Events on Friday, February 24
Friday 2/24 @ The Mercury Lounge
Ava Luna's doo-wop post-punk concept may not seem outwardly novel in a pop landscape where the Billboard 200 has sported three...
The Freedom Party w/ special guest Q-Tip, DJ Herbert Holler, DJ Cosi, and DJ Marc Smooth
Friday 2/24 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
NYC Friday-night mainstay the Freedom Party welcomes Q-Tip for a special dance party. The former Tribe Called Questman has been keeping busy...
Parts & Labor 10th Anniversary/Final Show
Friday 2/24 @ 285 Kent Ave
When a band reaches its tenth anniversary, they can choose to see it as a midway point and look to the...
Fountain Art Fair NYC 2012 Launch Party
Friday 2/24 @ Gallery Bar
To help prepare for the impending art storm, Fountain Art Fair is holding a pre-fair launch party tonight. The art show...
The Inspired Word Presents Titillating Tongues: NYC Erotica in Poetry & Prose
Friday 2/24 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
w/ Akinfe Fatou , Francis "Faceboy" Hall , Monica Day ,Big Mike , Billy Pelt and host Aimee Herman The Inspired Word presents a hot night of sexy fun,...
Sharon Van Etten w/ Shearwater
Friday 2/24 @ Music Hall of Williamsburg
The shimmering sound of Sharon Van Etten’s Jagjaguwar debut album, Tramp, both defies and illuminates the unsteadiness of a life in...
The Review Panel- An Evening of Critical Conversation About Art
Friday 2/24 @ National Academy Museum
David Cohen and art critics Franklin Einspruch, Faye Hirsch, and Christina Kee discuss current exhibitions on view in the City. Franklin...
Bounce w/ special guest DJ Heather (Black Cherry, OM Records) and resident Bounce NYC DJs
Friday 2/24 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
BOUNCE is a monthly house party created by a collective of DJs and producers who are bringing fresh, top notch dance...
Elysian Fields w/ Hannah Cohen
Friday 2/24 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Legendary cult heroes Elysian Fields have always travelled in mysterious waters. Led by the enigmatic New York co-composers Jennifer Charles (vocals)...
Heartless Bastards @ Webster Hall
Friday 2/24 @ The Bowery Presents
The Heartless Bastards' story starts in Dayton, Ohio, where Wennerstrom found the name on a multiple choice video trivia game...
Ongoing Events
The Brooklyn Museum presents Playing House
Friday 2/24 @ Brooklyn Museum
Since our addiction to Downton Abbey has yet to abate, we're excited to see further explorations into "period." And The Brooklyn...
Surviving Life: Collages by Jan Svankmajer
Friday 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ Guggenheim Museum
John Chamberlain is most known for his sculptures made of candy-colored scraps of car parts that he twisted and fitted together...
Friday 2/24 @ 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,...
We Are Cinema: 50 Years of the Film-Makers' Coop
Friday 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ reRun Gastropub Theater
It's hard to believe from looking at him, but Dr. Gene Sharp, the subject of Scottish director Ruaridh Arrow's Kickstarter-funded documentary,...
Friday 2/24 @ 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...
Newspaper Fiction: The New York Journalism of Djuna Barnes
Friday 2/24 @ Brooklyn Museum
While Djuna Barnes is best known for her modernist novels and plays like Nightwood (1936) and The Antiphon (1958), from 1913-1921,...
Martin Bromirski, Rachel LaBine, & Elizabeth Riley
Friday 2/24 @ Storefront Bushwick
Martin Bromirski, Rachel LaBine, and Elizabeth Riley look to contemporary reality, and the nature of our experience in it, as a...
Friday 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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...
Friday 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ Spectacle Theater
Sigur Ros is back. Well, sort of. Considered by some to be the messiah of music, the band immortalized their last...
Friday 2/24 @ Jerry Orbach Theater
In the intimate Jerry Orbach theater (now aka the Snapple Center, groan), this simple, warm, and wonderful production is the first...
Friday 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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...
Jem Cohen: NYC Weights and Measures
Friday 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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...
The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2012
Friday 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ SCRATCHbread
The SCRATCHbread Focaccino window is a portal into deliciousness. On Select days, SCRATCHbread, the mothership of artisanal breads that are sprouting...
Friday 2/24 @ IndieScreen
Check out some of today's premiere electronic DJs operating outside of their musical comfort zones in this hybrid documentary/Hyundai marketing tool...
Friday 2/24 @ MoMA PS1
Anthology is a new project by artist Clifford Owens that merges photography, video, and live performance. For this show, Owens' first...
Friday 2/24 @ Landmark Sunshine
The Giants may have taken the Superbowl, but the West Memphis Manassas Tigers and coach Bill Courtney will likely win your...
Special Secret Chocolate Whiskey
Friday 2/24 @ 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...
Friday 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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...
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Friday 2/24 @ STORY
STORY is a new shop and exhibition space, recently launched by Nerve gal and retail pro Rachel Shechtman, with rotating themes,...
The Extraordinary Voyage (2011) with Restored A Trip to the Moon (1902)
Friday 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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...
Three Solo Shows: Tamara Gayer, Stephen Sollins, and Heeseop Yoon
Friday 2/24 @ Smack Mellon
Three solo exhibitions take over the enormous space at Smack Mellon in DUMBO. Brooklyn-based artists Tamara Gayer, Stephen Sollins, and Heeseop...
The Permanent Collection Vol. 2: My Own Private Serpico
Friday 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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’...
Friday 2/24 @ 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...
Paul D'Agostino: Appearance Adrift in the Garden
Friday 2/24 @ 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,...
Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art
Friday 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ Axis Theatre
David Crabb's highly entertaining one-man show Bad Kid will resonate with the many New York transplants who escaped from rural American...
Friday 2/24 @ 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...
The Game of Kings: Medieval Ivory Chessmen from the Isle of Lewis
Friday 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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...
Friday 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ Booth Theatre
Wow. In our humble opinion, this is the best play on Broadway right now — the kind of intelligent reflection of...
Joaquín Sorolla & The Glory of Spanish Dress
Friday 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ Manhattan Inn
Friday nights are always a good time to check in with the Manhattan Inn for their DJ dance parties. Tonight the...
The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs
Friday 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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...
System Introspection: Nicolas Maigret
Friday 2/24 @ Devotion Gallery
The Art of Failure collective, Nicolas Maigret and Nicolas Montgermont, take as a starting point the imperfections that allow us to...
Friday 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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...
New American Wing Galleries for Paintings, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts
Friday 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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)...
Friday 2/24 @ (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...
Rob Pruitt's "The Andy Monument"
Friday 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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...
Rembrandt and Degas: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Friday 2/24 @ 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...
Sanja Iveković: Sweet Violence
Friday 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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,...
Simone Leigh: You Don't Know Where Her Mouth Has Been
Friday 2/24 @ The Kitchen
Opening Reception: Wednesday, January 18, 6-8pm This solo exhibition presents the New York premiere of Simone Leigh’s most recent sculptural...
The Body Unbound: Modernist Art from India
Friday 2/24 @ 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...
Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi, 1707-1857
Friday 2/24 @ 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...
Spies in the House of Art: Photography, Film, and Video
Friday 2/24 @ 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
Friday 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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...
Tragedy: The Kings of Metal Disco
Friday 2/24 @ Brooklyn Bowl
Tragedy is the #1 Heavy Metal Tribute to the Bee Gees in the Tri State Area. They Rock Sweet Balls and Can...
Hero, Villain, Yeti: Tibet in Comics
Friday 2/24 @ 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:...
Missy Mazzoli: Song from the Uproar—The Lives & Deaths Of Isabelle Eberhardt
Friday 2/24 @ The Kitchen
This multimedia opera premiere by celebrated Brooklyn composer Missy Mazzoli is a unique combination of live musical performance and original films, inspired by...
Friday 2/24 @ 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...
Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution: Fu Baoshi (1904-1965)
Friday 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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...
Friday 2/24 @ 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
Friday 2/24 @ The Jewish Museum
The Radical Camera offers a comprehensive look at the Photo League, a group of politically engaged street photographers who captured city...
Friday 2/24 @ 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...
Friday 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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 2/24 @ 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...
Testimonios: 100 Years of Popular Expression
Friday 2/24 @ 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...
