- Goings on About Town: Above and Beyond
goatTitle-->“SPRINGTIME WONDER CABINET”
Lawrence Weschler, the director of the New York Institute for the Humanities, has curated a daylong celebration of the spirit of the sixteenth-century Wunderkammer, or cabinet of curiosities. It starts with a performance by the saxophonist Colin Stetson, and continues with presentations . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Readings and Talks
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The writer Tariq Ali interviews the director Oliver Stone. (New York Public Library, Fifth Ave. at 42nd St. 212-930-0855. Jan. 19 at 7.)
92Y TRIBECA
Kenneth Slawenski, the author of “J. D. Salinger: A Life,” talks about the . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Readings and Talks
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Following a screening of “Funny Business,” a 2009 documentary about the business of cartooning, its director, Lyda Ely, talks with the New Yorker cartoonists Matt Diffee, Sam Gross, Mort Gerberg, and David Sipress. (Museum of the City of New York, Fifth Ave. at . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Classical Music
CONCERTS IN TOWN
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC
Alan Gilbert concludes his first season as the Philharmonic’s music director with a program that, like his season-opening concert of Messiaen and Berlioz, boldly merges old and new. The world première of “Al Largo,” by Magnus . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Classical Music
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NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC
The Philharmonic, of course, doesn’t need a special reason to celebrate the musical “West Side Story,” written by its late music director Leonard Bernstein, but the film version (starring Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer) is now . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Notes from Underground
paragraph class="noindent">The young New York director Ronald Bronstein’s first feature, “Frownland,” garnered an impressive and entirely justified array of critical encomiums during its all-too-spotty theatrical release in the past few years. Its appearance on DVD—one of the first releases by . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Dance Fall Preview
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New York City Ballet presents masterpieces by George Balanchine (“Apollo,” “Episodes,” and “Jewels”) at the David H. Koch (Sept. 13-Oct. 9), but the big deal of the season is “Ocean’s Kingdom,” with music by Paul McCartney . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Classical Music
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METROPOLITAN OPERA
David McVicar, a solid director whose recent Met production of “Il Trovatore” successfully banished the memory of Graham Vick’s doomed staging from 2000, has been entrusted to bring Donizetti’s “Anna Bolena” to the . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Readings and Talks
BOOKCOURT
The novelist James Ellroy reads from his latest book, “Blood’s a Rover.” (163 Court St., Brooklyn. Sept. 30 at 7.)
“ON THE WATERFRONT IN NEW YORK”
Following a screening of “Street of Ships,” a 1982 documentary by Charles Richards about the . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Classical Music
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“MESSIAH”
Handel’s “entertainment” on Christian themes is getting a great workout in Gotham this season. Perhaps the most formidable of the final performances on offer are those of the New York Philharmonic, which has hired the eminent German chorus . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Above and Beyond
goatTitle-->“MUSICAL SUPPERS”
In “A Moveable Feast,” Hemingway remarked upon the optimal condition for visiting the Luxembourg Museum. “All the paintings were heightened and clearer and more beautiful if you were belly-empty, hollow hungry,” he wrote. The New York Philharmonic presents a high . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Readings and Talks
goatTitle-->NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE
Jeffrey Jentzen, the director of autopsy and forensic services at the University of Michigan and the former medical examiner in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, discusses his latest book, “Death Investigation in America.” (1216 Fifth Ave., at 103rd St. 212-822-7200. Jan. 18 at . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Readings and Talks
goatTitle-->NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MEDICINE
Jeffrey Jentzen, the director of autopsy and forensic services at the University of Michigan and the former medical examiner in Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, discusses his latest book, “Death Investigation in America.” (1216 Fifth Ave., at 103rd St. 212-822-7200. Jan. 18 at . . ....
- Goings On About Town: Venues: French Institute <!– Art –>
22 E. 60th St., New York, N.Y. 10022212-355-6100...
- Goings on About Town: Classical Music
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NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC: “SUMMERTIME CLASSICS”
July 6-7 at 7:30: This start-of-summer series, a throwback to the heyday of “light classical” fare, has been a going concern under the likable Canadian conductor Bramwell Tovey since 2004. The first of two . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Art
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MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)—“Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective.” Through Aug. 28. | “Cézanne’s Card Players.” Through May 8. | “Guitar Heroes: Legendary Craftsmen from Italy to New York.” . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Art
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MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)—“Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective.” Through Aug. 28. | “Cézanne’s Card Players.” Through May 8. | “Guitar Heroes: Legendary Craftsmen from Italy to New York.” . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Art
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METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)—“Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú.” Through Oct. 31. | “Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein’s New York Photographs, 1950-1980.” Through Oct. 17. | “Between Here and . . ....
- Goings on About Town: On the Horizon
MOVIES
TATTERED SCREEN
Aug. 12-20
The seventies director William Lustig programs a set of movies at Anthology Film Archives, including Larry Cohen’s “The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover,” Henri Verneuil’s “The Burglars,” and Jonathan Kaplan’s “White Line Fever . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Art
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MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)—“Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective.” Opens April 13. | “Cézanne’s Card Players.” Through May 8. | “Guitar Heroes: Legendary Craftsmen from Italy to New York.” . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Dance
goatTitle-->NEW YORK CITY BALLET
In the final week of its spring season, the company will present Balanchine’s evening-length “Jewels” and Christopher Wheeldon’s “Mercurial Manoeuvres,” as well as a special “Dancers’ Choice” program on June 12. This . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Classical Music
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CONCERTS IN TOWN
NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC: “SUMMERTIME CLASSICS”
In the second of two programs, Bramwell Tovey leads the orchestra and the “Commandant’s Own” Drum and Bugle Corps of the U.S. Marines in an Independence Day spectacular: music by Gershwin . . ....
- Goings on About Town: On the Horizon
MOVIES
THERE WILL BE MUD
Feb. 3-8
The Hungarian director Béla Tarr—whose seven-hour-long “Satantango,” set in the ruins of a communal farm, is one of the landmarks of the modern cinema—says that his most recent film, “The Turin Horse . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Classical Music
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OPERA
METROPOLITAN OPERA
Not since “Porgy and Bess” has an American opera won such universal acclamation as “Nixon in China,” a piece made of equally impressive contributions by the composer, John Adams, the librettist, Alice Goodman, and the director, Peter Sellars. Since its premi . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Classical Music
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OPERA
METROPOLITAN OPERA
Not since “Porgy and Bess” has an American opera won such universal acclamation as “Nixon in China,” a piece made of equally impressive contributions by the composer, John Adams, the librettist, Alice Goodman, and the director, Peter Sellars. Since its premi . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Readings and Talks
goatTitle-->“THALIA BOOK CLUB”
Lesley Stahl moderates a discussion about Joseph Heller’s “Catch-22,” which was first published fifty years ago. Robert Gottlieb, who edited the novel, will join the writer Christopher Buckley and Mike Nichols, the director of the 1970 film based . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Art
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MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)—“Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective.” Through Aug. 28. | “Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty.” Through July 31. | “Guitar Heroes: Legendary Craftsmen from Italy to New York.” Through July 4 . . ....
- Goings on About Town: Art
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MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
Fifth Ave. at 82nd St. (212-535-7710)—“Doug + Mike Starn on the Roof: Big Bambú.” Through Oct. 31. | “Hipsters, Hustlers, and Handball Players: Leon Levinstein’s New York Photographs, 1950-1980.” Through Oct. 17. | “Side by Side . . ....
