February 26, 2008

Now in NYC: links to ongoing exhibtions & shows

Here’s the list of what’s currently rotating through the museums and on the stages of New York City, 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

Sam Shepard’s “A Lie of the Mind,” directed by Ethan Hawke, and featuring Keith Carradine, Laurie Metcalf and Josh Hamilton at Off-Broadway’s Acorn Theatre (through March 20)
Noel Coward’s “Present Laughter” with Victor Garber on Broadway (through March 21)
Sam Shepard’s “Ages of the Moon” at the Atlantic Theater (extended through March 21)
“Time Stands Still” on Broadway with Eric Begosian, Brian d’Arcy James, Alicia Silverstone and Laura Linney (extended through March 27)
Lea Salonga at The Carlyle (through March 27)
Manhattan Theatre Club’s Equivocation at City Center (through March 28)
“The Boys in the Band” staged in a 26th Street penthouse (extended through March 28)
“Rudolf II” at Bohemian National Hall in Manhattan (through March 28)
“Black Angels Over Tuskegee” at St. Luke’s Theatre (through March 28)
“The Pride” with Hugh Dancy, Adam James, Andrea Riseborough, Ben Whishaw at Off-Broadway’s Lucille Lortel Theater (extended through March 28)
Tigers in the House exhibition at Flushing Town Hall (through March 28)
Jim Caruso’s “Cast Party” at Birdland from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. (Mondays through March 29)
Arthur Miller’s “A View from the Bridge” with Liev Schreiber and Scarlett Johansson on Broadway (through April 4)
Gay-themed musical “Yank! A WWII Love Story” plays Off-Broadway’s York Theatre (extended through April 4)
Douglas Carter Beane’s “Mr. & Mrs. Fitch” plays Off-Broadway with John Lithgow and Jennifer Ehle at the Second Stage Theater (through April 4)
“Flight 18,” an “interactive performance that invites its passengers onboard a spaceship voyaging toward the outer limits of space,” at 210 Front Street (through April 4)
Kander & Ebb’s “The Scottsboro Boys” at Off-Broadway’s Vineyard Theater (extended through April 18)
“When the Rain Stops Falling” directed by David Cromer at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi E. Newhouse (through April 18)
Horton Foote’s “The Orphans’ Home Cycle ” at Off-Broadway’s Signature Theatre Company (extended through May 8)
Woody Allen and the Eddy Davis Band play The Carlyle at 8:45 p.m. (Mondays through May 31)
Martin McDonagh’s new dark comedy “A Behanding in Spokane” on Broadway with Christopher Walken and Sam Rockwell (through June 6)
David Cromer’s staging of “Our Town” at Off-Broadway’s Barrow Street Theatre (extended through June 27)
“Red” with Alfred Molina, Eddie Redmayne in previews on Broadway (opening night: April 1; through June 27)
“The Miracle Worker” on Broadway with Abigail Breslin and Alison Pill (through Aug. 1)
“South Pacific” with Laura Osnes and David Pittsinger at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center (through Aug. 22)
Amateur Night at the Apollo (every Wednesday)
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” in previews on Broadway with Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth (opening night: April 8; open-ended run)
“All About Me” with Dame Edna and Michael Feinstein in previews on Broadway (opening night: March 18; 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 with Michelle Williams (of Destiny’s Child) as Roxie through March 28 (open-ended run)
Sinatra-themed “Come Fly Away” in previews on Broadway (opening night: Marrch 25; open-ended run)
“Fela!” on Broadway (open-ended run)
“Fuerzabruta” at Off-Broadway’s Daryl Roth Theatre (open-ended run)
“God of Carnage” on Broadway with new cast as of March 1: Jeff Daniels, Janet McTeer, Dylan Baker and Lucy Liu (open-ended run)
“Hair” on Broadway (open-ended run)
“In the Heights” on Broadway at the Richard Rodgers Theatre (open-ended run)
“Jersey Boys” on Broadway (open-ended run)
“Lend Me a Tenor” in previews on Broadway (opening night: April 4; open-ended run)
“The Lion King” on Broadway (open-ended run)
“A Little Night Music” on Broadway with Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury Catherine Zeta-Jones scheduled absence March 30-April 4; Angela Lansbury scheduled absence April 13-25 (open-ended run)
“Looped” on Broadway with Valerie Harper (open-ended run)
“Mamma Mia!” on Broadway (open-ended run)
Disney’s “Mary Poppins” plays Broadway (open-ended run)
The new musical “Memphis” on Broadway (open-ended run)
“Million Dollar Quartet,” a new musical about the Dec. 4, 1956 Sun recording session with Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins and Jerry Lee Lewis in previews on Broadway (opening night: April 11; open-ended run)
“Next Fall” on Broadway (open-ended run)
“Next to Normal” on Broadway (open-ended run)
“Phantom of the Opera” on Broadway (open-ended run)
David Mamet’s new Broadway play “Race” (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:
Revolutionary Voices: Performing Arts in Central & Eastern Europe in the 1980s at the gallery of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center (through March 20)
Olafur Eliasson’s “Multiple Shadow House” exhibition at the Tanya Bonakdar Gallery on West 21st Street (through March 20)
Legacy: The Preservation of Wilderness in New York at the Museum of the City of NY (through March 21)
Peaceful Conquerors: Jain Manuscript Painting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through March 21)
Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through March 21)
“John Brown: The Abolitionist and his Legacy,” and ” Nature and the American Vision: The Hudson River School ” exhibitions at the New-York Historical Society (through March 25)
Lincoln and New York exhibition at the New-York Historical Society (through March 25)
1969: The Year of Gay Liberation exhibition at the Grand Central Library on E. 46th (through March 26)
Haiti: 12 January 2010 photo exhibition by Ron Haviv at the VII gallery (through March 26)
YUN-FEI JI: Mistaking Each Other For Ghosts at the James Cohan Gallery (through March 27)
Memory: Anish Kapoor exhibition at the Guggenheim (through March 28)
Fine Art / Folk Art: A Dialogue at the Ukrainian Museum (extended through March 28)
Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalitions’ Wide Open exhibition in Red Hook (weekends through March 28)
Back on the Map: Revisiting the New York State Pavilion at the 1964/65 World’s Fair at the Center for Architecture (through March 31)
“TEHRAN - NEW YORK” exhibition at Leila Taghinia-Milani Heller Gallery (through April 1)
SNØHETTA architecture – landscape – interior exhibition at Scandinavia House (through April 3)
Scandal Sandals & Lady Slippers: A History of Delman Shoes at the Museum of FIT (through April 3)
Slash: Paper Under the Knife at the at the Museum of Arts & Design (through April 4)
Design USA: Contemporary Innovation at the Cooper-Hewitt (through April 4)
American Beauty: Aesthetics and Innovation in Fashion exhibition at Museum at FIT (through April 10)
Only in New York: Photographs from LOOK Magazine exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York (through April 10)
“Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through April 11)
China Prophecy at the Skyscraper Museum (through April 11)
The Orchid Show: Cuba in Flower opens at the New York Botanical Garden (through April 11)
Monet’s Water Lilies at the Museum of Modern Art (through April 12)
Winnie the Pooh and Friends: The Original Toys on display at the NY Public Library’s Children’s Center at 42nd Street (through April 15)
The Drawings of Bronzino at the Met Museum (through April 18)
President Barack Obama: The First Year photo exhibition by White House photographer Pete Souza, and Jerry Pinkney’s African-American Journey to Freedom at The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (through April 18)
Pablo Bronstein at the Met at the Met Museum (extended through April 18)
Quicktake: Tata Nano—The People’s Car at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum (through April 25)
Tim Burton exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (through April 26)
Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum Rotunda at the Guggenheim (through April 28)
“Snoopy as the World War I Flying Ace” exhibition at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum (through April 30)
Modernism at Risk at the Center for Architecture (through May 1)
“Lives on the Mississippi: Literature and Culture along the Great River” exhibition at the Grolier Club (through May 1)
Demons and Devotion: The Hours of Catherine of Cleves exhibition (pictured) at the Morgan Library & Museum (through May 2)
Bigger, Better, More: The Art of Viola Frey at the at the Museum of Arts & Design (through May 2)
Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through May 9)
Rome after Raphael: Drawings from the Morgan at the Morgan Library & Museum (through May 9)
“Twilight Visions: Surrealism, Photography, and Paris” ” Miroslav Tichý” and “Alan B. Stone and the Senses of Place” exhibitions at the International Center of Photography (through May 9)
“ Hidden in Plain Sight: The Basques” exhibition at Ellis Island (through May 9)
Visions of the Cosmos at the Rubin Museum of Art (through May 10)
Night & Day exhibition at the Museum at FIT’s Fashion & Textile History Gallery (thrugh May 11)
Paris and the Avant-Garde: Modern Masters from the Guggenheim Collection at the Guggenheim (through May 12)

The Gentrification of Brooklyn: The Pink Elephant Speaks at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (through May 16)”Charles Addams’ New York” exhibition at the Museum of the City of New York (through May 16)

“William Kentridge: Five Themes” at the Museum of Modern Art (through May 17)
Free exhibition of Ad Hoc: Works for “The Nose” by William Kentridge at the Met Opera’s Arnold and Marie Schwartz Gallery Met (through May 17)
The Jazz Loft Project exhibition at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (through May 22)
In Passing: Evelyn Hofer, Helen Levitt, Lilo Raymond exhibition at the New York Public Library’s Stephen A. Schwarzman Building (through May 23)
“The Mourners: Medieval Tomb Sculptures from the Court of Burgundy” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through May 23)
“Masks of Night: Faces from Traditional Korean Dance-Dramas” exhibition at the Korea Society Gallery (through May 28)
Whitney Biennial (through May 30)
Masterpieces of European Painting from Dulwich Picture Gallery at The Frick Collection (through May 30)
Performance 7: Mirage by Joan Jonas at the Museum of Modern Art (through May 31)
Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present at the Museum of Modern Art (through May 31)
Last Day of the Myrtle Avenue El photography exhibition at the New York Transit Museum (extended through June 6)
“The Imaginary Museum: Dakis Joannou Collection” curated by Jeff Koons, at the New Museum (through June 6)
185th Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art at the National Academy (through June 8)
“Confucius: His Life and Legacy in Art” exhibition at the China Institute Gallery (through June 13)
“The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through June 13)
“Graphic Heroes, Magic Monsters: Japanese Prints by Utagawa Kuniyoshi from the Arthur R. Miller Collection” exhibition at the Japan Society (through June 13)
Shape Lab at the Museum of Modern Art (through June 14)
Mapping New York’s Shoreline, 1609-2009 at NYPL’s Humanities and Social Sciences Library (through June 26)
Museum as Hub: In and Out of Context at the New Museum (through June)
“The Grateful Dead: Now Playing at the New-York Historical Society” exhibition at the New-York Historical Society (through July 4)
The New Typography at the Museum of Modern Art (through July 12)
“Mastering the Art of Chinese Painting: Xie Zhiliu (1910–1997)” exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through July 25)
Curious George Saves the Day: The Art of Margret and H.A. Rey exhibition at the Jewish Museum (through Aug. 1)
“Celebration: The Birthday in Chinese Art” exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Aug. 5)
Portable Treasuries: Silver Jewelry from the Nadler Collection at the Museum of Arts & Design (through Aug. 8)
The Silk Road at the American Museum of Natural History (through Aug. 15)
Tivoli: A Place We Call Home at Brooklyn Historical Society (through Aug. 29)
Otto Dix exhibition at the Neue Galerie (through Aug. 30)
Lizards & Snakes: Alive, with 60 live lizards and snakes at the American Museum of Natural History (through Sept. 2)
Approaching Abstraction at the American Folk Art Museum (through Sept. 6)
Sounding the Pacific: Musical Instruments of Oceania at the Met Museum (through Sept. 6)
“Bardo” exhibition at the Rubin Museum (through Sept. 6)
Up Close: Henry Darger and the Coloring Book at the American Folk Art Museum (through Sept. 13)
A New York Sampler, Vestie Davis and Malcah Zeldis exhibitions at Lincoln Center branch of the American Folk Art Museum (through Oct. 18)
Noguchi ReINstalled at the Noguchi Museum (through Oct. 24)
Tibetan Portrait: The Power of Compassion at the the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Arts (through Dec. 31)
“Decodence: Legendary Interiors and Illustrious Travelers Aboard the SS Normandie” at the South Street Seaport Museum (through January 2011)
From the Land of the Gods at the Rubin Museum of Art (extended through Feb. 7)
A Song for the Horse Nation at the National Museum of the American Indan (through March 7, 2011)
Body Parts: Ancient Egyptian Fragments and Amulets at the Brooklyn Museum (through Oct. 2, 2011)

Film:
Victor Fleming series at Film Forum (through March 18)
“Alice in Wonderland” at AMC Loews Lincoln Square 13 with IMAX
“Mysteries of the Great Lakes” screens in IMAX at the American Museum of Natural History (through July 2)
Frederick Wiseman film retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art (through Dec. 31)
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:
Amtrak cuts Northeast fares 25 pct with 14-day advance purchase (extended through March 31)
Free wi-fi in Rockefeller Center (through July 1)
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:
Dine-In Brooklyn restaurant week begins (through March 25)
The Brooklyn Flea moves indoors to the Williamsburgh Bank (weekends through March 28)
Puppet & Costume Workshops at the World Financial Center (through May 19)

Image source: Center for Architecture, Photo: ACL/PennDesign of the New York State Pavilion.

Image source: Morgan Library and Museum; Mouth of Hell (detail;) Hours of Catherine of Cleves, in Latin; Illuminated by the Master of Catherine of Cleves; The Netherlands, Utrecht, ca. 1440; 7 1/2 × 5 1/8 inches (192 × 130 mm;) Purchased with the assistance of various Fellows, 1970; MS M.945 (fols. 168v–169;) Image courtesy of Faksimile Verlag Luzern.

Image source: Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts. Tim Okamura, Stay Strong, 2009. Oil, spray paint on canvas, 76 X 84 in.
Image source: Museum of Modern Art. William Kentridge. Drawing from Stereoscope 1998–99. Charcoal, pastel, and colored pencil on paper, 47 1/4 × 63” (120 × 160 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of The Junior Associates of The Museum of Modern Art, with special contributions from Anonymous, Scott J. Lorinsky, Yasufumi Nakamura, and The Wider Foundation.

February 26, 2008 7:41 AM in Etceterology

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