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1969

2009-11-21T05:00:00Z

Oct 25 – Apr 5, 2010

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@ P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center

This will be the first exhibition at P.S.1 of works drawn from virtually all of the collecting areas of The Museum of Modern Art and will fill P.S.1's second-floor galleries with examples of painting, sculpture, photography, print, illustrated books, design, drawing, media, and film, nearly all produced during the year 1969. These works will explore the artistic aesthetic incited by a period marked with revolution and socio-political tumult. Within the collection show will be a series of interventions by a current generation of artists whose work will refract the concerns of 1969 and the MoMA collection forty years after the original date and on the 80th anniversary of the museum.

Velázquez Rediscovered

2009-11-21T05:00:00Z

Nov 17 – Feb 7, 2010

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@ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A technical examination and cleaning of one of the Met’s paintings, formerly ascribed to the workshop of Velázquez, has revealed a portrait by the great 17th-century Spanish master himself. Velázquez is among the most admired Old Master painters, and his work rarely enters the market. Portrait of a Man is on view through February 7, 2010, alongside information about its provenance, attribution, and restoration. The rehabilitation of this painting represents a major "new" acquisition for the Museum, which has the finest collection of works by the master in America.

Image: Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez (Spanish, 1599-1660). Portrait of a Man. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Jules Bache Collection, 1949

Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44

2009-11-21T05:00:00Z

Sep 22 – Mar 21, 2010

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@ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Du Paquier ceramic manufactory, founded by Claudius Innocentius du Paquier in Vienna in 1718, was only the second factory in Europe able to make true porcelain in the manner of the Chinese. This small porcelain enterprise developed a highly distinctive style that remained Baroque in inspiration throughout the history of the factory, which was taken over by the State in 1744. Imperial Privilege: Vienna Porcelain of Du Paquier, 1718–44, now on view through March 21, charts the history of the development of the Du Paquier factory, setting its production within the historic and cultural context of Vienna in the first half of the 18th century. The porcelain featured is drawn from both the Met and the premier private collection of this material.

Image: Elephant. Austrian (Vienna), Du Paquier factory, 1740-44. Melinda and Paul Sullivan Collection, West Hartford

The Carnegie Hall Notables Program

2009-11-21T05:00:00Z

Oct 1 – June 30, 2010

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@ Carnegie Hall

A Membership and Ticket Program for Music Enthusiasts in their 20s and 30s

Get in on the action for only $20 per year and receive

- $20 concert tickets, up to a month before

- invitations to exclusive social events throughout the season, including the Annual Notable Occasion

- Monthly Notables email with Carnegie Hall news and ticket offers

- Additional benefits available at higher levels, including behind the scenes tours, rehearsal passes, gala invitations, and more!

For more information, visit carnegiehall.org/notables.

Paragraph

2009-11-21T05:00:00Z

Ongoing

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@ Paragraph

Joy Parisi and Lila Cecil understand the importance of having a room of one's own. At Paragraph, their Union Square writing center, the proverbial room may not be completely solitary, but the quiet loft fosters the same type of atmosphere that Virginia Woolf so famously prescribed. Parisi and Cecil are both writers — they each received an MFA in fiction from the New School — so the center perfectly caters to the needs (kitchen, library, wireless Internet) and habits (24-hour access) of their clientele. And since nothing says "writer" like "starving," the membership fees vary according to payment regularity and full-time or part-time preference.

Extended—Roxy Paine on the Roof: Maelstrom

2009-11-21T05:00:00Z

July 15 – Nov 29

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@ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Extended through November 29! American artist Roxy Paine (born in 1966) has created a 130-foot-long by 45-foot-wide stainless-steel sculpture, especially for the Museum’s Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Roof Garden. Giving viewers the sense of being immersed in the midst of a cataclysmic force, Maelstrom (2009) is Paine’s largest and most ambitious work to date. The latest in a diverse body of work, this sculpture is one of the artist’s Dendroids based on systems such as vascular networks, tree roots, industrial piping, and fungal mycelia. Set against Central Park and its architectural backdrop, the installation explores the interplay between the natural world and the built environment amid nature’s inherently chaotic processes.

Beverage and sandwich service are available on the roof from 10:00 a.m. until closing, including Friday and Saturday evenings.

Image: Roxy Paine, Maelstrom (detail), 2009, stainless steel. Courtesy of the artist and James Cohan Gallery, New York. Photograph: Sheila Griffin

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915: Cooking with Lilly Martin Spencer

2009-11-21T05:00:00Z

Oct 19 – Dec 31

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@ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Cookbook author and New York Times columnist Mark Bittman savors the food shown in two Lilly Martin Spencer paintings in the exhibition American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915, on view now through January 24, 2010.

To download the podcast, click here.

Image: Lilly Martin Spencer (American, 1822–1902). Kiss Me and You'll Kiss the 'Lasses, 1856. Brooklyn Museum, A. Augustus Healy Fund

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915: Winslow Homer's Civil War

2009-11-21T05:00:00Z

Oct 12 – Dec 31

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@ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Distinguished Civil War scholar James McPherson speaks about Pitching Quoits and The Veteran in a New Field, two of the Winslow Homer paintings in the exhibition American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915, on view now through January 24, 2010.

To download the podcast, click here.

Image: Winslow Homer, 1836–1910. Pitching Quoits, 1865. Harvard University Art Museums, Fogg Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Frederic Haines Curtiss. © President and Fellows of Harvard College. Photograph by Katya Kallsen

Loaded

2009-11-21T05:00:00Z

Opens Sunday Nov 15 (3–5:30pm)

Nov 7 – Jan 23, 2010

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@ Lion Theatre at Theatre Row

Patrick (Kevin Spirtas) and Jude (Scott Kerns) are in the getting-to-know-you-better stage of their relationship after meeting through the Internet and forming an intense physical relationship shortly thereafter. Yet as they spend their first full night together, those invitable questions about the past, politics, and lifetime commitment become, as the title tells, Loaded. Elliot Ramón Potts' 90-minute play explores each man's discomfort level skillfully and movingly, and thanks to Spirtas, Kerns, and director Michael Unger, Loaded's raw conversation never loses its intimate and spontaneous feel. Ultimately, Patrick and Jude aren't just dealing with lifestyle choices or politics, but the intricacies of the heart.

Ars Nova presents ANT Fest 2009

2009-11-21T05:00:00Z

Oct 19 – Nov 21

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@ Ars Nova Theater

Ars Nova's ANT Fest gives artists from every imaginable discipline a chance to show off their stuff. Nothing much is sacred about the 32 festival offerings: check out the cat-lover spoof A Trail to Lions, and laugh at red-state motor-sport rituals in One Night with Rael. The unlikely combination of an iconic NPR program and a former governor/future bestselling "author" are targeted in This American Strife, while Endurance combines the survival stories of Ernest Shackleton's 1914 journey to Antarctica with a Hartford insurance salesman coping with the economic downturn.

Alice Guy Blaché: Cinema Pioneer

2009-11-21T05:00:00Z

Nov 6 – Jan 24, 2010

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@ Whitney Museum of American Art

This is the first comprehensive retrospective of the films of Alice Guy Blaché (1873–1968), a key but unsung figure of the early years of cinema, the first woman director, and the first woman to establish and preside over her own film studio. Between 1896 and 1920, first in France and then in the United States, she wrote, directed, supervised, and/or produced more than 1,000 films. These ranged from short films of less than a minute’s duration to full-length multi-reel features and include some hand-tinted in color, and more than one hundred films with synchronized sound made between 1902 and 1906, some twenty years before sound revolutionized motion pictures as we now know them.

A screenwriter as well as director, she worked in a remarkable variety of genres including comedies, westerns, dramas, detective stories, and a biblical epic, as well as making films based on literary classics and theatrical productions. Alice Guy (as she was known at Gaumont Film Company), made her first story film at a time when the earliest motion pictures were used in the service of science and selling cameras—a time when the notion of motion pictures as a form of popular entertainment was not yet on the horizon. Radically shifting the parameters of cinematic imagination, production, and distribution, Blaché participated in every aspect of the evolving motion picture business, and her careers in the two countries where cinema was born testify to her extraordinary accomplishments.

The exhibition is organized by Whitney curator-at-large Joan Simon. It is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue, published by Yale University Press in association with the Whitney, with contributions by noted film scholars Jane Gaines, Alison McMahan, Charles Musser, Alan Williams, film historian and preservationist Kim Tomadjoglou, and the show’s organizer, Joan Simon.

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Alice Guy Blaché, Madame a des envies (1906, Gaumont). Courtesy of Gaumont Pathé Archives, Paris

Liz Duffy Adams's Or,

2009-11-21T05:00:00Z

Nov 6 – Dec 13

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@ Women's Project

Or, recounts an eventful day in the life of 17th-century secret agent/playwright Aphra Behn (played by the formidable Maggie Siff). Rather than put on a feminist one-acter, Liz Duffy Adams places her heroine in her very own Restoration bodice ripper. The play's depiction of the era's cross dressing, free love, and general ribaldry is a reminder that sexual and social revolution usually occurs after oppression and legalized conservatism. While Siff is front and center, co-stars Andy Paris and Kelly Hutchinson do bang-up jobs playing the aristocrats and guttersnipe who attempt to keep Aprha from her literary destiny.

Looking at Music: Side 2 film series

2009-11-21T05:00:00Z

Sep 21 – Nov 30

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@ MoMA The Museum of Modern Art

View the entire film schedule

Held in conjunction with the Looking at Music: Side 2 gallery exhibition

In the early 1970s New York was a haven for young, renegade artists, many of whom doubled as musicians and poets. Art and music cross-fertilized with a vengeance, following a stripped-down, hard-edged, antiestablishment ethos. Some artists plastered city walls with self-designed posters or spray-painted monikers, while others commandeered abandoned buildings, turning vacant garages into makeshift theaters for Super-8 film screenings and raucous performances. Many found the experimental music scene more vital and conducive to their contrarian ideas than the handful of contemporary art galleries in the city. This screening series features films made by many of these artists, along with films that capture the spirit of New York City during that tumultuous era.

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Michelangelo’s First Painting

2009-11-21T05:00:00Z

July 17 – Dec 15

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@ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Keith Christiansen and Michael Gallagher of the Met discuss their research and conservation of the first known painting by Michelangelo Buonarroti believed to have been created when he was twelve or thirteen years old (circa 1487-88). Recently acquired by the Kimbell Art Museum, the painting The Torment of Saint Anthony underwent conservation and technical examination at the Met, leading to this new attribution.

To download the podcast, click here.

Image: Michelangelo Buonarroti (Florence 1475- Rome 1564). The Torment of Saint Anthony, ca. 1487–88. Lent by the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth.

Download a Free Met Podcast Today: Pablo Bronstein at the Met

2009-11-21T05:00:00Z

Oct 26 – Dec 31

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@ The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Artist Pablo Bronstein and curator Gary Tinterow discuss Bronstein’s new drawings and etchings that suggest mythical histories and hypothetical futures of the Met. This podcast accompanies the special exhibition Pablo Bronstein at the Met, on view now through February 21, 2010.

To download the podcast, click here.

Image: Pablo Bronstein (British, b. Argentina, 1977). First and Second Installations of Precolumbian Objects at the Metropolitan Museum, 2009. © 2009 Pablo Bronstein Courtesy: Herald St, London and Franco Noero, Turin