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

Unsound Festival NY (through Feb. 14)
Christine Ebersole with John Odo at The Carlyle (through Feb. 20)
Betty Buckley at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency (through Feb. 27)
Bridge Project staging of “As You Like It” directed by Sam Mendes at BAM (through March 13)
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 (opening night: Feb. 18; through March 20)
“The Pride” with Hugh Dancy, Adam James, Andrea Riseborough, Ben Whishaw at Off-Broadway’s Lucille Lortel Theater (Feb. 16 opening night; 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)
“ Black Angels Over Tuskegee ” at St. Luke’s Theatre (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)
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)
David Cromer’s staging of “Our Town” at Off-Broadway’s Barrow Street Theatre (extended through June 27)
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)
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!” on Broadway (open-ended run)
“Fuerzabruta” at Off-Broadway’s Daryl Roth Theatre (open-ended run)
“God of Carnage” on Broadway with Christine Lahti, Annie Potts, Jimmy Smits and Ken Stott. 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)
“The Lion King” on Broadway (open-ended run)
“A Little Night Music” on Broadway with Catherine Zeta-Jones and Angela Lansbury (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)
“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)
“South Pacific” with Paulo Szot and Laura Osnes 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 at Home: American Furniture, 1940-1955 at the Museum of the City of New York (through Feb. 8)
Connectivity: A Selection of Media Design Work from the Communication Design Department at the Museum of FIT (through Feb. 13)
Demons, Yarns & Tales: Tapestries by Contemporary Artists at the James Cohan Gallery (thorugh Feb. 13)
Nikhil Chopra: Yog Raj Chitrakar: Memory Drawing IX at the New Museum (through Feb. 14)
Paul Sietsema exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (through Feb. 15)
The Red Book of C.G. Jung at the Rubin Museum of Art (extended through Feb. 15)
Victorious Ones exhibition at the Rubin Museum of Art (through Feb 15)
From Klimt to Klee: Masterworks from the Serge Sabarsky Collection to the Neue Galerie (thrugh 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)
In-Situ: Architecture and Landscape at the Museum of the Modern Art (extended through Feb. 22)
“The Origins of El Greco: Icon Painting in Venetian Greece” The Onassis Cultural Center (through Feb. 27)
Last Day of the Myrtle Avenue El photography exhibition at the New York Transit Museum (through Feb. 28)
“Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition” at Discovery Times Square Exposition (tickets on sale through Feb. 28)
Gabriel Orozco exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (through March 1)
“Intersections Grand Concourse Beyond 100” and ” Urban Archives: That Was Then This Is Now” at Bronx Museum of the Arts (through March 1)
“Intersections Grand Concourse Commissions” exhibition at the Bronx Museum of the Arts (extended through March 7)
Thomas Chambers: American Marine and Landscape Painter exhibition at the American Folk Art Museum (through March 7)
The Gift of Art: Major Gift of Arcadia Olenska-Petryshyn Paintings at the Ukrainian Museum (through March 7)
Tino Sehgal installation at the Guggenheim (through March 10)
Mary Webb: Neglected Genius at the Grolier Club (through March 12)
From the Land of the Gods at the Rubin Museum of Art (through March 14)
30 Seconds off an Inch at the Studio Museum in Harlem (through March 14)
Jane Austen exhibition at the Morgan Library & Museum (through March 14)
Alias Man Ray exhibition at the Jewish Museum (through March 14)
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)
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)
Fine Art / Folk Art: A Dialogue at the Ukrainian Museum (extended through March 28)
SNØHETTA architecture – landscape – interior exhibition at Scandinavia House (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)
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)
Tim Burton exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art (through April 26)
“Snoopy as the World War I Flying Ace” exhibition at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum (through April 30)
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)
Performance 7: Mirage by Joan Jonas at the Museum of Modern Art (through May 31)
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 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)
The Silk Road at the American Museum of Natural History (through Aug. 15)
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)
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)
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:
“Avatar: An IMAX 3D Experience” 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:
Winter Restaurant Week (extended through Feb. 28)
Amtrak cuts Northeast fares 25 pct with 14-day advance purchase (extended through March 31)
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)

Food & More:
18th annual Hot Chocolate Festival at City Bakery (through Feb. 28)
Pancake Month at Clinton Street Baking Company & Restaurant (through Feb. 28)
The Brooklyn Flea moves indoors to the Williamsburgh Bank (weekends through March 28)

Image source: LES MYSTÉRES DE NEW-YORK / LE PETIT PROVENÇAL. 1916 from the Swann poster auction.

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: Image Credit: Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts. Tim Okamura, Stay Strong, 2009. Oil, spray paint on canvas, 76 X 84 in.

February 26, 2008 7:41 AM in Etceterology

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