The Ice-skating Rink at Rockefeller Center opens for its 2005/2005 Season in late October and will remain open until early April, depending upon weather. The rink is open daily throughout the season, however, times of operation during each day will change during the Fall holiday season. The most crowded times for skating are evenings and weekends. You may want to plan your visit to the Rink accordingly. The Rink only accepts cash and prices will vary due to the holiday season. You may rent skates based upon availability. Rockefeller Center extends from 49th to 50th Streets between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. For information on specific times and prices, please call (212) 332-7654 or go to their web site, www.nyctourist.com/xmas_rockice.htm.

The Wollman Ice-skating Rink in Central Park, one of New York City’s cherished venues will open at the end of October and remain open until the first week in April. 
Enjoy skating in this beautiful open-air rink nestled in the southern end of Central Park. You can skate leisurely around the spacious rink as you marvel at the world’s most famous skyline. The Rink is open daily with an admission fee and a fee for skate rental. The closest entrance to the Rink is at Central Park South across the street from the Plaza Hotel. For exact hours and fee information, please call (212) 396-1010 or go to their web site, www.wollmanrink.com/home.html.

Now – November 7, 2004 - German Drawings and Prints from the Weimar Republic (1919–33) represent the turbulent years of the Weimar Republic as recorded with clinical detachment and incisive lines by Otto Dix, George Grosz, Max Beckmann, Karl Hubbuch, and Rudolf Schlichter. In subjects ranging from portraits and nudes to street scenes, the selection of some 20 works illustrate depict a cold, isolated existence.


October 8 – February 20, 2005 - Klee: His Years at the Bauhaus 1921–1931 is an exhibition of some 30 works that Klee created during the ten years he taught at the Bauhaus, first in Weimar (1921–25) and then in Dessau (1925–31). Differing widely in style, these range from experiments with color gradations to works of whimsical humor.


September 29 – December 12, 2004 - The Colonial Andes: Tapestries and Silverwork, 1530–1830 documents the arrival 
of the Spanish in 1532 to South America which dramatically transformed the Andean cultural landscape. The arts, however, continued to thrive amid the upheavals, and they preserved an unspoken dialogue between Andean and European artistic traditions. This exhibition of more than 175 works of art focuses on two uniquely rich and inherently Andean art forms presenting the finest examples of Inca and Colonial garments and tapestries, as well as ritual and domestic silverwork. Together with a selected group of important Colonial paintings, drawn from museums, churches, and private collections in South America, Europe, and the United States, the exhibit documents the creative vitality of the complex Andean culture that developed after the Conquest.

October 21 – January 15, 2005 - Gilbert Stuart (1755–1828), the most successful and resourceful portraitist of America’s early national period possessed enormous natural talent, which he devoted to the representation of human likeness and character. This retrospective exhibition will highlight his achievement by displaying a carefully selected group of portraits of exceptional quality, ranging in date from the early works he produced in Newport, Rhode Island, to those executed in Boston at the end of his brilliant career.

September 28 – January 2, 2005 – The Frick Museum presents European Bronzes from the Quentin Collection the first public presentation of a distinguished, little-known private collection devoted to the art of these small- and medium-scale sculptures. Discriminatingly assembled over the last twenty-five years, the almost forty sculptures, primarily in bronze but also in terracotta or precious metal, share an exceptional level of quality, revealing the extraordinary invention and technical refinement characteristic of works made when the tradition of the European statuette was at its height. Created to delight and engage their audience, bronze statuettes enjoyed immense popularity with rulers and the wealthy educated classes who collected them during the fifteenth through eighteenth centuries. The Quentin Collection's emphasis is on the idealized human figure, and the exhibition's gathering of powerful, elegant nudes provide visitors with a focused entry to the pleasures offered by the bronze statuette. At the Frick, the sole venue for this exhibition, most of the sculptures will be shown freestanding without vitrines — as in the Collection itself — so that visitors may fully appreciate their delicately modulated, highly detailed surfaces as well as the subtle differences among the bronzes' colored, lacquered patinas. The museum is located at 1 East 70th Street at Fifth Avenue and is open Tuesday – Thursday and Saturday 10:00am – 6:00pm, Friday 10:00am – 9:00pm and Sunday 1:00pm – 6:00pm. For more information, please call the museum at (212) 288-0700 or go to their web site, www.frick.org.

October 10 – January 25, 2004 – The New Museum of Contemporary Art/Chelsea presents Adaptive Behavior that brings together the work of eleven international emerging artists who consider the "way in". The line between public performance and natural individual behavior has been systematically blurred in video-based, photographic and installation work created in recent years. Works included in the exhibition will explore the unpredictable nature of human reaction in the face of changing circumstances as well as how the absence of familiar bearings forces one to embrace change in order to survive. The museum is located at 556 West 22^nd Street and is open Wednesday and Sunday, noon - 6:00pm and Thursday – Saturday, 12:00pm - 8:00pm. For more information, please call the museum at (212) 219-1222 or go to their web site, www.newmuseum.org.

The Museum of Chinese in the Americas is the first full-time, professionally staffed museum dedicated to the Chinese-American experience. Extensive archives and occasional walking tours accompany historical and visual arts exhibitions. Through an ongoing and historical dialogue that shapes MoCA's collections, programs and exhibitions, people of all backgrounds are able to explore the diversity and complexity of the Chinese American history and culture, while gaining unique access to the images, papers, oral histories and artifacts which document their story. The museum is located on the second floor of an historic, century-old school building at 70 Mulberry Street at Bayard Street and is open Tuesday – Saturday 12:00pm – 5:00pm.

Brooklyn, The Musical

The Roundabout Theatre Company presents Twelve Angry Men at the American Airlines Theatre, 227 West 42^nd Street. A stellar cast of America's finest character actors stars in this classic drama, which focuses on the fate of a boy accused of murdering his father. The boy’s fate is in the hands of a jury of 12 men, who bring their own personal baggage to the deliberation room. One juror stands alone with his doubts until eventually no one is quite sure who the murderer might be. The play starring Tom Aldredge, Mark Blum, Philip Bosco, Larry Bryggman, Robert Clohessy, Boyd Gaines, Kevin Geer, Dan Hedaya, Michael Mastro, John Pankow, James Rebhorn and Adam Trese opens in previews on October 1 with an official opening date of October 28. It is scheduled to close on December 19.

Actor and standup comic, Mario Cantone, teams with director Joe Mantello for the one-man variety show, Laugh Whore. Offering acerbic views on current events, culture - and his life, Mr. Cantone will have audiences rolling in the isles. Preview performances begin on October 5 at the Cort Theatre, 138 West 48^th Street with official opening date of October 17.

Gem of the Ocean

The new Broadway play Democracy by acclaimed playwright, Michael Fryan opens in previews at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre, 256 West 47^th Street on November 2 with an official opening date of November 18. This drama about espionage, loyalty and betrayal comes to New York City directly from The Royal National Theatre in London. Democracy charts the fall of charismatic West German Chancellor Willy Brandt, whose personal assistant is unmasked as an East German spy.

700 Sundays, a one man show, written and staring comedian Billy Crystal explores the relationship he had with his father who passed away when Mr. Crystal was just fifteen. His father worked two or three jobs, leaving only "700 Sundays" for them to spend together. As you will find out during the show, it was time well spent. The veteran funnyman explores this relationship as well as many others in an autobiographical look at his life. The show opens in previews at Broadway’s Broadhurst Theatre, 235 West 44^th Street on November 12 with an official opening date of December 5. It is scheduled for an open-ended run.