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Ambassador to the Arts

Andrew Eccles

I love this city! There is a constant buzz that invites ideas, excitement, and exploration. When I come back from a long tour, the city energizes and renews my spirit. The heart of New York City throbs with the arts—a cornucopia of dance, theater, museums, opera, and a multitude of individuals creating unique and stimulating works.

People come here from all over the world because they know this city welcomes them with open arms and grants them the freedom of expression. The Arts thrive here, in the atmosphere of spontaneity and limitless possibilities.

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A Thank You to Our Patrons

Welcome to the New York City edition of the Guide for the Arts.

The arts in New York City continue to flourish, thanks to your patronage. Without your help, the New York City area arts landscape would not be the vibrant and inspiring community that you have come to know and expect.

Because of people like you, New Yorkers and visitors alike will be able to enjoy a great variety of performing and visual arts. It is your generosity that has helped build a metropolitan arts scene that is more than just a source of civic pride—it is envied around the world.

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Atlantic Theater Company (Neil Pepe, Company at the Linda Artistic Director; Jeffory Lawson, Man- Gross Theater. Photo aging Director) is the award-winning Off- ©Doug Hamilton Broadway theater company dedicated to producing great plays simply and truthfully utilizing an artistic ensemble. Atlantic believes that the story of the play and the intent of the playwright are at the core of the creative process.

Atlantic maintains an ensemble of acclaimed actors, writers and directors including Pulitzer Prize winning playwright and director David Mamet and Academy Award nominated actor William H. Macy who founded Atlantic in 1985.

Bottom of the World

by Lucy Thurber directed by Caitriona Mc Laughlin

september 3, 2010—october 3, 2010 at Atlantic Stage 2

Heartbroken over the sudden death of her sister Kate, Abby delves into the world of Kate’s final novel to deal with her grief and somehow move on. As the lines blur between the fictional world and her own reality, Abby attempts to make sense of life and death in this funny and poignant play.

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Atlantic Theatre Company The Collection and A Kind of Alaska

two plays by Harold Pinter

november 3 – december 12, 2010 at Classic Stage Company

In The Collection (1962), a four o-clock AM phone call and a surprise visitor set off a series of conversations about potential infidelities among two couples. And a middle-aged woman who has been asleep in a hospital room awakens after 30 years and must reorient herself to a greatly changed world in A Kind of Alaska (1982), which was inspired by the work of Oliver Sacks in his seminal book, Awakenings. The plays are separated chronologically by 20 years; both, however, are steeped in the author’s signature humor, mystery and psychological tension.

The New York Idea

adapted by David Auburn from the original by Langdon Mitchell

january 6 – february 13, 2011 at Lucille Lortel Theatre

Cynthia Karslake is a freewheeling divorcée in 1906 New York City society. She has decided to settle down again into a much more stable, reliable relationship with a prominent Judge Philip Phillimore. Little does she know, however, that neither of their bombastic and blowsy ex-spouses, nor her beloved racehorse Cynthia K, is yet down for the count. In this sharp-tongued comedy, David Auburn enlivens and enriches a little-known play from a century ago, and shines a surprisingly contemporary light on social mores, status, and attitudes about sex and divorce in high society.

Four Pickups—world premiere

by Ethan Coen directed by Neil Pepe

may, 2011

at St. Ann’s Warehouse Four Pickups is four short plays. Different settings: remote West Texas, the Gulf Coast, a movie set, a maternity ward. Different characters: footloose bachelors, a long-married couple on 12

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Atlantic Theater Company Christmas day, a struggling actor, expecting parents. One character in each play has a pickup truck, or the plays would not belong together. All the characters have serious problems, or they would not be comic plays.

10x25 spring 2011

Atlantic Stage 2 In honor of its 25th anniversary, the Atlantic Theater Company pays homage to their rich history and gives a nod toward the future by presenting 10x25: a festival of 10-minute plays by 25 playwrights who have been produced by the Atlantic over the past 25 years.

In the spring of 2011, the short plays by each of these writers will be produced in three separate two-week runs in Atlantic Stage 2.

Contact

Atlantic Theater Company 76 Ninth Avenue, Suite 537 New York, NY 10011 (212) 691-5919 Atlantic Stage 2 330 West 16th Street New York, NY 10011 Classic Stage Company 136 East 13th Street New York, NY 10003 St. Ann’s Warehouse 38 Water Street Brooklyn, NY 10004

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Carnegie Hall

James Levine, Music Director and Conductor of the Boston Symphony The largest hall at Carnegie Hall has been Orchestra

Isaac Stern Auditorium Ronald O. Perelman Stage

the premier classical music performance space in the United States since its opening in 1891, showcasing the world’s greatest soloists, conductors, and ensembles. The hall was dedicated the Isaac Stern Auditorium in 1996, and the stage was dedicated the Ronald O. Perelman Stage in 2006. Throughout its century-plus history, the space has been the forum for important jazz events, historic lectures, noted educational forums, and much more. Designed by architect and cellist William Burnett Tuthill and renovated in 1986, the auditorium’s striking curvilinear design allows the stage to become a focal point embraced by five levels of seating, which accommodates up to 2,804. The auditorium’s renowned acoustics have made it a favorite of audiences and performers alike. “It has been said that the hall itself is an instrument,” said the late Isaac Stern. “It takes what you do and makes it larger than life.” Carnegie Hall has always inspired the world’s finest musicians to perform at their highest levels.

Yo-Yo Ma october 27, 2010, 8:00 pm Yo-Yo Ma, Cello Kathryn Stott, Piano

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Carnegie Hall Michael Feinstein october 29, 2010, 8:00 pm

Michael Feinstein Cheyenne Jackson John Oddo, Musical Director and Pianist

The Power of Two at Carnegie Hall

Louis CK Comedian

november 4, 2010, 8:00 pm Joel McHale Comedian

november 5, 2010, 8:00 pm Angelique Kidjo november 11, 2010, 8:00 pm

With Youssou N’Dour, Omara Portuondo, Dianne Reeves, and other special guests to be announced

The Sound of the Drum

The brilliant Afro-pop star Angelique Kidjo tells the journey of the drum through rhythms, songs, and dances, from Africa to the Caribbean and on to America, joined by a few of contemporary music’s most important icons.

Murray Perahia november 18, 2010, 8:00 pm

Perahia returns to Carnegie Hall, bringing all the musicality and intelligence that he has developed throughout his 40-year career, with music by Bach, Beethoven, and Brahms.

New York Pops november 19, 2010, 8:00 pm

Stephen Sondheim 80th Birthday Celebration

Guest artists to be announced Described by the New York Times as “the greatest and perhaps best-known artist in the American musical theater,” Stephen Sondheim is celebrated for his incomparable contribution to American music.

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Carnegie Hall Pinchas Zukerman november 20, 2010, 8:00 pm Pinchas Zukerman, Violin Yefim Bronfman, Piano

Joanna Newsom november 23, 2010, 8:00 pm PIerre Laurent Aimard december 8, 2010, 8:00 pm

Program to include Ravel Miroirs

New York Pops december 10, 2010, 8:00 pm Celebrate the Holidays with Brian Stokes Mitchell!

Brian Stokes Mitchell, Guest Artist The New York Pops Festival Chorus Broadway’s leading baritone, Tony Award winner Brian Stokes Mitchell celebrates the season with carols and traditional favorites.

New York Pops december 11, 2010, 8:00 pm

Steven Reineke, Music Director and Conductor Brian Stokes Mitchell, Guest Artist The New York Pops Festival Chorus Celebrate The Holidays with Brian Stokes Mitchell!

Broadway’s leading baritone, Tony Award winner Brian Stokes Mitchell celebrates the season with carols and traditional favorites.

Saito Kinen Orchestra december 14, 2010, 8:00 pm

Seiji Ozawa, Music Director and Conductor Christine Goerke, Soprano Anthony Dean Griffey, Tenor Matthias Goerne, Baritone SKF Matsumoto Choir SKF Matsumoto Children’s Chorus Ritsuyukai Choir

Britten War Requiem

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Carnegie Hall Saito Kinen Orchestra december 15, 2010, 8:00 pm

Featuring: Saito Kinen Orchestra Seiji Ozawa, Music Director and Conductor Yukio Tanaka, Biwa Kifu Mitsuhashi, Shakuhachi Composers: Takemitsu; Berlioz

Renee Fleming january 11, 2011, 8:00 pm Pianist to be announced

Jonathan Biss january 21, 2011, 8:00 pm

Bernard Rands New Work (New York Premiere)

Beethoven Sonata No. 23 in F Minor, Op. 57, “Appassionata” Schumann Fantasy in C Major, Op. 17

Aziz Ansari Comedian

january 22, 2011, 8:00 pm New York Pops january 28, 2011, 8:00 pm

Doc Severinsen’s El Ritmo De La Vida Doc Severinsen, Guest Artist Trumpet virtuoso and former Tonight Show bandleader Doc Severinsen returns with a sizzling new Latin music experience, El Ritmo de la Vida, featuring Argentine tango, Spanish flamenco, and gypsy jazz.

Jean Yves Thibaudet

Jean Yves Thibaudet, Pianist

All Liszt Program

Cleveland Orchestra february 5, 2011, 8:00 pm

Franz Welser-Most, Music Director and Conductor Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Piano

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Carnegie Hall Schumann Piano Concerto Wagner Overture to Tannhauser

Mitsuko Uchida february 11, 2011, 8:00 pm

Beethoven Sonata No. 27 in E Minor, Op. 90 Schumann Davidsbundlertanze Chopin Prelude in C-sharp Minor, Op. 45; Sonata in B Minor, Op. 58

Dmitri Hvorostovsky february 21, 2011, 8:00 pm

Dmitri Hvorostovsky, Baritone Ivari Ilja, Piano

New York Pops march 11, 2011, 8:00 pm The Great Judy Garland Ashley Brown, Guest Artist Heather Headley, Guest Artist Karen Olivo, Guest Artist Fifty years after her legendary Carnegie Hall concert, Judy Garland is celebrated with “Over the Rainbow,” “The Trolley Song,” “The Man That Got Away,” and other gems from her historic 1961 performance.

Emerson String Quartet march 12, 2011, 8:00 pm Emerson String Quartet James Galway, Flute

Mozart Flute Quartet in D Major, K. 285 Debussy Syrinx

Thomas Ades String Quartet (World Premiere, Commissioned by Carnegie Hall)

Foote A Night Piece

Debussy String Quartet

Boston Symphony Orchestra march 16, 2011, 8:00 pm Boston Symphony Orchestra 18 guide for the arts 2010-2011

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Carnegie Hall James Levine, Music Director and Conductor Maurizio Pollini, Piano

Schoenberg Variations for Orchestra, Op. 31 Mozart Piano Concerto No. 23 in A Major, K. 488 Schoenberg Piano Concerto Mozart Symphony No. 41, “Jupiter”

Yefim Bronfman march 18, 2011, 8:00 pm

Yefim Bronfman Esa-Pekka Salonen New Work (World Premiere, Co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall)

Schumann Humoreske in B-Flat Major, Op. 20 Rachmaninoff Humoresque, Op. 10, No. 5 Chopin Twelve Etudes, Op. 10

Gal Costa march 24, 2011, 8:00 pm

Gal Costa Costa sings music of the Tropicalismo movement—which combines sensuous bossa nova with heavy rock—like no one else.

Maurizio Pollini march 27, 2011, 8:00 pm Maurizio Pollini, Piano

Bach The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I

Maurizio Pollini april 4, 2011, 8:00 pm Maurizio Pollini All-Beethoven Program

Sonata No. 30 in E Major, Op. 109 Sonata No. 31 in A-flat Major, Op. 110 Sonata No. 32 in C Minor, Op. 111

Midori april 5, 2011, 8:00 pm

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Carnegie Hall Haydn Piano Trio in A Major, Hob. Xv:9 Schubert Piano Trio in B-Flat Major, D. 898 Dvořak Piano Quartet in E-flat Major, Op. 87

Leif Ove Andsnes april 7, 2011, 8:00 pm Leif Ove Andsnes

Beethoven Sonata No. 21 in C Major, Op. 53, “Waldstein” Brahms Four Ballades, Op. 10 Schoenberg Six Little Piano Pieces, Op. 19 Beethoven Sonata No. 32 in C Minor, Op. 111

St. Petersburg Philharmonic April 13, 2011, 8:00 PM

Yuri Temirkanov, Artistic Director and Principal Conductor Nikolai Lugansky, Piano

Shostakovich Festive Overture Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2 Rimsky-Korsakov Scheherazade

James Taylor april 20, 2011, 8:00 pm

James Taylor: Roots This concert, in which James Taylor is joined by special guests, spotlights the variety of influences that have shaped Taylor’s music, from bluegrass and blues to Celtic music and church hymns.

Yuri Bashmet april 28, 2011, 8:00 pm Yuri Bashmet, Viola Evgeny Kissin, Piano Program to Include:

Schubert Sonata In A Minor, D. 821, “Arpeggione” Shostakovich Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 147

Music of Steve Reich april 17, 2011, 8:00 pm Bang on a Can All-Stars eighth blackbird Kronos Quartet

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Carnegie Hall So Percussion All Steve Reich Program Mallet Quartet (NY Premiere) 2 x 5 (NY Premiere) Double Sextet New Work, for live and pre-recorded string quartet (New York Premiere, co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall)

Carnegie Hall 120th Anniversary may 5, 2011, 8:00 pm 120th Anniversary Concert New York Philharmonic Alan Gilbert, Music Director Emanuel Ax, Piano Gil Shaham, Violin Yo-Yo Ma, Cello Audra McDonald, Vocalist

Dvorak Carnival Overture Beethoven Triple Concerto in C Major, Op. 56 Ellington Songs Gershwin An American in Paris

James Taylor may 9, 2011, 8:00 pm

Quintessential James Taylor and his Band James Taylor and his legendary band perform their greatest hits at Carnegie Hall.

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Carnegie Hall 881 Seventh Avenue New York, New York 10019 www.carnegiehall.org

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Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum

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Founded in 1897, Cooper-Hewitt, The Jewelry of National Design Museum, Smithsonian Van Cleef & Arpels Institution is the only museum in the nation devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design.

The museum has been part of the Smithsonian since 1967.

Ted Muehling Selects: Lobmeyr Glass from the Permanent Collection through january 2, 2011 New York-based designer Ted Muehling will serve as the tenth guest curator of the “Selects” exhibition series in the Nancy and Edwin Marks Gallery, devoted to showing the museum’s permanent collection. Muehling will curate an exhibition of works drawn from the museum’s recent acquisition of 160 rare examples of glass from J. & L. Lobmeyr of Vienna, Austria. The collection dates from 1835 to the present day, spanning virtually the entire history of the firm since its founding.

National Design Triennial: Why Design Now? through january 9, 2011 Inaugurated in 2000, the Triennial program seeks out and presents the most innovative designs at the center of contemporary culture. In this fourth exhibition in the series, the National Design Triennial will explore the work of designers, addressing 22 guide for the arts 2010-2011

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Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum human and environmental problems across many fields of the design practice, from architecture and products to fashion, graphics, new media, and landscapes. Cooper-Hewitt curators Ellen Lupton, Cara McCarty, Matilda McQuaid, and Cynthia Smith will present the experimental projects and emerging ideas for the period between 2006 and 2009.

Set in Style: The Jewelry of Van Cleef & Arpels february 18—june 5, 2011

Since its opening on the Place Vendôme in Paris in 1906, Van Cleef & Arpels has played a leading role in style and design innovation. This exhibition will explore the historical significance of the firm’s contributions to jewelry design in the 20th century. On view will be more than 250 works including jewels, timepieces, fashion accessories and objets d’art by Van Cleef & Arpels. The exhibition will examine the work through the lenses of innovation, transformation, nature as inspiration, exoticism, fashion and celebrity.

Color Moves: Art and Fashion by Sonia Delaunay march 18—june 5, 2011 Known primarily as an abstract painter and colorist, Sonia Delaunay applied her talents and theories to all areas of visual expression, including graphics, interiors, theater and film, fashion and textiles. A trademark of Delaunay’s work is the sense of movement and rhythm created by the simultaneous contrasts of certain colors. This exhibition will focus on fashion designs from her own Atelier Simultané in Paris during the 1920s, as well as textiles designed for the Metz & Co. department store in Amsterdam in the 1930s. On view will be examples of designs, textiles, garments and photographs from the Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Musée de la Mode de la Ville de Paris, the Musée de l’Impression sur Etoffes in Mulhouse, the Bibliotheque Nationale de France and private collections around Europe and the United States.

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The Frick Collection

Left: The King at War

The Frick Collection is one of Velázquez’s Portrait of Philip IV. New York City’s most beloved Above: Goya’s Peasant cultural treasures. Remarkable Carrying Woman. paintings, sculptures, and decorative art objects are presented in the family’s former Fifth Avenue mansion, and the special ambience provided by this setting— that of an art connoisseur’s home—has been preserved. A visit to The Frick Collection evokes the splendor and tranquility of a time gone by with masterpieces of Western painting, sculpture, and decorative art displayed in a serene and intimate setting.

2010–2011 Exhibitions The Spanish Manner: Drawings from Ribera to Goya october 5, 2010—january 9, 2011 The greatest Spanish draftsmen from the seventeenth through the nineteenth century—Ribera, Murillo, and Goya, among them—created works of dazzling idiosyncrasy. These diverse drawings, which may be broadly characterized as possessing a specifically “Spanish manner,” will be the subject of an exclusive exhibition at The Frick Collection in the fall of 2010. The presentation will feature more than 50 of the finest Spanish drawings from public and private collections in the Northeast, among them The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Hispanic Society 24 guide for the arts 2010-2011

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The Frick Collection of America, The Morgan Library & Museum, the Princeton University Art Museum, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

The King at War: Velázquez’s Portrait of Philip IV october 26, 2010–january 23, 2011 Painted at the height of Velázquez’s career, the Frick’s King Philip IV of Spain (1644) is one of the artist’s consummate achievements. Contemporary chronicles as well as bills and invoices in Spanish archives indicate that it was painted in a makeshift studio only a few miles from the frontlines of a battle, and that it was completed in just three sittings. The work, which shows its subject dressed in military costume, an atypical depiction, was sent to Madrid where it was used during a victory celebration.

Displayed in a church under a rich canopy embroidered in gold, the painting embodied the contemporary idea of monarchy as the divinely sanctioned form of government.

Contact

The Frick Collection 1 East 70th Street New York, NY 10021 www.frick.org

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Adolf Ziegler, The Four Elements:

Founded in 1937, the Solomon Fire, Water and Earth, Air, R. Guggenheim Foundation before 1937. is dedicated to promoting the Oil on canvas, three panels understanding and appreciation of art, primarily of the modern and contemporary periods, through exhibitions, education programs, research initiatives, and publications.

Exhibits Broken Forms: European Modernism from the Guggenheim Collection july 9, 2010 – january 5, 2011

Drawn from the museum’s holdings of early modern art, Broken Forms: European Modernism from the Guggenheim Collection explores artistic developments immediately preceding and during World War I. From Germany and France to Italy and Russia, artists such as Giacomo Balla, Marc Chagall, Vasily Kandinsky, Franz Marc, Kazimir Malevich, Piet Mondrian, and Pablo Picasso pioneered revolutionary approaches to art making.

Vox Populi: Posters of the Interwar Years september 1, 2010 – january 9, 2011

The 1920s and 1930s were among the greatest years in the history of poster design. Vox Populi, or the “voice of the people,” posters were used by manufacturers, political movements, and the entertainment industry as immensely refined art created for a vast public. The exhibition, on view in the Sackler Center for 26 guide for the arts 2010-2011

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Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy, and Germany, 1918–1936 october 1, 2010–january 9, 2011 Rotunda and Annex Levels 5 and 7

Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy, and Germany, 1918–1936 is the first exhibition in the United States to explore the classicizing aesthetic that followed the immense destruction of World War I. It will examine the interwar period in its key artistic manifestations: the poetic dream of antiquity in the Parisian avant-garde of Fernand Léger and Pablo Picasso; the politicized revival of the Roman Empire under Benito Mussolini by artists such as Giorgio de Chirico and Mario Sironi; and the functionalist utopianism at the Bauhaus as well as the chilling aesthetics of nascent Nazi society. This presentation of the vast transformation in French, Italian, and German contemporary culture will encompass painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, film, fashion, and the Antonio Donghi, Circus decorative arts.

(Circo equestre), 1927 The exhibition is curated by Oil on canvas Kenneth E. Silver, guest curator and Professor of Modern Art, New York University, with Helen Hsu, Curatorial Assistant, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; Vivien Greene, Curator of 19th- and Early20th-Century Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; and Karole Vail, Assistant Curator, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Supported in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and The David Berg Foundation.

Intervals: Ryan Gander october 1, 2010–january 9, 2011 From the utopian ambitions of the modernist movement to the overlooked details of daily experience, Ryan Gander’s 28 guide for the arts 2010-2011

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Guggenheim Museum work ranges across a dizzying spectrum of forms and ideas.

His meticulously researched projects—which have included such diverse conceptual gestures as an invented word, a chess set, a television script, and a children’s book—engage familiar historical narratives and cultural paradigms only to unravel their structures and assumptions, presenting elusive scenarios that abound with interpretive potential.

The Great Upheaval: Modern Art from the Guggenheim Collection, 1910–1918 February 4 – June 1, 2011 The years 1910 to 1914 mark a period of profound innovation in modern art. Cubism, with its fractured and faceted subject, achieved full recognition in Paris by 1912, with not one but three major exhibitions that year. The movement also sparked new artistic directions in France, Italy, the Netherlands, and Russia, while in Germany and Austria the more expressionistic manifestations of art were at an equally radical stage. Vasily Kandinsky wrote his influential treatise Über das Geistige in der Kunst (On the Spiritual in Art) in late 1911 (published 1912), and abstraction took hold. The work of Umberto Boccioni, Braque, Robert Delaunay, Marcel Duchamp, Albert Gleizes, Kandinsky, Fernand Léger, Kazimir Malevich, Franz Marc, Piet Mondrian, and Picasso, among other artists, provides ample evidence of the richness and complexity of production in the major art centers. The exhibition features the Guggenheim Foundation’s holdings from this pivotal period through the end of World War I, attesting that this time was not marked by imitation but rather collaboration, interchange, synthesis, and, above all, radical invention at every turn. This exhibition is curated by Tracey Bashkoff, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions, and Megan Fontanella, Assistant Curator of Collections and Provenance.

The Hugo Boss Prize 2010 may–august, 2011 Established in 1996, the biennial Hugo Boss Prize, administered by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, is awarded to an artist whose work represents a significant development in contemporary art. Selected by an international jury of curators, the Hugo Boss Prize 2010 short list includes Cao Fei, Hans30 guide for the arts 2010-2011

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Guggenheim Museum Peter Feldmann, Natascha Sadr Haghighian, Roman Ondák, Walid Raad, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. The winner of the eighth prize will be announced in fall 2010, and an exhibition of the artist’s work will be presented at the Guggenheim in summer 2011. Previous recipients of the prize are Matthew Barney (1996), Douglas Gordon (1998), Marjetica Potrc (2000), Pierre Huyghe (2002), Rirkrit Tiravanija (2004), Tacita Dean (2006), and Emily Jacir (2008). Curated by Katherine Brinson, Assistant Curator.

Lee Ufan june 24–september 28, 2011 Rotunda

The Guggenheim Museum is organizing the first North American museum exhibition devoted to the internationally acclaimed artist and writer Lee Ufan. Born in Korea in 1936, Lee emigrated to Japan in 1961 where, first as a critic and later as a practitioner, he emerged as the key ideologue of the late 1960s movement known as Mono-ha (School of Things). The Mono-ha artists did not intend, like the Minimalists, to present the literalness of material as absolute, but sought to question the modes in which things (matter) exist in relation to situation, location, and causality. The exhibition will chart Lee’s creation of a distinctive postMinimalist art that centers on the viewer’s phenomenological and contemplative encounter with objects in a distilled environment. Featuring paintings, sculptural installations, and works on paper spanning the 1960s to the present, the exhibition will illuminate Lee’s significant formal and conceptual innovations that draw critically on East Asian and modern European aesthetics and philosophy. The catalogue will feature an anthology of the artist’s influential writings on art, phenomenology, and cultural identity. Lee lives and works in Kamakura, Japan, and Paris. This exhibition is curated by Alexandra Munroe, Senior Curator of Asian Art, and Nancy Lim, Asian Art Curatorial Fellow.

Maurizio Cattelan: A Retrospective october 2011–january 2012 Rotunda

This retrospective survey will provide an overview of Maurizio Cattelan’s nearly twenty-year-long, but still young and productive, career. Hailed simultaneously as a provocateur, prankster, www.guideforthearts.com

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Guggenheim Museum and tragic poet of our time, Cattelan has created some of the most unforgettable images in recent contemporary art. His source materials range widely from popular culture, history, and organized religion to a meditation on the self that is at once humorous and profound. While bold and irreverent, the work is also deadly serious in its scathing project of cultural critique.

This presentation marks the first time that the entirety of Cattelan’s oeuvre will be assembled into a coherent exhibition narrative, with works ranging in date from the late 1980s to the present. Cattelan has a history of responding to the various contexts in which his art is encountered, and his survey exhibition at the Guggenheim will provide a platform for the artist to create an unorthodox and dramatic site-specific installation for the Frank Lloyd Wright rotunda, which will include new work created on the occasion of the show. Curated by Nancy Spector, Deputy Director and Chief Curator; and Katherine Brinson,

Kandinsky at the Bauhaus, 1922–1933 ongoing Geometric shapes came to play a dominant role in Kandinsky’s pictorial vocabulary at the Bauhaus; the artist, who was interested in uncovering a universal aesthetic language, increased his use of overlapping, flat planes and clearly delineated forms.

Drawn from the museum’s permanent collection, this intimate presentation features paintings and works on paper from a prolific period of Kandinsky’s career.

Thannhauser Collection ongoing The Thannhausers’ commitment to promoting artistic progress paralleled the vision of Solomon R. Guggenheim (1861–1949). In appreciation of this shared spirit, and in the memory of his first wife and two sons—who might have continued in the family’s art trade had they not died at tragically young ages—Thannhauser gave a significant portion of his art collection, including over 30 works by Picasso, to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 1963.

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Guggenheim Museum run of Chaos and Classicism. For updated information regarding ticketed programs, contact the Box Office at 212 423 3587 or visit guggenheim.org/education.

On View at the Sackler Center for Arts Education Vox Populi: Posters of the Interwar Years september 1, 2010–january 9, 2011 The 1920s and 1930s were among the greatest years in the history of poster design. The popular voice of manufacturers, political movements, and the travel and entertainment industries, the poster was an immensely refined art created for a vast public. Vox Populi: Posters of the Interwar Years presents a selection of six posters from France, Italy, and Germany.

Performance Coup de Foudre: Based on The Blood of a Poet by Jean Cocteau october 9, 2010, 8:00 pm october 10, 2010, 6:00 pm In conjunction with Chaos and Classicism, the Guggenheim Museum is pleased to premiere Coup de Foudre, a contemporary art and performance project based on a reinterpretation of Jean Cocteau’s classic film The Blood of a Poet, which examines the role of language in relation to cinema and dance. Coup de Foudre explores the ambiguous relationship between modern compositional strategies, based on sampling and digital Jean Cocteau, The Blood of a Poet media, and an art experience (Le sang d’un poète), 1930 35mm black-and-white film, with tied to cinematic history and sound, 50 min. contemporary times.

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Guggenheim Museum Lectures Lateness and the Politics of Media october 12, 2010, 6:30 pm

Peter Eisenman/Principal, Eisenman Architects Charles Gwathmey Professor in Practice, Yale School of Architecture The celebrated architect, theorist, and author of Giuseppe Terragni: Transformations, Decompositions, Critiques posits that we are in a late moment in history in which design is controlled by the media to promote consumption. Where does that leave architecture, which, he argues, is the antithesis of design?

Lecture by Penelope Curtis november 10, 2010, 6:30 pm

Penelope Curtis/Director, Tate Britain Penelope Curtis, a noted scholar of modern sculpture from Fascist Italy and the Third Reich, shares new thoughts in the context of Chaos and Classicism.

Constructing Classicism in Fashion december 7, 2010, 6:30 pm

Patricia Mears/Deputy Director,The Museum at FIT Between the world wars, women such as Madeleine Vionnet dominated fashion design in Paris and New York. Charting the embrace of classicism, Patricia Mears, a renowned costume historian and style expert, discusses clothing innovations that defined fashion in the 1930s, changed the course of modern dress, and continue to influence couture today.

Guided Tours Curator’s Eye Tours

The exhibition’s curators lead tours of Chaos and Classicism.

Free with museum admission.

november 12, 2010, 2:00 pm Helen Hsu

december 3, 2010, 2:00 pm Kenneth E. Silver

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Guggenheim Museum Mind’s Eye

As part of the museum’s free programs for partially sighted, blind, and deaf visitors, Guggenheim museum educators, led by Georgia Krantz, guide an interactive tour and discussion focusing on Chaos and Classicism, broken down into two parts and followed by a private reception. Free admission with advance RSVP required.

part i: october 11, 2010, 6:30 pm part ii: november 8, 2010, 6:30 pm Fall Family Day november 14, 2010, 2:00 pm—5:00 pm

The public is invited to celebrate the museum’s architecture and fall exhibitions, including Chaos and Classicism. Activities include a scavenger hunt, artmaking projects, performances, and storytelling. Recommended for families with children ages 4–10.

Chaos and Classicism: A Workshop for Educators october 16, 2010, 10:00 am–1:00 pm In the interwar period, many artists turned to classicism as a means of expression. Through encounters with painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, film, and fashion, this workshop traces the progression of classicism from optimistic to ominous during these years.

Online Forum

This fall in the Guggenheim Forum, a new, diverse group of panelists will address art and politics in a program that accompanies the Chaos and Classicism exhibition. Visit guggenheim.org/forum for complete information and to join the conversation.

Contact

The Guggenheim 1071 5th Avenue New York, NY 10128 www.guggenheim.org

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Lincoln Center

White Light Festival

The White Light Festival is our new annual fall festival focused on music’s transcendent capacity to illuminate our larger interior universe. In this inaugural season, we explore the spiritual dimension of music as manifested in different cultural and musical traditions, from masterpieces of the Western classical canon to Muslim and Hindu musical linkages in northern India and the mystical minimalism of the Baltic region.

The Forty-Part Motet (2001) The Agnes Varis and Karl Leichtman Rehearsal and Recording Studio

october 28–november 13, 2010, 12:00 noon—8:00 pm* To open the first White Light Festival, Lincoln Center exhibits this free Janet Cardiff installation that is simultaneously visual art, music, and a spatial meditation. Taking as her inspiration the landmark polyphonic motet Spem in Alium by 16th-century British composer Thomas Tallis, she fuses sound with her own surprising, refined sense of space. Cardiff finds physicality in the structure of the music itself, separating each of the work’s 40 voices onto its own loudspeaker, arranging the speakers in a wide, sweeping oval. Visitors are encouraged to walk among them, hearing the competing melodies of individual voices from the perspective of the singers themselves, then 36 guide for the arts 2010-2011

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Lincoln Center becoming immersed in waves of sound as all 40 voices begin to sing together. *November 2, 3, 4, 12:00 noon–9:00 pm

The Soul’s Messenger David Rubenstein Atrium

october 28, 2010, 8:30 pm Meredith Monk and Vocal Ensemble Meredith Monk, voice Katie Geissinger, voice Bohdan Hilash, woodwinds Allison Sniffin, voice and piano

Conversations: Silence Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse

october 30, 2010, 2:00 pm–3:30 pm John Schaefer, moderator Karen Armstrong Jamshed Bharucha So Percussion

Antony and the Johnsons

Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater

october 30, 2010, 7:30 pm

With the Orchestra of St. Luke’s Rob Moose, conductor Featuring director Chiaki Nagano’s film Mr. O’s Book of the Dead, starring Kazuo Ohno

Conversations: Sound

Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse

october 31, 2010, 1:00 pm –2:30 pm John Schaefer, moderator John Luther Adams Karen Armstrong Pedja Muzijevic Christopher Shera

Dresden Staatskapelle Avery Fisher Hall

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Joe Miller, director Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45 Daniel Harding, conductor Christiane Karg, soprano Matthias Goerne, baritone Westminster Choir

Sutra (U.S. Premiere) Rose Theater

november 2–4, 2010, 7:30 pm A Sadler’s Wells London Production, co-produced with Athens Festival, Festival de Barcelona Grec, Grand Théâtre de Luxembourg, La Monnaie Brussels, Festival d’Avignon, Fondazione Musica per Roma, and Shaolin Cultural Communications Company.

Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, director and choreographer Antony Gormley, visual design Szymon Brzóska, music With monks from the Shaolin Temple Pre-concert lecture, November 2, Karen Armstrong, 6:15 PM, Theatre at the Museum of Arts and Design Post-concert discussion, November 3, Shi Yanhao, Shi Yanjie, Szymon Brzóska, and Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, Rose Theater

Collegium Vocale Gent Choir Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater

november 2, 2010, 7:30 pm Collegium Vocale Gent Choir Accademia Chigiana Siena (New York debut) I Solisti del Vento (New York debut) Philippe Herreweghe, conductor

Brahms: Warum ist das Licht gegeben, Op. 74, No. 1 Schubert (arr. Verhaert): Andante, from String Quartet in D minor (“Death and the Maiden”), D.810 Cornelius: Requiem “Seele, vergiss sie nicht” Brahms: Begräbnisgesang, Op. 13 Bruckner: Mass in E minor Pre-concert lecture, 6:15 PM, Rose Studio, Ryan Minor 40 guide for the arts 2010-2011

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Lincoln Center Judith (New York Premiere)

A biblical story from Renaissance Croatia Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse

november 3, 2010, 7:30 pm november 5, 2010, 7:30 pm november 6, 2010, 7:30 pm

Ensemble Dialogos Katarina Livljani, director and voice Albrecht Maurer, fiddle and lirica Norbert Rodenkirchen, flutes Sanda Herzic, staging, scenography, and costume design Marie Bellot, lighting design and director (70 minutes without intermission) Post-concert discussion, November 3, Katarina Livljani and John Schaefer, Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse Post-concert discussion, November 5, Katarina Livljani and John Schaefer, Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse

Tallis Scholars

Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater

november 7, 2010, 5:00 pm Peter Phillips, director

Palestrina: Magnificat for double choir Arvo P채rt: Sieben Magnificat Antiphons Tallis: Miserere nostri Allegri: Miserere Praetorius: Magnificat II Byrd: Miserere mei Byrd: Miserere mihi, Domine Arvo P채rt: Nunc dimittis Arvo P채rt: Magnificat Pre-concert discussion, 3:45 PM, Peter Phillips and John Schaefer, Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse

Kremerata Baltica

Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater

november 11, 2010, 7:30 pm

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Auerbach: Sogno di Stabat Mater (New York premiere) Kancheli: Silent Prayer (New York premiere) Beethoven (arr. Kremerata Baltica): String Quartet in C-sharp minor, Op. 131

The Messenger

Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse

november 11, 2010, 10:30 pm Alexei Lubimov, piano

Bach, C.P.E.: Fantasia in F-sharp minor, Wq.67 (“C.P.E. Bach’s Feelings”) Tigran Mansurian: Nostalgia Cage: In a Landscape Liszt: La lugubre gondola second version Chopin: Prelude in C-sharp minor, Op. 45 Georgs Pelecis: Suite No. 3 two movements Ustvolskaya: Sonata No. 6 Arvo Pärt: Für Alina Valentin Silvestrov: The Messenger

Impromptus

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november 13, 2010, 10:30 pm Alexei Lubimov, piano

Complete Schubert Impromptus, D.899 and D.935

Officium Novum (New York Premiere Works)

Church of St. Ignatius Loyola

november 12, 2010, 7:30 pm The Hilliard Ensemble Jan Garbarek, saxophone (equal billing) Total running time: approximately 1 hour and 15 minutes, no intermission Pre-concert discussion, 6:15 PM, members of the Hilliard Ensemble, Wallace Hall www.guideforthearts.com

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Lincoln Center Latvian National Choir (U.S. debut) Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse

november 12, 2010, 10:30 pm Tõnu Kaljuste, conductor

Martin: Mass for double chorus Arvo Pärt: Dopo la vittoria Veljo Tormis: Curse upon Iron

Latvian National Choir (U.S. debut) Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater

november 13, 2010, 7:30 pm Tõnu Kaljuste, conductor Orchestra of St. Luke’s

Bach: Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV 225 Arvo Pärt: Stabat mater (U.S. premiere) Bach: Komm, Jesu, Komm!, BWV 229 Arvo Pärt: Adam’s Lament (U.S. premiere)

Credo

Church of St. Paul the Apostle

november 15, 2010, 7:30 pm The Hilliard Ensemble Latvian National Choir Members of Sigur Rós Wordless Music Orchestra Jeffrey Milarsky, conductor

Jónsi Birgisson and Alex Somers (arr. David Handler): Selections from Riceboy Sleeps Busnoys: In hydraulic Works by Kjartan Sveinsson and Jónsi Birgisson to be announced Co-presented by Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and Wordless Music

The Organ Master: J. S. Bach Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater

november 16, 2010, 7:30 pm Paul Jacobs, organ

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Lincoln Center The Clarion Choir Steven Fox, conductor

Bach: Clavier-Ăœbung III Pre-concert discussion, 6:15 PM, Paul Jacobs and Ara Guzelimian, Alice Tully Hall

The Manganiyar Seduction (U.S.premiere) Rose Theater

november 17–18, 2010, 7:30 pm Roysten Abel, concept and direction (U.S. debut) Daevo Khan, conductor With Manganiyar musicians Post-concert discussion, November 17, Roysten Abel and John Schaefer, Rose Theater

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Manhattan Theatre Club

MTC is committed to bringing theatre to the widest possible audience. Initiatives which enable MTC’s work to reach an evergrowing range of theatregoers include moving successful plays originally produced at MTC’s New York City Center home to larger Broadway or Off-Broadway venues for an extended run; originating certain productions in larger venues; collaborating with leading regional theatres to bring major new American plays to New York; and bringing student and family audiences to our theatres through the ambitious Education program.

The Pitmen Painters (American Premiere)

By Lee Hall Inspired by a book by William Feaver Directed by Max Roberts With Christopher Connel, Michael Hodgson,Ian Kelly, Brian Lonsdale, Lisa McGrillis, Deka Walmsley, David Whitaker, and Phillippa Wilson

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Manhattan Theatre Club who discover a new way to express themselves and unexpectedly become art-world sensations! An arresting and witty salute to the power of individual expression and the collective spirit, The Pitmen Painters takes you on an unforgettable journey from the depths of the mine to the heights of fame.

Good People (World Premiere)

By David Lindsay-Abaire Directed by Daniel Sullivan WithTate Donovan and Frances McDormand

previews begin february 8, 2011 subscriber/patron run through april 10, 2011 Together, playwright David Lindsay-Abaire and MTC have brought four outstanding new plays to the New York stage.

Their most recent collaboration, Rabbit Hole, earned LindsayAbaire the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Now, he returns to MTC, along with Rabbit Hole director and Tony Award® winner Daniel Sullivan, to premiere his newest work, the timely and powerful Good People.

Welcome to Southie, a Boston neighborhood where a night on the town means a few rounds of bingo … where this month’s paycheck covers last month’s bills … and where Margie Walsh has just been let go from yet another job. Facing eviction and scrambling to catch a break, Margie thinks an old fling who’s made it out of Southie might be her ticket to a fresh new start.

But is this apparently self-made man secure enough to face his humble beginnings? Margie is about to risk what little she has left to find out.

With his signature humorous glow, Lindsay-Abaire explores the struggles, shifting loyalties, and unshakeable hopes that come with having next to nothing in America.

Spirit Control (World Premiere)

By Beau Willimon Directed by Henry Wishcamper With Mia Barron, Charles Borland, Aaron Michael Davies, Brian Hutchison, Maggie Lacey, and Jeremy Sisto

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Manhattan Theatre Club the provocative drama Farragut North, which is currently being developed into a Warner Brothers film. Now, he brings his latest work, Spirit Control, to MTC. Adam Wyatt has the perfect family and a perfect record as an air traffic controller. But when the pilot of a small plane suffers a heart attack, Adam must talk a terrified passenger through an emergency landing. What happens next will link him inextricably to a woman he’s never met, and set the life he once knew irrevocably adrift. Spirit Control is a chilling and mesmerizing look at how we navigate a crisis, and the demons that haunt us long after.

The Whipping Man (New York Premiere)

By Matthew Lopez Directed by Doug Hughes

previews begin january 13, 2011 subscriber/patron run through march 13, 2011 April, 1865: The Civil War has ended. Caleb DeLeon, a Jewish Confederate soldier, returns wounded from the battlefield to find his family home in ruins, abandoned by everyone except Simon and John—two former slaves who were raised as Jews in the DeLeon home. As the three men reunite to celebrate Passover, and recall the exodus from Egypt in light of their own new liberties, they uncover a tangle of secrets … ties that bind them together and that, ultimately, might cost each man his freedom.

The New York debut of Matthew Lopez’s acclaimed historical drama is a tale of loyalty, deceit, and deliverance, and a fascinating portrayal of three men, and this country, at a crossroads.

Carl’s Sister (World Premiere)

By Alfred Uhry Based on the book, Apples and Oranges by Marie Brenner Directed by Lynne Meadow

previews begin may 10, 2011 subscriber/patron run through june 19, 2011 Marie Brenner’s extraordinary memoir about her strained, heartwarming, and funny relationship with her brother is adapted for the stage by Pulitzer, Tony, and Academy Award winning author Alfred Uhry. A medical crisis brings Marie, a classic New York liberal and investigative journalist for Vanity Fair, and 48 guide for the arts 2010-2011

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This touching memoir tells the story of their attempts to heal and understand one another.

Alfred Uhry’s distinguished body of work includes the Pulitzer Prize and Academy Award winning Driving Miss Daisy, the Tony Award winning The Last Night of Ballyhoo, and Parade, as well as the book for MTC’s LoveMusik.

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Founded in 1870, The Metropolitan Mu(American, 1905–1964) seum of Art is one of the world’s largest Archtop Guitar, “Tearand finest art museums. Its collections drop” New Yorker include more than two million works of model (serial number art spanning five thousand years of world 2032), 1957 culture, from prehistory to the present Photo ©Archtop and from every part of the globe.

History, Inc. The Museum’s two-million-squarefoot building has vast holdings that represent a series of collections, each of which ranks in its category among the finest in the world. The American Wing, for example, houses the world’s most comprehensive collection of American paintings, sculpture, and decorative arts, presently including 24 period rooms that offer an unparalleled view of American history and domestic life. The Museum’s approximately 2,500 European paintings form one of the greatest such collections in the world—Rembrandts and Vermeers alone are among the choicest, not to mention the collection of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist canvases. Virtually all of the 36,000 objects constituting the greatest collection of Egyptian art outside Cairo are on display, while the Islamic art collection is one of the world’s finest.

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art decorative arts, medieval and Renaissance art, musical instruments, drawings, prints, antiquities from around the ancient world, photography, and modern and contemporary art. More than a million objects are on view from every corner of the world.

The Museum offers a variety of events and programs for all audiences, which are scheduled daily in the Museum’s galleries and classrooms, including exhibition-related gallery talks, workshops, tours, films, free lectures, as well as classes for families, teens, adults, and teachers, and more. Many programs are designed to accompany temporary special exhibitions.

The World of Khubilai Khan: Chinese Art in the Yuan Dynasty september 28, 2010 – january 2, 2011 This exhibition covers the period from 1215, the year of Khubilai’s birth, to 1368, the year of the fall of the Yuan dynasty in China, and features every art form, including paintings, sculpture, gold and silver, textiles, ceramics, lacquer, and other decorative arts, religious and secular. Highlighting art forms and styles generated in China as a result of the unification of China under the Yuan dynasty and the massive influx of craftsmen from all over the vast Mongol empire, the exhibition reveals reverberations in Italian art of the 14th century.

The Roman Mosaic from Lod, Israel september 28, 2010 – april 3, 2011 First discovered in 1996 during construction on the JerusalemTel Aviv highway in Lod (formerly Lydda), Israel, this large and impressive mosaic floor has only recently been uncovered and was displayed briefly in situ to the public in Israel during the summer of 2009. Believed to belong to a large house owned by a wealthy Roman in about A.D. 300, the mosaic comprises a large square panel with a central medallion depicting various exotic animals and two rectangular end panels, one of which represents a marine scene of two merchant ships amid a sea of marine creatures. The floor, which adorned a richly appointed audience room, is extremely well preserved and highly colorful. Removed from the ground, it is being exhibited for the first time outside Israel at the Metropolitan Museum.

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Miró: The Dutch Interiors october 5, 2010 – january 17, 2011 A series of three early 20th-century avant-garde paintings by Barcelona-born Joan Miró (1893-1983) are juxtaposed with the two paintings from the Dutch Golden Age that inspired them, providing rare insight into the artist’s creative process. Preparatory studies and a fourth related canvas complete the exhibition.

Man, Myth, and Sensual Pleasures: Jan Gossart’s Renaissance october 6, 2010 – january 17, 2011 The first major exhibition in 45 years devoted to the Burgundian Netherlandish artist Jan Gossart (ca. 1478-1532) brings together Gossart’s paintings, drawings, and prints, and place them in the context of the art and artists that influenced his transformation from Late Gothic Mannerism to the new Renaissance mode.

Gossart was among the first northern artists to travel to Rome to make copies after antique sculpture and introduce historical and mythological subjects with erotic nude figures into the mainstream of northern painting. Most often credited with successfully assimilating Italian Renaissance style into northern European art of the early 16th century, he is the pivotal Old Master who changed the course of Flemish art from the Medieval craft tradition of its founder, Jan van Eyck, and charted new territory that eventually led to the great age of Rubens.

Rugs and Ritual in Tibetan Buddhism october 7, 2010 – march 27, 2011 Thirty works dedicated to the enactment of Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhism, focusing on Tibetan tantric rugs as the seats of power employed by practitioners of esoteric Buddhism, will form this installation. These rugs typically depict the flayed skin of an animal or human and, together with associated ritual utensils, are the tools employed in the enactment of esoteric rites associated with protective deities. The employment of these images and ritual tools celebrate the power of detachment from the corporal body that advanced Buddhist practitioners strive to attain. It will feature two large ritual tangkas, together with the rugs upon which the practitioner sits, or upon which his ritual utensils are 54 guide for the arts 2010-2011

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Italy Observed: Views and Souvenirs, 1706-1899 october 12, 2010 – january 2, 2011 This installation will assemble the rich holdings of Italian vedute collected by Robert Lehman. From paintings of Venetian life

by Luca Carlevaris to a Neapolitan album of gouache drawings documenting the eruption of Vesuvius in 1794 to sketches and watercolors of Italian antiquities by visitors on the Grand Tour, the exhibition will capture the artist’s romantic attraction to Italy and its irresistible Roman heritage. Joining the selection will be marketed souvenirs—teapots, spoons, fans, and pocket watches—on loan from the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts.

Katrin Sigurdardottir at the Met october 19, 2010 – march 6, 2011 Two new site-specific sculptural installations created by Katrin Sigurdardottir, an Icelandic artist (born 1967) who lives and works in New York City and Reykjavik, are the focus of this exhibition. Sigurdardottir is known for her highly detailed renditions of places, both real and fictional, that often incorporate an element of surprise. Entitled Boiseries, the installations are interpretations of 18th-century French rooms preserved at the Metropolitan, one from the Hôtel de Crillon (1777-1780) on the Place de la Concorde, Paris, and the other from the Hôtel de Cabris (ca. 1775) at Grasse in Provence.

The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs october 19, 2010 – january 23, 2011 This is a small, scholarly focused exhibition of about 50 pieces of the distinctive “artistic furniture” and related objects produced by the workshop of Charles Rohlfs (1853-1936) in Buffalo, New York. His unusually inventive forms and imaginative carving combined many influences, from the abstract naturalism of Art Nouveau to the bold forms of the Arts and Crafts movement. The exhibition explores Rohlfs’s work in the context of new research that reveals his success in Europe www.guideforthearts.com

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art as well as in America, and traces his influence on other 20thcentury furniture designers.

John Baldessari: Pure Beauty october 20, 2010 – january 9, 2011 This is the first major U.S. exhibition in 20 years to survey the work of legendary American artist John Baldessari, widely renowned as a pioneer of conceptual art. Baldessari (b. 1931, National City, California) turned from an early career in painting toward photographic images that he combined with text, challenging historically accepted rules of how to make art. In his groundbreaking work of the late 1960s, he transferred snapshots of banal Southern Californian locales onto photo-sensitized canvases and hired a sign painter to label them with their locations or excerpts from how-to books on photography. Throughout the whole of his career, Baldessari’s sharp insights into the conventions of art production, the nature of perception, and the relationship of language to mass-media imagery are tempered by a keen sense of humor. The exhibition brings together a full range of the artist’s innovative work over five decades, from his early paintings and phototext works, his combined photographs, and the irregularly shaped and over-painted works of the 1990s to his most recent production. A selection of his videos and artist’s books will also be included.

Our Future is in the Air: Photographs from the 1910s november 9, 2010 – april 10, 2011 The 1910s—a period remembered for “The Great War,” technological innovation, social ferment, the influenza epidemic, and the birth of Hollywood—was a dynamic and tumultuous decade that ushered in the modern era. The new age of the automobile, the airplane, and the industrial factory—as it was captured by the quintessentially modern art of photography—is the subject of this eclectic centennial exhibition devoted to photography of the 1910s. Drawn exclusively from the Museum’s collection, “Our Future Is In The Air” will feature forty-four photographs by some twenty-five artists, including Eugène Atget, E. J. Bellocq, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Eugène Druet, Lewis Hine, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Adolph de Meyer, Christian Schad, 56 guide for the arts 2010-2011

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The exhibition will complement the concurrent presentation of groundbreaking photographs by Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, and Paul Strand, in Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand.

Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand november 10, 2010-april 10, 2011 This exhibition features three giants of photography—Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946), Edward Steichen (1879-1973), and Paul Strand (1890-1976)—whose works are some of the Metropolitan’s greatest photographic treasures. The diverse and groundbreaking photography by these artists will be revealed through a presentation of more than 100 works drawn entirely from the collection. Alfred Stieglitz, a photographer of supreme accomplishment as well as a passionate advocate for photography and modern art through his gallery “291” and his sumptuous journal Camera Work, laid the foundation of the Met’s collection. He donated 22 of his own works in 1928—the first photographs to enter the Museum’s collection as works of art—and more than 600 by other photographers, including Steichen and Strand, in later decades. Featured in the exhibition are portraits, city views, cloud studies by Stieglitz, as well as numerous images from his composite portrait of Georgia O’Keeffe, part of a group selected for the collection by O’Keeffe herself. Stieglitz’s protégé and gallery collaborator, Edward Steichen, was the most talented exemplar of the Photo-Secession, with works such as his three large variant prints of The Flatiron and his moonlit photographs of Rodin’s Balzac purposely rivaling the scale, color, and individuality of painting. By contrast, the final double issue of Camera Work (1917) was devoted to the young Paul Strand, whose photographs from 1915-1917 treated three principal themes— movement in the city, abstractions, and street portraits—and pioneered a shift from the soft-focus and painterly aesthetic of Pictorialism to the straight approach and graphic power of an emerging modernism.

Haremhab, The General Who Became King november 16, 2010 – july 4, 2011 The exhibition examines the Metropolitan’s well-known statue of Haremhab as a scribe, focusing on the historical and art-hiswww.guideforthearts.com

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art torical significance of the statue and of its subject: a royal scribe, and general of the army under Tutankhamun, who eventually became king (18th Dynasty, ca.1323-1309 B.C.).

Annual Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèche november 23, 2010 – january 6, 2011 The Museum will continue a longstanding holiday tradition with the presentation of its Christmas tree, a favorite of New Yorkers and visitors from around the world. A vivid eighteenth-century Neapolitan Nativity scene—embellished with a profuse array of diminutive, lifelike attendant figures and silk-robed angels hovering above—will adorn the candlelit spruce. Recorded music and lighting ceremonies will add to the enjoyment of the holiday display.

Thinking Outside the Box: European Cabinets, Caskets, and Cases from the Permanent Collection (1500–1900) december 7, 2010 – summer 2011 This installation will feature a selection of some eighty examples of important boxes, caskets, and small chests from the Metropolitan Museum’s European Sculpture and Decorative Arts Department. For centuries, boxes, caskets, cabinets, and chests played an important role in everyday life. Ranging from strongboxes to travel cases and from containers for tea or tobacco to those for the storage of toiletries or silverware, these lidded pieces were made in a large variety of shapes and sizes, and of many different materials. The form and decoration of these objects not only reflect changes in social customs and manners but also follow the stylistic developments in Europe over four hundred years.

The Emperor’s Private Paradise: Treasures from the Forbidden City february 1, 2011–may 1, 2011 This loan exhibition organized by the Peabody Essex Museum presents some ninety paintings, decorative works, architectural elements, and religious works created for an elaborate two-acre 58 guide for the arts 2010-2011

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art private retreat built deep within the Forbidden City in 1771 as the retirement residence of one of China’s most extravagant monarchs—the Qianlong Emperor (r. 1736–95)—who presided over China’s last dynasty, the Qing, at the zenith of its power and wealth. The costliest materials, including rare woods, semiprecious stones, cloisonné, gilt bronze, porcelain, and lacquer were employed to ornament every surface of this world. In the end the emperor declined to retire here and the space remained a virtual time capsule relatively untouched since imperial times.

Guitar Heroes: Legendary Craftsmen from Italy to New York february 9, 2011–july 4, 2011 The exhibition will feature the guitars and other stringed instruments made by John D’Angelico, James D’Aquisto, and John Monteleone, three New York master luthiers of Italian descent.

Their instruments will be presented against the backdrop of the long tradition of Italian stringed instrument-making that has thrived for more than five hundred years. The exhibition will include approximately eighty musical instruments, including many masterpieces from the Museum’s permanent collection, as well as instruments on loan from museums, private collectors, and performers.

Cézanne’s Card Players february 9, 2011–may 8, 2011 This exhibition reunites for the first time the works from Cézanne’s series of card player canvases together with their associated oil studies and drawings. Also included will be a carefully selected group of Cézanne’s related paintings of peasants, several of which depict the same local models who appear in the card player compositions.

Rooms with a View: The Open Window in the 19th Century april 5, 2011 – july 4, 2011 This exhibition will focus on the romantic motif of the open window as first captured by German, Danish, French, and Russian artists around 1810–20. These works include hushed, sparse www.guideforthearts.com

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art rooms showing contemplative figures, studios with artists at work, and window views as sole motifs.

Modern Tradition: Korean Buncheong Ceramics from the Leeum Collection april 5, 2011 – august 31, 2011 This exhibition focusing on Buncheong ware, the bold and dynamic ceramic art that flourished in Korea during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, will feature approximately sixty works from the renowned collection of the Leeum Samsung Museum of Art in Seoul, Korea. Included in the exhibition will be select works by modern/contemporary potters, highlighting how this tradition, which had disappeared in Korea for four hundred years, has been revived and transformed by today’s artists. In addition, the exhibition will feature a handful of Edo-period Japanese ceramics from the Museum’s permanent collection, to illustrate Japanese revivals of the Buncheong idiom.

Richard Serra Drawing: A Retrospective april 13, 2011–august 28, 2011 This first retrospective of the drawings of American contemporary artist Richard Serra traces his investigation of drawing as an activity both independent from and linked to his sculptural practice. This major exhibition features some sixty works from the 1970s to the present, including many loans from European and American public and private collections. Serra’s drawings from the early 1970s began as a means of exploring formal and perceptual relationships between his sculpture and the viewer; with time they evolved into autonomous works of art and increased in scale. In the mid-1970s, Serra made the first of his monumentally scaled Installation Drawings, some of which hang from floor to ceiling. Over the last twenty-five years, working primarily on paper, Serra has continued to invent new drawing techniques and radically change the practice and definition of drawing. The exhibition will culminate with new large-scale works completed specifically for this presentation.

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art Pastel Portraits: Images of 18th-Century Europe may 17, 2011 – august 14, 2011 This exhibition will include about forty European pastel portraits from the permanent collection, and from other museums and private collections in New York, New Jersey, and New England. The nucleus is a group of French works (Maurice Quentin de La Tour will be shown in some strength), and the English, German, Italian, and Swiss schools will also be represented.

The Dawn of Aegean Archaeology: Gilliéron’s Bronze Age Greece may 17, 2011 – november 13, 2011 This exhibition features a selection of early twentieth-century reproductions of now-famous artworks from Sir Arthur Evans’s historic excavations of Minoan Crete and Heinrich Schliemann’s Mycenaean Greece. Emile Gilliéron and his son were the senior draftsmen responsible for reconstructing the fresco paintings in the palace at Knossos. The Gilliérons formed a thriving business selling original watercolors after the frescoes and other reproductions of three-dimensional artworks, which they made directly from the originals. Their work influenced the study of Aegean art and was integral to its widespread introduction throughout Europe and America. The installation draws from the Metropolitan Museum’s own collection of Gilliéron reproductions, which is the largest in existence.

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Metropolitan Opera

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Seven new productions, including two the title role in the company premieres and the first two parts new production of a new Ring cycle, featuring many of the of Mussorgsky’s world’s greatest singers and conductors, Boris Godunov. will highlight the Metropolitan Opera’s 2010-11 season. In his 40th anniversary season, Maestro Levine, who has conducted nearly 2,500 performances at the Met, more than any conductor in the company’s 126-year history, will conduct six operas across a range of repertory.

Metropolitan Opera Premieres Le Comte Ory

Composer Gioachino Rossini Libretto Eugène Scribe and Charles-Gaspard Delestre-Poirson

premiere march 24, 2011 march 24, 29, april 2, 5, 14, 18, 21, 2011 matinee april 9, 2011

Production underwritten by The Sybil B. Harrington Endowment Fund

Nixon In China

This production originally created by English National Opera Composer John Adams

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premiere february 2, 2011 february 2, 5, 9, 15, 19, 2011 matinee february 12, 2011 New Productions Boris Godunov

Composer Modest Mussorgsky Libretto Modest Mussorgsky

march 9, 17, 2011 matinee march 12, 2011

Production underwritten by Karen and Kevin Kennedy and Mr. and Mrs. Wilmer J. Thomas, Jr.

Don Carlo

A co-production of the Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, and the Norwegian National Opera & Ballet Composer Giuseppe Verdi Libretto Camille du Locle and Joseph MĂŠry

premiere november 22, 2010 november 22, 26, 29, december 3, 7, 15, 2010 matinee december 11, 18, 2010

Production underwritten by Mr. and Mrs. William R. Miller

Das Rheingold

In collaboration with Ex Machina Composer Richard Wagner Libretto Richard Wagner

march 30, 2011 matinee april 2, 2011

Production underwritten by a generous gift from Ann Ziff and the Ziff family, in memory of William Ziff

La Traviata

Original production of the Salzburger Festspiele; with thanks to De Nederlandse Opera Composer Giuseppe Verdi Libretto Francesco Maria Piave

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Metropolitan Opera matinee january 15, 2011

Production underwritten by Karen and Kevin Kennedy and Mr. and Mrs. Paul M. Montrone

Die WalkĂźre

In collaboration with Ex Machina Composer Richard Wagner Libretto Richard Wagner

premiere april 22, 2011 april 22, 25, 28, may 2, 5, 9, 2011 matinee may 14, 2011

Production underwritten by a generous gift from Ann Ziff and the Ziff family, in memory of William Ziff

Repertory Ariadne Auf Naxos

Composer Richard Strauss Libretto Hugo von Hofmannsthal

may 10, 13, 2011 matinee may 7, 2011 Armida

Composer Gioachino Rossini Libretto Giovanni Schmidt

Ariadne Auf Naxos

february 18, 23, 26, march 1, 2011 matinee march 5, 2011 La Bohème

Composer Giacomo Puccini Libretto Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica

december 1, 8, 11, 2010 january 31, february 3, 7, 10, 17, 22, 25, 2011 matinee december 4, 2010 Capriccio

Composer Richard Strauss Libretto Clemens Krauss and Richard Strauss

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Metropolitan Opera Carmen

Composer Georges Bizet Libretto Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy

november 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 30, december 4, 9, 2010 january 5, 8, 13, 2011 matinee november 27, 2010 Così Fan Tutte

Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Libretto Lorenzo da Ponte

november 9, 13, 17, 23, 27, december 2, 2010 matinee november 20, 2010 Don Pasquale

Composer Gaetano Donizetti Libretto Giovanni Ruffini

november 10, 18, 2010 february 4, 8, 11, 14, 2011 matinee november 13, 2010 matinee february 19, 2011 La Fanciulla Del West

Composer Giacomo Puccini Libretto Guelfo Civinni and Carlo Zangarini

december 6, 10, 14, 18, 22, 27, 30, 2010 january 3, 2011 matinee january 8, 2011 Iphigénie En Tauride

Composer Christoph Willibald Gluck Libretto Nicolas-François Guillard

february 12, 16, 21, march 2, 5, 2011 matinee february 26, 2011

A co-production of the Metropolitan Opera and Seattle Opera

Lucia Di Lammermoor

Composer Gaetano Donizetti Libretto Salvadore Cammarano

february 24, 28, march 4, 8, 12, 16, 2011 matinee march 19, 2011 www.guideforthearts.com

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Metropolitan Opera The Magic Flute

Composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Libretto Emanuel Schikaneder

december 24, 2010 january 1, 6, 2011 matinee december 21, 28, 29, 30, 2010 matinee january 3, 2011 Orfeo Ed Euridice

Composer Christoph Willibald Gluck Libretto Ranieri de’ Calzabigi

The Magic Flute

april 29, may 4, 7, 11, 14, 2011 Pelléas Et Mélisande

Composer Claude Debussy Libretto Maurice Maeterlinck

december 17, 20, 23, 29, 2010 matinee january 1, 2011 The Queen Of Spades

Composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Libretto Modest Tchaikovsky

march 11, 15, 18, 21, 2011 matinee march 26, 2011 Rigoletto

Composer Giuseppe Verdi Libretto Francesco Maria Piave

january 11, 15, 18, 27, april 26, 30, may 3, 6, 12, 2011 matinee january 22, 2011 Roméo Et Juliette

Composer Charles Gounod Libretto Jules Barbier and Michel Carré

march 3, 7, 10, 14, 19, 22, 26, 2011

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Metropolitan Opera Simon Boccanegra

Composer Giuseppe Verdi Libretto Francesco Maria Piave and Arrigo Boito

january 20, 24, 28, february 1, 2011 matinee february 5, 2011 Tosca

A co-production of the Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Milan, and Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich Composer Giacomo Puccini Libretto Luigi Illica and Giuseppe

january 10, 14, 17, 21, 25, march 25, 31, april 4, 8, 12, 16, 2011 matinee january 29, 2011 Il Trovatore

A co-production with Lyric Opera of Chicago and San Francisco Opera Composer Giuseppe Verdi Libretto Salvadore Cammarano

november 11, 15, 19, 2010 april 20, 23, 27, 2011 matinee april 30, 2011 Wozzeck

Composer Alban Berg Libretto Alban Berg

april 6, 9, 13, 2011 matinee april 16, 2011 Tickets

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The Museum of Modern Art

Founded in 1929 as an educational institution, The Museum of Modern Art is dedicated to being the foremost museum of modern art in the world. The Museum of Modern Art manifests this commitment by establishing, preserving, and documenting a permanent collection of the highest order that reflects the vitality, complexity, and unfolding patterns of modern and contemporary art; by presenting exhibitions and educational programs of unparalleled significance; by sustaining a library, archives, and conservation laboratory that are recognized as international centers of research; and by supporting scholarship and publications of preeminent intellectual merit. Central to The Museum of Modern Art’s mission is the encouragement of an ever-deeper understanding and enjoyment of modern and contemporary art by the diverse local, national, and international audiences that it serves.

Seeking to create a dialogue between the established and the experimental, the past and the present, in an environment that is responsive to the issues of modern and contemporary art, MoMA serves a public that ranges from scholars to young children.

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The Museum of Modern Art designed in 1926–27 by the architect Grete SchütteLihotzky. Since then, kitchens have continued to articulate, and at times actively challenge, our relationship to the food we eat, popular attitudes toward the domestic role of women, family life, consumerism, and Philippe Starck (French, born even political ideology in the 1949). Hot Bertaa Kettle. 1987. case of the celebrated 1959 “Kitchen Debate” that took place between Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev in Moscow at the height of the Cold War. Featured alongside the Frankfurt Kitchen is a 1969 mobile fold-out unit manufactured by the Italian company Snaidero.

These two complete kitchens are complemented by a wide variety of design objects, architectural plans, posters, archival photographs, and selected artworks, all drawn from MoMA’s collection. Prominence is given to the contribution of women throughout the exhibition, not only as the primary consumers and users of the domestic kitchen, but also as reformers, architects, designers, and as artists who have critically addressed kitchen culture and myths.

New Photography 2010 september 29, 2010—january 10, 2011 New Photography 2010 presents four artists—Roe Ethridge, Elad Lassry, Alex Prager, and Amanda Ross-Ho—whose photographs, taken in the real world and made in the studio, mine the inexhaustible reservoir of images found in print media, television, and cinema. Ethridge takes his shoots in “editorial mode,” directly borrowing from commercial images already in circulation, including outtakes from his own illustrational magazine work. Lassry defines his practice as one consumed with pictures, meaning with generic images lifted from the fag-ends of consumer society, such as Hollywood publicity stills and design illustrations. His intensely colored photocollages or newly staged studio pictures never exceed the format of a magazine spread and are displayed in matching frames that derive their color from the dominant hues in the photograph. Ross-Ho’s www.guideforthearts.com

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The Museum of Modern Art mix-and-match installations lined up with pictures of needlepoint and textile designs renegotiate the definition of craft in contemporary art. Prager takes her cues from pulp fiction and the fashion images of Guy Bourdin to construct filmic narratives starring women disguised under synthetic wigs, dramatic makeup, and retro polyester attire.

Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures of Social Engagement october 3, 2010—january 3, 2011 Architecture can be a powerful means to change social conditions. Small Scale, Big Change: New Architectures of Social Engagement presents 11 noteworthy projects, either built or currently under construction, in underserved communities around the world. The architects featured in the exhibition confront inequality using the tools of design. They engage social, economic, and political conditions, developing post-utopian architectural interventions that begin with an understanding of and deference to a community. Without sacrificing a concern for aesthetics, the architects develop projects that reveal a specificity of place; their architectural solutions emerge from close collaboration with future users and sustained research into local conditions. Here, the architect is as much a moderator of social processes as a designer of a structure.

Abstract Expressionist New York october 3, 2010—june 2, 2011 This fall, The Museum of Modern Art undertakes a complete reinstallation of its fourth floor galleries for painting and sculpture, as well as its collection galleries for drawings and prints, to present Abstract Expressionist New York, a major exhibition tracing the development of Abstract Expressionism from its auspicious beginnings in the 1940s to its seasoned maturity in the 1960s. Drawn entirely from Jack Tworkov (American, born Poland, 1900-1982). West 23rd. 1963. the Museum’s vast holdings 72 guide for the arts 2010-2011

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The Museum of Modern Art of Abstract Expressionist art—a collection whose breadth and depth is perhaps unrivalled in the world—the exhibition will comprise approximately 300 works in a variety of mediums by more than 30 artists. This wide-ranging presentation of paintings, drawings, prints, and photographs will underscore the achievements of a generation that catapulted New York City to the center of the international art world during the 1950s, and left as its legacy some of the 20th century’s greatest masterpieces.

On Line november 21, 2010—february 7, 2011 On Line explores the radical transformation of the medium of drawing throughout the 20th century, a period when numerous artists subjected the traditional concepts of drawing to a critical examination and expanded the medium’s definition in relation to gesture and form. In a revolutionary departure from the institutional definition of drawing, and from the reliance on paper as the fundamental support material, artists instead pushed line across the plane into real space, thus questioning the relation between the object of art and the world. On Line includes approximately 150 works that connect drawing with selections of painting, sculpture, photography, film, and dance (represented by film and documentation). The exhibition includes works by a wide range of artists, both familiar and relatively unknown, from different eras of the past century and from many nations.

Andy Warhol: Motion Pictures december 19, 2010—march 21, 2011 Among Warhol’s black and white silent films are the most daring and experimental in their selection of subject and theme, psychological acuity, rhythmic pacing, and sheer beauty of form.

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Staging Action: Performance in Photography Since 1960 january 26—may 9, 2011 The relationship between photography and performance has become distinctly more complicated since the 1960s, when artists increasingly began making art that was transient and improvisational. For the most part, performances are intended to be experienced live, in real time, with photography playing an ancillary function in recording them. This exhibition, however, considers performances made expressly for the camera, resulting in photographs that function as independent, expressive pictures. Drawn from the Museum’s collection, the works included in Staging Action document and depict performances, oftentimes executed in the absence of a public audience.

Picasso: Guitars 1912-1914 february 13—june 6, 2011 Pablo Picasso’s (1881–1973) cardboard (1912) and sheet metal (1914) guitar sculptures represent a breakthrough moment—not only in his career, but in the history of Cubism and of 20thcentury art itself. These two modest yet revolutionary objects, gifts from the artist to The Museum of Modern Art, are at the core of this tightly Pablo Picasso (Spanish, focused exhibition. Following Pica1881-1973) sso’s October 1912 declaration that Guitar. State III. Paris, he was “in the process of imagining a assembled 1913. guitar,” he embarked upon a period of radical material experimentation, combining traditional artists’ supplies—oil paint, charcoal, pastel, ink—with what were then unconventional materials, including cardboard, newspaper, wallpaper, sheet music, and sand. He continued to imagine and to create not only guitar compositions, but also to manipulate his own spare language of 74 guide for the arts 2010-2011

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Projects 94: Henrik Olesen february 9—june 23, 2011

In his conceptually rigorous and often witty work, Berlin-based artist Henrik Olesen (b. 1967, Esbjerg, Denmark) investigates structures of power and systems of knowledge to reveal inherent logics and rules of social and political normalization. Olesen’s projects, based on in-depth research, have addressed a range of subjects including legal codes, the natural sciences, distribution of capital, and art history, and have taken the form of poster, flier, text, collage, found-object sculpture, and spatial intervention.

Expressionism: The Graphic Impulse March 27—July 11, 2011 Artists associated with German Expressionism in the early decades of the twentieth century took up printmaking with a collective dedication and fervor virtually unparalleled in the history of art. The woodcut, with its coarse gouges and jagged lines, is known as the preeminent Expressionist medium, but the Expressionists also revolutionized the mediums of etching and lithography to alternately vibrant and stark effect. This exhibition, featuring approximately 250 works by some 30 artists, is drawn from MoMA’s outstanding holdings of German Expressionist prints, enhanced by selected drawings, paintings, and sculptures from the collection.

American Modern march 23, 2011—t.b.d.

This installation of drawings, photographs, and paintings from the Museum’s collection brings together landscapes, cityscapes, and interiors made by American artists in the period between the world wars. Many of the approaches and strategies employed by these artists reflect the major social, political, and cultural upheavals of the era. While the resulting works vary in style, subject, and theme, they reveal the common threads of isolation, uncertainty, and disenchantment that pervaded the country’s psyche. From the eerie watercolors of Charles Burchfield to the elegant compowww.guideforthearts.com

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Impressions from South Africa: A Printed Art/1960s to Now march 23—august, 2011 South Africa’s history of apartheid, transition to democracy, and post-apartheid concerns have had a palpable corollary effect on artistic production there. Printmaking, with its flexible techniques and formats, has played a vital—if not singular— role during these periods of unprecedented change. From bold black-and-white linoleum cuts made at community art centers, to printed posters disseminated during political resistance, to the variety of approaches embraced by artists and printshops today, this exhibition introduces how printmaking and the communal space of the workshop have been a driving force in contemporary South African artistic expression.-

Francis Alÿs: A Story of Deception may 8—august 2, 2011 Francis Alÿs (b. 1959, Antwerp, Belgium) uses poetic and allegorical methods to address political and social realities, such as national borders, localism and globalism, areas of conflict and community, and the benefits and detriments of progress. Alÿs’s personal, ambulatory explorations of cities form the basis for his practice, through which he compiles extensive and varied documentation that reflects his ideas and process. As one of the foremost artists of his generation, Alÿs has produced a complex and diverse body of work that includes video, painting, performance, drawing, and photography.

Projects 95: Runa Islam june 16—october 17, 2011 British artist Runa Islam (b. 1970, Dhaka, Bangladesh) primarily works in film and video. Ostensibly austere and minimal, her works are marked by a rigorous logic of conception but also a highly poetic style, and often involve the grammar of film—its languages of framing, panning, zooming, editing, and projection.

For Projects 95, Islam will produce a newly commissioned work.

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The Museum of Modern Art Talk to Me july 24—november 7, 2011 Talk to Me is an exhibition investigating the communication between people and things. All objects contain information that goes well beyond their immediate use or appearance. Talk to Me focuses on objects that involve a direct interaction, such as interfaces, information systems, visualization designs, and communication devices, and on projects that establish an emotional, sensual, or intellectual connection with their users. Examples range from the late 1960s, represented by a few iconic products, all the way to projects in current development, which form the bulk of the exhibition.

Action! Design over Time ongoing The objects presented in Action! Design over Time reveal the often overlooked dimension of temporality, providing a deeper understanding of contemporary design. Some of these objects embody frozen moments in time, whether crafted by hand (like Ingo Maurer’s Porca Miseria! chandelier, which is made of broken dishes) or crystallized by a computer using a digital manufacturing machine (as with Ammar Eloueini’s CoReFab chair). Instead of a single moment, other featured objects capture entire lifecycles; Christien Meindertsma’s book PIG 05049 tracks all 185 products made from a single pig. Some examples focus on communication and interaction design, whose nature is inherently connected to time. These interfaces and visualizations interpret and render data over time—commercial air traffic across the United States, taxi traffic in San Francisco, or the editorial evolution of Wikipedia entries, for instance—in an elegant and efficient way.

From Line to Plane ongoing This summer’s Sculpture Garden installation features a selection of abstract geometric works dating from the early 1960s to the late 1980s. Highlights include Tony Smith’s minimalist sculptures Free Ride and Die (both 1962), George Rickey’s thirty-five-foot, kinetic stainless steel work Two Lines—Temporal I (1964), Mark di Suvero’s recently restored For Roebling (1971), and Ellsworth Kelly’s www.guideforthearts.com

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The Museum of Modern Art monochrome steel sculpture Curve II (1973). In addition to these newly installed works, perennial Sculpture Garden favorites like Barnett Newman’s Broken Obelisk (1963–69), Aristide Maillol’s The River (1938–39), and Hector Guimard’s Entrance Gate to Paris Subway (Métropolitain) Station (c. 1900), remain on view.

Matisse: Radical Invention 1913–1917 through october 11, 2010 In the time between Henri Matisse’s (1869-1954) return from Morocco in 1913 and his departure for Nice in 1917, the artist produced some of the most demanding, experimental, and enigmatic works of his career: paintings that are abstracted and rigorously purged of descriptive detail, geometric and sharply composed, and dominated by the colors black and gray. Matisse: Radical Invention 1913–1917 moves beyond the surface of these paintings to examine their physical production and the essential context of Matisse’s studio practice, revealing deep connections among these works and demonstrates their critical role in the artist’s development at this time.

The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today through november 1, 2010 The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today presents a critical examination of the intersections between photography and sculpture, exploring how the one medium has become implicated in the understanding of the other. Through a selection Herbert Bayer. American, of nearly 300 outstanding pictures by born Austria. 1900–1985. more than 100 artists from the dawn Humanly Impossible, 1932. of modernism to the present, the exhibition looks at the ways in which photography at once informs and challenges one’s understanding of sculpture. Addressing how and why sculpture became a photographic subject, the exhibition examines pictures that range in subject from inanimate objects to performing bodies within specific historical and political contexts.

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The Museum of Modern Art Projects 93: Dinh Q. Lê Through January 24, 2011 Dinh Q. Lê (Vietnamese American, b. 1968) weaves together—both literally and figuratively—personal recollections with larger histories and mythologies often related to the Vietnam War, known as the American War in Lê’s native country. For Projects 93, Lê presents The Farmers and The Helicopters (2006), an installation comprised of a three-channel video and a helicopter hand-built from scrap parts by Le Van Danh, a farmer, and Tran Quoc Hai, a self-taught mechanic. Lê’s video interlaces the personal recollections of the war by Vietnamese locals with clips from Western films. Installed in adjacent galleries, the helicopter and the video projection offer a multilayered insight into the complex relationships between the Vietnamese individuals and the charged object of the helicopter.

Contemporary Art from the Collection through may 9, 2011 The works selected for this installation highlight the debates around economics, politics, gender, and ethnicity that have permeated artistic practices since the late 1960s. Including approximately 130 works drawn from all Museum’s curatorial departments, the installation features a variety of approaches to art-making and follows a chronological path. It begins with works such as a haunting “body print” by David Hammons (1969), that depicts the artist in an act of prayer, and Pino Pascali’s Machine Gun (1966), a sculpture made out of parts from a Fiat 500 during a period of intense social unrest in Italy. Concluding the show are two projects that explore larger themes of humanity and loss through current events: Huma Bhabha’s expansive print series Reconstructions (2007), in which the artist memorializes lost civilizations in her native Pakistan, and Paul Chan’s Waiting for Godot (2007), a project based on his restaging of Samuel Beckett’s play in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina.

Film Exhibitions Frederick Wiseman through december 31, 2010 To celebrate the recent acquisition of 36 newly struck prints of www.guideforthearts.com

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The Museum of Modern Art films by Frederick Wiseman (American, b. 1930), The Museum of Modern Art presents a comprehensive retrospective of the director’s work through December 31, 2010, featuring three to four films each month. Among the films that will be screened this fall, Wiseman will present his latest film, Boxing Gym (2010), which had its premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.

John Canemaker’s Two Guys Named Joe: Master Animation Storytellers Joe Grant and Joe Ranft october 1­—2, 2010 Academy Award–winning animation filmmaker and author John Canemaker will present a richly illustrated lecture on October 1, based on his new book Two Guys Named Joe. The book is an immensely entertaining and insightful portrait of the legendary Disney storyteller Joe Grant, who helped create such masterworks as Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Pinocchio, Dumbo, and Beauty and the Beast, and the late Joe Ranft, the Pixar creative co-founder and storyboard artist who is widely celebrated for his imaginative and irreverent contributions to such recent classics as Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Little Mermaid, Toy Story, and Monsters Inc. On October 2, MoMA will screen a special presentation of animated features and shorts, including Toy Story, that pays tribute to these master animation storytellers.

MoMA Presents: The Darkness of Day, Recent Films

by Jay Rosenblatt october 13—18, 2010 The Museum of Modern Art presents a weeklong run of recent work by the San Francisco-based filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt, including the New York premiere of The Darkness of Day (2009), a tender yet stoic meditation on suicide, and the award-winning Phantom Limb (2005), a haunting expression of loss and grief.

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To Save and Project: The Eighth MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation october 15—november 7, 2010

To Save and Project, MoMA’s international film preservation festival, celebrates its eighth year with expertly preserved masterworks and rediscoveries of world cinema. This year’s edition will feature many New York premieres, including the Museum’s new preservations of Mangue-Bangue (1970), a seminal but long-censored experimental film by the Brazilian avant-garde artist Neville D’Almeida (based on an idea by D’Almeida and Hélio Oiticica); David Butler’s Sunnyside Up (1929), a popular musical comedy starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell; and Stephen Roberts’s The Story of Temple Drake (1933), a sultry pre-Code melodrama based on the William Faulkner novel Sanctuary and starring Miriam Hopkins.

Contemporary Film and Video from the Collection october 15, 2010—june 2011 Several film and video exhibitions, drawn from the Museum’s collection, will accompany the exhibition Contemporary Art from the Collection, which is on view June 30, 2010-September 12, 2011 in the Contemporary Galleries on MoMA’s second floor.

Drama Queens: The Soap Opera in Experimental Cinema: An exploration of the ways in which filmmakers have reinvented, deconstructed, and parodied the Hollywood melodrama. Artists include Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Hollis Frampton, George Kuchar, Kalup Linzy, Tony Oursler, Yvonne Rainer, Andy Warhol, and John Waters.

Douglas Sirk’s All that Heaven Allows (1955) and its two brilliant and provocative remakes, Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Angst essen Seele Auf (Ali: Fear Eats the Soul) (1974) and Todd Haynes’ Far from Heaven (2002), form the cornerstone of the exhibition.

Queer Cinema in the Collection: Today and Yesterday: An archival exhibition of Queer Cinema and AIDS-related films and videos, juxtaposing the 1980s and today. Co-organized by AA Bronson, an artist, writer, curator, and member of the artists’ group Genwww.guideforthearts.com

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The Museum of Modern Art eral Idea, the exhibition will feature key works by Su Friedrich, General Idea, Tom Kalin, Marlon Riggs, Warren Sonbert, and others, along with more contemporary gay-themed work by Kalup Linzy and others.

Film restorations and artist presentations: As a special sidebar to this year’s edition of To Save and Project: The Eighth MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation (October 15—November 7, 2010), several artists included in the contemporary gallery reinstallation will present films, including Lynda Benglis, Rachel Harrison, and Glenn Ligon.

The Museum will also premiere its new restorations of the films of Stuart Sherman (1945—2001), an influential performance artist perhaps best known for his tabletop “Spectacles,” and Agnes Martin’s only film, Gabriel (1978), which offers a fresh reconsideration of Martin’s work.

Lillian Gish november 26—december 13, 2010

American film actress Lillian Gish (1893–1993) enjoyed a 75-year career that produced over 100 films. Among them are landmark works such as her film debut, An Unseen Enemy, a Biograph short made in 1912 by D. W. Griffith; and The Wind (1928), her last silent picture. Though frequently characterized as a waifish portrait of fragility, in fact Gish’s characters often embodied female resilience in the face of abandonment, persecution, and mortal peril, as seen in such films as Way Down East (1920), Orphans of the Storm (1922), The Scarlet Letter (1926), and The Night of the Hunter (1955).

Weimar Cinema 1919—1933: Daydreams and Nightmares november 2010

Weimar Cinema 1919—1933: Daydreams and Nightmares presents 75 films made in Germany between the first and second World Wars, a period of tremendous development in the art and industry of cinema and in the influence of German filmmakers on world cinema. This exhibition features not only the great filmmakers usually associated with the era—Fritz Lang, F.W. Murnau, and G.W. Pabst, to name a few—but also popular films of the period that cover the end of the silent era and the earliest sound films, musicals, and comedies.

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The Museum of Modern Art The Contenders november 2010—january 2011 Every year there are films that resonate far beyond a theatrical release (if they manage to find their way to a commercial screen at all) or film festival appearance. For this ongoing series, the Department of Film combs through major studio releases and the top film festivals in the world, selecting influential, innovative films made in the last 12 months that they believe will stand the test of time. Whether bound for awards glory or destined to become a cult classic, each of these films is considered a contender for lasting historical significance.

Euzhan Palcy Retrospective may 2011 Born in 1958 in Martinique, French-Caribbean filmmaker Euzhan Palcy has produced and directed over 15 fiction features and documentaries since her Rue Cases-Nègres (Sugar Cane Alley), which won a “Silver Lion” award at the 1983 Venice Film Festival. Her work explores themes of race, gender, and politics from a decidedly feminist perspective, and features performances by Marlon Brando, Susan Sarandon, Donald Sutherland, and Alan Alda. Her first U.S. career retrospective will include A Dry White Season (1989), a key film on South African apartheid; Siméon (1992), a musical comedy fairytale set in the Caribbean; and the biographical documentary Aime Cesaire, A Voice for History (1994). She also directed Ruby Bridges (1998), a view of segregation in New Orleans from the perspective of a young child; The Killing Yard (2001), about events surrounding the 1971 Attica prison uprising; and Les Mariées de I’isles Bourbon (2007), an historical epic of forced marriage in seventeenth-century France.

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New York City Ballet

Peter Martins’

The New York City Ballet, one of the full-length staging foremost dance companies in the world, of Swan Lake. is unique in U.S. artistic history. Solely responsible for training its own artists and creating its own works, the Company has approximately 90 dancers, making it the largest dance organization in America. It has an active repertory of over 150 works, principally choreographed by Balanchine, Robbins, and Peter Martins. The School of American Ballet, the official school of New York City Ballet, is thriving in its spacious Lincoln Center home, with an enrollment of over 350 aspiring dancers from nearly every state in the nation and around the world. Explore what New York City Ballet has to offer—its rich company history, repertoire of ballets, and world-class dancers.

Winter Repertory Season

january 18 through february 27, 2011

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The Winter Repertory Season will also feature seven performances of Peter Martins’ full-length staging of Swan Lake, which was created in 1996 for the Royal Danish Ballet and features sets and costumes by the acclaimed Danish painter Per Kirkeby. The season will also include 12 ballets by Balanchine, five by Robbins, as well as the return to repertory of such works as Alexei Ratmansky’s Concerto DSCH and Christopher Wheeldon’s Polyphonia.

january 18, 7:30 pm All Balanchine

january 22, 8:00 pm All Balanchine— All Day

Walpurgisnacht Ballet Duo Concertant Valse-Fantaisie The Four Temperaments

Mozartiana Prodigal Son Stars and Stripes

january 19, 7:30 pm All Robbins

january 23, 3:00 pm

Dances at a Gathering N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz

La Source Concerto DSCH N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz

january 20, 8:00 pm See the Music

january 25, 7:30 pm All Robbins

Mozartiana Concerto DSCH Cortège Hongrois

Dances at a Gathering N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz

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january 21, 8:00 pm

Symphony in Three Movements Polyphonia I’m Old Fashioned

Walpurgisnacht Ballet Dances at a Gathering Concerto DSCH

january 27, 8:00 pm Founding Choreographers

january 22, 2:00 pm All Balanchine— All Day

Mozartiana Prodigal Son N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz

Walpurgisnacht Ballet Duo Concertant The Four Temperaments Cortège Hongrois

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New York City Ballet january 28, 8:00 pm New Combinations Evening Concerto DSCH Polyphonia New Stroman (World Premiere)

january 29, 2:00 pm Cortège Hongrois Outlier I’m Old Fashioned

january 29, 8:00 pm Founding Choreographers

february 3, 8:00 pm Divertimento No. 15 Polyphonia New Stroman

february 4, 8:00 pm Mozartiana The Magic Flute New Stroman

february 5, 2:00 pm New Stroman Prodigal Son Glass Pieces

february 5, 8:00 pm

Walpurgisnacht Ballet Dances at a Gathering Symphony in Three Movements

Cortège Hongrois Outlier I’m Old Fashioned

january 30, 3:00 pm

february 6, 3:00 pm

Stars and Stripes Outlier New Stroman

Divertimento No. 15 The Magic Flute New Stroman

february 1, 7:30 pm See the Music

february 8, 7:30 pm

La Source Outlier Polyphonia Symphony in Three Movements

La Source Prodigal Son The Magic Flute

february 2, 7:30 pm The Magic Flute Duo Concertant Valse-Fantaisie The Four Temperaments

Symphony in Three Movements

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february 19, 2:00 pm See the Music

The Four Temperaments After the Rain The Four Seasons

After the Rain New Millepied Mirage Call Me Ben

february 10, 8:00 pm All American

february 19, 8:00 pm Swan Lake

Glass Pieces Call Me Ben Stars and Stripes

february 20, 3:00 pm Swan Lake

february 11, 8:00 pm All Balanchine

Divertimento No. 15 Prodigal Son Symphony in Three Movements

february 22, 7:30 pm Swan Lake

february 12, 2:00 pm Divertimento No. 15 After the Rain The Four Seasons

New Millepied Valse-Fantaisie Square Dance Glass Pieces

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february 24, 8:00 pm

Call Me Ben Prodigal Son I’m Old Fashioned

Square Dance Mirage The Four Seasons

february 13, 3:00 pm Swan Lake

february 25, 8:00 pm Tribute to Calatrava Mirage New Millepied Call Me Ben

february 15, 7:30 pm Divertimento No. 15 After the Rain Glass Pieces

february 26, 2:00 pm Swan Lake

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New York City Ballet Spring Repertory Season—May 3 through June 12, 2011

NYCB’s annual Spring Repertory Season will begin with an all-Balanchine opening week of performances featuring 12 of Balanchine’s black and white ballets, including such classics as Agon, Episodes, Apollo, The Four Temperaments, Stravinsky Violin Concerto and Concerto Barocco.

Other highlights of the Spring Repertory Season will include a new production of The Seven Deadly Sins by Lynne Taylor-Corbett, the Tony-nominated director and choreographer, who will be creating her third work for NYCB. A sung ballet in seven scenes, The Seven Deadly Sins was composed by Kurt Weill to a libretto by Bertolt Brecht, and was first performed at the Théatre de Champs-Elysées in Paris in 1933, and was produced, directed and choreographed by Balanchine. In 1958 Balanchine revived the production for New York City Ballet.

An ironic morality play, The Seven Deadly Sins tells the story of a character named Anna, who is played by both a singer and a dancer. The new production by Taylor-Corbett will feature Patti LuPone in the role of the singer, which was performed by Lotte Lenya

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in Balanchine’s original 1933 production, as well as in the NYCB revival in 1958.

Other highlights of the spring season will include 17 works by Balanchine including the full-length Jewels, and seven works by Jerome Robbins including West Side Story Suite, the choreographer’s 1995 distillation of his landmark Broadway musical.

may 3, 7:30 pm Balanchine Black and White

Square Dance Agon Stravinsky Violin Concerto

may 4, 7:30 pm Balanchine Black and White

Le Tombeau de Couperin Episodes Symphony in Three Movements

may 5, 8:00 pm Balanchine Black and White

Monumentum pro Gesualdo Movements for Piano and Orchestra Apollo The Four Temperaments

may 6, 8:00 pm Balanchine Black and White

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Le Tombeau de Couperin Stravinsky Violin Concerto

Monumentum pro Gesualdo Movements for Piano and Orchestra The Seven Deadly Sins Vienna Waltzes

may 7, 2:00 pm Balanchine Black and White Apollo Square Dance Agon

may 13, 8:00 pm Concerto Barocco Seven Deadly Sins Vienna Waltzes

may 7, 8:00 pm Balanchine Black and White

may 14, 2:00 pm

Episodes Concerto Barocco The Four Temperaments

The Four Temperaments The Seven Deadly Sins Vienna Waltzes

may 8, 3:00 pm Balanchine Black and White

may 14, 8:00 pm See the Music

Concerto Barocco Monumentum pro Gesualdo Movements for Piano and Orchestra Duo Concertant Symphony in Three Movements

may 17, 7:30 pm

Square Dance Agon Episodes

Divertimento No. 15 Opus 19/The Dreamer Fearful Symmetries

may 11, 7:00 pm Spring Gala

may 18, 7:30 pm Founding Choreographers

The Seven Deadly Sins (World Premiere) Vienna Waltzes

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may 10, 7:30 pm Balanchine Black and White

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New York City Ballet Antique Epigraphs La Sonnambula

may 19, 8:00 pm

Fearful Symmetries Afternoon of a Faun Antique Epigraphs The Concert

may 20, 8:00 pm

Divertimento No. 15 Polyphonia La Sonnambula

may 21, 2:00 pm

Divertimento No. 15 Polyphonia La Sonnambula

may 21, 8:00 pm All Robbins

Interplay Afternoon of a Faun Antique Epigraphs The Concert

may 22, 3:00 pm

Fearful Symmetries Opus 19/The Dreamer La Sonnambula Symphony in Three Movements

may 24, 7:30 pm All Robbins

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may 25, 7:30 pm See the Music Broadway Tribute

Slaughter on Tenth Avenue New Stroman West Side Story Suite

may 26, 8:00 pm

Polyphonia Opus 19/The Dreamer Thou Swell

may 27, 8:00 pm

Donizetti Variations Interplay Fearful Symmetries

may 28, 2:00 pm Broadway Tribute

Slaughter on Tenth Avenue New Stroman West Side Story Suite

may 28, 8:00 pm Broadway Tribute

Slaughter on Tenth Avenue New Stroman West Side Story Suite

may 29, 3:00 pm Broadway Tribute

Slaughter on Tenth Avenue New Stroman West Side Story Suite

may 31, 7:30 pm

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New York City Ballet june 11, 8:00 pm

june 1, 7:30 pm

Divertimento No. 15 2 & 3 Part Inventions Mercurial Manoeuvres

Donizetti Variations Mercurial Manoeuvres Thou Swell

june 2 and 3, 8:00 pm Jewels

june 12, 3:00 pm Balnchine & Stravinsky Monumentum pro Gesualdo Movements for Piano and Orchestra Apollo Agon Symphony in Three Movements

june 4, 2:00 pm All Robbins

2 & 3 Part Inventions Opus 19/The Dreamer The Concert

june 4, 8:00 pm Jewels

Contact

New York City Ballet David H. Koch Theater Lincoln Center Plaza Columbus Avenue and 63rd St. New York, NY 10023 www.nycballet.com

june 5, 3:00 pm All Robbins

Interplay Opus 19/The Dreamer The Concert

june 7 and 8, 7:30 pm Jewels june 9, 8:00 pm

Tickets

(212) 721-6500 (212) 870-5560 (800) 580-8730 subscription

Donizetti Variations 2 & 3 Part Inventions Mercurial Manoeuvres

june 10, 8:00 pm

Thou Swell 2 & 3 Part Inventions Mercurial Manoeuvres

june 11, 2:00 pm Jewels

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New York Philharmonic

Founded in 1842 by a group of Anne-Sophie Mutter joins the Philharmonic as Artist-inlocal musicians led by AmeriResidence for the 2010-11 season can-born Ureli Corelli Hill, the New York Philharmonic is by far the oldest symphony orchestra in the United States, and one of the oldest in the world. It currently plays some 180 concerts a year, and on May 5, 2010, gave its 15,000th concert­—a milestone unmatched by any other symphony orchestra in the world.

Since its inception the Orchestra has championed the new music of its time, commissioning or premiering many important works, such as Dvorák’s Symphony No. 9, “From the New World”; Rachmaninoff ’s Piano Concerto No. 3; Gershwin’s Concerto in F; and Copland’s Connotations, in addition to the U.S. premieres of works such as Beethoven’s Symphonies Nos. 8 and 9 and Brahms’s Symphony No. 4. This pioneering tradition has continued to the present day, with works of major contemporary composers regularly scheduled each season.

2010–2011 season Alan Gilbert conducts Mendelssohn’s Elijah, with Gerald Finley Avery Fisher Hall

november 10 and 11, 7:30 p.m. november 13, 8:00 p.m.

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New York Philharmonic Alan Gilbert, conductor Carolyn Sampson, soprano Alice Coote, mezzo-soprano Allan Clayton, tenor Gerald Finley, bass-baritone New York Choral Artists Joseph Flummerfelt, director

Mendelssohn Elijah

Alan Gilbert and Midori Carnegie Hall

november 12, 8:00 p.m.

Alan Gilbert, conductor Midori, violin

B# Violin Concerto John Adams Harmonielehre 6

Artist-in-Residence Anne-Sophie Mutter with Yuri Bashmet and Lynn Harrell Avery Fisher Hall

november 14, 3:00 p.m.

Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin Yuri Bashmet, viola Lynn Harrell, cello

Beethoven String Trio in C minor Beethoven Serenade in D major Beethoven String Trio in E-flat major

Chamber Music on Staten Island

College of Staten Island, The City University of New York

november 16, 7:30 p.m.

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Artist-in-Residence Anne-Sophie Mutter Avery Fisher Hall

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New York Philharmonic Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin Michael Francis, conductor

Mozart Violin Concerto No. 1 Mozart Violin Concerto No. 3 Wolfgang Rihm Lichtes Spiel (World Premiere) Mozart Violin Concerto No. 5

Contact!, The New York Philharmonic New-Music Series november 19, 8:00 p.m.

Peter Norton Symphony Space 2537 Broadway at 95th Street

november 20, 7:00 p.m.

Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue Alan Gilbert, conductor Magnus Lindberg, host Soprano tba

Magnus Lindberg New work (World Premiere–New York Philharmonic Commission) Grisey Quatre chants pour franchir le seuil

Rafael Frühbeck De Burgos and Leonidas Kavakos Avery Fisher Hall

november 26 and 27, 8:00 p.m.

Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, conductor Leonidas Kavakos, violin Women of the New York Choral Artists Joseph Flummerfelt, director

Glinka Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto Debussy Nocturnes Stravinsky Suite from The Firebird (1919)

Saturday Matinee Concert Avery Fisher Hall

november 27, 2:00 p.m.

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New York Philharmonic Leonidas Kavakos, violin Glenn Dicterow, Michelle Kim, violin Cynthia Phelps, Rebecca Young, viola Eileen Moon, cello

Mozart String Quintet in G minor, K.516 Haydn Symphony No. 100, Military Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto

Rafael Frühbeck De Burgos conducts Avery Fisher Hall

november 30, 7:30 p.m.

Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, conductor Women of the New York Choral Artists Joseph Flummerfelt, director Glinka Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila

Haydn Symphony No. 100, Military Debussy Nocturnes Stravinsky Suite from The Firebird (1919)

Sir Colin Davis with Dorothea Röschmann and Ian Bostridge december 2, 7:30 p.m. december 4, 8:00 p.m. december 7, 7:30 p.m.

Sir Colin Davis, conductor Dorothea Röschmann, soprano Ian Bostridge, tenor

Beethoven Symphony No. 2 Mahler Des Knaben Wunderhorn

Young People’s Concert The Ages of Music: Baroque Avery Fisher Hall

december 4, 2:00 p.m.

Daniel Boico, conductor Theodore Wiprud, host Program tba

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New York Philharmonic Sir Colin Davis and Nikolaj Znaider december 9, 7:30 p.m. december 10 and 11, 8:00 p.m.

Sir Colin Davis, conductor Nikolaj Znaider, violin

Elgar Introduction and Allegro Mozart Symphony No. 36, Linz Elgar Violin Concerto

New York Philharmonic Ensembles at Merkin Concert Hall Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center

december 12, 3:00 p.m.

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Glière Eight Pieces for Violin and Cello Matheson Quartet for Oboe and Strings Weber Trio in G Minor, Op. 63 Brahms Piano Trio in B major

Holiday Brass Avery Fisher Hall

december 12, 3:00 p.m.

New York Philharmonic Principal Brass Quintet United States Military Academy Band Major Jim Keene, conductor

Program of holiday favorites tba

Bernard Labadie conducts Handel’s Messiah Avery Fisher Hall

december 14—18, 7:30 p.m.

Bernard Labadie, conductor Karina Gauvin, soprano Marie-Nicole Lemieux, mezzo-soprano Tilman Lichdi, tenor Andrew Foster-Williams, bass New York Choral Artists Joseph Flummerfelt, director

Handel Messiah

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New York Philharmonic Contact!, The New York Philharmonic New-Music Series Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

december 17, 7:00 p.m.

Peter Norton Symphony Space

december 18, 8:00 p.m.

2537 Broadway at 95th Street Alan Gilbert, conductor Magnus Lindberg, host

Julian Anderson Comedy of Change (U.S. Premiere) James Matheson New Work (World Premiere– New York Philharmonic Commission) Jay Alan Yim New Work (World Premiere– New York Philharmonic Commission)

Alan Gilbert and soloists from the New York Philharmonic Avery Fisher Hall

december 28 - 30, 7:30 p.m.

Alan Gilbert, conductor Sheryl Staples, Michelle Kim, Marc Ginsberg, Lisa Kim, violin Philip Smith, trumpet Philip Myers, horn Liang Wang, oboe

Vivaldi Concerto for Four Violins, RV 580 Aaron Jay Kernis a Voice, a Messenger (World Premiere– Co-Commission by the New York Philharmonic and the Big Ten Band Association) Hindemith Horn Concerto Christopher Rouse Oboe Concerto Ravel Boléro

Alan Gilbert conducts An All-Tchaikovsky New Year’s Eve with Lang Lang Avery Fisher Hall

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New York Philharmonic Live From Lincoln Center Alan Gilbert, conductor Lang Lang, piano

Tchaikovsky Polonaise from Eugene Onegin Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 Tchaikovsky The Nutcracker, Act 11

Alan Gilbert with the Winner of the International Frédéric Chopin Piano Competition Avery Fisher Hall

january 4, 2011, 7:30 p.m.

Alan Gilbert, conductor Pianist tba

Chopin Piano Concerto tba TCHAIKOVSKY The Nutcracker, Act II

Alan Gilbert conducts New York Premiere of Thomas Adès’s Multimedia In Seven Days Avery Fisher Hall

january 6, 7:30 p.m. january 7 and 8, 8:00 p.m.

Alan Gilbert, conductor Thomas Hampson, baritone Thomas Adès, piano Tal Rosner, video artist

Mozart Symphony No. 40 Mahler Kindertotenlieder Thomas Adès In Seven Days (New York Premiere)

Christoph Von Dohnányi and Yefim Bronfman Avery Fisher Hall

january 13, 7:30 p.m. january 14 and 15, 8:00 p.m.

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New York Philharmonic Young People’s Concert The Ages of Music: Classical Avery Fisher Hall

january 15, 2:00 p.m.

Daniel Boico, conductor Theodore Wiprud, host Program tba

New York Philharmonic Ensembles

Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center

january 16, 3:00 p.m.

Steven Beck, piano (guest artist)

Debussy Piano Trio Britten String Quartet No. 1 Frank Bridge String Quartet No. 1 in E minor, Bologna

Rush Hour Concert Avery Fisher Hall

january 19, 6:45 p.m.

Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor Radu Lupu, piano

Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1

Christoph Von Dohnányi conducts Avery Fisher Hall

january 20, 7:30 p.m.

Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor

Jörg WV Con brio, Concert Overture for Orchestra Schumann Symphony No. 4 Dvořák Symphony No. 8

Christoph Von Dohnányi and Radu Lupu Avery Fisher Hall

january 21 and 22, 8:00 p.m.

Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor Radu Lupu, piano

Brahms Piano Concerto No. 1 Dvorák Symphony No. 8 www.guideforthearts.com

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New York Philharmonic Alan Gilbert and Karita Mattila Avery Fisher Hall

january 27, 7:30 p.m. january 28 and 29, 8:00 p.m. february 1, 7:30 p.m.

Alan Gilbert, conductor Karita Mattila, soprano

Beethoven Symphony No. 8 Beethoven “Ah, perfido!�

Sibelius Selected Songs for Soprano and Orchestra Nielsen Symphony No. 2, The Four Temperaments

Saturday Matinee Concert Avery Fisher Hall

january 29, 2:00 p.m.

Alan Gilbert, conductor Sheryl Staples, Michelle Kim, violin Robert Rinehart, viola Eric Bartlett, cello Satoshi Okamoto, bass Eric Ralske, Howard Wall, horn

Mozart Divertimento for Two Horns and Strings, K.334 Nielsen Symphony No. 2, The Four Temperaments

Alan Gilbert conducts School Day Concerts Avery Fisher Hall

february 2 - 4, 10:30 a.m. and 12:00 p.m.

Alan Gilbert, conductor

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Andris Nelsons and Jonathan Biss Avery Fisher Hall

february 10, 7:30 p.m. february 11, 11:00 a.m. february 12, 8:00 p.m.

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New York Philharmonic Saturday Matinee Concert Avery Fisher Hall

february 12, 2:00 p.m.

Andris Nelsons, conductor Jonathan Biss, piano

Musicians from the New York Philharmonic Mozart Quintet for Piano and Winds, K.452 Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3

Andrey Boreyko and Branford Marsalis Avery Fisher Hall

february 16 and 17, 7:30 p.m. february 18, 2:00 p.m. february 19, 8:00 p.m.

Andrey Boreyko, conductor Branford Marsalis, saxophone

Haydn Symphony No. 60, Il distratto Glazunov Concerto for Alto Saxophone Schulhoff Hot-Sonate for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra R. Strauss Le Bourgeois gentilhomme

Paavo J채rvi and Janine Jansen Avery Fisher Hall

february 24, 7:30 p.m. february 25, 11:00 a.m. february 26, 8:00 p.m. march 1, 7:30 p.m.

Paavo J채rvi, conductor Janine Jansen, violin

Erkki-Sven T체체r Aditus (New York Premiere) Britten Violin Concerto Beethoven Symphony No. 5

New York Philharmonic Ensembles Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center 129 West 67th Street

february 27, 3:00 p.m.

Helen Huang, piano (guest artist)

Dittersdorf Duo in E-flat major for Viola and Bass www.guideforthearts.com

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New York Philharmonic Ron Wasserman Quatrefoil Kodály Serenade for Two Violins and Viola Schumann Piano Trio No. 2 in F major

Daniel Harding Conducts Avery Fisher Hall

March 3, 7:30 p.m.

March 4, 2:00 p.m.

March 5, 8:00 p.m.

Daniel Harding, conductor Glenn Dicterow, violin Lisa Milne, soprano

Szymanowski Violin Concerto No. 1 Mahler Symphony No. 4

Hungarian Echoes: A Philharmonic Festival conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen Program I Avery Fisher Hall

march 10, 7:30 p.m. march 11, 11:00 a.m. march 12, 8:00 p.m. march 15, 7:30 p.m.

Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor Pierre-Laurent Aimard, piano

Haydn Symphony No. 6, Le Matin Ligeti Piano Concerto Bartók Concerto for Orchestra

Young People’s Concert The Ages of Music: Romantic Avery Fisher Hall

march 12, 2:00 p.m.

Daniel Boico, conductor Theodore Wiprud, host

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Hungarian Echoes: A Philharmonic Festival conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen Program II

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New York Philharmonic Avery Fisher Hall

march 17, 7:30 p.m.

Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor

Ligeti Concert Românesc Haydn Symphony No. 7, Le Midi Bartók Concerto for Orchestra

Hungarian Echoes: A Philharmonic Festival conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen Program III Avery Fisher Hall

march 18 and 19, 8:00 p.m. march 22, 7:30 p.m.

Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor Michelle DeYoung, mezzo-soprano Evgeny Nikitin, bass-baritone

Ligeti Concert Românesc Haydn Symphony No. 7, Le Midi Bartók Bluebeard’s Castle

Hungarian Echoes: A Philharmonic Festival conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen Program IV Avery Fisher Hall

march 24, 7:30 p.m. march 25, 2:00 p.m. march 26, 8:00 p.m.

Esa-Pekka Salonen, conductor Olli Mustonen, piano Women of the New York Choral Artists Joseph Flummerfelt, director

Haydn Symphony No. 8, Le Soir Bartók Piano Concerto No. 1 Ligeti Clocks and Clouds Bartók Suite from The Miraculous Mandarin New York Philharmonic Ensembles Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center

march 27, 3:00 p.m.

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New York Philharmonic Paolo Michele Bordignon Harpsichord (guest artist) Rebekah Rae Kenote Soprano (guest artist)

J.S. Bach Cantata No. 51, Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen David J. Grossman Mood Swings Beethoven Sextet in E-flat major, Op. 81b Brahms String Quintet in G major

Michael Tilson Thomas conducts Anne-Sophie Mutter Avery Fisher Hall

march 31, 7:30 p.m. april 1 and 2, 8:00 p.m.

Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin

Prokofiev Overture in B-flat major, American Sofia Gubaidulina In Tempus Praesens, Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (New York Premiere) Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 2, Little Russian

Young People’s Concert The Ages of Music: Modern Avery Fisher Hall

april 2, 2:00 p.m.

Daniel Boico, conductor Theodore Wiprud, host

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Artist-in-Residence Anne-Sophie Mutter Avery Fisher Hall april 3, 3:00 p.m.

Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin Roman Patkoló, double bass Sheryl Staples, Michelle Kim, Lisa Kim, violin Cynthia Phelps, Rebecca Young, viola Carter Brey, Eileen Moon, cello

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New York Philharmonic (World Premiere) Mendelssohn Octet for Strings

Michael Tilson Thomas Hosts and Conducts Avery Fisher Hall

april 5 and 6, 7:30 p.m.

Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor, host Patricia Birch, director

The Thomashefskys: Music and Memories of a Life in Yiddish Theater

With archival film clips, theatrical staging, a quartet of performers and the New York Philharmonic, conductor and host Michael Tilson Thomas tells the poignant and funny real-life story of Boris and Bessie Thomashefsky, who – besides being superstars of the Yiddish Theater on the Lower East Side of 100 years ago – were his beloved grandparents.

Kurt Masur Returns Avery Fisher Hall

april 13 and 14, 7:30 p.m. april 16, 8:00 p.m.

Kurt Masur, conductor Cynthia Phelps, viola Rebecca Young, viola

Liszt Les Préludes Sofia Gubaidulina Two Paths Brahms Symphony No. 1

Kurt Masur conducts the New York Philharmonic at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center New Jersey Performing Arts Center Newark, New Jersey

April 15, 8:00 p.m.

Kurt Masur, conductor Cynthia Phelps, viola Rebecca Young, viola

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New York Philharmonic Alan Gilbert conducts Mahler at Rush Hour Avery Fisher Hall

april 27, 6:45 p.m.

Alan Gilbert, conductor

Mahler Symphony No. 5

Alan Gilbert Celebrates Emanuel Ax’s 100th New York Philharmonic Performance Avery Fisher Hall

april 28, 7:30 p.m. april 29, 2:00 p.m. april 30, 8:00 p.m.

Alan Gilbert, conductor Emanuel Ax, piano

Debusssy Selections from Estampes for Solo Piano Messiaen Couleurs de la cité céleste Mahler Symphony No. 5

Alan Gilbert with Lisa Batiashvili Avery Fisher Hall

may 4, 7:30 p.m. may 6 and 7, :008 p.m.

Alan Gilbert, conductor Lisa Batiashvili, violin

Bartók Violin Concerto No. 2 Beethoven Symphony No. 3, Eroica

Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic

Carnegie Hall’s 120th Anniversary Concert Carnegie Hall may 5, 7:00 p.m.

Alan Gilbert, conductor Emanuel Ax, piano Gil Shaham, violin Yo-Yo Ma, cello Audra McDonald, soprano

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New York Philharmonic Free Annual Memorial Day Concert with Alan Gilbert The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine 112th Street and Amsterdam Avenue

may 30, 8:00 p.m.

Alan Gilbert, conductor

Beethoven Symphony No. 3, Eroica

Alan Gilbert and Artist-in-Residence Anne-Sophie Mutter Avery Fisher Hall

june 2, 7:30 p.m. june 3, 2:00 p.m. june 4, 8:00 p.m.

Alan Gilbert, conductor Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin

Beethoven Romance No. 2 for Violin and Orchestra Sebastian Currier Time Machines (World Premiere) Bruckner Symphony No. 2

Artist-In-Residence Anne-Sophie Mutter Recital With Lambert Orkis Avery Fisher Hall

june 5, 3:00 p.m.

Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin Lambert Orkis, piano

Debussy Violin Sonata Mendelssohn Violin Sonata in F major (1838) Brahms Violin Sonata No. 3 Sarasate Carmen Fantasy

David Robertson at Rush Hour Avery Fisher Hall

june 8, 6:45 p.m.

David Robertson, conductor

Rachmaninov The Isle of the Dead Shostakovich Symphony No. 1

David Robertson and Deborah Voigt Avery Fisher Hall

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New York Philharmonic june 9, 7:30 p.m. june 10 and 11, 8:00 p.m.

David Robertson, conductor Deborah Voigt, soprano

Shostakovich Symphony No. 1 Rachmaninov The Isle of the Dead Schoenberg Erwartung

New York Philharmonic Ensembles

Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center

june 12, 3:00 p.m.

Mikhail Svetlov Bass (guest artist) Steven Beck Piano (guest artist) Tomoko Kanamaru Piano (guest artist) Ieva Jokubaviciute Piano (guest artist)

Vladimir Tsypin Three Culinary Songs for Voice and Violin György Kurtág Six Bagatelles Glinka Gran sestetto originale Shostakovich Piano Quintet

Ludovic Morlot and Gil Shaham Avery Fisher Hall

june 16, 7:30 p.m. june 17, 11:00 a.m. june 18, 8:00 p.m.

Ludovic Morlot, conductor Gil Shaham, violin

Mussorgsky Prelude to Khovanshchina Walton Concerto for Violin and Orchestra Ravel Pavane pour une infante défunte Mussorgsky/Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition

Saturday Matinee Concert Avery Fisher Hall

june 18, 2:00 p.m.

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New York Philharmonic Mozart String Quintet in D Major, K.593 Ravel Pavane pour une infante défunte Mussorgsky/Ravel Pictures at an Exhibition

Alan Gilbert conducts staged presentation of Janárek’s The Cunning Little Vixen Avery Fisher Hall

june 22 and 23, 7:30 p.m. june 24 and 25, 8:00 p.m.

Alan Gilbert, conductor Douglas Fitch, director and designer Isabel Bayrakdarian, soprano Alan Opie, baritone Marie Lenormand, mezzo-soprano Keith Jameson, tenor

Janárek The Cunning Little Vixen

Contact

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The Public Theater (Oskar Eustis, Artistic New York Premiere Director; Andrew D. Hamingson, Executive Director) was founded by Joseph Papp in 1954 and is now one of the nation’s preeminent cultural institutions, producing new plays, musicals, and productions of classics at its downtown thater and at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. The Public’s mandate to create a theater for all New Yorkers continues to this day onstage and through extensive outreach and education programs.

Each year, over 250,000 people attend Public Theater-related productions and events at six downtown stages, including Joe’s Pub and Shakespeare in the Park. The Public has won 42 Tony Awards, 151 Obies, 41 Drama Desk Awards, and four Pulitzer Prizes. The Public has brought 52 shows to Broadway, including the current Tony Award-winning revival of Hair.

2010-2011 Season Gatz september 26—october 31, 2010

New York Premiere

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The Public Theater ness, an employee finds a copy of The Great Gatsby in the clutter of his desk. He starts to read it out loud, and doesn’t stop. At first his co-workers hardly notice. But after a series of strange coincidences, it’s no longer clear whether he’s reading the book or the book is transforming him.

Gatz is a theatrical and literary tour de force, not a retelling of the Gatsby story but an enactment of the novel itself. Over the course of 6½ hours, Fitzgerald’s American masterpiece is delivered word for word, startlingly brought to life by a low-rent office staff in the midst of their inscrutable business operations. The cast of 13 actors includes Scott Shepherd (The Wooster Group’s Hamlet).

Gatz will be presented as a marathon theatrical event, with two intermissions and a dinner break, four times per week.

In the Wake october 19–november 21, 2010 New York Premiere

By Lisa Kron Directed by Leigh Silverman

“I’ve lost my bearings. I don’t know how to evaluate what’s happening. How do we know when the worst is over?”

Is Ellen referring to her relationship with Danny, or her hope for change? Obie Award winners Lisa Kron and Leigh Silverman (creators of Well) return to The Public with a witty, passionate, and intellectually charged meditation on love and country. In Kron’s inimitable wry style, In the Wake nimbly traverses the switchback turns in our current culture and its politics as its characters struggle to negotiate the seismic changes rocking their personal landscape. Struggling to comprehend an unstable present and an unknowable future, they fail to notice rippling, bobbing reverberations of their actions left behind them in their wake.

The Great Game: Afghanistan november 30–december 19, 2010

New York Premiere/NYU Skirball Center Presented by the Tricycle Theatre Company

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The Public Theater Presented in association with NYU Skirball Center Supported by the British Council Through the eyes of 12 leading British and American playwrights and the voices of those actively involved in the war and on U.S. & NATO policy in Afghanistan, The Tricycle Theatre Company’s The Great Game: Afghanistan explores, in three separate thrilling and provocative evenings, the culture and history of Afghanistan since Western involvement in 1842 to the present day. All three parts can be seen separately and do not need to be experienced in chronological order. This ambitious political and theatrical event was nominated for an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement and unanimously awarded four stars (out of four) by 11 British newspapers.

part 1: invasions & independence—1842–1930

Starts with the first Anglo-Afghan War of 1842 and moves to Afghan independence in the 1920s.

part 2: communism, the mujahideen, & the taliban—1979–1996

Continues the story from the Russian invasion, through to U.S./ CIA arming of the Mujahideen to the coming of the Taliban.

part 3: enduring freedom—1996–2010

Starts with the events of September 9, 2001 in Northern Afghanistan, through the overthrow of Taliban, the aid agencies working in the country, and the current war against the insurgents.

Parts 1, 2, and 3 can be seen separately and not necessarily in chronological order. Trilogy days will be held on weekends.

Compulsion february 1–march 6, 2011

World Premiere Production

By Rinne Groff Directed by Oskar Eustis A co-production with Berkeley Repertory Theatre and Yale Repertory Theatre It is 1951 and Sid Silver is on a mission to be the guardian of one of the most moving and provocative accounts of the 20th century.

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The Public Theater story to the American masses by promoting the book’s publication and adapting the diary into a work of theater. Inspired by the story of Meyer Levin, Compulsion brings playwright Rinne Groff and The Public Theater Artistic Director Oskar Eustis (The Ruby Sunrise) together again with a complex and inventive telling that is part historical fiction, part investigation into what makes a man obsess, and part exploration of an untold dimension of Anne Frank’s powerful and enduring legacy.

The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures march 22–june 12, 2011 New York Premiere

By Tony Kushner Directed by Michael Greif A co-production with Signature Theatre Company in association with The Guthrie Theater

In the summer of 2007, Gus Marcantonio, a retired longshoreman and card-carrying member of the CPUSA (the American Communist Party), summons his children to the family’s Brooklyn brownstone for a series of shocking announcements. As Gus’s kids attempt to address a profound crisis in their difficult father’s difficult life, their own spectacularly messy problems— and spectacularly messed-up lovers, spouses, and exes—follow them home. The play explores revolutionary versus evolutionary change, the history of Italian-American radicalism, sex, sexual identity, prostitution, parenting, politics, theology, real estate, unions of all kinds, and debts both repaid and unpayable.

The Motherf**Ker with the Hat spring 2011

World Premiere

By Stephen Adly Guirgis Presented by LAByrinth Theater Company and The Public Theater A new high-octane, verbal swordfest about love, fidelity, and misplaced haberdashery from Stephen Adly Guirgis (Little Flower of East Orange; The Last Days of Judas Iscariot). Jackie and Veronica have been in love since the 8th grade. But now Jackie is on parole and living clean and sober under the guidance of his 114 guide for the arts 2010-2011

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The Public Theater sponsor, Ralph D, while still living and loving with his volatile soul mate Veronica, who is fiercely loving but far from sober. Still, their love is pure. And true. Nothing can come between them—except a hat. Guirgis, as always, provides an eclectic and lively cast of characters seeking to “put away their childish things,” and their collective quest—and missteps—result in one of Guirgis’ most open-hearted, laugh-out-loud, and poignant plays to date.

also scheduled for next season at the public theater:

The 2010–2011 season will see the fourth year of Public LAB, the vital new play series conceived in association with LAByrinth Theater Company and designed to respond to new work immediately, and to present fresh, raw, and relevant plays that embrace The Public’s history as a theater receptive to the big issues, the public issues of our time. With minimally designed productions and short rehearsal periods, Public LAB gives writers the essential opportunity to develop new work with a director, designers, and actors and to see their work in front of an audience. Tickets to all performances will remain $10.

Under the Radar will return for its seventh year (January 5–16, 2011), showcasing cutting-edge theater from around the world.

About NYU Skirball Center: The Jack H. Skirball Center for the Performing Arts is the premier venue for the presentation of cultural and performing arts events for NYU and lower Manhattan. Led by Executive Producer Jay Oliva (President Emeritus, NYU) and Director Michael Harrington, the programs of the Skirball Center reflect NYU’s mission as an international center of scholarship, defined by excellence and innovation and shaped by an intellectually rich and diverse environment.

Contact

The Public Theater 425 Lafayette Street New York, NY 10003 www.publictheater.org

Tickets

(212) 967-7555 www.guideforthearts.com

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Roundabout Theatre

Since its founding as a non-profit theatre in 1965, Roundabout has maintained a commitment to teaming great theatrical works with some of the industry’s finest artists to re-energize classic plays and musicals. In 1995, the mission was expanded to include the development and production of new works by today’s great writers and composers. The production of these new works, alongside the production of classics, enables Roundabout to embody the crossroads of American theatre.

2010-2011 Season Mrs. Warren’s Profession

by George Bernard Shaw directed by Doug Hughes American Airlines Theatre, 227 West 42nd Street

september 3 – november 28, 2010

Tony Award winner Cherry Jones (Doubt) returns to Broadway in George Bernard Shaw’s scorching tour de force! Mrs. Warren’s Profession tells the story of Kitty Warren, a mother who makes a terrible sacrifice for her daughter Vivie’s independence.

But when Vivie learns the truth, will she forgive her mother or condemn her?

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Roundabout Theatre Brief Encounter

by Noel Coward directed by Emma Rice Studio 54, 254 West 54th Street

september 10 – december 5, 2010 Brief Encounter is the breakout hit from London that transforms Noel Coward’s classic tale of forbidden passion into a jaw-dropping fusion of whimsical humor, dreamy romance, and stunning multimedia effects. Using elements of the beloved film and the play on which it was based, along with song and dance, this ingenious new work is adapted and directed by Emma Rice.

Tigers Be Still

by Kim Rosenstock directed by Sam Gold Harold & Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre—Black Box Theatre, 111 West 46th Street

september 10 – november 21, 2010

Sam Gold (Circle Mirror Transformation) directs this darkly funny and moving world premiere by Kim Rosenstock. Tigers be Still follows the spectacular misadventures of Sherry, a substitute art teacher who, in the midst of mentoring a troubled teen and dealing with a tiger on the loose, faces her biggest challenge yet... getting her sister off the couch. Starring Reed Birney, Halley Feiffer, Natasha Lyonne, and John Magaro.

The Language Archive

by Julia Cho directed by Mark Brokaw Harold & Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre - Laura Pels Theatre, 111 West 46th Street

september 24 – december 19, 2010

Roundabout’s newest commission, Julia Cho’s The Language Archive, is a brilliant comedy about a man devoted to the study of language who struggles to find the right words to save his career... and his marriage. Drama Desk Award winner Mark Brokaw directs.

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Roundabout Theatre Anything Goes

by Cole Porter, Guy Bolton, and P.G. Wodehouse Stephen Sondheim Theatre, 124 West 43rd Street

march 10 – july 21, 2011

When the S.S. American heads out to sea, etiquette and convention head out the portholes as two unlikely pairs set off on the course to true love… proving that sometimes destiny needs a little help from a crew of singing sailors, an exotic disguise and some good old-fashioned blackmail. Peppering this hilariously bumpy ride are some of musical theater’s most memorable standards, including “I Get a Kick out of You,” “You’re the Top,” “It’s De-lovely,” and of course, “Anything Goes.” Starring Sutton Foster

Contact

Roundabout Theatre Administrative Offices 231 West 39th Street, Suite 1200 New York, NY 10018 (212) 719-9393 www.roundabouttheatre.org

Tickets

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Signature Theatre

Signature Theatre Company, founded in 1991 by James Houghton, exists to honor and celebrate the playwright. Signature makes an extended commitment to a playwright’s body of work, and during this journey, the writer is engaged in every aspect of the creative process. Signature is the first theatre company to devote an entire season to the work of a single playwright, including re-examinations of past writings as well as New York and world premieres. By championing in-depth explorations of a living playwright’s body of work, the Company delivers an intimate and immersive journey into the playwright’s singular vision.

Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes part one: millennium approaches part two: perestroika september 14, 2010–february 20, 2011

by Tony Kushner directed by Michael Greif Both parts presented in repertory

Set in late 1985 and early 1986, as the first wave of the AIDS epidemic in America is escalating and Ronald Reagan has been elected to a second term in the White House, Angels in America’s two parts, Millennium Approaches and Perestroika, bring together a young gay man with AIDS and his frightened, unfaithful lover; a closeted Mormon lawyer and his valium-addicted wife; the 120 guide for the arts 2010-2011

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Signature Theatre infamous New York lawyer Roy Cohn; an African-American male nurse; a Mormon housewife from Utah; and a steel-winged, prophecy-bearing angel; as well as the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg; an ancient rabbi; the world’s oldest living Bolshevik; and a Reagan administration functionary, among many others—all played by a company of eight actors. The lives of these disparate characters intersect, intertwine, collide, and are blown apart during a time of heartbreak, reaction, and transformation. Ranging from earth to heaven, from the political to the intimate to the visionary and supernatural, Angels in America is an epic exploration of love, justice, identity, and theology, and of the difficulty, terror, and necessity of change.

Angels in America is made possible by a generous grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Additional support for Angels in America provided by the Laura Pels Foundation

iHo: The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide To Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures march 22–june 12, 2011

by Tony Kushner directed by Michael Greif A co-production with The Public Theatre, in association with The Guthrie Theatre Performances will take place at The Public Theatre In the summer of 2007, Gus Marcantonio, a retired longshoreman, summons his children to the family’s Brooklyn brownstone for a series of shocking announcements. iHo explores revolution, radicalism, marriage, sex, prostitution, politics, real estate, unions of all kinds, and debts both repaid and unpayable.

Michael Greif will also direct this New York premiere after a critically acclaimed production at the Guthrie Theater in 2009.

This production will take place at the Public Theatre.

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Signature Theatre The Illusion april 19–june 12, 2011

by Tony Kushner adapted from Pierre Corneille’s L’lllusion Comique directed by Michael Mayer A lawyer, facing mortality, desperate to find the son he drove away years before, travels in the dead of night to a mysterious cave. There he engages the services of a wizard, who conjures up visions of the romantic, adventurous, perilous life the lawyer’s son has been living since his father expelled him from home. The Illusion, freely adapted from Pierre Corneille’s L’Illusion Comique, is Kushner’s most joyfully theatrical play, a wildly entertaining tale of passion and regret, of love, disillusionment, and magic.

Contact

Signature’s Peter Norton Space 555 West 42nd Street New York, NY 10036 www.signaturetheatre.org

Tickets

(212) 244-7529

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Contact Information Atlantic Theater Company: (212) 691.5919 Carnegie Hall: (212) 247.7800 Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum: (212) 849.8400 The Frick Collection: (212) 288.0700 The Guggenheim: (212) 423.3500 Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts: (212) 875.5999 Manhattan Theatre Club Samuel J. Friedman Theatre and New York City Center: (212) 399.3000 The Metropolitan Opera: (212) 362.6000 The Metropolitan Museum of Art: (212) 535-7710 The Museum of Modern Art: (212) 708.9400 New York City Ballet: (212) 721.6500 New York Philharmonic: (212) 875.5656 The Public Theater: (212) 967.7555 Roundabout Theatre: (212) 719.1300 Signature’s Peter Norton Space: (212) 244.7529

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