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. The list starts with performances (Broadway, concerts, comedy, etc.) then lists exhibitions (museums, galleries,) then film (mainly festivals and special screenings,) a catch-all category labeled “more” (food events, bizarre goings-on,) and lastly, deals.

Each category is listed with the the soonest-to-close at top. To see what’s about to open, check the New York calendar.

Ongoing Events in NYC

“County of Kings” at the Newman Theater (through Nov. 8)
“God of Carnage” on Broadway with with original cast — James Gandolfini, Marcia Gay Harden, Hope Davis and Jeff Daniels through Nov. 15. New cast as of Nov. 17: Christine Lahti, Annie Potts, Jimmy Smits and Ken Stott. (open-ended run)
The Playboy of the Western World at City Center (through Nov. 22)
Taylor Mac’s The Lily’s Revenge National Historic Site at Here Arts Center (through Nov. 22)
Jim Caruso’s “Cast Party” at Birdland from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. (Mondays through Dec. 5)
“Hamlet” on Broadway starring Jude Law (through Dec. 6)
“A Steady Rain” with Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig on Broadway (through Dec. 6)
“After Miss Julie” with Sienna Miller on Broadway (through Dec. 6)
Woody Allen & The Eddy Davis New Orleans Jazz Band play The Carlyle (Mondays through Dec. 7)
“The Starry Messenger” with Matthew Broderick plays Off-Broadway (through Dec. 12)
“Idiot Savant” with Willem Dafoe at Off-Broadway’s Public Theater (through Dec. 13)
“Nightingale” with Lynn Redgrave at New York City Center (through Dec. 13)
“The Royal Family” on Broadway (extended through Dec. 13)
“Burn the Floor - Ballroom Dance Concert” at Broadway’s Longacre Theatre (extended through Jan. 3)
“Shrek: The Musical” on Broadway (through Jan. 3)
Carrie Fisher’s “Wishful Drinking” on Broadway at Studio 54 (through Jan. 3)
“39 Steps” on Broadway (through Jan. 10)
“In the Next Room (or the vibrator play)” in previews on Broadway (opening night: Nov. 19; through Jan. 10)
Big Apple Circus at Lincoln Center (through Jan. 18)
David Cromer’s staging of “Our Town” at Off-Broadway’s Barrow Street Theatre (extended through Jan. 31)
“Bye Bye Birdie” with John Stamos, Gina Gershon, Bill Irwin and Jayne Houdyshell (through April 25)
The Moth StorySlams held the first and last Monday of each month, plus the second Tuesday and third Thursday
Amateur Night at the Apollo every Wednesday night (ongoing)
Sunday gospel brunch with the Harlem Gospel Choir at B.B. King’s Blues Club (every Sunday)
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)
“Fela!” in previews on Broadway (opening night: Nov. 23; open-ended run)
“Finian’s Rainbow” in previews on Broadway (open-ended run)
“Fuerzabruta” at Off-Broadway’s Daryl Roth Theatre (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)
“The Lion King” on Broadway (open-ended run)
“Mamma Mia!” on Broadway (open-ended run)
“The Marvelous Wonderettes plays Off-Broadway’s Westside Theatre (open-ended run)
Disney’s “Mary Poppins” plays Broadway (open-ended run)
The new musical “Memphis” in previews on Broadway (open-ended run)
“Next to Normal” on Broadway (open-ended run)
David Mamet’s “Oleanna” on Broadway with Bill Pullman and Julia Stiles (open-ended run)
“Phantom of the Opera” on Broadway (open-ended run)
“Ragtime” in previews on Broadway (opening night: Nov. 15; open-ended run)’80s hair-band musical “Rock of Ages” on Broadway (open-ended run)
“South Pacific” with Paulo Szot and Kelli O’Hara at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center (open-ended run)
“Stomp” plays Off-Broadway (open-ended run)
“Superior Donuts” on 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:
Artist-in-Residence 2008-09 exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem (through Oct. 29)
The Future Beneath Us: 8 Great Projects Under New York at the Science, Industry and Business Library (extended through Oct. 31)
Mauro Zamora, Sunroom Project Space at Wave Hill gardens (through Nov. 1)
Naked Ambition exhibition at the Museum of Sex (through Nov. 1)
Death & Mourning in Mid-19th Century Home exhibition at the Merchant’s House Museum (through Nov. 2)
Fashion & Politics at the The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (through Nov. 7)
The Wilde Years: Four Decades of Shaping Visual Culture at the School of Visual Arts (through Nov. 7)
New York Press Photographers Association’s 2008 Year in Pictures exhibition at The Ukrainian Museum (through Nov. 8)
A Collector’s Passion at the Rubin Museum of Art (through Nov. 9)
In & Out of Amsterdam | 1960–1976 at the Museum of Modern Art (through Nov. 9)
Congo/Women: Portraits of War photography exhibition at the United Nations headquarters (through Nov. 12)
Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Nov. 15)
Kiku in the Japanese Autumn Garden opens at the New York Botanical Garden (through Nov. 15)
“The Age of Botanical Wonders,” illustrations from Transactions of the Horticultural Society of London, 1805 - 1829 at the Bartow-Pell Mansion Museum (through Nov. 22)
2009 Original Art: The Fine Art of Children’s Book Illustration at the Society of Illustrators (through Nov. 25)
Original Art 2009: the Fine Art of Children’s Book Illustration at the Society of Illustrators (through Nov. 25)
Steve Wolfe on Paper at the Whitney (through Nov. 29)
In Full Bloom: The Pysanky of Folk Artist Iryna Bilianska at the Ukrainian Museum (through Nov. 29)
The Edge of New York: Waterfront Photographs at the Museum of the City of NY (through Nov. 29)
Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (open weather permitting, extended through Nov. 29)
Watteau, Music, and Theatre at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Nov. 29)
Vermeer’s Masterpiece “The Milkmaid” at the Met Museum (through Nov. 29)
Fine Art / Folk Art: A Dialogue at the Ukrainian Museum (extended through Nov. 29)
Re-Imagining Cities: Urban Design After the Age of Oil at the Municipal Art Society, Urban Center Galleries (through Dec. 4)
Magna Carta and the Foundations of Freedom on display at the Fraunces Tavern Museum (through Dec. 15)
Up & Down the River: History of the Hudson exhibition at the Hoboken Historical Museum (through Dec. 23)
Tibetan Portrait: The Power of Compassion at the the Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Arts (through Dec. 31)
“Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition” at Discovery Times Square Exposition (extended through Dec. 31)
Tugboats Night & Day at the Noble Maritime Collection (through December)
“The Triborough Bridge: Robert Moses and the Automobile Age” at the Transit Museum in Brooklyn (through 2009)
Frogs: A Chorus of Colors at the American Museum of Natural History (through Jan. 3)
Robert Frank: The Americans at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Jan. 3)
Reconfiguring the Body in American Art, 1820–2009 at the National Academy Museum (through Jan. 3)
New Amsterdam: The Island at the Center of the World at the South Street Seaport Museum (through Jan. 3)
Hanging Fire: Contemporary Art from Pakistan at the Asia Society (through Jan. 3)
William Blake’s World: “A New Heaven Is Begun” at the Morgan Library & Museum (through Jan. 3)
Dutch New York Between East and West: The World of Margarita Van Varick exhibition at the Bard Graduate Center (through Jan. 3)
Rococo and Revolution: Eighteenth-Century French Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum (through Jan. 3)
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection at the Museum of Modern Art (extended through Jan. 4)
The Erotic Object: Surrealist Sculpture from the Collection at MoMA (through Jan. 4)
“Kitty and Lucky: Photographs of my Aunt Concetta and Uncle Augustine,” by photographer Larry Racioppo at the Garibaldi-Meucci Museum on Staten Island at 7 p.m. (through Jan. 6)
Intervals: Kitty Kraus at the Guggenheim (through Jan.6)
Paired, Gold: Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Roni Horn at the Guggenheim (through Jan. 6)
Lincoln Center: Celebrating 50 Years at the gallery of The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center (through Jan. 6)
Carl Fredrik Hill: Swedish Visionary and Modernist; Drawings from the Malmö Art Museum exhibition at the Scandinavia House (through Jan. 9)
Celebrating Puccini at the Morgan Library & Museum (through Jan. 10)
Contact:1609 at the Staten Island Museum (through Jan. 10)
Arts of the Samurai: Japanese Arms and Armor from the Late Heian through the Edo Period (ca. 1156–1868) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Jan. 10 )
Reflections on the Electric Mirror: New Feminist Video at the Brooklyn Museum (through Jan. 10)
Watteau to Degas: French Drawings from the Frits Lugt Collection at The Frick Collection (through Jan. 10)
Eccentric Visions: The Worlds of Luo Ping (1733–1799) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Jan. 10)
Mandala at the Rubin Museum of Art (through Jan. 11)
New Photography 2009 at the Museum of Modern Art (through Jan. 11)
“Kandinsky” exhibition at the Guggenheim (through January 13)
Georgia O’Keeffe: Abstraction exhibition at the Whitney (through Jan. 17)
James Tissot: “The Life of Christ” at the Brooklyn Museum (through Jan. 17)
“Dress Codes: The Third ICP Triennial of Photography and Video” at the International Center of Photography (through Jan. 17)
Exuberant Grotesques: Renaissance Maiolica from the Fontana Workshop at The Frick Collection (through Jan. 17)
In-Situ: Architecture and Landscape at the Museum of the Modern Art (extended through Jan. 18)
They Won’t Budge: Africans in Europe at the Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts (through Jan. 19)
Context/Contrast: New Architecture in Historic Districts at the Center for Architecture (through Jan. 23)
Tobi Kahn: Sacred Spaces of the 21st Century at the Museum of Biblical Art (through Jan. 24)
Patricia Cronin: “Harriet Hosmer, Lost and Found” at the Brooklyn Museum (through Jan. 24)
American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Jan. 24)
The Red Book of C.G. Jung opens at the Rubin Museum of Art (through January 25)
Read My Pins: The Madeleine Albright Collection oat the Museum of Arts & Design (through Jan. 31)
Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present at the Brooklyn Museum (through Jan. 31)
Silk and Bamboo: Music and Art of China at the Met Museum (through Feb. 7)
Urs Fischer: Marguerite de Pontyat the New Museum (through Feb. 7)
Reinventing Ritual: Contemporary Art and Design for Jewish Life opens at the Jewish Museum (through Feb. 7)
Rite Now: Sacred and Secular in Video at the Jewish Museum (through Feb. 7)
Paul Sietsema exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (through Feb. 15)
Victorious Ones exhibition at the Rubin Museum of Art (through Feb 15)
From the Village to Vogue: The Modernist Jewelry of Art Smith at the Brooklyn Museum (extended through Feb. 21)
Cinnabar: The Chinese Art of Carved Lacquer at the Met Museum (through Feb. 21)
Pablo Bronstein at the Met at the Met Museum (through Feb. 21)
Last Day of the Myrtle Avenue El photography exhibition at the New York Transit Museum (through Feb. 28)
Thomas Chambers: American Marine and Landscape Painter exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum (through March 7)
From the Land of the Gods at the Rubin Museum of Art (through March 14)
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)
Memory: Anish Kapoor exhibition at the Guggenheim (through March 28)
China Prophecy at the Skyscraper Museum (through winter)
Slash: Paper Under the Knife opens at the at the Museum of Arts & Design (through April 4)
Design USA: Contemporary Innovation at the Cooper-Hewitt (through April 4)
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)
Mapping New York’s Shoreline, 1609-2009 at NYPL’s Humanities and Social Sciences Library (through June 26)
Approaching Abstraction at the American Folk Art 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)

Film:
Beavers screens at the IMAX at the American Museum of Natural History (through Jan. 3)
“Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs: An IMAX 3D Experience” at AMC Loews Lincoln Square 13 with IMAX
Wild Ocean screens at the IMAX at the American Museum of Natural History (through Jan. 3)
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.)

Food & More:
Madison Square Mark’t seasonal market in Madison Square Park (through Nov. 1)
Boo at the Zoo events at the Bronx Zoo (multiple dates through Nov. 1)
The Amazing Maize Maze at the Queens County Farm Museum (through Nov. 1)
NYC Audubon’s bird-watching StarrTrips in Central Park (Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Saturdays through Nov. 1)
The Rink at Rockefeller Center opens for ice skating for the season
Tonight’s colors on the Empire State Building

Deals:
$3 coupon for Museum of Sex (through Nov. 25)
Amtrak cuts Northeast fares 25 pct with 14-day advance purchase (through Dec. 16)
Free wi-fi in Rckefeller 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)

Image source: Illustration by Joy Ang for Spectrum: The Best in Contemporary Fantastic Art” exhibition at the Society of Illustrators.

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