Events on Thursday, February 23
The Moth StorySLAM. Theme: Bosses
Thursday 2/23 @ Housing Works Bookstore Cafe
Get your tickets and arrive early if you hope to snag a seat at tonight's StorySLAM. We're hoping for some particularly...
Prince Rama EP Release Party w/ Gary War & Future Shuttle
Thursday 2/23 @ Glasslands Gallery
Since completing their residency at ISSUE Project Room — a three-part interactive musical presentation that involved the creation of a faux...
Guitar Plus: Music of David Leisner
Thursday 2/23 @ Symphony Space
Brazilian guitarist Fabio Zanon joins Symphony Space All-Star David Leisner in a rare US appearance with the Arc Duo and the...
Thursday 2/23 @ 92YTribeca
Award-winning storyteller Leslie Goshko (Sirius XM, WNYC) invites some of New York’s top writers and storytellers to share true, bizarre tales...
Running Late with Scott Rogowsky
Thursday 2/23 @ 92YTribeca
Drawing on a late-night tradition spanning from Carson to Cavett to Conan, “Running Late” host Scott Rogowsky and his sidekick/dad Marty...
Thursday 2/23 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Dana Rossi hosts a monthly merging of stories and songs in this legendary music venue. Six artists--writers, comics, actors and musicians--tell...
Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone
Thursday 2/23 @ 92YTribeca
Everyday Sunshine is a documentary about the band Fishbone, musical pioneers who have been rocking on the margins of pop culture...
Audio Fuzz & Chris Ryan Present: F.I.L.R. (F*ck It, Let's Rock!) New Monthly Rock n' Roll Party!
Thursday 2/23 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
w/ Jonathan and BPro performing live! Audio Fuzz& Chris Ryan Present F.I.L.R. (F*ck It, Let's Rock!) New Monthly Rock n'...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Thursday 2/23 @ MoMA PS1
Anthology is a new project by artist Clifford Owens that merges photography, video, and live performance. For this show, Owens' first...
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Thursday 2/23 @ Milavec Hakimi Gallery
Lisa Lebofsky's current show at the Milavec Hakimi gallery brings a sense of space, of an exploration of dark and light,...
Thursday 2/23 @ Chelsea Clearview Cinema
Check out some of today's premiere electronic DJs operating outside of their musical comfort zones in this hybrid documentary/Hyundai marketing tool...
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Thursday 2/23 @ STORY
STORY is a new shop and exhibition space, recently launched by Nerve gal and retail pro Rachel Shechtman, with rotating themes,...
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Three Solo Shows: Tamara Gayer, Stephen Sollins, and Heeseop Yoon
Thursday 2/23 @ Smack Mellon
Three solo exhibitions take over the enormous space at Smack Mellon in DUMBO. Brooklyn-based artists Tamara Gayer, Stephen Sollins, and Heeseop...
Charles Atlas: The Illusion of Democracy
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Thursday 2/23 @ Barrow Street Theater
Nina Raine continues the "kitchen sink" tradition of British theatre with her wrenching family drama, Tribes. Billy (Russell Harvard) is the...
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Thursday 2/23 @ Music Box Theatre
If you thought meeting the real William Shatner required going to a Star Trek Convention or ComicCon, think again. At nearly...
Thursday 2/23 @ 59E59 Theaters
A funny, offbeat, and thoroughly entertaining new rock musical, LoveSick arrives just in time to be a perfect Valentine's date. The...
Thursday 2/23 @ Jerry Orbach Theater
In the intimate Jerry Orbach theater (now aka the Snapple Center, groan), this simple, warm, and wonderful production is the first...
Thursday 2/23 @ Booth Theatre
Wow. In our humble opinion, this is the best play on Broadway right now — the kind of intelligent reflection of...
Thursday 2/23 @ IndieScreen
Check out some of today's premiere electronic DJs operating outside of their musical comfort zones in this hybrid documentary/Hyundai marketing tool...
Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
The Game of Kings: Medieval Ivory Chessmen from the Isle of Lewis
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2012
Thursday 2/23 @ IFC Center
Face it, the Oscars are more fun to follow when you've actually seen the nominated films, and thanks to ShortsHD and...
Thursday 2/23 @ BAM Harvey Theater
The Bridge Project seals its final season with a stellar pairing of Academy Award winners Kevin Spacey and Sam Mendes in...
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Thursday 2/23 @ Landmark Sunshine
The Giants may have taken the Superbowl, but the West Memphis Manassas Tigers and coach Bill Courtney will likely win your...
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Special Secret Chocolate Whiskey
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Surviving Life: Collages by Jan Svankmajer
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Newspaper Fiction: The New York Journalism of Djuna Barnes
Thursday 2/23 @ Brooklyn Museum
While Djuna Barnes is best known for her modernist novels and plays like Nightwood (1936) and The Antiphon (1958), from 1913-1921,...
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Thursday 2/23 @ Frontrunner Gallery
Similar to Kehinde Wiley's work, Andre Woolery's debut show uses portraiture to explore the black experience. Unlike Wiley, this show's portraits...
Thursday 2/23 @ Soho Rep
An incisive, bitterly funny and surprisingly insightful comedy, The Ugly One continues Soho Rep's remarkable run of recent mainstage productions and...
Thursday 2/23 @ Lehmann Maupin
German-born photographer Juergen Teller is most known for his cheeky refusal to keep his commercial fashion photography distinct from his most...
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Thursday 2/23 @ The Palace Theatre
Priscilla Queen of the Desert, the outrageously fabulous musical that took London and Australia by storm, has finally hit New York....
Joaquín Sorolla & The Glory of Spanish Dress
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Thursday 2/23 @ 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’...
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Thursday 2/23 @ 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
Thursday 2/23 @ 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 Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Thursday 2/23 @ Kaufman Center
Imagine what kind of mind-blowing masterpieces might have resulted if Beethoven had jammed with the Beatles or Mahler had made music...
Thursday 2/23 @ Fred Torres Collaborations
Making its US debut at Fred Torres Collaborations, Earth Laughs in Flowers, a new series of ten large-scale photographs by David...
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
We Are Cinema: 50 Years of the Film-Makers' Coop
Thursday 2/23 @ 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'...
Spies in the House of Art: Photography, Film, and Video
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini
Thursday 2/23 @ 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
Thursday 2/23 @ 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
Thursday 2/23 @ 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:...
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution: Fu Baoshi (1904-1965)
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
The Radical Camera: New York's Photo League, 1936-1951
Thursday 2/23 @ The Jewish Museum
The Radical Camera offers a comprehensive look at the Photo League, a group of politically engaged street photographers who captured city...
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Testimonios: 100 Years of Popular Expression
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Thursday 2/23 @ 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
Thursday 2/23 @ 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
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
FUNDAMENTALS OF PASTEL Instructor Janet Cook
Thursday 2/23 @ National Academy Museum
This class is aimed at those who want to learn how to use the medium of pastel. The student will either...
New American Wing Galleries for Paintings, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker in New York
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Thursday 2/23 @ 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)...
Rob Pruitt's "The Andy Monument"
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
Simone Leigh: You Don't Know Where Her Mouth Has Been
Thursday 2/23 @ The Kitchen
Opening Reception: Wednesday, January 18, 6-8pm This solo exhibition presents the New York premiere of Simone Leigh’s most recent sculptural...
Rembrandt and Degas: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Thursday 2/23 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Although it is well known that Edgar Degas was inspired by Rembrandt, whose etchings he sought out in Rome as a...
Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi, 1707-1857
Thursday 2/23 @ 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
Thursday 2/23 @ 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
Thursday 2/23 @ 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
Thursday 2/23 @ 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...
