Events on Saturday, February 4
Natural Selection 009: The Upbeats
Saturday 2/ 4 @ Public Assembly
Calling all d'nb heads! Get some international flavor at tonight's installment of Natural Selection, featuring New Zealand production duo the Upbeats....
Saturday 2/ 4 @ Brooklyn Museum
Celebrating a new innovative video installation, Question Bridge: Black Males, the Brooklyn Museum opens its doors for its monthly Saturday event,...
Introduction to Hand-Drawn Animation
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 3rd Ward
Students will learn the basics of creating moving images using the hand-drawn "in-between" process, as well as the principles of illusory...
The Iron Mule Short Comedy Film Festival
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 92YTribeca
This month’s guest judge: romance novelist Hope Tarr! The Iron Mule Short Comedy Screening Series was founded in April 2002 under...
Pitching And Selling With Condifence
Saturday 2/ 4 @ General Assembly
This interactive and highly intensive workshop is for absolutely everyone who needs to speak publicly in order to influence! Improving your...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ Brooklyn Bowl
Leroy Justice has "soul, style and chops to match any up-and-coming band in America," says Hittin' the Note, official magazine of...
Information Architecture With Omnigraffle Pro
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 3rd Ward
The world of application and web development has seen an influx of a new job type known as the Information Architect...
American Songbook: Gavin Creel & Stephen Oremus
Saturday 2/ 4 @ Lincoln Center
Two of the brightest lights from the new Broadway generation—two-time Tony nominee Gavin Creel and Stephen Oremus, the Tony-winning music director...
Ceremony , Pissed Jeans, The Rival Mob , Hoax , Kim Phuc and Gods and Queens
Saturday 2/ 4 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Ceremony are a full scale musical riot spawned from the rotting corpse of Northern California hardcore. Akin to a musical sledgehammer,...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Perk up your weekend with Le Bingo! Who knew Bingo could be so much kooky fun? Every Saturday, Le Poisson Rouge...
Celebrate the Lunar New Year Family Day
Saturday 2/ 4 @ Asia Society and Museum
Asia Society rings in the Year of the Dragon with performances and traditional craft activities inspired by Lunar New Year traditions...
More Than Enough w/ Elite Camp DJs Sickroc & Unkle Chip
Saturday 2/ 4 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
DJ Sickrock & Uncle Chip spin: Funk, Soul, Hip-Hop, House & Reggae. Elite Camp DJs Sickroc & Unkle Chip...
Ongoing Events
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ Peaches
Situated at the center of Stuyvesant Heights, Peaches is a neighborhood joint that serves up Saturday brunch with regional American classics,...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Paul D'Agostino: Appearance Adrift in the Garden
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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,...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ The Morgan Library
In celebration of the bicentennial of the birth of Charles Dickens, the Morgan Library & Museum presents Charles Dickens at 200...
Svetlana Mircheva: Possible Exhibitions
Saturday 2/ 4 @ NURTUREart Gallery
For her first solo exhibition in the United States, Possible Exhibitions, Svetlana Mircheva presents a handful of diminutive dioramas from an...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ MoMA PS1
Anthology is a new project by artist Clifford Owens that merges photography, video, and live performance. For this show, Owens' first...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ Cinema Village
Having just walked off with the Palme d'Or at Cannes, Terrence Malick's latest film, The Tree of Life, which stars Brad...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ The Palace Theatre
Priscilla Queen of the Desert, the outrageously fabulous musical that took London and Australia by storm, has finally hit New York....
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Gary Petersen, Halsey Hathaway, & Rob de Oude
Saturday 2/ 4 @ Storefront Bushwick
Storefront Bushwick, a tiny pristine gallery occupying a storefront—as most young galleries in Bushwick do—presents an eye-catching assortment of new work...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ Mary Boone Gallery 541 West 24th St New York, NY 10001
Sunflower Seeds, the installation by internationally renowned artist and activist Ai Weiwei, is on view for the first time in New...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ Regal Union Square Stadium 14
Seven years have passed since Alexander Payne's Best Director Oscar for Sideways went to Clint Eastwood. And just as he was...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Park Here: The Indoor Pop-Up Park
Saturday 2/ 4 @ Openhouse Gallery
Dodge the SADs (Seasonal Affective Disorder) with a play date at Park Here, Nolita's very own indoor park, plush with grass...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ SCRATCHbread
The SCRATCHbread Focaccino window is a portal into deliciousness. On Select days, SCRATCHbread, the mothership of artisanal breads that are sprouting...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ BAM Harvey Theater
The Bridge Project seals its final season with a stellar pairing of Academy Award winners Kevin Spacey and Sam Mendes in...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ Blackston Gallery
This group show features five young Brooklyn artists, who all reference simultanéisme, a term coined in the early 20th century by...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ HERE Arts Center
A winter highlight, Culturemart both previews and celebrates works-in-progress from HARP, HERE's artist residency program. The lineup includes five works by...
Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
The Game of Kings: Medieval Ivory Chessmen from the Isle of Lewis
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ New York City Center
David Hyde Pierce and Rosie Perez each play themselves, to an extent, in Leigh Silverman's (Chinglish) production of Close Up Space....
Jem Cohen: NYC Weights and Measures
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Surviving Life: Collages by Jan Svankmajer
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Three Solo Shows: Tamara Gayer, Stephen Sollins, and Heeseop Yoon
Saturday 2/ 4 @ Smack Mellon
Three solo exhibitions take over the enormous space at Smack Mellon in DUMBO. Brooklyn-based artists Tamara Gayer, Stephen Sollins, and Heeseop...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ Skylight One Hanson
During the colder months, Brooklyn Flea retreats indoors to Skylight One Hanson — but this is no hibernation. Within, you'll still...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ Angelika Film Center
From his outlandish comments — calling George W. Bush an asshole or admitting to be a Nazi — to his profound fear...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ Roulette
Dance Roulette effectively eliminates any possible excuse for not yet visiting Roulette's new Brooklyn home. The festival brings together an internationally celebrated...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
"Yummy" might be the best word to describe Rirkrit Tiravanija's current installation at MoMA. The conceptual artist's Untitled (Free/Still), which can...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ Cinema Village
Cinema is alive and well in Turkey. In addition to churning out its domestic blockbusters, the Muslim nation has a flourishing...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Newspaper Fiction: The New York Journalism of Djuna Barnes
Saturday 2/ 4 @ Brooklyn Museum
While Djuna Barnes is best known for her modernist novels and plays like Nightwood (1936) and The Antiphon (1958), from 1913-1921,...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ Various Locations
Just in time to alleviate both your thinning wallet and your shrinking waistline: NYC's Winter Restaurant Week offers steep discounts on...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 59E59 Theaters
In The Fall to Earth, Deborah Hedwall gives a nearly flawless performance as Fay, a mother who has traveled across the...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ Brooklyn Museum of Art
The HIDE/SEEK exhibition is known best for the controversy it caused in Washington, DC when it opened in October 2010 at...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ The Front Room
Each of the artists in this exhibition IN-HABITAT interprets the concept of habitat, and the meaning of inhabiting this world in...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 7Eleven Gallery
Alchemy, the process of turning base metals into gold, is the starting point for the group show Alchemy in the West...
The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ Spectacle Theater
Sigur Ros is back. Well, sort of. Considered by some to be the messiah of music, the band immortalized their last...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ The Journal Gallery
Artist Chris Martin curates this all-woman exhibition about which he says: "Some of these artists are old friends. Some of them...
Joaquín Sorolla & The Glory of Spanish Dress
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ Kaufman Center
Imagine what kind of mind-blowing masterpieces might have resulted if Beethoven had jammed with the Beatles or Mahler had made music...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ Angelika Film Center
Adapted from Lionel Shirver's best-selling novel, Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin places us inside the head...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
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Saturday 2/ 4 @ STORY
STORY is a new shop and exhibition space, recently launched by Nerve gal and retail pro Rachel Shechtman, with rotating themes,...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ Storefront for Art and Architecture
To the naked eye, Allard van Hoorn's 007_Urban_Songline looks like a room filled with strings; a child-like maze for visitors to...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ IFC Center
Wim Wenders pays poetic tribute to friend and influential German choreographer Pina Bausch using 3D technology. On the surface, it seems...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ Booth Theatre
Wow. In our humble opinion, this is the best play on Broadway right now — the kind of intelligent reflection of...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ The Clurman at Theater Row
A one-man virtuoso acrobatic performance that cleverly skews the audience's perspective on gravity, LEO is a showcase for the effortlessly talented...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ Music Box Theatre
If you thought meeting the real William Shatner required going to a Star Trek Convention or ComicCon, think again. At nearly...
Allen Glatter: Trots and Bonnie
Saturday 2/ 4 @ Rawson Projects
With his solo show, Trots and Bonnie, Allen Glatter presents two sculptures of powder-coated aluminum and a selection of related drawings...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ IFC Center
British filmmaker Ben Wheatley retains his spot on our watch list with his meaty Down Terrace follow-up, Kill List. Co-written with...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ Jerry Orbach Theater
In the intimate Jerry Orbach theater (now aka the Snapple Center, groan), this simple, warm, and wonderful production is the first...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ Landmark Sunshine
Sex addiction in New York City is laid bare in award-winning artist-turned-feature-filmmaker Steve McQueen's Shame. Michael Fassbender, who teamed with McQueen...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ The Standard, New York
The Standard's ice rink plays host to the second-annual What the Puck?! hockey tournament, where 20 different teams face-off over five...
Hero, Villain, Yeti: Tibet in Comics
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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:...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
Berlin-based artist Haris Epaminonda is internationally known for her photo-collages and assemblages constructed from books and magazines from the 1950s and...
Chinese Art in an Age of Revolution: Fu Baoshi (1904-1965)
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron & Son
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Neal Medlyn: Wicked Clown Love
Saturday 2/ 4 @ The Kitchen
Neal Medlyn’s latest “bomb ass music based extravaganza” to quote the artist, is built around the music of the Insane Clown...
Mirror of the Buddha: Early Portraits from Tibet
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Sanja Iveković: Sweet Violence
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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 Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
The Coe Collection of American Indian Art
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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,...
New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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 Losers Lounge Presents: Steely Dan vs. The Doobie Brothers
Saturday 2/ 4 @ Joe's Pub
The Losers Lounge present “Steely Dan vs. The Doobie Brothers” in a battle of the bands! For the first time ever...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
New American Wing Galleries for Paintings, Sculpture, and Decorative Arts
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
The Body Unbound: Modernist Art from India
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Michael Sailstorfer: "Tornado"
Saturday 2/ 4 @ Public Art Fund
Rising more than 30 feet to meet the treetops of Central Park, "Tornado" brings together a series of opposite terms. It...
Rob Pruitt's "The Andy Monument"
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Victorian Electrotypes: Old Treasures, New Technology
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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,...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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)...
Testimonios: 100 Years of Popular Expression
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker in New York
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
The Radical Camera: New York's Photo League, 1936-1951
Saturday 2/ 4 @ The Jewish Museum
The Radical Camera offers a comprehensive look at the Photo League, a group of politically engaged street photographers who captured city...
Art in Renaissance Venice, 1400-1515: Paintings and Drawings from the Museum’s Collections
Saturday 2/ 4 @ The Metropolitan Museum of Art
This installation of Renaissance Venetian art from the Met Museum’s collections features 44 paintings and drawings by preeminent artists active in...
Saturday 2/ 4 @ 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...
Simone Leigh: You Don't Know Where Her Mouth Has Been
Saturday 2/ 4 @ The Kitchen
Opening Reception: Wednesday, January 18, 6-8pm This solo exhibition presents the New York premiere of Simone Leigh’s most recent sculptural...
From Inspiration to Transformation: Art from Africa and Works of Contemporary Art
Saturday 2/ 4 @ National Academy Museum
The exhibition From Inspiration to Transformation: Art from Africa and Works of Contemporary Art showcases new art projects from National Academy...
