Brooklyn Botanic Garden
900 Washington Avenue
718-230-2100
www.bbg.org
Tues-Fri: 8am-6pm
Sat & Sun: 10am-6pm
Admission is free

The Guggenheim Museum
1071 Fifth Avenue at 89th Street
www.guggenheim.org
Sat-Wed 10:00am-5:45pm
Fri 10:00am-7:45pm



NOTE: The Guggenheim is open on Mondays but closed on Thursdays.

Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward
May 15–August 23, 2009

No architect is better known or better appreciated in the history of American architecture than Frank Lloyd Wright.

Frank Lloyd Wright

Despite that his personal life and relationships remained very shrouded, his works are known in most households due not only for their beauty and genius, but for their clean simple lines that appeal to a broad audience.

Born in 1867 in rural Wisconsin, Wright attended the University of Wisconsin and later, at the age of 20, moved to Chicago where he was offered a position as an apprentice at an architectural firm. This was the start of a career that would span seventy years and include the design of residential homes, churches, synagogues, hotels, skyscrapers, furnishings and more. Among the greatest projects completed by Wright near the end of his career is the Guggenheim Museum (NY). Although Wright was commissioned to design the museum in the early 1940s, the finished museum was not unveiled until 1959 shortly after his death.

Falling Waters - Residence

To mark its 50th anniversary, The Guggenheim Museum (NY) in conjunction with the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, is mounting Frank Lloyd Wright: From Within Outward. The installation brings together, in varying media, information on sixty-four of the architect’s works; including more than 200 original Frank Lloyd Wright drawings. Newly created three-dimensional models examine the relationship between functional space and exterior in several of Wright’s projects. This will be a rare opportunity to experience the designs of a famed architect displayed within one of his own most renowned projects.

The Brooklyn Museum of Art
200 Eastern Parkway
718-638-5000
www.brooklynmuseum.org
Tues-Fri 8am-6pm
Sat & Sun 10am-6pm

Gustave Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea
March 27 through July 5, 2009

A highly regarded impressionist painter whose works are rarely exhibited is taking center stage at the Brooklyn Museum of Art. Forty paintings ranging in subject from city scenes to the outdoors depict the artist’s fascination with water, light and reflection. The contents of this exhibit, much of which is on loan from private collections, offers the first opportunity in more than thirty years to enjoy a glimpse of the artist’s body of work.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art
1000 Fifth Avenue @ 82 Street
212-570-535-7710
www.metmuseum.org
Tues-Thurs 9:30am-5:45pm, Fri & Sat 9:30am-9:00pm, Sun 9:30am-5:30pm
Closed Mondays

The Metropolitan Museum of Art offers a constant rotation of special exhibits and an extensive permanent collection that rivals the finest museums in the world. This spring we are treated to a diverse variety of special exhibits that includes:

Frances Bacon: A Centenary Retrospect
May 20 - Aug 16, 2009

Compiled from private and public collections, this retrospect of works by famed twentieth century Irish born painter Frances Bacon marks the 100th anniversary of the artist’s birth in 1909. The exhibit features 160 works, half of which are paintings and touches upon every period in Bacon’s prolific career. Bacon’s style is bold and severe; some may refer to it as nightmarish. Although an accomplished painter in his own right, Bacon's style is not for the weak of heart.

Napoleon III and Paris
June 2 - Sept 7, 2009

This collection of photographs drawn entirely from the museum’s collection depicts the architectural transformation of the city of Paris during the second empire, 1852-1870. During this era, under the rule of Napoleon III, France witnessed the development of wide boulevards and majestic structures that, to this day, define this glamorous city.

The New American Wing
Part II The Charles Englehard Court and Period Rooms

For years, the Museum’s American Wing has suffered an embarrassment of riches. Collections that fill interconnecting rooms that display glass, sculpture and period furniture almost beyond capacity have been repurposed. The rearrangement of the American Wing, an undertaking that began in 2005, was partially completed in 2007 with the reintroduction of the Classical Galleries. This spring the reopening of the Charles Englehart court marks the completion of phase II. Phase III, the final phase in the renovation of the American Wing is scheduled for completion in 2011.

The Morgan Library and Museum
225 Madison Avenue @ 36th Street
212-685-0008
www.themorgan.org
Tues-Thurs 10:30am-5:00pm, Fri 10:30am-9:00pm
Sat 10am-6pm, Sun 11am-6pm

On the Money: Cartoons for The New Yorker From the Melvin R. Seiden Collection
Through May 24, 2009

New Yorker magazine has for years been one of the greatest outlets for America’s political and social cartoonists to showcase their talent and wit. In this exhibit viewers can enjoy 80 works from one of the largest privately held collections of New Yorker cartoons - that of Melvin R. Seiden. The cartoons are representative of more than thirty artists whose drawings appeared in the magazine at some point between 1925 when the magazine was first introduced and the present. The New Yorker’s cartoons have consistently reflected political and social views primarily those that touch upon the effects of money and the economy. The true test of genius when determining the value and importance of these cartoons is the relevance they manage to maintain despite the passing of time.

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Alice Tully Hall
Lincoln Center
1941 Broadway @ 64th Street

Over the past few years many of New York City’s visual and performing art venues have undergone makeovers the have improved patrons’ experiences and enhanced the city’s overall architectural beauty. Among the institutions that have reinvented themselves are: MoMA, the Morgan, Museum of Art and Design, Museum of Folk Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art. Now add to the list Alice Tully Hall. This February, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts unveiled a newly renovated Alice Tully Hall. Gone is the austere concrete box from the 1960s. After a two-year process, the renowned chamber music auditorium now boasts a complete reincarnation that features a beautifully wood paneled interior with a design and lighting that melds the audience and stage into one continuous flowing space for a more intimate feel, and a modern glass exterior that seems to float out onto Broadway inviting you to enter. Much needed practice rooms and dance studios have been added on the upper floors. Lincoln Center, which plans to make additional changes to its other venues, hopes that the new modernized look will appeal to the younger population. For a complete list of events to take place this season at Alice Tully Hall, visit www.lincolncenter.org

Guys & Dolls
Nederlander Theatre
208 West 41st Street
212-307-4100
Open ended run

The show is minus Sinatra, minus Brando, and minus Stubby Kaye yet the talented cast of the current revival of this quintessential musical is wowing audiences on Broadway. Set in 1930s New York during prohibition, the play’s storyline brings together what would seem to be unlikely couples to show that opposites attract and love can change a person. Show stopping performances of popular hits such as "Luck Be a Lady" and "Sit Down You’re Rockin’ The Boat" will have you humming all the way home.

Desire Under the Elms
St James Theater
246 West 44th Street
212-239-6200
Now through July 5, 2009

Brian Dennehy, one of stage and screen’s most beloved actors takes the lead role of Eugene O’Neil’s classic love triangle, “Desire Under the Elms.” In this drama a mature farmer enters into a May December marriage and is forced to deal with his son’s disapproval. His son’s disapproval of the young wife quickly turns to lust.

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