Events on Thursday, March 1
BOWLIVE III : Soulive with Special Guests: Rahzel, Questlove, Karl Denson
Thursday 3/ 1 @ Brooklyn Bowl
Funky instrumentalists Soulive eschew the "neo-soul" label; in fact, the band doesn't care what you call it, as long as the groove is...
DJ ?uestlove presents Bowl Train
Thursday 3/ 1 @ Brooklyn Bowl
Questlove breaks away from the Roots and Jimmy Fallon long enough to come spin some of his vinyl at Brooklyn Bowl....
My Best Fiend w/ TEEN, No Ordinary Monkey, and Warm Ghost
Thursday 3/ 1 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Brooklyn quintet My Best Fiend makes good by signing to indie British label Warp, home to Squarepusher, Grizzly Bear, and Aphex...
Bill Rhodes and Alan Blinder: Can Leadership Get the Global Economy Back on Track?
Thursday 3/ 1 @ Asia Society and Museum
With the triple threat of the Euro-crisis, American political paralysis and the danger of a Chinese “hard landing,” 2012 will...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ General Assembly
Reserve your space at this first of its kind, two part event where we’ll explore the influence technology will have on...
The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 92YTribeca
Lovable bandits Jesse James (Robert Duvall) and Cole Younger (Cliff Robertson) are ready to retire their outlaw ways when a confluence...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 92YTribeca
Story Pirates don't dress as pirates or make anybody walk the plank, but they do steal: they take their inspiration from...
Sister Sparrow & the Dirty Birds w/ American Babies
Thursday 3/ 1 @ The Bowery Ballroom
Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds is a nine-piece powerhouse that puts a modern spin on classic soul. The band is...
Gelf Magazine's Varsity Letters
Thursday 3/ 1 @ (Le) Poisson Rouge
Gelf's Varsity Letters sports reading series returns on Thursday, March 1, at 7:30 p.m., at The Gallery at LPR, with a...
Flowers Are Sleeping with Eisa Davis
Thursday 3/ 1 @ Symphony Space
"Like a mother asked to pick her favorite child, Davis refuses to choose between her music, her writing and her acting"...
Ongoing Events
The Brooklyn Museum presents Playing House
Thursday 3/ 1 @ Brooklyn Museum
Since our addiction to Downton Abbey has yet to abate, we're excited to see further explorations into "period." And The Brooklyn...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ Whitney Museum of American Art
It seems like just yesterday Bruce High Quality Foundation had its Cadillac hearse parked inside the Whitney, but in fact two...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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’...
The Extraordinary Voyage (2011) with Restored A Trip to the Moon (1902)
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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 3/ 1 @ 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 3/ 1 @ 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 3/ 1 @ 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 Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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...
Three Solo Shows: Tamara Gayer, Stephen Sollins, and Heeseop Yoon
Thursday 3/ 1 @ Smack Mellon
Three solo exhibitions take over the enormous space at Smack Mellon in DUMBO. Brooklyn-based artists Tamara Gayer, Stephen Sollins, and Heeseop...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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,...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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...
Newspaper Fiction: The New York Journalism of Djuna Barnes
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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 3/ 1 @ 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 3/ 1 @ Chelsea Market
Billyburg flea market institution Artists & Fleas heads to Manhattan to occupy a pop-up at Chelsea Market. Thirty artisans (some from...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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 3/ 1 @ 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 3/ 1 @ 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 3/ 1 @ 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 3/ 1 @ The Local 269
If you live in the city but find yourself longing for the sweet sounds of the country, come down to the...
Joaquín Sorolla & The Glory of Spanish Dress
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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 3/ 1 @ 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 3/ 1 @ Brucennial
Bruce High Quality Foundation, the mischievous five-person art collective that prides itself on developing amateur solutions to professional challenges, returns with...
Special Secret Chocolate Whiskey
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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 3/ 1 @ 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 3/ 1 @ 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...
Jem Cohen: NYC Weights and Measures
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ Envoy Gallery
Electronic music enthusiasts, we recommend checking out this three-part eulogy to the late great industrial music pioneer Frank Tovey. Founder of...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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...
We Are Cinema: 50 Years of the Film-Makers' Coop
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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'...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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 3/ 1 @ IndieScreen
Check out some of today's premiere electronic DJs operating outside of their musical comfort zones in this hybrid documentary/Hyundai marketing tool...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ MoMA PS1
Anthology is a new project by artist Clifford Owens that merges photography, video, and live performance. For this show, Owens' first...
Charles Atlas: The Illusion of Democracy
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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...
Rendez-Vous with French Cinema
Thursday 3/ 1 @ Walter Reade Theatre
Thanks to a Harvey Weinstein and a certain silent film's award-season sweep, this annual parade of French contemporary cinema couldn't be...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ BAM Harvey Theater
The Bridge Project seals its final season with a stellar pairing of Academy Award winners Kevin Spacey and Sam Mendes in...
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Thursday 3/ 1 @ STORY
STORY is a new shop and exhibition space, recently launched by Nerve gal and retail pro Rachel Shechtman, with rotating themes,...
The Oscar Nominated Short Films 2012
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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 3/ 1 @ The Palace Theatre
Priscilla Queen of the Desert, the outrageously fabulous musical that took London and Australia by storm, has finally hit New York....
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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 3/ 1 @ Landmark Sunshine
The Giants may have taken the Superbowl, but the West Memphis Manassas Tigers and coach Bill Courtney will likely win your...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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 3/ 1 @ 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
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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 3/ 1 @ 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...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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 3/ 1 @ 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 3/ 1 @ 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,...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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 3/ 1 @ Booth Theatre
Wow. In our humble opinion, this is the best play on Broadway right now — the kind of intelligent reflection of...
Florine Stettheimer: Alternative Modernist
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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 3/ 1 @ 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...
Testimonios: 100 Years of Popular Expression
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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...
The Steins Collect: Matisse, Picasso, and the Parisian Avant-Garde
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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 3/ 1 @ 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 3/ 1 @ 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:...
Rembrandt and Degas: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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...
Missy Mazzoli: Song from the Uproar—The Lives & Deaths Of Isabelle Eberhardt
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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)
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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...
Princes and Painters in Mughal Delhi, 1707-1857
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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 3/ 1 @ 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....
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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 3/ 1 @ 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...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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 3/ 1 @ 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)...
Simone Leigh: You Don't Know Where Her Mouth Has Been
Thursday 3/ 1 @ The Kitchen
Opening Reception: Wednesday, January 18, 6-8pm This solo exhibition presents the New York premiere of Simone Leigh’s most recent sculptural...
Rob Pruitt's "The Andy Monument"
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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...
Thursday 3/ 1 @ General Assembly
Join us for a week of classes and events celebrating the marriage of technology and craftsmanship in New York City. We...
Victorian Electrotypes: Old Treasures, New Technology
Thursday 3/ 1 @ 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 3/ 1 @ 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...
