Fun Things to Do in NYC in February 2025

Fun Things to Do in NYC in February 2025

‘Margaret’s Gay Sons Featuring Dylan Adler and Sam Oh’ Jan. 31 at 9:30 p.m. at Joe’s Pub, 425 Lafayette Street, Manhattan; publictheater.org. As part of her residency at Joe’s Pub, the comedian Margaret Cho has been presenting artists whom she finds inspirational. Next in Cho’s lineup is a show featuring …

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Bringing Anne Frank’s Secret Annex to New York, and the World

Bringing Anne Frank’s Secret Annex to New York, and the World

The children seem like typical kindergartners: Some beam at the camera; some glance coyly aside; others appear lost in reverie. One slim, dark-haired girl in a pale dress looks precociously serious. She is Anne Frank, and this classroom photograph, taken at a Montessori school in Amsterdam in 1935, appears twice …

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What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in January

What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries in January

This week in Newly Reviewed, Walker Mimms covers Forrest Bess’s Jungian visions, Carroll Cloar’s mystical pointillism and Alex Hutton’s acrobatics. Upper East Side Forrest Bess Through Jan. 31. Franklin Parrasch Gallery, 19 East 66th Street, Manhattan; 212-246-5360, franklinparrasch.com. Two abstract painters flirted extra closely with Carl Jung’s belief that we …

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Tom Johnson, Minimalist Composer and Village Voice Critic, Dies at 85

Tom Johnson, Minimalist Composer and Village Voice Critic, Dies at 85

Tom Johnson, a composer and critic whose Village Voice columns documented the renaissance of avant-garde music in downtown New York during the 1970s, and whose own compositions embraced minimalism and mathematical clarity, died on Tuesday at his home in Paris. He was 85. His wife and only immediate survivor, the …

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