June 01, 2006

December calendar of events for New York City

1 - "A City on Paper: Saul Steinberg's New York" opens at the Museum of the City of New York
(through March 4)
First Fridays DJ and cocktails at the Guggenheim
All new holiday light show The Grand Central Kaleidoscope begins at Grand Central Terminal, every half hour on the main concourse (through Jan. 1)
Visual AIDS Postcards From the Edge Benefit (through Dec. 3)
Reservations open for the free Project Shaw reading Dec. 18 of "The Philanderer" at The Players Club
Lighting of the Peking and Ambrose ships for the holiday season
Elliott Erwitt signs "Personal Best" at the International Center of Photography
Slide Fest–New Directions at the International Center of Photography
Harlem in the Himalayas: Russell Malone, guitar at the Rubin Museum of Art
2 - The 19th Annual Independent & Small Press Book Fair (and Dec. 3)
Free Saturday events at the Brooklyn Museum of Art
"Mother-of-Pearl: A Tradition in Asian Lacquer" opens at the Met Museum (through April 1)
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Moynihan Station and the West 30s
Opening day for the Holiday market at Columbus Circle (through Dec. 24)
Free Trolley Tours of Prospect Park in Lights (and Dec 3, 16, 17, 23, 24, 30, 31, and Jan. 6 and 7.)
Holiday Candlelight Tours of the Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum, reservations required
Dessert wines & cheese tasting with Beard-winning cookbook author James Peterson at Chestnut Restaurant on Smith Street, Brooklyn
Winter Walk in Hudson, NY
3 – The 19th Annual Independent & Small Press Book Fair
Free architecture talk at the Eldridge Street Synagogue
Proteus Gowanus event: Libraries and Danger: A talking tour and slide show of bombed, burned, chained, rejected, and rotting libraries around the world.
Winter Celebration at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Free Trolley Tours of Prospect Park in Lights (and 16, 17, 23, 24, 30, 31, and Jan. 6 and 7.)
4 - Salmagundi Annual Thumb Box Exhibitions opens at the Salamagundi Art Club (through Jan. 5)
Broadway and Off-Broadway’s 18th Annual Gypsy of The Year Competition (and Dec. 5)
Explorers Club lecture: The Ju/'hoansi Bushmen of the Nyae Nyae
5 - Second attempt to pull the USS Intrepid out of the mud
Daniel Mendelsohn: From Roman Games to Reality TV--Some Thoughts on Mass Entertainment & Imperial Politics at the NY Public Library Humanities and Social Sciences Library
Free lecture: New York City as a New Jerusalem at the Fraunces Tavern Museum
Meet-the-Farmer-Dinner at Applewood Restaurant in Brooklyn
Free Slow Food Holiday Feast at the Brooklyn Library at Grand Army Plaza
6 - Tom Stoppard's "The Coast of Utopia, Shipwreck (Part II)" begins previews on Broadway (through March 10)
"Annie" starts its run at Madison Square Garden (through Dec. 30)
Debut of the floating Holiday Train Garden at North Cove Marina in Battery Park City (through Jan. 1)
Free evening of readings, film, and discussion on The Writer's Conscience: Remembering Anna Politkovskaya and Russia’s Forgotten War at the CUNY Graduate Center
7 - "High Fidelity" opens on Broadway (open-ended run)
African Diaspora Film Festival at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
"Burgeoning Geometries: Constructed Abstractions" opens at the Whitney Museum (through March 4)
8 - "Design Life Now: National Design Triennial 2006" opens at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum (through July 29)
Tickets go on sale for the two-month extension of Tom Stoppard’s trilogy "The Coast of Utopia"
Harlem in the Himalayas: Lewis Nash Quintet at the Rubin Museum of Art
Holiday traffic gridlock alert day
Lecture: Bohemia Before Bob: The First Hipster Generation (1910s) and How They Turned Greenwich Village into America's First Bohemia at the Morgan Library & Museum
All-day cooking class: A Victorian Christmas Feast at the Institute of Culinary Education
Lecture: Robert Davis on From the Winter's Palace to the "People's Palace": NYPL and the Libraries of the Tsars at the NY Public Library Humanities and Social Sciences Library
9 - Free holiday open house events at Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Wild, Wild World: Wolves family program at the American Museum of Natural History
Burgundy & cheese tasting with Oliver and Anne Marie Rion at Chestnut Restaurant on Smith Street, Brooklyn
Institute of Culinary Education walking tour: New York is Chocolate Country
Holiday bonfire at the historic Olana estate outside Hudson
10 - "Spring Awakening" opens on Broadway (open-ended run)
Tuba Christmas at Rockefeller Center ice rink
BroadwayWorld.com on Ice at Joe’s Pub
Free illustrated lecture: Cartooning in Yiddish newspapers of the Jewish Lower East Side
11 - The New York City Gay Men's Chorus Holiday Spectacular!
Coming Together fundraiser for New Orleans starring Duncan Sheik and cast members from Broadway’s "Spring Awakening"
Screening of Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul at the Brooklyn Academy of Music
The Yankees begin selling six-game Holiday Ticket Packs
12 - "Nan Kempner: American Chic" opens at the Met Museum (through March 4)
Culinary Historians of New York event: Gingerbread Houses: Crumbs of History
Lecture and book signing: Marc Chagall and the Lost Jewish World at the Guggenheim Museum
13 - "Hot Off the Press: Prints of 2006 from New York Printers and Publishers" opens at the Grolier Club (through Feb. 3)
Conversations with Contemporary Artists: Elliott Hundley at the Guggenheim
Duncan Sheik and the Cast of Spring Awakening at the Apple Soho store
Santa and the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir take part in the tree-lighting ceremony at Brooklyn Borough Hall Plaza starting at 5:30 p.m.
Don Juan in Prague at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (through Dec. 16)
Keith Carradine at Joe’s Pub
14 - Lou Reed’s "Berlin" opens at St. Ann’s Warehouse (through Dec. 17)
Losers Lounge tribute to Elton John at Joe’s Pub (through Dec. 16)
27th Annual Winter Solstice Celebration featuring Paul Winter Consort, Renato Braz and Paul McCandless at Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine (through Dec. 16)
Biblical Art in a Secular Century: Selections, 1896-1993 opens at the Museum of Biblical Art (through March 11)
Holiday traffic gridlock alert day
Original New York Bill of Rights Ratification goes on display at Federal Hall (through Dec. 17)
Candlelight Tour of the Mount Vernon Hotel Museum
15 - Free Friday at South Street Seaport Museum
Roadshow preview of the "The Showgirls" movie at Clearview Cinemas, for $25 (through Dec. 24)
The New York Pops’ Holiday Celebration at Carnegie Hall (and Dec. 16)
Waldorf-Astoria in-kitchen $150 chef’s meal (details open in pdf format)
Holiday traffic gridlock alert day
Candlelight Tour of the Mount Vernon Hotel Museum
Harlem in the Himalayas: Laszlo Gardony Trio at the Rubin Museum of Art
16 - SantaCon
Lebowski Fest New York (and Dec. 17)
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Dvorak in Love: New York in the Time of Antonin Dvorak
Institute of Culinary Education walking tour: The L to the M Trains: Hipster Food, Puebla York, and Wurst
Free Trolley Tours of Prospect Park in Lights (and Dec. 17, 23, 24, 30, 31, and Jan. 6 and 7.)
Yo-yo meet up at Dick Shea's on 14th Street
17 - Carnegie Hall Family Concert: Calpulli Mexican Dance Company
Kids Candlelight Tour of the Mount Vernon Hotel Museum
Free Trolley Tours of Prospect Park in Lights (and Dec. 23, 24, 30, 31, and Jan. 6 and 7.)
107th Annual Central Park Christmas Bird Count
18 - Hillary Clinton book signing at Barnes & Noble, Lincoln Center at 11 a.m.
Explorers Club lecture: "Pathfinders: The Global History of Exploration" by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Free Project Shaw reading of "The Philanderer" at The Players Club. Reservations required.
Handel's Messiah (Christmas Portion) at St. Paul's Chapel at 1 p.m.
US helicopter launches weekday-only hourly helicopter service from Wall Street to Newark Airport
A Murray Little Christmas at Comix
Lantern Tour of Fort Wadsworth
19 - "Discovering Tutankhamun: The Photographs of Harry Burton" opens at the Met Museum (through April 29)
Lecture: Spanish Painting from El Greco to Picasso: Time, Truth, and History at the Guggenheim
Museum of Modern Art opens on a holiday Tuesday schedule
Special Broadway schedule for Christmas week (through Dec 25)
Belvedere Castle Holiday Programs: The Story of Chanukah in Central Park
Walking tour: Herman Melville’s New York
20 - Holiday traffic gridlock alert day
"Photography and the Self: The Legacy of F. Holland Day" opens at the Whitney Museum (through March 11)
East Village Opera Company plays Joe’s Pub
Kiki & Herb at the Bowery Ballroom
Waldorf-Astoria in-kitchen $150 chef’s meal (details open in pdf format)
21 - "Flowing Streams: Scenes from Japanese Art and Life" opens at the Met Museum (through June 3)
The Onion presents: Odyssey! at the Brooklyn Academy of Music
Vicious Christmas film series begins at the Pioneer Theater (through Dec. 26)
The Pond at Bryant Park: Synchronized Skating Exhibition
Holiday traffic gridlock alert day
Robert Wuhl: Assume the Position at Comix (through Dec. 23)
22 - Harlem in the Himalayas: Uri Cane at the Rubin Museum of Art
Belvedere Castle Holiday Programs: "Santa" and Saint Nicholas in Central Park
Central Park bird walk with Birding Bob for $5. Meet at the entrance to the Conservatory Gardens, 105th street and 5th Avenue, at 9 a.m.
Holiday traffic gridlock alert day
23 - Free Trolley Tours of Prospect Park in Lights (and Dec. 24, 30, 31, and Jan. 6 and 7.)
BOB DOROUGH, SCHOOLHOUSE ROCK, BLUE XMAS AND ALL THAT JAZZ at Joe’s Pub
2nd Annual Haitian Jazz Music Festival
24 - Belvedere Castle Holiday Programs: "Santa" and Saint Nicholas in Central Park
Central Park bird walk with Birding Bob - for $5. Meet inside the Boathouse at 9 a.m.
Free Trolley Tours of Prospect Park in Lights
25 – Big Onion walking tour: 16th Annual Christmas Day Jewish East Side Tour
Municipal Art Society walking tour: Rockefeller Center: Art Deco Masterwork
Klez for Kids
Chinese Food and a Movie on Christmas Day: Will Ferrell Meets Charlie Kaufman at Makor
Central Park bird walk with Birding Bob - for $5. Meet inside the Boathouse at 10 a.m. (Rain will cancel.)
Beatles tribute band Strawberry Fields plays BB King’s Blues Club & Grill
See NewYorkology's list of places open Christmas Day
26 - Museum of Modern Art opens on a holiday Tuesday schedule
Special Broadway schedule for New Year’s week (through Jan. 1)
27 - Municipal Art Society walking tour of Times Sqaure: On the Edge of the Countdown
Super Top Dog talent competition at the Apollo Theater
28 – Public viewing of James Brown at the Apollo Theater from 1 to 6 p.m. and 6:30 to 8 p.m.
Hush Tour’s Harlem Hip Hop Church with Kurtis Blow
A Kwanzaa Celebration at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum
29 - Sandra Bernhard at Joe’s Pub (through Dec. 31)
The Apollo Holiday Experience
Harlem in the Himalayas: Ted Nash, saxophone at the Rubin Museum of Art
30 - New York National Boat Show at the Javits Convention Center (through Jan. 7)
"Dreamgirls (The Underground Clubmix)" with Jennifer Hudson plays the Hammerstein Ballroom
Kwanzaa celebration at the American Museum of Natural History
"Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory" shows at Symphony Space
Free Trolley Tours of Prospect Park in Lights (and Dec. 31, and Jan. 6 and 7.)
31 - New Year’s Eve in Times Square
Emerald Nuts Midnight Run in Central Park
New Year’s Fireworks in Prospect Park
Free Trolley Tours of Prospect Park in Lights
New Year's Eve Concert For Peace at Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine
Audra McDonald at the New York Philharmonic
New Years Extravaganza 2006 at Comix
NY Water Taxi New Year’s Eve Fireworks Cruise
Circle Line downtown’s New Year’s Eve Cruises
Circle Line at 42nd Street’s New Year’s Eve Cruise
NY Waterway Harbor Cruise
Noo New Year’s Eve events in NYC
World Yacht dinner cruise
Rainbow Room party, ($1,600 per person)
Hudson Hotel New Year’s Eve Party with Christina Aguilera
James Brown's scheduled performance at BB King’s Blues Club & Grill will be replaced by Chaka Khan
The Continental Mid-town New Year’s Eve party
New Year's Eve Afterparty with Dina Martina and Penny Arcade at Joe’s Pub (starts 11:59 p.m.)

December Ongoing Events

Performances:
"The Wedding Singer" on Broadway (through Dec. 31)
"The American Pilot" plays Off-Broadway (through Dec. 31)
Sandra Bernhard at Joe’s Pub (through Dec. 31)
Special Broadway schedule for New Year’s week (through Jan. 1)
""Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! -- The Musical"" on Broadway (through January 7)
"Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me" on Broadway; see the celebrity cameo schedule. (through Jan. 7)
"Butley" with Nathan Lane plays Broadway (through Jan. 14)
"Suddenly Last Summer" plays Off-Broadway at the Laura Pels Theatre (through Jan. 14)
Paul Rudnick’s "Regrets Only" plays Off-Broadway (through Jan 17)
August Wilson’s "Two Trains Running" plays Off-Broadway at the Signature Theatre (extended to January 21)
"The Voysey Inheritance" plays Off-Broadway at the Atlantic Theater (extended to Jan. 21)
Sarah Ruhl’s The Clean House plays Off-Broadway (extended to Jan. 28)
The Apple Tree with Kristen Chenoweth plays Broadway (through March 11)
David Hare's new play "The Vertical Hour" with Julianne Moore and Bill Nighy (through April 1)
"The Barber of Seville" at the Metropolitan Opera (through May 11)
Tom Stoppard's "The Coast of Utopia, Voyage (Part I)" plays Broadway (extended to May 13)
"The Coast of Utopia, Shipwreck (Part II)" on Broadway (extended through May 13)
"Les Misérables" on Broadway (extended through "summer" 2007)
Free theater event, "365 Days/365 Plays" (through Nov. 12, 2007)
"25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"Avenue Q" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"Beauty and the Beast" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"Blue Man Group" plays Off-Broadway (open-ended run)
"Chicago" on Broadway with Huey Lewis through Jan. 14, and Bebe Neuwirth as Roxie from Dec. 31 to March 25, (open-ended run)
"A Chorus Line" revival on Broadway (open-ended run)
"The Color Purple" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"Company" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"The Drowsy Chaperone" with Sutton Foster on Broadway (open-ended run)
"Evil Dead the Musical" plays Off-Broadway (open-ended run)
"The Fantasticks" at the new Snapple Theater (open-ended run)
"Forbidden Broadway: Special Victims Unit" plays Off-Broadway (open-ended run)
"Grey Gardens" on Broadway
"Hairspray" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"Jersey Boys" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"The Lion King" on Broadway (open-ended run)
Hollywood-themed comedy "The Little Dog Laughed" plays Broadway (open-ended run)
"Mamma Mia!" on Broadway (open-ended run)
Disney’s "Mary Poppins" plays Broadway (open-ended run)
"Phantom of the Opera" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"The Producers" on Broadway, with Tony Danza starting Dec. 19 (open-ended run)
"Rent" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"Spamalot!" on Broadway (open-ended run)
"Spring Awakening" plays Broadway (open-ended run)
"Stomp" plays Off-Broadway (open-ended run)
Disney’s "Tarzan" with music by Phil Collins on Broadway (open-ended run)
"Wicked" on Broadway with Ana Gasteyer as Elphaba through Jan. 7, (open-ended run)

Exhibits:
"Images of Benjamin Franklin as seen by himself and others" at the NYU Bobst Library (through December)
"Napoleon on the Nile: Soldiers, Artists, and the Rediscovery of Egypt" at the Dahesh Museum (extended to Dec. 31)
"Cimabue and Early Italian Devotional Painting" at the Frick Collection (through Dec. 31)
ITALIA! Muse to American Artists, 1830-2005 at the National Academy (through Dec. 31)
"Luminist Horizons: The Art & Collection of James A. Suydam (1819-1865)" at the National Academy Museum (through Dec. 31)
"Gilded Splendor: Treasures of China's Liao Empire (907-1125)" at Asia Society (through Dec. 31)
"Eye on Europe: Prints, Books & Multiples/1960 to Now" at the Museum of Modern Art (through Jan. 1)
Bob the Builder™ — Project: Build It at the Children’s Museum of Manhattan (through Jan. 1)
"Willing to be Lucky" at the Museum of the City of New York (through Jan. 3)
"The New Street: Innovation at the Perimeter" at the Municipal Art Society (through Jan. 3)
Salmagundi Annual Thumb Box Exhibitions at the Salamagundi Art Club (through Jan. 5)
"Bob Dylan's American Journey, 1956–1966" at the Morgan Library & Museum (through Jan 6)
Mark Grotjahn exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art (through Jan. 7)
"Legacies: Contemporary Artists Reflect on Slavery" at the New-York Historical Society (through January 7)
"A Deaf Artist in Early America: The Worlds of John Brewster Jr." at the American Folk Art Museum (through Jan. 7)
"Fifth Anniversary of 9/11 Exhibition: Chelsea Jeans" at the New-York Historical Society (through Jan. 7)
Lizards & Snakes: Alive! at the American Museum of Natural History (through January 7, 2007)
"A Deaf Artist in Early America: The Worlds of John Brewster Jr." at the American Folk Art Museum (through Jan. 7)
"Fragonard and the French Tradition" at the Morgan Library & Museum (through Jan 7)
"Mozart at 250: A Celebration" at the Morgan Library & Museum (through Jan 7)
"Graffiti Basics" at the Brooklyn Museum (through Jan. 7)
"Domenico Tiepolo (1727–1804): A New Testament" at the Frick Collection (through Jan. 7)
"Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde" at the Met Museum (through January 7)
"Ecotopia: The Second ICP Triennial of Photography and Video" at the International Center of Photography (through Jan. 7)
Bodies: The Exhibition at the South Street Seaport (through Jan. 7)
New Photography 2006: Jonathan Monk, Barbara Probst, Jules Spinatsch at the Museum of Modern Art (through Jan. 8)
" John Latham: Time Base and the Universe" on display at MoMA’s P.S. 1 in Queens (through Jan. 8)
"Defamation of Character" on display at MoMA’s P.S. 1 in Queens (through Jan. 8)
"The Gold Standard" on display at MoMA’s P.S. 1 in Queens (through Jan. 8)
"Music is a Better Noise" on display at MoMA’s P.S. 1 in Queens (through Jan. 8)
"Sean Scully: Wall of Light" at the Met Museum (through Jan. 14)
"Simply Droog 10 + 3 Years of Creating Innovation and Discussion" at the Museum of Arts & Design (through Jan. 14)
Public art project "Tourist Telescope" at One Chase Manhattan Plaza, which is bordered by Pine, Liberty, Nassau, and William streets (through Jan 14)
"Plane Image: A Brice Marden Retrospective, Paintings and Drawings" at MoMA (through Jan. 15)
Fifth Annual Holiday Train Show at Grand Central (through Jan. 15)
"500 Years of Italian Dance: Treasures from the Cia Fornaroli Collection" at the NY Public Library’s Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center (through Jan. 20)
"Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life, 1990–2005" at the Brooklyn Museum (through Jan. 21)
"Lucio Fontana: Venice/New York" at the Guggenheim (through Jan 21)
"Albers And Moholy-Nagy: From The Bauhaus To The New World" at the Whitney (through Jan. 21)
"¡Merengue! Visual Rhythms / Ritmos Visuales" at el Museo del Barrio (through Jan. 21)
"Brush and Ink: The Chinese Art of Writing" at the Met Museum (through Jan. 21)
"Americans in Paris, 1860–1900" at the Met Museum (through Jan 28)
"Masters of American Comics" at the Jewish Museum (through Jan. 28)
"Picasso and American Art" at the Whitney Museum of American Art (through Jan. 28)
"Superheroes: Good and Evil in American Comics" at the Jewish Museum (through Jan. 28)
"Tropicália: A Revolution in Brazilian Culture" at the newly expanded Bronx Museum (Through Jan. 28)
"It’s in the Bag" at the Museum of the City of New York (through Jan. 28)
"Tiger of Wrath: Watercolors by Walton Ford" at the Brooklyn Museum (through Jan. 28 )
"Masterpieces of European Painting from The Cleveland Museum of Art" at The Frick Collection (through Jan. 28)
"Manet and the Execution of Maximilian" at the Museum of
Modern Art (through Jan. 29)
"I See No Stranger: Early Sikh Art and Devotion" at the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art (through Jan. 29)
Europe's Darkest Corner: New York Photo Exhibition and Event Series on Chechnya at the International Center for Tolerance Education (to February 2007)
"Hot Off the Press: Prints of 2006 from New York Printers and Publishers" at the Grolier Club (through Feb. 3)
The Hanukkah Project: Works of Light By Eight Contemporary Artists at the Jewish Museum (through Feb. 4)
"Ehon: The Artist and the Book in Japan" at the NY Public Library Humanities and Social Sciences Library (through Feb. 4)
"The Hanukkah Project: Works of Light By Eight Contemporary Artists" at the Jewish Museum (through Feb. 4)
"Building the Collection: Acquisitions 2005–2006" at the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art (through Feb. 9)
"Ron Mueck" exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum (through Feb. 11)
"From Synagogue to Church: Converted Brooklyn Houses of Worship" at the Brooklyn Historical Society (through Feb. 11)
"Kiki Smith: A Gathering, 1980 - 2005" at the Whitney (through Feb. 11)
"Witness to History: The Face in Medieval Sculpture" at the Met Museum (through Feb. 18)
"Where Do We Go from Here? The Photo League and Its Legacy (1936-2006)" at the NY Public Library Humanities and Social Sciences Library (through Feb. 18)
"Black Style Now" at the Museum of the City of New York (through Feb. 19)
"Glitter and Doom: German Portraits in the 1920s" at the Met Museum (through Feb. 19)
A Blessing to One Another: Pope John Paul II and the Jewish People at the Museum of Jewish Heritage (through Feb. 23)
"Josef Hoffmann, Interiors 1902-1913" at the Neue Galerie (through Feb. 26)
"Humanitas: The Photographs of Fredric Roberts" at the Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art (through Feb. 26)
"Shadow and Memory: Ellis Island’s Un-restored Buildings, The Photographs of Christopher Barnes" at Ellis Island (through February)
"A City on Paper: Saul Steinberg's New York" at the Museum of the City of New York
(through March 4)
"Nan Kempner: American Chic" at the Met Museum (through March 4)
"Burgeoning Geometries: Constructed Abstractions" at the Whitney's Altria Gallery (through March 4)
"Photography and the Self: The Legacy of F. Holland Day" at the Whitney Museum (through March 11)
"Crossroads: Modernism in Ukraine, 1910-1930" at the Ukranian Museum (through March 11)
Biblical Art in a Secular Century: Selections, 1896-1993 at the Museum of Biblical Art (through March 11)
"Alex Katz Paints Ada, 1957-2005" at the Jewish Museum (through March 18)
"Africa Comics" at the Studio Museum in Harlem (through March 18)
Public Art: Alexander Calder in New York (through March 18)
GIANTS: The Twin Towers and the Twentieth Century at the Skyscraper Museum (through March 25)
"El Greco to Picasso: Time, Truth, and History" at the Guggenheim (through March 28)
"Shin Banraisha: A Cultural Memory" at the Noguchi Museum (through April 1)
"Mother-of-Pearl: A Tradition in Asian Lacquer" at the Met Museum (through April 1)
"A Rakish History of Men's Wear" at the NY Public Library Humanities and Social Sciences Library (through April 7)
" Out of Time: Contemporary Art from the Collection" at the Museum of Modern Art (through April 9)
"New York Divided: Slavery and the Civil War," Part II of the Slavery in New York series, at the New-York Historical Society (through April 15)
"Mongolia: Beyond Chinggis Khan" at the Rubin Museum of Art (through April 16)
"Discovering Tutankhamun: The Photographs of Harry Burton" at the Met Museum (through April 29)
The Metropolitan Opera shows “Heroines,” the debut contemporary art exhibit at its new Arnold and Marie Schwartz Gallery at Lincoln Center (through May 12)
"Louis Comfort Tiffany and Laurelton Hall—An Artist’s Country Estate" at the Met Museum (through May 20)
"The Butterfly Conservatory" at the American Museum of Natural History (through May 28)
Made to Scale: Staircase Masterpieces at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum (through June 3)
"Flowing Streams: Scenes from Japanese Art and Life" at the Met Museum (through June 3)
If These Walls Could Talk: 54 Pearl Street at the Fraunces Tavern Museum (through July 7)
"Design Life Now: National Design Triennial 2006" at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum (through July 29)
"Gold" at the American Museum of Natural History (through Aug. 19)
Gutenberg Bible at the New York Public Library (through Aug. 31)
"Coaxing the Spirits to Dance: Art of the Papuan Gulf" at the Met Museum (through Sept. 2)
"New York Divided: Slavery and the Civil War," Part II of the Slavery in New York series, opens at the New-York Historical Society (through Sept. 3)
Toot, Toot, Beep, Beep: Toys in Transit at the Transit Museum (through September)
"The Triborough Bridge: Robert Moses and the Automobile Age" at the Transit Museum in Brooklyn (through April 2008)

More:
Giant Interactive Snow Globe at the New York Hall of Science (every weekend through Dec. 31)
All new holiday light show The Grand Central Kaleidoscope at Grand Central Terminal, every half hour on the main concourse (through Jan. 1)
Floating Holiday Train Garden at North Cove Marina in Battery Park City (through Jan. 1)
Big Apple Circus (through Jan. 6)
New York National Boat Show at the Javits Convention Center (through Jan. 7)
New York Botanical Garden’s Holiday Train Show (through Jan. 7)
Annual Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche at the Met Museum (through Jan. 7)
Fifth Annual Holiday Train Show at Grand Central (through Jan. 15)
Fêtes de Noël holiday shops at Bryant Park (to Jan. 15)

Film:
Made in NY film series at the Museum of Modern Art (through Dec. 31)

Deals:
Get 10 percent off all New-York Historical Society gift shop purchases over $25 if you mention NYC & Co.’s “cultural organization of the month” program (through December)
$5 off at the Museum of Sex (through Jan. 26)
Two-for-one coupons and gift shop discounts at many of the Museums of Lower Manhattan including the police and fire museums, Fraunces Tavern, the Skyscraper Museum and the South Street Seaport Museum (coupons in pdf format) (through May 31, 2007)

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