Events Calendar
May 31, 2012
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There is a new pre-school in Lincoln Square!
Price: $16,000.00
May 31, 2012 09:00am - 04:00pm
The Day School at Christ & St. Stephen's Church at 120 West 69th Street has a limited number of places for your pre-schoolers for Fall 2012. The School is an early childhood educational experience for children turning 3 this year and 4 year olds. It reflects Christ and St. Stephen's commitment to provide a first-rate educational experience for young learners. The Day School values the unique nature of each child and celebrates diversity and inclusiveness, hallmarks of both our multi-faceted neighborhood and our Anglican tradition. People of all faiths are not only welcomed but embraced. There is also Scholarship aid available to those who may need it. Visit www.csschurch.org for an application, to request more information or to set up a tour of our beautiful new school. For any questions, please feel free to contact Reverend Kathleen Liles, the Rector of Christ and St. Stephen's at liles@csschurch.org.
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Paris Blues Revisited: Romare Bearden, Albert Murray and Sam Shaw
Jazz at Lincoln Center, Frederick P. Rose Hall
Peter Jay Sharp Arcade, 5th Floor Time Warner Center
New York [map]Price: Free
May 31, 2012 10:00am - 11:00pm
Designed as a book-on-the-wall, Paris Blues Revisited presents fine reproductions of collages by Romare Bearden, writing by Albert Murray and photographs by Sam Shaw. Following the Shaw-produced film Paris Blues, these three men decided to improvise their own Paris Blues – a collaborative picture-and-writing book celebrating Paris as well as Duke Ellington, co-composer (with Billy Strayhorn) of the movie's soundtrack and Louis Armstrong, one of that movie's stars. That book was never completed. Here, for the first time, finished pages, some of them unmistakable masterworks, as well as works-in-progress make clear the power of jazz to inspire collaborations of long-lasting beauty.
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Jubilation|Rumination: Life, Real and Imagined at the American Folk Art Museum
Price: Free
May 31, 2012 12:00pm - 07:30pm
Life is not lived in black and white: reality may have the tinge of dreams and dreams an air of reality. This provocative tension exists between the experiential nature of early American folk art and the fantastical imagery it often displays—between what is real and what is imagined. The same is true of the work of contemporary self-taught artists, which may introduce unique—and sometimes puzzling—expressions that illuminate the iconoclastic nature that is the flip side of the collective American psyche. The viewer is placed in the peculiar but exhilarating position of deciding for him- or herself whether the artwork expresses a disjuncture with reality or an uninhibited embracing of interior life. After all, what is more true, the picture that looks real or the picture that feels real; the observer or the observed? These perceptions shift as new scholarship emerges. Often, real-life roots are discovered for even arcane and esoteric imagery that has already influenced our response to an artist and his work: does this disappoint or satisfy the viewer? Diminish or enhance the creativity of the artist? One need only contemplate the culture- and memory-driven gestures of Martín Ramírez, the impressionistic nineteenth-century portraits by Dr. and Mrs. Shute, and minimalist mid-twentieth-century soot drawings by James Castle to render these distinctions immaterial. Instead the viewer is urged to enjoy the permeable fluidity between art and imagination, dream and belief.The exhibition is sponsored, in part, by Joyce Berger Cowin, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, by Bloomberg Philanthropies, by the Ford Foundation, and by the Magazine Antiques. -
Star Quality: The World of Noel Coward
New York Library for the Performing Arts
Donald & Mary Oenslager Gallery, 40 Lincoln Plaza
New York [map]Price: Free
May 31, 2012 12:00pm - 06:00pm
The NYPL presentation of this collaborative traveling exhibition is part of an international festival celebrating Coward's long, transatlantic career and his prowess as songwriter, playwright and peformer. The multi-media exhibition features posters, photographs, manuscripts, and music from The Library for the Performing Arts and AMPAS documenting his multiple roles in theater and film. In addition, newly discovered film footage and artifacts from Coward's home will be displayed for the first time. It will be accompanied by a screening series fo films written or directed by Coward, as well as by concerts and symposia.
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Rock and Roll Icons
Price: Free
May 31, 2012 12:00pm - 06:00pm
Rock and Roll Icons: Photographs by Patrick Harbron is a new exhibition taken from Harbron’s rock and roll concert and portrait photography of influential musicians and groups of the 1970’s and 1980’s, captured at pivotal moments in their careers. The exhibition features many photographs that have never been published or exhibited. Harbron photographed artists such as Elvis Costello, Blondie and Deborah Harry, The Cars, Rush, Stevie Ray Vaughn, The Police, Tom Petty, Prince, Bruce Springsteen, KD Lang, Dire Straits and Van Halen early in their careers. He followed these artists to prominence and others that were already well known including The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, Ray Charles, Eric Clapton, David Bowie, Queen, Neil Young, Bob Marley, The Who, Genesis, Elton John, KISS, U2, Aerosmith, Santana, Michael Jackson and Ray Charles. The work has been published on album,CD and DVD covers, in books, magazines, for publicity and tour booklets. Harbron has received numerous awards including two JUNO Award nominations for album cover photography. Some of his album work is included in the Taschen books ‘1000 Records Covers and Rock Covers'.
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Bernstein Film Series - All the News That's Fit to Screen
New York Library for the Performing Arts
Bruno Walter Auditorium, 40 Lincoln Center Plaza
New York [map]Price: Free
May 31, 2012 06:30pm - 08:30pm
In honor of the 25th anniversary of NYPL's Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts is offering free screenings of movies about journalism. The screenings - which take place Thursdays at 6:30 p.m. from May 31 until June 28 in the Bruno Walter Auditorium - will be followed by question and answer sessions with special guests. Shattered Glass, with Journalist Adam Penenberg, Who Broke the Stephen Glass Scandal Thursday, May 31, 2012 6:30 p.m. New York Public Library for the Performing Arts Woman of the Year, with Sportswriter Karen Crouse Thursday, June 7, 2012 6:30 p.m. Sweet Smell of Success, with Gossip Writers George Rush and Lindsay Powers Thursday, June 14, 2012 6:30 p.m. A Bitter Taste of Freedom, with Director Marina Goldovskaya Thursday, June 21, 2012 6:30 p.m. The Bonfire of the Vanities, with Journalist Julie Salamon, Whose Book Chronicled the Making of the Film Thursday, June 28, 2012 6:30 p.m