February 26, 2008
Now in NYC: links to ongoing exhibtions & shows
Here’s the list of what’s rotating through NYC’s museums and theaters, with the soonest-to-close atop each section: performances, exhibitions, film, deals and more. To see what’s about to open, check the New York calendar.
Ongoing Events in NYC
David Cromer’s staging of “Our Town” at Off-Broadway’s Barrow Street Theatre with Cromer on stage (extended through Sept. 12)
Paul Weitz’s“Trust” plays Off-Broadway’s Second Stage Theatre with Sutton Foster, Zach Braff, Bobby Cannavale and Ari Graynor (through Sept. 12)
Jim Caruso’s “Cast Party” at Birdland from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. (Mondays through Sept. 20)
NY Clown Theatre Festival 2010 (through Sept. 25)
The new comedy “It Must be Him” plays Off-Broadway at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater (through Sept. 26)
Frank McCourt’s “The Irish … And How They Got That Way” at the Irish Repertory Theatre (extended through Sept. 26)
The Coca-Cola Generations In Jazz Festival (through Oct 10)
“An Error of the Moon,” a play about Edwin and John Wilkes Booth, plays Off-Broadway’s Beckett Theatre at Theatre Row (through Oct. 10)
Edward Albee’s new play “Me, Myself & I” at Off-Broadway’s Playwrights Horizons Mainstage (through Oct. 31)
“Mrs. Warren’s Profession” with Cherry Jones in previews on Broadway (opening night: Oct. 3; extended through Nov. 28)
 “Fela!” on Broadway (through Jan. 2)
“The 39 Steps” plays Off-Broadway at New World Stages (extended through Jan. 2)
“A Little Night Music” on Broadway with Elaine Stritch and Bernadette Peters (through Jan. 9)
The Moth StorySlams held the first and last Monday of each month, plus the second Tuesday and third Thursday
Sunday gospel brunch with the Harlem Gospel Choir at B.B. King’s Blues Club (every Sunday)
“The Addams Family” on Broadway with Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth (open-ended run)
Green Day’s “American Idiot” on Broadway (open-ended run)
Avenue Q plays Off-Broadway’s New World Stages (open-ended run)
“Billy Elliott” on Broadway (open-ended run)
“Blue Man Group” plays Off-Broadway (open-ended run)
“Chicago” on Broadway (open-ended run)
“Fuerzabruta” at Off-Broadway’s Daryl Roth Theatre (open-ended run)
“In the Heights” on Broadway at the Richard Rodgers Theatre (open-ended run)
“Jersey Boys” on Broadway (open-ended run)
“La Cage aux Folles” with Kelsey Grammer on Broadway (open-ended run)
“The Lion King” on Broadway (open-ended run)
“Mamma Mia!” on Broadway (open-ended run)
Disney’s “Mary Poppins” plays Broadway (open-ended run)
“Memphis” on Broadway (open-ended run)
“Million Dollar Quartet,” a new Broadway musical about the Dec. 4, 1956 Sun recording session with Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis (open-ended run)
 “Next to Normal” on Broadway (open-ended run)
“Phantom of the Opera” on Broadway (open-ended run)
“Promises, Promises” on Broadway with Kristin Chenoweth and Sean Hayes (open-ended run)
’80s hair-band musical “Rock of Ages” on Broadway (open-ended run)
“Stomp” plays Off-Broadway (open-ended run)
“West Side Story” on Broadway (open-ended run)
“Wicked” on Broadway (open-ended run) — plus there are Behind the Emerald Curtain “Wicked” behind-the-scenes tours every Saturday at 10 a.m.
Exhibits:
 The Geometry of Kandinsky and Malevich at the Guggenheim (through Sept. 7)
Before They Were Parks exhibition at The Arsenal in Central Park (through Sept. 9)
Poems & Pictures: A Renaissance in the Art of the Book (1946 - 1981) and I will cut thrU: Pochoirs, Carvings and Other Cuttings exhibitions at the Center for Book Arts (through Sept. 11)
“Intertwined: Contemporary Baskets from the Sara and David Lieberman Collection” at the Museum of Arts & Design (through Sept. 12)
Approaching Abstraction at the American Folk Art Museum (extended through Sept. 12)
Mark di Suvero at the Morgan sculpture exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum (through Sept. 12)
Contemporary Art from the Collection at the Museum of Modern Art (through Sept. 12)
For All the World to See: Visual Culture and the Struggle for Civil Right and Perspectives 2010: Carol Bove, Lena Herzog, Matthew Porter, Ed Templeton, Hong-An Truong at the International Center of Photography (through Sept. 12)
Albrecht Dürer: What Beauty Is exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum (through Sept. 12)
“Women Only: Folk Art by Female Hands” at the American Folk Art Museum (through Sept. 12)
 “Andy Warhol: The Last Decade” opens at the Brooklyn Museum (through Sept. 12)
Jill Magid: A Reasonable Man in a Box at the Whitney (through Sept. 12)
Ukrainian Icons at the Museum of Biblical Art (through Sept. 12)
Up Close: Henry Darger and the Coloring Book at the American Folk Art Museum (through Sept. 13)
“The Private Collection of Henry Darger” at the American Folks Art Museum (through Sept. 19)
“An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo” exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (extended through Sept. 19)
Off the Wall: Part 1—Thirty Performative Actions, at the Whitney (through Sept. 19)
Rivane Neuenschwander: A Day Like Any Other exhibition at the New Museum (through Sept. 19)
Sidewalk Catwalk street installation in the Fashion District (through Sept. 23)
Eric Merrell’s No Man is an Island exhibition at the Forbes Galleries (through Sept. 25)
Portable Treasuries: Silver Jewelry from the Nadler Collection at the Museum of Arts & Design (extended through Sept. 26)
3rd Annual Governors Island Art Fair (through Sept. 26)
“Epic India: Scenes from the Ramayana ” exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Sept. 26)
No Other Home: The Crimean Tatar Repatriates at The Ukrainian Museum (through Sept. 26)
Museum as Hub: The Bidoun Library Project at the New Museum (Sept. 26)
Christian Marclay: Festival at the Whitney (through Sept. 26)
Tending the Fires – Photographs by Hal Hirshorn at the Merchant’s House Museum (through Sept 27)
“Picasso: Themes and Variations” exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (through Sept. 30)
Working Stiffs: Photography from the Collection at the Queens Museum of Art (through Oct. 3)
Mayor John V Lindsay exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York (through Oct. 3)
“Parkchester: A City Within a City” at The Bronx County Historical Society (through Oct. 3)
Brion Gysin: Dream Machine exhibition at the New Museum (through Oct. 3)
“Julie Mehretu: GREY AREA” at the Guggenheim Museum (through Oct. 6)
California Dreamers: Ceramic Artists from the MAD Collection at the Museum of Art & Design (through Oct. 10)
Abraaj Capital Art Prize 2010 at the Museum of Arts & Design (through Oct. 10)
 Matisse: Radical Invention, 1913–1917 at the Museum of Modern Art (through Oct. 11)
Samurai in New York at the Museum of the City of New York (through Oct. 11)
Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein’s New York Photographs, 1950–1980 at the Met Museum (through Oct. 17)
The Edible Garden at the New York Botanical Garden with an opening weekend Get Out and Grill festival (through Oct. 17)
“Heat Waves in the Swamp: The Paintings of Charles Burchfield” at the Whitney Museum of American Art (through Oct 17)
Work of Art: Abdi Farah at the Brooklyn Museum (through Oct. 17)
A New York Sampler, Vestie Davis and Malcah Zeldis exhibitions at Lincoln Center branch of the American Folk Art Museum (through Oct. 18)
Tradition Transformed exhibition at the Rubin Museum (through Oct. 18)
“Greater New York 2010” exhibition at P.S. I (through Oct. 18)
Noguchi ReINstalled at the Noguchi Museum (through Oct. 24)
“Dead or Alive” exhibition at the Museum of Arts & Design (through Oct. 24)
Harlem Postcards: Sanford Biggers, Tiara Hernandez, Hew Locke and Ginger Brooks Takahashi, Zwelethu Mthethwa: Inner Views, Usable Pasts: 2009-10 Artists in Residence: Mequitta Ahuja, Lauren Kelley and Valerie Piraino, Inside the Collection: Interiors from the Studio Museum and Hi-Res: Expanding the Walls 2010 exhibitions at The Studio Museum in Harlem (through Oct. 24)
“Big Bambú” exhibition on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, weather permitting (through Oct. 31)
Ukraine–Sweden: At the Crossroads of History (XVII–XVIII Centuries) at The Ukrainian Museum (through Oct 31)
Fish Forms: Lamps by Frank Gehry at the Jewish Museum (through Oct. 31)
Mazepa in Print at The Ukrainian Museum (through Oct. 31)
“The Rise of Wall Street” exhibition at the Skyscraper Museum (through October)
The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today opens at the Museum of Modern Art (through Nov. 1)
Vienna Circa 1780: An Imperial Silver Service Rediscovered at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Nov. 7)
Experimental Women in Flux at the Museum of Modern Art (through Nov. 8)
“Eco-Fashion: Going Green” opens at the Museum at FIT (through Nov. 13)
Avenue of the Americas outdoor installation at Canal, Varick, Grand, and Sixth Avenue (through Nov. 19)
27 Seconds, The Apollo Tragedy at The Intrepid (through Nov. 21)
“Anne Morgan’s War: Rebuilding Devastated France, 1917–1924” opens at the Morgan Library & Museum (through Nov. 21)
“The Boltons of Pelham Priory: A Cultural Legacy from England to America” exhibition at the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum (through Nov. 21)
 “Lee Friedlander: America By Car” at the Whitney Museum (through Nov. 28)
Pysanka: The Ukrainian Easter Egg. Harnessing the Powers of Life and Protecting Them for Eternity at the Ukrainian Museum (through Nov. 28)
“Celebration: The Birthday in Chinese Art” exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (extended through Nov. 28)
Tibetan Portrait: The Power of Compassion at the the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Arts (through Dec. 31)
What’s Up @ the Schomburg? exhibition at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (through Dec. 31)
Ringo Starr’s gold-plated snare drum joins the Met Museum’s collections in the Musical Instruments Galleries (through December)
“TIGERS - Tracking a Legend Exhibition” on Pier 17 at the South Street Seaport (through Jan. 1)
Ted Muehling Selects: Lobmeyr Glass from the Permanent Collection at the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum (through Jan. 2)
Race to the End of the Earth Antarctic exploration exhibition opens at the American Museum of Natural History (through Jan. 2)
 King Tut exhibition in Times Square (through Jan. 2)
Broken Forms: European Modernism from the Guggenheim Collection at the Guggenheim (through Jan. 5)
“National Design Triennial: Why Design Now?” at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum (through Jan. 9)
“Vox Populi: Posters of the Interwar Years” exhibition at the Guggenheim (through Jan. 9)
The Yuan Revolution: Art and Dynastic Change at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Jan. 9)
Underground Gallery: London Transport Posters 1920s–1940s at the Museum of Modern Art (through Jan 11)
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania at the Met Museum (extended through Jan. 23)
“Decodence: Legendary Interiors and Illustrious Travelers Aboard the SS Normandie” at the South Street Seaport Museum (through January)
Revolution and the City exhibition (covering New York from 1776 to 1783) at the Fraunces Tavern Museum (through January)
From the Land of the Gods at the Rubin Museum of Art (extended through Feb. 7)
“Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography” exhibition at the Met Museum (through Feb. 13)
Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography at the Museum of Modern Art (through March 21)
 A Song for the Horse Nation at the National Museum of the American Indian (through March 7)
“Scandal!: Financial Crime, Chicanery and Corruption that Rocked America” exhibition at the Museum of American Finance (through April 29)
“The Nepalese Legacy” exhibition at the Rubin Museum (through May 23)
Body Parts: Ancient Egyptian Fragments and Amulets at the Brooklyn Museum (through Oct. 2, 2011)
Film:
Constructing Views: Experimental Film and Video from Brazil at the New Museum (through Sept. 22)
Bela Lugosi’s Dead, Vampires Live Forever film series at BAMcinématek (through Sept. 30)
Frederick Wiseman film retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art (through Dec. 31)
“Hubble” screens in IMAX at the American Museum of Natural History (through Jan. 10)
“Avatar: Special Edition: An IMAX 3D Experience” at AMC Loews Lincoln Square 13 with IMAX
Produced with MTV2, Sonic Vision at the American Museum of Natural History (every Friday and Saturday night at 7:30 and 8:30 p.m.)
Deals:
Free coffee from noon to 2 p.m. from the pushcart outside At65 Cafe at Lincoln Center’s Alice Tully Hall (Fridays through Oct 8)
Free Bike Fridays on Governors Island (through Oct. 9)
Alley Pond Adventure Course, the largest ropes course in the Tri-State area, opens for free at 10 a.m. (Sundays through Nov. 21)
Hotel discounts through NYC Sunday Stays
Print an online coupon to get $10 off the Toys ‘R’ Us Marquee Moment in Times Square (normally $29.99)
Buy-One, Get-One-Free on Gray Line Bus Tours for Locals
Food & More:
US Open tennis championship in Queens with US Open Water Taxi service begins; free, but $1 reservations are required (through Sept. 12)
US Open Live at Madison Square Park, on screens from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. (through Sept. 12)
Victorian Gardens Amusement Park in Central Park (through Sept. 12)
Cyclone Roller Coaster on weekends-only schedule (through September)
Free 20-minute Kayaking on the Hudson from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Riverside Park (weekends through Oct. 10)
Red Hook Mercado opens in Brooklyn (weekends through Oct. 31)
Image source: Vasily Kandinsky, Composition 8 (Komposition 8) , July 1923. Oil on canvas, 140 × 201 cm. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Solomon R. Guggenheim Founding Collection, By gift 37.262. © 2010 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris.
From the Brooklyn Museum: Andy Warhol (American, 1928-1987) Self-Portrait, 1986; Acrylic and silkscreen ink on linen; 80 × 76 in. (203.2 × 193 cm) The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Founding Collection, Contribution The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.
© 2010 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.
At MoMA:: Henri Matisse. Bathers by a River. 1909–10, 1913, 1916–17. Oil on canvas, 102 1/2 × 154 3/16” (260 × 392 cm). The Art Institute of Chicago, Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection. © 2010 Succession H. Matisse/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
Scandal! at Museum of American Finance.
February 26, 2008 7:41 AM in Etceterology
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