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9/01/2013
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Journey to the Stars - American Museum of Natural History
200 Central Park West - 212-769-5100 amnh.org Ages: All
A spectacular new Space Show, Journey to the Stars, narrated by Academy Award-winning actress Whoopi Goldberg, in the Hayden Planetarium at the Frederick Phineas and Sandra Priest Rose Center for Earth and Space.
Journey to the Stars is an engrossing, immersive theater experience created by the Museum's astrophysicists, scientific visualization, ... (more)
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6/24/2013
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Picturing Science: Museum Scientists and Imaging Technologies - American Museum of Natural History
200 Central Park West - 212-769-5100 amnh.org Ages: All
More than 20 sets of large-format images showcase the wide range of research being conducted at the Museum as well as how various optical tools are used in scientific studies.
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7/05/2013
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VICTOR CALDERONE - Govenors Beach Club
Governors Island - 212.209.7500 www.clubtickets.com/us/2013-06/29/cosmic-gate-pacha-nyc Ages: AD Price: $40
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1/06/2014
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Gateway to Himalayan Art - The Rubin Museum
150 W. 17th St. - 212-620-5000 www.rmanyc.org Ages: All
Marking the first in a series of yearly rotations, nearly twenty works of art add new dimensions and context to Gateway to Himalayan Art. Visitors will notice a greater emphasis on Hindu works, with beautiful examples from India and Nepal ranging from 12th to 19th centuries, as well as intricately-detailed thangka paintings, manuscript pages, and t... (more)
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9/25/2013 Hours: Closed Thurs.
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A Long-Awaited Tribute: Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian House and Pavilion - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Ave. - 212-423-3500 www.guggenheim.org Ages: All
On October 22, 1953, Sixty Years of Living Architecture: The Work of Frank Lloyd Wright opened in New York on the site where the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum would eventually be built. Two Frank Lloyd Wright-designed buildings were constructed specifically to house the exhibition: a temporary pavilion made of glass, fiberboard, and pipe columns; an... (more)
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8/11/2013
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Up Where We Belong: Native Musicians in Popular Culture - National Museum of the American Indian
1 Bowling Green - 212-514-3700 www.americanindian.si.edu Ages: All
This panel and object exhibition highlights Native people who have been active participants in contemporary music for nearly a century. Musicians like Russell "Big Chief" Moore (Gila River Indian Community), Rita Coolidge (Cherokee), Buffy Sainte-Marie (Cree), and the group Redbone are a few of the Native performing artists who have had successful ... (more)
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8/04/2013
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Objects from the Kharga Oasis - Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Ave. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All
This selection of late Roman and Byzantine period objects from the Metropolitan Museum's excavations at the Kharga Oasis includes textiles, ceramics, and grave goods from an intact tomb.
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9/29/2013
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Winged Tapestries: Moths at Large - American Museum of Natural History
200 Central Park West - 212-769-5100 amnh.org Ages: All
Witness the arresting beauty and surprising diversity of moths in a presentation of more than 30 large-format prints by Canadian photographer Jim des Rivieres. Des Rivieres creates these larger-than-life images by scanning each moth at high resolution to reveal unexpected colors and intricate patterns.
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9/29/2013
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Bashford Dean and the Creation of the Arms and Armor Department - Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Ave. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All
To mark the centennial of the Arms and Armor Department, this exhibition surveys the career of Dr. Bashford Dean (1867-1928), the department's founding curator.
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10/08/2017
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Circle of Dance - National Museum of the American Indian
1 Bowling Green - 212-514-3700 www.americanindian.si.edu Ages: All
A five-year exhibition that presents Native dance as a vibrant, meaningful, and diverse form of cultural expression. Featuring ten social and ceremonial dances from throughout the Americas, the exhibition illuminates the significance of each dance and highlights the unique characteristics of its movements and music.
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10/12/2013 Hours: 4:00
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Silver Patter Parties: Old New York City Style Bachelor Party Saturdays - 25 North Moore The Library Lounge)
North Moore Street - 1-860-248-0988 silverplatternyc.webs.com Ages: 12:00 Price: 450.00
Bachelor Saturday: "Scotch, Sinatra At Cigar Bar + Steakhouse" Tasting
The Gentleman's Bachelor Party Saturdays!
Set The Tone For The Evening: Pure Class All The Way!
The Perfect Fit For An Upscale Evening
Learn About Scotch As You Relax & Sip During An Entertaining Presentation In Tribeca.
Enjoy an evening rife with flavors and arom... (more)
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6/30/2013
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Gordon Parks: A Harlem Family 1967 - Studio Museum in Harlem
144 W. 125th St. - 212-864-4500 www.studiomuseuminharlem.org Ages: All
Gordon Parks: A Harlem Family 1967 honors the legacy and the work of late iconic artist and photojournalist Gordon Parks, who would have turned 100 on November 30, 2012. The exhibition, organized by Director and Chief Curator Thelma Golden and Assistant Curator Lauren Haynes, will feature approximately thirty black and white photographs of the Font... (more)
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11/12/2021 Hours: 3-6PM
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Little Kids Can Make A Big Difference - Make Meaning
1501 Third Avenue (Between 84th and 85th) and 329 Columbus Avenue (between 75th and 76th) - 646-307-5911
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, MAKE MEANING and Baby Buggy are joining forces to help families affected by the storm.
Come and create a custom soap for free and drop off a package of diapers for families in need.
Soaps, diapers and 50% of proceeds from any yearly memberships purchased will be donated to Baby Buggy's relief efforts.
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8/11/2013
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Our Global Kitchen: Food, Nature, Culture - American Museum of Natural History
200 Central Park West - 212-769-5100 amnh.org Ages: All
Food celebrates cultures and cooking, historic meals and markets, and moments in our lives that we mark with food -- as well as the ingredients that we have discovered and shaped over the course of thousands of years. As this exhibition takes visitors on a journey of growing, transporting, cooking, tasting, and celebrating, it also examines contemp... (more)
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8/25/2013
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Playing with Fire - 50 Years of Contemporary Glass - Museum of Arts & Design
2 Columbus Circle - 212-299-7777 madmuseum.org Ages: All
MAD celebrates the 50th anniversary of the birth of the American Studio Glass movement with Playing with Fire: 50 Years of Contemporary Glass, which will feature more than 100 works of glass from the collection, as well as promised gifts, and additional contemporary works on loan. Ever since 1962, when a legendary workshop led by renowned glass ar... (more)
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9/02/2013
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African Art, New York, and the Avant-Garde - Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Ave. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All
This exhibition highlights the specific African artifacts acquired by the New York avant-garde and its most influential patrons during the 1910s and 1920s. Reflecting on the dynamism of New York's art scene during the years that followed the 1913 Armory Show, the exhibition brings together African works from the collections of many key individuals ... (more)
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7/31/2013
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Barings in America - An Interactive Investment Experience - Museum of American Finance
48 Wall St. - 212-908-4110 moaf.org Ages: All
Barings Bank provided financial backing in the US from the nation's beginning through the industrial revolution. This exhibition explores five of the firm's US investments, some good and some bad. Barings chose to invest in the fledgling government and its industry. Would you have done the same?
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6/30/2013
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The Sau-Wing Lam Collection of Rare Italian Stringed Instruments - Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Ave. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All
The Sau-Wing Lam collection of violin-family instruments is one of the most important collections of bowed Italian stringed instruments ever assembled by a private individual. Sau-Wing Lam (1923-1988) was born in Shanghai, China, where he graduated with a degree in economics from the prestigious Saint John's University. In 1948 he moved to New York... (more)
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7/07/2013
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'A Sport for Every Girl': Women and Sports in the Collection of Jefferson R. Burdick - Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Ave. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All
Beginning in the late 1870s, tobacco producers used inventive imagery of actresses, athletes, politicians, animals, flags, and world capitals -- to name only a few of the hundreds of categories -- to advertise their brands.
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12/22/2013
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American Legends: From Calder to O'Keeffe - Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Ave. - 212-570-3600 www.whitney.org Ages: All
American Legends: From Calder to O'Keeffe showcases the Whitney's deep holdings of artwork from the first half of the twentieth century by the eighteen leading artists: Oscar Bluemner, Charles Burchfield, Paul Cadmus, Alexander Calder, Joseph Cornell, Ralston Crawford, Stuart Davis, Arthur Dove, Charles Demuth, Marsden Hartley, Edward Hopper, Gasto... (more)
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8/31/2013
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Hava Nagila: A Song for the People - Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
36 Battery Pl - 646-437-4200 www.mjhnyc.org Ages: All
An exhibit that uses engaging imagery, video, music, and imaginative design to tell the little-known history of the wordless melody from Ukraine that became the theme song for Jewish celebrations around the world.
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7/07/2013
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Flight of the Butterflies - American Museum of Natural History
200 Central Park West - 212-769-5200 www.amnh.org Ages: All Price: $25 adults; $19 students/seniors; $14.50 children
Flight of the Butterflies, a breathtaking new giant-screen adventure takes viewers on the epic 3,000-mile journey traveled every fall by half a billion monarch butterflies. The film is the awe-inspiring story of two unlikely heroes that share a common strength. Based on true events, it follows the perilous journey of the iconic monarch butterfly in... (more)
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2/02/2014 Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-6pm; Sun., 11am-5pm
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Precision and Splendor: Clocks and Watches at The Frick Collection - Frick Collection
1 E. 70th St. - 212-288-0700 www.frick.org Ages: All
The Frick Collection has one of the most important public collections of European timepieces in the United States, much of it acquired through the 1999 bequest of the New York collector Winthrop Kellogg Edey. This extraordinary gift of thirty-eight watches and clocks dating from the Renaissance to the early nineteenth century covers the art of horo... (more)
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9/15/2013
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Making Room: New Models for Housing New Yorkers - Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Ave. - 212-534-1672 mcny.org Ages: All
A showcase for innovative design solutions to better accommodate New York City's changing, and sometimes surprising, demographics, including a rising number of single people, and will feature a full-sized, flexibly furnished micro-studio apartment of just 325 square feet -- a size prohibited in most areas of the city.
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6/23/2013
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Sleeping Eros - Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Ave. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All
The exhibition focuses on the Museum's statue of Sleeping Eros, one of the finest of the few surviving ancient bronze statues from antiquity. It will explore a number of topics associated with this work, including the issue of originals and copies in Greek and Roman sculpture, new research that suggests it is a Hellenistic bronze that was restored ... (more)
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7/28/2013
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Birds in the Art of Japan - Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Ave. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All
This exhibition presents approximately 150 works in various media from medieval times to the present. Highlights include a unique, early seventeenth-century pair of ink-painted screens showing a flock of 120 mynah birds in flight or strutting on the shore; and a set of four enormous paintings of birds of prey by the nineteenth-century master Kawana... (more)
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1/13/2014
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Masterworks: Jewels of the Collection - Rubin Museum of Art
150 W. 17th St. - 212-620-5000 www.rmanyc.org Ages: All
A showcase of some of the finest works of art from the museum's collection while highlighting the stylistic diversity and relationships between different strands of Himalayan and neighboring cultural and artistic traditions.
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8/04/2013
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Gravity and Grace: Monumental Works by El Anatsui - Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway - 718-638-5000 brooklynmuseum.org Ages: All
The first solo exhibition in a New York museum by the globally renowned contemporary artist El Anatsui, this show will feature over 30 works in metal and wood that transform appropriated objects into site-specific sculptures. Anatsui converts found materials into a new type of media that lies between sculpture and painting, combining aesthetic trad... (more)
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7/08/2013
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Living Shrines of Uyghur China - Rubin Museum of Art
150 W. 17th St. - 212-620-5000 www.rmanyc.org Ages: All
Featuring photographs of sacred landscapes in northwestern China by New York-based artist Lisa Ross. In and around the Taklamakan Desert, Ross photographs Muslim shrines, or mazars, often adorned with recycled flags and fabrics. Ross's remarkable images are largely without the presence of the human figure, allowing the viewer to inhabit a space tha... (more)
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9/02/2013
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Universe of Desire - Museum of Sex
233 Fifth Ave. - 212-689-6337 www.museumofsex.com Ages: AD
Type. Swipe. Search. Upload. Download. Post. Stream. These are the new verbs of desire. Our most intimate thoughts, fantasies, and urges are now transmitted via electronic devices to rapt audiences all over the world. These transmissions—from sexts to webcam masturbation feeds—are anonymous yet personal, individual yet collective, everywhere and no... (more)
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6/24/2013
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Wait, Later This Will Be Nothing: Editions by Dieter Roth - Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
11 W. 53rd St. - 212-708-9400 moma.org Ages: All
The artistic practice of Dieter Roth (Swiss, b. Germany, 1930-1998) encompassed everything from painting and sculpture to film and video, but it is arguably through his editioned works -- prints, books, and multiples -- that he made his most radical contributions. These experiments include the use of organic materials in lieu of traditional mediums... (more)
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7/07/2013
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Cambodian Rattan - The Sculptures of Sopheap Pich - Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Ave. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All
This exhibition presents ten works by the contemporary Cambodian artist Sopheap Pich (born 1971), who lives and works in Phnom Penh. Pich works principally in rattan and bamboo, constructing organic open-weave forms that are solid and ethereal, representational and abstract. Much of his work is inspired by elements of the human anatomy or plant lif... (more)
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8/18/2013
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Plain or Fancy? Restraint and Exuberance in the Decorative Arts - Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Ave. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All
Modernism was not the first movement to cast a shadow on ornament and adornment, though it was the most effective one. This exhibition contrasts austere works of art with ornate ones, encouraging viewers to examine their own responses and to consider them in the light of different stylistic imperatives of the past. Drawn from the Museum's collectio... (more)
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8/04/2013 Hours: Tues.-Sun., 11am-6pm (Fri. until 9pm)
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Patronage and Power: Selections from the Asia Society Museum Collection - Asia Society and Museum
725 Park Ave. - 212-288-6400 asiasociety.org Ages: All
This exhibition comprises select pieces from Asia Society's Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection. The show explores the role of patrons of wealth and rank as dominating figures in the production of artistic creations. Approximately fifty examples of sculptureand ceramic from South, Southeast, and East Asia. The selection includes religio... (more)
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7/28/2013
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At War with the Obvious: Photographs by William Eggleston - Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Ave. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All
The Met presents the work of this idiosyncratic artist, whose influences are drawn from disparate if surprisingly complementary sources -- from Walker Evans and Henri Cartier-Bresson in photography to Bach and late Baroque music. Many of Eggleston's most recognized photographs are lush studies of the social and physical landscape found in the Missi... (more)
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7/14/2013 Hours: Wed.-Sun., noon-6pm
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The Woolworth Building @ 100 - Skyscraper Museum
39 Battery Place - 212-945-6324 skyscraper.org Ages: All Price: $5
A masterpiece of early 20th-century art and technology, the Woolworth Building celebrates its centennial year in the process of conversion, with office space remaining below and luxury residences planned for the upper tower. Still radiant on the lower Manhattan skyline, the landmark heralds both the past and future of New York.
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1/31/2014
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Applied Design - Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
11 W. 53rd St. - 212-708-9400 moma.org Ages: All
There are still people who think that design is just about making things, people, and places pretty. In truth, design has spread to almost every facet of human activity, from science and education to politics and policymaking, for a simple reason: one of design's most fundamental tasks is to help people respond to change. A designer today can choos... (more)
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8/12/2013
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Bill Brandt: Shadow and Light - Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
11 W. 53rd St. - 212-708-9400 moma.org Ages: All
Bill Brandt is a founding figure in photography's modernist traditions, and this exhibition represents a major critical reevaluation of his heralded career. Brandt's distinctive vision -- his ability to present the mundane world as fresh and strange -- emerged in London in the 1930s, and drew from his time in the Paris studio of Man Ray. His visual... (more)
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7/07/2013
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On Time/Grand Central at 100 - Grand Central Terminal
87 E. 42nd St. - 212-532-4900 grandcentralterminal.com Ages: All
To celebrate Grand Central's 100th birthday, MTA Arts for Transit and Urban Design present an exhibition featuring the work of more than a dozen contemporary artists who capture and reimagine moments in Grand Central Terminal - the site of the beginning and end of countless journeys for millions of travelers over the past century - and connect them... (more)
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6/24/2013
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Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light - Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
11 W. 53rd St. - 212-708-9400 moma.org Ages: All
Henri Labrouste: Structure Brought to Light, the first solo exhibition of Labrouste's work in the United States, establishes his work as a milestone in the modern evolution of architecture. The exhibition includes over 200 works, from original drawings -- many of them watercolors of haunting beauty and precision -- to vintage and modern photographs... (more)
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6/24/2013
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Abstract Generation: Now in Print - Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
11 W. 53rd St. - 212-708-9400 moma.org Ages: All
Since the early 20th century, abstraction has been associated with so many artistic movements, from Suprematism and Constructivism to Abstract Expressionism and Op art, that it can no longer be defined by any one style or tradition. Indeed, abstraction exists now as a rich and varied trove of formal languages and ideas -- an open source of inspirat... (more)
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9/15/2013
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'Workt by Hand': Hidden Labor and Historical Quilts - Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway - 718-638-5000 brooklynmuseum.org Ages: All
"Workt by Hand": Hidden Labor and Historical Quilts showcases approximately thirty-five American and European quilt masterpieces from the Brooklyn Museum's renowned decorative arts collection. The exhibition examines the impact of feminist scholarship on the ways historical quilts have been and are currently viewed, contextualized, and interpreted.... (more)
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11/10/2013
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Kathe Kollwitz: Prints from the 'War' and 'Death' Portfolios - Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway - 718-638-5000 brooklynmuseum.org Ages: All
This selection of thirteen rarely displayed prints by German Expressionist artist Kathe Kollwitz, from the Brooklyn Museum's collection, focuses on works relating to the impact of war. The exhibition features the artist's most famous print cycles, War (Krieg) and Death (Tod), created between World War I, when her son was killed in Flanders, and Wor... (more)
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8/04/2013
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As it were ... So to speak - A Museum Collection in Dialogue with Barbara Bloom - The Jewish Museum
1109 Fifth Ave. - 212-423-3222 thejewishmuseum.org Ages: All
Artist Barbara Bloom has devoted her career to questioning the ways we perceive and value objects. With a light touch and subtle wit, she divines the meanings encoded in the things with which we surround ourselves. The Jewish Museum invited Bloom to create an installation drawn from its more than 26,000 works of ceremonial, decorative, and fine art... (more)
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8/04/2013
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Six Things: Sagmeister & Walsh - The Jewish Museum
1109 Fifth Ave. - 212-423-3222 thejewishmuseum.org Ages: All
Artist Barbara Bloom has devoted her career to questioning the ways we perceive and value objects. With a light touch and subtle wit, she divines the meanings encoded in the things with which we surround ourselves. The Jewish Museum invited Bloom to create an installation drawn from its more than 26,000 works of ceremonial, decorative, and fine art... (more)
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7/30/2013
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A Trip from Here to There - Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
11 W. 53rd St. - 212-708-9400 moma.org Ages: All
Over the course of two years, from 2008 to 2010, the artist Mateo Lopez traveled through his native Colombia, from Bogota to Cali to Medellin. Crisscrossing vast expanses of territory via Vespa, Lopez made drawings, rendering the ordinary objects he encountered in precise detail. In a country occupied by government forces and paramilitary rebels, t... (more)
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8/12/2013
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Flip Side - Rubin Museum of Art
150 W. 17th St. - 212-620-5000 www.rmanyc.org Ages: All
The texts and images on the back of Tibetan art objects reveal clues to their meaning, function, and historical context. For the first time ever both sides of a select group of scroll paintings (thangkas), sculptures, and initiation cards will be explored in detail. Chosen for the beauty, exceptional content, and complexity of their backs, these wo... (more)
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9/15/2013
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Against the Grain - Wood in Contemporary Craft and Design - Museum of Arts & Design
2 Columbus Circle - 212-299-7777 madmuseum.org Ages: All
Featuring more than 75 installations, sculptures, furniture, and objects, Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary Craft and Design explores some ofthe most cutting-edge conceptual and technical trends in woodworking today. The exhibition emphasizes the way artists, designers, and craftspeople have incorporated postmodernist approaches and strategie... (more)
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8/11/2013
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LaToya Ruby Frazier: A Haunted Capital - Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway - 718-638-5000 brooklynmuseum.org Ages: All
LaToya Ruby Frazier: A Haunted Capital uses social documentary and portraiture to create a personal visual history of an industrial town's decline. Through approximately 40 photographic works of her family and their hometown of Braddock, Pennsylvania, Frazier offers an intimate exploration of the effects of deindustrialization on the lives of indiv... (more)
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8/31/2013
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Stephen Burrows: When Fashion Danced - Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Ave. - 212-534-1672 mcny.org Ages: All
Stephen Burrows: When Fashion Danced is the first major examination of the work of the designer The New York Times called in 1977 the "brightest star of American fashion." It looks at the period spanning the 1970s when Stephen Burrows's meteoric rise to fame made him not only the first African-American designer to gain international stature, but a ... (more)
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1/05/2014
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Whales: Giants of the Deep - American Museum of Natural History
200 Central Park West - 212-769-5100 amnh.org Ages: All
A new exhibition that transports visitors to the vibrant underwater world of the mightiest animals on Earth. Whales explores the latest research about these marine mammals as well as the central role they have played for thousands of years in human cultures. From the traditions of New Zealand's Maori whale riders and the Kwakwaka'wakw peoples of th... (more)
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6/30/2013
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David Hartt - Stray Light - Studio Museum in Harlem
144 W. 125th St. - 212-864-4500 www.studiomuseuminharlem.org Ages: All
Color photographs, sculptures and a video installation by Chicago-based conceptual photographer David Hartt (b. 1967) reflecting on the iconic headquarters of the Johnson Publishing Company in downtown Chicago.
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6/30/2013
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Fred Wilson - Local Color - Studio Museum in Harlem
144 W. 125th St. - 212-864-4500 www.studiomuseuminharlem.org Ages: All
For the first time since its exhibition in 1993, the Studio Museum will be presenting conceptual artist Fred Wilson (b. 1954)'s installation Local Color, originally created for the Studio Museum exhibition Artists Respond: The "New World" Question.
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6/30/2013
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Assembly Required - Selections from the Permanent Collection - Studio Museum in Harlem
144 W. 125th St. - 212-864-4500 www.studiomuseuminharlem.org Ages: All
Photographs, drawings, sculptures and paintings from the Studio Museum's permanent collection that explore the ways in which certain works are dependent on site, and the viewer's conceptual and perceptual experience of that locale through the artist's intervention.
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6/30/2013
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Aye A. Aton: Space-Time Continuum - Studio Museum in Harlem
144 W. 125th St. - 212-864-4500 www.studiomuseuminharlem.org Ages: All
This collection of over 200 slides documents the artist and avant-garde jazz musician's murals through image and sound, providing an intimate glimpse into the domestic lives of an African-American community on the cusp of cultural transformation. This project marks Aton's first solo museum presentation.
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6/30/2013
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Brothers and Sisters - Studio Museum in Harlem
144 W. 125th St. - 212-864-4500 www.studiomuseuminharlem.org Ages: All
This show takes as a starting point works on paper by twentieth-century painter Beauford Delaney (1901-1975). This cross-generational exhibition examines the relationship between Delaney's paintings and prints made between 1958 and 1969 in Paris and works in the Studio Museum's permanent collection by African-American artists continuing and expandi... (more)
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6/30/2013
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Harlem Postcards - Spring 2013 - Studio Museum in Harlem
144 W. 125th St. - 212-864-4500 www.studiomuseuminharlem.org Ages: All
Harlem Postcards is an ongoing project that invites contemporary artists of diverse backgrounds to reflect on Harlem as a site of cultural activity, political vitality, visual stimuli, artistic contemplation and creative production. Representing intimate and dynamic perspectives of Harlem, the images reflect the idiosyncratic visions of contemporar... (more)
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6/30/2013
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Mendi + Keith Obadike: American Cypher - Studio Museum in Harlem
144 W. 125th St. - 212-864-4500 www.studiomuseuminharlem.org Ages: All
The Studio Museum presents a site-specific iteration of a suite of projects that respond to American stories about race and DNA by the intermedia artists Mendi and Keith Obadike (both b. 1973).
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9/02/2013
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Photography and the American Civil War - Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Ave. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All
More than two hundred of the finest and most poignant photographs of the American Civil War have been brought together for this landmark exhibition. Through examples drawn from the Metropolitan's celebrated holdings of this material, complemented by important loans from public and private collections, the exhibition will examine the evolving role o... (more)
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8/04/2013
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Making the Invisible Visible - Conservation and Islamic Art - Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Ave. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All
Conservators and conservation scientists made many exciting and interesting discoveries as they and the curators re-examined the Museum's collection of Islamic art prior to the reopening of the New Galleries for the Art of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asia in November 2011. This exhibition will trace their investigati... (more)
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7/28/2013
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John Singer Sargent Watercolors - Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway - 718-638-5000 brooklynmuseum.org Ages: All
This landmark exhibition unites for the first time the John Singer Sargent watercolors acquired by the Brooklyn Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in the early twentieth century. The culmination of a yearlong collaborative study by both museums, John Singer Sargent Watercolors explores the watercolor practice that has traditionally been vi... (more)
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9/08/2013
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Hand Signals: Digits, Fists, and Talons - Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
11 W. 53rd St. - 212-708-9400 moma.org Ages: All
Hands -- a part of the human body through which we communicate, sense, measure, and interact with the material world -- are explored in this selection of 20th-century posters and graphic ephemera drawn from the Museum's collection. Individual identities are mapped on the palm of every hand; a digit is a unit of linear measurement derived from the b... (more)
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8/11/2013
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R. B. Kitaj: Personal Library - The Jewish Museum
1109 Fifth Ave. - 212-423-3222 thejewishmuseum.org Ages: All
This exhibition features 33 screenprints from a suite of 50, created by the internationally celebrated painter and graphic artist, R. B. Kitaj in 1969. The portfolio, In Our Time, was acquired by the Museum in 2010. For this series, Kitaj reproduced from his personal library the covers of books that had a profound meaning for him. The images offer ... (more)
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6/28/2013 Hours: Tues.-Sat., 11am-5pm
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Face Time- Self and Identity in Expressionist Portraiture - Galerie St. Etienne
24 W. 57th St. - 212-245-6734 gseart.com Ages: All
Featuring artists including Beckmann, Corinth, Otto Dix, Klimt, Kollwitz, Schiele, and many others.
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7/07/2013 Hours: Tues.-Sun., noon-6pm
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Paul Thek and His Circle: Gay in the 1950s - Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art
26 Wooster St. - 212-431-2609 www.leslielohman.org Ages: All
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7/07/2013
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Raw/Cooked: Michael Ballou - Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway - 718-638-5000 brooklynmuseum.org Ages: All
Ballou is the eighth artist in the continuing Raw/Cooked series, presented with support from Bloomberg and highlighting the work of under-the-radar Brooklyn artists. The Museum offers each of the participating artists a variety of unconventional spaces in which they may make art interventions, creating projects that draw inspiration from the archit... (more)
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8/05/2013
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Claes Oldenburg: The Street and The Store - Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
11 W. 53rd St. - 212-708-9400 moma.org Ages: All
In the early 1960s, Claes Oldenburg redefined the concept of sculpture. This exhibition offers the most comprehensive overview of Oldenburg's early career to date, including The Store, the artist's best-known body of work from this period. In December 1961, Oldenburg rented a small storefront on East Second Street in New York City and filled it wit... (more)
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9/13/2013
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Inner and Outer Space: Three Sculptures by Alan Binstock - Fort Tryon Park
689 Fort Washington Ave. www.nycgovparks.org/art-and-antiquities Ages: All
The exhibition includes three sculptures -- Wayfinder, located across from the New Leaf Cafe, and Third Portal and Trance Ender, found along the Stan Michels Promenade. Made of resin, shattered tempered glass and steel, all three pieces appear to be tools offering direction or pathways to discovery and (inner) navigation.
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7/14/2013
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Velazquez's Portrait of Francesco I d'Este - Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Ave. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All
Among the most distinctive portraits by Diego Velazquez is one he painted of Francesco I d'Este (1610-58), the Duke of Modena, during the duke's visit to Madrid in 1638 to secure the support of Philip IV. The duke is shown in armor, wearing a red sash, his head turned toward the viewer. It is a work that conveys a quality of arrogance and sensualit... (more)
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7/26/2013 Hours: Tues.-Sat., 11am-6pm
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Victor Pesce - Elizabeth Harris Gallery
529 W. 20th St. - 212-463-9666 www.eharrisgallery.com Ages: All
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7/21/2013
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Dunhuang: Buddhist Art at the Gateway of the Silk Road - China Institute
125 E. 65th St. - 212-744-8181 www.chinainstitute.org Ages: All
Addressing art and ritual practices of the Northern dynasties (420-589) and the Tang dynasty (618-907) with excavated art works, high relief clay figures, wooden sculptures, silk banners, and molded bricks. A group of treasured Buddhist sutras from the famous Cangjingdong (The Hidden Library Cave) will illustrate the story behind Dunhuang's histori... (more)
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7/23/2013 Hours: 8am-6pm
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Art Exhibit: Fish and Crushed Can Story- Mixed Media - Queens Botanical Garden
43-50 Main Street - 718-886-3800 queensbotanical.org Ages: All Price: Free with Garden admission
This mixed media exhibit by artist Iandry Randriamandroso is created from discarded, crushed aluminum cans found on the streets, and cardboard and burlap from local grocery, along with wordless hand-made books about a fish and a crushed can. It illustrates how growth is disrupted by invasive species. The exhibit is on display at the Visitor & Adm... (more)
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7/13/2013
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Alice Aycock Drawings: Some Stories Are Worth Repeating - Grey Art Gallery at NYU
New York University, 100 Washington Square East - 212-998-6780 www.nyu.edu/greyart Ages: All
The first major survey of works on paper by leading American sculptor Alice Aycock (born 1946), who is best known for her room-scale installations and outdoor sculptures that span the divide between art, architecture, and science. The exhibition focuses on Aycock's preparatory studies on paper, which she employs as laboratories for developing the ... (more)
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9/01/2013
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I, You, We - Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Ave. - 212-570-3600 www.whitney.org Ages: All
I, you, we: three very commonplace words. These pronouns -- with all their implied complexities of meaning -- provide an unexpected guide for assessing the works of art from the 1980s and early 1990s in the Museum's collection. What becomes apparent in this survey of paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints, and photographs is how the personal, socia... (more)
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4/27/2014
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Body Worlds: Pulse - Discovery Times Square
226 W. 44th St. - 866-987-9692 www.discoverytsx.com/exhibitions/bodyworlds Ages: All Price: $19.50-$25
The newest in the renowned BODY WORLDS series, which has presented the human body in groundbreaking ways for discovery to more than 36 million people around the world.
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9/16/2013
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Fiercely Modern - Rubin Museum of Art
150 W. 17th St. - 212-620-5000 www.rmanyc.org Ages: All
Naga describes a group of culturally and linguistically linked, but distinct tribes living on the border between India and Burma. Because the Naga had the reputation for being fearsome headhunters, they were somewhat isolated and evolved a distinctive material culture. They produce decorative ornaments, expressive wood carvings, and vividly colored... (more)
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9/29/2013
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Front Row: Chinese American Designers - Museum of Chinese in America
215 Centre St. - 212-619-4785 www.mocanyc.org Ages: All
Front Row traces and celebrates the rise of Chinese American designers who decided to make their marks in New York. In the 1980s, designers such as Anna Sui, Yeohlee Teng, Vera Wang and Vivienne Tam emerged in the New York fashion scene just as the city was transforming its identity from a garment center into one of the fashion capitals of the worl... (more)
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9/29/2013
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Shanghai Glamour: New Women 1910s-40s - Museum of Chinese in America
215 Centre St. - 212-619-4785 www.mocanyc.org Ages: All
Shanghai Glamour explores how Shanghai women and their fashionable dress epitomized the seduction and mystery of this legendary city as it was modernizing in the early 20th century. Shanghai was established as a treaty port in the nineteenth century and became a major modern metropolis by the 1920s, internationally known as "the Paris of the East."... (more)
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7/27/2013 Hours: Tues.-Sat., 12-6pm (Wed. until 7 pm)
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Munch | Warhol and the Multiple Image - Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America
58 Park Ave. - 212-779-3587 www.scandinaviahouse.org Ages: All
An exhibition that brings together two of the 20th century's most prolific and inventive printmakers - Norwegian Edvard Munch and American Andy Warhol. Co-curated by Dr. Patricia G. Berman and Pari Stave and organized in honor of the 150th anniversary of Munch's birth, the exhibition closely examines four graphic images produced by Munch at the tur... (more)
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6/23/2013 Hours: Tues.-Fri., 9:30am-6pm; Sat., 10am-6pm
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Maya Lin - Here and There - Pace Gallery
32 E. 57th St. - 212-421-3292 thepacegallery.com Ages: All
New work by Maya Lin exploring her longtime interest in environmental issues, including rising currents and climate change, and expanding her engagement with natural and geographic forms.
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8/18/2013
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Land Marks - Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Ave. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All
This exhibition of nineteen works from the permanent collection surveys the ways in which artists have made marks upon the earth, or made images from humanity's marks upon it. In the late 1960s, with the emergence of Land Art, artists began making works that were inextricably bound to their site. These "Earthworks" artists worked on location and us... (more)
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8/30/2013 Hours: Mon.-Fri., 9:30am-5:30pm; Sat., 10am-5pm
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Impressionist Masters - Hammer Galleries
475 Park Ave. - 212-644-4400 www.hammergalleries.com Ages: All
Featuring works by Degas, Monet, Pissarro, Renoir, and Sisley.
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6/22/2013 Hours: Tues.-Sat., 11am-6pm and by appt.
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Paolo Ventura - The Infinite City - Hasted Kraeutler
537 W. 24th St. - 212-627-0006 hastedkraeutler.com Ages: All
Paolo Ventura's Infinite City is composed of sets of unique hand painted, 4" x 5" Polaroids. The works are groups of either 5 or 10 images, all framed individually, but hung together to create a skyline of an imagined city.
Inspiration for the infinite skyline came from trips the artist took on the "Q" train, from Brooklyn to Manhattan with Ita... (more)
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6/20/2013 Hours: Mon.-Fri., 9am-5pm
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The Park - Paintings by Erik Benson - Arsenal Gallery
830 Fifth Ave. - 212-360-8163 www.nycgovparks.org/art-and-antiquities/arsenal-gallery Ages: All
Erik Benson's new series of paintings, created with thousands of shapes hand-cut from dried sheets of acrylic paint, depict colorful but eerily abandoned playgrounds in stark urban landscapes. The Park expands on Benson's interest in playgrounds, particularly in the play structures' boldly unnatural and manmade coloring. The jungle gyms appear to s... (more)
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5/02/2015 Hours: 6 p.m.
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Tick-Borne Disease Alliance Annual Benefit to Honor Those Affected By Tick-Borne Diseases and Raise Awareness - Pier 60, Chelsea Piers
Hudson River Greenway - 646.490.6446 Ages: All Price: Varies
The Tick-Borne Disease Alliance (TBDA), a national nonprofit organization dedicated to raising awareness, supporting initiatives and promoting advocacy to find a cure for Lyme and other tick-borne diseases, will hold its 2013 Annual Benefit on Thursday, May 2nd in New York City. During the event, TBDA will honor key supporters and patients who have... (more)
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6/22/2013 Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-6pm
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Jannis Kounellis - Cheim & Read
547 W. 25th St. - 212-242-7727 cheimread.com Ages: All
An exhibition of new work by Greek-born, Italian artist Jannis Kounellis. This exhibition incorporates the themes and concerns of Kounellis's best known work, while also reacting to and engaging with the gallery as a unique space.
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6/28/2013 Hours: Mon.-Fri., 10am-5:30pm
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Carlos Cruz-Diez - Circumstances and Ambiguity of Color - Maxwell Davidson
724 Fifth Ave. - 212-759-7555 davidsongallery.com Ages: All
The acclaimed Op-art master's first one-man exhibition in New York since 1976.
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6/19/2013
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A Year With Children 2013 - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Ave. - 212-423-3500 www.guggenheim.org Ages: All
Learning Through Art, the pioneering arts-education program of the Guggenheim Museum, presents A Year with Children 2013, an exhibition that showcases selected artworks by New York City public-school students in grades two through six.
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6/29/2013 Hours: Tu-F, 10a-5p; Sa, 10a-4p
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Siobhan McBride: 2013 Alexander Rutsch Award and Solo Exhibition - Pelham Art Center
155 Fifth Avenue - 914 738 2525 gallery@ Ages: All
Pelham Art Center is pleased to announce Siobhan McBride as the winner of this year's Rutsch Award. Stop into the dream-like world of her paintings during her solo exhibition.
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6/22/2013 Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-6pm
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Tim Hawkinson - Pace Gallery
508 W. 25th St. - 212-989-4258 thepacegallery.com Ages: All
New work by the singular Tim Hawkinson, presenting sculptures that concentrate on issues of traction, gravity, motion, and surfaces, including works made from and inspired by elements found in the artist's California garden.
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6/22/2013 Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-6pm
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Garth Weiser - Casey Kaplan Gallery
525 W. 21st St. - 212-645-7335 caseykaplangallery.com Ages: All
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7/07/2013
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Adhocracy - New Museum
235 Bowery - 212-219-1222 Prince St. www.newmuseum.org Ages: All
The exhibition explores a new direction in contemporary design through twenty-five projects -- presented through artifacts, objects, and films. In the place of standardized, industrialized perfection, the exhibition embraces imperfection as evidence of an emerging force of identity, individuality, and nonlinearity in design.
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6/29/2013 Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-6pm
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Richard Misrach - Pace Gallery
510 W. 25th St. - 212-255-4044 thepacegallery.com Ages: All
New work by the American photographer.
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6/29/2013
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Works by Henry Patrick Raleigh - Society of Illustrators
128 E. 63rd St. - 212-838-2560 www.societyillustrators.org Ages: All
Henry Patrick Raleigh (1880-1944) was one of the most prolific illustrators of all time. His works appeared in numerous publications including San Francisco Examiner, Journal, New York World, and The Saturday Evening Post. He became famous for his illustrations of high society which appeared in a series of Maxwell House Coffee advertisements, and... (more)
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7/27/2013 Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-6pm
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Paul McCarthy - Life Cast - Hauser & Wirth
32 E. 69th St. - 212-790-3900 hauserwirth.com Ages: All
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8/25/2013
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New Acquisition: The Saint John's Bible - Morgan Library & Museum
225 Madison Ave. - 212-685-0008 themorgan.org Ages: All
In 1998 Saint John's University commissioned calligrapher Donald Jackson to produce a fully illuminated luxury manuscript of the Bible. Jackson and his team of artists completed The Saint John's Bible in May 2011, ensuring that the exquisite art of illumination -- so richly represented in the Morgan's collections of medieval and Renaissance manuscr... (more)
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6/22/2013 Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-6pm
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Dennis Hopper - The Lost Album - Gagosian Gallery
980 Madison Ave. - 212-744-2313 gagosian.com Ages: All
Featuring photographs from The Lost Album of the late Dennis Hopper. This historically significant body of work from the 1960s has not been exhibited in the United States since 1970. A selection of approximately 200 photographs reveals casual portraits of artistic luminaries (Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg), leading actors (Jan... (more)
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7/12/2013 Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-6pm
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Ken Price: Zoo - Franklin Parrasch Gallery
20 W. 57th St. - 212-246-5360 www.franklinparrasch.com Ages: All
A survey exhibition focused exclusively on Price's ceramic cups and unique works on paper involving the depiction of animals. The show includes examples of some of the artist's most iconic subject matter, ranging from sea turtles, squid, tree frogs, and Gila Monsters to a host of other amphibious and subterranean characters. This is the first exhib... (more)
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6/22/2013 Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-6pm
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Cecily Brown - Gagosian Gallery
980 Madison Ave. - 212-744-2313 gagosian.com Ages: All
Recent paintings by Cecily Brown, in her first solo exhibition in New York since 2008.
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7/15/2013
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Please Come to the Show, Part I (1960-1980) - Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
11 W. 53rd St. - 212-708-9400 moma.org Ages: All
Since its beginnings, the MoMA Library has housed several collections of artists' files and subject files, which contain assorted printed ephemera like announcement cards, press clippings, posters, and flyers. These materials illustrate an elaborate range of artistic activities and can contain unique elements from an artist's practice. This two-par... (more)
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6/21/2013 Hours: Tues.-Sun., noon-6pm.
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Lenore Lim - Calado - Tally Beck Contemporary
42 Rivington St. - 646-678-3433 tallybeckcontemporary.com Ages: All
For many artists, the print is an auxiliary artistic medium. Printmaking is the technique that permits multiple editions of a painting, drawing or collage -- substitutions for the original. Lenore Lim fortunately does not subscribe to this myopic viewpoint. Although the process is often laborious and challenging, printmaking is Lim's primary medium... (more)
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6/27/2013 Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-6pm
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John Stezaker - Petzel Gallery
456 W. 18th St. - 212-680-9467 www.petzel.com Ages: All
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8/14/2013
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PUNK: Chaos to Couture - Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Ave. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All
An examination of punk's impact on high fashion from the movement's birth in the early 1970s through its continuing influence today. Featuring approximately one hundred designs for men and women, the exhibition will include original punk garments and recent, directional fashion to illustrate how haute couture and ready-to-wear borrow punk's visual ... (more)
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6/29/2013 Hours: Mon.-Sat., 10am-6pm
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Jeff Koons - New Paintings and Sculpture - Gagosian Gallery
555 W. 24th St. - 212-741-1111 gagosian.com Ages: All
Jeff Koons's first major exhibition at Gagosian New York, following exhibitions at Gagosian London and Gagosian Los Angeles over the last decade. It takes the form of a rich sampling of several major bodies of work, demonstrating how Koons's themes and formal approaches continue to overlap and interpenetrate across time.
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7/06/2013 Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-6pm
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1963 - Howard Greenberg Gallery
41 E. 57th St. - 212-334-0010 howardgreenberg.com Ages: All
Bringing together more than 40 photographs depicting events from this watershed year. 1963 focuses on three major events: the treatment of civil rights protesters in Birmingham, Alabama, in May; Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I Have a Dream" speech in Washington, D.C., in August; and the assassination of President Kennedy in Dallas in November. In addi... (more)
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9/02/2013
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Subliming Vessel: The Drawings of Matthew Barney - Morgan Library & Museum
225 Madison Ave. - 212-685-0008 themorgan.org Ages: All
This show is the first-ever museum exhibition devoted to Matthew Barney's drawings. It includes approximately 100 works, from his earliest drawings made in the late 1980s while Barney was an undergraduate at Yale to the more finished drawings created in conjunction with the Cremaster cycle and recent performances inspired by Norman Mailer's Ancient... (more)
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1/06/2014
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XL: 19 New Acquisitions in Photography - Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
11 W. 53rd St. - 212-708-9400 moma.org Ages: All
This exhibition offers a critical assessment of photography's influential role in contemporary art through a selection of recent major acquisitions, comprised primarily of multipart and serial works by 19 artists. These works -- each of which is being presented at MoMA for the first time -- are grounded in diverse photographic traditions, suggestin... (more)
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9/29/2013
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Jack Goldstein x 10,000 - The Jewish Museum
1109 Fifth Ave. - 212-423-3222 thejewishmuseum.org Ages: All
The first American retrospective of the Canadian-born artist Jack Goldstein (1945 - 2003) brings to light his important legacy. A teaching assistant for the esteemed conceptual artist John Baldessari and a contemporary of such artists as Cindy Sherman, Sherrie Levine, Laurie Simmons, Barbara Kruger, David Salle and Robert Longo, Goldstein spent his... (more)
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8/11/2014
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Stewart Uoo and Jana Euler: Outside Inside Sensibility - Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Ave. - 212-570-3600 www.whitney.org Ages: All
Stewart Uoo and Jana Euler are emblematic of an emerging group of artists whose work interrogates how the social, technological, cultural forces at work today shape the contemporary "self." In this exhibition, Uoo's dystopic cyborg-mannequins are juxtaposed with Euler's multilayered figurative painting within an environment designed by Uoo. Seen to... (more)
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7/26/2013 Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-6pm
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Paul McCarthy - Life Cast - Hauser & Wirth
511 W. 18th St. - 212-790-3900 hauserwirth.com Ages: All
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6/29/2013 Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-6pm
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Yoshitomo Nara - Pace Gallery
534 W. 25th St. - 212-255-4044 thepacegallery.com Ages: All
The first exhibition of Nara's work at Pace, featuring new paintings and sculpture, including the artist's large-scale investigations in bronze.
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6/22/2013 Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-6pm
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Salman Toor: The Happy Servant - Aicon Gallery New York
35 Great Jones St. - 212-725-6092 www.aicongallery.com Ages: All
Featuring a group of 11 paintings exploring the complex and often uncomfortable relationships between servants and masters, in which Toor transforms signs of poverty and commercial products into heroic symbols and absurdly idealized motifs through the metaphysical qualities of oil paint.
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9/08/2013 Hours: Closed Thurs.
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New Harmony: Abstraction between the Wars, 1919-1939 - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Ave. - 212-423-3500 www.guggenheim.org Ages: All
New Harmony: Abstraction between the Wars, 1919-1939 explores a rich facet of the Guggenheim's 20th-century collection, celebrating the spirited trends in abstraction embraced among international artists working in Europe between the World Wars.
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9/23/2013
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Projects 100: Akram Zaatari - Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
11 W. 53rd St. - 212-708-9400 moma.org Ages: All
Akram Zaatari (Lebanese, b. 1966) is a Beirut-based artist who works in photography, video, and performance to explore issues pertinent to the Lebanese postwar condition, specifically the mediation of territorial conflicts and wars though television and media. Zaatari collects and examines a wide range of documents that testify to the cultural and ... (more)
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7/03/2013 Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-6pm
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Ugo Rondinone - soul - Gladstone Gallery
530 W. 21st St. - 212-206-9300 gladstonegallery.com Ages: All
An exhibition of new sculptures by Ugo Rondinone.
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6/29/2013 Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-6pm
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Ellsworth Kelly at Ninety - Matthew Marks Gallery
526 W. 22nd St. - 212-243-0200 www.matthewmarks.com Ages: All
The exhibition includes fourteen paintings and two sculptures made in the past two years. Kelly's recent work continues the rigorous exploration of line, form, and color he first established nearly seven decades ago, and features new compositions as well as variations on earlier themes.
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6/29/2013 Hours: Mon.-Sat., 10am-6pm
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Endless Bummer II / Still Bummin' - Marlborough New York
545 W. 25th St. - 212-463-8634 marlboroughgallery.com Ages: All
A group exhibition curated by Drew Heitzler and Jan Tumlir.
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6/29/2013 Hours: Mon.-Sat., 10am-6pm
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Drew Heitzler: Comic Books, Inverted Stamps, Paranoid Literature - Marlborough New York
545 W. 25th St. - 212-463-8634 marlboroughgallery.com Ages: All
A solo exhibition of Drew Heitzler.
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7/06/2013
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2013 Spring Season - American Ballet Theatre
Metropolitan Opera House, Amsterdam Ave. & 64th St. - 212-362-6000 abt.org Ages: All
The dance company's annual residency at the Met Opera house includes Onegin, Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes/A Month in the Country/Symphony in C, Don Quixote, an Alexei Ratmansky premiere, Le Corsaire, Romeo and Juliet, Swan Lake, Sylvia, and the Sleeping Beauty.
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11/03/2013
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The Roof Garden Commission: Imran Qureshi - Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Ave. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All
Pakistani artist Imran Qureshi has createed a site-specific work atop The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden this summer. Considered one of the leading figures in developing a "contemporary miniature" aesthetic, integrating motifs and techniques of traditional miniature painting with contemporary themes, Qureshi is t... (more)
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8/18/2013
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Search for the Unicorn - An Exhibition in Honor of The Cloisters 75th Anniversary - Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Ave. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All
Given by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., in time for the opening of The Cloisters in 1938, the Unicorn Tapestries are its best-known masterpieces; yet, seventy-five years later, their history and meaning remain elusive. They have been seen both as complicated metaphors for Christ and as emblems of matrimony, and they are beloved as quaint indications of ... (more)
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5/15/2014
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A Beautiful Way to Go: New York's Green-Wood Cemetery - Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Ave. - 212-534-1672 mcny.org Ages: All
Predating both Central Park and Prospect Park, Green-Wood Cemetery was one of the most important public green spaces in 19th-century America. This exhibit marks the 175th anniversary of this significant national landmark, exploring how its carefully constructed bucolic landscape reflected changing notions not only of death but of nature, and how Gr... (more)
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6/21/2013 Hours: Mon.-Fri., 10am-5pm
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A Century of American Art - Paintings and Sculpture, 1890-1990 - James Graham & Sons
32 E. 67th St. - 212-535-5767 jamesgrahamandsons.com Ages: All
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9/02/2013
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Illuminating Faith: The Eucharist in Medieval Life and Art - Morgan Library & Museum
225 Madison Ave. - 212-685-0008 themorgan.org Ages: All
Featuring nearly sixty-five exquisitely illuminated manuscripts from France, Italy, and the Netherlands in the Morgan's collections, this exhibition will illustrate the Eucharist's powerful and sometimes cult-like hold on medieval life and medieval imagination. The bread and wine of Communion were understood to be the transubstantiated body and blo... (more)
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9/08/2013
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A Different Kind of Order: The ICP Triennial - International Center of Photography
1133 Sixth Ave. - 212-857-0000 www.icp.org Ages: All
Every three years, ICP's curators round up some of the most interesting contemporary photography and video works from around the world. The 2013 Triennial, A Different Kind of Order, focuses on artworks created in our current moment of widespread economic, social, and political instability. The exhibition will include 27 international artists who e... (more)
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12/01/2013
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Valerie Hegarty: Alternative Histories - Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway - 718-638-5000 brooklynmuseum.org Ages: All
Valerie Hegarty: Alternative Histories is the second in a series inviting contemporary artists to activate the Brooklyn Museum's Period Rooms. Hegarty's site-specific artworks, which address themes of colonization, Manifest Destiny, and repressed history, are on display in the Cupola House parlor and dining room, and in the dining room of the Cane ... (more)
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1/05/2014
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Frogs: A Chorus of Colors - American Museum of Natural History
200 Central Park West - 212-769-5100 amnh.org Ages: All
Back by popular demand, this delightful exhibition introduces visitors to the colorful and richly diverse world of frogs. More than 150 live frogs, from the tiny phantasmal dart-poison frog (which is less than an inch long) to the enormous African bullfrog (which can be as big as 8 inches in diameter), are shown in re-created habitats, complete wit... (more)
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6/28/2013 Hours: Tues.-Fri., 10am-5:30pm; Sat., 11am-5pm
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Bernard Langlais - Works in Wood: A Survey Exhibition - Alexandre Gallery
41 E. 57th St. - 212-755-2828 alexandregallery.com Ages: All
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8/31/2013 Hours: 10AM-3PM, Four tours daily
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Inside Central Park Tour - Bike and Roll NYC
Central Park - (212) 260-0400 bikenewyorkcity.com Ages: All Price: Adults: $40, Kids 12 and under: $25
NYC's Number 1 tourist destination is Central Park! This guided tour gives a comprehensive look at the park and visitors get to every famous spot they want to see. From Bethesda Fountain to Strawberry Fields and the Dakota to the Jackie Kennedy Onassis Reservoir, guests see it all. Participants will also visit lesser-known sights like Cleopatra's N... (more)
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11/17/2013
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Italian Renaissance and Baroque Bronze Sculpture from the Robert Lehman Collection - Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Ave. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All
In celebration of the recently published catalogue of Robert Lehman's collection of European sculpture and metalwork, this exhibition presents a selection of Italian bronze sculpture of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, displayed as a group for the first time. Featuring bronze casts after models created by masters such as Severo da Rav... (more)
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5/21/2014
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Against the Odds: American Jews & the Rescue of Europe's Refugees, 1933-1941 - Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
36 Battery Pl - 646-437-4200 www.mjhnyc.org Ages: All
Between 1933 and 1941, thousands of Jews in flight from Nazi persecution sought haven in the United States, reaching out to relatives, friends, and even strangers. Against the Odds tells the story of American Jews who answered their call for help. Working within the constraints of American laws that strictly limited immigration, these generous indi... (more)
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7/07/2013
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Museum as Hub: Center for Historical Reenactments: After-after Tears - New Museum
235 Bowery - 212-219-1222 Prince St. www.newmuseum.org Ages: All
CHR was an artist collective and curatorial platform in Johannesburg (2010-12) that explored social and political memory within postapartheid South Africa. The exhibition will present a site-specific response to New York, developed through their Museum as Hub residency.
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11/16/2013
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Retrospective - Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology
227 W. 27th St. - 212-217-4558 fitnyc.edu Ages: All
Featuring more than 100 garments, accessories, and textiles from the Museum's permanent collection, Retrospective begins with a selection of fashions that references historical periods prior to the eighteenth century, including a 1981 gold lame ensemble by Zandra Rhodes and a 1999 painted silk chiffon gown by Alexander McQueen for Givenchy Couture,... (more)
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7/14/2013
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2013 Doodle 4 Google Showcase - American Museum of Natural History
200 Central Park West - 212-769-5200 www.amnh.org Ages: All
The American Museum of Natural History and Google have teamed up to present and showcase this year's 2013 Doodle 4 Google winners. The annual Doodle 4 Google competition invites students (grades K-12) across the country to submit their designs of the Google logo based off this year's theme "My Best Day Ever..."
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9/08/2013
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Jeffrey Gibson: Said the Pigeon to the Squirrel - National Academy of Design Museum and School of Fine Arts
1083 Fifth Ave. - 212-369-4880 www.nationalacademy.org Ages: All
Jeffrey Gibson's work has drawn critical acclaim for its commentary on cultural hybridity and has established him as a leading artist of his generation. Gibson, who is a member of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, explores notions of identity and modernism within a contemporary context.
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9/08/2013
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Visualizing Time: An Artist's Eye with Andrew Raftery, NA - National Academy of Design Museum and School of Fine Arts
1083 Fifth Ave. - 212-369-4880 www.nationalacademy.org Ages: All
Showcasing a selection of narrative prints from the Academy's collection, National Academician Andrew Raftery's examination focuses on how printmakers structured the representation of time as they created narratives that were comprehensible to their original audiences and compelling today.
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9/08/2013
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Visions of Land and Sea: William Trost Richards - National Academy of Design Museum and School of Fine Arts
1083 Fifth Ave. - 212-369-4880 www.nationalacademy.org Ages: All
This exhibition reveals the Academy's rich collection of work by the major landscape and marine specialist William Trost Richards. The majority of these oils, watercolors and graphite drawings have never before been on public view.
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6/29/2013 Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-6pm
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Judith Schaechter: The Battle of Carnival and Lent - Claire Oliver Gallery
513 W. 26th St. - 212-929-5949 www.claireoliver.com Ages: All
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9/02/2013
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Koloman Moser: Designing Modern Vienna 1897-1907 - Neue Galerie
1048 Fifth Ave. - 212-628-6200 86th St. www.neuegalerie.org Ages: All
This monographic exhibition is devoted to the Austrian artist, designer, and Wiener Werksattte co-founder Koloman Moser (1868-1918). Organized by Neue Galerie decorative arts curator Dr. Christian Witt-Dorring, this comprehensive show will survey the entirety of Moser's career. Included in the exhibition will be important interior design commission... (more)
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10/06/2013
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Hopper Drawing - Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Ave. - 212-570-3600 www.whitney.org Ages: All
The first major museum exhibition to focus on the drawings and creative process of Edward Hopper (1882-1967). The exhibition will survey Hopper's significant and underappreciated achievements as a draftsman, and will pair many of his greatest oil paintings, including Early Sunday Morning (1930), New York Movie (1939), Office at Night (1940) and Nig... (more)
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7/12/2013 Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-6pm
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Takuma Nakahira - Circulation: Date, Place, Events - Yossi Milo Gallery
245 Tenth Ave. - 212-414-0370 www.yossimilo.com Ages: All
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9/08/2013
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Pat Steir: Blue River - National Academy of Design Museum and School of Fine Arts
1083 Fifth Ave. - 212-369-4880 www.nationalacademy.org Ages: All
Centered around Pat Steir's enormous painting Blue River, this installation will also feature several of the artist's lyrical and highly-textured "waterfall" paintings.
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9/01/2013
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David Hockney: The Jugglers - Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Ave. - 212-570-3600 www.whitney.org Ages: All
This exhibition marks the U.S. premiere of Hockney's first video installation: The Jugglers (2012). Filmed using eighteen fixed cameras, this multiscreen tableau shows a group of jugglers as they move in a procession across a grid of eighteen screens.
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7/12/2013 Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-6pm
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Takuma Nakahira - Circulation: Date, Place, Events - Yossi Milo Gallery
245 Tenth Ave. - 212-414-0370 www.yossimilo.com Ages: All
The Japanese photographer's first solo show in the United States.
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7/24/2013 Hours: Mon.-Fri., 10am-6pm; Sun., 11am-4pm
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The Universe Within Art by Govinda Sah "Azad" - Tibet House US Gallery
22 W. 15th St. - 2122462640 www.tibethouse.us Ages: All
Tibet House US has announced their upcoming art exhibit, The Universe Within, which will showcase the masterful works of renowned Nepalese artist Govinda Sah "Azad". The exhibit will run from May 23, 2013 through July 24, 2013, with an opening reception to be held on May 23rd from 6-8pm ET. A portion of all sales will benefit Tibet House US and it... (more)
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1/05/2014
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Shipwreck! Pirates & Treasure - Discovery Times Square
226 W. 44th St. - 866-987-9692 www.discoverytsx.com/exhibitions/shipwreck Ages: All
SHIPWRECK! Pirates & Treasure will capture your imagination and take you on an incredible journey through thousands of years of maritime history. Experience hurricane-force winds, pick up treasure with a robotic arm, and explore the mysteries of the deep. This exhibit features over 500 authentic artifacts, including gold and silver treasures, as we... (more)
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6/30/2013
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MoMA Studio: Exchange Cafe - Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
11 W. 53rd St. - 212-708-9400 moma.org Ages: All
Organized in collaboration with Brooklyn-based artist Caroline Woolard as part of the Department of Education's Artists Experiment initiative, MoMA Studio: Exchange Cafe is a social space in the mezzanine of MoMA's Education and Research building that is dedicated to exchange-based practices. Taking the form of a cafe, the Studio encourages visitor... (more)
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9/08/2013
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Ellsworth Kelly: The Chatham Series - Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
11 W. 53rd St. - 212-708-9400 moma.org Ages: All
In celebration of Ellsworth Kelly's 90th birthday in May 2013, The Museum of Modern Art presents an exhibition of the first series of paintings the artist made after leaving New York City for Spencertown, in upstate New York, in 1970. His studio in the nearby town of Chatham was an abandoned theater, and it was more spacious than any the artist had... (more)
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9/08/2013 Hours: 10am-5pm weekdays, 10am-5:30pm weekends
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Dinosaur Safari - Bronx Zoo
2300 Southern Blvd. - 718-367-1010 bronxzoo.com Ages: All Price: Included in Total Experience Ticket: $33.95; $28.95 seniors; $23.95 kids ages 3-12. A 20 percent discount is offered with online purchases for Monday and Tuesday visits. Parking is $14 per car
The new attraction will include a ride through the Cretaceous and Jurassic periods with more than two-dozen animatronic dinosaurs up to 40 feet long which move, snarl, roar, and spit.
In anticipation of the new exhibit, the Bronx Zoo is offering New Yorkers a chance to vote for their favorite dinosaur species at bronxzoo.com/dino and win ticket... (more)
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9/02/2013
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The Civil War and American Art - Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Ave. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All
This major loan exhibition will explore how American artists responded to the Civil War and its aftermath. The exhibition follows the trajectory of the conflict: from the palpable unease on the eve of war to the heady optimism that it would be over with a single battle, to the growing realization that this conflict would not end quickly, to grappli... (more)
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6/22/2013 Hours: Tues.-Sat., noon-6pm (Thurs., until 8pm)
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Aryn Chapman - Labyrinth - Ceres Gallery
547 W. 27th St. - 212-947-6100 www.ceresgallery.org Ages: All
An installation that explores the interior and exterior tangles of thought.
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6/22/2013 Hours: Tues.-Sat., noon-6pm (Thurs., until 8pm)
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Regina Walker - 4 Blocks - Ceres Gallery
547 W. 27th St. - 212-947-6100 www.ceresgallery.org Ages: All
4 Blocks will include images (photographs) taken within a 4 block radius of Walker's apartment on the lower east side of Manhattan.
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7/20/2013 Hours: Tues.-Sat., 11am-6pm
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The Last Laugh - apexart
291 Church St. - 212-431-5270 www.apexart.org Ages: All
Because it is unknowable and ambiguous, there is power in laughter. The motivation for this exhibition is to pursue research into laughter as a destabilizing force, emancipated from the joke and entering the realm of power relationships, reactions to political landscapes and human emotion.
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6/22/2013 Hours: Wed.-Sat., noon-6pm; Sun., 1-6pm
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Elektra KB - The Cathara Insurgent Women Vs The Theocratic Republic of Gaia Beings - Allegra LaViola Gallery
179 East Broadway - 917-463-3901 www.allegralaviola.com Ages: All
A multi-media exhibition set entirely in the realm of KB's mythological world: The Theocratic Republic of Gaia (T.R.O.G).
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6/28/2013 Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-6pm
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Christopher Evans: Equilibrium - Fischbach Gallery
210 Eleventh Ave. - 212-759-2345 www.fischbachgallery.com Ages: All
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6/28/2013 Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-6pm
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Daisy Craddock: Local Produce - Fischbach Gallery
210 Eleventh Ave. - 212-759-2345 www.fischbachgallery.com Ages: All
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7/13/2013 Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-6pm
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Jehad Nga: New Work, Mali and Libya - Bonni Benrubi
41 E. 57th St. - 212-888-6007 bonnibenrubi.com Ages: All
Featuring new work from Mali and Libya by acclaimed artist.
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7/13/2013 Hours: Mon.-Sat., 9:30am-5:30pm
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The Nineties - Spanierman Modern
53 E. 58th St. - 212-832-1400 spaniermanmodern.com Ages: All
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8/31/2013 Hours: 10am-6pm
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Mon Ami - We Share the Same Sky - Fred Torres Collaborations
527 W. 29th St. - 212-244-5074 fredtorres.com Ages: All Price: Free
Fred Torres and Alain Briscadieu-Farjas are very excited to present works by nine French masters. An opening reception will be held this Thursday, May 30th from 6-8pm.
The exhibition marks a unprecedented demonstration of contemporary French talent, the first major New York exhibition of painter Jean-Claude Farjas, and an introduction to our ne... (more)
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7/07/2014
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From India East - Rubin Museum of Art
150 W. 17th St. - 212-620-5000 www.rmanyc.org Ages: All
This year-long exhibition allows the museum to exhibit for the first time examples from far beyond the Himalayan region, including art from Burma, Cambodia, Indonesia, Thailand, Korea, and Japan. The loan was made possible by the Brooklyn Museum's temporary closing of its Asian art galleries.
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8/11/2013
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Old Masters, Newly Acquired - Morgan Library & Museum
225 Madison Ave. - 212-685-0008 themorgan.org Ages: All
Old Masters, Newly Acquired explores the recent growth of the Morgan's collection of drawings made before 1900. The past three years have been an exceptionally robust period during which important gifts, bequests, and purchases have both augmented and transformed the museum's holdings. Visitors have a unique opportunity to view many of these new ad... (more)
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6/30/2013 Hours: 11:57pm-12pm
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Midnight Moment: A Digital Gallery - Time Square
1 Time Square - 212-205-6632 Ages: All
MIDNIGHT MOMENT FEATURES NEW FILM FROM LOCAL ARTIST NEIL GOLDBERG CAPTURING SUBWAY RIDERS AS THEY EMERGE ONTO NEW YORK CITY STREETS.
Shown on over fifteen of the largest digital screens in Times Square Monthly Program from the Times Square Advertising Coalition and Times Square Arts.
June 2013, every night from 11:57pm – midnight.
3-minute S... (more)
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6/21/2013
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Parsons Dance Summer Intensive - Manhattan Movement & Arts Center
248 W. 60th St. - 212-869-9395 www.parsonsdance.org/summerworkshops Ages: All
Parsons Dance – praised around the world for its athleticism, energy and accessibility – presents the thirteenth annual New York City Summer Intensive Workshop for pre-professional and professional dancers from June 3 - 15, 2013. David Parsons’ Master Choreography Workshop will follow, taking place from June 17-21, 2013. Enrollment information for... (more)
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6/21/2013
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When Color Speaks - Joy Wai Gallery
122 W. 18th St. - 646-688-3155 www.joywaigallery.com Ages: All
Featuring two innovative contemporary artists -- Jason Potvin and Alexandros Megas.
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6/25/2013 Hours: Tues.-Sat., 11am-6pm
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Be Inspired at Agora Gallery this May - Agora Gallery
530 W. 25th St. - 212-2264151 www.agora-gallery.com/receptionexhibitions/6_6_2013.aspx Ages: All
June is an exciting month at Angora Gallery this year, with three memorable exhibitions to get the summer off to a great start. The Manifestation of Milieu shows artists taking the familiar and adding a sense of the unusual to it, with each work of art becoming a window into a world similar to ours, but where anything seems possible. In Pulse of Ab... (more)
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9/01/2013
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Highlights from the Collection - Noguchi Museum
9-01 33rd Rd. - 718-204-7088 www.noguchi.org Ages: All
The Noguchi's summer installation of highlights from the collection is organized around four instances in which Noguchi returned to an earlier body of work to rethink, redevelop, reproduce or restore it.
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7/03/2013 Hours: Wed.-Sun., noon-6pm
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American Girls - Foley Gallery
97 Allen St. - 212-244-9081 foleygallery.com Ages: All
Ilona Szwarc is an award-winning photographer who lives and works in New York City.
Her work examines gender, identity and beauty in the context of American culture.
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7/03/2013 Hours: Wed.-Sun., noon-6pm
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Val Britton - Cosmology - Foley Gallery
97 Allen St. - 212-244-9081 foleygallery.com Ages: All
Val Britton was born in Livingston, New Jersey. She currently lives and works in San Francisco.
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7/26/2013 Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-6pm
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Wolf Kahn - Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe
525 W. 22nd St. - 212-445-0051 ameringer-yohe.com Ages: All
An exhibition of recent paintings by Wolf Kahn.
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9/22/2013
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Erika Vogt: Stranger Debris Roll Roll Roll - New Museum
235 Bowery - 212-219-1222 Prince St. www.newmuseum.org Ages: All
This will be the first solo museum presentation of work by Erika Vogt. Within her installation, she will fuse elements of sculpture, drawing, video, and photography to produce multilayered image spaces.
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7/06/2013 Hours: Tues.-Sat., 11am-6pm
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Chrisa Biddy - Mobile Uploads - Lyons Wier Gallery
542 W. 24th St. - 212-242-6220 www.lyonswiergallery.com Ages: All
Chrisa Biddy turns to Facebook and other social networks for inspiration for his oil and watercolor paintings. His subjects are self-represented, captured via their smart phones or digital cameras, and observed within the context of their respective lives. Biddy uses these vernacular images to transport the subject from its original common state--a... (more)
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9/15/2013
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AIDS in New York: The First Five Years - New-York Historical Society
170 Central Park West - 212-873-3400 www.nyhistory.org Ages: All
AIDS in New York: The First Five Years will explore the impact of the epidemic on personal lives, public health and medical practices, culture, and politics in New York City and the nation. Drawing from the archives of the New York Public Library, New York University, and the National Archive of LGBT History, the show will use posters, photographs,... (more)
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9/08/2013
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From Colony to Nation: 200 Years of American Painting - New-York Historical Society
170 Central Park West - 212-873-3400 www.nyhistory.org Ages: All
This exhibition of American art, drawn from the New-York Historical Society's venerable collections, presents a chronological and thematic survey of masterworks ranging in date from 1720 to 1917. Included are Colonial, Federal and Gilded Age portraits; Hudson River School landscapes; marine and maritime paintings, with a focus on works inspired by ... (more)
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9/15/2013
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Children With AIDS: 1990-2000 - New-York Historical Society
170 Central Park West - 212-873-3400 www.nyhistory.org Ages: All
To accompany AIDS in New York: The First Five Years, the New-York Historical Society will curate a visual arts exhibition and gallery show, featuring 30 breathtaking black-and-white photographs by noted photographer and social realist Claire Yaffa from her collection "The Changing Face of Children with AIDS."
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7/06/2013 Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-6pm
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Bruce Davidson - Time of Change: Civil Rights Photographs, 1961-1965 - Howard Greenberg Gallery
41 E. 57th St. - 212-334-0010 howardgreenberg.com Ages: All
Photographs from a critical moment in America's history by renowned documentary photographer Bruce Davidson. Charged with the emotion, the powerful images depict the struggle for justice and equality during a time of Freedom Rides, protests, marches, and police violence.
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9/22/2013
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Bill Traylor: Drawings from the Collections of the High Museum of Art and the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts - American Folk Art Museum
2 Lincoln Square - 212-595-9533 folkartmuseum.org Ages: All
This exhibition will include approximately 63 drawings and paintings by self-taught Alabama artist Bill Traylor. Traylor began making art near the end of his life, and his works are notable for their flat, simply defined shapes and vibrant compositions in which memories and observations relating to African American life are merged. Traylor is recog... (more)
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8/17/2013
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Maurice Sendak: A Celebration of the Artist and His Work - Society of Illustrators
128 E. 63rd St. - 212-838-2560 www.societyillustrators.org Ages: All
A tribute to the late children's book writer/illustrator (Where the Wild Things Are).
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9/22/2013
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Recent Gifts - American Folk Art Museum
2 Lincoln Square - 212-595-9533 folkartmuseum.org Ages: All
The exhibition is sponsored in part by Joyce Berger Cowin, public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, the Ford Foundation, the David Davies and Jack Weeden Fund for Exhibitions, and Laura and Richard Parsons. Lectures and symposia are supported in part by an award from the National Endow... (more)
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8/17/2013
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Henry Patrick Raleigh: A Giant From the Era of the Golden Age of American Illustration - Society of Illustrators
128 E. 63rd St. - 212-838-2560 www.societyillustrators.org Ages: All
Henry Patrick Raleigh (1880-1944) was one of the most prolific illustrators of all time. His works appeared in numerous publications including San Francisco Examiner, Journal, New York World, and The Saturday Evening Post. He became famous for his illustrations of high society which appeared in a series of Maxwell House Coffee advertisements, and ... (more)
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9/01/2013
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Llyn Foulkes - New Museum
235 Bowery - 212-219-1222 Prince St. www.newmuseum.org Ages: All
This long-overdue retrospective marks the first New York museum exhibition of works by Llyn Foulkes and will feature over ninety works from the scope of his sixty-year career.
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1/04/2014 Hours: Tues.-Sat., 11am-6pm
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El Museo's Bienal 2013: Here Is Where We Jump - El Museo Del Barrio
1230 5th Ave. - 212-831-7272 www.elmuseo.org Ages: All
The seventh edition of El Museo's biennial exhibition. La Bienal features work by Latino and Latin-American artists, from newly-minted to mid-career, who live and work in the greater metropolitan area of New York City. The exhibition was designed to give opportunities to artists and to make the public aware of their work, and features new works by ... (more)
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8/15/2013 Hours: 7am-6pm
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Union Square’s Summer in the Square - Union Square Park
E. 16th & Union Square West - 212-889-0808 www.unionsquarenyc.org Ages: All
Union Square’s Summer in the Square is back this year and bigger than ever! Union Square Partnership’s FREE weekly summer entertainment series is held Thursdays in Union Square Park starting June 13th. The series offers a vibrant mixture of activities for everyone. This year we’ve partnered with Paragon Sports to start each morning with a heart-pum... (more)
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6/13/2014
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In Parts - Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Ave. - 212-570-3600 www.whitney.org Ages: All
Artists frequently think beyond the unique object, to work with a group of closely related images that together express an artistic vision in its entirety. This ongoing installation, drawn from the Museum's extensive holding of works on paper, presents examples of this creative process. Works by Dotty Attie, Mark Bradford, Carroll Dunham, Dan Flavi... (more)
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8/21/2013
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SummerFest - Cross County Shopping Center
8000 Mall Walk - 914-968-9570 Ages: All Price: FREE
SummerFest 2013 Events are FREE!
• Concerts: Wednesdays, June 19 – August 21, 7PM.
• Movies: Thursdays, June 13 and 27, July 11 and 25, August 8, 8PM.
• Fireworks: Wednesday, July 3 (Concerts begin at 1PM, Fireworks at 9:30PM).
• Sidewalk Chalk Art Expo: Saturday, August 10, 8AM – 5PM.
• Children’s Art Entertainment: Fridays June 28, July... (more)
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9/29/2013
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As Subject and Object: Contemporary Book Artists Explore Sacred Hebrew Texts - Museum of Biblical Art
1865 Broadway - 212-408-1500 www.mobia.org Ages: All
Featuring the work of approximately a dozen contemporary artists, this exhibition highlights books and, in some cases, series of individual pages, inspired by the Hebrew Bible and other sacred Hebrew texts.
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6/22/2013 Hours: varies
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Chelsea Music Festival - Various locations
Chelsea - 646-801-3864 chelseamusicfestival.org Ages: All Price: varies
Chelsea Music Festival is a series of classical and jazz chamber music concerts featuring emerging artists from around the world in galleries around Chelsea for a week and a half. From June 14-June 22, 2013, CMF will host events at Dillon Gallery, School of Visual Arts, Leo Baeck Institute, General Theological Seminary, Casa Italiana at NYU, Itali... (more)
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1/05/2014
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The Art of the Brick - Discovery Times Square
226 W. 44th St. - 866-987-9692 www.discoverytsx.com/exhibitions/art-of-the-brick Ages: All
This exhibition by artist Nathan Sawaya is a critically acclaimed collection of intriguing and inspiring works of art made exclusively from one of the most recognizable toys in the world: LEGO bricks. This is the world's biggest and most elaborate display of LEGO art ever and features brand-new, never-before-seen pieces by Sawaya.
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9/23/2013
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Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes - Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)
11 W. 53rd St. - 212-708-9400 moma.org Ages: All
MoMA presents its first major exhibition on the work of Le Corbusier (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret, 1887-1965), encompassing his work as an architect, interior designer, artist, city planner, writer, and photographer. Conceived by guest curator Jean-Louis Cohen, the exhibition reveals the ways in which Le Corbusier observed and imagined landscapes thr... (more)
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6/22/2013
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Swan Lake - American Ballet Theatre
Metropolitan Opera House, Amsterdam Ave. & 64th St. - 212-362-6000 abt.org Ages: All
Set to Tchaikovsky's glorious score, this romantic tale of love and forgiveness is often considered the world's most beloved ballet. With breathtaking choreography, lavish costumes and visually spectacular sets evoking a lakeside Renaissance court.
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6/29/2013
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Sherie Rene Scott: Piece of Meat - 54 Below
254 W. 54th St. - 646-476-3551 www.54below.com Ages: AD Price: $25-&70
The highly anticipated return engagement of Sherie Rene Scott. Music direction and arrangements by Todd Almond.
Tickets on sale now.
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6/23/2013
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Outdoor Rise - Multiple locations
- 212 579 4568 www.OutdoorRise.com Ages: All Price: FREE
OUTDOOR RISE is a brand new outdoor adventure festival hitting NYC June 17-23. Over 60 free activities include bike tours, hiking, kayaking, surfing, rock climbing, yoga, photography, film, and more. It's powered by the expert guides of Discover Outdoors with events held in all five boroughs.
Get details and register at www.OutdoorRise.com.
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9/01/2013 Hours: 8pm
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New York at Night Bike Tour - Bike and Roll NYC
Central Park-Columbus Circle - (212) 260-0400 bikenewyorkcity.com Ages: All Price: $50 Adults, $35 Kids 12 and under
While Paris may be known as The City of Light, New York should vie for the title. Ride around Central Park for a look at some of its most famous sights, especially beautiful when they are illuminated at night. See the iconic Belvedere Castle, Bethesda Fountain, Guggenheim Museum, Onassis Reservoir, and so much more!
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9/22/2013
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Ken Price Sculpture - A Retrospective - Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Ave. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All
This long overdue retrospective, the first major museum exhibition of Ken Price's work in New York, will trace the development of his ceramic sculptures with approximately sixty-five examples from 1959 to the present. The selection will range from the luminously glazed ovoid forms of Price's early work to the suggestive, molten-like slumps he has m... (more)
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7/06/2013
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Savion Glover - The Joyce Theater
175 Eighth Ave. - 212-242-0800 joyce.org Ages: All
Under the direction of Savion Glover, Savion Glover's STePz is another exuberant celebration of tap dance to sound and sound to dance. In this production, Mr. Glover and his ensemble of dancers (TLHS) take tap dance to new heights while fusing traditional music selections of the past with his self-proclaimed tap style and energy of the future. The ... (more)
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9/08/2013
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Living in Style - Five Centuries of Interior Design from the Collection of Drawings and Prints - Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Ave. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All
This exhibition combines drawings, prints, and objects from all over Europe and the United States as they were collected by the Metropolitan Museum over a period of more than a hundred years. It highlights the ingenuity, beauty, and wit often found in designs for the decorative arts, and follows the dynamic development of shapes, ornaments, and mat... (more)
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6/30/2013 Hours: Mon.-Fri., 11:30am-7:30pm
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Crumpler Moving Sale - Crumpler West Village
49 8th Avenue - (212) 242-2535 crumpler.com Ages: All Price: $5
WE’RE GETTING OUT OF HERE!
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30% OFF THE ORIGINAL PRICE UNTIL JUNE 30, 2013
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6/30/2013 Hours: 11:30am-7:30pm
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Crumpler Moving Sale - Crumpler West Village
49 8th Avenue - (212) 242-2535 Ages: All Price: $5
WE’RE GETTING OUT OF HERE!
IT’S THE END OF AN ERA AND WE’RE MOVING ONTO GREENER PASTURES. COME SAY GOODBYE TO CRUMPLER WEST VILLAGE AND KEEP YOUR EAR TO THE GROUND FOR NEW STORE OPENINGS.
30% OFF THE ORIGINAL PRICE UNTIL JUNE 30, 2013
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7/20/2013 Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-6pm
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Anne Siems: Healing - Littlejohn Contemporary
547 W. 27th St. - 203-451-5050 Suite 207 Ages: All
By adopting 17th- and 18th- century American folk motifs, Seattle-based Anne Siems' portraits and still life paintings emit a haunting awkwardness. With rosy cheeks, haunted gaze and flattened features, Siems' highly stylized figures inhabit a dreamy colonial landscape. As the world itself seems frozen in time, the transparent figures float in the ... (more)
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6/19/2013 Hours: 11am
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Grant Bowler of SyFy's Defiance Meet & Greet - NBC Experience Store
30 Rockefeller Plaza - 212-664-3700 www.nbcuniversalstore.com Ages: All
The star of SyFy's Defiance, recently seen as Richard Burton in "Liz & Dick" opposite Lindsay Lohan, will be appearing the NBC Experience Store in Rockefeller Plaza.
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6/19/2013
- 9/15/2013
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Ellen Gallagher: Don't Axe Me - New Museum
235 Bowery - 212-219-1222 Prince St. www.newmuseum.org Ages: All
Gallagher's first major US museum exhibition, bringing together twenty years of works including iconic paintings, drawings, prints, and film installations, as well as a new series of paintings.
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6/19/2013
- 8/18/2013
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Slow and Steady Wins the Race: Ken Price, Works on Paper, 1962-2010 - The Drawing Center
35 Wooster St. - 212-219-2166 drawingcenter.org Ages: All
This exhibition marks the first survey of drawings by Ken Price, an artist best known for his sculptural work. A selection of 68 works on paper will track Price's pursuit of drawing over 48 years and will demonstrate a wide range of characters and techniques.
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6/19/2013 Hours: 7:30pm
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Amateur Night - Top Dog - Apollo Theater
253 W. 125th St. - 212-531-5305 www.apollotheater.org Ages: All Price: $20/$26/$32
At this special evening of Amateur Night, winners from the beginning of the 2013 season square-off at the Top Dog competition and compete for the chance to move one step closer to the winning title of Super Top Dog and the cash prize of $10,000 on November 27!
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6/19/2013 Hours: 11pm
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Late Night: The Studio - 54 Below
254 W. 54th St. www.54below.com Ages: AD Price: $20 food & beverage min.
On Wednesdays, Late Night at 54 Below is the place to see up-and-coming New York talent: including comedians, musicians, songwriters and improv groups. No cover charge. $20 food & beverage minimum.
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6/19/2013 Hours: 8pm
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Wyclef Jean - B.B. King Blues Club & Grill
237 W. 42nd St. - 212-997-4144 www.bbkingblues.com Ages: TE,AD Price: $39.50 advance, $45 day of show
Lead Fugees rapper and sometime guitarist Wyclef Jean was the first member of his group to embark on a solo career, and he proved even more ambitious and eclectic on his own. As the Fugees hung in limbo, Wyclef also became hip-hop's unofficial multicultural conscience; a seemingly omnipresent activist, he assembled or participated in numerous high-... (more)
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6/19/2013 Hours: 8:00PM
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Balto w/Bird Courage - Cameo Gallery
93 N. 6th St. - 212 777 6727 baltoamerica.com Ages: All Price: $8
Indie Americana folk band BALTO kicks off their 2013 Summer Tour in June hitting 11 cities along the Mid-Atlantic region. Formed by singer-songwriter/multi-instrumentalist Dan Sheron in 2011, the band has been compared to Fleet Foxes, Bon Iver, and Dawes and their music has been described as "goosebump-inducing gorgeous", "near folk perfection", a... (more)
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6/19/2013 Hours: 10am - 8pm
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Madame Tussauds New York Offers Theater Lovers with 'Kids Go Free' Every Wednesday Until the End of June - Madame Tussauds New York
234 W. 42nd Street (between 7th & 8th Avenues) - 8668413505 www.madametussauds.com/NewYork Ages: All Price: Free admission for kids (ages 12 and under) when accompanied by a full-paying adult and presentation of a Broadway show ticket
Setting the stage as the perfect preshow for a Broadway matinee, Madame Tussauds New York (234 W. 42nd Street between 7th & 8th Avenues) is offering theatergoers free admission to the wax attraction for kids (ages 12 and under) when accompanied by a full-paying adult and presentation of a Broadway show ticket. The offer starts Wednesday, May 22, a... (more)
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6/19/2013 Hours: 3:30pm
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Reading Into History: Home is with our Family by Joyce Hansen - New-York Historical Society
170 Central Park West - 212-873-3400 www.nyhistory.org Ages: All Price: Free with museum admission
For kids ages 9-12.
Come celebrate the first anniversary of the Reading into History Family Book Club and Juneteenth! We will enjoy some celebratory snacks and discuss this novel set in 1850s Seneca Village, a community of immigrants and free African-Americans that was destroyed to pave the way for Central Park. After our discussion, Book club fa... (more)
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6/19/2013 Hours: 12:30pm
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Word for Word with Jami Attenberg & Fiona Maazel - The Bryant Park Reading Room
41 West 40th St - 212-768-4242 Ages: AD Price: Free
The Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist Jami Attenberg (The Middlesteins) is joined by Fiona Maazel (Woke Up Lonely) for an afternoon discussion about writing and their recent novels, which take on subjects from food obsession to a cult that promises to cure loneliness. In conversation with writer Teddy Wayne (The Love Song of Jonny Valentine).
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6/19/2013
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Summer Lifestyle and Fashion Expo - A Night out for Long Island Women! - Thatched Cottage
445 East Main Street - 631-745-0745 www.summerexpo.eventbrite.com Ages: All Price: $25.00
In the United States, cancer remains the leading cause of death amongst children under the age of 15 years old. In 2012 alone, the American Cancer Society estimated that there were about 12,500 children diagnosed with cancer. Within 12 months of being diagnosed, approximately 1,340 of those children will lose their battle with this disease. Childho... (more)
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6/19/2013 Hours: 6:30 p.m.- 9:00 p.m.
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Something Old, Something Borrowed, Something Blue, and Something New: The Wedding Planner Edition - Tejani Jewlery
1458 Third Avenue - 646-543-6301 janinejust.com Ages: All Price: 10.00
Thinking about planning a wedding or working in the bridal industry? Learn the ins and outs of planning, styling, and organizing from flower arrangements, invitations, cake designs, trendy colors, and more. Enjoy snacks and beverages along with a giftbags containing fun swag!
RSVP to rsvp@janinejust.com or call 646-543-6301.
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6/19/2013 Hours: 10:30 PM
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Singer-Songwriter Building Pictures - The McKittrick Hotel
530 W 27th St - 212-904-1883 Ages: All Price: Free
Born into a small town musical family, John taught himself to play the guitar while touring with his brother's rock band, Leva and in 2009 officially started Building Pictures with both the release of his debut EP Like Minded People and sophomore EP Joey and the Moon in the same year. His third EPClosing Doors was received favorably with considerab... (more)
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6/19/2013 Hours: noon - 9:30 p.m.
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Holland Herring Festival Opening Ceremonies and First Tasting - Grand Central Oyster Bar
89 East 42nd St. - 212-490-6650 www.oysterbarny.com Ages: All Price: Free admission, $7, $7.95 by consumption
The Grand Central Oyster Bar hosts the 33nd Annual Holland Herring Festival with Opening Ceremonies and Official First Tasting of "nieuwe maatjes" herring from Holland on June 19 at noon. Hosted by executive chef Sandy Ingber and general manager Kevin Farekin. Award-winning author Roy Finamore will participate in the ceremonies with other dignitari... (more)
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6/19/2013 Hours: 5:30PM
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A Spanish Treat - Jack The Horse Tavern
66 Hicks Street - 718-852-5084 jackthehorse.com Ages: All Price: 70
Jack the Horse Tavern will serve a four-course tasting menu created based on pairings with Spanish wines on Wednesday, June 19 from 5:30 to 10:30 p.m. Cost is $70 per person, plus tax and gratuity. Seating is limited. Reservations are required and may be made by calling 718-852-5084 or emailing reservations@jackthehorse.com.
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6/19/2013
- 6/20/2013
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JWG's ART TALKS - United Nations Plaza
866 East 48th Street - 646-688-3155 www.joywaigallery.com/news.html Ages: All Price: Free
This is a FREE ART Seminar event presented by Joy Wai Gallery.
JWG's ART TALKS presents world class and distinguished artists and guests in a dynamic powerpoint Symposium at the United Nations Plaza on 6.19 & 6.20,7-9PM.
ART TALKS introduces art lovers to vibrant contemporary artists who will be sharing their innovative art and talk about th... (more)
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6/19/2013 Hours: 8pm (doors at 7pm)
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Jessica Kirson - Empire City Casino at Yonkers Raceway
810 Yonkers Ave. - 800-514-3849 www.empirecitycasino.com Ages: All
Every Wednesday evening, Empire City Casino hosts Comedy Night, featuring some of the biggest names in stand-up. Performing tonight: Jessica Kirson (Last Comic Standing).
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6/20/2013 Hours: 7-9pm
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'PEP' Cocktail Party - The Dalloway
525 Broome Street - 2129667900 physedplus.org/events.html Ages: AD Price: $25.00
Join us in supporting Phys Ed Plus "PEP" at the Happy Hour Cocktail Party hosted by the Dalloway. PEP brings back Physical Education to kids at school with a goal of providing them with a healthier lifestyle. This fundraiser event will offer raffles, specialty cocktails and light snacks. Pre-purchased tickets will include a raffle ticket.
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6/20/2013 Hours: 9:45am-12:30pm
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Open Rehearsal - New York Philharmonic
Avery Fisher Hall, Broadway & W. 65th St. - 212-875-5656 www.nyphil.org Ages: All Price: $18
All NYPhil Open Rehearsals are "working" rehearsals and therefore the program may not be played in its entirety.
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6/20/2013
- 6/22/2013
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Alan Gilbert, Emanuel Ax, Rouse, and Wagner - New York Philharmonic
Avery Fisher Hall, Broadway & W. 65th St. - 212-875-5656 www.nyphil.org Ages: All
The virtuoso pianist and New York resident Emanuel Ax joins the Philharmonic as Artist-in-Residence for the 2012-13 season. As an Honorary Member of the Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, he has performed with the Orchestra on 100 occasions. This season, Emanuel Ax will perform piano concertos and chamber music of the works of Brahms, Mahle... (more)
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6/20/2013
- 7/13/2013 Hours: Tues.-Sat., 11am-6pm
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National Juried Exhibition - First Street Gallery
526 W. 26th St. - 646-336-8053 www.firststreetgallery.net Ages: All
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6/20/2013
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Nordic Midsummer Celebration - Scandinavia House
58 Park Ave. - 212-847-9740 scandinaviahouse.org Ages: All Price: $15
Midsummer is the longest day of the year, but Scandinavians know it as a day of non-stop celebration. Join us for our own fete, featuring music by roving ambassadors of popular Swedish music Roger Hinchliffe, Claes Dyberg, and Svante Engholm, extended gallery hours, and treats for purchase from Smorgas Chef.
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6/20/2013
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ZEPHYR Happy Hour Cruise - Circle Line Downtown
Pier 16, South Street Seaport - 866-987-2542 www.circlelinedowntown.com Ages: AD
Experience Happy Hour in glittering style! Cruise along New York Harbor aboard the luxurious ZEPHYR yacht and enjoy a Happy Hour like never before. Straight up or on the rocks, every drink is on the water! It's the hottest way to cool down! Enjoy: 90-Minute Harbor Cruise; Live DJs; 2 Cash Bars; Drink Specials; Sun Deck; Two Fully Enclosed, Climate-... (more)
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6/20/2013 Hours: Boarding: 6pm; sailing: 6:30-8:30pm
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Thirsty Thursday Night DJ Dance Cruise - Circle Line Sightseeing Cruises - (Circle Line 42nd Street)
Pier 83, W. 42nd St. and 12th Ave. - 212-563-3200 www.circleline42.com Ages: AD
Why spend your Thursday after work Happy Hour indoors when you take advantage of the warm fresh air and gorgeous New York City Sights. Come and indulge specialty cocktails on Circle Line Sightseeing's brand new spacious, outdoor deck and bar.
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6/20/2013 Hours: 11pm
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54 Piano Bar - 54 Below
254 W. 54th St. www.54below.com Ages: AD Price: $20 food & beverage min.
Pick a song and join the house pianist as you take your turn on the stage with pianist and host Brian Nash. See new Broadway talent perform on a whim, and perhaps take part in the ever-popular (and inevitable) audience sing-along. No cover charge. Drink Specials: $5 beer, $8 mixed drinks.
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6/20/2013
- 8/04/2013
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The Cyrus Cylinder and Ancient Persia - Charting a New Empire - Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Ave. - 212-535-7710 www.metmuseum.org Ages: All
The Cyrus Cylinder is one of the most famous surviving icons from the ancient world. Excavated at Babylon in 1879, the Cylinder was inscribed in Babylonian cuneiform on the orders of the Persian king Cyrus the Great after he captured Babylon in 539 B.C. It marks the establishment of Persian rule and records how Cyrus restored shrines and allowed de... (more)
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6/20/2013 Hours: 6pm
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Thursday Nights At The Museum - Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway - 718-638-5000 brooklynmuseum.org Ages: TE,AD
6-8 p.m. Express Tours: Thirty-minute tours of highlights of the Museum's collection. In English and en Espanol.
7-10 p.m. Dance Party: The Museum's inaugural Thursday night party features Brooklyn's own DJ collective I Love Vinyl celebrating the sixty-fifth anniversary of the LP with a mix of hip-hop, house, Afrobeat, funk, soul, and more.
7:30 ... (more)
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6/20/2013
- 6/23/2013
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Eric Alexander-Harold Mabern Quintet - Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, Jazz at Lincoln Center
10 Columbus Circle - 212-721-6500 jalc.org/dizzys Ages: All
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6/20/2013
- 7/26/2013 Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-6pm
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Shi Zhiying - The Relics - James Cohan Gallery
533 W. 26th St. - 212-714-9500 jamescohan.com Ages: All
Shanghai born painter SHI ZHIYING is known for her stark black-and-white paintings of rather uniform vistas -- the wide, open sea; Zen sand gardens; blades of grass -- all which occupy and fill viewers' horizons. This is the painter's debut exhibition in the US.
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6/20/2013
- 7/26/2013 Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-6pm
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Paul McCarthy - Rebel Dabble Babble - Hauser & Wirth
511 W. 18th St. - 212-790-3900 hauserwirth.com Ages: All
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6/20/2013
- 7/27/2013 Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-6pm
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Simon Denny - All you need is data: the DLD 2012 Conference REDUX rerun - Petzel Gallery
456 W. 18th St. - 212-680-9467 www.petzel.com Ages: All
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6/20/2013 Hours: 7:30pm & 9:30pm
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Matuto - Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
David Rubenstein Atrium, 61 W. 62nd St. - 212 205 6632 www.lincolncenter.org/atrium Ages: All
Virtuoso guitarist and singer Clay Ross traveled from South Carolina to New York to Brazil, developing an entirely unique sound that blends Native American folk songs with South American rhythms. Together with New York's master forro ambassador Rob Curto, he formed the six-member band Matuto (a Brazilian slang reference to a man from the backcountr... (more)
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6/20/2013 Hours: 6:30pm
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LL Cool J, Public Enemy & Ice Cube - Roseland Ballroom
239 W. 52nd St. - 212-307-7171 www.roselandballroom.com Ages: All
80s triple hip-hop treat.
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6/20/2013 Hours: 8pm
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Cuban Music Night at Casa Lever Gardens - Casa Lever
390 Park Ave. - 212-888-2700 www.casalever.com Ages: All
Join Casa Lever Gardens for drinks and live music as Grupo Irek mixes the sounds of Cuba -- Son, Cha-Cha, Mambo -- with New York City flavor. Band members hail from all over the globe, representing Cuba, Columbia, Germany, and Brooklyn, for an international sound from the soul.
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6/20/2013
- 7/20/2013 Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-6pm
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Miya Ando - Mujo (Impermanence) - Sundaram Tagore Gallery
547 W. 27th St. - 212-677-4520 www.sundaramtagore.com Ages: All
New York-based emerging artist Miya Ando debuts recent work in her first solo exhibition at Sundaram Tagore Gallery. A descendant of Bizen sword makers, Ando was raised among sword smiths and Buddhist priests in a temple in Okayama, Japan. Combining traditional techniques of her ancestry with modern industrial technology, Ando skillfully transforms... (more)
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6/20/2013 Hours: 7:30pm
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Big Boi/Phony PPL/D-Nice - Prospect Park Bandshell
95 Prospect Park West www.prospectpark.org Ages: TE,AD Price: FREE
Sir Lucious Left Foot, Daddy Fat Sacks, General Patton, Hot Tub Tony, The Son of Chico Dusty: Big Boi is a man of many personae, and may be Southern rap's greatest ambassador. For nearly two decades—from the early days of Outkast through platinum albums to last year's collaboration-heavy Vicious Lies and Dangerous Rumors—he has remained "one of the... (more)
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6/20/2013 Hours: 3:30pm-5:30pm
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Cross Stitch Circle - New-York Historical Society
170 Central Park West - 212-873-3400 www.nyhistory.org Price: Free with museum admission.
Ages 6 and up. Every Thursday in June.
Drop in to try your skills at one of the oldest forms of embroidery in the world. Beginning cross stitchers and younger children will learn the basic stitch and create a bookmark with their new skill. More seasoned stitchers and older children and adults can continue working on their bookmark or branch int... (more)
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6/20/2013 Hours: 8pm
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Put a Fork In It : A Benefit for New York City Coalition Against Hunger's Craig Murphey Fellowship Fund - Bell House
149 7th St. - 718-643-6510 www.thebellhouseny.com Ages: AD Price: $15 advance, $18 day of show
join the city's funniest comedians to raise money for a great cause: the New York City Coalition Against Hunger's Craig Murphey Fellowship Fund, which helps bring healthy, sustainable food to the 1.4 million New Yorkers living in food-poor households.
The Craig Murphey Fellowship continues the outstanding work of Craig Murphey, a young community o... (more)
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6/20/2013 Hours: 9pm
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Loren Benjamin - Spike Hill
186 Bedford Ave - (718) 218-9737 LorenBenjamin.com Ages: All Price: Free
NYC native and Brooklyn-based singer-songwriter Loren Benjamin will perform with his trio at Spike Hill on June 20th. Songwriting Magazine touts, "“Fans of the piano-driven pop of Keane and Billy Joel should check out this emerging 23-year old singer-songwriter from Brooklyn.” Loren is currently promoting his debut acoustic EP (out in August 2013... (more)
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6/20/2013
- 8/17/2013 Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10am-6pm
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Cameron Gray - Birth of a Legend - Mike Weiss Gallery
520 W. 24th St. - 212-691-6899 mikeweissgallery.com Ages: All
Los Angeles-based artist Cameron Gray's multimedia works straddle the line between traditional collage and futuristic technology, comfort and the disquieting uncanny. His large-scale installations are flashing, blinking, twirling, and pulsing walls of utter pandemonium. He overwhelms the viewer with the visual and auditory white noise of the vast I... (more)
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6/20/2013 Hours: 7pm
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Drawn from Hopper: An Evening of Poetry and Literature - Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Ave. - 212-570-3600 www.whitney.org Ages: All Price: $8
In conjunction with Hopper Drawing, this program will highlight the distinctive voices of Anne Carson and Elizabeth Strout. These established writers will read selections of literature and poetry that are evocative of the mood and stylistic impulses in Hopper's art, and explore the lasting literary style some call "Hopper-esque."
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6/20/2013 Hours: 6-10PM
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Wonderful Women's Summer Solstice Gathering - Private Midtown NYC Loft RSVP ONLY
Near Empire State Building - 646-543-0060 www.SecretServicesNYC.com Ages: AD Price: $20 online/$25 at door
The Wonderful Women's Summer Solstice Gathering is a chance to recharge from the negativity that plagues us in an environment of perfect love and perfect trust!
Connect with Wonderful Women of like-minds and energies to receive and offer support to achieve our dreams! Delicious hors d'oeuvres & beverages included in admission.
All in good... (more)
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6/20/2013
- 6/30/2013 Hours: Wed.-Sun., 11am-7pm
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Elizabeth Jordan '50 grams' Xurated by Manish Vora - BOSI Contemporary
48 Orchard Street - 2129665686 www.bosicontemporary.com Ages: All
BOSI Contemporary is pleased to present 50 Grams, a solo exhibition by artist Elizabeth Jordan. This symbolic and powerful exhibition features photographs taken in Russia, and is intended to offer Jordan’s personal view into the country’s culture, its traditions, textures, faces and landmarks.
Being an American of Russian descent, Jordan lived... (more)
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6/20/2013 Hours: 6-8pm
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Clear Clinic Hosts an Exclusive Treatment Tour for Troubled Skin - Clear Clinic
21 W. 19th St. - (212) 828-3000 ClearClinic.com Ages: All Price: free
Are you ready to be on the fast track to clear skin today? Stop by Clear Clinic, Thursday, June 20 from 6:00PM – 8:00PM for FREE cortisone shots for those pesky flare-ups, treatment tips for combating problem skin and to find out about the different insurance-covered treatments Clear Clinic offers.
Take a dermatologist-lead tour through Clear C... (more)
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6/20/2013 Hours: 7PM
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Dog Eat Dog - Ars Nova Theater
511 West 54th St. - 2124899800 arsnovanyc.com Ages: All Price: $15
This performance comes to you as part of ANT Fest, Ars Nova's month-long Festival of All New Talent!
Being fat is actually hard and we want to tell you about it. So we made a show about being fat. And there are musical numbers. Interested? We’ll tell you more. But first, we need a snack.
Created & Directed by Morgan Gould .
Featuring Nate... (more)
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6/21/2013 Hours: 7PM
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Debutante. - Ars Nova Theater
511 West 54th St. - 2124899800 arsnovanyc.com Ages: All Price: $15
This performance comes to you as part of ANT Fest, Ars Nova's month-long Festival of All New Talent!
Four heiresses living in decadence during the Great Depression straddle 1930‘s feminine grace and 1980’s camp and opulence. This comedic show is a loving portrait of poor little rich girls coming of age as they’re presented to the world.
Cre... (more)
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6/21/2013 Hours: 9:00PM
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Parachute Jump Lighting - Luna Park
1000 Surf Ave. - 212.999.5585 www.lunaparknyc.com Ages: All
Luna Park will be hosting a special event on Friday, June 21st at 8:30PM, where the historic Parachute Jump will be illuminated with over 8,000 colored LED lights. The event will include remarks from Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz, who will be the first to flip the switch to illuminate the Parachute Jump, Council Member Domenic M. Recch... (more)
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6/21/2013
- 9/25/2013 Hours: Closed Thurs.
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James Turrell - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Ave. - 212-423-3500 www.guggenheim.org Ages: All
James Turrell's first exhibition in a New York museum since 1980 focuses on the artist's groundbreaking explorations of perception, light, color, and space, with a special focus on the role of site-specificity in his practice. At its core is a major new project that recasts the Guggenheim rotunda as an enormous volume filled with shifting artificia... (more)
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6/21/2013
- 9/01/2013
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Swing Time: Reginald Marsh and Thirties New York - New-York Historical Society
170 Central Park West - 212-873-3400 www.nyhistory.org Ages: All
With his calligraphic brushstrokes and densely cluttered, multi-figured compositions, Reginald Marsh recorded the vibrancy and energetic pulse of New York City. In paintings, prints, watercolors and photographs, he captured the animation and visual turbulence that made urban New York life an exhilarating spectacle. His work depicted the visual ener... (more)
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6/21/2013 Hours: 8pm
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Chucho Valdes & the Afro-Cuban Messengers - The Town Hall
123 W. 43rd St. - 212-997-1003 www.the-townhall-nyc.org Ages: All Price: $50, $55 & $45
Award winner Chucho Valdes has recorded over 80 CDs during his illustrious career, performing with countless jazz masters, including Herbie Hancock, Dizzy Gillespie, Wynton Marsalis, and Chick Corea.
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6/21/2013
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ZEPHYR Happy Hour Cruise - Circle Line Downtown
Pier 16, South Street Seaport - 866-987-2542 www.circlelinedowntown.com Ages: AD
Experience Happy Hour in glittering style! Cruise along New York Harbor aboard the luxurious ZEPHYR yacht and enjoy a Happy Hour like never before. Straight up or on the rocks, every drink is on the water! It's the hottest way to cool down! Enjoy: 90-Minute Harbor Cruise; Live DJs; 2 Cash Bars; Drink Specials; Sun Deck; Two Fully Enclosed, Climate-... (more)
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6/21/2013 Hours: 7pm
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Christian Wallumrod Ensemble - Rubin Museum of Art
150 W. 17th St. - 212-620-5000 www.rmanyc.org Ages: All Price: $20
CD Release Concert for Outstairs, featuring Wallumrod's signature multi-dimensional chamber music inspired by the sonorities of Norwegian folk music, post-Cage avant-garde, and jazz's freedom of thought.
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6/21/2013 Hours: 8:30am-4pm
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Farmer's Market Fridays at QBG - Queens Botanical Garden
43-50 Main Street - 718-886-3800 queensbotanical.org Ages: All Price: FREE
Every Friday, June 21 through November 22 from 8:30am to 4pm. Get fresh, local and seasonal produce, nuts, coffee, and nut butters from the Farmer's Market! Every Friday, June 21 to November 22, from 8:30am to 4pm on Dahlia Avenue off Main Street.
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6/21/2013
- 6/22/2013
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Loni Love - Gotham Comedy Club
208 W. 23rd St. - 212-367-9000 gothamcomedyclub.com Ages: AD
Just how funny is comedian and actress Loni Love? Ask both Variety and Comedy Central, both of which have named her among their Top 10 Comics to Watch, or Campus Activity magazine, which honored her as its Hot Comic for 2009. Love is not only one of the most hilarious and lovable comics performing stand-up on the comedy club and college circuits bu... (more)
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6/21/2013 Hours: 9-11pm
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Power 105.1 FM Radio's 'Breakfast Club' - Empire City Casino at Yonkers Raceway
810 Yonkers Ave. - 914-968-4200 www.empirecitycasino.com Ages: All
Members of Power 105.1 FM Radio's "Breakfast Club," DJ Envy, Charlamagne and Angela Yee, will appear at Empire City Casino's "Alley 810" on June 21 from 9-11 p.m. The new ultra lounge featuring bowling lanes, live entertainment/music and a new twist on classic cocktails. From 9-11 p.m., fans of the show and casino-goers can dance the night away, en... (more)
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6/21/2013
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Seaport Music Festival - South Street Seaport
Pier 17 www.seaportmusicfestival.com Ages: All Price: FREE
6/7 Oblivions w/Ex -Cult
6/14 TBA
6/21 Fear of Men
6/28 Unknown Mortal Orchestra
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6/21/2013 Hours: 11pm, show 11:30pm
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Doc Wasabassco's Burlesque (Late Night Show) - City Winery
155 Varick St. - 212-608-0555 www.citywinery.com/newyork Ages: AD Price: $20
The biggest monthly burlesque show in New York. Join us as Wasabassco's sexiest, and most innovative performers take to the stage in one of the city's most beautiful and elegant spaces. It's a night of tease, spectacle, and couple friendly risque fun.
Starring: Jenny C'est Quoi, Evelyn Vinyl, Medianoche, Hazel Honeysuckle, Heather Holliday, Nast... (more)
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6/21/2013 Hours: 8:30am-4pm
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Farmer's Market Friday - Queens Botanical Garden
43-50 Main Street - 718-886-3800 queensbotanical.org Ages: All Price: FREE
Get fresh, local and seasonal produce, nuts, coffee, and nut butters from the Farmer's Market! Every Friday, June 21 to November 22, from 8:30am to 4pm on Dahlia Avenue off Main Street, outside the Garden fence. Every Friday, June 21 through November 22 from 8:30am to 4pm.
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6/21/2013 Hours: 11pm
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Norbert Leo Butz : Memory & Mayhem - 54 Below
254 W. 54th St. - 646-476-3551 www.54below.com Ages: AD
Back by popular demand! 54 Below is delighted to re-welcome two-time Tony winner, Norbert Leo Butz. The star of Wicked, The Last 5 Years, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Thou Shalt Not, Catch Me if You Can and the forthcoming Big Fish, Norbert reprises his dazzling cabaret debut (which went on to be the critically-lauded CD), in an evening featuring re-im... (more)
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6/21/2013 Hours: 7pm
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The Cremaster Cycle - A Conversation with Matthew Barney - Morgan Library & Museum
225 Madison Ave. - 212-685-0008 themorgan.org Ages: All
This absorbing documentary provides insight into Matthew Barney's work and his mythic Cremaster Cycle, as the artist guides the camera through this remarkable creation at the Guggenheim Museum, while being questioned by Michael Kimmelman of the New York Times.
Free with admission; Tickets are available at the Admission Desk on the day of the scre... (more)
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6/21/2013 Hours: 7:30pm
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Amadou & Maria / Bombino - Prospect Park Bandshell
95 Prospect Park West www.prospectpark.org Ages: All Price: FREE
Amadou & Mariam's 2012 album Folila, which featured guest spots by Santigold and TV On The Radio among others, was hailed by Pitchfork as a "seamless synthesis of the music of their homeland and the music of the rest of the world." The evening begins with Tuareg guitarist Bombino's first NYC performance since the recent release of his critically la... (more)
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6/21/2013 Hours: 7:30pm
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Summer Movie Series: National Treasure - Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
Pier 86, W. 46th St. and 12th Ave. - 212-245-0072 www.intrepidmuseum.org Ages: TW,TE,AD
Spend Friday Nights on the Flight Deck with Intrepid's FREE Summer Movie Series!
Benjamin Franklin Gates descends from a family of treasure-seekers who've all hunted for the same thing: a war chest hidden by the Founding Fathers after the Revolutionary War. Ben's close to discovering its whereabouts, as is his competition, but the FBI is also h... (more)
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6/21/2013
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SULTAN + NED SHEPARD - Pacha NYC
618 W. 46th St. - 2122097500 www.clubtickets.com/us/2013-06/21/sultan-ned-shephard-pacha-nyc Ages: AD Price: $25
Pacha NYC & RPM present…
SULTAN &+ NED SHEPARD
with Hook N' Sling.
GET TICKETS -
http://www.clubtickets.com/us/2013-06/21/sultan-ned-shephard-pacha-nyc.
Doors 10pm.
Table Reservations 212.209.7500
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6/21/2013 Hours: 5pm-dusk
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Summer Solstice Celebration - Socrates Sculpture Park
32-01 Vernon Boulevard - 718-956-1819 www.socratessculpturepark.org Ages: All
This season, Socrates invites you to tap into ancient Mayan energy! Participate in a special Solstice ritual performed by Urban Shaman Mama Donna, practice yoga at sunset, or take part in a community drum circle with Toca & Ale Ale Drummers... but not before the evening gets kicked off with an exhibition of action-packed, high-flying Lucha Libre (M... (more)
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6/21/2013 Hours: 2pm
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The Elaine Terner Cooper Education Fund : Conversations with Contemporary Artists: James Turrell with Michael Govan - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Ave. - 212-423-3500 guggenheim.org/cca Ages: All Price: $12
James Turrell joins Michael Govan, Director, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and cocurator of James Turrell: A Retrospective, in conversation about the different aspects of the artist's singular oeuvre on view in three concurrent exhibitions this summer in Houston, Los Angeles, and New York.
$12, $8 members, free for students and interns with... (more)
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6/21/2013
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Free Coffee Friday – Try the Revolutionary Steampunk by Alpha Dominche - Roogla
180 Smith St. - 7184887401 www.facebook.com/rooglabk Ages: All Price: free
Join Roogla for Free Coffee Friday on June 21 to celebrate the national debut of the Alpha Dominche Steampunk. The first 25 customers that tweet and then show the secret tweet, “@AlphaDominche Hello #ADSteampunk,” will get a free cup of coffee.
The revolutionary, award winning Steampunk brewer is proficient in both coffee and tea, and crafts the ... (more)
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6/21/2013
- 6/22/2013 Hours: 11am-7pm
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'Parasols of Protection' - Madison Square Park
23rd Street (between 5th Avenue & Broadway) - 212-979-8884 Ages: All Price: FREE
La Roche-Posay is hosting “Parasols of Protection,” a FREE event to promote the importance of sun safety, on June 21st & June 22nd from 11:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m. The “Parasols of Protection” event will feature an art installation of suspended umbrellas over Madison Square Park, offer FREE skin cancer screenings by doctors from the Women’s Dermatologic... (more)
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6/21/2013 Hours: 6:30 PM
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We Are The Wilderness - Bowery Houston Mural
78 E Houston St - 917-779-9709 Ages: All
After only a year into writing and recording music, industry veterans and music aficionados alike have positively received We Are The Wilderness. Using their background in classical music, WATW challenges today’s notions of indie pop/rock by mixing their various influences into each song. Their live shows include a mix of electronics, live instrume... (more)
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6/22/2013 Hours: 6pm
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Randy Humphrey & Chums w/ Todd Barry & More - The Stand Restaurant and Comedy Club
239 Third Ave. - 212-677-2600 www.thestandnyc.com Ages: AD Price: $15
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6/22/2013
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Strawberry Fields Beatles Brunch - B.B. King Blues Club & Grill
237 W. 42nd St. - 212-997-4144 www.bbkingblues.com Ages: All
NYC's Longest Running Beatles Show
STRAWBERRY FIELDS
featuring former members of Broadway's BEATLEMANIA
Doors: 11am - Show: 12pm
Ticket includes All-You-Can-Eat-Buffet, Show, Tax and Tip
$40 adv, $42.50 door
STRAWBERRY FIELDS is a look-a-like, sound-a-like Beatles tribute,
dedicated to bringing you as close to a real Beatles concert a... (more)
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6/22/2013 Hours: 10AM - 5PM
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Operation Slumber - Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
46th Street and 12th Avenue - 212-245-0072 www.intrepidmuseum.org Ages: All Price: Free with the cost of admission
Join us aboard Intrepid for this once in a lifetime overnight experience and learn what it takes to live onboard an aircraft carrier! Plus, tour the Space Shuttle Pavilion and get a close up view of space shuttle Enterprise. You'll train like an astronaut and imagine what it would be like to be a space explorer!
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6/22/2013 Hours: 11AM - 7PM
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NYC Mayor's Cup Cricket All-Star Games - Van Cortlandt Park
6035 Broadway - 212-484-5478 nycmayorscup.com Ages: All
Cricket is the fastest growing sport in New York City and the NYC Mayor's Cup Cricket All-Star Games is the only event where you can see all of the City's best high school cricketers compete for title of "Best in the City." The action-packed day takes place on June 22nd at Van Cortlandt Park with the semifinals starting at 11AM and the championship... (more)
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6/22/2013
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Tropical Oasis Cruise - Circle Line Downtown
Pier 16, South Street Seaport - 866-987-2542 www.circlelinedowntown.com Ages: AD Price: $30
Slide aboard the ZEPHYR for a two-hour cruise with our resident DJ's spinning the latest jams! Groove on over to one of our two cash bars and enjoy one of our signature cocktails. With three levels -- indoor and outdoor -- the ZEPHYR provides a unique, glittering and glamorous venue for a truly spectacular evening! Enjoy a 2-Hour Harbor Cruise; Llv... (more)
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6/22/2013 Hours: Boarding: 9:30am; sailing: 10-11:15am
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Kids Cruise - Circle Line Sightseeing Cruises - (Circle Line 42nd Street)
Pier 83, W. 42nd St. and 12th Ave. - 212-563-3200 www.circleline42.com Ages: All
Enjoy a 75-minute cruise to the Statue of Liberty with a kid-friendly, interactive live tour guide and band on board.
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6/22/2013 Hours: 6pm
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The Colors of Dance - Symphony Space
2537 Broadway - 212.874.7624 95th St. www.symphonyspace.org Ages: All Price: $30
Asase Yaa School of the Arts' second annual performance will include dance (modern, hip-hop, ballet, African, and tap), Djembe drumming, and Martial Arts. The performance will showcase the creativity, growth, and passion that the youth of Brooklyn have for the performing arts.
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6/22/2013
- 6/23/2013 Hours: 10:40am-12:20pm
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Guided Tour - Pacific War: USS Intrepid in WWII - Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum
Pier 86, W. 46th St. and 12th Ave. - 212-245-0072 www.intrepidmuseum.org Ages: All Price: $33-$44
The 100-minute tour tells the story of the USS Intrepid and her men during World War II. From 1943 to 1945, the Intrepid participated in the greatest naval campaign in world history. Armed with state of the art planes and crewed by over 3,000 sailors, the "Fighting I" won hard-fought victories against Imperial Japan in the Pacific Theater. From th... (more)
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6/22/2013 Hours: 9pm
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Cruise with Pride - Hornblower Cruises and Events
Pier 40, 353 West St. - 212-206-7522 hornblower.com Ages: AD Price: $35
Cruise with Pride around Manhattan as we kick off New York Pride 2013 in style aboard the newest, sleekest, and sexiest yacht on the Hudson. Enjoy DJ entertainment, dancing, a cash bar, giveaways, and more!
One hour dockside
Three hour cruise
Boarding cocktail
Drinks for purchase
Special guest DJ and dancing
Read more: http://www.hornb... (more)
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6/22/2013
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Juanes - Radio City Music Hall
1260 Sixth Ave. - 212-307-7171 www.radiocity.com Ages: All
Juanes brings his highly-anticipated Loud & Unplugged Tour to Radio City Music Hall.
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6/22/2013
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Paulie Malignaggi vs. Adrien Broner - Barclays Center
620 Atlantic Ave. - 917-618-6700 www.barclayscenter.com Ages: AD
Since the beginning of their professional careers, Paulie "The Magic Man" Malignaggi and Adrien "The Problem" Broner, two of the biggest talkers in all of boxing, have never been afraid to speak up. Now, the time has come to put up or shut as Malignaggi will defend his WBA Welterweight World Championship against undefeated Two-Division World Cha... (more)
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6/22/2013
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Gay Pride Scavenger Hunt (with the MenEvent.com) - Stonewall Inn
53 Christopher St - 7183448962 pogoevents.com Ages: All Price: $40
Kick off Gay Pride week with POGO EVENTS and TheMenEvent.com for “The Amazing New York Scavenger Hunt” – part scavenger hunt, part obstacle course and ALL GAY NEW YORK”. A series of gay-themed clues that incorporates this year’s NYC Pride theme lead you around the city performing physical and mental challenges. The race also contains a fierce photo... (more)
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6/22/2013 Hours: 1pm
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Mermaid Parade - Coney Island
Coney Island www.coneyisland.com Ages: All
Over 1,500 creative individuals from around the world march to celebrate "ancient mythology and honky-tonk rituals of the seaside" and the neighborhood of Coney Island.
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6/22/2013 Hours: 11:00PM - 4:00AM
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The Good Life Saturdays with DJ Sinatra & DJ Finesse - Highline Ballroom
431 W. 16th St. - 9176642686 www.ericvirgil.com Ages: AD Price: Ladies free til 12:30am, reduced after on Eric Virgil's guestlist Guys reduced on Eric Virgil's guestlist.
Each and Every Saturday at Highline Ballroom.
Guestlist Pricing:
Ladies free til 12:30am, reduced after on Eric Virgil's guestlist;
Guys reduced on Eric Virgil's guestlist.
To rsvp, bottle packages, or birthday packages, text Eric Virgil at 917-664-2686, email info@ericvirgil.com or go to www.ericvirgil.com.
Music by: Ross One
sp... (more)
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6/22/2013 Hours: 12pm
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Natalie Gelman - Parrish Art Museum
279 Montauk Hwy - (631) 283-2118 NatalieGelman.com Ages: All
Indie folk-pop artist Natalie Gelman comes to Water mill to perform songs off her new EP Streetlamp Musician, which she just released on May 14th. A native of New York City, Natalie started her performing career busking in NYC subway stations and streets, which was the inspiration for the EP title and title track. She is best known for her vocal ... (more)
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6/22/2013 Hours: 12:00pm
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Watson Adventures’ Wild Wild Life Family Scavenger Hunt - Bronx Zoo
2300 Southern Blvd. - 877-946-4868 www.watsonadventures.com Ages: All Price: $17.50 (does not include zoo admission)
See the best of the Bronx Zoo on a unique scavenger hunt as kids and adults work together to find out why it’s hard to grab a degu, why your neck is like a giraffe’s, and how to look right through a grizzly bear. Bring a digital camera for our crazy Team Photo Challenges. This hunt is for kids ages 7 and up. Kids must be accompanied by an adult, an... (more)
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6/22/2013 Hours: 5:00pm
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Watson Adventures’ Murder at the Met Scavenger Hunt - Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue - 877-946-4868 watsonadventures.com Ages: AD Price: $34.50-$44.50 (includes museum admission)
Join Watson Adventures on a murder mystery scavenger hunt for adults at the Met Museum!
Fans of murder mysteries and "The Da Vinci Code" will enjoy this scavenger hunt throughout the Metropolitan Museum of Art. A murdered curator has left behind a cryptic trail of clues connected with secrets in works of art. As your team gathers answers about... (more)
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6/22/2013 Hours: 12:30pm
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Watson Adventures’ Animal Magnetism Scavenger Hunt - Bronx Zoo
2300 Southern Blvd. - 877-946-4868 www.watsonadventures.com Ages: AD Price: $15.00 (plus zoo admission)
Join Watson Adventures on a unique scavenger hunt for adults at the Bronx Zoo!
See the best of the zoo as you discover creatures you never suspected were there—or anywhere! Find out why it’s hard to grab a degu, why your neck is like a giraffe’s, what the Good Humor man might deliver to a tiger, and how to look right through a grizzly bear. St... (more)
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6/22/2013
- 6/23/2013
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Shahrazad 1001 - Provincetown Playhouse
133 MacDougal Street - 212-352-3101 www.nyu.edu/ticketcentral/calendar Ages: All Price: $0-$5
When Malala Yousafzai was targeted in October for speaking out on girls’ education in Pakistan, it illuminated something about Shahrazad and One Thousand and One Nights. As the Royal Vizier’s daughter, she had unusual educational access. She tells King Shahryar stories drawn from an empire that spanned Asia and North Africa and into Western Europe.... (more)
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6/22/2013
- 6/23/2013 Hours: 8:30pm
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Caramoor presents: 'She Loves Me' - Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts
149 Girdle Ridge Road - 917-751-0214 Ages: All
On Saturday, June 22 at 8:30pm and Sunday, June 23 at 4pm, Caramoor kicks off the 68th Summer Festival with its first ever Broadway production, She Loves Me. The 50th anniversary of the award-winning and rarely performed musical will star critically acclaimed actress Alexandra Silber, Drama Desk Award-winner and Tony® nominee Santino Fontana, Tony®... (more)
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6/22/2013 Hours: 5pm
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Cuban Music Night at Casa Lever Gardens - Casa Lever
390 Park Ave. - 212-888-2700 www.casalever.com Ages: All
Join Casa Lever Gardens for drinks and live music as Grupo Irek mixes the sounds of Cuba -- Son, Cha-Cha, Mambo -- with New York City flavor. Band members hail from all over the globe, representing Cuba, Columbia, Germany, and Brooklyn, for an international sound from the soul.
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6/22/2013 Hours: 11pm
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Norbert Leo Butz : Memory & Mayhem - 54 Below
254 W. 54th St. - 646-476-3551 www.54below.com Ages: AD
Back by popular demand! 54 Below is delighted to re-welcome two-time Tony winner, Norbert Leo Butz. The star of Wicked, The Last 5 Years, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Thou Shalt Not, Catch Me if You Can and the forthcoming Big Fish, Norbert reprises his dazzling cabaret debut (which went on to be the critically-lauded CD), in an evening featuring re-im... (more)
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6/22/2013
- 6/23/2013 Hours: 11am & 2pm
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Tour Guide Talk - Concorde, Plane of the Future? - Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum
Pier 86, W. 46th St. and 12th Ave. - 212-245-0072 www.intrepidmuseum.org Ages: All
We now travel on subsonic airliners which take seven hours to cross the Atlantic, but from 1976 to 2003 it was possible to make the trip in half that time. This talk will touch on how Concorde came to be, the technological advances involved and the aviation records set by these aircraft.
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6/22/2013
- 6/23/2013 Hours: Noon & 3pm
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Tour Guide Talk - The Greatest Generation and You - Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum
Pier 86, W. 46th St. and 12th Ave. - 212-245-0072 www.intrepidmuseum.org Ages: All
America changed on December 7th, 1941, when Pearl Harbor was attacked. While 16 million men and women served in uniform in World War II, many more Americans worked to support those serving overseas. This discussion will look into how these events may have affected you and your family.
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6/22/2013
- 6/23/2013 Hours: 1 & 4pm
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Tour Guide Talk - Who Was Neil Armstrong? - Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum
Pier 86, W. 46th St. and 12th Ave. - 212-245-0072 www.intrepidmuseum.org Ages: All
This talk offers visitors a look back at the life and accomplishments of astronaut Neil Armstrong, who passed away in 2012. Everyone knows he was the first man on the moon, but what could prepare him for the unknown?
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6/22/2013 Hours: 1-5pm
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Martha Stewart Summer Crafting Kickoff - The Scholastic Store
557 Broadway - 212-343-6166 scholastic.com/sohostore Ages: YE
Summer fun kicks off with a mega-crafting event hosted by our friends at Martha Stewart! A team of expert crafters will guide kids through projects from Martha's new book, Martha Stewart's Favorite Crafts for Kids! Ages 5 & up.
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6/22/2013
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ARTY with HELENA - Pacha NYC
618 W. 46th St. - 2122097500 www.clubtickets.com/us/2013-06/22/arty-with-helena-pacha-nyc Ages: AD Price: $25
Pacha NYC & RPM present…
ARTY
with
HELENA.
GET TICKETS -
http://www.clubtickets.com/us/2013-06/22/arty-with-helena-pacha-nyc.
Doors 10pm.
Table Reservations 212.209.7500.
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6/22/2013 Hours: 10am-11am
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Sketching Tour: Hopper Drawing - What Is a Sketch? - Whitney Museum of American Art
945 Madison Ave. - 212-570-3600 www.whitney.org Ages: All Price: $10/family
For families with kids ages 6-10. In this tour, families will look closely at Hopper's masterful drawings and then experiment with techniques such as shading, cross hatching, and contour drawing.
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6/22/2013 Hours: 11am-4pm
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Adventures NYC 2013 - Central Park Bandshell
Enter at 72nd Street from East or West side www.nycgovparks.org/highlights/festivals/adventures-nyc Ages: All
Join NYC Parks and Backpacker Magazine as they turn the Big Apple into the country's largest urban adventure playground at the 9th annual Adventures NYC, a celebration of all things outdoors. This event offers a wide range of outdoor activities and exciting demonstrations for all ages to experience including kayaking, stand up paddle boarding, rock... (more)
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6/22/2013 Hours: 11-5pm
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New York Book Festival 2013 - Radisson Martinique Hotel
49 West 32nd Street - 323-665-8080 www.newyorkbookfestival.com Ages: All Price: FREE
The New York Book Festival is holding a FREE and open to the public daytime book fair and publishing seminar on Saturday, June 22, 2013 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Radisson Martinique on Broadway Hotel, 49 W 32nd St, New York, NY 10001
The seminar is focused on developments in the fast-changing world of independent and mainstream book publish... (more)
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6/22/2013 Hours: 8 PM
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Singer-Songwriter Building Pictures - The Living Room
154 Ludlow St - (212) 533-7237 Ages: All Price: Free
Born into a small town musical family, John taught himself to play the guitar while touring with his brother's rock band, Leva and in 2009 officially started Building Pictures with both the release of his debut EP Like Minded People and sophomore EP Joey and the Moon in the same year. His third EPClosing Doors was received favorably with considera... (more)
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6/22/2013
- 6/23/2013 Hours: 10am-6pm
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LIC Flea & Food - LIC Flea & Food
5-25 46th Avenue (Big parking lot at 5th Street) - (718) 866-8089 Ages: All Price: free
Flea to LIC! Long Island City is home to the newest flea and food market in NYC--LIC Flea & Food. Starting June 15, and running every Saturday and Sunday this summer, bring your friends and family to kick off a fun and vibrant weekend on the Long Island City waterfront. The inaugural LIC Flea & Food will feature the best in food vendors in Queens,... (more)
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6/22/2013 Hours: 12pm-12am
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Boris - La Marina
348 Dyckman St. - 646-942-8790 www.clubtickets.com/us/2013-06/22/boris-at-la-marina Ages: AD
BORIS
at New York's hottest new outdoor venue, LA MARINA.
GET TICKETS -
http://www.clubtickets.com/us/2013-06/22/boris-at-la-marina.
Doors 12pm-12am.
Table Reservations 646-942-8790.
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6/22/2013
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Chelsea Music Festival - Buon Giorno, Bambini! Discovering the Italian Ingredient - Dillon Gallery
555 W. 25th Street - 6468206506 Ages: All Price: $30 for 2 Adults and 2 Children; or $8 per child and $15 per adult
WQXR’s Brad Balliett and The Declassified, a innovative and celebrated collective of young musicians focused on creating a meaningful role for classical music in communities around the globe, hosts this event alongside Festival Musicians and 2013 Culinary Artist-in-Residence Sonar Saikia. Join them on a quest to discover the essence of Italian musi... (more)
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6/23/2013 Hours: 8pm
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Cougar Night with Jermaine Fowler, Joe Pera, Reid Faylor & More - The Stand Restaurant and Comedy Club
239 Third Ave. - 212-677-2600 www.thestandnyc.com Ages: AD Price: $15
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6/23/2013 Hours: 8pm
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Syleena Johnson - Highline Ballroom
431 W. 16th St. - 212-414-5994 www.highlineballroom.com Ages: AD Price: $25 advance, $30 day of show
Imagine this: you're a Grammy-nominated singer, considered one of the best vocalists of your generation, who has scored major R&B hits and been invited to collaborate with the likes of Kanye West and R. Kelly, yet some folks consider you "underrated." This has been the plight of Syleena Johnson, acclaimed as one of the finest R&B voices to have eme... (more)
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6/23/2013 Hours: 7pm
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Full Moon Dinner Cruise Series - Spirit Cruises
Chelsea Piers, 23rd St. & the Hudson River - 866-483-3866 www.spiritofnewyork.com Ages: AD Price: $94.90
Spend an evening cruising New York Harbor under a full moon. Enjoy the spectacular sights of New York when the moon is at it's fullest, illuminating the city's skyline.
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6/23/2013 Hours: 10:45am
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Jewish Harlem Walking Tour - LESJC Kling & Niman Family Visitor Center
400 Grand St. - 212-374-4100 www.nycjewishtours.org Ages: All Price: $18; seniors & students, $16 (additional $2 on day of tour)
Join Marty Shore, urban historian, as he leads you through the sites of Jewish religious life in the remarkable urban settlement of Harlem, once the second largest Jewish community in the United States. In 1917, it was home to more than 175,000 Jews. Delight in the exteriors of grand synagogues that remind us of Harlem's Jewish past. Including the ... (more)
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6/23/2013 Hours: 7pm
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NYC Audubon Summer EcoCruise-Brother Islands - New York Water Taxi
Pier 17 - 866-987-2542 www.nywatertaxi.com Ages: All Price: $35, children (3-12), $25
See some of the 3,000 gorgeous herons that fly from the South to nest on small islands in New York Harbor. Hosted by Audubon naturalists, this 90-minute cruise will take you "up close and personal" to see these majestic birds. Cruise under famous city bridges and past renowned monuments, take in views of the city's skyline and get to know some of i... (more)
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6/23/2013 Hours: 12pm-4pm
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Harbor Nagila on Governors Island - Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust
36 Battery Pl - 646-437-4200 www.mjhnyc.org Ages: All
With Ruth Goodman, director, Israeli Dance Institute
Join us on Governor's Island to learn and experience the joys of the hora and other Israeli dances. Participants of all ages and levels are welcome.
Free. Tickets are not required.
Free ferries available. Visit govisland.com for information.
Presented in conjunction with Hava Nagila: ... (more)
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6/23/2013
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Children's Album - Brooklyn Academy of Music
30 Lafayette Ave. - 718-636-4100 www.bam.org Ages: All
Children's Album is an original ballet created by Brighton Ballet's renowned choreographer Edouard Kouchnarev. This groundbreaking work is inspired by and dedicated to orphaned and adopted children around the world. It is the first ballet to be staged to the music of Tchaikovsky's celebrated Children's Album, offering a wonderful opportunity for th... (more)
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6/23/2013 Hours: 1:00pm
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Watson Adventures’ Munch Around Chinatown Scavenger Hunt - Columbus Park
67 Mulberry Street - 877-946-4868 www.watsonadventures.com Ages: AD Price: $24.50 (plus $10.00 for food)
Join Watson Adventures on a unique food scavenger hunt for adults in Chinatown and Little Italy!
Discover the most unusual and enticing restaurants, cafes, markets and even food carts in Chinatown and neighboring Little Italy. You’ll not only answer our usual array of tricky questions, you’ll also be challenged to acquire and taste such foods a... (more)
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6/23/2013 Hours: 2pm-5pm
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Children's Activity Table sponsored by TD Bank - Queens Botanical Garden
43-50 Main Street - 718-886-3800 Ages: All Price: free with Garden admission
While you enjoy a day at QBG, be sure to bring the kids over to the Children's Activity Table sponsored by TD Bank, from 2 to 5pm. Sundays, June 2, 9, 16 and 23rd.
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6/23/2013 Hours: 11am-4pm
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Summer Solstice Celebration - Queens Botanical Garden
43-50 Main Street - 718-886-3800 queensbotanical.org Ages: All Price: free with Garden admission
Here comes the sun! Queens Botanical Garden invites all to attend our Summer Solstice Celebration, which will be held on Sunday, June 23rd from 11am to 4pm. This will be a day of workshops and activities and will feature a bird/nature walk, compost demonstrations, a community art project with Artist Iandry, and activities for children including c... (more)
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6/23/2013 Hours: 7 - 10 p.m.
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Travis Tritt - Empire City Casino at Yonkers Raceway
810 Yonkers Ave. - 800-514-3849 www.empirecitycasino.com Ages: All Price: $15-$50
Get ready to party with some of music's biggest stars every Sunday this summer at Empire City Casino as it announces its sizzling 2013 Summer Concert Series lineup which includes an exciting mix of musical talent. Country music megastar Travis Tritt continues the slate on Sunday, June 23. This year's lineup also includes musical legends Blues Trave... (more)
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6/23/2013 Hours: 2-4PM
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Sacred Earth Community: An Interfaith Panel Exploring Economic and Environmental Sustainability - Trinity Church
Broadway at Wall Street - 212-602-0871 www.trinitywallstreet.org Ages: AD Price: Free
Join prominent religious, spiritual, and social leaders, authors and activists to explore how we can work together to foster peaceful, just and sustainable relationships with one another and with Earth. The panelists will offer insights from the world’s great religious traditions and spiritual teachers, science, and their daily experience. Together... (more)
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6/23/2013 Hours: 2pm
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City Sundays: Muppets Take Manhattan - New-York Historical Society
170 Central Park West - 212-873-3400 www.nyhistory.org Ages: All Price: Free with museum admission
Too hot outside? Join us for these family classic while you kick back and enjoy some popcorn. Come explore Manhattan with the silliest of mischief makers, the Muppets! Join Miss Piggy, Kermit the Frog, Fozzie Bear, Gonzo, and the whole muppet crew as they work to get their new musical on the Broadway stage. After the film, see if you can spot a mup... (more)
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6/23/2013 Hours: 12pm-2:30pm; 3:30pm-6pm
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Bacon Bash 2 - Bowlmor Lanes
222 W. 44th St. - 212-680-0012 bowlmor.com Ages: AD,All Price: $35, $45, $85
For bacon lovers! Foodies will gather at Bowlmor Times Square indulge in bacon-inspired vodka and other drinks, treats and souvenirs. Have your bacon-loving cravings satisfied by unique vendors including Bare Burger, House of 'Que, Baconery, Bacon Bites and more featuring bacon prepared in a multitude of ways from the sweet to the savory!
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6/23/2013 Hours: 7:30pm
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John Zorn @ 60: Sacred Voices - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Ave. - 212-423-3500 guggenheim.org/calendar Ages: All Price: $40
Maverick American composer and new-music pioneer John Zorn will premiere EARTHSPIRIT and MADRIGALS, two new works for female voices, inside James Turrell's site-specific installation Aten Reign (2013). George Steel, General Manager and Artistic Director, New York City Opera, will moderate a discussion with Zorn.
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6/23/2013 Hours: 1:30-3:30pm
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Free Brazilian Capoeira in the Courtyard! - Pelham Art Center
155 Fifth Avenue - 914 738 2525 pelhamartcenter.org Ages: All Price: Free
Pelham Art Center helps kick off summer during Pelham’s Street Fair with the return of the popular Brazilian drumming and martial arts/dance demonstration of Capoeira. As part of the Art Center’s free Folk Art Series, members of Westchester Capoeira will perform the exciting traditional Brazilian art form that combines elements of martial arts, dan... (more)
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6/24/2013 Hours: 7PM
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The President Plays, Part 1 - Ars Nova Theater
511 West 54th St. - 2124899800 arsnovanyc.com Ages: All Price: $15
This performance comes to you as part of ANT Fest, Ars Nova's month-long Festival of All New Talent!
Watch our first fifteen Presidents die serving their country, each in a different way. From absurd to poignant, join us for a warped pseudo-history of America in this epic short play cycle that puts a macabre twist on the nation’s highest office... (more)
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6/24/2013
- 6/29/2013
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Sylvia - American Ballet Theatre
Metropolitan Opera House, Amsterdam Ave. & 64th St. - 212-362-6000 abt.org Ages: All
A ravishing fast-paced fantasy set amid verdant forests and majestic temples, Sir Frederick Ashton's mythological love story unites the huntress Sylvia and a lovelorn shepherd with the divine intervention of the deity Eros. The splendid score by Leo Delibes was so admired by Tchaikovsky that he purportedly declared: had he known the music existed a... (more)
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6/24/2013 Hours: 8:15pm
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Jack O'Brien & Nathan Lane - 92nd Street Y
1395 Lexington Ave. - 212-415-5500 92y.org Ages: AD
Tony winning lyricist Jack O'Brien has written for Hairspray, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Full Monty and many other shows. He sits down with Nathan Lane at 92nd Street Y to discuss his new memoir, Jack Be Nimble. O'Brien is currently directing Lane in The Nance.
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6/24/2013
- 6/26/2013
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The Greyboy Allstars - The Blue Note
131 W 3rd St. - 212-475-8592 www.bluenotejazz.com Ages: All
The Greyboy Allstars -- frequenters of the scene surrounding the '70s soul-and-funk-spinning DJ Greyboy -- have extended their U.S. tour through the summer, including a three-night residency at New York's Blue Note Jazz Club. The tour comes in support of Inland Emperor (Knowledge Room Recordings, April 16), their first studio album in six years.
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6/24/2013
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Spiritrio - Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, Jazz at Lincoln Center
10 Columbus Circle - 212-721-6500 jalc.org/dizzys Ages: All
With Dimitri Kolensnic, Brandon Lewis, Anthony Wonsey.
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6/24/2013 Hours: 7pm
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La Hija De Rappaccini - Brooklyn Botanic Garden
990 Washington Avenue - 212-279-4200 www.gothamchamberopera.org Ages: All Price: $35
Gotham Chamber Opera presents Daniel Catan's 1988 opera, La hija de Rappaccini (Rappaccini's Daughter), on Mondays, June 17 and 24, 2013 at 7pm at Brooklyn Botanic Garden (rain date June 25). Seating is by general admission on the lawn. Blankets and outside food will be permitted. Boxed picnic dinners will also be available for purchase. Tickets ... (more)
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6/24/2013 Hours: 9:30pm
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Rock the Bells Launch Party 2013 - Highline Ballroom
431 W. 16th St. - 212-414-5994 www.highlineballroom.com Ages: TE,AD Price: $25
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6/24/2013 Hours: 6:30pm
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Spoken Word Radio/Podcasting Rock Stars: with Catherine Burns, Seth Lind & Jonathan Mitchell - Iguana
240 W. 54th St. - 203-915-9276 http://ow.ly/lN3Mi Ages: All Price: $10
IDEASMYTH.com hosts a rare panel discussion for enthusiasts and aspiring creators of radio and podcast programming this 24 June 2013 at Iguana in NYC.
Doors open at 6:30pm. Panel begins at 7pm.
Laser critiques for 5 podcast proposals begins at 8pm.
Cash bar & dinner service before and after the panel.
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6/24/2013 Hours: 6:30pm doors open, show, 8pm
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Ask Me Another: Paul Feig, director of Bridesmaids and Freaks and Geeks - Bell House
149 7th St. - 718-643-6510 www.thebellhouseny.com Ages: AD Price: $10
Puzzlemaster Will Shortz and Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! host Peter Sagal walk into a bar... No, it's not the start of a joke. It's the essence of Ask Me Another, a rambunctious hour that blends brainteasers and local pub trivia night with comedy and music. Host Ophira Eisenberg invites in-studio guests and listeners alike to stretch their noggins,... (more)
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6/25/2013 Hours: 8pm
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Steve Martin and the Step Canyon Rangers - The Town Hall
123 W. 43rd St. - 212-997-1003 www.the-townhall-nyc.org Ages: All Price: $57 and $87.50
The highly anticipated tour is the first for Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, who will perform songs from their album Love Has Come for You. The remarkable new collaboration is set for release on April 23 on Rounder Records.
Love Has Come for You features 13 eloquently rootsy compositions that combine Martin's inventive five-string banjo work wit... (more)
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6/25/2013 Hours: 7PM
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Night of the Living Deepwater Horizon - Ars Nova Theater
511 West 54th St. - 2124899800 arsnovanyc.com Ages: All Price: $15
This performance comes to you as part of ANT Fest, Ars Nova's month-long Festival of All New Talent!
Part puppet show, part zombie movie, this docu-drama/slasher flick mash-up combines first-hand accounts, newsreel footage and lo-fi charm to explore the 2010 Gulf Coast Oil Spill through the lens of George Romero’s original Night of the Living D... (more)
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6/25/2013
- 7/13/2013
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Midsummer Night Swing - Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
60 Lincoln Center Plaza - 212-875-5000 midsummernightswing.org Ages: All
Lincoln Center's 25th anniversary edition of Midsummer Night Swing takes place every Tuesday through Saturday, with 16 dazzling nights of dancing that take place at the band shell in Damrosch Park, on West 62nd Street between Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues.
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6/25/2013 Hours: 11am-1pm
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Mezco Unveils Batman Classic TV Series Mez-Itz and Batmobile with Toy Giveaway - Ripley's Believe It or Not! Times Square
234 W. 42nd St. - 212-398-3133 www.ripleysnewyork.com Ages: All
Attention Gotham City: On Tuesday, June 25th from 11am to 1pm, Ripley's Believe It or Not! Times Square hosts the unveiling of the new Mez-Its Toy line, based on the classic 1960s Batman Classic TV Series, by Mezco Toys in partnership with Warner Bros. Consumer Products. The first 200 people to come view the display at Ripley's Believe It or Not! T... (more)
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6/25/2013
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Zephyr Hidden Harbor Tours - Fire, Floods and Floating Containers - New York Water Taxi
Pier 16, South Street Seaport - 866-987-2542 www.nywatertaxi.com Ages: All
These tours focus on the effects of Hurricane Sandy on the maritime industry and waterfront, and the region's planning for sea-level rise and other manifestations of global warming. This tour traverses the East River from Queens to Governors Island, including the East Side of Manhattan, Newtown Creek & Brooklyn Navy Yard & Gowanus Bay.
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6/25/2013
- 1/20/2014
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Fashion Jewelry: The Collection of Barbara Berger - Museum of Arts & Design
2 Columbus Circle - 212-299-7777 madmuseum.org Ages: All
Featuring over 450 pieces of fashion jewelry by designers such as Miriam Haskell, Marcel Boucher, Balenciaga, Kenneth Jay Lane, and Gripoix, this exhibition will be an eye-opening display of necklaces, bracelets, and earrings, many of them one-of-a-kind, drawn from the world-renowned collection of Barbara Berger. The daughter of an American diamond... (more)
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6/25/2013
- 7/20/2013 Hours: Tues.-Sat., noon-6pm (Thurs., until 8pm)
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Ceres Member Group Show - Ceres Gallery
547 W. 27th St. - 212-947-6100 www.ceresgallery.org Ages: All
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6/25/2013
- 7/20/2013 Hours: Tues.-Sat., noon-6pm (Thurs., until 8pm)
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Anne Mondro - Anatomia - Ceres Gallery
547 W. 27th St. - 212-947-6100 www.ceresgallery.org Ages: All
Anatomia explores the complexity of human relationships during times of physical and emotional struggles.
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6/25/2013 Hours: 10:30pm
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Backstage - 54 Below
254 W. 54th St. www.54below.com Ages: AD
Each week, Broadway cast members and audiences alike gather to mix and mingle at 54 Below, Broadway's most intimate haunt, located in the heart of the theatre district. Musical Director Brad Simmons keeps the house jumping from the piano, while host Susie Mosher (the love child of Joanne Worley & Paul Lynde) guides the crowd through an evening of m... (more)
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6/25/2013
- 8/04/2013 Hours: Tues.-Sun., 11am-6pm (Fri. until 9pm)
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HOMEwork: Selections from the Asia Society Museum Collection - Asia Society and Museum
725 Park Ave. - 212-288-6400 asiasociety.org Ages: All
As modern day lifestyles become increasingly fast-paced and transient the distinctions between personal and public space, work and leisure have become blurred. Many of the works by the eight artists featured in the exhibition address issues of labor while others examine the resiliency of communities in the face of environmental changes, whether man... (more)
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6/25/2013
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Soweto Kinch Trio - Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, Jazz at Lincoln Center
10 Columbus Circle - 212-721-6500 jalc.org/dizzys Ages: All
Presented in Collaboration with Made in the UK. With Soweto Kinch, alto sax; Nick Jurd, bass; Shaney Forbes, drums.
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6/25/2013 Hours: 6:30pm
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Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis - Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
60 Lincoln Center Plaza - 212-875-5000 midsummernightswing.org Ages: All
A classic, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra opens Midsummer Night Swing's 25th anniversary with a celebration of its own 25th. The JLCO formed when Wynton Marsalis and his septet joined forces with the surviving players of the Duke Ellington Orchestra, creating a group that knows that some jazz masterpieces are meant to be danced to. This beaut... (more)
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6/25/2013 Hours: 7:00-8:30pm
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Summer Sparks - Pier 63, Hudson River Park
W 23rd, Hudson River Park - 212-729-4088 coursehorse.com/summer-sparks-classes-nyc Ages: All Price: Free
SUMMER SPARKS, the city's first summer learning festival, will take place Tuesday evenings from June 25 - Aug 20, 2013. Free, one-of-a-kind classes will be held in diverse topics from iPhone photography, juggling, and salsa dancing, to origami and kimchi making, banjo, improv and more! Held outdoors at beautiful Pier 63 in Hudson River Park in Che... (more)
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6/25/2013 Hours: 6:00pm
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Summer Garden Concert: Wind Trio - Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden
421 East 61st Street - 212-838-6878 mvhm.org Ages: All Price: $15 Adults; $5 Children under 12
Listen to live music in the Museum garden, featuring the Wind Trio from LaGuardia Arts, the "Fame" School. Students from this internationally recognized school of performing arts will play classical and contemporary selections. Complimentary beverages and Museum tour are included.
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6/25/2013 Hours: 9:00 PM
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Kassini LIVE - The Bowery Electric
327 Bowery - (212) 228-0228 KassiniMusic.com Ages: All Price: $8
Come see Kassini, cinematic rock duo comprised of NYC-based composer/producer Shane Koss and London-based guitarist and singer/songwriter John Hogg (The Black Crowes) play at The Bowery Electric on June 25th at 9:00 PM. The duo is on tour to promote their first full-length concept album entitled Immune, which harkens back to Peter Gabriel, Radiohea... (more)
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6/25/2013 Hours: 7pm
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A Conversation with Paul Feig - 92nd St Y Tribeca
200 Hudson St. - 212-601-1000 www.92ytribeca.org Ages: TE,AD Price: From $15
Director of beloved series Freaks and Geeks and film Bridesmaids Paul Feig stops by 92nd Street Y Tribeca for a conversation moderated by the Museum of Moving Image's David Schwartz, about the highs and lows of his accomplishments. There will be shown clips from his next film, The Heat, starring Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCa... (more)
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6/25/2013 Hours: 7pm
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Stuckey & Murray CD Release Party - The Stand Restaurant and Comedy Club
239 Third Ave. - 212-677-2600 www.thestandnyc.com Ages: AD Price: $60
Stuckey & Murray are releasing a new album called We Tried. They have asked their talented friends to perform some of their songs to help celebrate. They also brewed a special beer for the occasion. Drinking at 7pm, show at 8 pm. Expect to see performances from The Defibulators, Summer and Eve, Mark Seman, Reformed Whores, Villa Lobos, Jon Friedman... (more)
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6/25/2013 Hours: 7:30pm
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John Zorn @ 60: Sacred Voices - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Ave. - 212-423-3500 guggenheim.org/calendar Ages: All Price: $40
Maverick American composer and new-music pioneer John Zorn will premiere EARTHSPIRIT and MADRIGALS, two new works for female voices, inside James Turrell's site-specific installation Aten Reign (2013). George Steel, General Manager and Artistic Director, New York City Opera, will moderate a discussion with Zorn.
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6/25/2013 Hours: 10:30am - 1:00pm
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Break a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS® record with Stacy Keibler - Times Square
Duffy Square - 212-798-9703 bit.ly/ColgateWish Ages: All Price: Free
Consumers are invited to join Colgate and Stacy Keibler to “swish” for a difference in attempting to break a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS® record for the “Most people using mouthwash simultaneously.” For every participant in attendance Colgate will donate $1.00 (USD) to Make-A-Wish. In addition to helping raising money for Make-A-Wish, at the event consu... (more)
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6/25/2013
- 9/02/2013 Hours: 10am-6pm
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Poison Green - Czech Center New York
321 East 73rd Street - 646-422-3399 czechcenter.com Ages: All Price: Free
Exhibition examining themes, concepts and cultural fictions dealing with environment and ecology, featuring Czech and international artists Matej Al-Ali (CZ), Silvina Arismendi (CZ), Mark Dion (US), Petr Dub (CZ), Mathias Kessler (AT), Tomas Moravec (CZ), Yes Man (US), Anne Percoco (US), Katerina Seda (CZ), Klara Sumova (CZ) and Slavoj Zizek (SI). ... (more)
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6/26/2013 Hours: 7PM
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Ludo's Broken Bride: A Rock Opera - Ars Nova Theater
511 West 54th Street - 2124899800 arsnovanyc.com Ages: All Price: $15
This performance comes to you as part of ANT Fest, Ars Nova's month-long Festival of All New Talent!
Time-travel, dinos, zombies and puppets. This rock opera has it all! Set to a score by the band Ludo, this is the epic adventure of one man’s time-traveling voyage from the Age of Dinosaurs to the Zombie Apocalypse, all to save his true love’s l... (more)
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6/26/2013 Hours: 9pm-11:30pm
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Smooth Cruise Series - BWB - Spirit Cruises
Chelsea Piers, 23rd St. & the Hudson River - 212-727-7768 www.spiritofnewyork.com Ages: AD
For 16 years, the Smooth Jazz Cruises have been a hit. This summer enjoy New York's favorite summer jazz series aboard the Spirit of New York! The Smooth Jazz Cruise has evolved into one of New York's most popular attractions.
Collaborating in 2002 as BWB, Rick Braun, Kirk Whalum and Norman Brown recorded the album Groovin'. The title track hit... (more)
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6/26/2013
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Kate's Kids - Brooklyn Academy of Music
30 Lafayette Ave. - 718-636-4100 www.bam.org Ages: All
Join Rufus Wainwright and Martha Wainwright, together with a few very special guests, for a benefit concert celebrating the rich career of their late mother, the inimitable folk singer-songwriter Kate McGarrigle. Held in conjunction with the release of a double-CD tribute album Sing Me The Songs (Nonesuch) and featuring performances of McGarrigle's... (more)
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6/26/2013 Hours: 7:30pm
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Amateur Night - Apollo Theater
253 W. 125th St. - 212-531-5305 www.apollotheater.org Ages: All Price: $20/$26/$32
A brand new line-up of contestants competes for the chance to perform during the July 24 Show Off and move on to Top Dog on October 9. It all leads to the chance of winning the title of Super Top Dog and a cash prize of $10,000 on November 27!
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6/26/2013
- 6/27/2013
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Buddy Guy - B.B. King Blues Club & Grill
237 W. 42nd St. - 212-997-4144 www.bbkingblues.com Ages: AD Price: $67 advance, $75 day of show
Any discussion of Buddy Guy invariably involves a recitation of his colossal musical resume and hard-earned accolades. He's a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, a chief guitar influence to rock titans like Hendrix, Clapton, Beck, and Vaughan, a pioneer of Chicago's fabled West Side, and a living link to that city's halcyon days of electric blues.... (more)
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6/26/2013 Hours: 11pm
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Late Night: The Studio - 54 Below
254 W. 54th St. www.54below.com Ages: AD Price: $20 food & beverage min.
On Wednesdays, Late Night at 54 Below is the place to see up-and-coming New York talent: including comedians, musicians, songwriters and improv groups. No cover charge. $20 food & beverage minimum.
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6/26/2013
- 6/28/2013
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Marisa Monte - Beacon Theatre
2124 Broadway - 212-465-6225 www.beacontheatrenyc.com Ages: All
The popular Brazilian singer performs.
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6/26/2013
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Cleveland Watkiss Quartet - Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, Jazz at Lincoln Center
10 Columbus Circle - 212-721-6500 jalc.org/dizzys Ages: All
Presented in Collaboration with Made in the UK. With Cleveland Watkiss, Voice; Jonathan Gee, Piano; Larry Bartley, Acoustic Bass; Ernesto Simpson, Drums.
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6/26/2013 Hours: 6:30pm
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Leonardo Suarez Paz's Cuartetango Meets Cristian Zarate - Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts
60 Lincoln Center Plaza - 212-875-5000 midsummernightswing.org Ages: All
Sensual and cerebral, two top proponents of tango's newest incarnation reunite for an evening that promises a steamy revamp of tango's Golden Age, with breathtaking musical sparkle and skill. Lenardo Suarez Paz, descended from a long line of tangueros (his father was Piazzolla's last violinist), and innovative pianist Zarate wowed Broadway together... (more)
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6/26/2013 Hours: 10am - 8pm
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Madame Tussauds New York Offers Theater Lovers with 'Kids Go Free' Every Wednesday Until the End of June - Madame Tussauds New York
234 W. 42nd Street (between 7th & 8th Avenues) - 8668413505 www.madametussauds.com/NewYork Ages: All Price: Free admission for kids (ages 12 and under) when accompanied by a full-paying adult and presentation of a Broadway show ticket
Setting the stage as the perfect preshow for a Broadway matinee, Madame Tussauds New York (234 W. 42nd Street between 7th & 8th Avenues) is offering theatergoers free admission to the wax attraction for kids (ages 12 and under) when accompanied by a full-paying adult and presentation of a Broadway show ticket. The offer starts Wednesday, May 22, a... (more)
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6/26/2013 Hours: 6:30-7:30pm
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Gotham at-a-Glance - Gotham Writers' Workshop
555 Eighth Avenue - 212-974-8377 Suite 1402 bit.ly/18ucwxm Ages: All
For one night only, Gotham's teachers and staff will be hosting Gotham at-a-Glance, where you will learn about Gotham, get a few quick lessons from some of our teachers, and mingle with us over wine, soda, and snacks.
The event is free, but you need to register in advance. You can sign up here: http://bit.ly/18ucwxm
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6/26/2013 Hours: 12:30pm
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Word for Word: The National Lampoon with Ellin Stein, Sean Kelly and Chris Cerf - The Bryant Park Reading Room
41 West 40th St - 212-768-4242 Ages: AD Price: Free
Journalist Ellin Stein (author of That's Not Funny, That's Sick: The National Lampoon and the Comedy Insurgents Who Captured the Mainstream), an observer of “The National Lampoon” scene since the early 1970s, is joined by two former editors of the magazine Sean Kelly and Chris Cerf for a behind-the-scenes look at the franchise that introduced icono... (more)
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6/26/2013 Hours: 8pm (doors at 7pm)
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Big Jay Oakerson - Empire City Casino at Yonkers Raceway
810 Yonkers Ave. - 800-514-3849 www.empirecitycasino.com Ages: All
Every Wednesday evening, Empire City Casino hosts Comedy Night, featuring some of the biggest names in stand-up. Performing tonight: Big Jay Oakerson (Z Rock, Louie).
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6/26/2013 Hours: 8:00 PM
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The Dough Rollers LIVE - The Brooklyn Bowl
61 Wythe Ave - (718) 963-3369 Ages: All Price: $7
Rising blues-rock quartet, The Dough Rollers, comprised of Malcolm Ford (vocals/guitar), Jack Byrne (guitar/vocals), Josh Barocas (drums/vocals) and Kyle Olson (bass/vocals) will play Brooklyn Bowl at 8:00 PM on June 26th, 2013. The Dough Rollers have played with Bob Dylan, Queens of the Stone Age and Josh Freese (from NIN), among many other artist... (more)
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6/26/2013
- 8/30/2013 Hours: Tues.-Sun., noon-6pm.
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Chath pierSath - I'm Here - Tally Beck Contemporary
42 Rivington St. - 646-678-3433 tallybeckcontemporary.com Ages: All
The Cambodian artist's first solo exhibition in NYC, with 17 paintings and multi-media collages, most of them from the last two years.
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