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

Off-Broadway musical of Neil Gaiman’s “Coraline” with David Greenspan and Jayne Houdyshell (extended through July 5)
The Wiz begins performances at City Center with Ashanti, LaChanze and Orlando Jones (through July 5)
Waiting for Godot with Bill Irwin, Nathan Lane, John Goodman and John Glover on Broadway at Studio 54 (extended through July 12)
“Twelfth Night” in Central Park with Anne Hathaway as part of Shakespeare in the Park (through July 12)
New comedy “God of Carnage” on Broadway with Jeff Daniels, Hope Davis, James Gandolfini and Marcia Gay Harden (through July 19) - (Resuming Sept 8 - Nov. 15)
“Blithe Spirit” on Broadway with Christine Ebersole, Rupert Everett, Angela Lansbury, Simon Jones, Jayne Atkinson, Deborah Rush and Susan Louise O’Connor (through July 19)
Old Vic production of Norman Conquests trilogy — “Table Manners,” “Living Together” and “Round and Round the Garden” — on Broadway (through July 25)
2009 Pulitzer winner Ruined plays Off-Broadway (extended through Aug. 2)
Jim Caruso’s “Cast Party” at Birdland from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. (Mondays through Aug. 3)
Donmar Warehouse production of Mary Stuart on Broadway (through Aug. 16)
Disney’s “The Little Mermaid” on Broadway (through Aug. 30)
The Tin Pan Alley Rag in previews at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre (July 14 opening night; through Sept. 6)
Ringling Bros. Circus at Coney Island (through Sept. 7)
“Avenue Q” on Broadway (through Sept. 13)
David Cromer’s staging of Our Town at Off-Broadway’s Barrow Street Theatre (through Sept. 27)
Les Paul plays Iridium Jazz Club (every Monday at 8 and 10 p.m.)
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)
“9 to 5” on Broadway (open-ended run)
“39 Steps” on Broadway (open-ended run)
“Billy Elliott” on Broadway (open-ended run)
“Blue Man Group” plays Off-Broadway (open-ended run)
“Chicago” on Broadway; now with TalkBack Tuesdays (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-Upstairs (open-ended run)
Disney’s “Mary Poppins” plays Broadway (open-ended run)
“Next to Normal” on Broadway (open-ended run)
“Phantom of the Opera” on Broadway (open-ended run)
’80s hair-band musical “Rock of Ages” on Broadway (open-ended run)
“Shrek: The Musical” on Broadway (open-ended run)
“South Pacific” with Paulo Szot and Laura Osnes (until Kelli O’Hara returns Oct. 6,) at the Vivian Beaumont Theater at Lincoln Center (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 Future Beneath Us: 8 Great Projects Under New York at the Science, Industry and Business Library (through July 5)
Elegant Armor: The Art of Jewelry at the Museum of Arts and Design (extended through July 5)
Building the Collections: Recent Acquisitions at the New-York Historical Society exhibition at the New-York Historical Society (through July 9)
Abraham Lincoln in his own words: an intimate view of our greatest president exhibition at the New-York Historical Society (through July 12)
Nature and the American Vision: The Hudson River School at the New-York Historical Society at the New-York Historical Society (through July 12)
The Printed Picture exhibit on the technology of picture making from the Renaissance to the present at the Museum of the Modern Art (through July 13)
Stable as a Mountain at the Rubin Museum of Art (through July 13)
No Longer Empty exhibition by Chelsea Hotel artists (through July 18)
From the Village to Vogue: The Modernist Jewelry of Art Smith at the Brooklyn Museum (through July 19)
Guggenheim Museum’s Intervals set up “in interstitial locations within the museum’s exhibition spaces” (through July 19)
Georg Ehret: The Greatest Botanical Artist of the 1700s at the New York Botanical Garden (through July 19)
Grand Concourse at 100 at the Bronx Museum (through July 20)
Between Collaboration and Resistance: French Literary Life Under Nazi Occupation at the NYPL’s Humanities and Social Sciences Library (through July 25)
Testimony and Memory: Contemporary Miniature Torah Mantles, Carole Smollan at the Yeshiva University Museum (through July 26)
Aernout Mik at the Museum of Modern Art (through July 27)
The Journals of Barron Storey at the Society of Illustrators (through July 31)
The Declaration of Independence in Thomas Jefferson’s hand on display at the New York Public Library’s Humanities and Social Sciences Library (through Aug. 1)
Reclaimed: Paintings from the Collection of Jacques Goudstikker at the Jewish Museum (through Aug. 2)
The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Aug. 2)
The Danube Exodus: The Rippling Currents of the River—by Péter Forgács and The Labyrinth Project at the Jewish Museum (through Aug. 2)
Asian Journeys at the Asia Society (through Aug. 9)
The Model as Muse: Embodying Fashion at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Aug. 9)
Refinement and Elegance: Early Nineteenth-Century Royal Porcelain from the Twinight Collection, New York at the Met Museum (extended through Aug. 9)
The Modern Stage: Set Designs, 1900–1970 at the Morgan Library & Museum (through Aug. 16)
Climate Change: The Threat to Life and A New Energy Future at the American Museum of Natural History (through Aug. 16)
Francis Bacon: A Centenary Retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Aug. 16)
Final Mourner’s Kaddish: 333 Days in Painting at the Yeshiva University Museum (through Aug. 16)
Patron and Painter at the Rubin Museum of Art (through Aug. 17)
Pen and Parchment: Drawing in the Middle Ages at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Aug. 23)
Portraits, Pastels, Prints: Whistler in The Frick Collection at the Frick (through Aug. 23)
Textural Rhythms: Constructing the Jazz Tradition — Contemporary African American Quilts at the Lincoln Square branch of the American Folk Art Museum (through Aug 23)
Object Factory: The Art of Industrial Ceramics at the Museum of Arts & Design (through Aug. 23)
“Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward” at the Guggenheim, marking the 50th anniversary of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and the 50th anniversary of the death of Frank Lloyd Wright (through Aug. 23)
Stage Pictures: Drawing for Performance at the Museum of the Modern Art (through Aug. 24)
Studying Nature: Oil Sketches From the Thaw Collection at the Morgan Library & Museum (through Aug. 30)
Michael Hafftka: Recent Work at the Yeshiva University Museum (thorugh Aug. 30)
From Plaster to Stone at the Noguchi Museum (through Aug 30)
Joseph, the Bull and the Rose at the Yeshiva University Museum (through Aug. 30)
Sex Lives of Animals at the Museum of Sex (through Summer)
Creative Time’s This World & Nearer Ones art installation opens on Governors Island (through summer)
Coney Island Icons: The Story Behind the Landmarks of the World’s Playground at Coney Island History Project (through Labor Day)
Living Line: Selected Indian Drawings from the Subhash Kapoor Gift at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Sept. 6)
“Avedon Fashion 1944–2000” “David Seidner: Paris Fashions, 1945 ” and “John Wood: Quiet Protest” exhibitions at the International Center of Photography (through Sept. 6)
Light of the Sufis: The Mystical Arts of Islam opens at the Brooklyn Museum (through Sept. 6)
The Treasure of Ulysses Davis at the American Folk Art Museum (through Sept. 6)
A Generous Vision: A Major Gift of Works by Mychajlo Moroz at the Ukrainian Museum (through Sept. 6)
Napoleon III and Paris at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Sept. 7)
Diaghilev’s Theater of Marvels: The Ballets Russes and Its Aftermath at New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (through Sept. 12)
Kaleidoscope Quilts: The Art of Paula Nadelstern at the American Folk Art Museum (through Sept. 13)
Dutch Seen: New York Rediscovered at the Museum of the City of New York (through Sept. 13)
Pages of Gold: Medieval Illuminations from the Morgan at the Morgan Library & Museum (through Sept. 13)
Sight Unseen: Video from Afghanistan and Iran at the Asia Society (through Sept. 13)
Yang Fudong: Seven Intellectuals in a Bamboo Forest at the Asia Society (through Sept. 13)
Living & Dreaming exhibition at the Bronx Museum (through Sept. 13)
The Edible Garden at the New York Botanical Garden (through Sept. 13)
Performance 4: Roman Ondák at MoMA (through Sept. 14)
Klaus Moje: Painting with Glass at the Museum of Arts & Design (through Sept. 20)
Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Sept. 20)
Yinka Shonibare MBE at the Brooklyn Museum (through Sept. 20)
Nagas:Hill People of India at the Rubin Museum of Art (through Sept. 21)
James Ensor at the Museum of Modern Art (through Sept. 21)
Isabel Toledo: Fashion from the Inside Out at the The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology (through Sept. 26)
Amsterdam/New Amsterdam: The Worlds of Henry Hudson at the Museum of the City of New York (through Sept. 27)
Fine Art / Folk Art: A Dialogue at the Ukrainian Museum (through Sept. 27)
African and Oceanic Art from the Barbier-Mueller Museum, Geneva: A Legacy of Collecting at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Sept. 27)
Red Lines Housing Crisis Learning Center at the Queens Museum, “melds Sesame Street graphics with do-it-yourself investigations into the intricacies of real estate finance” (through Sept. 27)
Scripture for the Eyes: Bible Illustration in Sixteenth Century Netherlandish Prints at the Museum of Biblical Art (through Sept. 27)
RE…Re-Cycle, Re-Create, Re-Imagine at the Museum of Biblical Art (through Sept. 27)
“Up Close: Henry Darger,” at the American Folk Art Museum (extended through September)
They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland Before the Holocaust at the Jewish Museum (through Oct. 1)
Taking the Oath: The First Presidential Inauguration at the New-York Historical Society (through Oct. 2)
Katharine Hepburn: In Her Own Files exhibition at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts (through Oct. 10)
Dan Graham: Beyond exhibition at the Whitney Museum of Art (through Oct. 11)
Mannahatta/Manhattan: A Natural History of New York City at the Museum of the City of New York (through Oct. 12)
TREE MUSEUM—A Project by Katie Holten along the Grand Concourse in the Bronx Museum (through Oct 12)
Magic in Ancient Egypt: Image, Word, and Reality at the Brooklyn Museum (through Oct. 18)
New at the Morgan: Acquisitions Since 2004 at the Morgan Library & Museum (through Oct. 18)
Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (open weather permitting, through Oct. 25)
A Collector’s Passion at the Rubin Museum of Art (through Nov. 9)
Augustus Saint-Gaudens in The Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Nov. 15)
In Full Bloom: The Pysanky of Folk Artist Iryna Bilianska at the Ukrainian Museum (through Nov. 29)
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)
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)
Contact:1609 at the Staten Island Museum (through Jan. 10)
In-Situ: Architecture and Landscape at the Museum of the Modern Art (extended through Jan. 18)
“The Triborough Bridge: Robert Moses and the Automobile Age” at the Transit Museum in Brooklyn (through 2009)
Frogs: A Chorus of Colors reopens at the American Museum of Natural History (through Jan. 3)
From the Land of the Gods at the Rubin Museum of Art (through March 14)
China Prophecy at the Skyscraper Museum (through winter)
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)
Noguchi ReINstalled at the Noguchi Museum (through Oct 24, 2010)

Film:
NY Asian Film Festival (through July 5)
“Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: The IMAX Experience” at AMC Loews Lincoln Square 13 with IMAX (and “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: The IMAX Experience” starts July 14)
Dinosaurs Alive! screens at the IMAX at the American Museum of Natural History
Wild Ocean screens at the IMAX at the American Museum of Natural History
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:
Coney Island’s Cyclone roller coaster open for the season
NYC beaches open for the season (through Labor Day weekend)
LoLa Staar’s Dreamland Roller Rink opens for the season at Coney Island. (Fridays/Saturdays/Sundays through summer)
Yankee Stadium tours offered through Sept. 25
Friday/Saturday regional-foods Fulton Market Stalls on South Street between Fulton and Beekman Streets (through fall)
Dim Sum Brunch with the Chinese Club in New York (second Sunday of every month)
Tonight’s colors on the Empire State Building

Deals:
Free Fri/Sat night ferry service to Water Taxi Beach/Long Island City (through Labor Day weekend)
Amtrak cuts Northeast fares 25 pct with 14-day advance purchase (through Sept. 3)
Hotel discounts through NYC Sunday Stays
8 Coupons for Lower East Side businesses (multiple expiration dates)
Print an online coupon to get $10 off the Toys ‘R’ Us Marquee Moment in Times Square (normally $29.99)

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