels and plays like Nightwood (1936) and The Antiphon (1958), from 1913-1921,...
The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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 2/22 @ 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 2/22 @ 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 2/22 @ Soho Rep
An incisive, bitterly funny and surprisingly insightful comedy, The Ugly One continues Soho Rep's remarkable run of recent mainstage productions and...
Rob Pruitt's "The Andy Monument"
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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...
Sanja Iveković: Sweet Violence
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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...
Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi, 1707-1857
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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...
Victorian Electrotypes: Old Treasures, New Technology
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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...
Spies in the House of Art: Photography, Film, and Video
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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 Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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...
Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron & Son
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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...
Hero, Villain, Yeti: Tibet in Comics
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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:...
FUNDAMENTALS OF PASTEL Instructor Janet Cook
Wednesday 2/22 @ National Academy Museum
This class is aimed at those who want to learn how to use the medium of pastel. The student will either...
Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution: Fu Baoshi (1904-1965)
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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...
New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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
Wednesday 2/22 @ The Kitchen
Opening Reception: Wednesday, January 18, 6-8pm This solo exhibition presents the New York premiere of Simone Leigh’s most recent sculptural...
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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 2/22 @ 3rd Ward
We provide the beer and the model. You bring your drawing tools and creativity. Hosted in the Gallery of 3rd Ward,...
Testimonios: 100 Years of Popular Expression
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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...
The Coe Collection of American Indian Art
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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...
New American Wing Galleries for Paintings, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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 2/22 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/22 @ 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)...
