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What to Do in New York in February 2018

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A calendar month'due south worth of free, family-friendly and otherwise noteworthy cultural events.

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'Lunar New year's day Festival: Twelvemonth of the Rat' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. This daylong celebration includes a parade, performances and family-friendly fine art activities. (While in the surface area, head to Rumsey Playfield in Central Park for the gratuitous winter sports festival Wintertime Jam, from 11 a.one thousand. to three p.m.) From 11 a.grand. to v p.m.; metmuseum.org .

BAMkids Film Festival at the Brooklyn University of Music. A range of international works, from alive-action features to animated shorts, should appeal to children of all ages. A funfair rounds out the weekend-long festivities. Feb. ane-2; bam.org .

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'Five Hundred Years of Women's Piece of work: The Lisa Unger Baskin Collection' at the Grolier Club. With more than 200 items, the Grolier Lodge's latest exhibition documents the history of women making an independent living. Amongst the works are one of the first books printed by women, a 1478 history of Rome's emperors and popes, and a copy of Mary Seacole'southward 1857 autobiography, the first by a black adult female in Britain. Through Feb. 8; grolierclub.org .

The Moth StorySLAM at Schomburg Eye for Inquiry in Black Culture. The writer Dame Wilburn will host this iteration of StorySLAM in which 10 Harlemites volition be selected to share their stories on the evening's theme: "Only in Harlem." Doors open at 7 p.m.; eventbrite.com .

Terry Riley'southward 'In C' at Le Poisson Rouge. The Brooklyn ensemble Darmstadt performs its interpretation of this 1964 landmark composition ahead of the musician and composer's 85th birthday this summer. At 8 p.m.; lpr.com .

Art in Dumbo's Get-go Thursday Gallery Walk in Brooklyn. Galleries will stay open belatedly and so visitors tin browse the Triangle Arts Winter Open Studios and other galleries on their own, or join an Insider's Tour, a costless guided tour of exhibitions on view at Janet Borden and A.I.R. Gallery. (Then stroll along the East River to take in Antony Gormley'southward "New York Clearing," a monumental public work piece chosen "drawing in infinite," at Pier 3 in Brooklyn Bridge Park.) From vi-8 p.thou.; artinDUMBO.com .

'Cane River' at BAM Rose Cinemas. Horace Jenkins died before long after finishing this 1982 romantic melodrama tackling issues of colorism, the legacy of slavery and mendacious practices against African-American landowners. After a negative was institute and painstakingly restored, the film is now getting its theatrical release. Feb. 7-20; bam.org .

Blitheness First Festival at the French Institute Alliance Française. Award-winning features, immersive exhibits, video game demonstrations and more are the eye of this festival. For those Academy Award-minded fans of animation, the Oscar-nominated feature "I Lost My Body" will exist shown on February. 8 at 11 a.g., followed by a behind-the-scenes panel discussion with the moving-picture show's editor, Benjamin Massoubre. Feb. 7-10; fiaf.org.

'Visions of Resistance: Recent Films by Brazilian Women Directors' at the Museum of the Moving Paradigm. Stories of resilience and insurgence are the focus of this series, which pays particular attention to the lives of black Brazilians. February. 8 and nine; movingimage.us .

'Village' opens at St. Ann'south Warehouse. Ruth Negga received rave reviews for her portrayal of Hamlet in Dublin. Now she volition reprise the part that she says "cracks you open up," for New York audiences — and it's a very tough ticket. Feb. ane-March 8; stannswarehouse.org .

'The Mother of Usa All' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Virgil Thomson's opera, with a libretto past Gertrude Stein, is rarely performed. All the more reason to see one of the performances of this work this calendar month. Feb. viii, 11, 12 and fourteen; nyphil.org .

'Dorothea Lange: Words & Pictures' opens at the Museum of Modern Art. Subsequently its inaugural exhibitions, the newly renovated museum begins its rollout of new shows. Among the offset upwards is Lange's photographs, which sharply reflect the human condition. It'south the commencement major MoMA exhibition of Lange'due south career in fifty years. February. nine-May 9; moma.org .

Artist Talk and Book Signing: Rachel Feinstein at the Jewish Museum. In her showtime museum retrospective, the creative person and mode muse Rachel Feinstein presents fanciful works with a core of steel — a residue of the whimsical and the grotesque. On this evening she'll speak well-nigh her exhibition, "Maiden, Mother, Crone," and the inspirations for her art, which underscore that in that location is no reality without fantasy. From 6:30-eight p.m.; thejewishmuseum.org.

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'High Fidelity' premieres on Hulu. The latest adaptation of Nick Hornby's 1995 novel, Mike Hale wrote, "gender-switches the record-shop-owning, Tiptop-5-list-making protagonist, who'due south now played by Zoë Kravitz." She plays a record store owner in the gentrifying Crown Heights neighborhood of Brooklyn. hulu.com.

20th ceremony screening of 'Love & Basketball' at BAM Rose Cinemas. Sanaa Lathan, Omar Epps, and teenage hoop dreams: Come across Gina Prince-Bythewood's 2000 archetype on the big screen equally part of the "Long Weekend of Love" series. Make it a Valentine'southward double-characteristic: "The Photo," a new Issa Rae-Lakeith Stanfield vehicle reminiscent of 1990s black love stories, arrives in theaters Feb. 14. bam.org .

Irina Kolesnikova in 'Swan Lake' at the Brooklyn University of Music. The Russian prima ballerina and the St. Petersburg Ballet Theater make their United States debut in Tchaikovsky'south dear classic. Feb. 15 and 16; bam.or g.

'Dracula' and 'Frankenstein' open up at Archetype Stage Visitor. Kate Hamill reimagines Bram Stoker'south "Dracula" and Tristan Bernays adapts Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" for this repertory cycle of two Gothic tales. In repertory through March 8; classicstage.org .

Toni Morrison's 'The Source of Self-Regard' at 92nd Street Y. André Holland and Phylicia Rashad perform a dramatic reading of the writer'south 2019 nonfiction drove, consisting of works written over four decades that still resonate socially and politically. Morrison would have turned 89 on Feb. 18. At eight p.thousand.; 92y.org/effect/toni-morrison .

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'Jeffrey Gibson: When Fire Is Applied to a Stone It Cracks' at the Brooklyn Museum. For this exhibition, the artist, who is of Choctaw and Cherokee descent, has selected items from the museum's drove to be presented alongside his contempo work. The result: a rethinking of institutional categorizations and representations of Ethnic peoples and Native American art. (Also on view: "Climate in Crisis: Environmental Change in the Indigenous Americas," an exploration of the furnishings of climate modify on Indigenous communities. It includes more than than 60 works spanning 2,800 years and cultures across North, Central, and Southward America.) Both shows opens Feb. 14; brooklynmuseum.org .

'W Side Story' opens on Broadway. New moves and plenty of tattoos: Ivo van Hove's arroyo to this beloved musical is finally here. Jerome Robbins's choreography has been replaced past Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker's; "I Experience Pretty" is gone; and this production has an break-gratis running time of 1 60 minutes and 45 minutes. Open up run; westsidestorybway.com .

'It'south All in Me: Blackness Heroines' at the Museum of Modern Art. On the heels of Film Forum's iv-week "Black Women" festival, MoMA presents this intriguing serial with works both familiar and obscure, including "The Watermelon Woman," "Support the Girls," "Sambizanga" and "Lime Kiln Club Field 24-hour interval." February. twenty-March 5; moma.org.

'Platform 2020: Utterances From the Chorus' at Danspace Project. "If contemporary dance holds a sure attraction yet withal seems intimidating," Gia Kourlas wrote recently, this serial "is a mode in." Ideas about functioning and protest will exist explored by its organizers, Okwui Okpokwasili, a MacArthur recipient, and Judy Hussie-Taylor, Danspace's executive director and chief curator. Feb. 22-March 21; danspaceproject.org.

'Countryside, The Futurity' at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. The museum turns over its rotunda to Rem Koolhaas'due south long-awaited exhibition. In addressing environmental, political and socioeconomic issues, it will examine changes to what Koolhaas calls the "countryside" — that is, rural areas not occupied by cities. Feb. 20-Aug. xiv; guggenheim.org .

'Cambodian Rock Band' opens at Signature Theater. Lauren Yee'due south music-infused work, featuring songs by Dengue Fever, follows a Cambodian-American adult female trying to prosecute a Khmer Rouge prison house warden. Previews begin February. iv; signaturetheatre.org .

'Dana H.' opens at the Vineyard Theater. Lucas Hnath's latest is personal: Information technology's the story of how his mother came to exist held captive by an ex-convict who kept her trapped in a series of Florida motels, disoriented and terrified — for five months. Previews beginning Feb. 11; vineyardtheatre.org .

'José Parlá: Information technology's Yours' at the Bronx Museum of the Arts. For his first solo museum exhibition in New York Urban center, Parlá presents new paintings that explore his connection to the Bronx. Expect works that "accost the suffering acquired past redlining policies, the waves of displacement imposed by gentrification, and structural racism," co-ordinate to the exhibition news release. Feb. 26-Aug. 16; bronxmuseum.org .

'Pioneering African-American Ballerinas' at the Museum at FIT. This upshot focuses on some of the ballerinas who paved the manner for Misty Copeland, who, in 2015, became the first African-American adult female to be named a chief at American Ballet Theater. The panelists include Virginia Johnson, now the manager of the Dance Theatre of Harlem; Lydia Abarca, first prima ballerina of the Dance Theater of Harlem; Debra Austin, the outset African-American female dancer at New York City Ballet; and Aesha Ash, former ballerina with City Ballet. At 7 p.m.; fitnyc.edu/museum .

'Intimate Apparel' previews begin at Lincoln Center Theater. Lynn Nottage'due south 2003 play has been adjusted into a sleeping accommodation opera, with music by Ricky Ian Gordon. Nottage wrote the libretto and Bartlett Sher is directing. Set in 1905 New York, the story follows an African-American seamstress who through letter writing courts a laborer working on the Panama Canal. Previews begin February. 27; opening night is set up for March 23; lct.org .

'Brendan Fernandes: Contract and Release' at the Noguchi Museum. A collaboration with the dance and visual artist Brendan Fernandes is the focus of Saturday programming at the museum this calendar month. Dancers engage with Isamu Noguchi's works as well as with Fernandes'south "training devices." Saturdays through February; noguchi.org .

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