Events on Wednesday, February 29
Props w/ Rich Medina and Akalepse
Wednesday 2/29 @ (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...
Wednesday 2/29 @ The McKittrick Hotel
Celebrate Leap Day in style with Winkel & Balktick at the Manderley Bar (within the McKittrick Hotel). Live bands play everything...
Wednesday 2/29 @ The Yard
Are you an entrepreneur at heart? Someone just needing a final push or bit of inspiration? Head to the Yard co-working...
Wednesday 2/29 @ Bar Matchless
Last Wednesdays: formerly our Veronica People's Club jam, relocates to Matchless now and forever. This special Leap Year edition is helmed...
The Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye
Wednesday 2/29 @ 92YTribeca
Filmed over seven years, the Ballad of Genesis and Lady Jaye depicts the efforts in intimate detail of legendary musician Genesis...
Lara St. John and Marie-Pierre Langlamet: "Bach Sonatas" album release concert
Wednesday 2/29 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Program: J.S. Bach: Sonata in G Minor for Violin and Harp BWV 1020 Sebastian Currier: Night Time (1998) for Violin and...
Wednesday 2/29 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
February 29, 2012 gives us a natural theme for the February show–Leap Years and Other Rarities. Maybe we’re talking about the...
BOWLIVE III : Soulive With Special Guests: John Scofield & Luther Dickinson
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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...
WERNER HERZOG: Death Row & Other Journeys, in conversation with Paul Holdengräber
Wednesday 2/29 @ LIVE from the NYPL
“I am not an advocate of the death penalty. I do not even have an argument; I only have a story,...
LIVE Simulcast WERNER HERZOG: Death Row & Other Journeys
Wednesday 2/29 @ LIVE from the NYPL
DEATH ROW & Other Journeys “I am not an advocate of the death penalty. I do not even have an argument;...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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...
Three Solo Shows: Tamara Gayer, Stephen Sollins, and Heeseop Yoon
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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 2/29 @ 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 2/29 @ 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 2/29 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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,...
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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 2/29 @ SCRATCHbread
The SCRATCHbread Focaccino window is a portal into deliciousness. On Select days, SCRATCHbread, the mothership of artisanal breads that are sprouting...
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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...
The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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...
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Wednesday 2/29 @ STORY
STORY is a new shop and exhibition space, recently launched by Nerve gal and retail pro Rachel Shechtman, with rotating themes,...
The Brooklyn Museum presents Playing House
Wednesday 2/29 @ Brooklyn Museum
Since our addiction to Downton Abbey has yet to abate, we're excited to see further explorations into "period." And The Brooklyn...
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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 2/29 @ The Palace Theatre
Priscilla Queen of the Desert, the outrageously fabulous musical that took London and Australia by storm, has finally hit New York....
Florine Stettheimer: Alternative Modernist
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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 2/29 @ 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 2/29 @ 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 2/29 @ 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...
Newspaper Fiction: The New York Journalism of Djuna Barnes
Wednesday 2/29 @ Brooklyn Museum
While Djuna Barnes is best known for her modernist novels and plays like Nightwood (1936) and The Antiphon (1958), from 1913-1921,...
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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 2/29 @ 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 2/29 @ Guggenheim Museum
John Chamberlain is most known for his sculptures made of candy-colored scraps of car parts that he twisted and fitted together...
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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 2/29 @ 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 2/29 @ Booth Theatre
Wow. In our humble opinion, this is the best play on Broadway right now — the kind of intelligent reflection of...
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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,...
Special Secret Chocolate Whiskey
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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...
The Game of Kings: Medieval Ivory Chessmen from the Isle of Lewis
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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 2/29 @ 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 2/29 @ 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,...
The Extraordinary Voyage (2011) with Restored A Trip to the Moon (1902)
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/29 @ Jerry Orbach Theater
In the intimate Jerry Orbach theater (now aka the Snapple Center, groan), this simple, warm, and wonderful production is the first...
Joaquín Sorolla & The Glory of Spanish Dress
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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...
The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2012
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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 2/29 @ 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 2/29 @ Brucennial
Bruce High Quality Foundation, the mischievous five-person art collective that prides itself on developing amateur solutions to professional challenges, returns with...
Wednesday 2/29 @ Landmark Sunshine
The Giants may have taken the Superbowl, but the West Memphis Manassas Tigers and coach Bill Courtney will likely win your...
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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 2/29 @ 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 2/29 @ 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 2/29 @ 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 2/29 @ IndieScreen
Check out some of today's premiere electronic DJs operating outside of their musical comfort zones in this hybrid documentary/Hyundai marketing tool...
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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...
New American Wing Galleries for Paintings, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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...
Rembrandt and Degas: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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...
New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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...
Rob Pruitt's "The Andy Monument"
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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...
Testimonios: 100 Years of Popular Expression
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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...
Spies in the House of Art: Photography, Film, and Video
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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 Coe Collection of American Indian Art
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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,...
Wednesday 2/29 @ General Assembly
Join us for a week of classes and events celebrating the marriage of technology and craftsmanship in New York City. We...
The Body Unbound: Modernist Art from India
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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....
Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker in New York
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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 2/29 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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...
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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)...
Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution: Fu Baoshi (1904-1965)
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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...
Simone Leigh: You Don't Know Where Her Mouth Has Been
Wednesday 2/29 @ The Kitchen
Opening Reception: Wednesday, January 18, 6-8pm This solo exhibition presents the New York premiere of Simone Leigh’s most recent sculptural...
Hero, Villain, Yeti: Tibet in Comics
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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:...
Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi, 1707-1857
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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 2/29 @ 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,...
Sanja Iveković: Sweet Violence
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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...
The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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...
The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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...
Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron & Son
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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 2/29 @ 3rd Ward
We provide the beer and the model. You bring your drawing tools and creativity. Hosted in the Gallery of 3rd Ward,...
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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...
Mirror of the Buddha: Early Portraits from Tibet
Wednesday 2/29 @ 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...
