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Ambassador to the Arts When it comes to arts and culture, there’s no place in the world quite like New York City. With its incredible range of theaters, museums, galleries, clubs, and concert halls, the diversity found in its neighborhoods, and a scene that has always attracted the finest artists from around the globe, the city’s cultural offerings are seemingly endless. The arts have the power to take us on great journeys of discovery as they inspire, educate, and entertain us. They invite us to step outside of our everyday lives to think, reflect, and gain greater insights into one another and other cultures. What a remarkable gift! As New York City’s 2015 Ambassador for the Arts, and on behalf of Carnegie Hall and the entire NYC arts community – whether you’re a resident or visitor – I encourage you to take advantage of everything that this great city has to offer. Thank you for your continued support, and here’s to another great year of artistic adventures! With all best wishes,
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Ambassador’s Note
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Sponsors
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Publisher’s Note
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American Ballet Theatre
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Atlantic Theater Company
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Carnegie Hall
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Cooper Hewitt Museum
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The Frick Collection
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Lincoln Center
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Manhattan Theatre Club
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
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The Metropolitan Opera
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Museum of Modern Art
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American Ballet Theatre
Gillian Murphy and Marcelo Gomes. AMERICAN BALLET Photo Credit: Gene Schiavone THEATRE is recognized as one of the great dance companies in the world. Few ballet companies equal ABT for its combination of size, scope, and outreach. Recognized as a living national treasure since its founding in 1940, ABT annually tours the United States, performing for more than 600,000 people, and is the only major cultural institution to do so. When American Ballet Theatre was launched in 1939, the aim was to develop a repertoire of the best ballets from the past and to encourage the creation of new works by gifted young choreographers, wherever they might be found. In acquiring such an extraordinary repertoire, ABT has commissioned works by all of the great choreographic geniuses of the 20th century: George Balanchine, Antony Tudor, Jerome Robbins, Agnes de Mille, and Twyla Tharp, among others.Â
MAY 11 – 16, 2015 Metropolitan Opera House ABT CLASSICS Les Sylphides Pillar of Fire Fancy Free
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Theme and Variations Rodeo Jardin aux Lilas
Gillian Murphy and Marcelo Gomes in Pillar of Fire. Photo: Marty Sohl
MAY 18, 2015, 6:30 P.M. Metropolitan Opera House 75TH ANNIVERSARY GALA MAY 19 – 21, 2015 Metropolitan Opera House OTHELLO
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MAY 22 – 28, 2015 Metropolitan Opera House GISELLE
Hee Seo in Giselle. Photo: Gene Schiavone
MAY 29 & 30, 2015 JUNE 8 – 12, 2015 Metropolitan Opera House THE SLEEPING BEAUTY JUNE 1 – 6, 2015 Metropolitan Opera House LA BAYADÈRE JUNE 15 – 20, 2015 Metropolitan Opera House ROMEO AND JULIET
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JUNE 22 – 27, 2015 Metropolitan Opera House SWAN LAKE
Diana Vishneva and Marcelo Gomes in Romeo and Juliet. Photo: Renata Pavam
JUNE 29 – JULY 4, 2015 Metropolitan Opera House CINDERELLA TICKETS & CONTACT American Ballet Theatre 890 Broadway New York, NY 10003 (212) 477-3030 www.abt.org
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Atlantic Theater Company
Linda Gross Theater ATLANTIC THEATER Photo: Nelson Hancock COMPANY is the award-winning off-Broadway theater that produces great plays simply and truthfully by utilizing an artistic ensemble. Atlantic believes that the story of a play and the intent of its playwright are at the core of the creative process. The plays in the Atlantic repertory, from both new and established playwrights, are boldly interpreted by today’s finest theater artists and resonate with contemporary audiences. Producing great plays is only half of Atlantic’s mission. The Atlantic Acting School, founded in 1983, operates as both a private conservatory and an undergraduate program in conjunction with New York University.
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DECEMBER 17, 2014 – JANUARY 25, 2015 Linda Gross Theater DYING FOR IT By MOIRA BUFFINI Directed by NEIL PEPE DYING FOR IT is the story of Semyon, a man down on his luck, married to a nag, and out of options. When he decides to throw in the towel and kill himself, a deluge of sympathetic visitors descends upon him, determined to make him a martyr for their many causes. Swept up in the firestorm of attention, Semyon does take matters into his own hands, but not quite in the fashion that everyone expects. An outrageous satire on the hypocrisy and illogic of Soviet life, this play was banned by Stalin before it ever saw the light of day and is now regarded as an under-known 20th century Poster for Atlantic Theater production classic comedy. of Dying for It. Photo courtesy of Atlantic Theater.
JANUARY 7 – FEBRUARY 8, 2015 Atlantic Stage 2 I’M GONNA PRAY FOR YOU SO HARD By HALLEY FEIFFER Directed by TRIP CULLMAN ELLA IS A precocious and fiercely competitive actress whose sole aim in life is making her famous playwright father David proud. Over the course of a boozy, drug-fueled evening, Ella and David deliberate over whether to read the reviews of her off-Broadway debut… and things unravel from there. Halley Feiffer’s dark,
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probing, and very funny new play pulls the audience into the middle of a deeply complicated relationship and sheds new light on the eternal struggles of parents and children to find common ground. FEBRUARY 25 – APRIL 5, 2015 Linda Gross Theater POSTERITY Written and Directed by DOUG WRIGHT NORWAY’S MOST CELEBRATED sculptor is commissioned to create the last official portrait of her most famous writer, but Henrik Ibsen proves to be an irascible, contentious sitter, as the two men wage war over his legacy and his likeness. With his inimitable wit and insight, Doug Wright explores the nature of artistic success and the fear of being forgotten. MARCH 21 – APRIL 12, 2015 Linda Gross Theater CAMP KAPPAWANNA Music and Lyrics by LISA LOEB, MICHELLE LEWIS & DAN PETTY Book by CUSI CRAM & PETER HIRSCH ATLANTIC FOR KIDS: Following the misadventures of Jenny Jenkins, an awkward and adorable 12-year old kid, Camp Kappawanna portrays the fear and excitement of leaving home for the first time. This lighthearted musical, inspired by Lisa Loeb’s own nostalgic summer camp memories, has an acoustic sound that will take you back to nights spent around the camp fire. MAY 6 – JUNE 14, 2015 Linda Gross Theater GUARDS AT THE TAJ By RAJIV JOSEPH IN 1648 INDIA, two Imperial Guards watch from their post as the sun rises for the first time on the newly completed Taj
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Mahal – an event that shakes their respective worlds. When they are ordered to perform an unthinkable task, the aftermath forces them to question the concept of friendship, beauty, and duty, and changes them forever.
Rajiv Joseph. Photo: Mark Kitaoka
By DAVID MAMET Directed by SCOTT ZIGLER
MAY 27 – JUNE 21, 2015 Atlantic Stage 2 GHOST STORIES: THE SHAWL AND PRAIRIE DU CHIEN
THE SHAWL IS the story of a bereaved woman who consults a smalltime mystic for guidance. As the mystic collects clues to make contact with the dearly departed, will he help this woman through her grief, or merely help himself? In Prairie du Chien, a railroad car speeding through the Wisconsin night is the setting for a story of obsessive jealousy, murder, and suicide, punctuated by a friendly card game that explodes into a moment of menace. TICKETS & CONTACT Linda Gross Theater 336 West 20th Street New York, NY Atlantic Stage 2 330 West 16th Street New York, NY (866) 811-4111 (Tickets) (212) 691-5919 (General) www.atlantictheater.org
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Carnegie Hall
THE MUSIC HALL Carnegie Hall stage. founded by Andrew Carnegie Photo courtesy of Carnegie Hall. opened on May 5, 1891 with a concert featuring the American debut of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, and was at once heralded as a triumph for music and architecture. Designed by William B. Tuthill, the building was a self-contained performing arts complex with three auditoriums, and it quickly became known simply as “Carnegie Hall” in recognition of the great industrialist whose second career in charitable work set a new standard in philanthropy. Today, Carnegie Hall presents more than 180 concerts each year – from orchestral performances, chamber music, recitals, and choral music to folk, world, musical theater, and jazz. The venue is also home to over 500 independently produced events each year. Through the work of The Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall, wide-reaching music education programs serve people in the New York City metropolitan region, across the United States, and around the world, playing a central role in Carnegie Hall’s commitment to making great music accessible to as many people as possible. Continually building on its long-standing tradition of excellence and innovation, Carnegie Hall remains one of the world’s premier concert venues.
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JANUARY 3, 2015, 5:00 P.M. Brooklyn Museum NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT: SNARKY PUPPY JANUARY 11, 2015, 2:00 P.M. Resnick Education Wing CARNEGIE KIDS: SONGS FOR UNUNSUAL CREATURES JANUARY 13, 2015 Weill Recital Hall, 5:30 P.M. THE SONG CONTINUES: SPOTLIGHT RECITAL Zankel Hall, 7:30 P.M. THE SONG CONTINUES: ANNE SOFIE VON OTTER MASTER CLASS JANUARY 14, 2015, 7:30 P.M. Weill Recital Hall THE SONG CONTINUES: WARREN JONES MASTER CLASS JANUARY 15, 2015 Weill Recital Hall, 5:30 P.M. THE SONG CONTINUES: SPOTLIGHT RECITAL Weill Recital Hall, 7:30 P.M. THE SONG CONTINUES: MARILYN HORNE MASTER CLASS Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, 8:00 P.M. ORCHESTRA OF ST. LUKE’S
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JANUARY 17, 2015, 7:30 P.M. Zankel Hall MARILYN HORNE SONG CELEBRATION JANUARY 21, 2015, 7:30 P.M. Weill Recital Hall KRISTÓF BARÁTI JANUARY 22, 2015, 7:00 P.M. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT: GOSPEL ACCORDING TO GREGOIRE MARET JANUARY 23, 2015, 8:00 P.M. Stern Auditorium/ Perelman Stage GIDON KREMER & DANIIL TRIFONOV JANUARY 27, 2015 Zankel Hall, 7:30 P.M. ALEXANDRE THARAUD
Gidon Kremer. Photo: Klaus Rudolph
JANUARY 27 & 28, 2015, 8:00 P.M. Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage MARIINSKY ORCHESTRA JANUARY 30 & 31, 2015, 8:00 P.M. Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FEBRUARY 1, 2015, 2:00 P.M. Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
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FEBRUARY 4, 2015, 7:30 P.M. Zankel Hall STANDARD TIME WITH MICHAEL FEINSTEIN FEBRUARY 5, 2015 Zankel Hall, 7:30 P.M. BRENTANO STRING QUARTET & JOYCE DIDONATO Harlem Stage Gatehouse, 7:30 P.M. NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT: AMBROSE AKINMUSIRE FEBRUARY 7, 2015, 2:00 P.M. Resnick Education Wing CARNEGIE KIDS: THE ITTY BIDDIES FEBRUARY 8, 2015 Stern Auditorium/ Perelman Stage, 3:00 P.M. THE MET ORCHESTRA
James Levine and the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. Photo: Steve J. Sherman
New York Hall of Science, 2:00 P.M. NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT: ROOMFUL OF TEETH FEBRUARY 9, 2015 Weill Recital Hall, 7:30 P.M. RICHARD EGARR Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, 8:00 P.M. THOMAS HAMPSON & WOLFRAM RIEGER
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FEBRUARY 10, 2015, 7:30 P.M. Zankel Hall JANINE JANSEN & ITAMAR GOLAN FEBRUARY 11, 2015, 8:00 P.M. Stern Auditorium/ Perelman Stage DANISH NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA WITH ANNE-SOPHIE MUTTER FEBRUARY 13, 2015 Weill Recital Hall, 7:30 P.M. NATHANIEL OLSON & KEVIN MURPHY
Anne-Sophie Mutter. Photo: Chris Lee
Zankel Hall, 10:00 P.M. VALERIE JUNE FEBRUARY 14, 2015, 8:00 P.M. Stern Auditorium/ Perelman Stage JESSYE NORMAN & MARK MARKHAM FEBRUARY 16, 2015, 7:30 P.M. Weill Recital Hall ENSEMBLE ACJW
Jessye Norman. Photo: Carol Friedman
FEBRUARY 17, 2015, 7:30 P.M. Zankel Hall JAMIE BARTON & BRADLEY MOORE
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FEBRUARY 18, 2015, 7:30 P.M. Weill Recital Hall BEHZOD ABDURAIMOV FEBRUARY 21, 2015 Zankel Hall, 7:30 P.M. THEATRE OF VOICES Resnick Education Wing, 2:00 P.M. JOYCE DIDONATO MASTER CLASS El Museo del Barrio, 4:00 P.M. NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT: MATUTO FEBRUARY 22, 2015 Zankel Hall, 3:00 P.M. RICHARD GOODE & FRIENDS Resnick Education Wing, 2:00 P.M. JOYCE DIDONATO MASTER CLASS Brooklyn Public Library, Central Library NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT: CALDER QUARTET FEBRUARY 23, 2015 Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, 8:00 P.M. MAHLER CHAMBER ORCHESTRA WITH LEIF OVE ANDSNES Resnick Education Wing, 2:00 P.M. JOYCE DIDONATO MASTER CLASS FEBRUARY 25, 2015, 8:00 P.M. Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage MAHLER CHAMBER ORCHESTRA WITH LEIF OVE ANDSNES
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FEBRUARY 27, 2015 Zankel Hall, 7:30 P.M. AMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, 8:00 P.M. VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA FEBRUARY 28, 2015 Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, 8:00 P.M. VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA St. Michael’s Church NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT: ANDREW HAJI & LIZ UPCHURCH MARCH 1, 2015, 2:00 P.M. Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA MARCH 4, 2015, 7:00 P.M. Pregones Theater NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT: NOW ENSEMBLE MARCH 6, 2015 The Bronx Museum of the Arts, 7:30 P.M. NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT: LA SANTA CECILIA Flushing Town Hall, 7:30 P.M. NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT: FRED HERSCH TRIO Zankel Hall, 9:30 P.M. EDMAR CASTAÑEDA TRIO MARCH 7, 2015, 9:00 P.M. Zankel Hall KRONOS QUARTET
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MARCH 8, 2015, 5:00 P.M. Zankel Hall THE MET CHAMBER ENSEMBLE MARCH 9, 2015, 7:30 P.M. Zankel Hall KIRILL GERSTEIN MARCH 10, 2015, 8:00 P.M. Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage SIR ANDRÁS SCHIFF MARCH 11, 2015, 7:30 P.M. Zankel Hall VENICE BAROQUE ORCHESTRA MARCH 12, 2015 Zankel Hall, 7:30 P.M. SASHA COOKE & JULIUS DRAKE Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, 8:00 P.M. SIR ANDRÁS SCHIFF MARCH 13, 2015, 8:00 P.M. Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage THE NEW YORK POPS MARCH 15, 2015, 2:00 P.M. Bronx Library Center CARNEGIE KIDS: SBONGISENI DUMA MARCH 16, 2015 Weill Recital Hall, 7:30 P.M. ELIAS STRING QUARTET Zankel Hall, 7:30 P.M. PIERRE-LAURENT AIMARD & TAMARA STEFANOVICH
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MARCH 18, 2015 Weill Recital Hall, 7:30 P.M. NICHOLAS PHAN Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, 8:00 P.M. THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA
Nicholas Phan. Photo: Face Photography
MARCH 19, 2015, 8:00 P.M. Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage PIOTR ANDERSZEWSKI MARCH 20, 2015, 8:00 P.M. Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage ST. LOUIS SYMPHONY MARCH 21, 2015, 3:00 P.M. LaGuardia Performing Arts Center NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT: SOH DAIKO MARCH 22, 2015, 3:00 P.M. Zankel Hall MEREDITH MONK & FRIENDS
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MARCH 25, 2015 Zankel Hall, 7:30 P.M. STANDARD TIME WITH MICHAEL FEINSTEIN Harlem Stage Gatehouse, 7:30 P.M. NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT: CYRO BAPTISTA’S BANQUET OF THE SPIRITS
Michael Feinstein. Photo: Buck Ennis
MARCH 26, 2015, 7:30 P.M. Zankel Hall RICHARD GOODE & FRIENDS MARCH 27, 2015 Weill Recital Hall, 7:30 P.M. HEIDI STOBER & CRAIG TERRY Resnick Education Wing, 5:00 P.M. RICHARD GOODE MASTER CLASS
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Cooper Hewitt Museum
Cooper-Hewitt Building COOPER HEWITT, Photo: Smithsonian SMITHSONIAN DESIGN MUSEUM is the only museum in the nation devoted exclusively to historic and contemporary design. The Museum presents compelling perspectives on the impact of design on daily life through active educational and curatorial programming. The Museum was founded in 1897 by Amy, Eleanor, and Sarah Hewitt – granddaughters of industrialist Peter Cooper – as part of The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art. A branch of the Smithsonian since 1967, Cooper Hewitt is housed in the landmark Andrew Carnegie Mansion on Fifth Avenue in New York City.
TOOLS: EXTENDING OUR REACH DECEMBER 12, 2014 – MAY 25, 2015 THIS FULL-FLOOR exhibition includes objects from Cooper Hewitt and nine other Smithsonian collections, spanning 1.85 million years of tool use and design, to explore how tools extend the human body – augmenting our ordinary grasp and power, extending the limits of our senses, sometimes even serving as substitutes (in the case of prostheses) – while considering how
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some tools break into our lives as radical innovations, whereas many others have remained almost unchanged in form and function for centuries. BEAUTIFUL USERS DECEMBER 12, 2014 – APRIL 26, 2015 BEAUTIFUL USERS, INSTALLED in Cooper Hewitt’s gracious first-floor Design Process Galleries, will introduce visitors to one of the fundamental changes in design thinking over the past halfcentury: the shift toward designs based on observations of human anatomy and behavior. MAIRA KALMAN SELECTS DECEMBER 12, 2014 – JUNE 15, 2015 MAIRA KALMAN SELECTS will fill the former first-floor Music Room of the Carnegie Mansion with 56 objects from the collections of Cooper Hewitt, other Smithsonian museums, and Kalman herself, arranged by the acclaimed author, artist, and designer to suggest the journey of a life story, from birth through death.
Maira Kalman Selects: A quilted and embroidered Mamluk cap, Egypt, late 13th or early 14th century. Photo: Andrew Garn © Smithsonian Institution
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MAKING DESIGN ONGOING MAKING DESIGN, installed in a suite of renovated galleries on the second floor, is the first in a number of exhibitions devoted to showcasing Cooper Hewitt’s collection. Bringing together some 360 objects, including furniture, lighting fixtures, tableware, clothing, jewelry, books, and posters, the exhibition will provide an overview of five key elements of design: color (red, for this initial installation), form, line, pattern, and texture. DESIGNING THE NEW COOPER HEWITT ONGOING THE MUSEUM ITSELF is a grand design object, as shown in the ground-floor exhibition Designing the New Cooper Hewitt. Design briefs, sketches, photographs, blueprint,s and other illustrations from the team of designers will reveal the process behind three years of renovation and transformation at Cooper Hewitt. HEWITT SISTERS COLLECT ONGOING HEWITT SISTERS COLLECT, the first exhibition to share the remarkable story of Eleanor and Sarah Hewitt, who in 1897 established a museum within Cooper Union, will recognize their central role in the museum’s founding and genesis of the core collection.
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PASSION FOR THE EXOTIC: LOCKWOOD DE FOREST, FREDERIC CHURCH ONGOING ONE OF THE great treasures of the Carnegie Mansion, on the second floor, is the former family library, created by the leading American exponent of the Aesthetic Movement, Lockwood de Forest. MODELS & PROTOTYPES GALLERY ONGOING THE SECOND FLOOR of Cooper Hewitt will also feature a Models & Prototypes gallery, where rotating installations will provide insights into the important role of models in the design process. For the inaugural installation, the gallery will showcase the exceptional models of staircases donated to Cooper Hewitt by Eugene V. and Clare E. Thaw. IMMERSION ROOM ONGOING COOPER HEWITT’S EXTRAORDINARY collection of wallcoverings will be featured in a new high-tech space, the Immersion Room, offering visitors the unprecedented experience of using the “pen” to select digital images of wallpapers or sketch their own design and then project them onto the walls at full scale to see their impact. More than an entertaining interactive experience, the Immersion Room will give museum visitors their first opportunity to discover Cooper Hewitt’s wallcoverings as they were intended to be installed. TICKETS & CONTACT 2 East 91st Street New York, NY 10128 (212) 849-8400 www.cooperhewitt.org
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The Frick Collection
The Living Hall at The Frick THE FRICK COLLECTION Collection. is one of New York City’s most Photo: Michael Bodycomb © The Frick Collection beloved cultural treasures. Here you can learn more about the exceptional works of Western European art from the Renaissance to the end of the 19th century that industrialist Henry Clay Frick generously bequeathed to the public. Remarkable 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.
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ENLIGHTENMENT AND BEAUTY: SCULPTURES BY HOUDON AND CLODION APRIL 1, 2014 – APRIL 5, 2015 JEAN-ANTOINE HOUDON (1741–1828) and Claude Michel, called Clodion (1738–1814), were two of the foremost sculptors in France during the late eighteenth century, and the Frick houses an important group of their works. In 1915, founder Henry Clay Frick acquired Clodion’s terracotta Zephyrus and Flora and, the following year, Houdon’s marble bust of the Comtesse du Cayla. Other works that were subsequently added to the collection will be shown together for the first time, highlighting the artists’ expressive ranges, as well as their defining contributions to the sculpture of Enlightenment-era France. EL GRECO AT THE FRICK COLLECTION NOVEMBER 4, 2014 – FEBRUARY 1, 2015 HENRY CLAY FRICK had a deep appreciation for Spanish painting, particularly the work of El Greco, the extraordinary Greek artist who, after a brief period in Italy, spent most of his life in Toledo, Spain. Frick traveled to Spain twice and acquired three works by the artist between 1905 and 1913.
El Greco, Purification of the Temple, ca. 1600. Oil on canvas, 16 1/2 x 20 5/8 in. Photo: Michael Bodycomb © The Frick Collection
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MASTERPIECES FROM THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL GALLERY NOVEMBER 5, 2014 – FEBRUARY 1, 2015 FROM NOVEMBER 5, 2014, through February 1, 2015, the Frick will present ten masterpieces of painting from the Scottish National Gallery. The museum, one of the finest in the world, is distinguished for its holdings of works by the greatest masters of Western art and for its comprehensive collection of Scottish art. The upcoming exhibition will feature paintings from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries that invite illuminating comparisons to the Frick’s permanent collection. COYPEL’S DON QUIXOTE TAPESTRIES: ILLUSTRATING A SPANISH NOVEL IN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE FEBRUARY 25 – MAY 17, 2015
Charles Coypel, The Arrival of Dancers at the Wedding of Camacho (detail), ca. 1730s–1740s. Tapestry, 123 x 219 inches. Photo: Michael Bodycomb © The Frick Collection
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A MASTERPIECE OF comic fiction, Cervantes’s Don Quixote (fully titled The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha) enjoyed great popularity from the moment it was published, in two volumes, in 1605 and 1615. Reprints and translations spread across Europe, captivating the continental imagination with the escapades of the knight Don Quixote and his companion,
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Sancho Panza. The novel’s most celebrated episodes inspired a multitude of paintings, prints, and interiors. LEIGHTON’S FLAMING JUNE JUNE 9 – SEPTEMBER 6, 2015 THE FRICK COLLECTION will present Sir Frederic Leighton’s celebrated painting Flaming June from the Museo de Arte de Ponce in Puerto Rico. This monumental image of a sleeping woman in a brilliant orange gown is a masterpiece of British painting that has not been seen by New York City audiences in twenty years. Indeed, as a collection highlight of its home institution, the work is seldom lent and is rarely shown in the United States. The work will be installed on a wall in the center of the Oval Room, surrounded by the Frick’s four full-length portraits by James McNeill Whistler, an artist who was part of Leighton’s London circle. TICKETS & CONTACT The Frick Collection 1 East 70th Street New York, NY 10021 (212) 288-0700 www.frick.org
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LINCOLN CENTER WAS Exterior Lincoln Center with LED marquees embedded in the risers of envisioned as a major performing the extended staircase Photo: Robert Mintzes arts center that would develop and present the finest and brightest in all types of performing arts to a diverse audience drawn from all walks of life. Presently, Lincoln Center (Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts) serves three primary roles: world’s leading presenter of superb artistic programming, national leader in arts and education and community relations, and manager of the Lincoln Center campus. In addition, LCPA led a $1.2 billion campus renovation, completed in October 2012.
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GREAT PERFORMERS SERIES JANUARY 18, 2015, 3:00 P.M. Avery Fisher Hall BUDAPEST FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA IVÁN FISCHER, Conductor ISABELLE FAUST, Violin FANNY MENDELSSOHN (ARR. IVÁN FISCHER), Three Songs MENDELSSOHN, Violin Concerto BRAHMS, Symphony No. 3 JANUARY 21, 2015, 8:00 P.M. Avery Fisher Hall BUDAPEST FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA IVÁN FISCHER, Conductor PINCHAS ZUKERMAN, Violin MOZART, Overture to Die Zauberflöte MOZART, Violin Concerto No. 5, “Turkish” BRAHMS, Symphony No. 1
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JANUARY 22, 2015, 7:30 P.M. David Rubenstein Atrium CALIDORE STRING QUARTET MOZART, Divertimento in F major, K. 138 CAROLINE SHAW, Entr’acte MENDELSSOHN, String Quartet No. 2 in A minor JANUARY 25, 2015, 11:00 A.M. Walter Reade Theater PAUL HUANG, Violin JESSICA XYLINA OSBORNE, Piano JANÁCEK, Sonata for Violin and Piano SIBELIUS, Nocturne, Op. 51, No. 3 SARASATE, Romanza Andaluza GRIEG, Sonata No. 3 JANUARY 29, 2015, 7:30 P.M. Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater GARRICK OHLSSON, Piano PROKOFIEV, Four Pieces, Op. 4 RACHMANINOFF, Variations on a Theme of Corelli PROKOFIEV, Four Etudes, Op. 2 SCRIABIN, DÉSIR, Sonata No. 7 (“White Mass”), Sonata No. 5 FEBRUARY 4, 2015, 7:30 P.M. Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater MATTHEW POLENZANI, Tenor JULIUS DRAKE, Piano BEETHOVEN, Adelaide LISZT, Selected Songs, Songs of Victor Hugo RAVEL, Cinq mélodies populaires grecques SATIE, La statue de bronze, Daphénéo, Le chapelier BARBER, Hermit Songs
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FEBRUARY 8, 2015, 11:00 A.M. Walter Reade Theater STEVEN OSBORNE, Piano RACHMANINOFF, Four Etudes-tableaux MUSSORGSKY, Pictures from an Exhibition FEBRUARY 19, 2015, 7:30 P.M. David Rubenstein Atrium DAEDELUS QUARTET BARTÓK, String Quartet No. 2 SIBELIUS, String Quartet in D minor, “Voces intimae” FEBRUARY 22, 2015, 3:00 P.M. Avery Fisher Hall ROTTERDAM PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA YANNICK NÉZET-SÉGUIN, Conductor NICHOLAS ANGELICH, Piano ESCHER, Musique pour l’esprit en deuil BRAHMS, Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY, Symphony No. 5 FEBRUARY 26, 2015, 7:30 P.M. Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater TAKÁCS QUARTET LAWRENCE POWER, Viola SCHUBERT, Quartettsatz MOZART, String Quintet in G minor BEETHOVEN, String Quartet in F major, “Razumovsky”
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FEBRUARY 28, 2015, 7:30 P.M. Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater ORCHESTRA OF THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT ADAM FISCHER, Conductor VIKTORIA MULLOVA, Violin SMETANA, Overture to The Bartered Bride BRAHMS, Violin Concerto DVORÁK, Symphony No. 9, “From the New World” MARCH 2, 2015, 6:30 P.M. Walter Reade Theater GREAT VOICES ON FILM: THEODORA MARCH 4, 2015, 6:30 P.M. Walter Reade Theater GREAT VOICES ON FILM: ALCINA MARCH 4, 2015, 7:30 P.M. Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater JOSHUA BELL, Violin SAM HAYWOOD, Piano MARCH 5, 2015, 7:30 P.M. Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater ANNA CATERINA ANTONACCI, Soprano DONALD SULZEN, Piano BERLIOZ, La mort d’Ophélie DEBUSSY, Le promenoir des deux amants DUPARC, La vie antérieure DUPARC, L’invitation au voyage DEBUSSY, Chansons de Bilitis POULENC, La fraîcheur et le feu POULENC, La voix humaine
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MARCH 8, 2015, 11:00 A.M. Walter Reade Theater LAWRENCE POWER, Viola SIMON CRAWFORD-PHILLIPS, Piano BOWEN, Phantasy BRITTEN, Lachrymae: Reflections on a Song of John Dowland PROKOFIEV (ARR. BORISOVSKY), Eight Pieces from Romeo and Juliet MARCH 18, 2015, 8:00 P.M. Avery Fisher Hall LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA MICHAEL TILSON THOMAS, Conductor YUJA WANG, Piano BRITTEN, Four Sea Interludes, from Peter Grimes GERSHWIN, Concerto in F SIBELIUS, Symphony No. 2 MARCH 19, 2015, 7:30 P.M. Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater TAKÁCS QUARTET JOYCE YANG, Piano DEBUSSY, String Quartet in G minor DVORÁK, Piano Quintet in A major MARCH 26, 2015, 7:30 P.M. David Rubenstein Atrium HEATH QUARTET JANÁCEK, String Quartet No. 2, “Intimate Letters” BEETHOVEN, String Quartet in C-sharp minor, Op. 131 MARCH 30, 2015, 7:30 P.M. Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater LISA BATIASHVILI, Violin PAUL LEWIS, Piano SCHUBERT, Violin Sonata in A major SCHUBERT, Rondo in B minor, “Rondo brilliant” BACH, Violin Sonata in E minor BEETHOVEN, Violin Sonata No. 10 in G major 52
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APRIL 1, 2015, 6:00 P.M. Walter Reade Theater GREAT VOICES ON FILM: MAHAGONNY APRIL 1, 2015, 8:40 P.M. Walter Reade Theater GREAT VOICES ON FILM: SEVEN DEADLY SINS APRIL 12, 2015, 5:00 P.M. Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater SARAH CONNOLLY, Mezzo-soprano JOSEPH MIDDLETON, Piano SCHUBERT, Ellens Gesang I窶的II MAHLER, Rﾃｼckert-Lieder ELGAR, Sea Pictures COPLAND, 12 Poems of Emily Dickinson APRIL 23, 2015, 7:30 P.M. Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater LES ARTS FLORISSANTS LE JARDIN DE VOIX WILLIAM CHRISTIE, Conductor
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Works by Handel, Vivaldi, Scarlatti, Stradella, Steffani, Caldara & Cimarosa APRIL 23, 2015, 7:30 P.M. David Rubenstein Atrium JACK QUARTET CRAWFORD SEEGER, String Quartet “1931” MISSY MAZZOLI, Death Valley Junction JASON ECKHARDT, Ascension JOHN ZORN, The Alchemist
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APRIL 29, 2015, 7:30 P.M. Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater SIMON KEENLYSIDE, Baritone EMANUEL AX, Piano DUPARC, Phidylé, Le manoir de Rosemonde, Chanson triste DEBUSSY, Nuit d’étoiles, Romance: Voici que le printemps, BEAU SOIR, Les angélus, Mandoline POULENC, Le travail du peintre FAURÉ, Mandoline, En sourdine, Green, Aubade, Madrigal, Le papillon et la fleur RAVEL, Histoires naturelles 54
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MAY 7, 2015, 7:30 P.M. Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater EMANUEL AX, Piano BIZET, Variations chromatiques RAMEAU, Pièces de clavecin DEBUSSY, Estampes, Hommage à Rameau, L’isle joyeuse CHOPIN, Four Scherzos MAY 10, 2015, 5:00 P.M. Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater EUROPA GALANTE FABIO BIONDI, Conductor and Violin MOZART, Symphonies Nos. 10, 11, and 13 MONZA, Sinfonia “La Tempesta di Mare” SAMMARTINI, Sinfonia for String Orchestra in G major SCACCIA, Violin Concerto in E-flat major BRIOSCHI, Sinfonia in D major
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JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER JANUARY 9 & 10, 2015, 8:00 P.M. Rose Theater BIRTH OF THE AMERICAN ORCHESTRA JANUARY 16, 2015, 7:00 & 9:30 P.M. JANUARY 17, 2015, 7:00 P.M. The Appel Room BILL FRISELL: WHEN YOU WISH UPON A STAR
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JANUARY 29, 30, & 31, 2015, 8:00 P.M. Rose Theater DUKE, DIZZY, TRANE & MINGUS: JAZZ TITANS FEBRUARY 7, 2015, 1:00 & 3:00 P.M. Rose Theater FAMILY CONCERT: WHO IS BILLIE HOLIDAY? FEBRUARY 13 & 14, 2015, 8:00 P.M. Rose Theater DIANNE REEVES FEBRUARY 20, 2015, 7:00 P.M. FEBRUARY 21, 2015, 9:30 P.M. The Appel Room SHERMAN IRBY’S JOURNEY THROUGH SWING
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FEBRUARY 20 & 21, 2015, 8:00 P.M. Rose Theater NEW ORLEANS SONGBOOK FEBRUARY 20, 2015, 9:30 P.M. FEBRUARY 21, 2015, 7:00 P.M. The Appel Room ELIO VILLAFRANCA’S MUSIC OF THE CARIBBEAN FEBRUARY 27 & 28, 2015, 8:00 P.M. Rose Theater JAZZ ACROSS THE AMERICAS
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MARCH 6, 2015, 7:00 & 9:30 P.M. MARCH 7, 2015, 7:00 P.M. The Appel Room SALUTE TO BETTY CARTER MARCH 27 & 28, 2015, 8:00 P.M. Rose Theater PAQUITO D’RIVERA: AROUND THE AMERICAS APRIL 10, 2015, 7:00 & 9:30 P.M. APRIL 11, 2015, 7:00 P.M. The Appel Room CÉCILE MCLORIN SALVANT SINGS BILLIE HOLIDAY
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APRIL 10 & 11, 2015, 8:00 P.M. Rose Theater CELEBRATING LADY DAY APRIL 15, 2015, 7:00 P.M. APRIL 16, 2015, 7:00 & 9:00 P.M. The Appel Room MICHAEL FEINSTEIN’S ALL OR NOTHING AT ALL: ORIGINS OF A LEGEND APRIL 16, 17 & 18, 2015, 8:00 P.M. Rose Theater CELEBRATING JOE TEMPERLEY: FROM DUKE TO THE JLCO
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APRIL 24 & 25, 2015, 8:00 P.M. Rose Theater JOHN SCOFIELD & TAJ MAHAL CELEBRATE MUDDY WATERS MAY 13, 2015, 7:00 P.M. MAY 14, 2015, 7:00 & 9:00 P.M. The Appel Room
MICHAEL FEINSTEIN’S BLUE EYED SALOON SONGS MAY 14, 15 & 16, 2015, 8:00 P.M. Rose Theater WAYNE SHORTER
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MAY 15, 2015, 7:00 & 9:30 P.M. MAY 16, 2015, 7:00 P.M. The Appel Room SOUND PRINTS QUINTET MAY 29, 2015, 7:00 & 9:30 P.M. MAY 30, 2015, 7:00 P.M. The Appel Room BILL FRISELL: UP & DOWN THE MISSISSIPPI MAY 30, 2015, 8:00 P.M. Rose Theater THE ARTISTRY OF MAX ROACH WITH ALI JACKSON
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JUNE 10, 2015, 7:00 P.M. JUNE 11, 2015, 7:00 & 9:00 P.M. The Appel Room MICHAEL FEINSTEIN’S SWINGING SONGS FOR LOVERS JUNE 12 & 13, 2015, 8:00 P.M. Rose Theater THE MUSIC OF PUENTE, MACHITO & HENRIQUEZ AMERICAN SONGBOOK SERIES JANUARY 28, 2015, 7:30 & 9:30 P.M. The Appel Room JAMES NAUGHTON: THE SONGS OF RANDY NEWMAN JANUARY 29, 2015, 8:30 P.M. The Appel Room LAWRENCE BROWNLEE: SPIRITUAL SKETCHES
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JANUARY 31, 2015, 7:30 & 9:30 P.M. The Appel Room PATINA MILLER FEBRUARY 1, 2015, 8:30 P.M. The Appel Room HEARTBREAK COUNTRY: MICHAEL JOHN LACHIUSA’S STORIES OF AMERICA FEBRUARY 12, 2015, 8:30 P.M. The Appel Room SARAH JAROSZ & THE MILK CARTON KIDS FEBRUARY 13, 2015, 8:30 P.M. The Appel Room THE SONGS OF HENRY KRIEGER FEBRUARY 14, 2015, 8:30 P.M. The Appel Room BETH ORTON FEBRUARY 15, 2015, 8:30 P.M. The Appel Room JONATHAN GROFF FEBRUARY 19, 2015, 8:30 P.M. The Appel Room MARTY STUART & CONNIE SMITH FEBRUARY 20, 2015, 8:30 P.M. The Appel Room JESSICA MOLASKEY SINGS JONI MITCHELL FEBRUARY 21, 2015, 8:30 P.M. The Appel Room AOIFE O’DONOVAN Aoife O’Donovan Photo: Shawn Brackbill
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FEBRUARY 22, 2015, 8:30 P.M. The Appel Room ANN HARADA MARCH 5, 2015, 8:30 P.M. The Appel Room TAYLOR MAC: THE 1920S MARCH 6, 2015, 8:30 P.M. The Appel Room DEER TICK MARCH 7, 2015, 8:30 P.M. The Appel Room JIM CARUSO’S CAST PARTY GOES TO THE MOVIES MARCH 8, 2015, 8:30 P.M. The Appel Room NORM LEWIS
Norm Lewis. Photo: Walter McBride/Getty Images
TICKETS & CONTACT 70 Lincoln Center Plaza New York, NY 10023 (212) 875-5000 (General) (212) 721-6500 (Tickets) www.lincolncenter.org
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Manhattan Theatre Club. UNDER THE DYNAMIC Photo: Poulin & Morris leadership of Artistic Director Lynne Meadow and Executive Producer Barry Grove, Manhattan Theatre Club has grown in four decades from a prolific off-off Broadway showcase into one of the country’s most acclaimed theatre organizations. MTC’s mission is to produce a season of innovative work with a series of productions as broad and diverse as New York itself, and to encourage significant new work by creating an environment in which writers and theatre artists are supported by the finest professionals producing theatre today.
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DECEMBER 16, 2014 – MARCH 15, 2015 Broadway – Samuel J. Friedman Theatre CONSTELLATIONS By NICK PAYNE Directed by MICHAEL LONGHURST Featuring JAKE GYLLENHAAL & RUTH WILSON THIS MIND-BENDING, romantic journey begins with a simple encounter between a man and a woman (Gyllenhaal and Wilson). But what happens next defies the boundaries of the world we think we know – delving into the infinite possibilities of their relationship and raising questions about the difference between choice and destiny. FEBRUARY 3 – APRIL 5, 2015 Off-Broadway – New York City Center Stage I THE WORLD OF EXTREME HAPPINESS By FRANCES YA-CHU COWHIG Directed by ERIC TING Featuring RUY ISKANDAR, FRANCIS JUE, DONALD LI & JENNIFER LIM UNWANTED FROM THE moment she’s born, Sunny is determined to escape her life in rural China and forge a new identity in the city. As naïve as she is ambitious, Sunny views her new job in a grueling factory as a stepping stone to untold opportunities. When fate casts her as a company spokeswoman at a sham PR event, Sunny’s bright outlook starts to unravel in a series of harrowing and darkly comic events, as she begins to question a system enriching itself by destroying its own people.
Jennifer Lim starring in The World of Extreme Happiness. Photo: Liz Lauren
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APRIL 1 – JUNE 14, 2015 Broadway – Samuel J. Friedman Theatre AIRLINE HIGHWAY By LISA D’AMOUR Directed by JOE MANTELLO IN THE PARKING lot of The Hummingbird, a once-glamorous motel on New Orleans’ infamous Airline Highway, a group of friends gather. A rag-tag collection of strippers, hustlers and philosophers have come together to celebrate the life of Miss Ruby, an iconic burlesque performer who has requested a funeral before she dies. The party rages through the night as old friends resurface to pay their respects. Airline Highway is a boisterous and moving ode to the outcasts that make life a little more interesting. MAY 26 – JULY 26, 2015 Off-Broadway – New York City Center Stage I THE SWING OF THE SEA By RICHARD GREENBERG Directed by LYNNE MEADOW PATRIARCH MAX HAS died, leaving behind two sons, Brett and Alec, and a lover Vivi. All three reunite for one evening in Vivi’s New York apartment. Secrets, passions, and ghosts of the past emerge for this trio as each of them faces an uncertain future.
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TICKETS & CONTACT The Samuel J. Friedman Theatre 261 West 47th Street (between Broadway and 8th Avenue) New York, NY 10036 For tickets, visit Telecharge.com or call (212) 239-6200 Stage I At Ny City Center 131 West 55th Street (between 6th and 7th Avenues) New York, NY 10019 For tickets, visit NYCityCenter.org or call CityTix速 at (212) 581-1212 www.manhattantheatreclub.com
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Metropolitan Museum of Art façade. THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM Photo courtesy J. Phelan of Art was founded on April 13, Construction 1870 with the goal “to be located in the City of New York for the purpose of establishing and maintaining in said city a Museum and library of art, of encouraging and developing the study of the fine arts, and the application of arts to manufacture and practical life, of advancing the general knowledge of kindred subjects, and, to that end, of furnishing popular instruction” (Charter of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1870). The mission of The Metropolitan Museum of Art is to collect, preserve, study, exhibit, and stimulate appreciation for, and advance knowledge of, works of art that collectively represent the broadest spectrum of human achievement at the highest level of quality, all in the service of the public and in accordance with the highest professional standards.
BARTHOLOMEUS SPRANGER: SPLENDOR AND EROTICISM IN IMPERIAL PRAGUE NOVEMBER 4, 2014 – FEBRUARY 1, 2015 THE FIRST MAJOR exhibition devoted to Bartholomeus Spranger (1546–1611), a fascinating artist who served a cardinal, a pope, and two Holy Roman Emperors. This exhibition examines Spranger’s remarkable career through a selection of his rare paintings, drawings, and etchings, most of which are on loan from
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international museums and private collections. Spranger emerged as one of the most prominent artists at the court of Rudolf II in Prague and the most significant Northern Mannerist artist of his generation. Adding a unique dimension to the exhibition are works by artists who helped shape Spranger’s artistic horizon. DEATH BECOMES HER: A CENTURY OF MOURNING ATTIRE OCTOBER 21, 2014 – FEBRUARY 1, 2015 THIS COSTUME INSTITUTE exhibition explores the aesthetic development and cultural implications of mourning fashions of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Approximately thirty ensembles, many of which are being exhibited for the first time, reveal the impact of high-fashion standards on the sartorial dictates of bereavement rituals as they evolved over a century. The thematic exhibition is organized chronologically and features mourning dress from 1815 to 1915, primarily from The Costume Institute’s collection, including mourning gowns worn by Queen Victoria and Queen Alexandra. The calendar of bereavement’s evolution and cultural implications is illuminated through women’s clothing and accessories, showing the progression of appropriate fabrics from mourning crape to corded silks, and the later introduction of color with shades of gray and mauve.
Mourning ensemble, ca. 1870, American, Silk. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009, Gift of Martha Woodward Weber, 1930 (2009.300.633a–c)
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CUBISM: THE LEONARD A. LAUDER COLLECTION OCTOBER 20, 2014 – FEBRUARY 16, 2015 CUBISM, THE MOST influential art movement of the early twentieth century, still resonates today. It destroyed traditional illusionism in painting and radically changed the way we see the world. The Leonard A. Lauder Collection, unsurpassed in its holdings of Cubist art, is now a promised gift to the Museum. On the occasion of this exhibition, the Collection is being shown in public for the first time – eighty-one paintings, collages, drawings, and sculpture by the four preeminent Cubist artists: Georges Braque (French, 1882–1963), Juan Gris (Spanish, 1887–1927), Fernand Léger (French, 1881–1955), and Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973). MADAME CÉZANNE NOVEMBER 19, 2014 – MARCH 15, 2015 THIS EXHIBITION OF paintings, drawings, and watercolors by Paul Cézanne (French, 1839–1906) traces his lifelong attachment to Hortense Fiquet (French, 1850–1922), his wife, the mother of his only son, and his most painted model. Featuring twenty-four of the artist’s twenty-nine known portraits of Hortense, including Madame Cézanne in the Conservatory (1891) and Madame Cézanne in a Red Dress (1888–90), both from the Metropolitan Museum’s collection, the exhibition explores the profound impact she had on Cézanne’s portrait practice. The works on view were painted over a period of more than twenty years, but despite this long liaison, Hortense Fiquet’s prevailing presence is often disregarded and frequently diminished in the narrative of Cézanne’s life and work. Her expression in the painted portraits has been variously described as remote, inscrutable, dismissive, and even surly. And yet the portraits are at once alluring and confounding, recording a complex working dialogue that this unprecedented exhibition and accompanying publication explore on many levels.
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THOMAS HART BENTON’S AMERICA TODAY MURAL REDISCOVERED SEPTEMBER 30, 2014 – APRIL 19, 2015
Thomas Hart Benton, City Activities with Dance Hall from America Today (detail), 1930–31, Mural cycle consisting of ten panels, Egg tempera with oil glazing over Permalba on a gesso ground on linen mounted to wood panels with a honeycomb interior. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of AXA Equitable, 2012
THIS EXHIBITION CELEBRATES the gift of Thomas Hart Benton’s epic mural America Today from AXA Equitable Life Insurance Company to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in December 2012. Benton (1889–1975) painted this mural for New York’s New School for Social Research to adorn the school’s boardroom in its International Style modernist building on West 12th Street. Showing a sweeping panorama of American life throughout the 1920s, America Today ranks among Benton’s most renowned works and is one of the most remarkable accomplishments in American art of the period.
TULLIO LOMBARDO’S ADAM: A MASTERPIECE RESTORED NOVEMBER 11, 2014 – JUNE 14, 2015 THE LIFE-SIZE MARBLE statue of Adam, carved by Tullio Lombardo (Italian, ca. 1455–1532), is among the most important works of art from Renaissance Venice to be found outside that city today. Made in the early 1490s for the tomb of Doge Andrea Vendramin, it is the only signed sculpture from that monumental complex. The serene, idealized figure, inspired by ancient sculpture, is deceptively complex. Carefully manipulating composition and finish, Tullio created God’s perfect
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human being, but also the anxious victim of the serpent’s wiles. In 2002, Adam was gravely damaged in an accident. Committed to returning it to public view, the Museum undertook a conservation treatment that has restored the sculpture to its original appearance to the fullest extent possible. The exhibition allows Adam to be viewed in the round and explains this unprecedented twelve-year research and conservation project. TREASURES FROM INDIA: JEWELS FROM THE AL-THANI COLLECTION OCTOBER 28, 2014 – JANUARY 25, 2015 THIS EXHIBITION OF some sixty jeweled objects from the private collection formed by Sheikh Hamad bin Abdullah Al-Thani provides a glimpse into the evolving styles of the jeweled arts in India from the Mughal period until the present day, with emphasis on later exchanges with the West. EL GRECO IN NEW YORK NOVEMBER 4, 2014 – FEBRUARY 1, 2015 TO COMMEMORATE THE four-hundredth anniversary of the death of El Greco, the Metropolitan Museum and the Hispanic Society of America are pooling their collections of the work of this great painter to provide a panorama of his art unrivaled outside the Museo del Prado in Madrid. The Frick Collection is displaying its paintings contemporaneously. This is a unique opportunity to see this artist’s work, which exerted such a strong impact on modern painting and especially appealed to New York collectors. CARLETON WATKINS: YOSEMITE NOVEMBER 3, 2014 – FEBRUARY 1, 2015 CARLETON WATKINS (1829–1916) was the consummate photographer of the American West. Born in Oneonta, New York, he moved to California in 1849, taught himself the new medium of photography, and established his reputation in 1861 with an astonishing series of views of Yosemite Valley. It was partly due to the artistry and rugged beauty of these photographs that President Lincoln signed a bill on June 30, 1864, declaring the
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valley inviolate and initiating the blueprint for the nation’s National Park System. In the middle of the brutal Civil War and its destruction of man and land, Lincoln saw the preservation of a small but extraordinary piece of America’s wilderness as a progressive goal to share with the republic. THOMAS STRUTH: PHOTOGRAPHS SEPTEMBER 29, 2014 – FEBRUARY 16, 2015
Carleton Watkins, Upper Yosemite Fall, Yosemite, 1865–66, Albumen silver print from glass negative. Lent by Department of Special Collections, Stanford University
THIS EXHIBITION CELEBRATES the Museum’s unparalleled holdings of photographs by Thomas Struth (German, born 1954), one of the most important and influential photographers of the last half-century. Featuring recent and previously unseen works as well as two key loans from local collections, the installation showcases how Struth explores the traditions and actual conditions of our world on the cusp of this newly global millennium. THE WINCHESTER BIBLE: A MASTERPIECE OF MEDIEVAL ART DECEMBER 9, 2014 – MARCH 8, 2015
THIS EXHIBITION FEATURES masterfully illuminated pages from two volumes of the magnificent, lavishly ornamented Winchester Bible. Probably commissioned around 1150 by the wealthy and powerful Henry of Blois (about 1098–1171), who was the bishop of Winchester (and grandson of William the Conqueror and King Stephen’s brother), the manuscript is the Winchester Cathedral’s single greatest surviving treasure. Renovations at the Cathedral provide the opportunity for these pages, which feature the Old Testament, to travel to New York. This presentation marks the first time the work will be shown in the United States. At the 72
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Metropolitan Museum, the pages of one bound volume will be turned once each month; three unbound bi-folios with lavish initials from the other volume – which is currently undergoing conservation – will be on view simultaneously for the duration of the exhibition. COLORS OF THE UNIVERSE: CHINESE HARDSTONE CARVINGS DECEMBER 11, 2013 – MARCH 8, 2015 STONE CARVING IS one of the oldest arts in China; its beginnings dating back to remote antiquity. Although jade, the mineral nephrite, was held in the highest esteem, all stones that could achieve a luster after polishing, be it agate, turquoise, malachite, chalcedony, quartz, jasper, or lapis lazuli, were also appreciated. Stone carving experienced an efflorescence during the Qing dynasty (1644–1911), when an abundant supply of raw materials, exceptionally accomplished craftsmen, and, in particular, keen imperial patronage contributed to the creation of numerous superb works. MAKING POTTERY ART: THE ROBERT A. ELLISON JR. COLLECTION OF FRENCH CERAMICS (CA. 1880–1910) FEBRUARY 4, 2014 – MARCH 15, 2015 TECHNICALLY EXPERIMENTAL and aesthetically ambitious, the vases made by French potters in the years around 1900 pushed the boundaries of the ceramic medium. The recently acquired Robert A. Ellison Jr. Collection of European Art Pottery includes pieces by the master ceramists Ernest Chaplet, Auguste Delaherche, and Jean Carriès, and works that are imposing in size, beautiful in shape, and dazzling in their glazes. These works are shown with others that inspired them, ranging from Asian ceramics to German stoneware.
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PAPER CHASE: TWO DECADES OF COLLECTING DRAWINGS AND PRINTS DECEMBER 9, 2014 – MARCH 16, 2015 THIS EXHIBITION OF works of art on paper pays tribute to the esteemed connoisseur and brilliant curator George R. Goldner, Drue Heinz Chairman of the Department of Drawings and Prints since 1993, who will be stepping down in early 2015. Under Goldner’s leadership, the Department of Drawings and Prints has acquired – through purchases, gifts, and bequests – some 8,200 works on paper from Europe and the Americas dating from about 1370 to the present. These acquisitions Paul Gauguin, Tahitian Faces (Frontal range from famous works such View and Profiles), ca. 1899, Charcoal on laid paper. The Metropolitan Museum of as Leonardo da Vinci’s studies Art, New York, Purchase, The Annenberg for a statue of Hercules to Foundation Gift, 1996 (1996.418) those more esoteric such as Hans Christian Andersen’s A Whole Cut Fairy Tale. There are rare works such as the subtle engraving The Queen of Flowers by the Master of the Playing Cards and exceptional examples of an artist’s oeuvre such as the majestic drawing Queen Esther Approaching the Palace of Ahasuerus by Claude Lorrain. INNOVATION AND SPECTACLE: CHINESE RITUAL BRONZES OCTOBER 18, 2014 – MARCH 22, 2015 THIS EXHIBITION FEATURES three spectacular ritual vessels from the fifth century b.c. that have never before been displayed together outside China. Lent by the Shanghai Museum, these
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wine vessels – a pair of pear-shaped containers and a unique four-legged vessel in the form of a fantastic buffalo – exemplify the artistic sophistication and technical virtuosity of the Houma foundry, a major center of bronze casting in the Eastern Zhou dynasty (770–256 b.c.). The bronzes are accompanied by two ceramic mold fragments, illustrating how the bronzes’ intricate surface décor was achieved, and by a small number of related bronzes from the Metropolitan’s collection. PAINTING WITH THREADS: CHINESE TAPESTRY AND EMBROIDERY, 12TH–19TH CENTURY OCTOBER 25, 2014 – MARCH 29, 2015 THE THINNESS AND strength of silk make it the ideal material for weaving or embroidering elegant, painting-like images characterized by fluid outlines, rich colors, and even the addition of calligraphic inscriptions and seals. Drawn from the Metropolitan’s superb holdings of Chinese tapestries and embroideries, this installation, which features several pieces not exhibited previously, presents dramatic landscapes, flowers and birds, famous immortals, and stunning examples of calligraphy, showcasing the artistic imagination and technical sophistication of China’s textile artists. SUMPTUOUS: EAST ASIAN LACQUER, 14TH–20TH CENTURY OCTOBER 25, 2014 – MARCH 29, 2015 FOR MORE THAN two millennia, lacquer has been a primary medium in the arts of East Asia. This installation explores the many ways in which this material has been manipulated to create designs by painting, carving, or inlaying precious materials such as gold or mother-of-pearl. Drawn entirely from the permanent collection, this display celebrates the artistry and creativity needed to work this demanding material, while illustrating both the similarities and differences found in the lacquer arts of China, Korea, and Japan.
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SELECTIONS FROM THE COLLECTION OF JEFFERSON R. BURDICK OCTOBER 6, 2014 – APRIL 9, 2015 THE BURDICK BASEBALL CARD collection constitutes an integral part of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection of ephemera and tells the history of popular printmaking in the United States. In 1947, after having approached A. Hyatt Mayor, the Museum’s curator of prints and photographs, the Syracuse electrician Jefferson R. Burdick (1900–1963) began to donate his entire collection of approximately thirty thousand baseball cards in large batches, along with another 270,000 trade and postcards, to the Museum. CELEBRATING SAX: INSTRUMENTS AND INNOVATION NOVEMBER 6, 2014 – APRIL 30, 2015
Toole, Pitcher, Brooklyn, from the Old Judge series (N172) for Old Judge Cigarettes, issued by Goodwin & Company, 1887–90, Albumen photograph. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Jefferson R. Burdick Collection, Gift of Jefferson R. Burdick (Burdick 214, N172.207)
THIS SPECIAL DISPLAY of instruments made by three generations of the Sax family marks the bicentenary of the birth of Adolphe Sax. Rare saxophones, brass instruments, and an exquisite ivory clarinet are among the twenty-six instruments selected to showcase the inventions and innovations of this important family. COPTIC ART, DIKRAN KELEKIAN, AND MILTON AVERY AUGUST 11, 2014 – SEPTEMBER 7, 2015 A 1943 PORTRAIT by the renowned modern American painter Milton Avery (1885–1965) of his friend Dikran Kelekian – a noted collector of modern paintings, Coptic, and Islamic art,
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and an influential dealer in Middle Eastern art of all periods – is the centerpiece of this installation. It is shown alongside twenty textiles and decorative objects created in Egypt between 300 and 800 A.D. Many are from the collection of works from Egypt that Kelekian began to acquire in the late 1800s. In addition to textile fragments, the installation includes a statuette, a necklace, and a comb. WARRIORS AND MOTHERS: EPIC MBEMBE ART DECEMBER 9, 2014 – SEPTEMBER 7, 2015 THE FIGURES CREATED by Mbembe master carvers from southeastern Nigeria are among the earliest and most visually dramatic wood sculptures preserved from sub-Saharan Africa. Created between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, and striking for their synthesis of intense rawness and poetry, these representations of seated figures – mothers nurturing their offspring and aggressive male warriors – were originally an integral part of monumental carved drums positioned at the epicenter of spiritual life, the heartbeat of Mbembe communities. When these electrifying creations were presented for the first time in a Paris gallery in 1974, they immediately caught the attention of the art world. That exhibition was a groundbreaking event that revealed a tradition unlike any that had defined African art until then. Dispersed internationally among private and institutional collections, these works will be reunited in New York for the first time in this exhibition. ARMS AND ARMOR: NOTABLE ACQUISITIONS 2003–2014 NOVEMBER 11, 2014 – DECEMBER 6, 2015 THE PERMANENT COLLECTION of the Department of Arms and Armor is one of the most encyclopedic in the world. To highlight the ongoing development of the collection’s multicultural and interdisciplinary nature, this exhibition focuses on approximately forty works from Europe, the United States, Japan, India, and Tibet acquired between 2003 and 2014. Beyond the wellestablished categories of finely decorated armor, edged weapons, and firearms, the selection features drawings and prints, textiles,
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and other materials that are vital, but often unrecognized, aspects of the understanding and appreciation of arms and armor as a universal art form. Works on paper, textiles, and other select pieces will be rotated two to three times during the course of the exhibition. SOL LEWITT: WALL DRAWING #370 JUNE 30, 2014 – JANUARY 3, 2016 SOL LEWITT (American, 1928–2007) executed drawings by hand throughout his life; in 1968, he extricated his work from the confines of the frame and transferred it directly to the wall. The wall compositions were designed for limited duration and maximum flexibility within a broad range of architectural settings. Initially executed by drafters, these works in their finished state were most often slated for destruction. A seminal practitioner of Conceptual Art, LeWitt emphasized the creative idea that generates a work of art, as opposed to the work’s material existence. “For each work of art that becomes physical,” he wrote, “there are many variations that do not.” FABERGÉ FROM THE MATILDA GEDDINGS GRAY FOUNDATION COLLECTION NOVEMBER 22, 2011 – NOVEMBER 27, 2016 LOUISIANA HEIRESS AND philanthropist Matilda Geddings Gray (1885–1971) acquired her first object by Fabergé in 1933. An artist herself, with a refined aesthetic sensibility, she was a sophisticated collector, while the name of the Russian artist-jeweler Peter Carl Fabergé (1846–1920) was almost unknown in the United States. Over the following years, Matilda Geddings Gray amassed one of the finest Fabergé collections in the world, and Fabergé’s art has become widely known and internationally sought after. A selection of works by Fabergé from Matilda Geddings Gray’s sumptuous collection is on long-term loan at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and comprises this exhibition. Objects originally commissioned by and created for the Romanov family, such as the Lilies-of-the-Valley Basket – the most important Fabergé work in a U. S. collection – and three magnificent Imperial Easter Eggs, are on view. The exhibition 78
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will display works from the collection on a rotating schedule for five years. Iconic works from the House of Fabergé have not been on public view in New York since 2004. Imperial Napoleonic Egg. Gold, guilloché enamel, rose-cut diamond, platinum, ivory, gouache, velvet, silk. House of Fabergé. Workmaster: Henrik Emanuel Wigström (Finnish, 1862–1923). Miniaturist: Vassily Ivanovich Zuiev Russian (Saint Petersburg), 1912. Matilda Geddings Gray Foundation (L.2011.66.57a–c)
PAINTING MUSIC IN THE AGE OF CARAVAGGIO JANUARY 20 – APRIL 5, 2015 THIS EXHIBITION POSES the question: What did people “hear” when they looked at paintings of musical performances by Caravaggio and his contemporaries? There is no doubt that these pictures had an intentionally aural, as well as visual, component; silent music is their theme. The period during which the three paintings on view in the exhibition – Caravaggio’s The Musicians, Valentin de Boulogne’s The Lute Player, and Laurent de La Hyre’s Allegory of Music – were created witnessed the birth of opera and the promotion of the solo voice performed by professional singers rather than amateurs. It also witnessed the creation of new instruments that challenged the primacy of
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the lute. The exhibition pairs the three paintings with musical instruments similar to those depicted, and an audio component allows visitors to hear music played on them. BAZM AND RAZM: FEAST AND FIGHT IN PERSIAN ART FEBRUARY 17 – MAY 31, 2015 FOR CENTURIES, PERSIAN kingship was epitomized by two complementary pursuits: bazm (feast) and razm (fight). The ruler’s success as both a reveler and hunter/warrior distinguished him as a worthy and legitimate sovereign. The pairing of bazm and razm as the ultimate royal activities is an ancient concept with roots in pre-Islamic Iran. It is a recurring theme in the Shahnama (or Book of Kings) – the Persian national epic – as well as other poetic and historic texts. This exhibition will feature some three dozen works of art in various media, created between the fifteenth century and the present day. Works from the Museum’s Department of Islamic Art that illustrate the linked nature of bazm and razm will be displayed alongside corresponding works – primarily Persian – from the departments of Asian Art, Arms and Armor, and Musical Instruments. The exhibition will chart the gradual shift in meaning and usage of this pairing as it emerged from a strictly royal, or princely, context and became more widespread. THE PLAINS INDIANS: ARTISTS OF EARTH AND SKY MARCH 9 – MAY 10, 2015 THIS EXHIBITION WILL UNITE Plains Indian masterworks found in European and North American collections, from pre-contact to contemporary, ranging from a two-thousand-year-old humaneffigy stone pipe to contemporary paintings, photographs, and a video-installation piece. Works of art collected centuries ago by French traders and travelers will be seen together with those acquired by Lewis and Clark on their famous expedition of 1804–06, along with objects from the early reservation period and recent works created in dialogue with traditional forms and ideas. The distinct Plains aesthetic – singular, ephemeral, and materially rich – will be revealed through an array of forms and media: painting and drawing; sculptural works in stone, wood,
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antler, and shell; porcupine-quill and glass-bead embroidery; feather work; painted robes depicting figures and geometric shapes; richly ornamented clothing; composite works; and ceremonial objects. Many nations, including Osage, Quapaw, Omaha, Crow, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Lakota, Blackfeet, Pawnee, Kiowa, Comanche, and Meskwaki, will be represented. SULTANS OF DECCAN INDIA, 1500–1700: OPULENCE AND FANTASY APRIL 20 – JULY 26, 2015 THE DECCAN PLATEAU of south-central India was home to a succession of highly cultured Muslim kingdoms with a rich artistic heritage. Under their patronage in the sixteenth and Attributed to the Bombay painter (probably seventeenth centuries, named Abdul Hamid Naqqash). Sultan ‘Ali ‘Adil Shah II Shooting an Arrow at a foreign influences – notably Tiger (detail), ca. 1660, Bijapur, Ink, opaque from Iran, Turkey, eastern watercolor, gold and probably lapis lazuli pigment on paper. The Ashmolean Museum, Africa, and Europe – Oxford. Lent by Howard Hodgkin combined with ancient and prevailing Indian traditions to create a distinctive Indo-Islamic art and culture. This exhibition will bring together some 165 of the finest works from major international, private, and royal collections. Featuring many remarkable loans from India, the exhibition – which is the most comprehensive museum presentation on this subject to date – will explore the unmistakable character of classical Deccani art in various media: poetic lyricism in painting, lively creations in metalwork, and a distinguished tradition of textile production.
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CHINA: THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS MAY 7 – AUGUST 16, 2015 THIS EXHIBITION, PRESENTED in the Museum’s Chinese Galleries and Anna Wintour Costume Center, will explore how China has fueled the fashionable imagination for centuries, resulting in highly creative distortions of cultural realities and mythologies. High fashion will be juxtaposed with Chinese costumes, paintings, porcelains, and other art, as well as films, to reveal enchanting reflections of Chinese imagery. The exhibition will feature more than one hundred examples of haute couture and avant-garde ready-to-wear alongside Chinese art. Filmic representations of Roberto Cavalli, Evening dress, fall/winter 2005–6. China will be incorporated Photo © PlatonLent by Howard Hodgkin throughout to reveal how our visions of China are framed by narratives that draw upon popular culture, and also to recognize the importance of cinema as a medium through which to understand the richness of Chinese history. TICKETS & CONTACT The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue New York, NY 10028-0198 (212) 535-7710 The Cloisters Museum and Gardens 99 Margaret Corbin Drive Fort Tryon Park New York, NY 10040 (212) 923-3700 www.metmuseum.org 82
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James Levine conducts the THE METROPOLITAN OPERA Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. is a vibrant home for the most Photo: AP creative and talented artists, including singers, conductors, composers, orchestra musicians, stage directors, designers, visual artists, choreographers, and dancers from around the world. Known as the venue for the world’s greatest voices, the Met has been under the musical direction of James Levine since 1976. Maestro Levine is credited with having created one of opera’s finest orchestras and choruses. Each season the Met stages more than 200 opera performances in New York. More than 800,000 people attend the performances in the opera house during the season, and millions more experience the Met through new media distribution initiatives and state-of-the-art technology.
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JANUARY 1, 2015, 6:00 P.M. JANUARY 3, 2015, 1:00 P.M. JANUARY 8, 2015, 7:30 P.M. HANSEL AND GRETEL Music by ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK Libretto by ADELHEID WETTE RETURNING FOR THE holidays, this season’s family entertainment is Richard Jones’s witty production of Humperdinck’s fairy-tale opera, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis, in which two children face off against a wicked witch. In a lush setting of giant chefs, suit-clad trees, and an industrial kitchen where the Witch gets what’s coming to her, Aleksandra Kurzak as Gretel and Christine Rice as Hansel will lead a visual and delightful feast for our younger patrons. JANUARY 2 & 5, 2015, 7:30 P.M. JANUARY 10, 2015, 1:00 P.M. APRIL 9, 2015, 8:00 P.M. APRIL 13, 17 & 20, 2015, 7:30 P.M. AIDA Music by GIUSEPPE VERDI Libretto by ANTONIO GHISLANZONI GRAND OPERA AT its grandest: the splendors of ancient Egypt return to the stage of the Met. Verdi’s mythic love triangle features Liudmyla Monastyrska, Tamara Wilson, and Oksana Dyka sharing the title role, with Olga Borodina and Violeta Liudmyla Monastyrska in Verdi’s Aida. Urmana as Amneris Photo: Marty Sohl/Metropolitan Opera and Marcello Giordani and Marco Berti singing Radamès. Marco Armiliato and Plácido Domingo share conducting duties.
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JANUARY 3, 2015, 8:00 P.M. JANUARY 6, 9 & 13, 2015, 7:30 P.M. JANUARY 17, 2015, 1:00 P.M. JANUARY 20, 23 & 28, 2015, 7:30 P.M. JANUARY 31, 2015, 8:00 P.M. APRIL 24, 27 & 30, 2015, 7:30 P.M. MAY 7, 2015, 7:30 P.M. THE MERRY WIDOW Music by FRANZ LEHÁR Libretto by VIKTOR LÉON AND LEO STEIN THE GREAT RENÉE FLEMING stars as the beguiling femme fatale who captivates all Paris in Lehár’s enchanting operetta, seen in a new staging by Broadway virtuoso director and choreographer Susan Stroman (The Producers, Oklahoma!, Contact). Stroman and her design team of Julian Crouch (Satyagraha, The Enchanted Island) and costume designer William Ivey Long (Cinderella, Grey Gardens, Hairspray) have created an art-nouveau setting that climaxes with singing and dancing grisettes at the legendary Maxim’s. Nathan Gunn co-stars as Danilo and Kelli O’Hara is Valencienne. Mezzo-soprano diva Susan Graham takes on the title role later in the run. Sir Andrew Davis and Fabio Luisi conduct.
Renée Fleming stars in Lehár’s The Merry Widow. Photo: Andrew Eccles/Decca
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JANUARY 7 & 14, 2015, 7:30 P.M. JANUARY 10, 2015, 8:30 P.M. JANUARY 17, 21 & 24, 2015, 8:00 P.M.
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Music by GIUSEPPE VERDI Libretto by FRANCESCO MARIA PIAVE VERDI’S CONSUMPTIVE COURTESAN returns in Willy Decker’s timeless setting. Marina Poplavskaya, who originated the title heroine in this striking production, and the rising soprano Marina Rebeka share the role of Violetta. Stephen Costello and Francesco Demuro are Alfredo, Ludovic Tézier is Germont, and Marco Armiliato conducts. JANUARY 12, 16, 22 & 27, 2015, 7:30 P.M. JANUARY 31, 2015, 1:00 P.M. FEBRUARY 5, 2015, 7:30 P.M. FEBRUARY 28, 2015, 8:00 P.M. MARCH 5 & 18, 2015, 7:30 P.M. MARCH 11, 14 & 21, 2015, 8:00 P.M. LES CONTES D’HOFFMANN Music by JACQUES OFFENBACH Libretto by JULES BARBIER VITTORIO GRIGOLO AND Matthew Polenzani take turns playing the tortured poet and unwitting adventurer of the title. The roles of the three heroines are shared by an impressive lineup of singing actresses, including Hibla Gerzmava, Susanna Phillips, Erin Morley, Audrey Luna, Christine Rice, and Elena Maximova. Thomas Hampson sings the Four Villains, and James Levine and Yves Abel conduct Offenbach’s sparkling score.
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Vittorio Grigolo shares the leading role in Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann. Photo: Alex D. James
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JANUARY 15 & 19, 2015, 7:30 P.M. JANUARY 24, 2015, 1:00 P.M. LA BOHÈME Music by GIACOMO PUCCINI Libretto by GIUSEPPE GIACOSA AND LUIGI ILLICA FRANCO ZEFFIRELLI’S CLASSIC take on Puccini’s most popular opera, the immortal tale of tragic young love, is set among the rooftops of bohemian Paris. The role of the fragile Mimì is shared by Angela Gheorghiu, Kristine Opolais, and Hei-Kyung Hong; the love-sick poet Rodolfo is sung by Bryan Hymel and Ramón Vargas; Riccardo Frizza conducts. JANUARY 26, 2015, 8:00 P.M. (New Production Gala) JANUARY 29, 2015, 7:30 P.M. FEBRUARY 3, 10 & 18, 2015, 7:30 P.M. FEBRUARY 7 & 21, 2015, 8:00 P.M. FEBRUARY 14, 2015, 12:30 P.M. IOLANTA / BLUEBEARD’S CASTLE Music by PETER TCHAIKOVSKY / BÉLA BARTÓK Libretto by MODEST TCHAIKOVSKY / BÉLA BALÁZS ON THE HEELS of her triumphant Met performances as Tatiana in Eugene Onegin, soprano Anna Netrebko takes on another Tchaikovsky heroine in the first opera of this intriguing double bill, consisting of an enchanting fairy tale Anna Netrebko plays the leading role in Tchaikovsky’s Iolanta. (Iolanta) followed by an erotic Photo: Dario Acosta psychological thriller (Bluebeard’s Castle). Netrebko stars as the beautiful blind girl who experiences love for the first time in Iolanta, while Nadja Michael is the unwitting victim of the diabolical Bluebeard, played by Mikhail Petrenko. Both operas are directed by Mariusz Trelinski, who was
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inspired by classic noir films of the 1940s. Iolanta also stars Piotr Beczala, and Maestro Valery Gergiev conducts both operas. FEBRUARY 4, 11, 17, 24 & 27, 2015, 7:30 P.M. FEBRUARY 7 & 21, 2015, 12:30 P.M. FEBRUARY 14, 2015, 8:00 P.M. MARCH 2 & 6, 2015, 7:30 P.M. DON GIOVANNI Music by WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART Libretto by LORENZO DA PONTE THE MAGNETIC PETER MATTEI is Don Giovanni, performing alongside the starry ensemble of Elza van den Heever, Emma Bell, and Luca Pisaroni. New York Philharmonic Music Director Alan Gilbert crosses the Lincoln Center Plaza to conduct. FEBRUARY 6, 9, 13, 19, 23 & 26, 2015, 7:30 P.M. MARCH 4, 2015, 7:30 P.M. MARCH 7, 2015, 1:00 P.M. CARMEN Music by GEORGES BIZET Libretto by HENRI MEILHAC AND LUDOVIC HALÉVY RICHARD EYRE’S STUNNING production returns with two of its great leading ladies, Elina Garanca and Anita Rachvelishvili, who share the title role of the ill-fated temptress. Aleksandrs Antonenko, Roberto Alagna, and Jonas Kaufmann take turns playing Carmen’s desperate lover, Don José. Pablo Heras-Casado and Louis Langrée share conducting duties. FEBRUARY 16, 2015, 8:00 P.M. FEBRUARY 20 & 25, 2015, 7:30 P.M. FEBRUARY 28, 2015, 1:00 P.M. MARCH 3 & 10, 2015, 7:30 P.M. MARCH 7, 2015, 8:00 P.M. MARCH 14, 2015, 1:00 P.M. LA DONNA DEL LAGO Music by GIOACHINO ROSSINI Libretto by ANDREA LEONE TOTTOLA
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JOYCE DIDONATO AND Juan Diego Flórez join forces for this Rossini showcase of bel canto virtuosity, set in the medieval Scottish highlands. DiDonato is the “lady of the lake” of the title, and Flórez is the king who relentlessly pursues her, with their vocal fireworks embellishing the tragic plot. This Met premiere production is directed by Paul Curran and conducted by Michele Mariotti. MARCH 9, 12, 17 & 25, 2015, 7:30 P.M. MARCH 21, 2015, 12:20 P.M. MARCH 28, 2015, 8:00 P.M. MANON Music by JULES MASSENET Libretto by HENRI MEILHAC AND PHILIPPE GILLE THE VOCALLY HIGH-FLYING soprano Diana Damrau sings her first Met performances of Massenet’s beguiling heroine, opposite the ardent tenor Vittorio Grigolo, in Laurent Pelly’s elegant production, conducted by Emmanuel Villaume. MARCH 16, 19 & 24, 2015, 7:30 P.M. MARCH 18, 2015, 12:00 P.M. APRIL 1, 7 & 10, 2015, 7:30 P.M. APRIL 4, 2015, 8:00 P.M. LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR Music by GAETANO DONIZETTI Libretto by SALVADORE CAMMARANO NEW COLORATURA TALENT Albina Shagimuratova sings bel canto’s unhinged bride, delivering opera’s most thrilling mad scene. Joseph Calleja is her tragic lover. Mary Zimmerman’s production evokes the moors and castles of Scotland for Donizetti’s melodic journey of love and deception, conducted by Maurizio Benini.
Albina Shagimuratova stars in Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor. Photo: Andrei Bogdanov
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MARCH 20, 23, 26 & 31, 2015, 7:30 P.M. APRIL 4, 2015, 1:00 P.M. APRIL 8, 2015, 7:30 P.M. APRIL 11, 2015, 8:30 P.M. ERNANI Music by GIUSEPPE VERDI Libretto by FRANCESCO MARIA PIAVE JAMES LEVINE AND Plácido Domingo reunite for Levine’s first Met Ernani since 1983 and Domingo’s first-ever performances of the baritone role of Don Carlo. Francesco Meli stars in the title role, and Angela Meade is the soprano heroine Elvira, caught between rivals for her love. MARCH 30, 2015, 7:00 P.M. APRIL 2, 6, 15, 22 & 25, 2015, 7:00 P.M. APRIL 11 & 18, 2015, 12:00 P.M. DON CARLO Music by GUISEPPE VERDI Libretto by FRANCOIS JOSEPH MÉRY AND CAMILLE DU LOCLE DYNAMIC MAESTRO YANNICK NÉZET-SÉGUIN conducts Verdi’s ambitious score with a stand-out cast in Nicholas Hytner’s handsome production. Yonghoon Lee sings the title role, with Barbara Frittoli, Ekaterina Gubanova, Simon Keenlyside, James Morris, and Ferruccio Furlanetto, reprising his definitive portrayal of King Philip.
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Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Verdi’s Don Carlo. Photo: Klaus Rudolph
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APRIL 14, 2015, 8:00 P.M. (New Production Gala) APRIL 18, 2015, 8:30 P.M. APRIL 21 & 29, 2015, 7:30 P.M. APRIL 25, 2015, 12:30 P.M. MAY 2, 2015, 8:30 P.M. MAY 5 & 8, 2015, 7:30 P.M. CAVELLERIA RUSTICANA / PAGLIACCI Music by PIETRO MASCAGNI / RUGGERO LEONCAVALLO Libretto by GIOVANNI TARGIONI-TOZZETTI AND GUIDO MENASCI / RUGGERO LEONCAVALLO OPERA’S MOST ENDURING tragic double bill returns in an evocative new production from Sir David McVicar (Giulio Cesare, Maria Stuarda, Il Trovatore), who sets the verismo action across two time periods but in the same Sicilian setting. Marcelo Álvarez rises to the challenge of playing the dual tenor roles of Turiddu in Cavalleria Rusticana and Canio in Pagliacci. Rae Smith (War Horse) has designed the moodily atmospheric 1900 village square setting of Cavalleria Rusticana, which transforms to a 1948 truck stop for the doomed vaudeville troupe of Pagliacci. Eva-Maria Westbroek (Cav) and Patricia Racette (Pag) play the unlucky heroines. Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi is on the podium. APRIL 23 & 28, 2015, 7:30 P.M. MAY 2, 2015, 1:00 P.M. MAY 6, 2015, 7:30 P.M. MAY 9, 2015, 8:00 P.M. UN BALLO IN MASCHERA Music by GIUSEPPE VERDI Libretto by ANTONIO SOMMA TENOR PIOTR BECZALA sings King Gustavo for the first time at the Met in his very first collaboration with Music Director James Levine. Sondra Radvanovsky, Beczala plays King Gustavo in Dolora Zajick, and Dmitri Hvorostovsky PiotrVerdi’s Un Ballo in Maschera. reprise their acclaimed interpretations Photo: Kurt Pinter) in the revival of David Alden’s film noirinspired production.
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MAY 1 & 4, 2015, 7:30 P.M. MAY 9, 2015, 1:00 P.M. THE RAKE’S PROGRESS Music by IGOR STRAVINSKY Libretto by W. H. AUDEN AND CHESTER KALLMAN JAMES LEVINE REVISITS one of his favorite 20th-century classics: Stravinsky’s only full-length opera, with its wondrous neo-classical score, back on the Met stage for the first time in 12 years. Paul Appleby adds another leading role as Tom Rakewell, opposite Layla Claire as Anne Trulove, Stephanie Blythe as the bearded lady Baba the Turk, and Gerald Finley as the devilish Nick Shadow.
Stephanie Blythe is bearded lady Baba the Turk in Stravinsky’s The Rake's Progress. Photo by Jack Vartoogian © 2014 The Metropolitan Opera.
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MOMA entrance. FOUNDED IN 1929 as Photo: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg an educational institution, The Museum of Modern Art is dedicated to being the foremost museum of modern art in the world. Through the leadership of its Trustees and staff, 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.
In sum, The Museum of Modern Art seeks 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, while being accessible to a public that ranges from scholars to young children.
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ROBERT GOBER: THE HEART IS NOT A METAPHOR OCTOBER 4, 2014 – JANUARY 18, 2015 THE HEART IS NOT A METAPHOR is the first large-scale survey of Robert Gober’s career to take place in the United States. Gober (American, b. 1954) rose to prominence in the mid-1980s and was quickly acknowledged as one of the most significant artists of his generation. Featuring loans from institutions and private collections in North America and Europe, along with selections from the artist’s collection, the exhibition includes around 130 works across several mediums, including individual sculptures and immersive sculptural environments, and a distinctive body of drawings, prints, and photographs. The loosely chronological presentation traces the development of this remarkable body of work, highlighting themes and motifs that emerged in the early 1980s and continue to inform Gober’s work today. THE PARIS OF TOULOUSELAUTREC: PRINTS AND POSTERS JULY 26, 2014 – MARCH 22, 2015 A PREEMINENT ARTIST of Belle Époque Paris, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901) brought the language of the late-19th-century avant-garde to a broad public through his famous posters, prints, and illustrations for journals and magazines. A cultural nexus, he connected artists, performers, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (French, authors, intellectuals, and 1864–1901). Jane Avril. 1899. Lithograph, sheet: 22 1/16 x 15"(56 society figures of his day, creating x 38.1 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. a bridge between the brothels and Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, society salons of the moment. His work allows entry into many facets of Parisian life, from politics to visual culture and the rise of popular entertainment in the form 98
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of cabarets and café-concerts. This exhibition, drawn almost exclusively from The Museum of Modern Art’s stellar collection of posters, lithographs, printed ephemera, and illustrated books, is the first MoMA exhibition in 30 years dedicated solely to Lautrec, and features over 100 examples of the best-known works created during the apex of his career. HENRY MATISSE: THE CUT-OUTS OCTOBER 12, 2014 – FEBRUARY 8, 2015 IN THE LATE 1940S, Henri Matisse turned almost exclusively to cut paper as his primary medium, and scissors as his chief implement, introducing a radically new operation that came to be called a cut-out. Matisse would cut painted sheets into forms of varying shapes and sizes – from the vegetal to the abstract – which he then arranged into lively compositions, striking for their play with color and contrast, their exploitation of decorative strategies, and their economy of means. Initially, these compositions were of modest size but, over time, their scale grew along with Matisse’s ambitions for them, expanding into mural or room-size works. A brilliant final chapter in Matisse’s long career, the cut-outs reflect both a renewed commitment to form and color and an inventiveness directed to the status of the work of art, whether as a unique object, environment, ornament, or a hybrid of all of these. BILL MORRISON: RE-COMPOSITIONS OCTOBER 14, 2014 – MARCH 31, 2015 IN CONJUNCTION WITH Bill Morrison: Compositions, a retrospective selection of films by Bill Morrison will be presented as a flat-screen installation in the Ronald S. and Jo Carole Lauder Building Lobby. This selection includes short, single-channel films, usually created from a single source, presented in six looping programs of thematically linked work. The programs will rotate on a monthly basis through March 2015, and will include split-screen or mirrored compositions, adaptations of vintage feature films, and silent documentaries.
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JEAN DUBUFFET: SOUL OF THE UNDERGROUND OCTOBER 18, 2014 – APRIL 5, 2015 JEAN DUBUFFET (FRENCH, 1901–1985) maintained a rebellious attitude toward prevailing notions of high culture, beauty, and good taste, and was a relentless innovator from the time he committed himself to art making in the early 1940s. Jean Dubuffet: Soul of the Underground, the first monographic presentation on the artist at MoMA in over 25 years, illuminates Dubuffet’s radical experimentation with form and material by focusing on the key moment in his career, from the 1940s to the mid-1960s. 100 YEARS IN POSTPRODUCTION: RESURRECTING A LOST LANDMARK OF BLACK FILM HISTORY OCTOBER 24, 2014 – MARCH 31, 2015
Jean Dubuffet (French, 1901– 1985). Le Vin de barbe. 1959. Torn-and-pasted paper with ink and ink transfer on paper, composition and sheet: 20 x 13 1/4" (50.8 x 33.6 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Nina and Gordon Bunshaft Bequest, 1995. © 2014 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris
UNEDITED FOOTAGE FOR an unreleased black-cast feature film, originally shot in 1913 and recently discovered in MoMA’s Biograph collection, are the subject of this installation. New York producers Klaw & Erlanger mounted the untitled project at virtually the same time that D. W. Griffith began his racist
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epic The Birth of a Nation, but they abandoned the seven reels of exposed film in postproduction, leaving buried within it unique photographic documentation of its black cast and white crew on the set. Blending minstrel and contemporary performance styles in its telling of recycled race narratives, the work documents the effort by a community of virtuoso performers to achieve increased visibility in a time of segregation. Using a series of digital movingimage excerpts from the 35mm camera negative and still frames recovered from the unassembled material, this premiere installation stages a close reading of suppressed moments from the struggle for minority access to visual media. MOMA ART LAB: PLACES AND SPACES OCTOBER 30, 2014 – AUGUST 31, 2015 TRANSPORT YOURSELF! DISCOVER landscapes, cityscapes, real places, and imagined spaces. In the Lab visitors of all ages can design, draw, build, and create as we explore places and space in modern and contemporary art. STURTEVANT: DOUBLE TROUBLE NOVEMBER 9, 2014 – FEBRUARY 22, 2015 STURTEVANT (AMERICAN, 1924–2014) has been “repeating” the works of her contemporaries since 1964, using some of the most iconic artworks of her generation as a source and catalyst for the exploration of originality, authorship, and the interior structures of art and image culture. Beginning with her versions of works by Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol, Sturtevant initially turned the visual logic of
Sturtevant. Haring Tag July 15 1981. 1985. Sumi ink and acrylic on cloth, 9 13/16 × 12 13/16" (25 × 32.5 cm). Estate Sturtevant, Paris. Courtesy Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris–Salzburg. Photo: Prallen Allsten. © Estate Sturtevant, Paris
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Pop art back on itself, probing uncomfortably at the workings of art history in real time. Yet her chameleon-like embrace of other artists’ art has also resulted in her being largely overlooked in the history of postwar American art. As a woman making versions of the work of better-known male artists, she has passed almost unnoticed through the hierarchies of mid-century modernism and postmodernism, at once absent from these histories while nevertheless articulating their structures. MAKING MUSIC MODERN: DESIGN FOR EYE AND EAR NOVEMBER 15, 2014 – NOVEMBER 15, 2015 MUSIC AND DESIGN – art forms that share aesthetics of rhythm, tonality, harmony, interaction, and improvisation – have long had a close affinity, perhaps never more so than during the 20th century. Radical design and technological innovations, from the LP to the iPod and from the transistor radio to the Stratocaster, have profoundly altered our sense of how music can be performed, heard, distributed, and visualized. Avant-garde designers – among them Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Lilly Reich, Saul Bass, Jørn Utzon, and Daniel Libeskind – have pushed the boundaries of their design work in tandem with the music of their time. Drawn entirely from the Museum’s collection, Making Music Modern gathers designs for auditoriums, instruments, and equipment for listening to music, along with posters, record sleeves, sheet music, and animation. The exhibition examines alternative music cultures of the early 20th century, the rise of radio during the interwar period, how design shaped the “cool” aesthetic of midcentury jazz and hi-fidelity culture, and its role in countercultural music scenes from pop to punk, and later 20thcentury design explorations at the intersection of art, technology, and perception. UNEVEN GROWTH: TACTICAL URBANISMS FOR EXPANDING MEGACITIES NOVEMBER 22, 2014 – MAY 10, 2015 IN 2030, THE world’s population will be a staggering eight billion people. Of these, two-thirds will live in cities. Most will be poor. With limited resources, this uneven growth will be one of the
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greatest challenges faced by societies across the globe. Over the next years, city authorities, urban planners and designers, economists, and many others will have to join forces to avoid major social and economic catastrophes, working together to ensure these expanding megacities will remain habitable. To engage this international debate, Uneven Growth brings together six interdisciplinary teams of researchers and practitioners to examine new architectural possibilities for six global metropolises: Hong Kong, Istanbul, Lagos, Mumbai, New York, and Rio de Janeiro. Following the same model as the Rising Currents and Foreclosed, each team will develop proposals for a specific city in a series of workshops that occur over the course of a 14-month initiative. MODERN PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE THOMAS WALTHER COLLECTION, 1909–1949 DECEMBER 13, 2014 – APRIL 26, 2015 THE CREATIVE POSSIBILITIES explored through photography were never richer or more varied than in the years between the First and Second World Wars, when photographers approached figuration, abstraction, and architecture with unmatched imaginative fervor. This vital moment is dramatically captured in the more than 300 photographs that constitute the Thomas Walther Collection at The Museum of Modern Art. This remarkable group of objects is presented together for the first time to coincide with the culmination of the Thomas Walther Collection Project – a four-year collaboration between the Museum’s curatorial and conservation staff, funded by
Willi Ruge (German, 1882– 1961). Seconds Before Landing, from the series I Photograph Myself during a Parachute Jump. 1931. Gelatin silver print, 8 1/16 × 5 9/16" (20.4 × 14.1 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Thomas Walther Collection. Gift of Thomas Walther
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the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, which has transformed our understanding of the medium’s material history from this era. Featuring iconic works by such towering figures as Berenice Abbott, Karl Blossfeldt, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Claude Cahun, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Florence Henri, André Kertész, Germaine Krull, El Lissitzky, Lucia Moholy, László Moholy-Nagy, Aleksandr Rodchenko, Alfred Stieglitz, Paul Strand, Maurice Tabard Umbo, and Edward Weston, along with lesser-known treasures by more than 100 other practitioners, this exhibition presents the exhilarating story of this key moment in photography’s history, allowing both experts and those less familiar with the medium to understand these photographs in new ways. THE FOREVER NOW: CONTEMPORARY PAINTING IN AN ATEMPORAL WORLD DECEMBER 14, 2014 – APRIL 5, 2015 FOREVER NOW PRESENTS the work of 17 artists whose paintings reflect a singular approach that characterizes our cultural moment at the beginning of this new millennium: they refuse to allow us to define or even meter our time by them. This phenomenon in culture was first identified by the science fiction writer William Gibson, who used the term “a-temporality” to describe a cultural product of our moment that paradoxically doesn’t represent, through style, through content, or through medium, the time from which it comes. A-temporality, or timelessness, manifests itself in painting as an ahistorical freefor-all, where contemporaneity as an indicator of new form is nowhere to be found, and all eras coexist. This profligate mixing of past styles and genres can be identified as a kind of hallmark for our moment in painting, with artists achieving it by reanimating historical styles or recreating a contemporary version of them, sampling motifs from across the timeline of 20th-century art in a single painting or across an oeuvre, or radically paring their language down to the most archetypal forms.
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BJÖRK MARCH 7 – JUNE 7, 2015 THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART presents a full-scale retrospective dedicated to the multifaceted work of the composer, musician, and artist Björk. The exhibition draws from more than 20 years of the artist’s daring and adventurous projects and her seven full-length albums – from Debut (1993) Still from the “All Is Full of Love” music video. 1999. Directed by Chris to Biophilia (2011) – to chronicle Cunningham. Music by Björk. her career through sound, film, Image courtesy of One Little Indian visuals, instruments, objects, costumes, and performance. The installation will present a narrative, both biographical and imaginatively fictitious, cowritten by Björk and the acclaimed Icelandic writer Sjón Sigurdsson. Björk’s collaborations with video directors, photographers, fashion designers, and artists will be featured, and the exhibition culminates with a newly commissioned, immersive music and film experience conceived and realized with director Andrew Thomas Huang and 3-D design leader Autodesk. LATIN AMERICA IN CONSTRUCTION: ARCHITECTURE 1955–1980 MARCH 29 – JULY 12, 2015 IN 1955 THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART staged Latin American Architecture since 1945, a landmark survey of modern architecture in Latin America. On the 60th anniversary of that important show, the Museum returns to the region to offer a complex overview of the positions, debates, and architectural creativity from Mexico and Cuba to the Southern Cone between 1955 and the early 1980s.
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FROM BAUHAUS TO BUENOS AIRES: GRETE STERN AND HORACIO COPPOLA MAY 23 – SEPTEMBER 13, 2015 FROM BAUHAUS TO BUENOS AIRES: GRETE STERN AND HORACIO COPPOLA is the first major exhibition to focus on the German-born Grete Stern and the Argentinean Horacio Coppola, two leading figures of avant-garde photography who established themselves on both sides of the Atlantic. The exhibition begins in the late 1920s with each artist’s initial forays into photography and typographic design. In Berlin in 1927, Stern began taking private classes with Walter Peterhans, who was soon to become head of photography at the Bauhaus. A year later, in Peterhans’s studio, she met Ellen (Rosenberg) Auerbach, with whom she opened a pioneering studio specializing in portraiture and advertising. Named after their childhood nicknames, the studio ringl + pit embraced both commercial and avant-garde loyalties, creating proto-feminist works. In Buenos Aires during the same period, Coppola initiated his photographic experimentations, exploring his surroundings and contributing to the discourse on modernist practices across media in local cultural magazines. In 1929 he founded the Buenos Aires Film Club to introduce the most innovative foreign films to Argentine audiences. His early works show the burgeoning interest in new modes of photographic expression that led him to the Bauhaus in 1932, where he met Stern and they began their joint history. ZOE LEONARD: ANALOGUE JUNE 27 – SEPTEMBER 7, 2015 THIS EXHIBITION PRESENTS Zoe Leonard’s Analogue – a landmark photographic project conceived over the course of a decade – which documents, in 412 color and black-and-white photographs, the eclipsed texture of 20th-century urban life as seen in little bodegas, mom-and-pop stores with decaying facades and quirky handwritten signs, and shop windows displaying a mixed assortment of products. Tapping the traditions of documentary and conceptual photography, Leonard’s project is positioned within the genealogy of the grand visual archives that extend from Eugène Atget’s Paris “then and now,” to
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August Sander’s Face of Our Time, to Bernd and Hilla Becher’s typologies of vernacular architecture.
Zoe Leonard (American, b. 1961). Chapter 17 from Analogue. 1998–2007. Twelve chromogenic color prints from 412 prints, each 11 x 11" (27.9 x 27.9 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Acquired through the generosity of The Contemporary Arts Council of The Museum of Modern Art, the Fund for the Twenty-First Century, The Modern Women's Fund, and Carol Appel
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Members of the New York City NEW YORK CITY BALLET Ballet perform. is one of the foremost dance Photo: Andrea Mohin companies in the world, with a roster of spectacular dancers and an unparalleled repertory. The Company was founded in 1948 by George Balanchine and Lincoln Kirstein, and it quickly became world-renowned for its athletic and contemporary style. Jerome Robbins joined NYCB the following year and, with Balanchine, helped to build the astounding repertory and firmly establish the Company in New York. Following Balanchine’s death in 1983, Jerome Robbins and Peter Martins were named Co-Ballet Masters in Chief, and since 1990 Mr. Martins has assumed sole responsibility for the Company’s artistic direction. Like Balanchine, Mr. Martins believes that choreographic exploration is what sustains the Company and the art form itself, and NYCB continues to present new work as an ongoing part of its performance seasons. Widely acknowledged for its enduring contributions to dance, NYCB is committed to promoting creative excellence and nurturing a new generation of dancers and choreographers.
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JANUARY 20, 2015, 7:30 P.M. JANUARY 24, 2015, 8:00 P.M. JANUARY 25, 2015, 3:00 P.M. JANUARY 31, 2015, 2:00 P.M. FEBRUARY 12, 2015, 7:30 P.M. ALL BALANCHINE I: CLASSIC COMBINATION Serenade Agon Symphony in C
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JANUARY 21 & 27, 2015, 7:30 P.M. JANUARY 23 & 30, 2015, 8:00 P.M. FEBRUARY 1, 2015, 3:00 P.M. HEAR THE DANCE: RUSSIA Symphonic Dances The Cage Andantino Cortège Hongrois
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JANUARY 22 & 28, 2015, 7:30 P.M. JANUARY 24, 2015, 2:00 P.M. FEBRUARY 3, 2015, 7:30 P.M. FEBRUARY 28, 2015, 8:00 P.M. ALL BALANCHINE II Donizetti Variations La Valse Chaconne JANUARY 29, 2015, 7:30 P.M. JANUARY 31, 2015, 8:00 P.M. FEBRUARY 5, 2015, 7:30 P.M. ALL BACH, HERE THE DANCE: GERMANY Concerto Barocco The Goldberg Variations
Members of the New York City Ballet performing The Goldberg Variations. Photo: Paul Kolnik
FEBRUARY 4, 10 & 11, 2015, 7:30 P.M. FEBRUARY 8, 2015, 3:00 P.M. FEBRUARY 27, 2015, 8:00 P.M. NEW COMBINATIONS Pictures at an Exhibition New Copland/Peck Mercurial Manoeuvres
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FEBRUARY 6, 2015, 8:00 P.M. CLASSIC NYCB Hallelujah Junction A Place for Us The Goldberg Variations FEBRUARY 7, 2015, 2:00 P.M. FEBRUARY 17, 19 & 26, 2015, 7:30 P.M. HEAR THE DANCE: AMERICA Hallelujah Junction A Place for Us Interplay Glass Pieces
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FEBRUARY 13, 14, 20 & 21, 2015, 8:00 P.M. FEBRUARY 14 & 21, 2015, 2:00 P.M. FEBRUARY 15 & 22, 2015, 3:00 P.M. FEBRUARY 15, 2015, 7:30 P.M. ROMEO & JULIET FEBRUARY 18, 24 & 25, 2015, 7:30 P.M. FEBRUARY 28, 2015, 2:00 P.M. MARCH 1, 2015, 3:00 P.M. ALL BALANCHINE III, HEAR THE DANCE: ITALY Square Dance Harlequinade
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APRIL 28, 2015, 7:30 P.M. MAY 2, 2015, 2:00 P.M. BALANCHINE: BLACK & WHITE I Monumentum pro Gesualdo Movements for Piano and Orchestra Concerto Barocco Episodes The Four Temperaments MAY 1, 2015, 8:00 P.M. MAY 6, 2015, 7:30 P.M. BALANCHINE: BLACK & WHITE I Concerto Barocco Episodes The Four Temperaments APRIL 29, 2015, 7:30 P.M. MAY 3, 2015, 3:00 P.M. MAY 5, 2015, 7:30 P.M. MAY 9, 2015, 2:00 P.M. STRAVINSKY/BALANCHINE: BLACK & WHITE II HEAR THE DANCE: RUSSIA Apollo Agon Duo Concertant Symphony in Three Movements APRIL 30, 2015, 7:30 P.M. MAY 2 & 9, 2015, 8:00 P.M. BALANCHINE: BLACK & WHITE III Square Dance Le Tombeau de Couperin Stravinsky Violin Concerto MAY 7, 2015, 7:00 P.M. SPRING GALA La Sylphide Bournonville Divertissements
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MAY 8 & 15, 2015, 8:00 P.M. MAY 10, 2015, 3:00 P.M. MAY 19, 2015, 7:30 P.M. ALL BALANCHINE, HEAR THE DANCE: FRANCE Walpurgisnacht Ballet Sonatine La Valse Symphony in C MAY 12, 2015, 7:30 P.M. MAY 16 & 23, 2015, 2:00 & 8:00 P.M. MAY 17 & 24, 2015, 3:00 P.M. LA SYLPHIDE HEAR THE DANCE: DENMARK La Sylphide Bournonville Divertissements MAY 13, 20 & 26 2015, 7:30 P.M. ALL ROBBINS The Goldberg Variations West Side Story Suite
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MAY 22, 2015, 8:00 P.M. MAY 27 & 28, 2015, 7:30 P.M. MAY 31, 2015, 3:00 P.M. CLASSIC NYCB I Raymonda Variations Morgen N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz MAY 14 & 21, 2015, 7:30 P.M. MAY 30, 2015, 2:00 & 8:00 P.M. 21ST CENTURY CHOREOGRAPHERS Symphonic Dances New Copland/Peck Mercurial Manoeuvres MAY 29, 2015, 8:00 P.M. CLASSIC NYCB II Funérailles Clearing Dawn Varied Trio (in four) This Bitter Earth The Goldberg Variations JUNE 2 – 7, 2015 A MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM TICKETS & CONTACT New York City Ballet David H. Koch Theater Lincoln Center Plaza Columbus Avenue and 63rd Streets New York, NY 10023 (212) 721-6500 (General) (212) 496-0600 (Tickets) www.nycballet.com
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FOUNDED IN 1842 by a Alan Gilbert conducts the New York Philharmonic. group of local musicians led by Photo: Chris Lee American-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. Long a leader in American musical life, the Philharmonic has become renowned around the globe, having appeared in 432 cities in 63 countries on five continents. This season the Philharmonic will connect with up to 50 million music lovers through live concerts in New York City and on its worldwide tours; digital downloads; international broadcasts on television, radio, and online; and as a resource through its varied education programs. A champion of the new music of its time, the Philharmonic has commissioned and/or premiered works by leading composers from every era since its founding.  In the spring of 2014 the Philharmonic and Music Director Alan Gilbert inaugurated the NY Phil Biennial, an exploration of today’s music.
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JANUARY 2 & 3, 2015, 8:00 P.M JANUARY 6, 2015, 7:30 P.M. RACHMANINOFF AND TCHAIKOVSKY JUANJO MENA, Conductor DANIIL TRIFONOV, Piano RIMSKY-KORSAKOV, Capriccio espagnol RACHMANINOFF, Piano Concerto No. 1 TCHAIKOVSKY, Symphony No. 6, “Pathétique” JANUARY 8, 2015, 7:30 P.M. JANUARY 9 & 10, 2015, 8:00 P.M. JANUARY 13, 2015, 7:30 P.M. ALAN GILBERT CONDUCTS SWAN LAKE ALAN GILBERT, Conductor ANTHONY MCGILL, Clarinet RAVEL, Valses nobles et sentimentales NIELSEN, Clarinet Concerto TCHAIKOVSKY, Selections from Swan Lake JANUARY 15 & 16, 2015, 7:30 P.M. JANUARY 17, 2015, 8:00 P.M. VERDI’S REQUIEM ALAN GILBERT, Conductor ANGELA MEADE, Soprano LILLI PAASIKIVI, Mezzo-Soprano VERDI, Requiem
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JANUARY 22, 2015, 7:30 P.M. JANUARY 23 & 24, 2015, 8:00 P.M. MOZART AND SHOSTAKOVICH LONG YU, Conductor PHILIP MYERS, Horn CHEN QIGANG, Enchantements oubliés MOZART, Horn Concerto No. 4 SHOSTAKOVICH, Symphony No. 5 JANUARY 28 & 29, 2015, 7:30 P.M. JANUARY 30, 2015, 11:00 A.M. JANUARY 31, 2015, 8:00 P.M. EMANUEL AX, CHOPIN, AND THE MIRACULOUS MANDARIN DAVID ROBERTSON, Conductor EMANUEL AX, Piano RACHMANINOFF, Vocalise CHOPIN, Piano Concerto No. 2 STRAVINSKY, The Song of the Nightingale BARTÓK, The Miraculous Mandarin Suite FEBRUARY 5, 2015, 7:30 P.M. FEBRUARY 6 & 7, 2015, 8:00 P.M. RACHMANINOFF’S SECOND SYMPHONY AND LISA BATIASHVILI DAVID ZINMAN, Conductor LISA BATIASHVILI, Violin CHRISTOPHER ROUSE, Iscariot BARBER, Violin Concerto RACHMANINOFF, Symphony No. 2
Lisa Batiashvili. Photo: Mat Hennek
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FEBRUARY 7, 2015, 2:00 P.M. SATURDAY MATINEE: RACHMANINOFF’S SYMPHONY NO. 2 DAVID ZINMAN, Conductor SHERYL STAPLES, Violin LISA KIM, Violin CYNTHIA PHELPS, Viola CARTER BREY, Cello INON BARNATAN, Piano DVORÁK, Piano Quintet, Op. 81 RACHMANINOFF, Symphony No. 2 FEBRUARY 11 & 12, 2015, 7:30 P.M. FEBRUARY 13, 2015, 2:00 P.M. JEAN-YVES THIBAUDET AND TCHAIKOVSKY STÉPHANE DENÈVE, Conductor JEAN-YVES THIBAUDET, Piano FAURÉ, Pelleas et Melisande Suite JAMES MACMILLAN, Piano Concerto No. 3, The Mysteries of Light TCHAIKOVSKY, Symphony No. 4 FEBRUARY 14, 2015, 8:00 P.M. A BROADWAY ROMANCE TED SPERLING, Conductor LAURA OSNES, Vocalist SANTINO FONTANA, Vocalist PROGRAM TO INCLUDE selections from Bernstein’s West Side Story, Bock’s She Loves Me, Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Carousel, and Stephen Sondheim’s Follies. FEBRUARY 19, 2015, 7:30 P.M. FEBRUARY 20 & 21, 2015, 8:00 P.M. YO-YO MA AND THE SILK ROAD ENSEMBLE ALAN GILBERT, Conductor YO-YO MA, Cello SILK ROAD ENSEMBLE VARIOUS, The Silk Road Suite DMITRI YANOV-YANOVSKY, Sacred Signs Suite
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MOZART, Masonic Funeral Music R. STRAUSS, Death and Transfiguration OSVALDO GOLIJOV, Rose of the Winds
FEBRUARY 26, 2015, 7:30 P.M. FEBRUARY 27, 2015, 11:00 A.M. FEBRUARY 28, 2015, 8:00 P.M. SIBELIUS AND BRAHMS SAKARI ORAMO, Conductor FRANK PETER ZIMMERMAN, Violin SIBELIUS, The Oceanides SIBELIUS, Violin Concerto BRAHMS, Symphony No. 2
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MARCH 12 & 13, 2015, 7:30 P.M. MARCH 14, 2015, 8:00 P.M. BEETHOVEN, BERLIOZ, AND ADÈS THOMAS ADÈS, Conductor CHRISTIANNE STOTIJN, Mezzo-Soprano SIMON KEENLYSIDE, Baritone BEETHOVEN, Symphony No. 1 BERLIOZ, Les Francs-juges Overture THOMAS ADÈS, Totentanz
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MARCH 19, 2015, 7:30 P.M. MARCH 20, 2015, 11:00 A.M. MARCH 24, 2015, 7:30 P.M. ALAN GILBERT CONDUCTS RAVEL AND STRAUSS ALAN GILBERT, Conductor INON BARNATAN, Piano ESA-PEKKA SALONEN, Nyx RAVEL, Piano Concerto in G Major DEBUSSY, Jeux R. STRAUSS, Der Rosenkavalier Suite MARCH 26, 2015, 7:30 P.M. MARCH 27 & 28, 2015, 8:00 P.M. PETRUSHKA AND JOHN ADAMS’S WORLD PREMIERE ALAN GILBERT, Conductor LEILA JOSEFOWICZ, Violin LYADOV, The Enchanted Lake STRAVINSKY, Petrushka (1911, original version) JOHN ADAMS, Scheherazade.2 – Dramatic symphony for violin and orchestra
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APRIL 8 & 9, 2015, 7:30 P.M. APRIL 10 & 11, 2015, 8:00 P.M. BATIASHVILI, BACH, AND SHOSTAKOVICH ALAN GILBERT, Conductor LISA BATIASHVILI, Violin FRANÇOIS LELEUX, Oboe J. S. BACH, Concerto for Violin and Oboe THIERRY ESCAICH, Concerto for Violin and Oboe SHOSTAKOVICH, Symphony No. 10
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MAY 6, 2015, 7:30 P.M. PETRUSHKA AND DER ROSENKAVALIER ALAN GILBERT, Conductor RAVEL, Valses nobles et sentimentales R. STRAUSS, Der Rosenkavalier Suite STRAVINSKY, Petrushka (1911, original version) MAY 8 & 9, 2015, 8:00 P.M. SCHUBERT’S UNFINISHED SYMPHONY AND EÖTVÖS ALAN GILBERT, Conductor ANNE SOFIE VON OTTER, Mezzo-Soprano RUSSELL BRAUN, Baritone SCHUBERT, Symphony in B minor, “Unfinished” PETER EÖTVÖS, Senza sangue MAY 21, 2015, 7:30 P.M. MAY 22, 2015, 11:00 A.M. MAY 23, 2015, 8:00 P.M. BRAHMS’S FIRST PIANO CONCERTO SUSANNA MÄLKKI, Conductor JONATHAN BISS, Piano BRAHMS, Variations on a Theme by Haydn HARVEY, Tranquil Abiding BRAHMS, Piano Concerto No. 1
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MAY 23, 2015, 2:00 P.M. SATURDAY MATINEE: BRAHMS’S FIRST PIANO CONCERTO SUSANNA MÄLKKI, Conductor JONATHAN BISS, Piano DVORÁK, String Quintet in E-flat major BRAHMS, Piano Concerto No. 1 MAY 28, 2015, 7:30 P.M. MAY 29, 2015, 2:00 P.M. MAY 30, 2015, 8:00 P.M. MOZART AND BRAHMS MANFRED HONECK, Conductor AUGUSTIN HADELICH, Violin J. STRAUSS II, Die Fledermaus Overture MOZART, Violin Concerto No. 5, “Turkish” BRAHMS, Symphony No. 4 JUNE 3 & 4, 2015, 7:30 P.M. JUNE 5, 2015, 11:00 A.M. JUNE 6, 2015, 8:00 P.M. ALL-MOZART JEFFREY KAHANE, Conductor and Piano MOZART, Piano Concerto No. 20 MOZART, Piano Concerto No. 21 MOZART, Don Giovanni Overture MOZART, Symphony No. 38, “Prague”
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JUNE 10, 11 & 12, 2015, 7:30 P.M. JUNE 14, 2015, 8:00 P.M. MARION COTILLARD IN JOAN OF ARC AT THE STAKE ALAN GILBERT, Conductor MARION COTILLARD, Actress (Joan) HONEGGER, Joan of Arc at the Stake (staged) TICKETS & CONTACT New York Philharmonic Avery Fisher Hall 10 Lincoln Center Plaza New York, NY 10023-6970 (212) 875-5656 www.nyphil.org
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Public Theater
Public Theater THE ONLY THEATER in New York that produces Shakespeare and the classics, musicals, contemporary, and experimental pieces in equal measure, The Public serves as an advocate for the theater as an essential cultural force in leading and framing dialogue on important issues of our day. These core democratic values, set in place by its visionary founder, Joseph Papp, inform all aspects of The Public’s activities. The Public has transformed the nature and role of theater in the U.S. and, in doing so, changed the complexion of Broadway as well. Hundreds of works that have been developed at The Public have gone on to presentations by nonprofit theaters across the country and on Broadway, extending the company’s engagement of audiences nationally and internationally. One of the theater community’s most important resources for the creation of new work, The Public has a long history of giving voice to under-represented talent and continues to foster the next generation of theater artists through professional development programs and the presentation of stagings and readings by established and emerging writers.
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JANUARY 7 – 18, 2015 UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL NOW CELEBRATING ITS 11th edition, this acclaimed 12-day festival, curated by Co-Artistic Directors Mark Russell and Meiyin Wang, showcases cutting-edge theater from around the U.S. and the world. The Devised Theater Initiative, directed by Meiyin Wang, will also continue to provide support and resources to the next generation of independent artists and ensembles. Through The Public’s annual Under the Radar Festival and year-round downtown season at Astor Place, many examples of this inventive art form have been brought to the attention of audiences in New York and around the world. JANUARY 20 – MARCH 22, 2015 HAMILTON Book, Music, and Lyrics by LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA Directed by THOMAS KAIL Choreography by ANDY BLANKENBUEHLER FROM THE CREATIVE team behind the Tony Award-winning In The Heights comes a wildly inventive new musical about the scrappy young immigrant who forever changed America: Alexander Hamilton. From bastard orphan to Washington’s right hand man, rebel to war hero, loving husband caught in the country’s first sex scandal to Treasury head who made an untrusting world believe in the American economy, Hamilton is an exploration of a political mastermind. George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Eliza Hamilton, and lifelong Hamilton friend and foe, Aaron Burr, all attend this revolutionary tale of America’s fiery past told through the sounds of the ever-changing nation we’ve become. APRIL 3 – 19, 2015 TOAST By LEMON ANDERSEN A PUBLIC THEATER commission first presented at The Public’s Under the Radar Festival, Toast ingeniously weaves major
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characters from black oral narratives into a gripping story about a group of inmates fighting to keep their minds free amidst the 1971 riots that rocked Attica Prison. After 27 years served for murder in Attica’s D-Block, Willie Green, aka Dolomite, has become an unlikely father figure to his cellmates, folklore heroes like Jesse James, Hobo Ben, Annabelle Jones, Stackolee, and Hard Rock. Though word is brewing throughout Attica that a riot is coming, Dolomite would rather not get involved. But when one of the youngest inmates in their block is viciously beaten by guards for protesting prison conditions, Dolomite has to decide whether to join the riots or lock himself in Lemon Andersen. his cell and hope for a promised Photo: Carol Rosegg parole date and the chance to taste freedom. Honoring the spoken word narratives recited in pool halls, bars, and prisons across America by generations of black poets, Toast is a stunning new play about men trying to live free in a system – and a world – designed to keep them chained.
TICKETS & CONTACT The Public Theater 425 Lafayette Street, New York, NY (212) 539-8500 (General) (212) 967-7555 (Tickets) www.publictheater.org
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Roundabout Theatre Company. AT ROUNDABOUT THEATRE Photo courtesy of Roundabout COMPANY, it’s about you. Theatre Company Everything we do – every story we tell, every production we mount, every experience we create in our theatres – is about you. We are committed to producing the highest quality theatre with the finest artists, sharing stories that endure, and providing accessibility to all audiences. A not-for-profit company, we fulfill our mission each season through the production of classic plays and musicals; development and production of new works by established and emerging writers; educational initiatives that enrich the lives of children and adults; and a subscription model and audience outreach programs that cultivate and engage all audiences.
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THROUGH MARCH 29, 2015 The Kit Kat Klub at Studio 54 CABARET Directed by SAM MENDES Co-directed and Choreographed by ROB MARSHALL Book by JOE MASTEROFF Lyrics by FRED EBB Featuring ALAN CUMMING & MICHELLE WILLIAMS THREE-TIME ACADEMY AWARD® nominee Michelle Williams (My Week with Marilyn, Brokeback Mountain) stars as Sally Bowles alongside Tony® winner Alan Cumming (“The Good Wife,” Roundabout’s The Threepenny Opera) as the Emcee in Sam Mendes (Skyfall, American Beauty) and Rob Marshall’s (Nine and Chicago, the films) Tony-winning production of Cabaret, also starring Tony nominees Danny Burstein (Follies) and Linda Emond (Death of a Salesman). Michelle Williams in Cabaret. Photo: Joan Marcus
DECEMBER 18, 2014 – MARCH 22, 2015 The Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre INTO THE WOODS Music and Lyrics by STEPHEN SONDHEIM Book by JAMES LAPINE Co-directed by NOAH BRODY Co-directed by BEN STEINFELD VENTURE BACK Into The Woods as Roundabout Theatre Company presents the acclaimed McCarter Theatre Center and
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Fiasco Theater production of the Tony Award®-winning musical classic by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine. With only 10 actors, one piano and boundless imagination, this witty and wildly theatrical re-invention is Into The Woods like you’ve never seen it before! FEBRUARY 12 – JULY 5, 2015 American Airlines Theatre ON THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Music by CY COLEMAN Book and Lyrics by BETTY COMDEN Book and Lyrics by ADOLPH GREEN Directed by SCOTT ELLIS Choreographed by WARREN CARLYLE Featuring KRISTIN CHENOWETH & PETER GALLAGHER IT’S NONSTOP LAUGHS aboard the Twentieth Century, a luxury train travelling from Chicago to New York City. Luck, love and mischief collide when the bankrupt theater producer Oscar Jaffee (Golden Globe® winner Peter Gallagher) embarks on a madcap mission to cajole glamorous Hollywood starlet Lily Garland (Emmy® and Tony Award® winner Kristin Chenoweth) into playing the lead in his new, non-existent epic drama. But is the train ride long enough to reignite the spark between these former lovers, create a play from scratch, and find the money to get it all the way to Broadway? TICKETS & CONTACT Administrative Offices 231 West 39th Street, Suite 1200 New York, NY 10018 (212) 719-9393 (General) (212) 719-1300 (Tickets) www.roundabouttheatre.org
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The Irene Diamond Stage at the FOUNDED IN 1991 by James Signature Theatre. Photo: David Sundberg/Esto Houghton, Signature Theatre 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.
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NOVEMBER 11, 2014 – JANUARY 31, 2015 The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre A PARTICLE OF DREAD (OEDIPUS VARIATIONS) By SAM SHEPARD Directed by NANCY MECKLER SIGNATURE AND IRELAND’S renowned Field Day Theatre Company are thrilled to present the U.S. premiere of 1996-97 Playwright-in-Residence Sam Shepard’s A Particle of Dread (Oedipus Variations). This dark, fragmented, modern-day take on Oedipus Rex premiered in Derry, Ireland, and features a cast of actors from both sides of the Atlantic. FEBRUARY – MARCH 2015 The Irene Diamond Stage BIG LOVE By CHARLES MEE Directed by TINA LANDAU FIFTY BRIDES FLEE their fifty grooms and seek refuge in an Italian villa in this modern re-making of one of the world’s oldest plays, The Danaids by Aeschylus. Mayhem ensues, complete with grooms in flight suits, women throwing themselves to the ground, occasional pop songs and romantic dances – even a bride falling in love. Reuniting Signature’s 2007–08 Playwright-in-Residence Charles Mee with his longtime collaborator Tina Landau, Big Love is a colossal, poetic work that explores the hunger for independence, the burden of tradition, and the shape and size of love. FEBRUARY – MARCH 2015 The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre THE LIQUID PLAIN By NAOMI WALLACE Directed by KWAME KWEI-ARMAH ON THE DOCKS of late 18th century Rhode Island, two runaway slaves, Adjua and Dembi, plan a desperate and daring run to freedom. When a chance encounter triggers an unexpected collision of worlds, painful truths are uncovered and the brutality www.GuidefortheArts.com
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of past crimes spills into the next generation. Winner of the 2012 Horton Foote Prize for Promising New American Play, The Liquid Plain brings to life a group of people whose stories have been erased from history.
Naomi Wallace, writer of The Liquid Plain. Photo: Gregory Costanzo
MAY – JUNE 2015 The Irene Diamond Stage WHAT I DID LAST SUMMER By A. R. GURNEY Directed by JIM SIMPSON WITH HER HUSBAND overseas near the end of World War II, Grace fights to save the splintering bonds of her family by taking her teenage son and daughter to spend the summer on Lake Erie. When her son takes up with the town outcast, the entire family must confront the expectations of a society that holds conformity in the highest regard. Grace finds that her attempt to restore normalcy may have only fractured their relationships further in the second show of A. R. Gurney’s Signature Residency. APRIL – MAY 2015 The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre A NEW PLAY Written and Directed by ATHOL FUGARD SIGNATURE IS DELIGHTED to welcome back Athol Fugard for the world premiere of his newest play. A trio of Fugard’s plays – Blood Knot, My Children! My Africa!, and The Train Driver – christened The Pershing Square Signature Center in the 2012 Inaugural Season and introduced Signature audiences to Fugard’s rich body of work. As he did with Blood Knot and The Train Driver, Fugard will direct this new production.
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AUGUST – SEPTEMBER 2015 LOVE AND MONEY By A. R. GURNEY Directed by MARK LAMOS WEALTHY WIDOW CORNELIA CUNNINGHAM has led a life of grace and privilege – and she’s making up for it as fast as she can. Determined to donate almost everything she owns before the end, Cornelia’s plans are questioned when an ambitious and ingratiating young man, who may be the grandson she never knew she had, arrives to claim his inheritance. The trials of class, family, legacy, and race are pointedly explored in this worldpremiere comedy by Residency One playwright A.R. Gurney.
A. R. Gurney, writer of Love and Money. Photo: Erik Carter
TICKETS & CONTACT Signature Theatre 480 West 42nd Street New York, NY 10036 (212) 244-7529 www.signaturetheatre.org
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
AN INTERNATIONALLY Exterior of the Guggenheim Museum, NYC. RENOWNED art museum and one Photo: David Heald of the most significant architectural icons of the 20th century, the Guggenheim Museum is at once a vital cultural center, an educational institution, and the heart of an international network of museums. Visitors can experience special exhibitions of modern and contemporary art, lectures by artists and critics, performances and film screenings, classes for teens and adults, and daily tours of the galleries led by museum educators. Founded on a collection of early modern masterpieces, the Guggenheim Museum today is an ever-growing institution devoted to the art of the 20th century and beyond. KANDINSKY BEFORE ABSTRACTION, 1901 – 1911 JUNE 27, 2014 – SPRING 2015 EARLY IN HIS career Vasily Kandinsky experimented with printmaking, produced brightly colored landscapes of the German countryside, and explored recognizable and recurrent motifs. This intimate exhibition drawn from the Guggenheim collection explores the artist’s representational origins.
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V. S. GAITONDE: PAINTING AS PROCESS, PAINTING AS LIFE OCTOBER 24, 2014 – FEBRUARY 11, 2015 COMPRISING 45 MAJOR paintings and works on paper drawn from 30 leading public institutions and private collections across Asia, Europe, and the United States, this is the first retrospective exhibition dedicated to the work of celebrated Indian modern painter Vasudeo Santu Gaitonde (1924–2001). WANG JIANWEI: TIME TEMPLE OCTOBER 31, 2014 – FEBRUARY 16, 2015 WANG JIANWEI: TIME TEMPLE comprises an intricately designed exhibition space, a film, and a performance art event, exploring the role of time-based art practices in contemporary Chinese art for the first commission of The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Chinese Art Initiative at the Guggenheim Museum. Wang Jianwei was born 1958 in Suining, Sichuan Province, Southwest China, and is widely recognized for his bold experiments in new media art. ON KAWARA – SILENCE FEBRUARY 6 – MAY 3, 2015 THROUGH RADICALLY RESTRICTED means, On Kawara’s work engages the personal and historical consciousness of place and time. Kawara’s practice is often associated with the rise of Conceptual art, yet in its complex wit and philosophical reach, it stands well apart.
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On Kawara, JAN. 4, 1966 (New York’s traffic strike) (from Today, 1966–2013). Acrylic on canvas, 20.3 x 25.4 cm)
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ALBERTO BURRI: THE TRAUMA OF PAINTING OCTOBER 9, 2015 – JANUARY 6, 2016 THIS MAJOR RETROSPECTIVE exhibition – the first in the United States in more than 35 years and the most comprehensive ever mounted – showcases the pioneering work of Italian artist Alberto Burri (1915–1995). A LONG-AWAITED TRIBUTE: FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT’S USONIAN HOUSE AND PAVILION ONGOING THIS PRESENTATION, COMPRISED of selected materials from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Archives, pays homage to the first Frank Lloyd Wright–designed structures in New York City. TICKETS & CONTACT Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 1071 Fifth Avenue (at 89th Street) New York, NY 10128 (212) 423-3500 (Tickets) (212) 423-3618 (General) www.guggenheim.org/new-york
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Contact Information AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE: (212) 477-3030 ATLANTIC THEATER COMPANY: (212) 691-5919 CARNEGIE HALL: (212) 247-7800 COOPER-HEWITT MUSEUM: (212) 849-8400 THE FRICK COLLECTION: (212) 288-0700 LINCOLN CENTER: (212) 875-5000 MANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB: (212) 239-6200 METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: (212) 535-7710 METROPOLITAN OPERA: (212) 3799-3100 MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: (212) 708-9400 NEW YORK CITY BALLET: (212) 721-6500 NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC: (212) 875-5656 PUBLIC THEATER: (212) 539-8500 ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY: (212) 719-9393 SIGNATURE THEATRE: (212) 244-7529 SOLOMON R. GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM: (212) 423-3618
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