October 30, 2008

Today in NY: free museums, Wintuk, NY Magic, Dracula

It’s Thursday, October 30 and here are some of NYC’s events for today:

Free admission at the Guggenheim Museum from noon to 8 p.m. to celebrate the Wright restoration

Sports Museum $5 admission today only, as part of a “Low Cost, High Culture” promotion from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

Free Cartoon Movie Night with Kim Deitch at Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art at 7 p.m.

“Wintuk” from Cirque du Soleil begins performances at the WaMu Theater at Madison Square Garden

THE ING NY City Marathon Expo begins at the Javits Center, free and open to the public

Zaha Hadid lecture at Columbia School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at 6:30 p.m.

NY Historical Society event: NY Magic talk and demonstration by George Schindler, the Dean and former National President of the Society of American Magicians

Live from the NYPL lecture series at 7 p.m.: An Evening with Dracula

Ghost Tours of “Manhattan’s Most Haunted House,” the Merchant’s House Museum from 6 to 10 p.m.

Laura Bell Bundy plays Feinstein’s at Loews

O’Death at Music Hall of Williamsburg

Henry Rollins at Town Hall

Cypress Hill plays Nokia Theatre

NY Philharmonic open rehearsal at 9:45 a.m.: A Hear & Now Concert as Robertson Conducts Copland, Bernstein, Carter and Rouse

“Doctor Atomic” at the Met Opera with baritone Gerald Finley as J. Robert Oppenheimer at 8 p.m.

András Schiff at Carnegie Hall’s Perelman Stage at 8 p.m.

Rangers home game at Madison Square Garden vs. Thrashers

Discussion: Rancid Nourishment at the New Museum with filmmaker Roddy Bogawa, conceptual artist Sandy Gellis, video artist Paul Tschinkel, and digital artist Annette Weintraub at 7:30 p.m.

Stephen Schwartz in conversation with Carol de Giere, author of Defying Gravity: the Creative Career of Stephen Schwartz from Godspell to Wicked at Barnes & Noble Lincoln Center at 5:30 p.m.

Jazz Talk-Why Aren’t There More Women In Jazz? at 7 p.m. at Jazz at Lincoln Center with saxophonist Jane Ira Bloom, cellist Akua Dixon and journalist Lara Pellegrinelli

Free Art Deco New York lecture at the NY Public Library at 12:30 p.m.

Viewing begins for Impressionist/Modern Evening Sale at Christie’s on Nov. 6

The Modern Age: The Collection of Alice Lawrence goes on display ahead of the Nov. 5 auction at Christie’s

Prints auction at Sotheby’s

Thursday’s weekly free walking tours include Wall Street at noon.

The New Museum has free admission from 7 to 10 p.m., the Museum of Arts and Design has pay-what-you-wish admission from 6 to 9 p.m. and the China Institute Gallery is free from 6 to 8 p.m.

Several other museums are open until 8 p.m. tonight: the Jewish Museum, the National Museum of the American Indian, the Paley Center for Media, the Museum of Biblical Art and the China Institute Gallery.

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

Picture caption: The Guggenheim has a more theatrical entrance just for “theanyspacewhatever” exhibition. Amy Langfield/NewYorkology

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