Events on Tuesday, February 28

Wire Wrapping

Workshop/Class

Wire Wrapping

Tuesday 2/28 @ 3rd Ward

Feeling crafty? Did you know you can quickly and easily fabricate professional looking jewelry with just wire, semi-precious stones and pliers?... 

ARMS

Music: Indie

ARMS

Tuesday 2/28 @ The Mercury Lounge

Helmed by former Harlem Shakes guitarist Todd Goldstein, ARMS' sophomore release Summer Skills is a treasure trough of emotionally charged, able-bodied anthems. The band began... 

<em>Sarah Manguso: The Guardians</em>

Books: Reading

Sarah Manguso: The Guardians

Tuesday 2/28 @ BookCourt

We first fell in love with the writing of Sarah Manguso upon reading her collection of short short stories that verged... 

The Crisis of Governance in Central Asia

Conference

The Crisis of Governance in Central Asia

Tuesday 2/28 @ Asia Society and Museum

 Since emerging as independent states from the ruins of the Soviet Union 20 years ago, the five Central Asian nations of... 

The Wee Trio Ashes to Ashes: A David Bowie Intraspective  w/ the trios of Danny Fox and Joel Frahm

Music

The Wee Trio Ashes to Ashes: A David Bowie Intraspective w/ the trios of Danny Fox and Joel Frahm

Tuesday 2/28 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

 A special event featuring three unique takes on the most classic instrumentation in modern music; the trio. The Wee Trio celebrates... 

Bowllive III : Soulive With Special Guests John Scofield & Luther Dickinson

Music: Soul

Bowllive III : Soulive With Special Guests John Scofield & Luther Dickinson

Tuesday 2/28 @ Brooklyn Bowl

 Brothers Alan and Neal Evans, on drums and Hammond B-3 organ, respectively, form two-thirds of the soul/groove trio Soulive. Rounding out... 

Ensemble ACJW "Bite Sized ACJW: Hors d'oeuvres"

Music: Classical

Ensemble ACJW "Bite Sized ACJW: Hors d'oeuvres"

Tuesday 2/28 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge

Ensemble ACJW is the performing arm of The Academy—a program of Carnegie Hall, The Juilliard School, and the Weill Music Institute... 

Inside Obama’s Economic Team: Noam Scheiber with Eliot Spitzer

Special Event

Inside Obama’s Economic Team: Noam Scheiber with Eliot Spitzer

Tuesday 2/28 @ 92YTribeca

Join Noam Scheiber and Eliot Spitzer for a gripping look inside the minds of Obama’s economic team. From Obama and Geithner to Summers... 

Bjork at Roseland Ballroom

Music: Experimental

Bjork at Roseland Ballroom

Tuesday 2/28 @ Live Nation

Biophilia live show and education series. In partnership with The Creators Project and New York Hall of Science.

Ongoing Events

The Wooster Group and New York City Players present <em>Early Plays</em>

Theatre: Drama

Early Plays

Tuesday 2/28 @ 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... 

Documentary Fortnight 2012: MoMA's International Festival of Nonfiction Film and Media

Film: Festival

Documentary Fortnight 2012

Tuesday 2/28 @ 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... 

<em>Memphis</em>

Theatre: Musical

Memphis

Tuesday 2/28 @ Shubert Theatre (225 W 44th St)

MEMPHIS is about a white radio DJ who wants to change the world and a black club singer who is ready... 

<em>A Separation</em>

Film

A Separation

Tuesday 2/28 @ 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... 

Jem Cohen: NYC Weights and Measures

Art: Video

Jem Cohen: NYC Weights and Measures

Tuesday 2/28 @ 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 Oscar Nominated Short Films 2012

Film: Shorts

The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2012

Tuesday 2/28 @ IFC Center

Face it, the Oscars are more fun to follow when you've actually seen the nominated films, and thanks to ShortsHD and... 

<em>Undefeated</em>

Film: Documentary

Undefeated

Tuesday 2/28 @ Landmark Sunshine

The Giants may have taken the Superbowl, but the West Memphis Manassas Tigers and coach Bill Courtney will likely win your... 

Punchdrunk's <em>Sleep No More</em>

Cultural Hybrid

Punchdrunk's Sleep No More

Tuesday 2/28 @ 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... 

<em>Florine Stettheimer: Alternative Modernist</em>

Art: Painting & Drawing

Florine Stettheimer: Alternative Modernist

Tuesday 2/28 @ The Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library

In celebration of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition "The Steins Collect," which begins February 28, the Rare Book and Manuscript... 

<em>Avenue Q</em>

Theatre: Off-Broadway

Avenue Q

Tuesday 2/28 @ 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... 

Charles Atlas: The Illusion of Democracy

Art: Video

Charles Atlas: The Illusion of Democracy

Tuesday 2/28 @ 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... 

<em>Silence! The Musical</em>

Theatre: Musical

Silence! The Musical

Tuesday 2/28 @ 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... 

<em>The Extraordinary Voyage</em> (2011) with Restored <em>A Trip to the Moon</em> (1902)

Film: Documentary

The Extraordinary Voyage (2011) with Restored A Trip to the Moon (1902)

Tuesday 2/28 @ 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... 

ST[love]RY

Fashion/Style: Shopping

ST[love]RY

Tuesday 2/28 @ STORY

STORY is a new shop and exhibition space, recently launched by Nerve gal and retail pro Rachel Shechtman, with rotating themes,... 

Andre Woolery: <em>Bruised Thumbs</em>

Art: Installation

Andre Woolery

Tuesday 2/28 @ 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... 

<em>John Chamberlain: Choices</em>

Art: Sculpture

John Chamberlain: Choices

Tuesday 2/28 @ Guggenheim Museum

John Chamberlain is most known for his sculptures made of candy-colored scraps of car parts that he twisted and fitted together... 

Film Comment Selects 2012

Film: Festival

Film Comment Selects

Tuesday 2/28 @ 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... 

<em>Priscilla Queen of the Desert: The Musical</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Priscilla Queen of the Desert

Tuesday 2/28 @ The Palace Theatre

Priscilla Queen of the Desert, the outrageously fabulous musical that took London and Australia by storm, has finally hit New York.... 

<em>How to Start a Revolution</em>

Film: Documentary

How to Start a Revolution

Tuesday 2/28 @ 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,... 

<em>Mamma Mia!</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Mamma Mia!

Tuesday 2/28 @ 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... 

<em>Canyon Candy</em>

Art: Installation

Canyon Candy

Tuesday 2/28 @ 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

Art

The Game of Kings: Medieval Ivory Chessmen from the Isle of Lewis

Tuesday 2/28 @ 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... 

Adam Curtis: <em>The Desperate Edge of Now</em>

Art: Video

Adam Curtis

Tuesday 2/28 @ 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... 

<em>How I Learned To Drive</em>

Theatre: Broadway

How I Learned To Drive

Tuesday 2/28 @ 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... 

Cindy Sherman

Art: Photography

Cindy Sherman

Tuesday 2/28 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

Through her self portraits, Cindy Sherman has been a film noir starlet, a murderous Caravaggio muse, a centerfold, a rodeo clown,... 

<em>Richard III</em>

Theatre: Drama

Richard III

Tuesday 2/28 @ BAM Harvey Theater

The Bridge Project seals its final season with a stellar pairing of Academy Award winners Kevin Spacey and Sam Mendes in... 

<em>The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs</em>

Theatre: Off-Broadway

The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs

Tuesday 2/28 @ 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... 

Joaqu&iacute;n Sorolla & The Glory of Spanish Dress

Fashion/Style

Joaquín Sorolla & The Glory of Spanish Dress

Tuesday 2/28 @ 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... 

<em>Jersey Boys</em>

Theatre: Musical

Jersey Boys

Tuesday 2/28 @ 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... 

<em>Other Desert Cities</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Other Desert Cities

Tuesday 2/28 @ Booth Theatre

Wow. In our humble opinion, this is the best play on Broadway right now — the kind of intelligent reflection of... 

Kings County Distillery's Special Secret Chocolate Whiskey

Food/Wine: Shopping

Special Secret Chocolate Whiskey

Tuesday 2/28 @ 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... 

<em>White Gold: Highlights from the Arnhold Collection of Meissen Porcelain</em>

Art: Sculpture

White Gold

Tuesday 2/28 @ 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... 

Bertolt Brecht's <em>Galileo</em>

Theatre: Revival

Galileo

Tuesday 2/28 @ Classic Stage Company

Starting with the playwright, everyone is worked up in Galileo. The Church and Galileo's royal patrons don't like his "turning around... 

<em>The Ungovernables</em>

Art: Group Show

The Ungovernables

Tuesday 2/28 @ 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... 

<em>Raw Spaces</em>: Lisa Lebofsky

Art: Painting & Drawing

Lisa Lebofsky

Tuesday 2/28 @ 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,... 

David LaChapelle:&nbsp;<em>Earth Laughs in Flowers</em>

Art: Photography

Earth Laughs in Flowers

Tuesday 2/28 @ 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... 

<em>Michael</em>

Film: Independent

Michael

Tuesday 2/28 @ 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... 

<em>Godspell</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Godspell

Tuesday 2/28 @ Circle in the Square Theatre

Jesus, what a voice! Hunter Parrish's Jesus charms, amuses, and seduces all. He glorifies Stephen Schwartz's divine score (which is far... 

<em>Re:Generation Music Project</em>

Film: Documentary

Re:Generation Music Project

Tuesday 2/28 @ IndieScreen

Check out some of today's premiere electronic DJs operating outside of their musical comfort zones in this hybrid documentary/Hyundai marketing tool... 

<em>Book of Mormon</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Book of Mormon

Tuesday 2/28 @ 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... 

<em>Seminar</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Seminar

Tuesday 2/28 @ The Golden Theatre

Seminar, the witty and provocative new comedy, has hit Broadway with great success and critical acclaim. The world premiere of this... 

<em>Tribes</em>

Theatre: Off-Off-Broadway

Tribes

Tuesday 2/28 @ Barrow Street Theater

Nina Raine continues the "kitchen sink" tradition of British theatre with her wrenching family drama, Tribes. Billy (Russell Harvard) is the... 

Juergen Teller

Art: Photography

Juergen Teller

Tuesday 2/28 @ Lehmann Maupin

German-born photographer Juergen Teller is most known for his cheeky refusal to keep his commercial fashion photography distinct from his most... 

Jim Henson's Fantastic World

Art: Multimedia

Jim Henson's Fantastic World

Tuesday 2/28 @ 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... 

<em>Shatner's World</em>

Theatre: Broadway

Shatner's World

Tuesday 2/28 @ Music Box Theatre

If you thought meeting the real William Shatner required going to a Star Trek Convention or ComicCon, think again. At nearly... 

Stranger than Fiction Winter 2012

Film: Documentary

STF Winter 2012

Tuesday 2/28 @ IFC Center

Thom Powers and Raphaela Neihausen's documentary series, Stranger Than Fiction, makes for an excellent weekly retreat during the cold, dark winter... 

Weegee: <em>Murder Is My Business</em>

Art: Photography

Weegee: Murder Is My Business

Tuesday 2/28 @ 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... 

<em>The Fantasticks</em>

Theatre: Off-Broadway

The Fantasticks

Tuesday 2/28 @ Jerry Orbach Theater

In the intimate Jerry Orbach theater (now aka the Snapple Center, groan), this simple, warm, and wonderful production is the first... 

The New Group presents the world premiere of <em>Russian Transport</em>

Theatre: Off-Broadway

Russian Transport

Tuesday 2/28 @ 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... 

Voces Y Visiones: Gran Caribe

Art

Voces Y Visiones: Gran Caribe

Tuesday 2/28 @ 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... 

Spies in the House of Art: Photography, Film, and Video

Art: Multimedia

Spies in the House of Art: Photography, Film, and Video

Tuesday 2/28 @ 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... 

A Promise is Cloud

Art

A Promise is Cloud

Tuesday 2/28 @ 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.... 

Extruding and Spinning

Art: Design

Extruding and Spinning

Tuesday 2/28 @ 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... 

The Coe Collection of American Indian Art

Art

The Coe Collection of American Indian Art

Tuesday 2/28 @ 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

Art

Mirror of the Buddha: Early Portraits from Tibet

Tuesday 2/28 @ 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... 

Hand Made: Artisan Week

Conference

Hand Made: Artisan Week

Tuesday 2/28 @ General Assembly

Join us for a week of classes and events celebrating the marriage of technology and craftsmanship in New York City. We... 

Testimonios: 100 Years of Popular Expression

Art

Testimonios: 100 Years of Popular Expression

Tuesday 2/28 @ 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... 

New American Wing Galleries for Paintings, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts

Art

New American Wing Galleries for Paintings, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts

Tuesday 2/28 @ 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

Art

Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker in New York

Tuesday 2/28 @ 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... 

Bowlive lll

Music: Soul

Bowlive lll

Tuesday 2/28 @ Brooklyn Bowl

Brothers Alan and Neal Evans, on drums and Hammond B-3 organ, respectively, form two-thirds of the soul/groove trio Soulive. Rounding out... 

Storytelling in Japanese Art

Art

Storytelling in Japanese Art

Tuesday 2/28 @ 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"

Art: Sculpture

Rob Pruitt's "The Andy Monument"

Tuesday 2/28 @ 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... 

The Radical Camera: New York's Photo League, 1936-1951

Art: Photography

The Radical Camera: New York's Photo League, 1936-1951

Tuesday 2/28 @ The Jewish Museum

The Radical Camera offers a comprehensive look at the Photo League, a group of politically engaged street photographers who captured city... 

Sanja Iveković: Sweet Violence

Art: Multimedia

Sanja Iveković: Sweet Violence

Tuesday 2/28 @ 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

Art

Victorian Electrotypes: Old Treasures, New Technology

Tuesday 2/28 @ 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

Art

The Body Unbound: Modernist Art from India

Tuesday 2/28 @ 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

Art: Painting & Drawing

Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi, 1707-1857

Tuesday 2/28 @ 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 Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde

Art

The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde

Tuesday 2/28 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Gertrude Stein, her brothers Leo and Michael, and Michael’s wife Sarah were important patrons of modern art in Paris during the... 

The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini

Art

The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini

Tuesday 2/28 @ 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

Art

Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron & Son

Tuesday 2/28 @ 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

Art: Multimedia

Hero, Villain, Yeti: Tibet in Comics

Tuesday 2/28 @ 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:... 

Simone Leigh: You Don't Know Where Her Mouth Has Been

Art

Simone Leigh: You Don't Know Where Her Mouth Has Been

Tuesday 2/28 @ 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

Art

Rembrandt and Degas: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Tuesday 2/28 @ 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... 

Sarah Sze: Infinite Line

Art: Installation

Sarah Sze: Infinite Line

Tuesday 2/28 @ 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... 

Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution: Fu Baoshi (1904-1965)

Art

Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution: Fu Baoshi (1904-1965)

Tuesday 2/28 @ 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

Art

New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia

Tuesday 2/28 @ 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...