April 11, 2008

Weekend on tap: Mets, last skate, lighthouse tours

New York City seems to be in full bloom all of a sudden, as a lot of trees and flowers are getting their green - and other colors -- back on. And to emphasize the end of winter, Sunday's last skate of the season at the Rink at Rockefeller Center.

It's a big weekend for pro sports, with the Mets and Knicks at home, as well as the NHL Playoffs with the NY Rangers vs. NJ Devils. There's even pro lacrosse at Madison Square Garden this weekend as the New York Titans play Colorado.

For more upcoming events, see NewYorkology’s April calendar and Now in NYC for the ongoing shows and exhibitions.

Events will be added through the weekend.

Friday
Philip Glass’ NY debut of Satyagraha at the Met Opera

Candide at NY City Opera

Mets vs. Milwaukee Brewers at Shea Stadium

Knicks vs. Atlanta at Madison Square Garden

NHL Playoffs: NY Rangers vs. NJ Devils in Newark, N.J.

Woven Splendor from Timbuktu to Tibet: Exotic Rugs and Textiles from New York Collectors opens at the New-York Historical Society

Orientalism in New York opens at the New-York Historical Society

Nada Surf and Superdrag play Terminal 5

Dr. John plays Blender Theater at Gramercy

The
Rodney Graham Band live, featuring the amazing Rotary Psycho-Opticon!

Free music Fridays at the American Folk Art Museum from 5:30

Wine class: Blind Tasting/Speed Dating at the Chelsea Wine Vault

Museums open after 7 p.m.: American Folk Art Museum, to 7:30 p.m. (with free admission from 5:30 to close;) and the Guggenheim to 7:45 p.m. (where admission is pay-what-you-wish from 5:45 to close,)

Museums open to 8 p.m.: International Center of Photography, (which has "voluntary contribution" admission from 5 to close;) Museum of Modern Art, (which is free from 4 to 8 p.m.;) New-York Historical Society, (with free admission from 6 p.m.;) Bronx Museum, (which is free all day;) the Children’s Museum of Manhattan and the Museum of the Moving Image (also free from 4 to 8 p.m.)
Museums open to 9 p.m.: the Met; Whitney, (which is pay-what-you-wish from 6 to 9 p.m. and sometimes hosts Whitney Live dance parties;) Cooper-Hewitt; the Morgan, (with free admission from 7 p.m.;) Neue Galerie; and the Asia Society, (where it's free from 6 to 9 p.m.)

Closing at 10 p.m.: Rubin Museum of Himalayan Art, (with free admission from 7 p.m. to close.)

More late night NY: Top of the Rock (last ticket sold at 11 p.m.) and Empire State Building (last elevator up at 1:15 a.m.)

Saturday
Previews begin on Broadway for "Thurgood" with Laurence Fishburne, and "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" with Laura Linney and Ben Daniels

Little Red Lighthouse opens for free tours from 1 to 3 p.m.

Mets vs. Milwaukee Brewers at Shea Stadium

Walking tour: Gargoyles at City College of New York

Havana Film Festival
Jacksonknife performs at Apple SoHo store at 3 p.m.

Pro lacrosse at Madison Square Garden: New York Titans vs. Colorado

The Rodney Graham Band live, featuring the amazing Rotary Psycho-Opticon!

AIPAD Photo Show at the Park Avenue Armory

Saturday Morning Storytelling with the H.C. Andersen Storytellers at Scandinavia House

Children’s Carnival at the Queens County Farm Museum

UFO at the B B Kings Blues Club

Connie Francis plays the St. George Theater near the Staten Island Ferry terminal on Staten Island

The O’Jays play the Kupferberg Center in Queens

Prokofiev’s The Gambler and La Bohèmeat the Met Opera

Candide at NY City Opera

Hilary Hahn, Violin and Josh Ritter, Voice and Guitar at the Met Museum

Vernon Reid and Masque at Center for the Arts on Staten Island

Editor @ the Library presents: "I Speak of the City: Poems of New York," at the Mid-Manhattan Library at 2:30 p.m.

Academic Symposium—Love and Pop: Visual Cultures in Japan and Beyond , at Brooklyn Museum of Art

Cheese class at Stinky Bklyn: Charcuterie 101

Tribeca Film Festival ticket packages go on sale, as well as single tickets if you’re buying with American Express

Museums open late: Museum of Sex to 8 p.m.; the Met Museum to 9 p.m.

More late night NY: Top of the Rock (last ticket sold at 11 p.m.) and Empire State Building (last elevator up at 1:15 a.m.)

Scheduled subway interruptions

Sunday
NHL Playoffs: NY Rangers vs. NJ Devils at Madison Square Garden

Mets vs. Milwaukee Brewers at Shea Stadium

Last skate of the season at the Rink at Rockefeller Center

New York Transit Museum tour: Grand Avenue Bus Depot

Center for the Urban Environment walking tour: Long Island City's Shifting Center

Free walking tour: Brooklyn Heights at 11 a.m.

Jon Stewart-hosts Night of Too Many Stars live from The Beacon Theatre

Golden Dragon Acrobats at the Brooklyn Center for the Performing Arts

Candide at NY City Opera

St. Petersburg Ballet Theatre’s production of Bizet’s CARMEN at the Lehman Center For The Performing Arts

Second Sundays at the Guggenheim - for families (kids 5-10) – “Touch—Don’t Touch”

Lecture at the American Museum of Natural History: Sustainable Food and Agriculture of Manhattan

Satya Graha Forum event: Gandhi's "Truth Force" in the Age of Climate Change

Eldridge Street Passover Party

Hermione Lee on Edith Wharton at 92nd Street Y

Late night NY: Top of the Rock (last ticket sold at 11 p.m.) and Empire State Building (last elevator up at 1:15 a.m.)

Scheduled subway interruptions

Closing soon
“Finnish Art Now” on display at Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America (through April 12)
Harold Pinter’s "The Homecoming" on Broadway with Eve Best, Raul Esparza, Michael McKean and Ian McShane (through April 13)
Dianne Weist and Alan Cumming in the Classic Stage Company’s production of "The Seagull" (extended through April 13)
“Here is New York: Remembering 9/11/01” at the New-York Historical Society (extended through April 13)
blog.mode: addressing fashion at the Met Museum (through April 13)
Portraits by Irving Penn at the Morgan Library & Museum (through April 13)
Street Dance: The New York Photographs of Rudy Burckhardt at the Museum of the City of New York (through April 13)
MoMA film series: Contemporasian (through April 13)
"Bon: The Magic Word" at the Rubin Museum of Art (extended through April 14)
Yoon Lee exhibition at PIEROGI Brooklyn (through April 14)
Josiah Wedgewood and His Circle at the UBS Gallery (through April 18)

Travel links
Sunday organ recital in the Hudson Valley at the Union Church of Pocantico Hills, which has stained glass windows by Henri Matisse and Marc Chagall

Image source: Saddle cover from the new exhibition Woven Splendor from Timbuktu to Tibet: Exotic Rugs and Textiles from New York Collectors at the New-York Historical Society, provided to NewYorkology by the NYHS.

Full caption: Saddle Cover, Azerbaijan, 19th Century, Wool, leather, silk embroidery
104 x 139.7 cm (41 x 55 in.), Judith Brick Freedman Collection

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