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Philip Langridge
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The Frick: The Sunday Concert Series
Sundays at 5pm
1 East 70th Street
New York, NY 10021
http://www.frick.org
February 10: Trio Wanderer, award winning chamber ensemble, performing Mendelssohn, Opus 66; Liszt, Tristia; Ravel, Trio in A.
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February 24: Markus Groh, piantist, performing Schulhoff, Five Études de Jazz; Kurtag; Ligeti; Ginastera, Sonata No. 1, Opus 22; Liszt, Sonata in B Minor |
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Central Park
Views from the Past Tour
Meet at Dairy Visitor Center & Gift Shop, mid-Park at 65th Street
Wednesdays at 1:00 p.m.
This one-hour walking tour through Central Park highlights the park’s interesting history and the struggles of its designers, Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux.
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August: Osage County
Now playing; Closes March 9, 2008
Imperial Theatre
249 W. 49th Street
The Weston family, rife with dysfunction and dependencies, returns to their childhood home in rural Oklahoma to help solve the mystery of their missing father. |
| The play, written by Tracy Letts, comes to Broadway from Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company with a cast of 13. This drama is a well-crafted, riveting and entertaining ride. |
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November
Ethel Barrymore Theatre
243 W. 47th Street
Written by David Mamet, November stars Tony award winner Nathan Lane as President Charles Smith. Laurie Metcalf and Dylan Baker play aid and advisor to the president respectively. This comedy, directed by Tony award winner Joe Mantello, centers around the days before the president’s second election. |
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The Seafarer
Now playing for undetermined run
Booth Theatre
222 W. 45th Street
The Seafarer, written and directed by Conor McPherson, is the story of a Christmas Eve in Ireland. Sharky, played by David Morse, has come home to care for his ailing brother.
The brothers play a high-stakes card game with two drinking buddies and a stranger; leaving Sharky playing for his soul.
The play features a strong ensemble cast and a beautifully written and directed script. |
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The Homecoming
Now playing; Closes April 13, 2008
Cort Theatre
138 W. 48th Street
This revival of Harold Pinter’s The Homecoming is excellently crafted, acted and directed, and its edgy quality gives it a modern feel. It’s a dark story of lust, betrayal and seduction set in North London and stars Eve Best, Paul Esparza and Ian McShane. |
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Lucian Freud. Kai. 1991–92 |
Lucian Freud: The Painter’s Etchings
Through March 10, 2008
Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53 Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues
http://www.moma.org
Lucian Freud, best known for his beautifully frank figurative paintings, uses the etching plate like a canvas to create dramatic prints, often using the same sitters and scenes for both the prints and the paintings that follow. This exhibit shows Freud’s scope as painter and printmaker, including a selection of related paintings and drawings that highlight the crucial relationship between his paintings and etchings.
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From Berlin to New York: Karl Nierendorf and the Guggenheim
January 26–May 4, 2008
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue at 89th Street
http://www.guggenheim.org/
German-born art collector Karl Nierendorf owned galleries in both New York and Berlin, and had a close relationship with the Guggenheim throughout his career. He promoted artists represented in the Guggenheim, and the Guggenheim purchased works from his galleries. |
Paul Klee, Arches of the Bridge Stepping Out of Line, Guggenheim Museum, New York
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Upon his death in 1947, the Guggenheim purchased his entire collection, along with some personal works, including Expressionist, Abstract Expressionist, and Surrealist paintings. This collection is on display through May 2008. |
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Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola, known as Parmigianino (1503 – 1540), Antea, c. 1531–34 |
Special Loan: Parmigianino's Antea: A Beautiful Artifice
January 29, 2008, through April 27, 2008
The Frick Collection
1 East 70th Street
New York, NY 10021
http://www.frick.org
Parmigianino’s Antea, considered a masterpiece of Italian Renaissance portraiture, will be on view at The Frick Collection beginning January 29, on special loan from the Museo di Capodimonte in Naples. It is the first time the painting has been exhibited in the United States in more than twenty years. |
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue @ 82nd Street
http://www.metmuseum.org
212-535-7710
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Jasper Johns, Grey Target, 1957
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Jasper Johns: Gray
February 5, 2008–May 4, 2008
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Exhibition Hall, 2nd floor
The exhibition, organized by The Art Institute of Chicago in cooperation with the Met, will examine the use of the color gray by the American artist Jasper Johns (b. 1930) between the mid-1950s and the present. It will bring together more than 120 paintings, reliefs, drawings, prints, and sculptures from American and international collections.
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Lee Friedlander: A Ramble in Olmsted Parks
January 22, 2008–May 11, 2008
The Howard Gilman Gallery
This exhibit features around 40 photographs by Lee Friedlander, one of the greatest living photographers. The photographs were all taken in the public parks and private estates designed by Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903), North America’s premier landscape architect. It also marks the 150th anniversary of the design (1858) for Olmsted’s masterpiece, New York’s Central Park. |
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 Landscape with the Burial of Phocon, 1648
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Poussin and Nature: Arcadian Visions
February 12, 2008–May 11, 2008
Special Exhibition Galleries, 2nd floor
In the first exhibition showcasing his landscapes, this collection of French master Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665) work brings together about 80 paintings and drawings, the most luminous of which were done outside in natural light.
In the Light of Poussin: The Classical Landscape Tradition
January 8, 2008–April 13, 2008
Robert Wood Johnson Jr. Gallery for Drawings and Prints, 2nd floor
As a complement to the exhibition Poussin and Nature, this selection of drawings and prints from the Museum’s collection will include works by Poussin’s French, Italian, and Northern contemporaries along with other artists influenced by his landscapes.
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