Things to do in NYC this Week: May 12 – May 18, 2008 (05/13) - There are so many things to do in New York City– from walking tours to tastings (and walking tours with tastings); from top designer’s sample sales to free cheese on the Upper West Side. We’ve got something here for everybody, whether you’re a culture buff or a discount maven, here are some of the great things (some of them free!) happening in New York City this week. (read the story...)    ACTIVITY PLANNER    Sign up for Our Weekly NYC Activity Newsletter Email    Find out what's happening in NYC when you're planning to visit. Arrival: Departure: Category: All Activities Auditions Awards Shows/Banquets Cabaret Charity Events Comedy Cultural Arts Film Food and Drink Fun for Kids Galleries Holiday Celebrations Lectures/Debates Literary Marathon Museums Music Nature/Outdoors Parades Sample Sales Scavenger Hunts Shopping Signings/Appearances Sports Street Fairs Theater Tours Trade Shows   Date: Activity: Through 12/31/2008 From Staten Island to Shangri-La: The Collecting Life of Jacques Marchais - Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art 338 Lighthouse Ave., Staten Island - 718-987-3500 www.tibetanmuseum.org The Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art celebrates its 60th anniversary of the Museum's official opening with this installation of some of the finest examples of Himalayan art from the Museum's collection, Jacques Marchais' journals and publications, rare books, memorabilia, historical photos of the construction of the Museum, and period displays of her elegant gallery installations. The exhibition reveals the previously untold story of Jacques Marchais (1887-1948), an extraordinary American woman who created a Center to share with the world the ancient artistic and cultural traditions of Tibet and the Himalayan region. Arranged chronologically, this exhibition details her early life as a child actress in the late Victorian period, her social life and spiritual quest in New York City in the 1920s, and her intense desire to build an enduring monument to Tibetan Buddhism during the Great Depression and World War II. Through 1/01/2009 Highlights from the Morgan's Collections - Morgan Library & Museum 225 Madison Ave. - 212-685-0008 www.themorgan.org Price: $12; $8 for seniors, students & children under 16; Free for members & children under 12 This exhibit presents masterworks from four of the Morgan's six collecting areas: medieval and Renaissance manuscripts, printed books and bindings, literary and historical manuscripts, and music manuscripts and books. This exhibition demonstrates the nature and scope of one of the world's greatest repositories of artistic, literary, musical, and historical works. Objects will change approximately every three months to accommodate the exhibition of as wide an array as possible of the Morgan's vast and eclectic holdings, as well as representative of the collections' strengths. Through 5/25/2008 Hours: Wed-Fri 10am-5pm; Sat-Sun 11am-6pm Design: Isamu Noguchi & Isamu Kenmochi - Noguchi Museum 9-01 33rd Rd. (Vernon Blvd.), Long Island City, Queens - 718-204-7088 www.noguchi.org Price: $10; $5 for seniors & students; Free for members & children under 12 Isamu Kenmochi and Isamu Noguchi, two Japanese artists, collaborated to build a strikingly original woven bamboo chair, made in 1950; though this actual chair is no longer extant but will be recreated for the purpose of this exhibition. It is a classical sculptural form of texture and beauty as well as representing a technical accomplishment, distilling the natural elasticity and strength of bamboo with the durability and efficiency of iron. Through 6/07/2008 Great Performers 2007/2008 - Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Columbus Ave. btw. 62nd & 65th Sts. - 212-875-5000 www.lincolncenter.org The Great Performers 2007/2008 season features stellar orchestras and conductors like Kurt Masur at the helm of the Orchestre National de France and Osmo Vanska conducting the Minnesota Orchestra. You will also have the chance to see outstanding ensembles like the Emerson String Quartet and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and superb artists like Matthew Polenzani and Gil Shaham. The season shines the spotlight on many of the world's greatest soloists, including the charismatic Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky and Midori. And don't miss Stravinsky Onstage, a tribute to the composer featuring boundary-pushing dance by the Michael Clark Company, and Petrushka, a brilliant staging created by the puppetry wizard Basil Twist. Through 12/01/2008 40th Anniversary Celebration of Art in the Parks - Citywide www.nycgovparks.org Price: Free In celebration of 40 years of public art in city parks, Parks & Recreation coordinated with art partners to bring 40 temporary artworks to parks throughout the city. "Art in the Parks" welcomes returning artists such as Tony Smith, George Rickey and Jenny Holtzer, who had exhibits in 1967, as well as prominent artists such as Tom Otterness and Roxy Paine and new parks artists such as George Sanchez-Calderon and Anne Peabody. The diverse collection of public art installations will be complemented by a retrospective overview in the Arsenal Gallery, opening Sept. 25. This free event takes place at 40 sites at parks in all five boroughs, beginning in October. Visit www.nyc.gov/parks for more details and a map. Through 5/26/2008 The Butterfly Conservatory: Tropical Butterflies Alive in Winter - American Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th St. - 212-769-5100 www.amnh.org Celebrating its 10th year, this highly popular wintertime destination flourishes in 80-degree temperatures and features up to 500 hovering iridescent butterflies, blooming tropical flowers, and lush green vegetation. The Butterfly Conservatory transforms the iciest winter day into a magical escape into summer. Shimmering, multicolored butterflies gently flutter by visitors' upturned faces, land atop their heads, or perch upon their shoulders. Through 5/31/2008 Hours: Thursdays, 4 -8pm SHOWBOAT – 'Round the Bend - Waterfront Museum 290 Conover Street - 718-624-4719 http://www.waterfrontmuseum.org Ages: All Price: Free, . Donations Requested, $5 group visits by appointment Visit the historic 1914 Lehigh Valley Barge #79, a floating museum & showboat housed aboard the last remaining covered wooden barge which has been lovingly restored and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Visitors see the exhibition "SHOWBOAT – 'Round the Bend", and discover the history of the Tug and Barge "Lighterage Era" (1860-1960) and how food and commercial goods were transported prior to today's bridges and tunnels. Experience the exciting story of the rescue of Barge #79 by a clown and juggler and enjoy the captain's "Serious Foolishness." Open Hours: Thursdays 4 – 8 PM Additional Open Hours: October 6 & 7 Noon to 6 PM. Grand Showboat Weekend: October 20 & 21, Noon to 6 PM. Through 6/15/2008 Hours: Sat-Wed 11am-5:45pm; Thu 11am-8pm Archaeology Zone: Discovering Treasures from Playgrounds to Palaces - The Jewish Museum 1109 Fifth Avenue - 212-423-3200 at 92nd Street www.thejewishmuseum.org Ages: 3-10 Price: $12; $10 for seniors; $7.50 for students; Free for members & children under 12 In this exhibition children become archaeologists as they search for clues about ancient and modern objects. Visitors will discover what happens after archaeologists unearth artifacts and bring them back to their labs for in-depth analysis. Children will magnify, sketch and weigh objects from past to present, piece together clay fragments, interpret symbols and dress in costumes. By examining these objects in their daily lives, children learn how forms have changed and evolved over time, and how these objects relate to their own lives. Through 6/30/2008 Gustav Klimt: The Ronald S. Lauder and Serge Sabarsky Collections - Neue Galerie 1048 Fifth Ave. (86 St.) - 212-628-6200 www.neuegalerie.org Internationally recognized today as a major figure of 20th-century art, Gustav Klimt was little known in the United States during the first half of the 20th century. This first museum retrospective of the work of Klimt ever held in the United States comprises eight paintings and more than 120 drawings by the controversial artist, on view together for the first time. The exhibition will also feature a reconstruction, with original furnishings, of the receiving parlor from the second Klimt studio. "Gustav Klimt" unites the collections of Ronald Lauder and Serge Sabarsky, co-founders of the Neue Galerie, and will fill all the gallery spaces in the museum. Together their collections comprise the finest gathering of works by Klimt in the United States. Besides paintings and drawings, the exhibition will contain rare vintage documentary material, ranging from letters, photographs, and personal effects, such as the artist's cufflinks and seal (both designed by the architect Josef Hoffmann), to the only known surviving example of the painting smock that Klimt wore. The installation will be accompanied by period music, including works by Beethoven, Brahms, and Schubert that Klimt was known to have admired. Through 12/02/2008 Coaxing the Spirits to Dance: Art of the Papuan Gulf - Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Ave. @ 82nd St. - 212-535-7710 http://www.metmuseum.org Price: $20; $15; $10; Free for members & children under 12 This exhibition presents some 60 powerful and graphically elaborate sculptures and 30 rare historical photographs from the Gulf province of Papua New Guinea. The sacred objects, alongside photographs that show them in context, demonstrate the deep connection between art and community life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Drawn from public and private collections, as well as the Met's own holdings, many of the works are being exhibited for the first time in the only in-depth investigation of these art traditions in 45 years. Through 5/25/2008 Hours: 10am-5:45 pm daily Water: h2o = Life - American Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th St. - 212-769-5100 www.amnh.org Price: Museum admission $15 (adults); $8.50 children Water: H2O = Life explores the beauty and wonder of our planet's "lifeblood" using an innovative combination of cutting-edge presentation techniques, including live fishes and frogs, images projected on a curtain of fog, a six-foot globe displaying satellite images of Earth, immersive dioramas, and interactive exhibits that will allow visitors to experience firsthand the power of water. The exhibition examines the most compelling challenges that people and ecosystems around the globe face with respect to water quality and availability. Artifacts from the Museum's and other collections will highlight diverse cultural and spiritual aspects of water. Visitors will be challenged to reconsider the way they view water-to see it not as a limitless resource to be taken for granted, but as the limited and life-sustaining resource it truly is. Through 9/08/2008 Everyday Eden - MetroTech Center Myrtle Ave. (Jay St.-Flatbush Ave.) - 212-980-4575 www.publicartfund.org Public Art Fund is pleased to present a new exhibition of contemporary art at MetroTech Center in downtown Brooklyn. Everyday Eden features two new commissions and three recent works by artists Jebediah Caeser, Tony Feher, Rob Fischer, Paula Hayes, amd Nina Katcharourian. Their works are about today's growing interest in ecological concerns, including natural settings, constructed landscapes, decay, recycling, and preservation. Through 9/01/2008 Multiple Choice: From Sample to Product - Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum 2 E. 91st St. (5 Ave.) - 212-849-8400 http://ndm.si.edu Price: $15; $10 for seniors & students; Free for ages 12 & under This exhibition examines sample books and other sampling formats as tools for marketing or recording designs and techniques in a wide variety of media, over many eras. Drawn from the museum's collection, exhibition objects include sample books of wallcoverings; woven and printed textiles; ribbons, lace and embroidery; sample plates; drawings and prints showing design alternatives. Through 12/17/2008 Hours: Sun, Tue-Thu 11am-5pm Alfred Dreyfus: The Fight for Justice - Yeshiva University Museum 15 W. 16th St. (btw. 5th & 6th Aves.) - 212-294-8330 www.yumuseum.org Yeshiva University Museum presents the first major exhibition to address the history and consequences of the Dreyfus Affair through the personal effects of the man himself. The exhibition comprises some 200 objects from the Dreyfus family archive, including photographs, posters, letters, and the original 'J'accuse...' newspaper article, written by Emile Zola to the president of France in 1898, all in chronological order. The majority of these objects will be on public view in the United States for the first time. Through 8/10/2008 Hours: Tue-Sat 10am-6pm; Sun 11am-5:45pm French Founding Father: Lafayette's Return to Washington's America - New-York Historical Society 2 W. 77th Street - 212-873-3400 www.nyhistory.org Ages: All Price: $10 for adults; $7 for seniors & educators; Free for members & children 12 & under The Marquis de Lafayette first arrived in America in 1777 to assist George Washington in the cause for independence. This exhibit will explore the importance of Lafayette's remarkable and eventful tour, with more than 150 objects from the Historical Society's collections and other American and French institutions, including paintings, sculpture, books, prints, manuscripts, decorative arts and other memorabilia. Through 7/28/2008 Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now - Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) 11 W. 53 St. (5-6 Aves.) - 212-708-9400 www.moma.org Ages: All Price: $20; $16 for seniors; $12 for students; Free for members & children under 17 This installation, part of an ongoing series devoted to MoMA's contemporary collection, examines three distinctive paths for art and includes paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, photographs, and media works. One section is devoted to formal and conceptual ideas of abstraction, while another deals with thematic issues of memory and mutability. A third segment brings together art that provokes -- from the outrageous to the humorous to the politically challenging. Through 12/29/2008 Michael Feinstein: Winter Dreams - Feinstein's at Loew's Regency Regency Hotel, 540 Park Ave. (61 St.) - 212-339-4095 www.feinsteinsattheregency.com Feinstein sings old favorites and contemporary standards, in addition to a tribute to singing legends of the past -- Rosemary Clooney, Bing Crosby, Tony Martin and Kay Thompson. He's joined by an all-star band including musical director John Oddo on piano, Bucky Pizzarelli on guitar, Jay Leonhart on bass, Joe Cocuzzo on drums, and a trio of backup singers. Tuesday through Saturday at 8:30pm with late shows on Friday and Saturday at 11pm. Through 6/01/2008 The Whitney's Collection - Whitney Museum of American Art 945 Madison Ave. (75 St.) - 800-WHITNEY www.whitney.org Ages: All Price: $15; $10 for seniors & students; Free for members & children under 12 This presentation of the permanent collection highlights four broad themes that elucidate key developments of twentieth century art in this country. They include the fragmentation and abstraction of early modernism; the realism that focused on people and society; the aesthetics of industry, city and machine; and, finally, the convergence between mental state and bodily gesture that led to new types of form and abstraction. Through 5/18/2008 Arte≠Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas, 1960-2000 - El Museo Del Barrio 1230 Fifth Ave. (104 St.) - 212-831-7272 www.elmuseo.org "Arte no es vida" is the first-ever survey of the vast array of performance art created over the last half-century by Latino artists in the United States and by artists working in Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Mexico, and Central and South America. A rich and lively presentation of photographs, video, texts, ephemera, props and artworks represent a landmark within the documentation of action art. Through 9/28/2008 Campana Brothers Select: Works from the Permanent Collection - Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum 2 E. 91st St. (5 Ave.) - 212-849-8400 http://ndm.si.edu Price: $15; $12 for seniors & students; Free for members & children under 12 Brazilian design team Fernando and Humberto Campana mined the museum's collection departments and chose a diverse group of more than twenty objects, dating from the sixteenth to the twentieth century, to exhibit. The selected pieces, which range from book illustrations and jewelry, to furniture and wallpaper designs, blend unexpected media, layer varied forms, and weave intricate patterns and lines. Through 5/31/2008 WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution - P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center 4601 21st St., Long Island City, Queens - 718-784-2084 www.ps1.org This is the first comprehensive, historical exhibition to examine the international foundations and legacy of feminist art, focusing on the crucial period of the 1970s, during which the majority of feminist activism and artmaking occurred internationally. The exhibition spans the period of 1965-1980 and includes 120 artists and artist groups from the United States, Central and Eastern Europe, Latin America, Asia, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. WACK! includes work by women who operated within the political structure of feminism as well as women who did not necessarily embrace feminism as part of their practice, but were impacted by the movement. The exhibition, comprising work in a broad range of media - including painting, sculpture, photography, film, video, and performance art - is organized around themes based on media, geography, formal concerns, collective aesthetic, and political impulses. Through 5/28/2008 Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 1071 Fifth Ave. (89 St.) - 212-423-3500 www.guggenheim.org Designed by Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang as a site-specific installation, this exhibition presents art as a process that unfolds in time and space, dealing with ideas of transformation, expenditure of materials, and connectivity. The structure of Cai's art forms are inherently unstable, but his social idealism characterizes all change, however violent, as carrying the seeds of positive creation. Subverting tropes such as East versus West, traditional versus contemporary, center versus periphery, Cai offers a new cultural paradigm for the art of a global age and expands the meaning of the phrase "I want to believe." Through 5/31/2008 Building China: Five Projects, Five Stories - Center for Architecture 536 LaGuardia Pl. (Bleecker-W. 3 Sts.) - 212-683-0023 www.aiany.org This exhibition features five unique architectural case studies that were conceived, designed, and recently completed by Chinese architects. Located throughout China, many of these buildings, being exhibited in the U.S. for the first time, offer the public insight into China's ever-changing landscape. The People's Republic of China is undergoing a phenomenal transformation. Since 1978, with the adoption of an open-door policy, the country has developed a thriving market economy, out of which existing and new cities are experiencing rapid and aggressive growth. A new generation of architects is active in the vanguard of this construction, developing their own architectural identity. Through 5/18/2008 Gustave Courbet - Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Ave. @ 82nd St. - 212-535-7710 http://www.metmuseum.org This exhibition comprises more than 130 oil paintings and works on paper by Gustave Courbet (1819-77), a pioneering figure in the history of modernism and one of the major artists of mid-19th-century France. This will be the first full retrospective on Courbet in more than 30 years, exploring his career in all media, including a selection of 19th-century photographs that relate to his work, especially his landscapes and nudes. Through 8/10/2008 Anatomy of a Masterpiece: How to Read Chinese Paintings - Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Ave. @ 82nd St. - 212-535-7710 http://www.metmuseum.org This exhibition dissects 36 paintings and calligraphies from the Met's permanent collection, juxtaposing actual artworks with enlarged photographic details that focus on fine points of style or content to highlight what makes each one a masterpiece. The display, which spans 1,000 years of Chinese art history, from the 8th to the 17th century, examines many of the museum's finest paintings, including figures, landscapes, flowers, birds, and religious subjects. Through 8/31/2008 Earl Cunningham's America - American Folk Art Museum, Eva and Morris Feld Gallery 2 Lincoln Square (Columbus Ave. btw. 65 & 66 Sts.) - 212-977-7170 www.folkartmuseum.org This exhibition examines the paintings of landscape artist Earl Cunningham (1893-1977), who worked in the tradition of memory painting. This retrospective presents the artist as a folk modernist who used the flat space and brilliant color to create sophisticated compositions with complex meanings about the nature of American life. The exhibition features 50 of the more than 400 canvases Cunningham painted during his life and places his work in the context of the folk art revival that brought Edward Hicks, Anna Mary Robertson "Grandma" Moses, Horace Pippin, and other folk masters to national attention. Through 6/01/2008 Whitney Biennial 2008 - Whitney Museum of American Art 945 Madison Ave. (75 St.) - 800-WHITNEY www.whitney.org Today there are more artists working in more genres, using more varieties of material, and moving among more geographic locations than ever before. The 2008 Biennial seeks to reveal the links among these seemingly disparate and sometimes ephemeral practices. By exploring the networks that exist among contemporary artists and the work they create, the Biennial characterizes the state of American art today. Almost completely comprised of new works, many of which are site-specific, the exhibition will fill nearly every floor of the Museum, including the sculpture court, and will invite visitors to explore the works in any order they choose. The film and video program will repeat each day, making it possible to view the entire schedule in one visit. Through 7/06/2008 Rococo: The Continuing Curve, 1730-2008 - Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum 2 E. 91st St. (5 Ave.) - 212-849-8400 http://ndm.si.edu Price: $15; $12 for seniors & students; Free for members & children under 12 This is a groundbreaking exhibition that fully explores the Rococo style and its continuing revivals up to the present day in multiple fields, including furniture, decorative arts, textiles, prints, and drawings. The exhibition will chart the progress of the Rococo style as it radiates out from Paris, travels to the French provinces, migrates to other European countries, and later crosses over to the United States. Through 6/22/2008 Oil/Water - Mother/Daughter: Video and Photography by Mor Arkadir - Jewish Museum 1109 Fifth Ave. (92 St.) - 212-423-3200 www.thejewishmuseum.org The documentary film Oil, Water (2005) and photograph Overlap (2004) by Mor Arkadir explore the intersection between the artist's secular world and her mother's religious observance. The 14-minute film depicts a 24-hour road trip in which mother and daughter confront generational differences, conflicting belief systems, and engine troubles. Arkadir's photograph depicts a microcosm of Israeli society that is at once diverse and contradictory. Through 6/15/2008 Utagawa: Masters of the Japanese Print, 1770-1900 - Brooklyn Museum 200 Eastern Parkway - 718-638-5000 www.brooklynmuseum.org The Utagawa School, founded by Utagawa Toyoharu, dominated the Japanese print market in the nineteenth century and is responsible for more than half of all surviving ukiyo-e ("pictures of the floating world") prints. This exhibition presents more than 70 prints from the renowned Van Vleck collection of Japanese woodblock prints at the Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison and approximately 20 prints from the Brooklyn Museum. Representing famous places, landscapes, warriors, and kabuki actors, these colorful, technically innovative (and sometimes defiant of government regulations) prints were created for a popular audience and documented the pleasures of urban life and leisure. They were reproduced in books, posters, and other printed materials for mass consumption, and they fed a thriving Edo publishing industry. Through 6/15/2008 The Genius of Japanese Lacquer: Masterworks by Shibata Zeshin - Japan Society 333 E. 47th St. - 212-832-1155 www.japansociety.org Ages: Adults Zeshin (1807-1891) was history's greatest lacquer artist, recognized worldwide for his boxes. Through 6/29/2008 The World of Charles Ethan Porter: Nineteenth-Century African-American Artist - Studio Museum in Harlem 144 W. 125th St. (Lenox Ave.-Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Blvd.) - 212-864-4500 www.studiomuseuminharlem.org Charles Ethan Porter (c. 1847-1923) began painting in the aftermath of the Civil War and worked well into the twentieth century, creating masterpieces of the American still-life tradition. He was also celebrated in his day as a skillful colorist. Porter, however, is obscured by his African-American contemporaries, such as Henry Ossawa Tanner and Edmonia Lewis, both of whom worked in the more popular figurative tradition. The World of Charles Ethan Porter features dozens of Porter's still lifes, landscapes and portraits, and introduces audiences to this shadowy painter who deftly combined the American luminist tradition with that of the French Barbizon School. Through 6/29/2008 Cholera 1832 - New-York Historical Society 2 W. 77th Street - 212-873-3400 www.nyhistory.org Price: $10; $7 for seniors; $6 for students; Free for members & children under 12 This focused exhibition will be devoted to the cholera epidemics of 19th century New York in 1832, 1849, and 1866, with particular emphasis on the 1832 epidemic. A brief introductory section will cover the yellow fever epidemics of the 1790s to the 1820s that preceded them. A concluding section will examine New York's response to epidemics at the end of the 19th century. Through 6/29/2008 Plague in Gotham! Cholera in Nineteenth-Century New York - New-York Historical Society 2 W. 77th Street - 212-873-3400 www.nyhistory.org This exhibition examines the deadly epidemics of cholera that hit New York City, particularly the first in 1832. Through 7/13/2008 © MURAKAMI - Brooklyn Museum 200 Eastern Parkway - 718-638-5000 www.brooklynmuseum.org The most comprehensive retrospective to date of the work of internationally acclaimed Japanese artist Takashi Murakami includes more than ninety works in various media that span the artist's entire career, installed in more than 18,500 square feet of gallery space. Through 5/18/2008 Hours: 12 and 2pm If You Give a Mouse a Cookie! - Manhattan Children's Theatre. 52 White Street - 212-352-3101 www.mctny.org Ages: 4 and up Price: $20 Brought back by popular demand!! How can one tiny mouse make such a terrible mess? When a young boy is home alone for the afternoon, he is met by a seemingly harmless little creature…harmless that is, until he asks the boy if he would share a cookie with him. Giving that mouse one cookie sets off a chain of events the boy will never forget! This rollicking comedy will keep all ages giggling, and certainly weary of ever having a mouse as a pet!! Saturdays and Sundays. Through 8/31/2008 The Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef - World Financial Center Winter Garden www.TheIFF.org Ages: Teens (14+),Adults Price: Free Bursting forth in a colorful, crocheted panoply of loopy "kelps", curlicue "corals," and fringy "anemones," this wooly homage to Earth's endangered coral reefs is a beautiful marriage of traditional arts & crafts and hyperbolic geometry. This exhibition, featuring The Toxic Reef (through May 18), The New York Reef, and The Chicago Reef, raises awareness about these disappearing marine treasures. Through 10/19/2008 Photography on Photography: Reflections on the Medium since 1960 - Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Ave. @ 82nd St. - 212-535-7710 http://www.metmuseum.org This installation of works from the permanent collection -- the second in the Museum's new gallery for contemporary photographs -- surveys the ways in which artists have directed the camera toward photography itself, taking aim at its claims of transparency and objectivity, its ubiquity in modern life, and its inextricable ties to advertising and consumer culture. Artists include William Anastasi, Robert Heinecken, Allen Ruppersberg, Sherrie Levine, Thomas Ruff, Christopher Williams, Roe Ethridge, Liz Deschenes, James Welling, and Kota Ezawa, among many others. Through 8/17/2008 Woven Splendor from Timbuktu to Tibet: Exotic Rugs & Textiles - New-York Historical Society 2 W. 77th Street - 212-873-3400 www.nyhistory.org Price: $10; $7 for seniors; $6 for students; Free for members & children under 12 This exhibition celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Hajji Baba Club, the nation's oldest and most prestigious rug collecting club. Featured will be approximately 75 objects belonging to current club members, including rugs, costume and other Near Eastern/Central Asian textiles. The thematic exhibition will explore how rugs were produced and used in their countries of origin, as well as how Americans initially understood these objects. Through 8/17/2008 Orientalism in New York - New-York Historical Society 2 W. 77th Street - 212-873-3400 www.nyhistory.org Price: $10; $7 for seniors; $6 for students; Free for members & children under 12 This is a multi-faceted installation examining the fashion for Orientalism in New York during the late 19th century. Through paintings, prints, photographs and books as well as silver, lighting, and metalwork, the display will explore New Yorkers' fascination with the 'Orient,' defined for this purpose as the Middle East, as well as North Africa and Moorish Spain. The installation will include paintings of Orientalist artists that hung in New York salons, as well as depictions of New Yorkers sporting traditional Middle Eastern dress. Through 9/14/2008 Asa Ames: Occupation Sculpturing - American Folk Art Museum 45 W. 53rd St. (5-6 Aves.) - 212-265-1040 www.folkartmuseum.org Asa Ames is a mysterious and tragic figure. The young sculptor died from consumption when he was 27 years, 7 months, and 7 days old. Though his own life was short, he immortalized family members and neighbors in the vicinity of Evans, Erie County, New York, in a legacy of twelve three-dimensional portraits of children and young adults carved between 1847 and his death in 1851. Through 8/10/2008 Illuminating the Medieval Hunt - Morgan Library & Museum 225 Madison Ave. - 212-685-0008 www.themorgan.org This new exhibition features nearly 50 miniatures from the Morgan's celebrated hunting manuscript by Gaston Phoebus (1331-1391), Le Livre de la chasse (Paris, ca. 1407), offering the public a unique opportunity to see a large nuymber of these miniatures displayed together while the manuscript is termporarily disbound for conservation. Visitors can leaf through a copy of a newly-prepared facsimile. Through 10/26/2008 Jeff Koons on the Roof - Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Ave. @ 82nd St. - 212-535-7710 http://www.metmuseum.org Ages: Teens (14+) An installation of sculptures by American artist Jeff Koons (b. 1955), featuring several of the artist's meticulously crafted works. The works are set in the most dramatic outdoor space for sculpture in New York City: The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, which offers a spectacular view of Central Park and the Manhattan skyline. Beverage and sandwich service available from 10am until closing, including Friday and Saturday evenings. Through 12/31/2008 Hours: Tue-Sun 10am-5pm Catholics in New York, 1808-1946 - Museum of the City of New York 1220 Fifth Ave. (103 St.) - 212-534-1672 http://www.mcny.org Price: $9; $5 for seniors & students; Free for members & children under 12 This exhibition explores how a suppressed outsiders' faith became the region's single largest Christian denomination by the mid-19th century, and how Catholics transformed the cultural, economic, and political life of the broader community over time. The exhibition is presented on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the formation of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York. Through 7/25/2008 Hours: Mon.-Fri. 8am-6pm On Paper: The Lincoln Center/List Collection - UBS Art Gallery 1285 Ave. of the Americas (51-52 Sts.) - 212-713-2885 http://www.ubs.com/1/e/about/sponsor/culture/ubs_art_gallery.html Ages: All Ages In honor of the upcoming 50th anniversary celebration of Lincoln Center, The UBS Gallery will present a collection of rarely seen works by contemporary artists. Through 6/06/2008 Michael Creighton - Lesley Heller Gallery 16 West 77th Street - 212-410-6120 www.lesleyheller.com Ages: Adults Through 8/31/2008 Philip Guston: Works on Paper - Morgan Library & Museum 225 Madison Ave. - 212-685-0008 www.themorgan.org Featuring approximately 75 drawings from the mid-1940s to 1980, this exhibition - the first retrospective of Philip Guston (1913-1980) drawings in 20 years - examines the importance of drawing in Guston's art. Guston was a prolific draftsman who often turned to drawing to explore new directions in his art before transposing them to painting. Several times during the course of his career, he stopped painting altogether to concentrate on drawing. Through 8/15/2008 Hours: Tues.-Sat., noon-6pm From Another Shore: Recent Icelandic Art - Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America 58 Park Ave. (37-38 Sts.) - 212-779-3587 www.scandinaviahouse.org Price: Free This exhibition is a succinct account of Icelandic art represented by the works of 19 artists who have been prominent in the last two decades. Their works are influenced by both the unspoiled Icelandic environment, and by the island nation's isolation. Through 11/10/2008 Red, Black, and Gold - Rubin Museum of Art 150 W. 17th St. (6-7 Aves.) - 212-620-5000 www.rmanyc.org Ages: All Ages This exhibition explores the three unique types of Himalayan painting in which color is used to invoke mood and emotion. Red is for alarm, power, and resolve. Black is for caution, fear, and protection. Gold is for wonder, wealth, and opulence. Through 5/31/2008 Donald Judd: Woodcuts - Paula Cooper Gallery 534 & 521 W 21st St - 212-255-1105 www.paulacoopergallery.com Ages: All Ages Renowned artist's exhibition of over 30 woodcuts dating from the early 1960s. Through 9/07/2008 Polaroids: Mapplethorpe - Whitney Museum of American Art 945 Madison Ave. (75 St.) - 800-WHITNEY www.whitney.org Ages: Adults This special exhibition traces Robert Mapplethorpe's use of instant photography from 1970 to 1975. Created in collaboration with the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, the show brings together one hundred objects, many never exhibited before. Included are self-portraits, figure studies, still lifes, and portraits of lovers and friends including Patti Smith, Sam Wagstaff, and Marianne Faithfull. Through 5/17/2008 Hours: 11am and 2pm 'Ogden Nash's The Tales of the Custard Dragon' is BACK!! - The Algonquin Theater 123 East 24th St - Smarttix 212-868-4444 Ages: Ages 5 to 10 Price: $12 and $8 BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND!!!! After his successful run this past March, Custard the Dragon is back and ready to try to be brave again! Inspired by the whimsical books, "The Tales of Custard the Dragon" and "Custard the Dragon and the Wicked Knight" by Ogden Nash, the show aims to entertain children and adults alike. Join Custard the Dragon and his friends Ink, Blink and Mustard as they embark on a musical tale about a most unlikely hero who finds the courage to rescue his beloved Belinda from a menacing pirate and a wicked knight! www.AlgonquinProductions.org Through 6/07/2008 Rudolf Stingel - Paula Cooper Gallery 534 & 521 W 21st St - 212-255-1105 www.paulacoopergallery.com Ages: All Ages Exhibition of works on paper. Through 5/24/2008 The Allman Brothers Band - Beacon Theatre 2124 Broadway (74-75 Sts.) - 212-465-6225 www.beacontheatrenyc.com The tradition continues as The Allman Brothers Band return to the Beacon Theatre for the 14th time for 15 show. No performance 5/7, 5/11, 5/14, 5/18, 5/21. Through 9/01/2008 Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy - Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Ave. @ 82nd St. - 212-535-7710 http://www.metmuseum.org Ages: All Ages This exhibition explores the symbolic and metaphorical associations between fashion and the superhero. Featuring movie costumes, avant-garde haute couture, and high-performance sportswear, it will reveal how the superhero serves as the ultimate metaphor for fashion and its ability to empower and transform the human body. Objects will be organized thematically around particular superheroes, whose movie costumes and superpowers will be catalysts for the discussion of key concepts of superheroism and their expression in fashion. Through 6/13/2008 Hours: 10am-6pm Rediscovering the American Landscape: The Eastholm Project - Hirschl & Adler Galleries 21 E 70th St - 212-535-8810 www.hirschlandadler.com Ages: Teens (14+),Adults Price: Free Exhibition by landscape artist, Jacob Collins. Through 6/30/2008 Mark Di Suvero - Paula Cooper Gallery 534 & 521 W 21st St - 212-255-1105 www.paulacoopergallery.com Ages: All Ages Recent sculpture by internationally acclaimed sculptor. Through 6/08/2008 Cosi fan tutte - Amato Opera 319 Bowery (1-2 Sts.) - 212-228-8200 www.amato.org The smaller venue for grand opera, featuring up-and-coming performers, presents the Mozart classic, sung in English. Through 6/08/2008 MOMIX - Joyce Theater 175 Eighth Ave. (18-19 Sts.) - 212-242-0800 www.joyce.org Hallucinatory and magical, Moses Pendleton's company of dancer illusionists continues enchanting audiences this season with its flare for luminous fantasy and otherworldly delight. In PASSION, audiences experience a sensual evening of theatrical brilliance, performed to a haunting score by Peter Gabriel. Also, discover the power of black light visions in LUNAR SEA, a psychedelic experiment in moon gravity. Through 8/03/2008 Inspired by Kashmir: Works by New York City Students - Asia Society and Museum 725 Park Ave. (70 St.) - 212-288-6400 www.asiasociety.org Ages: All Ages This exhibition presents works created by students in response to Asia Society's exhibition "The Arts of Kashmir." Students from four New York City public schools portray their own experiences as reflections of their encounters with the great artistic traditions of Kashmir. This is an annual exhibition in association with Studio in a School. Through 5/15/2008 Hours: 6-9pm The Ultimate Canadian Apartment - Rockefeller Center's 620 Loft and Garden 620 Fifth Avenue at 50th Street www.canada.travel Ages: Adults Open house sponsored by the Canadian Tourism Commission--cutting-edge design, gourmet tastings and musical performances. Through 5/16/2008 2008 Spring Pen Fair - Art Brown International Pen Shop 2 W. 46 St. (5 Ave.) - 800-772-PENS www.artbrown.com Ages: Adults Speak to representatives from some of the world's leading pen manufacturers while viewing their newest products at the Arthur Brown & Bro. Inc. Annual Spring Pen Fair. There will be free appraisal of antique pens as well as pen repairs, free full-color pen catalogs, and show specials and discounts. Through 5/16/2008 Hours: 8am Catherine Malandrino - Metropolitan Pavillion 123 West 18th Street - 212-388-0039 www.catherinemalandrino.com Ages: Adults Price: Free Spring 2008 sample and stock sale. Through 5/17/2008 Hours: 1pm, 7pm Corporate Carnival - World Financial Center Winter Garden www.TheIFF.org Ages: All Ages Returning to the World Financial Center with Corporate Carnival, Women's Project presents feats of balance, strength and magic, while juggling hedge funds, unleashing the retail giantess, eating the glass ceiling, challenging the strongman to wrestle with Sarbanes-Oxley, and many more daredevil acts. Catch a glimpse of the carnies as they roam the corridors of the World Financial Center, interacting with the public in surprising ways. Don't miss the show's culmination on the Winter Garden's grand staircase where performers will spin extraordinary tales of corporate life. 5/15/2008 Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Carnegie Hall 154 W. 57th St. (7 Ave.) - 212-247-7800 www.carnegiehall.org Bernard Haitink leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Peter Lieberson's Grammy Award-winning Neruda Songs with mezzo-soprano Kelley O'Connor as soloist. The program also includes Mahler's Symphony No. 1. 5/15/2008 Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival - Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Ave. & 82nd St. - 212-570-3949 www.metmuseum.org Performing works by Schumann, Beethoven, and Kurtág. 5/15/2008 La Clemenza di Tito - Metropolitan Opera Metropolitan Opera House, Amsterdam Ave. & 64th St. - 212-362-6000 www.metoperafamily.org For one of his final operas, Mozart examined political and romantic intrigue with a compelling return to the opera seria form. The radiant mezzo-soprano Susan Graham and the stylish tenor Ramon Vargas lead a superb ensemble of artists ideally suited to the challenges of this profound masterwork, led by Harry Bicket on the podium. 5/15/2008 Hours: 8pm An Evening with David Brubeck - Tribeca Performing Arts Center 199 Chambers Street www.tribecapac.org Ages: Adults With Bobby Millitello, Michael Moore and Randy Jones. 5/15/2008 Hours: 7-8:30pm The Path to Self-Mastery - 92nd Street Y Lexington Ave. & 92nd St. - 212-415-5500 www.92y.org Ages: Adults Price: $75 First session of 3: Awaken to life! Discover a whole new way of living by delving into the hidden world of the self. Learn observation and watchfulness techniques to control your attention and listen to your intuition—the intelligence of the heart. 5/15/2008 Hours: $26 Steve Coll in Conversation with Leonard Lopate: The Bin Ladens - 92nd Street Y Lexington Ave. & 92nd St. - 212-415-5500 www.92y.org Ages: Adults Price: 8:15pm The author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Ghost Wars: The Secret History of CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001, Steve Coll discusses his most recent book, The Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century. Coll talks to Leonard Lopate, host of WNYC's The Leonard Lopate Show. 5/16/2008 Hours: 8pm Judy Collins in Concert - The Town Hall 123 W. 43rd St. (Broadway-Sixth Ave.) - 212-997-1003 www.the-townhall-nyc.org Price: $40-$35 The living legend performs, with Amy Speace opening. 5/16/2008 - 6/01/2008 Compagnie 111 - New Victory Theater 209 West 42nd Street - 646-223-3020 at Broadway www.newvictory.org Ages: 6 and up Price: $12.50-$35 Last seen at the New Vic in their sold-out show Plan B, created in collaboration with Phil Soltanoff, Compagnie 111 is back with a witty, wordless new showcase of sonic juggling. Cleverly named for science's designators of direction in a 3-D world (i, j & k), the show redefines radical space manipulation. IJK is a balancing act of light and dark, sound and silence. Magical white orbs unite patterns and rhythms to create a mesmerizing landscape that defies linear logic. Weaving whimsy and geometry, this exhibition of visual illusion unlocks every colorful corner of the imagination. Your mind just won't believe what your eyes are seeing. 5/16/2008 Hours: 7:30 & 8:30pm SonicVision - American Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th St. - 212-769-5100 www.amnh.org The American Museum of Natural History, in collaboration with MTV2, has launched SonicVision, a groundbreaking digitally animated alternative music show every Friday and Saturday night. SonicVision takes audiences in the Hayden Planetarium Space Theater on a mind-warping musical roller-coaster ride through fantastical dreamspace. With a mix by Moby and featuring tracks from Radiohead, U2, David Bowie, Coldplay, Queens of the Stone Age, Prodigy, The Flaming Lips, Fischerspooner, Spiritualized, Audioslave, Stereolab, Boards of Canada, David Byrne and Brian Eno, Goldfrapp, Zwan, White Zombie, and Moby, the music ignites this one-of-a-kind computer-generated musical and visual experience, which uses next-generation digital technology to illuminate the Planetarium's dome with a dazzling morphing of colorful visions. 5/16/2008 Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Carnegie Hall 154 W. 57th St. (7 Ave.) - 212-247-7800 www.carnegiehall.org Bernard Haitink leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Haydn's Symphony No. 101 and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 4. 5/16/2008 MMArtists in Concert - Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Fifth Ave. & 82nd St. - 212-570-3949 www.metmuseum.org Performing works by Beethoven, Carter, and Copland. 5/16/2008 La Fille du Régiment - Metropolitan Opera Metropolitan Opera House, Amsterdam Ave. & 64th St. - 212-362-6000 www.metoperafamily.org Experience the "exceedingly yummy operatic cake" that was called "the operatic show of the season" by The Times of London when it opened at Covent Garden this past winter. Audiences were dazzled by Natalie Dessay's fearless coloratura and impeccable comic timing and by Juan Diego Flórez's remarkable musicality—complete with the famous high Cs. Dessay and Flórez are an "operatic coupling made in heaven" raved the Financial Times. Directed by Laurent Pelly, the production also boasts stage legend and four-time Tony Award winner Zoe Caldwell as the Duchess of Krakenthorp. 5/16/2008 Hours: 4-8pm Dive into the Family Benefit: 20,000 Leagues under the Sea - Children's Museum of the Arts 182 Lafayette St. (Grand-Broome Sts.) - 212-274-0986 www.cmany.org Ages: All Price: Kids $25 Adults $75 CMA's teaching artists will create an underwater adventure featuring themed food, activities, and, of course, art projects! A great family event to benefit the Children's Museum of the Arts! Tickets are $75 for adults and $25 for children. For more information and tickets, contact Lori Feren at 212.274.0986 or lferen@cmany.org. 5/16/2008 - 5/17/2008 Hours: 12-6pm Cheese Tasting - Zabar's 2254 Broadway - 212-787-2000 at 80th Street www.zabars.com Ages: All Ages Price: free Visit Zabar's Cheese Department every Friday and Saturday till May 17th to sample some extraordinary cheeses from France. Also find out onsite how to enter the "Springtime in Paris" Sweepstakes. 5/16/2008 - 9/07/2008 Heavy Light: Recent Photography and Video from Japan - International Center of Photography 1133 6th Ave. (43 St.) - 212-857-0000 http://www.icp.org/ Ages: TE,AD 5/16/2008 - 9/07/2008 Arbus/Avedon/Model:Selections from the Bank of America LaSalle Collection - International Center of Photography 1133 6th Ave. (43 St.) - 212-857-0000 http://www.icp.org/ Ages: TE,AD 5/17/2008 Hours: 8:30pm Lukas Ligeti & Colleen - Merkin Hall at Kaufman Center 129 W. 67th St. - 212-501-3303 www.kaufman-center.org Price: $30 Composer and percussionist Lukas Ligeti fuses disparate elements (African polyrhythms, non-tempered tuning, pop melodies) to create an infectious cross-cultural sound. He is joined by the mesmerizing French composer and performer Colleen, who conjures a timeless musical world by filtering the minimalist qualities of early music through live electronics and found instruments, including her favored electric viola da gamba. 5/17/2008 Macbeth - Metropolitan Opera Metropolitan Opera House, Amsterdam Ave. & 64th St. - 212-362-6000 www.metoperafamily.org Verdi's longstanding affinity for Shakespeare is explored in director Adrian Noble's powerful new production of this gripping work, conducted by James Levine. 5/17/2008 Hours: 7:30 & 8:30pm SonicVision - American Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th St. - 212-769-5100 www.amnh.org The American Museum of Natural History, in collaboration with MTV2, has launched SonicVision, a groundbreaking digitally animated alternative music show every Friday and Saturday night. SonicVision takes audiences in the Hayden Planetarium Space Theater on a mind-warping musical roller-coaster ride through fantastical dreamspace. With a mix by Moby and featuring tracks from Radiohead, U2, David Bowie, Coldplay, Queens of the Stone Age, Prodigy, The Flaming Lips, Fischerspooner, Spiritualized, Audioslave, Stereolab, Boards of Canada, David Byrne and Brian Eno, Goldfrapp, Zwan, White Zombie, and Moby, the music ignites this one-of-a-kind computer-generated musical and visual experience, which uses next-generation digital technology to illuminate the Planetarium's dome with a dazzling morphing of colorful visions. 5/17/2008 Mitsuko Uchida & Friends - Carnegie Hall 154 W. 57th St. (7 Ave.) - 212-247-7800 www.carnegiehall.org Uchida returns for a chamber music program with pianist Llyr Williams, clarinetist Martin Frost, violinist Soovin Kim, and cellist Christian Poltera in Zankel Hall. The program includes Messiaen's Quatuor pour la fin du temps as well as works by Liszt and Bartok. 5/17/2008 Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Concert Series: Akua Dixon and Her Swing Quartet featuring the Hip Hop Blues Project - Harlem Stage Aaron Davis Hall, 150 Convent Ave. (135 St.) - 212-281-9240 harlemstage.org Akua Dixon and her swinging string quartet, play her originals and arrangements of jazz classics from the likes of Ellington, Monk, Mingus, Spirituals and Work Songs, with classics from the great American Song Book. This is the Fourth Hip Hop Blues Project Concert, featuring some of the hardest-working string students from the tri-state area, performing a new work "BEATZ". Free. 5/17/2008 The First Emperor - Metropolitan Opera Metropolitan Opera House, Amsterdam Ave. & 64th St. - 212-362-6000 www.metoperafamily.org Tan Dun's rich pageant of ancient China returns, fresh from its sold-out premiere run. Plácido Domingo reprises his tour-de-force portrayal of the great but brutal leader who sacrifices personal happiness to unite a country, in a monumental production by revered filmmaker Zhang Yimou. 5/17/2008 Hours: 3pm Flat Stanley - The Musical - Center for the Arts 2800 Victory Blvd. www.flatstanleyproject.com Ages: Pre-school (3-5),Young elementary (6-8) Stanley Lambchop was your normal everyday kid until the night his bulletin board fell off his wall and flattened him. Join Stanley, the ultimate pen pal, as he gets mailed around the world in search of a solution to his unusual problem. This popular musical is followed by a meet-and-greet with the artists, free children's activities -- face painting, tattoos, coloring, arts and crafts, and much more. 5/17/2008 Hours: 3pm, 8pm Def Dance Jam Workshop - A Movement Discourse Inspired by Rumi - Audubon Ballroom 3940 Broadway www.defdancejam.org Ages: Teens (14+),Adults Price: $15 Featuring a special guest appearance by Whirling Dervish dancer, Mete Horzum. 5/17/2008 - 5/18/2008 Hours: 2pm Greenwich Village and Dessert Tour - Greenwich Village Call for information - 212-465-3331 Ages: Teens (14+),Adults Price: $20 (includes food) A tour of sites associated with the history and personalities of the Village, from George Washington to Bob Dylan. Historical tops include the Washington Square Arch, Minetta Lane, Patchin Place, the Jefferson Courthouse Library and Grove Court. And what would make this tour even sweeter. Why, a sampling of desserts along the way, from Lilac chocolate to Italian saviodi. 5/17/2008 Hours: 5:15pm Sex and the City Tavern Tour - Manhattan Call for information - 212-465-3331 Ages: Adults Price: $15 Missing Carrie & Co? Can't wait for the film to debut? Put on those Manolo Blahniks and come with a thirst for Cosmopolitans and nostalgia for the show. Trace their footsteps on a tour of sites associated with the program, with stops at several of their frequented bars. 5/17/2008 - 1/04/2009 The Horse - American Museum of Natural History Central Park West at 79th St. - 212-769-5100 www.amnh.org Ages: All An examination of the relationship between the horse and humans, exploring the origins of the horse family, its domestication, and how horses have changed warfare, trade, transportation, agriculture, sports, and many other facets of human life. Included are spectacular fossils and cultural objects from around the world, videos, computer interactives, hands-on activities, and touchable casts. 5/18/2008 Hours: 8pm Beethoven's Symphony #9 - Lincoln Center 140 W. 65th Street - 212-721-6500 http://www.lincolncenter.org Price: $30-$111 The National Chorale performs Ludwig van Beethoven's spectacular choral symphony, Symphony #9, a musical testament to Man's faith and freedom highlighted by "Ode to Joy." With the 20th century French masterpiece, Francis Polenc's Gloria. 5/18/2008 The MET Orchestra - Carnegie Hall 154 W. 57th St. (7 Ave.) - 212-247-7800 www.carnegiehall.org Valery Gergiev concludes his season-long Perspectives series conducting The MET Orchestra and bass Rene Pape in an all-Mussorgsky program. 5/18/2008 Hours: 3pm Dick Fox's Golden Boys - Mohegan Sun Arena 1 Mohegan Sun Blvd. (Exit 79A off I-395) - 888-226-7711 www.mohegansun.com/entertainment/schedule_of_events.jsp Price: $25 The Golden Boys consist of Frankie Avalon, Fabian, and Bobby Rydell, three of the most sought-after teen idols of the 1950s and '60s, whose stardom has endured with the help of their producer, Dick Fox. They have had tremendous success doing live concerts in which each member of The Golden Boys is highlighted and performs some of their biggest hits. Some of their hit songs include Fabian's "Turn Me Loose" and "Tiger," Frankie Avalon's "Venus" and "Bobby Sox To Stockings," and Bobby Rydell's "Volare" and "Wild One." 5/18/2008 Hours: noon Music for a Green Planet - The Highland Ballroom 431 West 16th Street - 212-414-5994 www.jazzamatazz.com Ages: All Price: $10 Hayes Greenfield celebrates the release of a brand new collection of jazz-infused, green tunes. Artists from Music for a Green Planet will appear on-stage with Greenfield, including jazz legend Joe Lee Wilson, in from his home base in Paris for a rare U.S. appearance. Greenfield is a saxophonist, composer, educator, producer, filmmaker, and bandleader. He has been active on the New York City jazz scene since the late 1970s. He performs regularly and conducts Jazz-A-Ma-Tazz music workshops at schools, theaters, and festivals nationwide. 5/18/2008 Hours: 12-6pm On-The-Go at BayFest! - Bayfest Emmons Avenue and East 27th Street www.brooklynkids.org Ages: All Price: Free On-The-Go travels to Sheepshead Bay for BayFest, a celebration of Brooklyn's waterfront. Visit the Museum's station to meet live animals and make a craft to take home. This free event features live music, face painting, diving and sailing demonstrations, and culminates in a boat parade with free boat rides. 5/18/2008 Hours: 3pm Anansi, Spiderman of Africa - Tribeca Performing Arts Center 199 Chambers Street www.tribecapac.org Ages: All Price: $25 A side-splitting selection of famous folktales from Africa starring Anansi the Spider, whose appetite always overrules his intellect. Anansi loves to eat and hates to work, so he tries to trick other animals out of their food. But there's no free lunch for Anansi, because all of his schemes leave him hungrier than ever! Anansi is one of the classic trickster characters in world folklore. These comical African folktales are both entertaining and instructive; because he puts his own desires ahead of the needs of his community, Anansi often ends up exiled to the corner of the room. 5/18/2008 Hours: 3pm Brooklyn Symphony and Grace & Spiritus Chorale - Church of St. Ann and the Holy Trinity Corner of Clinton and Montague Streets - 718-852-0677 www.brooklynsymphonyorchestra.org Ages: Teens (14+),Adults Price: $15 Two of NYC's finest musical organizations join forces for the last concert of the Brooklyn Symphony Orchestra's 35th season. 5/18/2008 Hours: 10am-6pm Working Harbor Day - South Street Seaport Pier 16 at the end of Fulton STreet http://www.workingharbor.org, www.circlelinedowntown.com Ages: All The day long celebration will feature, as always, 90-minute Hidden Harbor Tour's of New York Harbor's exciting and vibrant working maritime waterfront from the Brooklyn Navy yard to the busy ship channel called Kill Van Kull between Staten Island and Bayonne, NJ. Riders will see close up giant container ship ports, shipyards, tugboat yards, dry docks and graving docks, automobile ship terminals, cruise ship docks & much more. 5/18/2008 Park to Park Bike Tour - Hudson River Park Pier 84 Ages: TW,TE,AD Celebrate Bike Month with this day-long ride from Hudson River Park to Central Park and back. 5/19/2008 The Swell Season - Radio City Music Hall 1260 Sixth Ave. (50 St.) - 212-307-7171 www.radiocity.com Academy Award-winners Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová perform their songs from the motion picture Once. 5/19/2008 Hours: 7pm May's Project Shaw: The Devil's Disciple - Player's Club 16 Gramercy Park South Ages: Adults Price: $20 Performance of George Bernard Shaw's thrilling comedy. 5/19/2008 Hours: 7pm Personal Finance 101 - 92nd Street Y Lexington Ave. & 92nd St. - 212-415-5500 www.92y.org Ages: Adults Price: $25 Are you overwhelmed by all the advice out there about managing your finances? Learn valuable techniques for understanding goal-setting, cash flow, creating a net-worth statement and planning for emergencies and retirement. 5/19/2008 Hours: 7pm What to Do When You Don't Know What to Do - 92nd Street Y Lexington Ave. & 92nd St. - 212-415-5500 www.92y.org Ages: Adults Price: $30 Are you dissatisfied with your current job or career path but don't know how to get where you want to be? Sharon Good helps you learn how to uncover new career possibilities and take the first step toward finding a career that makes you happy. 5/19/2008 Hours: 6-9pm The Barrow Group's Annual Celebrity Doodles Auction - Studio 450 450 W. 31st St. - 212-760.2615 www.barrowgroup.org Ages: Adults Price: $75 Conan O'Brien presents a silent and live auction. This year's event honors comedian Mike Birbiglia, arts supporters Anna Becker and Robin Epstein and actress/producer/animal activist Missy Hargraves. 5/20/2008 Hours: 7:30pm Early Music With The Trinity Choir & REBEL Baroque Orchestra: Grands Motets - Trinity Church 74 Trinity Pl. (Broadway at Wall St.) - 866-468-7619 www.trinitywallstreet.org Price: $25-$40 The Trinity Choir travels back to the time of Early Music and brings it to the present with their 2007-2008 season. Some of the most noble and sumptuously beautiful, heroic, and yet sensual music ever composed in France was in the form known as the Grand Motet -- a French genre developed at the beginning of the reign of Louis XIV which lasted until the end of the Ancien Regime. It was the main ornament of the king's Mass from Louis XIV up to Louis XVI, allowing a sort of dialogue between musicians, composers, courtiers and their king. 5/20/2008 - 5/26/2008 American Ballet Theatre: Le Corsaire - Metropolitan Opera House 150 West 65th Street - 212-419-4321 betweem Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues www.abt.org Discover a treasure trove of virtuoso dancing in the swashbuckling adventure. From the Pasha's dazzling palace to a spectacular shipwreck on a windswept desert island, this exotic fable of a dashing pirate's love for a beautiful harem girl never fails to delight. Le Corsaire is the perfect showcase for daring and explosive bravura from ABT's star-studded roster of male dancers. 5/20/2008 Hours: 7:30pm Broadway's Greatest Showstoppers with Marvin Hamlisch and the New York Philharmonic - Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Columbus Ave. btw. 62nd & 65th Sts. - 212-875-5000 www.lincolncenter.org Ages: 8 and up Price: $29-$99 They're the stuff of legend - the magical moments that stop the show and bring the audience to its feet. Multi-award-winning composer/conductor Marvin Hamlisch (A Chorus Line, The Sting) has combed through the annals of Broadway history, combining the very best of these show-stopping moments into one very enchanted evening with the likes of Les Miserables, Carousel, My Fair Lady, A Chorus Line and much more. And who better to perform this night of showstoppers but a cast of show-stopping talent? Joining Marvin are Kristin Chenoweth (Wicked, You're A Good Man Charlie Brown, The West Wing), Raúl Esparza (The Homecoming, Company), and - of course - the New York Philharmonic. 5/20/2008 Hours: 6:30pm George Washington Scholars Discuss the Quality of His Leadership - New-York Historical Society 2 W. 77th Street - 212-873-3400 www.nyhistory.org Ages: Adults Price: $8-$15 Richard Brookhiser and Richard Snow discuss the quality of George Washington's leadership. 5/20/2008 Hours: 8pm Reflections of a Wine Merchant - 92nd Street Y Lexington Ave. & 92nd St. - 212-415-5500 www.92y.org Ages: Adults Price: $55 Leading wine importer Neal Rosenthal, the author of a new memoir, Reflections of a Wine Merchant, shares his thoughts on the last 30 years of controversy and change in the world of wine. Rosenthal has worked closely with his growers for two and three generations. Enjoying a unique tasting of wines from family owned vineyards in France and Italy after the lecture. 5/20/2008 Hours: 7:30pm Ceramics Lecture: Eddie Dominguez - 92nd Street Y Lexington Ave. & 92nd St. - 212-415-5500 www.92y.org Ages: Adults Price: $10-$25 In conjunction with his residency, Eddie Dominguez presents a lecture and slide show of his art. His work includes a number of high-profile public projects that emphasize the communal aspects of working in mosaic. 5/21/2008 - 5/28/2008 Fleet Week - Various locations http://www.cnrma.navy.mil/fleetweek/index.htm Ages: All Ages Price: Free Thousands of Sailors, Marines and Coast Guardsmen from U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard ships will be in town for Fleet Week New York. Fleet Week includes dozens of military demonstrations and displays throughout the week, as well as public visitation of many of the participating ships. 5/22/2008 Hours: 8pm Anthony Coleman & Stephen Gosling - Merkin Hall at Kaufman Center 129 W. 67th St. - 212-501-3303 www.kaufman-center.org Price: $30 In both solo and duo piano formations, Gosling and Coleman will perform Gyorgy Ligeti's Musica Ricercata, which takes the folk experiments of Bartok to new heights, and Three Pieces for Two Pianos, closing with Steve Reich's mesmerizing Piano Phase. 5/22/2008 The MET Orchestra - Carnegie Hall 154 W. 57th St. (7 Ave.) - 212-247-7800 www.carnegiehall.org The Orchestra, with Music Director James Levine and pianist Jonathan Biss, performs a concert of works by Carter, Schumann, and Tchaikovsky. 5/22/2008 - 5/23/2008 Studio Series - Ashley Byler: Champions of Dance: Make Millions! - Dance Theater Workshop 219 W. 19th St. - 212-924-0077 www.dtw.org Using dance as entertainment, commodity, and physical rigor, Champions of Dance: Make Millions! explores the human struggle for glory and sincerity. Through exploitation of the dancers' projected identities along with acts of confrontation, power, and coercion, Ashley Byler continues to make work that appeals to the brothel frequenter and the kindergartner alike. 5/22/2008 Hours: 6:30pm Scholars Examine the Lincoln-Douglas Debates - New-York Historical Society 2 W. 77th Street - 212-873-3400 www.nyhistory.org Ages: Adults Price: $8-$15 Allen C. Guelzo and Harold Holzer examine the famed debates.