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Ambassador to the Arts I am proud to serve as this year’s Ambassador to the Arts for the New York City Guide. There is an incredible volume of worldclass talent represented in these pages. I have been working in the theatre both on and off-Broadway for many years now. I’ve created and watched many changes in the cultural landscape, but one thing has remained constant: New York City is the center of the most vibrant cultural activity in the world. There is more talent on this island than you can begin to imagine. Going to a play, musical, concert, dance performance, opera, or exhibition can move you, make you think about an issue in a new light, help you understand a person or emotion better, awaken you to a unique voice, or simply afford you a good time – far from technology and your daily obligations. I know my opinion is biased, but I do believe that there is nothing more thrilling and enriching than a great artistic experience. Thank you for supporting the arts. And now, on with the show! All best,
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American Ballet Theatre
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Atlantic Theater Company
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Carnegie Hall
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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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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
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MAY 9 – 14, 2016 SYLVIA Choreographed by FREDERICK ASHTON Music by LÉO DELIBES A RAVISHING FAST-PACED fantasy set amid verdant forests and majestic temples, Sir Frederick Ashton’s mythological love story unites the huntress Sylvia and a lovelorn shepherd with the divine intervention of the deity Eros. The splendid score by Léo Delibes was so admired by Tchaikovsky that he purportedly declared: had he known the music existed at the time, he would never have composed Swan Lake! MAY 16, 2016, 6:30 P.M. SPRING GALA MAY 17 – 23, 2016 SHOSTAKOVICH TRILOGY Symphony No. 9 Chamber Symphony Piano Concerto No. 1 Choreographed by ALEXEI RATMANSKY Music by DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH EMBARK ON A journey with Artist-in-Residence Alexei Ratmansky as he explores the orchestral world of the esteemed Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich with this full-length program of three one-act ballets.
Polina Semionova and Marcelo Gomes in Ratmansky’s Symphony #9. Photo: Marty Sohl
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MAY 18 – 21, 2016 RATMANSKY TRIPLE BILL Ratmansky World Premiere Seven Sonatas Firebird Choreographed by ALEXEI RATMANSKY ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE ALEXEI RATMANSKY explores the nature of love in a World Premiere set to Leonard Bernstein’s Serenade after Plato’s Sympsoium. In Seven Sonatas, Scarlatti’s delicate keyboard sonatas exude the weightlessness of a watercolor painting, and Ratmansky’s choreography subtly reflects these compositions with musical sensitivity. In Firebird, Ratmansky choreographs this magical tale of the legendary creature who helps two noble lovers overcome an evil sorcerer, set to an iridescent score by Igor Stravinsky. MAY 24 – 30, 2016 LA FILLE MAL GARDÉE Choreographed by FREDERICK ASHTON Music by FERDINAND HÉROLD FREDERICK ASHTON’S FINAL full-length ballet features beautifully detailed characters and poetic lyricism perfectly suited to its story of young love. In this pastoral comedy, a farmer’s widow is determined to marry her daughter off to a wealthy man’s son rather than to the poor farmer with whom she is head-overheels smitten. The picture-book countryside setting of maypoles, ponies and dancing hens add to the bucolic backdrop of this ballet. MAY 31 – JUNE 4, 2016 LE CORSAIRE Choreographed by KONSTANTIN SERGEYEV (AFTER MARIUS PETIPA) Music by ADOLPHE ADAM, CESARE PUGNI, LÉO DELIBES, RICCARDO DRIGO, AND PRINCE OLDENBOURG
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DISCOVER A TREASURE trove of virtuoso dancing in the swashbuckling adventure, Le Corsaire. From the Pasha’s dazzling palace to a spectacular shipwreck on a windswept desert island, this exotic fable of a dashing pirate’s love for a beautiful harem girl never fails to delight. Le Corsaire is the perfect showcase for daring and explosive bravura from ABT’s star-studded roster of male dancers.
Gillian Murphy and Roman Zhurbin in Le Corsaire. Photo: Gene Schiavone
JUNE 6 – 11, 2016 THE GOLDEN COCKEREL Choreographed by ALEXEI RATMANSKY Music by NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV BASED ON ALEXANDER Pushkin’s folktale, The Golden Cockerel was the hit of Diaghilev’s Ballet Russes season in 1914. Alexei Ratmansky creates rich characters for the seductive Queen, a marvelously gullible King, and the darkly magical cockerel – all set against a kaleidoscope of vibrant colors that evoke a mythical Russia.
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JUNE 13 – 18, 2016 SWAN LAKE Choreographed by KEVIN MCKENZIE (AFTER MARIUS PETIPA AND LEV IVANOV) Music by PETER ILYITCH TCHAIKOVSKY SET TO TCHAIKOVSKY’S glorious score, this romantic tale of love and forgiveness is often considered the world’s most beloved ballet. With breathtaking choreography, lavish costumes, and visually spectacular sets evoking a lakeside Renaissance court, ABT’s production “glides to the forefront of stagings all over the world. The fabled lake of the swans has risen into view, inspiring awe for its mystery and magic.” (The Wall Street Journal) JUNE 20 – 25, 2016 ROMEO AND JULIET Choreographed by KENNETH MACMILLAN Music by SERGEI PROKOFIEV KENNETH MACMILLAN’S MASTERFUL interpretation of Shakespeare’s enduring romantic tragedy has become one of ABT’s signature productions. Against a sumptuous setting in Renaissance Italy, MacMillan weaves a dance tapestry rich in character nuance and sensuality, and Sergei Prokofiev’s stirring music underscores the lyric beauty and passion of this beloved ballet’s star-crossed lovers.
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JUNE 27 – JULY 2, 2016 THE SLEEPING BEAUTY Choreographed by MARIUS PETIPA Music by PETER ILYITCH TCHAIKOVSKY THE BELOVED STORY of the beautiful princess Aurora, the evil sorceress Carabosse, and the awakening kiss of a handsome prince is certain to cast a spell on your heart and imagination in Alexei Ratmanksy’s all-new production, inspired by Léon Bakst’s historic designs for Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes.
Isabella Boylston and Joseph Gorak in The Sleeping Beauty. Photo: MIRA
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 COMPANY Photo: Nelson Hancock is the award-winning offBroadway 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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JANUARY 6 – FEBRUARY 14, 2016 Atlantic Stage 2 SKELETON CREW By DOMINIQUE MORISSEAU Directed by RUBEN SANTIAGO-HUDSON IN DOMINIQUE MORISSEAU’S third play in her Detroit trilogy, a makeshift family of workers at the last exporting auto plant in the city navigate the possibility of foreclosure. FEBRUARY 24 – APRIL 3, 2016 Linda Gross Theater HOLD ON TO ME DARLING By KENNETH LONERGAN Directed by NEIL PEPE THIS OUTSTANDING NEW play from acclaimed playwright Kenneth Lonergan examines the costs of fame, fortune, and narcissism in pursuit of the American Dream.
Kenneth Lonergan. Photo: Todd Heisler/The New York Times
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MARCH 19 – APRIL 3, 2016 Linda Gross Theater ATLANTIC FOR KIDS: THE PIRATE LA DEE DA Book by GABRIELLE ALLAN AND JENNIFER CRITTENDEN Music and Lyrics by NATE WEIDA A MIXED-UP FAIRYTALE musical loosely based on the true story of a princess who wanted to break free from her traditional role. MAY 19 – JULY 10, 2016 Linda Gross Theater THE BAND’S VISIT Book by ITAMAR MOSES Music and Lyrics by DAVID YAZBEK Directed by HAROLD PRINCE A NEW MUSICAL based on the critically acclaimed film which received 36 major international awards and directed by 21-time Tony Award winner Harold Prince.
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MAY 25 – JUNE 26, 2016 Atlantic Stage 2 THE PURPLE LIGHTS OF JOPPA ILLINOIS Written and Directed by ADAM RAPP ATLANTIC WELCOMES BACK Pulitzer Prize finalist and Obie Award winner Adam Rapp (Red Light Winter) for this world premiere play. 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
Carnegie Hall stage. THE MUSIC HALL founded Photo courtesy of Carnegie Hall. by Andrew Carnegie 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 7, 2016, 7:30 P.M. Paul Hall ENSEMBLE ACJW JANUARY 8–10, 2016, 4:00 P.M. Resnick Education Wing JOYCE DIDONATO MASTER CLASS
Joyce DiDonato. Photo: Pari Dukovic
JANUARY 10, 2016, 2:00 P.M. New York Hall of Science NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT: YOUNG PEOPLE’S CHORUS OF NEW YORK CITY JANUARY 14, 2016, 8:00 P.M. Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA JANUARY 15, 2016 Flushing Town Hall, 7:30 P.M. NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT: JOHN CHIN QUINTET
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Zankel Hall, 9:00 P.M. ST. PAUL AND THE BROKEN BONES JANUARY 16, 2016 St. Michael’s Church, 5:00 P.M. NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT: MICHELLE BRADLEY, MICHAEL GAERTNER Weill Recital Hall, 7:30 P.M. RAMÓN ORTEGA QUERO, HISAKO KAWAMURA Zankel Hall, 7:30 P.M. EUROPA GALANTE
Europa Galante. Photo: Ana de Labra
JANUARY 17, 2016, 7:00 P.M. Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA JANUARY 18, 2016, 7:30 P.M. Zankel Hall EIGHTH BLACKBIRD
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JANUARY 19, 2016 Weill Recital Hall, 5:30 P.M. THE SONG CONTINUES: SPOTLIGHT RECITAL Weill Recital Hall, 7:30 P.M. THE SONG CONTINUES: SIR THOMAS ALLEN MASTER CLASS JANUARY 20, 2016 Zankel Hall, 7:30 P.M. THE SONG CONTINUES: STEPHANIE BLYTHE MASTER CLASS Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, 8:00 P.M. MARC-ANDRÉ HAMELIN JANUARY 21, 2016 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 Marc-André Hamelin. Photo: Fran Kaufman
JANUARY 23, 2016 Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, 2:00 P.M. STEPHANIE BLYTHE: SING AMERICA!
Zankel Hall, 7:30 P.M. MARILYN HORNE SONG CELEBRATION JANUARY 24, 2016 Resnick Education Wing, 12:00 & 2:00 P.M. CARNEGIE KIDS: RANI ARBO & DAISY MAYHEM
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Zankel Hall, 1:00 & 4:00 P.M. THE SOMEWHERE PROJECT: A PUBLIC FORUM – WEST SIDE STORY: THE ISSUES THEN AND NOW JANUARY 26, 2016, 8:00 P.M. Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA JANUARY 27, 2016, 8:00 P.M. Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage DENIS MATSUEV JANUARY 28, 2016, 8:00 P.M. Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage ORCHESTRE NATIONAL DE FRANCE JANUARY 29, 2016, 10:00 P.M. Zankel Hall HURRAY FOR THE RIFF RAFF JANUARY 30, 2016, 8:30 P.M. Zankel Hall JOAN SORIANA, THE DUKE OF BACHATA JANUARY 31, 2016 Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, 2:00 P.M. JONAS KAUFMANN, HELMUT DEUTSCH Brooklyn Public Library, Central Library, 4:00 P.M. NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT: SYBARITE5
Jonas Kaufmann. Photo: Ari Mintz
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FEBRUARY 5, 2016 Weill Recital Hall, 7:30 P.M. JOHN BRANCY, PETER DUGAN Bronx Museum of the Arts, 7:30 P.M. NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT: CHRIS WASHBURNE AND THE SYOTOS BAND FEBRUARY 8, 2016, 7:30 P.M. Weill Recital Hall ORLANDO CONSORT – THIS SCEPTER’D ISLE: A MUSICAL GUIDE TO EARLY ENGLISH HISTORY, 1199–1485 FEBRUARY 10, 2016, 7:30 P.M. Zankel Hall STANDARD TIME WITH MICHAEL FEINSTEIN FEBRUARY 11, 2016, 8:00 P.M. Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage SWEET HONEY IN THE ROCK
Sweet Honey in the Rock. Photo: Dwight Carter
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FEBRUARY 12, 2016 Arthur Zankel Music Center, Helen Filene Ladd Concert Hall, 8:00 P.M. ENSEMBLE ACJW Zankel Hall, 9:00 P.M. SO PERCUSSION FEBRUARY 14, 2016, 7:00 P.M. Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage THE CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA FEBRUARY 15, 2016, 7:30 P.M. Weill Recital Hall ENSEMBLE ACJW FEBRUARY 16, 2016, 7:30 P.M. Zankel Hall DÉNES VÁRJON
Dénes Várjon. Photo: Pilvax Studio
FEBRUARY 17, 2016, 8:00 P.M. Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage DMITRI HVOROSTOVSKY, IVARI ILJA
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FEBRUARY 18, 2016, 8:00 P.M. Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage BUDAPEST FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA FEBRUARY 19, 2016 Weill Recital Hall, 7:30 P.M. JASPER STRING QUARTET BRIC House, 7:30 P.M. NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT: SLAVIC SOUL PARTY! Zankel Hall, 9:00 P.M. THE PEDRITO MARTINEZ GROUP FEBRUARY 20, 2016 El Museo del Barrio, 4:00 P.M. NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT: NATION BEAT Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, 8:00 P.M. ROSANNE CASH, THE RIVER & THE THREAD
Rosanne Cash. Photo: Clay Patrick McBride
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FEBRUARY 21, 2016, 2:00 P.M. Snug Harbor Cultural Center NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT: THE ITTY BIDDIES FEBRUARY 23, 2016, 8:00 P.M. Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage MITSUKO UCHIDA FEBRUARY 24, 2016 Zankel Hall, 7:30 P.M. CHRISTIAN TETZLAFF, TANJA TETZLAFF, LARS VOGT Harlem Stage Gatehouse, 7:30 P.M. NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT: SARAH ELIZABETH CHARLES
Sarah Elizabeth. Photo: Shalin Sharman
FEBRUARY 26, 2016, 7:30 P.M. LaGuardia Performing Arts Center NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT: BROWN RICE FAMILY FEBRUARY 26 & 27, 2016, 8:00 P.M. FEBRUARY 28, 2016, 2:00 P.M. Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
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MARCH 2, 2016 Pregones Theater, 7:00 P.M. NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT: MIVOS QUARTET Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, 8:00 P.M. RUSSIAN NATIONAL ORCHESTRA MARCH 3, 2016, 8:00 P.M. Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage MINNESOTA ORCHESTRA MARCH 4, 2016 Weill Recital Hall, 7:30 P.M. VILDE FRANG, MICHAIL LIFITS Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, 8:00 P.M. VICENTE AMIGO
Vilde Frang. Photo: Marco Borggreve
MARCH 4 & 5, 2016, 8:00 P.M. MARCH 6, 2016, 3:00 P.M. Knockdown Center WEST SIDE STORY
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MARCH 5, 2016, 10:00 P.M. Zankel Hall THE WOOD BROTHERS MARCH 9, 2016 Zankel Hall, 7:30 P.M. YEFIM BRONFMAN Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, 8:00 P.M. RENÉE FLEMING MARCH 10, 2016, 8:00 P.M. Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage ORCHESTRA OF ST. LUKE’S MARCH 11, 2016 Zankel Hall, 7:30 P.M. QUATUOR EBÈNE Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, 8:00 P.M. THE NEW YORK POPS – 42ND ON 57TH: BROADWAY TODAY MARCH 12, 2016 Resnick Education Wing, 12:00 & 2:00 P.M. CARNEGIE KIDS: FALU St. Michael’s Church, 5:00 P.M. NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT: BEN BLISS, LACHLAN GLEN MARCH 13, 2016, 2:00 P.M. Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage THE ENGLISH CONCERT: HANDEL’S ORLANDO MARCH 15, 2016 Zankel Hall, 7:30 P.M. PAMELA FRANK, EMANUEL AX Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, 8:00 P.M. ORCHESTRE SYMPHONIQUE DE MONTRÉAL
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MARCH 16, 2016, 7:30 P.M. Zankel Hall PAUL APPLEBY, KEN NODA
Paul Appleby. Photo: Frances Marshall
MARCH 18, 2016, 8:30 P.M. Zankel Hall QASIDA FLAMENCO MEETS PERSIAN MUSIC MARCH 19, 2016 LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, 3:00 P.M. NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT: SOH DAIKO Zankel Hall, 9:00 P.M. RANDY WESTON’S AFRICAN RHYTHMS MARCH 20, 2016, 5:00 P.M. Weill Recital Hall THE MET CHAMBER ENSEMBLE MARCH 23, 2016 Zankel Hall, 7:30 P.M. STANDARD TIME WITH MICHAEL FEINSTEIN Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, 8:00 P.M. YUNDI
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MARCH 30, 2016, 8:00 P.M. Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage DIANNE REEVES APRIL 1, 2016, 7:30 P.M. Zankel Hall AMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA – ORCHESTRA UNDERGROUND: EASTERN WIND APRIL 2, 2016, 7:30 P.M. Zankel Hall KRONOS QUARTET APRIL 3, 2016, 2:00 P.M. National Sawdust NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT: DECODA APRIL 7, 2016 Zankel Hall, 7:30 P.M. TIMO ANDRES, GABRIEL KAHANE Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, 8:00 P.M. ORCHESTRA OF ST. LUKE’S
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APRIL 8, 2016 Weill Recital Hall, 7:30 P.M. DOVER QUARTET Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, 8:00 P.M. THE NEW YORK POPS – LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION: SPIELBERG AND WILLIAMS APRIL 9, 2016, 7:00 P.M. Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage LEIF OVE ANDSNES, CHRISTIAN TETZLAFF, TABEA ZIMMERMAN, CLEMENS HAGEN APRIL 10, 2016, 3:00 P.M. Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage ORCHESTRA OF ST. LUKE’S: THE MOUNTAIN THAT LOVED A BIRD AND OTHER STORIES APRIL 12, 2016, 7:30 P.M. Weill Recital Hall ENSEMBLE ACJW
Ensemble ACJW. Photo: Jennifer Taylor
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APRIL 13 & 14, 2016, 8:00 P.M. Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY APRIL 15, 2016 Weill Recital Hall, 7:30 P.M. CHRISTIANE KARG, MALCOLM MARTINEU – NOSTALGIA: EUROPEAN DREAM Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, 8:00 P.M. YO-YO MA, EMANUEL AX Zankel Hall, 9:00 P.M. KRONOS: CREATING A NEW REPERTOIRE APRIL 16, 2016 St. Michael’s Church, 5:00 P.M. NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT: YING FANG, KEN NODA Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, 8:00 P.M. BALTIMORE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA APRIL 17, 2016 Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, 2:00 P.M. JEREMY DENK Zankel Hall, 3:00 P.M. ARTEMIS QUARTET
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APRIL 19, 2016 Zankel Hall, 7:30 P.M. TAKﾃ，S QUARTET, GARRICK OHLSSON Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, 8:00 P.M. BAVARIAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA APRIL 20, 2016, 8:00 P.M. Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage BAVARIAN RADIO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA APRIL 22, 2016, 7:30 P.M. Flushing Town Hall NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT: MATUTO APRIL 24, 2016, 12:00 & 2:00 P.M. Resnick Education Wing CARNEGIE KIDS: LITTLE BIG TINY APRIL 26, 2016, 8:00 P.M. Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage ANA MOURA BUIKA
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APRIL 27, 2016, 8:00 P.M. Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage EMANUEL AX APRIL 30, 2016, 8:00 P.M. Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage ATLANTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA MAY 3, 2016, 7:30 P.M. Weill Recital Hall ARIEL QUARTET MAY 4, 2016, 7:00 P.M. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT: FATOUMATA DIAWARA MAY 5, 2016, 7:00 P.M. Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage 125TH ANNIVERSARY GALA MAY 6, 2015, 7:30 P.M. Zankel Hall PHILHARMONIA BAROQUE ORCHESTRA MAY 7, 2016 Queens Library @ Flushing, 1:30 P.M. NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT: AWA SANGHO Snug Harbor Cultural Center, 2:00 P.M. NEIGHBORHOOD CONCERT: VIENTO DE AGUA Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, 8:00 P.M. YEFIM BRONFMAN MAY 11, 2016, 8:00 P.M. Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage THE PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA
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MAY 12, 2016, 8:00 P.M. Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage SUSAN GRAHAM AND FRIENDS MAY 14, 2016 Resnick Education Wing, 12:00 & 2:00 P.M. CARNEGIE KIDS: MY CITY, MY SONG WITH BOBBY SANABRIA, BRIANNA THOMAS, AND JEN SHYU Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, 8:00 P.M. YUJA WANG
Yuja Wang. Photo: Rolex/Fadil Berisha
MAY 19, 2016, 8:00 P.M. MAY 22, 2016, 3:00 P.M. Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage THE MET ORCHESTRA TICKETS & CONTACT 881 Seventh Avenue At 57th Street New York, NY 10019 (212) 247-7800 www.carnegiehall.org
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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.
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HOW POSTERS WORK THROUGH JANUARY 24, 2016 HOW POSTERS WORK SHOWS how dozens of different designers – from prominent pioneers like Herbert Matter, Paul Rand, Philippe Apeloig, and M/M (Paris), to lesser-known makers – have mobilized principles of composition, perception, and storytelling to convey ideas and construct experiences. Featuring nearly 125 posters from Cooper Hewitt’s permanent collection, the exhibition demonstrates how some of the world’s most creative designers have employed design principles to produce powerful acts of visual communication.
Paul Rand, Eye, Bee, M, 1981. Offset lithograph, 36 1/16 x 24 1/16 inches. Cooper Hewitt, Gift of Marion S. Rand
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how Pixar develops its popular characters, fosters emotional connections to its films, and, ultimately, places the design process at the studio’s creative core. DAVID ADJAYE SELECTS THROUGH FEBRUARY 14, 2016 ARCHITECT DAVID ADJAYE mines the museum’s permanent collection for the 12th exhibition in the ongoing Selects series. On view in the Marks Gallery, the exhibition features 14 West and Central African textiles from the museum’s textile holdings, including an Asante kente cloth from Ghana, a bògòloanfini mud cloth from Mali, a Dyula ikat wrapper from Ivory Coast, a Yoruba indigo dyed wrapper from Nigeria, and men’s hats from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola, and Cameroon. BEAUTY – COOPER HEWITT DESIGN TRIENNIAL FEBRUARY 12 – AUGUST 21, 2016 THE FIFTH INSTALLMENT of the museum’s popular contemporary design exhibition series, Beauty celebrates design as a creative endeavor that engages the mind, body, and senses. With a focus on aesthetic innovation, the exhibition will feature more than 250 works by 62 designers from around the globe, and is organized around seven themes: extravagant, intricate, ethereal, transgressive, emergent, elemental, and transformative. With projects ranging from experimental prototypes and interactive games to fashion ensembles and architectural interventions, Beauty presents works of astonishing form and surprising function from the most outstanding voices of the global design scene.
Neri Oxman and MIT Mediated Matter Group in collaboration with Stratasys and Deskriptiv, Rendered by Deskriptiv: Christoph Bader and Dominik Kolb, Produced by Stratasys Rendering, back view of Otaared, from Wanderers collection. 2014 © Neri Oxman
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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, blueprints, 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.
Lockwood de Forest, Drawing – Fatehpur Sikri, Birbal’s Palace, 1881. Brush and oil paint on thin paperboard, 10 5/16 x 12 1/2 inches. Gifted by a private Santa Barbara collector, courtesy of Sullivan Goss – An American Art Gallery
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.
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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. Internationally recognized as a Photo: Michael Bodycomb © The Frick Collection premier museum and research center, the Frick is known for its distinguished Old Master paintings and outstanding examples of European sculpture and decorative arts. The collection was assembled by the Pittsburgh industrialist Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919) and is housed in his former residence on Fifth Avenue. One of New York City’s few remaining Gilded Age mansions, it provides a tranquil environment for visitors to experience masterpieces by artists such as Bellini, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Gainsborough, Goya, and Whistler. The museum opened in 1935 and has continued to acquire works of art since Mr. Frick’s death. Along with special exhibitions and an acclaimed concert series, the Frick offers a wide range of lectures, symposia, and education programs that foster a deeper appreciation of its permanent collection.
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FROM SÈVRES TO FIFTH AVENUE: FRENCH PORCELAIN AT THE FRICK COLLECTION APRIL 28, 2015 – APRIL 24, 2016 BETWEEN 1916 AND 1918, Henry Clay Frick purchased several important pieces of porcelain to decorate his New York mansion. Made at Sèvres, the preeminent eighteenth-century French porcelain manufactory, the objects – including vases, potpourris, jugs and basins, plates, a tea service, and a table – were displayed throughout Frick’s residence. VAN DYCK: THE ANATOMY OF PORTRAITURE MARCH 2 – JUNE 5, 2016 ANTHONY VAN DYCK (1599– 1641), one of the most celebrated and influential portraitists of all time, enjoyed an international career that took him from his native Flanders to Italy, France, and, ultimately, the court of Charles I in London. Van Dyck’s supremely elegant manner and convincing evocation of a sitter’s inner life – whether real or imagined – made him the favorite portraitist of many of the most powerful and interesting figures of the seventeenth century. Anthony van Dyck, Lady Anne Carey, Later Viscountess Claneboye and Countess of Clanbrassil, ca. 1636. Oil on canvas The Frick Collection, New York
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
Lincoln Center for the Performing LINCOLN CENTER WAS Arts, NYC. envisioned as a major Photo: Nils Olander performing 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.
GREAT PERFORMERS SERIES JANUARY 6, 2016, 8:00 P.M. David Geffen Hall CINCINATTI SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA JANUARY 10, 2016, 11:00 A.M. Walter Reade Theater ALEXANDER GAVRYLYUK, PIANO
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JANUARY 28, 2016, 7:30 P.M. Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater ANIMA ETERNA BRUGGE
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FEBRUARY 3, 2016, 6:30 P.M. Walter Reade Theater JASCHA HEIFETZ: GOD’S FIDDLER FEBRUARY 6, 2016 Walter Reade Theater, 1:00 P.M. YEHUDI MENUHIN RETURNS TO THE USSR, PART I Walter Reade Theater, 3:00 P.M. NATHAN MILSTEIN: MASTER OF INVENTION FEBRUARY 7, 2016, 11:00 A.M. Walter Reade Theater JACK LIEBECK, VIOLIN & KATYA APEKISHEVA, PIANO FEBRUARY 11, 2016, 7:30 P.M. David Rubenstein Atrium DOVER QUARTET
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FEBRUARY 25, 2016 David Rubenstein Atrium, 7:30 P.M. PARKER QUARTET Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater, 7:30 P.M. FREIBURG BAROQUE ORCHESTRA MARCH 3, 2016, 7:30 P.M. Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater PIOTR ANDERSZEWSKI, PIANO MARCH 10, 2016, 7:30 P.M. Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater KARITA MATTILA, SOPRANO & MARTIN KATZ, PIANO MARCH 13, 2016, 3:00 P.M. MARCH 14, 2016, 8:00 P.M. David Geffen Hall LOS ANGELES PHILHARMONIC MARCH 21, 2016, 8:00 P.M. David Geffen Hall JOSHUA BELL & ACADEMY OF ST. MARTIN IN THE FIELDS
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APRIL 3, 2016, 11:00 A.M. Walter Reade Theater ROMAN RABINOVICH, PIANO APRIL 7, 2016, 7:30 P.M. Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater EMERSON STRING QUARTET APRIL 9, 2016, 7:30 P.M. Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater RICHARD GOODE, PIANO APRIL 13, 2016, 7:30 P.M. Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater ACCADEMIA BIZANTINA APRIL 17, 2016, 5:00 P.M. Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater EMERSON STRING QUARTET APRIL 20, 2016, 7:30 P.M. Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater MATTHIAS GOERNE, BARITONE & ALEXANDER SCHMALCZ, PIANO
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MAY 5, 2016, 7:30 P.M. David Rubenstein Atrium ENSO STRING QUARTET MAY 8, 2016, 3:00 P.M. David Geffen Hall MURRAY PERAHIA, PIANO
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MAY 12, 2016, 7:30 P.M. Alice Tully Hall, Starr Theater EMERSON STRING QUARTET JUNE 2 – 4, 2016 Rose Theater THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER JANUARY 15, 2016, 7:00 & 9:00 P.M. The Appel Room FRED HERSCH & FRIENDS: INTIMATE MOMENTS JANUARY 15 & 16, 2016, 8:00 P.M. Rose Theater JAZZ IN THE KEY OF LIFE JANUARY 28 – 30, 2016, 8:00 P.M. Rose Theater OUR LOVE IS HERE TO STAY: THE GEORGE GERSHWIN SONGBOOK
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JANUARY 29, 2016, 7:00 & 9:30 P.M. JANUARY 30, 2016, 7:00 P.M. The Appel Room CHARLES LLOYD & THE MARVELS FEATURING BILL FRISELL FEBRUARY 6, 2016, 1:00 & 3:00 P.M. Rose Theater FAMILY CONCERT: WHO IS FRANK SINATRA?
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FEBRUARY 12, 2016, 7:00 & 9:30 P.M. FEBRUARY 13, 2016, 7:00 P.M. The Appel Room CÉCILE MCLORIN SALVANT
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FEBRUARY 12 & 13, 2016, 8:00 P.M. Rose Theater MONTY ALEXANDER & FRIENDS: SINATRA AT 100 FEBRUARY 26 & 27, 2016, 8:00 P.M. Rose Theater CHRISTIAN MCBRIDE & JONATHAN BATISTE MARCH 4, 2016, 7:00 & 9:30 P.M. MARCH 5, 2016, 7:00 P.M. The Appel Room MOONGLOW: THE MAGIC OF BENNY GOODMAN MARCH 18, 2016, 7:00 & 9:30 P.M. MARCH 19, 2016, 7:00 P.M. The Appel Room AARON DIEHL: THE REAL DEAL
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APRIL 1 & 2, 2016, 8:00 P.M. Rose Theater SPACES BY WYNTON MARSALIS APRIL 8, 2016, 7:00 & 9:30 P.M. APRIL 9, 2016, 7:00 P.M. The Appel Room STEVE MILLER: OUT OF THIS WORLD APRIL 8 & 9, 2016, 8:00 P.M. Rose Theater BILL CHARLAP: BROADWAY TO HARLEM APRIL 13, 2016, 7:00 & 9:30 P.M. APRIL 14, 2016, 7:00 P.M. The Appel Room MICHAEL FEINSTEIN: THE GREAT JAZZ STANDARDS APRIL 14 – 16, 2016, 8:00 P.M. Rose Theater WORLD ON A STRING: SWINGING SONGS OF BROADWAY APRIL 15, 2016, 7:00 & 9:30 P.M. APRIL 16, 2016, 7:00 P.M. The Appel Room CATHERINE RUSSELL: SUNNY SIDE OF THE STREET
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MAY 11, 2016, 7:00 P.M. MAY 12, 2016, 7:00 & 9:00 P.M. The Appel Room MICHAEL FEINSTEIN: A RIGHT TO SING THE BLUES MAY 12 & 13, 2016, 8:00 P.M. Rose Theater MILES DAVIS: THE SORCERER AT 90 MAY 13, 2016, 7:00 & 9:30 P.M. MAY 14, 2016, 7:00 & 9:30 P.M. The Appel Room JOE LOVANO: THE SPIRITUAL SIDE OF COLTRANE MAY 20, 2016, 7:00 & 9:30 P.M. MAY 21, 2016, 7:00 P.M. The Appel Room BODY & SOUL: AMERICA’S UNFORGETTABLE CROONERS MAY 20 & 21, 2016, 8:00 P.M. Rose Theater THE RAY CHARLES SONGBOOK JUNE 8, 2016, 7:00 P.M. JUNE 9, 2016, 7:00 & 9:00 P.M. The Appel Room MICHAEL FEINSTEIN: SING ME A SWING SONG
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JUNE 10 & 11, 2016, 8:00 P.M. Rose Theater LUSH LIFE: CELEBRATING BILLY STRAYHORN 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
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 28, 2015 – MARCH 6, 2016 OUR MOTHER’S BRIEF AFFAIR By RICHARD GREENBERG Directed by LYNNE MEADOW ON THE VERGE of death for the umpteenth time, Anna (Linda Lavin) makes a shocking confession to her grown children: an affair from her past that just might have resonance beyond the family. But how much of what she says is true? While her children try to separate fact from fiction, Anna fights for a legacy she can be proud of. With razor-sharp wit and extraordinary insight, Our Mother’s Brief Affair considers the sweeping, surprising impact of indiscretions both large and small. JANUARY 19 – MARCH 20, 2016 PRODIGAL SON Written and Directed by JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY PRODIGAL SON IS A passionate, explosive portrait of a young man on the verge of salvation or destruction, written and directed by John Patrick Shanley (of Tony, Academy Award, and Pulitzer Prize fame). A 17-year-old boy (Timothée Chalamet) from The Bronx finds himself suddenly in a private school in New Hampshire. He’s violent, gifted, alienated, on fire with a ferocious loneliness. Two faculty members (Tony Award winner Robert Sean Leonard and John Patrick Shanley, writer and director of Prodigal Son. Chris McGarry) wrestle with the Photo: Monique Carboni dilemma: Is the kid a star or a disaster?
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MARCH 22 – JUNE 12, 2016 THE FATHER By FLORIAN ZELLER Directed by DOUG HUGHES THE FATHER OFFERS A fascinating look inside the mind of Andre (Frank Langella), a retired dancer living with his adult daughter Anne and her husband. Or is he a retired engineer receiving a visit from Anne who has moved away with her boyfriend? Why do strangers keep turning up in his room? And where has he left his watch? MAY 3 – JUNE 26, 2016 INCOGNITO By NICK PAYNE Directed by DOUG HUGHES
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A PATHOLOGIST STEALS the brain of Albert Einstein; a neuropsychologist embarks on her first romance with another woman; a seizure patient forgets everything but how much he loves his girlfriend. Incognito braids these mysterious stories into one breathtaking whole that asks whether memory and identity are nothing but illusions. Directed by Tony Award winner Doug Hughes (Doubt, Outside Mullingar, The City of Conversation), Incognito takes us into the last uncharted realm – the mind.
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TICKETS & CONTACT The Samuel J. Friedman Theatre 261 West 47th Street (Between Broadway & 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 & 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
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.
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Folding knife featuring ‘Wave’ Damascus blade and Fossil Woolly Mammoth Tooth Bracelets featuring Sterling Silver, Black Onyx and Fossil Dinosaur Bone
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ANCIENT EGYPT TRANSFORMED: THE MIDDLE KINGDOM OCTOBER 12, 2015 – JANUARY 24, 2016 THE REUNIFICATION OF ancient Egypt achieved by Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II – the first pharaoh of the Middle Kingdom – was followed by a great cultural flowering that lasted nearly four hundred years. During the Middle Kingdom (mid-Dynasty 11– Dynasty 13, around 2030–1650 B.C.), artistic, cultural, religious, and political traditions first conceived and instituted during the Old Kingdom were revived and reimagined. This transformational era will be represented through 230 objects and groups in this major international exhibition. Fashioned with great subtlety and sensitivity, and ranging in size from monumental stone sculptures to delicate examples of jewelry, the works of art are drawn from the preeminent collection of the Metropolitan – which is particularly rich in Middle Kingdom material – and thirtyseven lenders in North America and Europe. This is the first comprehensive presentation of Middle Kingdom art and culture, featuring many objects that have never before been shown in the United States. THE AFTERMATH OF CONFLICT: JO RATCLIFFE’S PHOTOGRAPHS OF ANGOLA AND SOUTH AFRICA AUGUST 24, 2015 – MARCH 6, 2016 THROUGHOUT HER CAREER, South African photographer Jo Ractliffe (born 1961) has directed her camera toward landscapes to address themes of displacement, Jo Ratcliffe, Roadside Stall on the Way to Viana, from the series Terreno Ocupado, 2007. Inkjet print, 2015. On loan from the artist, courtesy of Stevenson, Cape Town and Johannesburg. © Jo Ratcliffe
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conflict, history, memory, and erasure. This exhibition brings together selected works from three of her recent photographic series that focus on the aftermath of the Angolan Civil War (1975–2002) and its relationship with the Border War (1966–89) fought by South Africans in Angola and present-day Namibia. For Ractliffe and many other South African civilians, Angola during these wars was an abstract place, a “secret, unspoken location where brothers and boyfriends were sent as part of their military service.” When seen consecutively, these three series reveal Ractliffe’s deepening engagement with the region’s complex histories as an attempt to “retrieve a place for memory.” RECONSTRUCTIONS: RECENT PHOTOGRAPHS AND VIDEO FROM THE MET COLLECTION SEPTEMBER 21, 2015 – MARCH 13, 2016 THIS INSTALLATION, THE thirteenth since the Joyce and Robert Menschel Hall for Modern Photography opened in 2007, is a snapshot – not comprehensive, but representative – of the collecting interests of the Department of Photographs through recently acquired works made by fifteen artists over the last seven years. While the title is taken from a photograph in the exhibition, the concept of reconstruction chimes with many of the works, which can be viewed, at least in part, as indirect addresses to how perception and cognition are being remapped to accommodate our newly bifurcated existences – online and “in real life.” KOREA: 100 YEARS OF COLLECTING AT THE MET FEBRUARY 7, 2015 – MARCH 27, 2016 WHEN THE DEPARTMENT of Far Eastern Art was established at the Metropolitan in the summer of 1915, the Museum possessed only sixty-five Korean works. Some were mistakenly catalogued as Chinese or Japanese. Dubbed the “hermit kingdom,” Korea was then little known to the Western world. Today, its traditional arts, as well as pop music, film, and drama, are celebrated markers of global culture. The Museum’s collection of Korean art, too, has been significantly transformed and continues to evolve. It now
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encompasses ceramics, paintings, sculpture, metalwork, lacquer ware, and textiles from the late Bronze Age to the present. The stories behind the objects in this exhibition capture the individuals and trends that shaped the Met’s distinctive collection, sometimes deliberately, sometimes accidentally. This presentation also reveals the modern Western imagination of Korea, and the many ways Korean art came to be viewed and appreciated in America. A PASSION FOR JADE: THE HEBER BISHOP COLLECTION MARCH 14, 2015 – JUNE 19, 2016
Unknown, Double-Cylinder Vase with Cover, Qing Dynasty. Jade, 6 1/2 x 3 1/2 x 2 3/4 inches. Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Heber R. Bishop, 1902
HEBER R. BISHOP’S collection of carved jades was formed in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and bequeathed to the Metropolitan Museum in 1902. Consisting of over one thousand pieces – primarily Chinese jades of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as jades from Mughal India – it was the first major collection of its kind in the country. This exhibition features a selection of the finest examples from this renowned collection and celebrates the hundredth anniversary of the Department of Asian Art.
CHINESE LACQUER: TREASURES FROM THE IRVING COLLECTION, 12TH – 18TH CENTURY AUGUST 15, 2015 – JUNE 19, 2016 LACQUER, THE RESIN of a family of trees found throughout southern China – as well as in Southeast Asia, Korea, and Japan – is an amazing material. When exposed to oxygen and humidity, lacquer hardens or polymerizes, becoming a natural
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plastic and an ideal protective covering for screens, trays, and other implements. Mixed with pigments, particularly cinnabar (red) and carbon (black), lacquer has been also used as an artistic media for millennia. This installation, which features all of the most important examples of Chinese lacquer in the Museum’s collection, explores the laborious techniques used to create scenes based on history and literature, images of popular gods and mythical and real animals, and representations of landscapes, flowers, and birds. CHINESE TEXTILES: TEN CENTURIES OF MASTERPIECES FROM THE MET COLLECTION AUGUST 15, 2015 – JUNE 19, 2016 THIS INSTALLATION, WHICH explores the cultural importance of silk in China, showcases the most important and unusual textiles from the Museum’s collection. In addition to three rare pieces dating from the Tang dynasty (618–906), when China served as a cultural hub linking Korea and Japan to Central and West Asia, and ultimately to the Mediterranean world, the exhibition also includes eleventh- and twelfthcentury tapestries from Central Asia, as well as contemporaneous Chinese examples of this technique. Spectacular embroideries – including an imperial fourteenth-century canopy decorated with phoenixes and flowers, and a Unknown, Rank Badge with Silver monumental late seventeenthPheasant, Qing Dynasty. Silk, pearls, and metallic thread embroidery on silk satin, 10 or early eighteenth-century x 10 inches. panel showing phoenixes Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bequest of William Christian Paul, 1929 in a garden – are also on view, together with theatrical garments, court costumes, and early examples of badges worn at court to designate rank.
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AMERICAN QUILTS AND FOLK ART JULY 17, 2015 – AUGUST 7, 2016 THIS EXHIBITION FEATURES eight quilts – all recent additions to the Museum’s outstanding quilt collection, only one of which has been shown at the Museum before. The display also includes a selection of folk painting and furniture from The American Wing’s collection, as well as two important paintings by Edward Hicks (American, 1780–1840), on loan from the Peter J. Solomon Family Collection. COLLECTING THE ARTS OF MEXICO JULY 17, 2015 – AUGUST 7, 2016 IN 1911, EMILY Johnston de Forest gave her collection of pottery from Mexico to the Metropolitan Museum. Calling it “Mexican maiolica,” she highlighted its importance as a North American artistic achievement. De Forest was the daughter of the Museum’s first president and, with her husband, Robert, a founder of The American Wing. The De Forests envisioned building a collection of Mexican art, and, even though their ambitions were frustrated at the time, the foundational gift of more than one hundred pieces of pottery anchors the Met’s holdings. Today, more than a century later, their vision resonates as the Museum commits to collecting and exhibiting not just the arts of Mexico, but all of Latin America. This exhibition highlights the early contributions of the De Forests and others, and presents recent additions to the collection for the first time. NEW DISCOVERIES: EARLY LITURGICAL TEXTILES FROM EGYPT, 200–400 SEPTEMBER 23, 2015 – SEPTEMBER 5, 2016 ICONOGRAPHIC ANALYSIS AND scientific testing have revealed new information about the meaning and use of two textiles in the Museum’s collection. The first – woven in a loop pile meant to suggest a mosaic – has recently been recognized as a wall hanging for Christian liturgical use. The second – five recently acquired elements from a depiction of the Crossing of the Red
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Sea as described in the book of Exodus – can be understood as being from a wall hanging for Christian or possibly Jewish use. 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 artistjeweler 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 House of Fabergé, Workmaster: Henrik loan at The Metropolitan Emanuel Wigström, Miniaturist: Vassily Museum of Art, and comprises Ivanovich Zuiev, Imperial Napoleonic Egg, 1912. Gold, guilloché enamel, rose-cut this exhibition. Objects diamond, platinum, ivory, gouache, velvet, silk. originally commissioned by Matilda Geddings Gray Foundation and created for the Romanov (L.2011.66.57a–c) family, such as the Liliesof-the-Valley Basket – the most important Fabergé work in a U. S. collection – and three magnificent Imperial Easter Eggs, are on view. The exhibition 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.
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CELEBRATING THE ARTS OF JAPAN: THE MARY GRIGGS BURKE COLLECTION OCTOBER 20, 2015 – JULY 31, 2016 THIS TRIBUTE TO a great collector reveals the distinctive features of Japanese art as viewed through the lens of fifty years of collecting: the sublime spirituality of Buddhist and Shinto art; the boldness of Zen ink painting; the imaginary world conjured up by the Tale of Genji and classical Japanese literature; the sumptuous colors of bird-and-flower painting; the subtlety of poetry, calligraphy, and literati themes; the aestheticized accoutrements of the tea ceremony; and the charming portraiture of courtesans from the “floating world” (ukiyo-e). DESIGN FOR ETERNITY: ARCHITECTURAL MODELS FROM THE ANCIENT AMERICAS OCTOBER 26, 2015 – SEPTEMBER 18, 2016 FROM THE FIRST millennium B.C. until the arrival of Europeans in the sixteenth century, artists from the ancient Americas created smallscale architectural models to be placed in the tombs of important individuals. These works in stone, ceramic, wood, and metal range from highly abstracted, minimalist representations of temples and houses to elaborate architectural complexes populated with figures. Such miniature structures were critical components in funerary practice and House with Occupants, 100 B.C.–A.D. 200. Ceramic, 12 x 10 1/4 x 6 3/4 inches. beliefs about an afterlife, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of they convey a rich sense of Joanne P. Pearson ancient ritual as well as the
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daily lives of the Aztecs, the Incas, and their predecessors. This exhibition, the first of its kind in the United States, will shed light on the role of these objects in mediating relationships between the living, the dead, and the divine. It will also provide a rare look at ancient American architecture, much of which did not survive to the present day. MASTERPIECES OF CHINESE PAINTING FROM THE METROPOLITAN COLLECTION OCTOBER 31, 2015 – OCTOBER 11, 2016 OVER THE LAST forty years, the Metropolitan’s collection of Chinese painting and calligraphy has grown to be one of the greatest in the world. Replete with masterpieces dating from the Tang dynasty (608–917) to the present, the collection encompasses the vast historical sweep of the brush arts of China, from serene Buddhist scriptures to bombastic court portraits to lyrical scholars’ paintings. This exhibition, presented in two rotations, will highlight the gems of the permanent collection in a chronological display, with an emphasis on works from the Song (960–1279) and Yuan (1271–1368) dynasties. GIROLAMO DAI LIBRI AND VERONESE ART OF THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY NOVEMBER 16, 2015 – FEBRUARY 7, 2016 GIROLAMO DAI LIBRI (Italian, 1474–1555) was the leading artist in the northern Italian city of Verona during the early sixteenth century, producing altarpieces and illuminated manuscripts for numerous churches in and around the city. Verona’s location at a significant crossroads between northern Italy and northern Europe encouraged Girolamo dai Libri and the members of the vibrant Veronese school to synthesize various influences, fusing the sculptural, classicizing style of nearby Padua, the luminous sensibility of Venetian painting, and the meticulous attention to naturalistic detail inspired by northern European artists. The focal point of this installation, comprised of works from the Museum’s collection, is Girolamo’s majestic altarpiece of the Madonna and Child with saints, on loan to the Robert Lehman Collection from
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the Department of European Paintings. Highlighting Girolamo’s dual activities as a painter and illuminator, this altarpiece will be shown alongside manuscripts by Girolamo and his Veronese contemporaries, as well as drawings by this circle of artists. JACQUELINE DE RIBES: THE ART OF STYLE NOVEMBER 19, 2015 – FEBRUARY 21, 2016 THIS COSTUME INSTITUTE exhibition will focus on the internationally renowned style icon Countess Jacqueline de Ribes, whose originality and elegance established her as one of the most celebrated fashion personas of the twentieth century. The thematic show will feature about sixty ensembles of haute couture and ready-to-wear primarily from de Ribes’s personal archive, dating from 1959 to the present. Also included will be her creations for fancy-dress balls, which she often made by cutting and cannibalizing her haute couture gowns to create nuanced expressions of her aesthetic. These, along with photographs and ephemera, will tell the story of how her interest in fashion developed over decades, from childhood “dress-up” Jacqueline de Ribes, 1961, Photograph to the epitome of international attributed to Raymundo de Larrain style. While the exhibition The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of Joanne P. Pearson will focus on de Ribes’s taste and style, extensive documentation from her personal archives will illustrate the range of her professional life, including her roles as theatrical impresario, television producer, interior designer, and director and organizer of international charity events. 80
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ENCOUNTERING VISHNU: THE LION AVATAR IN INDIAN TEMPLE DRAMA DECEMBER 19, 2015 – JUNE 5, 2016 DRAMAS PRESENTED DURING religious festivals in southern India are an important aspect of popular Hindu celebration. This exhibition highlights five rare wooden sculptural masks that represent a largely unrecorded category of late medieval Indian devotional art. The masks depict the protagonists in a deadly battle between Vishnu in his man-lion avatar, Narasimha, and an evil king whose destruction was essential for the restoration of order in the universe. MANUS X MACHINA: FASHION IN AN AGE OF TECHNOLOGY MAY 5 – AUGUST 14, 2016 THE COSTUME INSTITUTE’S spring 2016 exhibition will explore the impact of new technology on fashion, and how designers are reconciling the handmade and the machine-made in the creation of haute couture and avant-garde ready-towear. The exhibition will propose a new view in which the hand (manus) and the machine (machina), often presented as oppositional, are equal protagonists. With more than one hundred Iris van Herpen, Dress, fall/winter ensembles, dating from 2013–14. Silicon feather structure and an 1880s Worth gown to a moldings of bird heads on cotton base. Photo: Jean-Baptiste Mondino 2015 Chanel suit, manus x machina will look into the founding of the haute couture in the nineteenth century, and the emergence of a distinction between the hand and machine at the onset of industrialization and mass production. It will reexamine
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the dichotomy in which the hand and the machine are presented as discordant tools in the creative process, and question the significance of the time-honored distinction between haute couture and ready-to-wear. 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
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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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SEPTEMBER 21, 2015 – MAY 6, 2016 OTELLO By GIUSEPPE VERDI DIRECTOR BARTLETT SHER’S season-opening new production of Verdi’s masterful Otello probes the Moor’s dramatic downfall with an outstanding cast led by Aleksandrs Antonenko in the title role, Sonya Yoncheva as Desdemona, and Željko Lučić as Iago. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts.
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SEPTEMBER 23, 2015 – JANUARY 30, 2016 TURANDOT By GIACOMO PUCCINI LISE LINDSTROM AND Nina Stemme take turns in the title role of the proud princess of ancient China, whose riddles doom every suitor who seeks her hand. Tenors Marcelo Álvarez, Marco Berti, and Yusif Eyvazov are Calàf, the brave prince who sings “Nessun dorma” and wins her love. Franco Zeffirelli’s golden production is conducted by Paolo Carignani. SEPTEMBER 25, 2015 – FEBRUARY 13, 2016 IL TROVATORE By GIUSEPPE VERDI ANNA NETREBKO TAKES on her next new role at the Met as Leonora, the heroine who sacrifices her life for the love of the 86
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troubadour Manrico, sung by Yonghoon Lee. Vitaliy Bilyy is Count di Luna and Dolora Zajick sings Azucena. Marco Armiliato conducts Sir David McVicar’s Goya-inspired production. NOVEMBER 23, 2015 – MAY 5, 2016 LA BOHÈME By GIACOMO PUCCINI PUCCINI’S UNFORGETTABLE TALE of love, youth, and tragic loss returns in Franco Zeffirelli’s classic production, perhaps his most beloved staging of all. Maria Agresta, Ramón Vargas, and Bryan Hymel are among the artists appearing as the young Parisian lovers in the bohemian setting that brings the Latin Quarter to life on the stage of the Met. Paolo Carignani and Dan Ettinger conduct. DECEMBER 31, 2015 – FEBRUARY 4, 2016 LES PÊCHEURS DE PERLES By GEORGES BIZET BIZET’S GORGEOUS OPERA of lust and longing set in the Far East returns to the Met stage for the first time in 100 years. Diana Damrau. Soprano Diana Damrau stars as Leïla, Photo: Michael Tammaro the beautiful Hindu priestess pursued by rival pearl divers competing for her hand. Her suitors are tenor Matthew Polenzani and baritone Mariusz Kwiecien, who sing the lilting duet “Au fond du temple saint,” which opera fans know and adore. Director Penny Woolcock explores the timeless themes of pure love, betrayal, and vengeance in a production that vividly creates an undersea world on the stage of the Met. Conductor Gianandrea Noseda brings his romantic flair to the lush score from the composer of Carmen.
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JANUARY 21 – FEBRUARY 26, 2016 CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA / PAGLIACCI By PIETRO MASCAGNI / RUGGERO LEONCAVALLO OPERA’S INDOMITABLE DOUBLE bill returns in Sir David McVicar’s searing production from the 2014–15 season. Tenor Yonghoon Lee and mezzo-soprano Violeta Urmana star in Cavalleria Rusticana, the tragedy of ancient codes and illicit love, Sicilian style. In the second half of the pair of verismo potboilers, tenor Roberto Alagna is the murderous clown Canio and soprano Barbara Frittoli is his philandering wife. Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi is on the podium. JANUARY 29 – FEBRUARY 20, 2016 MARIA STUARDA By GAETANO DONIZETTI THE SECOND CHAPTER of soprano Sondra Radvanovsky’s quest to sing all three Donizetti Tudor queens in the same season has her playing the doomed Mary, Queen of Scots. Sir David McVicar’s stunning production turns on the dramatic confrontation between Mary and her arch nemesis, Queen Elizabeth – compellingly portrayed by soprano Elza van den Heever. Riccardo Frizza conducts. FEBRUARY 12 – MARCH 11, 2016 MANON LESCAUT By GIACOMO PUCCINI THE MET STAGE ignites when soprano Kristine Opolais and tenor Jonas Kaufmann join forces in Fabio Luisi conducts. Puccini’s obsessive love Photo: Karsten Moran/The New York Times story. Opolais sings the title role of the country girl who transforms herself into a Parisian temptress, while Kaufmann is the dashing student who desperately woos her. Director Richard 88
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Eyre places the action in occupied France in a film noir setting. “Desperate passion” is the phrase Puccini himself used to describe the opera that confirmed his position as the preeminent Italian opera composer of his day. Met Principal Conductor Fabio Luisi leads the stirring score. FEBRUARY 19 – APRIL 12, 2016 MADAMA BUTTERFLY By GIACOMO PUCCINI ANTHONY MINGHELLA’S BREATHTAKING production has thrilled audiences ever since its premiere in 2006. Kristine Opolais reprises her acclaimed portrayal of the title role, opposite Roberto Alagna as Pinkerton, the naval officer who breaks Butterfly’s heart. Hei-Kyung Hong and Massimo Giordano star in a second set of performances. Karel Mark Chichon conducts. FEBRUARY 25 – MARCH 26, 2016 LE NOZZE DI FIGARO By WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART RICHARD EYRE’S STYLISH 2014 production, set in 1930s Seville, returns with both new and familiar stars. Bass Mikhail Petrenko sings his first Met Figaro. Sopranos Rachel Willis-Sørensen and Amanda Majeski – who both made acclaimed Met debuts last season – return to the role of the Countess. Mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard reprises her celebrated Cherubino, Luca Pisaroni is the Count, and rising star soprano Anita Hartig sings Susanna in Mozart’s immortal comedy of manners and morals. FEBRUARY 28, 2016 ANNA NETREBKO IN RECITAL ONE OF TODAY’S most exciting and acclaimed artists, soprano Anna Netrebko presents a solo recital to include works by RimskyKorsakov and Tchaikovsky.
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MARCH 4 – 18, 2016 DON PASQUALE By GAETANO DONIZETTI DONIZETTI’S LIGHTHEARTED FARCE stars celebrated debutante soprano Eleonora Buratto, tenor Javier Camarena, a new king of the high Cs, and baritone Ambrogio Maestri, the recent and unforgettable Met Javier Camarena. Falstaff – an ideal team Photo: Sara Krulwich/The New York Times for this comic romp. Otto Schenk’s 2006 production provides a colorful backdrop. Maurizio Benini conducts. MARCH 10 – APRIL 7, 2016 L’ELISIR D’AMORE By GAETANO DONIZETTI EVERYONE IN THE village loves the spry Adina and the slow-butlikeable Nemorino – but when will they admit their love for each other? Soprano Aleksandra Kurzak and tenor Vittorio Grigolo bring their magnetism to the two lead roles, with the renowned Alessandro Corbelli as the loveable con man who sells the “magic elixir” of love. Enrique Mazzola conducts Bartlett Sher’s vibrant production. MARCH 24 – APRIL 19, 2016 ROBERTO DEVEREUX BY GAETANO DONIZETTI SOPRANO SONDRA RADVANOVSKY takes on the extraordinary challenge of singing all three of Donizetti’s Tudor queens in the course of a single season, a rare feat made famous by Beverly Sills – and not attempted on a New York stage since. In this climactic opera of the trilogy, she plays Queen Elizabeth I, forced to sign the
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death warrant of the nobleman she loves, Roberto Devereux. Tenor Matthew Polenzani is Devereux, and mezzo-soprano Elīna Garanca and baritone Mariusz Kwiecien complete the principal quartet in the bel canto masterpiece, conducted by Donizetti specialist Maurizio Benini. As with the earlier Anna Bolena and Maria Stuarda, the production is by Sir David McVicar, who with this staging completes an enormously ambitious directorial accomplishment. APRIL 1 – 16, 2016 SIMON BOCCANEGRA By GIUSEPPE VERDI THE LEGENDARY PAIR of James Levine and Plácido Domingo have defined Verdi’s art for more than four decades. They demonstrate their mastery with this remarkable character study of the wise Doge forced to confront his past. The spectacular cast includes tenor Joseph Calleja and another legend, bass Ferruccio Furlanetto, as Boccanegra’s rival, Fiesco. APRIL 14 – MAY 7, 2016 ELEKTRA By RICHARD STRAUSS THE GENIUS DIRECTOR Patrice Chéreau (From the House of the Dead) didn’t live to see his great Elektra production, Nina Stemme in Elektra. previously presented in Photo: Kristian Schuller Aix and Milan, make it to the stage of the Met. But his overpowering vision lives on with soprano Nina Stemme – unmatched today in the heroic female roles of Strauss and Wagner – who portrays Elektra’s primal quest for vengeance for the murder of her father, Agamemnon. Legendary mezzo-soprano Waltraud Meier is chilling as Elektra’s fearsome mother, Klytämnestra. Soprano Adrianne Pieczonka and bass-baritone Eric Owens are Elektra’s troubled siblings. Chéreau’s musical collaborator Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Strauss’s mighty take on Greek myth.
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APRIL 22 – MAY 7, 2016 DIE ENTFÜHRUNG AUS DEM SERAIL By WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART MET MUSIC DIRECTOR James Levine returns to a work he has long cherished, Mozart’s delightful comic gem of wily captives in a harem. Coloratura soprano sensation Albina Shagimuratova stars in the bravura role of Konstanze. Rising tenor Paul Appleby is her lover, Belmonte, soprano Kathleen Kim is her shrewd maid, Blondchen, and bass Hans-Peter König delivers comic gravitas as the overseer of the harem. TICKETS & CONTACT The Metropolitan Opera Lincoln Center New York, NY 10023 (212) 362-6000 (Tickets) (212) 799-3100 (General) www.metopera.org
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MOMA entrance. FOUNDED IN 1929 as an Photo: Daniel Acker/Bloomberg 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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PICASSO SCULPTURE SEPTEMBER 14, 2015 – FEBRUARY 7, 2016 PICASSO SCULPTURE IS a sweeping survey of Pablo Picasso’s innovative and influential work in three dimensions. This will be the first such museum exhibition in the United States in nearly half a century. Over the course of his long career, Picasso devoted himself to sculpture wholeheartedly, if episodically, using both traditional and unconventional materials and techniques. Unlike painting, in which he was formally trained and through which he made his living, sculpture occupied a uniquely personal and experimental status for Picasso. He approached the medium with the freedom of a self-taught artist, ready to break all the rules. Picasso Sculpture focuses on the artist’s lifelong work with sculpture, with a particular focus on his use of materials and processes. The exhibition, which features more than 100 sculptures, complemented by selected works on paper and photographs, aims to advance the understanding of what sculpture was for Picasso, and of how he revolutionized its history through a lifelong commitment to constant reinvention. WALID RAAD OCTOBER 12, 2015 – JANUARY 31, 2016 MOMA PRESENTS THE first comprehensive American survey of the leading contemporary artist Walid Raad (b. 1967, Lebanon), featuring his work in photography, video, sculpture, and performance from the last 25 years. Dedicated to exploring the veracity of photographic and video documents in the public realm, the role of
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memory and narrative within discourses of conflict, and the construction of histories of art in the Arab world, Raad’s work is informed by his upbringing in Lebanon during the civil war (1975– 91), and by the socioeconomic and military policies that have shaped the Middle East in the past few decades. The exhibition focuses on two of the artist’s long-term projects: The Atlas Group (1989–2004) and Scratching on things I could disavow (2007– ongoing). The exhibition emphasizes the importance of performance, narrative, and storytelling in Raad’s oeuvre. The artist will also present his lecture-performance Walkthrough in MoMA’s Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium multiple times a week throughout the duration of the exhibition. THIS IS FOR EVERYONE: DESIGN EXPERIMENTS FOR THE COMMON GOOD FEBRUARY 14, 2015 – JANUARY 31, 2016 THIS EXHIBITION TAKES its title from the Twitter message that British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of the World Wide Web) used to light up the stadium at the 2012 London Olympics opening ceremonies. His buoyant tweet highlighted the way that the Internet – perhaps the most radical social design experiment of the last quarter century – has created limitless possibilities for the discovery, sharing, and expansion of knowledge and information. As we revel in this abundant possibility, we sometimes forget that new technologies are not inherently democratic. Is design in the digital age – so often simply assumed to be for the greater good – truly for everyone? From initial exploratory experiments to complex, and often contested, hybrid digital-analog states, all the way to “universal” designs, This Is for Everyone explores this question with works from MoMA’s collection that celebrate the promise – and occasional flipside – of contemporary design. ENDLESS HOUSE: INTERSECTIONS OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE JUNE 27, 2015 – MARCH 6, 2016 ENDLESS HOUSE CONSIDERS the single-family home and archetypes of dwelling as themes for the creative endeavors
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of architects and artists. Through drawings, photographs, video, installations, and architectural models drawn from MoMA’s collection, the exhibition highlights how artists have used the house Frederick Kiesler, Endless House, as a means to explore universal project 1950–60, model 1958. Gelatin silver print, 8 x 10 inches.© topics, and how architects have Department of Architecture and tackled the design of residences Design Study Center. Photo: George Barrows to expand their discipline in new ways. Works by architects and artists spanning more than seven decades are exhibited alongside materials from Kiesler’s Endless House design and images of its presentation in MoMA’s 1960 Visionary Architecture exhibition. Together these works demonstrate how the dwelling occupies a central place in a cultural exchange that crosses generations and disciplines. TAKE AN OBJECT AUGUST 22, 2015 – FEBRUARY 28, 2016 IN 1964, JASPER Johns wrote himself a note in his sketchbook: “Take an object / Do something to it / Do something else to it. [Repeat.]” Since then, art historians, artists, and critics have invoked this set of instructions on countless occasions to describe the revolutionary approaches to art making that developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s. This exhibition presents a selection of works from the Museum’s collection that all “take an object.” Ranging in date from the mid-1950s to the 1970s, they reflect an interest shared by a generation of artists working around the world in deploying everyday objects and other non-fine art materials to make their work, from Johns and Robert Rauschenberg to Niki de Saint Phalle, Betye Saar, and Katsuhiro Yamaguchi. Lightbulbs,
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newspapers, chairs, and even taxidermied animals became new source materials to be painted on, covered over, affixed to, or surprisingly juxtaposed. Looking beyond traditional mediums such as oil paint and bronze, and beyond traditional formats such as easel paintings and cast sculptures, these artists posed a new set of conditions for art, whereby any and all parts of everyday life were fair game. SCENES FOR A NEW HERITAGE: CONTEMPORARY ART FROM THE COLLECTION MARCH 8, 2015 – APRIL 10, 2016 SCENES FOR A NEW HERITAGE: CONTEMPORARY ART FROM THE COLLECTION is a sweeping reinstallation of MoMA’s Contemporary Galleries. This cross-medium selection of works, created in the past three decades by more than 30 international artists, represents a wide range of approaches to the political, social, and cultural flux that have shaped the current global landscape. Some of these artists use the lens of history – reflecting on past events or centuries-old artistic traditions – as a means of assessing current conditions. In Scene for a New Heritage, the project that lends the exhibition its title, Croatian artist David Maljkovc´ uses an abandoned socialist monument to imagine an alternate future, one informed by events of the past but never realized. Other artists fight to stave off collective amnesia through projects of commemoration; trace the crosscurrents of trade; follow patterns of migration to swelling urban centers; or explore channels for capturing, circulating, and distributing images in today’s highly digitized society – from mobile phones to online platforms. Made under a diverse range of geographic, political, social, and aesthetic circumstances, the works in the exhibition propose one perspective on the Museum’s collection; seen alongside one another, they allow for a reflection not only on their discrepancies, differences, and contradictions, but also on their shared concerns. A number of works return to the galleries after extended absences – Cai Guo-Qiang’s monumental Borrowing Your Enemy’s Arrows,
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a fishing boat pierced by several thousand arrows, is displayed at the Museum for the first time in over a decade – while some 20 works are on view for the first time at MoMA. The latter group includes Gamepieces, a multimedia installation by Nalini Malani that deftly blends mythology and history; Haegue Yang’s Sallim, a sculptural reinterpretation of the artist’s Berlin kitchen; and Alfredo Jaar’s landmark project Lament of the Images. Other featured artists include Luis Camnitzer, Camille Henrot, Feng Mengbo, Rabih Mroué, Allan Sekula, and Kara Walker. JOAQUÍN TORRES-GARCÍA: THE ARCADIAN MODERN OCTOBER 25, 2015 – FEBRUARY 15, 2016 THIS MAJOR RETROSPECTIVE of Joaquín TorresGarcía (Uruguayan, 1874–1949) features works ranging from the late 19th century to the 1940s, including drawings, paintings, objects, sculptures, and original artist Joaquín Torres-García, Construction in White and Black, 1938. Oil on notebooks and rare publications. paper mounted on wood, 31 3/4 x 40 The exhibition combines a 1/8 inches. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Patricia Phelps chronological display with a de Cisneros. Thomas Griesel. © thematic approach, structured Sucesión Joaquín Torres-García, Montevideo 2015 in a series of major chapters in the artist’s career, with emphasis on two key moments: the period from 1923 to 1933, when Torres-García participated in various European early modern avant-garde movements while establishing his own signature pictographic/Constructivist style; and 1935 to 1943, when, having returned to Uruguay, he produced one of the most striking repertoires of synthetic abstraction. Torres-García is one of the most complex and important artists of the first half of the 20th century, and his work
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opened up transformational paths for modern art on both sides of the Atlantic. His personal involvement with a significant number of early avant-garde movements – from Catalan Noucentismo to Cubism, Ultraism-Vibrationism, and Neo-Plasticism – makes him an unparalleled figure whose work is ripe for a fresh critical reappraisal in the U.S. SOLDIER, SPECTRE, SHAMAN: THE FIGURE AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR OCTOBER 24, 2015 – MARCH 20, 2016 THE YEARS SURROUNDING World War II posed a creative and existential crisis, as artists struggled to respond to human, social, and cultural conditions in the wake of the horrors of combat, images of concentration camps, and the aftermath of the atomic bomb. Drawn entirely from MoMA’s collection, Soldier, Spectre, Shaman presents a range of artistic responses focused on the human figure, with the body serving as subject and object, mirror and metaphor. The exhibition features work in a variety of mediums by more than 30 international artists, including prints by David Smith and Chimei Hamada that confront the visceral realities of the battlefield landscape; Alberto Giacometti’s and Louise Bourgeois’s sculptures of spectral, shadowed, or dissolving bodies; Shomei Tomatsu’s post-atomic bomb photographs; and visions of mystical, divine, or otherworldly forms by Henri Michaux, Henry Darger, and Jeanne Reynal. OCEAN OF IMAGES: NEW PHOTOGRAPHY 2015 NOVEMBER 7, 2015 – MARCH 20, 2016 NEW PHOTOGRAPHY, MOMA’S longstanding exhibition series of recent work in photography, returns this fall in an expanded, biannual format. On the occasion of its 30th anniversary, New Photography is expanding to 19 artists and artist collectives from 14 countries, and includes works made specifically for this exhibition. Probing the effects of an image-based post-Internet reality, Ocean of Images examines various ways of experiencing the world: through images that are born digitally, made with scanners or lenses in the studio or the real world, presented
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as still or moving pictures, distributed as zines, morphed into three-dimensional objects, or remixed online. The exhibition’s title refers to the Internet as a vortex of images, a site of piracy, and a system of networks. Ocean of Images presents bodies of work that critically redefine photography as a field of experimentation and intellectual inquiry, where digital and analog, virtual and real dimensions cross over. These artists explore contemporary photobased culture, specifically focusing on connectivity, the circulation of images, information networks, and communication models. Coinciding with the opening of the exhibition, MoMA will also launch an online platform featuring selections from the archive of the New Photography series, including documents and images from the series’ 30-year history. ERNIE GEHR: CARNIVAL OF SHADOWS NOVEMBER 21, 2015 – APRIL 30, 2016 ERNIE GEHR’S LARGE-SCALE, multiscreen video installation Carnival of Shadows is simultaneously a reflection on early animation and genre cinema, a playful exercise in movingErnie Gehr, Carnival of Shadows, image graphics, 2012–15. Five-channel video (blackand-white and color, silent), approx. and an extension of the artists’ 20 min. Image courtesy of the artist interest in the abstraction, texture, and rhythms of visual material. Its source is an early-20th-century shadowgraph toy, which used “paper print films” in the form of sequential silhouette drawings that were brought to life as they passed before a stroboscopic screen. Gehr’s silent, digital video adaptation transforms five original paper subjects, all issued in France c. 1900–05: At the Circus, Carnival in Nice, John Sellery’s Tour of the World, Street Scenes, and Gulliver’s Travels. Commissioned by the Department of Film as a complement to the artist’s 2007 “pre-cinema” work 102
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Panoramas of the Moving Image, this installation is the world premiere of Carnival of Shadows. Also on view are 30 of the original paper prints, along with new photographs by Gehr. The exhibition is accompanied by a Modern Mondays evening with Gehr, and other special film and slide programs. JACKSON POLLOCK: A COLLECTION SURVEY, 1934–1954 NOVEMBER 22, 2015 – MARCH 13, 2016 THIS EXHIBITION OFFERS a concise but detailed survey of the work of Jackson Pollock (American, 1912–1956). It tracks his artistic evolution from the 1930s and early 1940s, when he made loosely figurative images based on mythical or primeval themes, to the late 1940s and early 1950s, when he pioneered the radical abstractions for which he is best known by pouring and dripping paint onto canvas or paper. The exhibition features approximately 50 works – paintings, drawings, and prints – from the Museum’s collection, which is unparalleled in the breadth, depth, and quality of its Pollock holdings. Among the paintings on view is One: Number 31, 1950 (1950), arguably Pollock’s greatest masterpiece, and one of his largest canvases. Exceedingly rare and little-known engravings, lithographs, screenprints, and drawings are also included, highlighting an underappreciated side of one of the most important and influential American artists of the 20th century. By bringing together works made using a range of materials and techniques – both traditional and unorthodox – the exhibition underscores the relentless experimentation and emphasis on process that was at the heart of Pollock’s creativity. MARCEL BROODTHAERS FEBRUARY 13 – MAY 15, 2016 MARCEL BROODTHAERS IS the artist’s first museum retrospective in New York. Bringing together some 200 works in multiple mediums, the exhibition explores the artist’s critical if underrecognized place in the history of 20th-century art. Marcel Broodthaers’s (Belgian, 1924–1976) output across mediums placed him at the center of international activity during the transformative decades of the 1960s and 1970s. Setting a
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Marcel Broodthaers, Armoire blanche et table blanche (White Cabinet and White Table), 1965. Painted cabinet, table, and eggshells. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. © 2015 Estate of Marcel Broodthaers/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/SABAM, Brussels)
precedent for what we call installation art today, his work has had a profound influence on a broad range of contemporary artists, and he remains vitally relevant to cultural discourse at large. Throughout his career, from early objects variously made of mussels, eggshells, and books of his own poetry; to his most ambitious project, the Musée d’Art Moderne. Département des Aigles; and the retrospective Décors, made at the end of his life, Broodthaers occupied a unique position, often operating as both innovator and commentator. This exhibition considers the artist with these lasting contributions in mind. THE MODERN MONUMENT ONGOING
THIS INSTALLATION BRINGS together diverse works around the theme of the modern monument. Included are Barnett Newman’s Broken Obelisk (1967), which does not commemorate a specific event but, rather, serves as a symbolic monument for all people, and Pablo Picasso’s Monument (1972), a memorial for the French poet Guillaume Apollinaire, who died of influenza at the end of World War I. These two works are joined by Figurengruppe/Group of Figures (2006–08) by German artist Katharina Fritsch, comprising nine boldly-colored, life-size figures, among them St. Michael, a Madonna, a giant, and a snake. Favorites like Joan Miró’s Moonbird (1966) and Aristide
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Maillol’s The River (1943), are shown alongside works by Alberto Giacometti, Henri Matisse, Tony Smith, and others. Also on view is the 36-foot-tall Rose II (2007), made by Isa Genzken, and Thomas Schütte’s United Enemies I (2011), two pairs of massive bronze abstracted human figures, each bound together with rope. Making its debut in the Sculpture Garden is Ursula von Rydingsvard’s Bent Lace (2014), an abstract bronze sculpture whose thick, curved form is perforated at the top with delicate lace-like patterns. PAINTING & SCULPTURE I ONGOING THE WORKS DISPLAYED on this floor roughly span the years 1880 to 1940. Within an overall chronological flow, galleries highlight individual stylistic movements, artists, and themes, including Cubism, the work of Henri Matisse, and Claude Monet’s Water Lilies, among other subjects. These galleries are frequently reinstalled in an effort to feature a wide range of artworks in various configurations, reflecting the view that there are countless ways to explore the history of modern art and the Museum’s rich collection. GUSTAV KLIMT’S ADELE BLOCH-BAUER II ONGOING ONE OF TWO formal portraits that Gustav Klimt made of Adele Bloch-Bauer, an important patron of the artist, is now on view at MoMA as a special long-term loan from a private collection. Adele Bloch-Bauer was the wife of Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer, a wealthy industrialist in Vienna, where Klimt lived and worked. Completed in 1912, the composition emphasizes Bloch-Bauer’s social station within Vienna’s cultural elite. Her towering figure, in opulent dress, is set against a jewel-toned backdrop of nearly abstract patterned blocks that suggest a richly decorated domestic interior. In 1938, the Nazis took possession of this portrait along with other works of art in the Bloch-Bauer family’s collection (including Adele BlochBauer I, now in the collection of the Neue Galerie, New York). In 2006, after years of legal negotiations, the works were returned to
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the Bloch-Bauer heirs and subsequently sold to other collections. Adele Bloch-Bauer II is joined by a selection of works from the Museum’s collection, including paintings, drawings, and objects by Klimt, Egon Schiele, Oskar Kokoschka, Josef Hoffmann, Koloman Moser, and others. DESIGN AND VIOLENCE ONGOING DESIGN AND VIOLENCE is an experimental online curatorial project that will stretch over several months, maybe Gustav Klimt, Adele Bloch-Bauer II, 1912. Oil on canvas. Private collection. © 2014 years. Its purpose is to The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Photo: Jonathan Muzikar explore the idea of violence in contemporary society using design objects as prompts for wider questions and reflections. Violence, at least at the beginning of the project, is defined as the manifestation of the power to alter circumstances, against the will of others and to their detriment. Design has a history of violence. It can be an act of creative destruction and a double-edged sword, surprising us with consequences intended or unintended. Although designers aim to work toward the betterment of society, it is and has been easy for them to overstep, indulge in temptation, succumb to the dark side of a moral dilemma, or simply err. The curators have assembled a wide range of design objects, projects, and concepts that have an ambiguous relationship with violence, either masking it while at the same time enabling it; animating it in order to condemn it;
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or instigating it in order to prevent it. Most were designed after 2001, a watershed year in the public perception of violence, at least in the United States and other parts of the western world. The curators are inviting experts from fields as diverse as science, philosophy, literature, music, film, journalism, and politics to respond to selected objects from that list, in order to spark a conversation with all readers. They will post two examples a week for the first month, and one example each week thereafter, for at least a year, perhaps longer. At the bottom of each post by a distinguished author, the curators will ask a provocative question about violence and moderate the discussion. Each object will also be accompanied by museum-standard information and a short description, as well as by images and videos. In a second phase of our project, a Google Earth extension will be added to pinpoint where each object can be physically found in the world – a dispersed exhibition of sorts – so visitors will be able to match their travel whereabouts with traditional exhibition-style viewing of the artifacts. TICKETS & CONTACT 11 West 53rd Street New York, NY 10019 (212) 708-9400 www.moma.org
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Members of the New York City NEW YORK CITY Ballet is one of the Ballet perform. foremost dance companies in the Photo: Andrea Mohin 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 19, 2016, 7:30 P.M. MUSIC DIRECTOR’S CHOICE Overture from Candide Barber Violin Concerto Fancy Free Who Cares? JANUARY 20 & 27, 2016, 7:30 P.M. JANUARY 22 & 29, 2016, 8:00 P.M. MASTERS AT WORK Liebeslieder Walzer Glass Pieces JANUARY 21, 2016, 7:30 P.M. JANUARY 23, 2016, 8:00 P.M. FEBRUARY 3, 2016, 7:30 P.M. FEBRUARY 6, 2016, 2:00 P.M. FEBRUARY 7, 2016, 3:00 P.M. ALL BALANCHINE I Ballo della Regina Kammermusik No. 2 Tchaikovsky Suite No. 3
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JANUARY 23, 2016, 2:00 P.M. JANUARY 26, 2016, 7:30 P.M. JANUARY 30, 2016, 8:00 P.M. FEBRUARY 4, 2016, 7:30 P.M. FEBRUARY 5, 2016, 8:00 P.M. ALL BALANCHINE II Walpurgisnacht Ballet Sonatine Mozartiana Symphony in C JANUARY 24 & 31, 2016, 3:00 P.M. JANUARY 28, 2016, 7:30 P.M. JANUARY 30, 2016, 2:00 P.M. MUSIC DIRECTOR’S CHOICE Barber Violin Concerto Fancy Free Who Cares? FEBRUARY 2, 9, 10 & 11, 2016, 7:30 P.M. FEBRUARY 6, 2016, 8:00 P.M. NEW COMBINATIONS Common Ground The Blue of Distance Polaris New Dessner/ Peck (World Premiere) Estancia
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FEBRUARY 12 – 18, 2016 LA SYLPHIDE La Sylphide Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 2
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FEBRUARY 19, 2016, 8:00 P.M. CLASSIC NYCB Ash This Bitter Earth The Infernal Machine New Dessner/Peck The Four Temperaments FEBRUARY 20 – 25, 2016 21ST CENTURY CHOREOGRAPHERS Ash This Bitter Earth The Infernal Machine Jeux Paz de la Jolia FEBRUARY 24, 2016, 7:30 P.M. FEBRUARY 26 & 27, 2016, 8:00 P.M. FEBRUARY 28, 2016, 3:00 P.M. BALANCHINE BLACK & WHITE Episodes Agon The Four Temperaments
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APRIL 19, 27 & 28, 2016, 7:30 P.M. APRIL 23, 2016, 8:00 P.M. MAY 1, 2016, 3:00 P.M. JEWELS
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APRIL 20, 2016, 7:30 P.M. APRIL 24, 2016, 3:00 P.M. APRIL 29, 2016, 8:00 P.M. APRIL 30, 2016, 2:00 P.M. 21ST CENTURY CHOREOGRAPHERS I Estancia Pictures at an Exhibition Everywhere We Go APRIL 21, 2016, 7:30 P.M. APRIL 30, 2016, 8:00 P.M. MAY 7, 2016, 2:00 P.M. AMERICAN MUSIC Barber Violin Concerto N.Y. Export: Opus Jazz New Dessner/Peck APRIL 22, 2016, 8:00 P.M. APRIL 23, 2016, 2:00 P.M. APRIL 26, 2016, 7:30 P.M. MAY 3 & 5, 2016, 7:30 P.M. CLASSIC NYCB I Bournonville Divertissements Moves Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux Symphony in Three Movements MAY 4, 2016, 7:00 P.M. SPRING GALA New Wheeldon World Premiere
George Balanchine’s Symphony in Three Movements. Photo: Andrea Mohin/The New York Times
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MAY 6 & 12, 2016, 8:00 P.M. MAY 8, 2016, 3:00 P.M. MAY 10, 2016, 7:30 P.M. ALL BALANCHINE Ballo della Regina Kammermusik No. 2 Vienna Waltzes MAY 7 & 20, 2016, 8:00 P.M. MAY 18, 2016, 7:30 P.M. MAY 21, 2016, 2:00 P.M. 21ST CENTURY CHOREOGRAPHERS II Belles-Lettres New Wheeldon Concerto DSCH MAY 11 – 15, 2016 ALL ROBBINS Dances at a Gathering West Side Story Suite
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MAY 17 & 19, 2016, 7:30 P.M. MAY 21, 2016, 8:00 P.M. MAY 22, 2016, 3:00 P.M. CLASSIC NYCB II Serenade Hallelujah Junction Duo Concertant Western Symphony MAY 24 – 29, 2016 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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New York Philharmonic
Alan Gilbert conducts the FOUNDED IN 1842 by a New York Philharmonic. group of local musicians led Photo: Chris Lee by 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, 2016, 8:00 P.M. JOSHUA BELL ALAN GILBERT, Conductor JOSHUA BELL, Violin SIBELIUS, The Swan of Tuonela SIBELIUS, Symphony No. 4 MENDELSSOHN, Violin Concerto SIBELIUS, Finlandia JANUARY 7 – 12, 2016 WAGNER AND STRAUSS ALAN GILBERT, Conductor HEIDI MELTON, Soprano ERIC OWENS, Bass-Baritone R. STRAUSS, Songs TBA SIBELIUS, En saga WAGNER, Ride of the Valkyries and Final Scene from Die Walküre
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JANUARY 9, 2016, 2:00 P.M. SATURDAY MATINEE ALAN GILBERT, Conductor FRANK HUANG, Violin SHERYL STAPLES, Violin CYNTHIA PHELPS, Viola CARTER BREY, Cello GRIEG, String Quartet SIBELIUS, Symphony No. 4
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JANUARY 14 – 16, 2016 THE RITE OF SPRING & FRANK PETER ZIMMERMAN ALAN GILBERT, Conductor FRANK PETER ZIMMERMAN, Violin OTTORINO RESPIGHI, Church Windows MAGNUS LINDBERG, Violin Concerto No. 2 (U.S. Premiere) STRAVINSKY, The Rite of Spring JANUARY 17, 2016, 3:00 P.M. Merkin Concert Hall PHILHARMONIC ENSEMBLES AT MERKIN CONCERT HALL MARTINU, Duo No. 1 for Violin and Cello, H. 157 JOHN SICHEL, Fishbowl Diaries No. 3 DVORÁK, Piano Trio No. 4, Dumky BEETHOVEN, Quintet for Piano and Winds JANUARY 27 – 30, 2016 BEETHOVEN VIOLIN CONCERTO & BRUCKNER JUANJO MENA, Conductor JAMES EHNES, Violin BEETHOVEN, Violin Concerto BRUCKNER, Symphony No. 6 James Ehnes.
Photo: Benjamin Ealovega FEBRUARY 3 – 6, 2016 WANG, MOZART, AND PINES OF ROME CHARLES DUTOIT, Conductor YUJA WANG, Piano OTTORINO RESPIGHI, Roman Festivals, Fountains of Rome, Pines of Rome
FEBRUARY 9, 2016, 7:30 P.M. CHINESE NEW YEAR LONG YU, Conductor MAXIM VENGEROV, Violin
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NANCY ALLEN, Harp LI HUANZHI, Spring Festival Overture CHEN GANG AND HE ZHANHAO, The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto TAN DUN, Nu Shu: The Secret Songs of Women (New York Premiere) FEBRUARY 11 – 16, 2016 MAHLER SYMPHONY NO. 6 SEMYON BYCHKOV, Conductor MAHLER, Symphony No. 6 FEBRUARY 14, 2016, 3:00 P.M. Merkin Concert Hall PHILHARMONIC ENSEMBLES AT MERKIN CONCERT HALL ELLEN TAAFFE ZWILICH, Piano Quintet SHOSTAKOVICH, String Quartet No. 14 BRAHMS, Horn Trio FEBRUARY 25 – MARCH 1, 2016 DVORÁK AND BARTÓK CHRISTOPH ESCHENBACH, Conductor BAIBA SKRIDE, Violin DVORÁK, Carnival Overture BARTÓK, Violin Concerto No. 2 DVORÁK, Symphony No. 8
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FEBRUARY 28 & 29, 2016 Merkin Concert Hall VERY YOUNG PEOPLE’S CONCERTS: FORTE AND PIANO
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MARCH 3 – 8, 2016 BRAHMS’S A GERMAN REQUIEM CHRISTOPH VON DOHNÁNYI, Conductor CAMILLA TILLING, Soprano MATTHIAS GOERNE, Baritone NEW YORK CHORAL ARTISTS BRAHMS, A German Requiem MARCH 7, 2016, 7:30 P.M. National Sawdust CONTACT! ESA-PEKKA SALONEN, Host/Curator MUSICIANS OF THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC MESSIAEN, Fantasie PIERRE BOULEZ, Anthèmes I OLIVER KNUSSEN, Autumnal PIERRE BOULEZ, Sonatine GEORGE BENJAMIN, Viola, Viola MARCH 10 – 12, 2016 SALONEN AND MESSIAEN ESA-PEKKA SALONEN, Conductor YUJA WANG, Piano MESSIAEN, Turangalilasymphonie Esa-Pekka Salonen. Photo: Nicho Sodling
MARCH 13, 2016, 2:00 P.M. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Temple of Dendur MESSIAEN IN THE TEMPLE: QUARTET FOR THE END OF TIME ALAN GILBERT, Violin INON BARNATAN, Piano ANTHONY MCGILL, Clarinet CARTER BREY, Cello MESSIAEN, Quartet for the End of Time
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MARCH 17 – 19, 2016 GILBERT AND KAVAKOS ALAN GILBERT, Conductor LEONIDAS KAVAKOS, Violin ESA-PEKKA SALONEN, Karawane (New York Premiere) SIBELIUS, Violin Concerto SHOSTAKOVICH, Suite from The Age of Gold MARCH 19, 2016, 2:00 P.M. YOUNG PEOPLE’S CONCERT: BABBLE AND VERSE APRIL 3 & 4, 2016 VERY YOUNG PEOPLE’S CONCERTS: ALLEGRO AND ADAGIO APRIL 7 – 12, 2016 BEETHOVEN AND STRAUSS MANFRED HONECK, Conductor LIANG WANG, Oboe BEETHOVEN, Symphony No. 6, Pastoral R. STRAUSS, Oboe Concerto APRIL 14 – 19, 2016 MAHLER SYMPHONY NO. 9 BERNARD HAITINK, Conductor MAHLER, Symphony No. 9
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APRIL 17, 2016, 3:00 P.M. Merkin Concert Hall PHILHARMONIC ENSEMBLES AT MERKIN CONCERT HALL SMETANA, Piano Trio BEETHOVEN, String Quartet No. 11 HUMMEL, Septet APRIL 20 – 22, 2016 GILBERT, SIBELIUS & MAHLER ALAN GILBERT, Conductor STEFAN VINKE, Tenor
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THOMAS HAMPSON, Baritone SIBELIUS, Symphony No. 7 MAHLER, Das Lied von der Erde APRIL 27 – 30, 2016 BRAHMS & WORLD PREMIERE ALAN GILBERT, Conductor CARTER BREY, Cello FRANCK KRAWCZYK, Après (World Premiere) SCHUMANN, Cello Concerto BRAHMS, Symphony No. 2
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MAY 12 – 14, 2016 OWENS, MAHLER & SIBELIUS JOHN STORGARDS, Conductor ERIC OWENS, Bass-Baritone SCHUMANN, Genoveva Overture MAHLER, Selections from Des Knaben Wunderhorn SIBELIUS, Symphony No. 2 MAY 14, 2016, 2:00 P.M. YOUNG PEOPLE’S CONCERT: STORY AND SONG MAY 24, 2016, 7:30 P.M. A JOHN WILLIAMS CELEBRATION DAVID NEWMAN, Conductor
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MAY 26 – 28, 2016 HOLST’S THE PLANETS DAVID ROBERTSON, Conductor ALAN BAER, Tuba ELGAR, Introduction and Allegro JOHN WILLIAMS, Tuba Concerto HOLST, The Planets
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MAY 29, 2016, 3:00 P.M. Merkin Concert Hall PHILHARMONIC ENSEMBLES AT MERKIN CONCERT HALL SHOSTAKOVICH, String Quartet No. 7 PAUL SCHOENFIELD, Trio for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano SCHUBERT, Piano Quintet, Trout JUNE 2, 2016, 9:45 A.M. OPEN REHEARSAL JUNE 2 – 4, 2016 VIVALDI THE FOUR SEASONS FRANK HUANG, Leader/Violin VIVALDI, The Four Seasons GRIEG, The Last Spring PIAZZOLLA/ARR. L. DESYATNIKOV, Four Seasons of Buenos Aires
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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 6 – 17, 2016 UNDER THE RADAR FESTIVAL – 12TH EDITION CURATED BY CO-DIRECTORS MARK Russell and Meiyin Wang, this highly anticipated 12-day festival in January showcases cutting-edge theater from around the U.S. and the world. FEBRUARY 27 – MARCH 20, 2016 THE GABRIELS: ELECTION YEAR IN THE LIFE OF ONE FAMILY PLAY ONE: HUNGRY Written and Directed by RICHARD NELSON IN 2013, THE PUBLIC proudly presented all four of the critically acclaimed The Apple Family Plays, a dramatic triumph The New York Times called, “a rare and radiant mirror Richard Nelson, playwright. of the way we live.” This season, Photo: Karsten Moran Tony Award winning playwright and director Richard Nelson returns to The Public with Hungry, the first in a new three-play cycle introducing us to the Gabriels of Rhinebeck, New York. Subtitled Election Year in the Life of One Family, these three plays track the lives of the Gabriels throughout the coming presidential election year; the final play will open on Election Day, November 8, 2016. As with The Apple Family Plays, each play in the cycle will open on the day it is set and unfold in real time over a couple of hours. To the rhythm of peeling, chopping, and mixing, Hungry places us in the center of the Gabriels’ kitchen. The family discusses their lives and disappointments, and the world at large and nearby, as they struggle against the fear of being left behind and the challenge to find resilience in the face of loss.
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MARCH 1 – APRIL 10, 2016 DRY POWDER Written by SARAH BURGESS Directed by THOMAS KAIL DRY POWDER IS the viciously, deliciously funny new drama about the people molding, and messing with, the American economy. The same week his private equity firm forced massive layoffs at a national grocery chain, Rick threw himself an extravagant engagement party, setting off a publicity nightmare. Fortunately, Seth, one of Rick’s managing directors, has a win-win deal to invest in an American-made luggage company for a song and rescue his boss from the company’s PR disaster. But Jenny, Seth’s counterpart, has an entirely different plan: to squeeze every last penny out of the company, no matter the human toll. The game is on in Sarah Burgess’s gripping, razor-sharp new play about the price of success and the real cost of getting the deal done. Thomas Kail (Hamilton, In the Heights, Lombardi) directs. MARCH 15 – APRIL 24, 2016 HEAD OF PASSES Written by TARELL ALVIN MCCRANEY Directed by TINA LANDAU TARELL ALVIN MCCRANEY, MacArthur Award-winning playwright of the acclaimed Brother/Sister Plays, returns to The Public with an astonishing, deeply moving new drama about family, acceptance, and the power of faith. At the mouth of the Mississippi River, Shelah’s family and friends have come to celebrate her birthday and save her from a leaking roof. But in this contemporary parable inspired by the Book of Job, unexpected events turn the reunion into the ultimate test of faith and love. As her world seems to collapse around her, Shelah must fight to survive the rising flood of life’s greatest challenges. Regular Public collaborator Tina Landau (Superior Donuts, The Brother/ Sister Plays) directs this poetic and piercing new play heralded by The Chicago Tribune as the “must-be-supported work of an extraordinarily gifted and ambitious writer.”
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MAY 10 – JUNE 19, 2016 THE TOTAL BENT Text by STEW Music by HEIDI RODEWALD & STEW Directed by JOANNA SETTLE STEW AND HEIDI RODEWALD, creators of the Tony Awardwinning show Passing Strange, team with director Joanna Settle to bring you their thrilling new musical, The Total Bent – a riotous new show at the crossroads of the sacred and profane, survival and liberation, gospel and rock ‘n’ roll. When a British record producer arrives in Montgomery, Alabama to hook Marty Roy, a young black musical prodigy, he launches us back into Marty’s tumultuous upbringing. The son of a gospel star and self-proclaimed healer, Stew and Heidi Rodewald. Marty spent his childhood writing Photo: Jeff Fasano the songs that have made his charismatic father famous. But in an America on the verge of social upheaval, with an unrelenting appetite for celebrity, Marty finds himself at odds with his spiritually forceful father as he strives to make a name for himself – no matter the cost. A funny, fiery, one-of-a-kind show, The Total Bent is about the passions that divide a father and son as they make their music and make their choice between salvation and selling out. MAY 10 – 29, 2016 ROMEO & JULIET Written by WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Directed by LEAR DEBESSONET THE PUBLIC THEATER’S Mobile Shakespeare Unit strengthens community engagement with the arts by bringing free, world-class productions of Shakespeare to communities all across New York
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City. This season, the Mobile Unit will present Shakespeare’s timeless tale of Romeo & Juliet. In some of the most romantic language ever written for the stage, young Romeo and Juliet become fortune’s fools when the ancient grudge between their families forces them to sacrifice all for the chance to be together. Obie Award winner Lear DeBessonet directs the classic tale of star-crossed lovers caught between the world outside the bedroom window and passion as boundless as the sea. 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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AT ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY, it’s about you. Everything we do – every story we tell, every production we mount, every experience we create in our theatres – is about you.
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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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DECEMBER 17, 2015 – MARCH 6, 2016 American Airlines Theatre NOISES OFF Written by MICHAEL FRAYN Directed by JEREMY HERRIN Starring ANDREA MARTIN & CAMPBELL SCOTT BRACE YOURSELF FOR comic chaos when Tony and Emmy Award winner Andrea Martin (Pippin, Young Frankenstein) and Campbell Scott (The Amazing Spiderman) make their Roundabout debuts in a rip-roaring new production of Michael Frayn’s (Copenhagen) beloved comedy Noises Off. Two-time Olivier Award nominee Jeremy Herrin (This House) directs.
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FEBRUARY 5 – MAY 22, 2016 Studio 54 SHE LOVES ME Book by JOE MASTEROFF Music by JERRY BOCK Lyrics by SHELDON HARNICK Choreographed by WARREN CARLYLE Directed by SCOTT ELLIS SHE LOVES ME follows Amalia and Georg, two parfumerie clerks who aren’t quite the best of friends. Constantly bumping heads while on the job, the sparring coworkers can’t seem to find
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common ground. But little do they know the anonymous pen pals they have both been falling for happen to be each other! Will love continue to blossom once their identities are finally revealed? MARCH 31 – JUNE 26, 2016 American Airlines Theatre LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT Written by EUGENE O’NEILL Directed by JONATHAN KENT Starring JESSICA LANGE & GABRIEL BYRNE ELEGANT IN ITS simplicity yet limitless in its scope, Long Day’s Journey into Night is the tale of an ordinary summer’s day with extraordinary consequences. Drawing so heavily from the author’s personal history that it could only be produced posthumously, the story of the Tyrone family and their battle to unearth – and conceal – a lifetime of secrets continues to reveal itself to audiences as one of the most profound and powerful plays ever brought to the stage. 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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Signature Theatre
The Irene Diamond Stage at the FOUNDED IN 1991 by James Signature Theatre. Houghton, Signature Theatre Photo: David Sundberg/Esto 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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JANUARY 26 – APRIL 2016 OLD HATS Created and Performed by BILL IRWIN & DAVID SHINER Music and Lyrics by SHAINA TAUB Directed by TINA LANDAU AFTER AN EXTENDED, sold-out run in 2013, Signature welcomes back Bill Irwin and David Shiner in their award-winning, critically acclaimed production of Old Hats. Called “one of the funniest shows of the past few years” by the New York Post, this production reunites the clowns with original director Tina Landau and introduces their new songstress and comic foil Shaina Taub, hailed as “a young Judy Garland meets grown-up Lisa Simpson” by the San Francisco Chronicle. Using music, technology, and movement, Irwin and Shiner combine their inimitable magic and slapstick to create an unforgettable outing that’s Bill Irwin and David Shiner. fun for the whole family. Photo: Sara Krulwich/The New York Times FEBRUARY 2 – MARCH 13, 2016 ANGEL REAPERS By MARTHA CLARKE & ALFRED UHRY Directed and Choreographed by MARTHA CLARKE FEATURING TRADITIONAL SHAKER songs and a stunning mix of modern dance and actual Shaker movements, Angel Reapers captures the soul of the Shakers, an early American religious sect, which sought to connect with God through ecstatic ritual and strict celibacy. While the congregants strive desperately to maintain divine purity, the needs of the flesh threaten to take hold. With text by Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Alfred Uhry, this wildly theatrical collage about the glorious love of the divine
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and the overwhelming desire for human connection marks the return to Signature of Residency Five playwright and MacArthur “Genius” Award winner Martha Clarke. APRIL 26 – JUNE 5, 2016 DAPHNE’S DIVE By QUIARA ALEGRÍA HUDES Directed by THOMAS KAIL DAPHNE’S DIVE IS a cheap corner bar in North Philly where Daphne and her eclectic group of friends and family meet, talk, bond, and drink. As Daphne’s adopted daughter, very different from her quiet and pragmatic mother, grows up, this unconventional family is forced to confront ugly secrets and take a hard look at their lives. Brimming with adversity, love, and hope, this world premiere, directed by Thomas Kail (Hamilton), kicks off Quiara Alegría Hudes’s Signature residency. MAY 3 – JUNE 12, 2016 SIGNATURE ONE ACTS Edward Albee’s The Sandbox María Irene Fornés’s Drowning Adrienne Kennedy’s Funnyhouse of a Negro Directed by LILA NEUGEBAUER Lila Neugebauer. Photo: Tony Cenicola/The New York Times
IN HONOR OF Signature’s 25th Anniversary, Signature One Acts revisits three one act plays produced in their playwrights’ original Playwright-in-Residence season: Edward Albee’s The Sandbox, María Irene Fornés’s Drowning, and Adrienne Kennedy’s Funnyhouse of a Negro. Directed by Lila Neugebauer (A.R. Gurney’s The Wayside Motor Inn), this trio of one acts celebrates Signature’s rich and diverse body of work over the past quarter century.
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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 Photo: David Heald one 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 GALLERY JULY 1, 2015 – SPRING 2016 A PIONEER OF ABSTRACT art and eminent aesthetic theorist, Vasily Kandinsky (b. 1866, Moscow; d. 1944, Neuilly-surSeine, France) broke new ground in painting during the first decades of the twentieth century. His seminal treatise Über das Geistige in der Kunst (On the Spiritual in Art), published in Munich in December 1911, lays out his program for developing an art independent from observations of the external world. In
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this and other texts, as well as his work, Kandinsky advanced abstraction’s potential to be free from nature, a quality of music that he admired. The development of a new subject matter based solely on the artist’s “inner necessity” would occupy him for the rest of his life. This presentation of seven select canvases from the Guggenheim collection traces Vasily Kandinsky’s aesthetic evolution: his early beginnings in Munich at the start of the century, the return to his native Moscow with the outbreak of World War I, his interwar years in Germany as a teacher at the Bauhaus, and his final chapter in Paris. PHOTO-POETICS: AN ANTHOLOGY NOVEMBER 20, 2015 – MARCH 23, 2016 THIS GROUP EXHIBITION and its accompanying catalogue will examine an important development in contemporary photography, offering an opportunity to define the concerns of a younger generation of artists and contextualize their work within the Moyra Davey, Les Goddesses, 2011. HD color video with sound, 61 mins history of art and visual Courtesy of the artist and Murray Guy, New culture. Drawing on the York. © Moyra Davey legacies of Conceptualism, these artists pursue a largely studio-based approach to stilllife photography that centers on the representation of objects, often printed matter such as books, magazines, and record covers. Driven by a profound engagement with the medium of photography, these artists investigate the nature, traditions, and magic of photography at a moment characterized by rapid digital transformation. They attempt to rematerialize the photograph through meticulous printing, using film and other disappearing photo technologies, and creating artist’s books, installations,
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and photo-sculptures. While they are invested in exploring the processes, supports, and techniques of photography, they are also deeply interested in how photographic images circulate. Theirs is a sort of “photo poetics,” an art that self-consciously investigates the laws of photography and the nature of photographic representation, reproduction, and the photographic object. PETER FISCHLI DAVID WEISS: HOW TO WORK BETTER FEBRUARY 5 – APRIL 10, 2016
FOR MORE THAN three decades, Peter Fischli (b. 1952) and David Weiss (1946–2012) collaborated to create a unique oeuvre that brilliantly exploits humor, banality, and a keen rethinking of the readymade to realign our view of the world. Peter Fischli David Weiss: How to Work Better will offer the most thorough investigation of their joint production to date, revealing the ways they juxtaposed the spectacular and the ordinary in order to celebrate the sheer triviality of everyday life, while creating an open-ended interrogation of temporality, visual culture, and the nature of existence itself. The retrospective will demonstrate the intricate interrelationships among Fischli and Weiss’s seemingly discrete works in sculpture, photography, installation, and video, each of which they used to confront, examine, and lampoon the seriousness of high art. In particular it will establish a sustained dialogue between Fischli and Weiss’s work with the moving image and their sculptural practice. To coincide with the exhibition, Public Art Fund will present How to Work Better (1991), the artists’ text-based monument to labor, as a wall mural in Lower Manhattan. MOHOLY-NAGY: FUTURE PRESENT MAY – SEPTEMBER 2016 THE FIRST COMPREHENSIVE retrospective of the work of László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1946) to appear in the United States in nearly fifty years, this long overdue presentation will reveal a utopian artist who believed that art could work hand-in-hand
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with technology for the betterment of humanity. The exhibition will present an unparalleled opportunity to examine the career of this pioneering painter, photographer, sculptor, and filmmaker as well as graphic, exhibition, and stage designer, who was also an influential teacher at the Bauhaus, a prolific writer, and later the founder of Chicago’s Institute of Design. Among his radical innovations were experimentation with cameraless photography; the use of industrial materials in painting and sculpture; research with light, transparency, and movement; work at the forefront of abstraction; and the fluidity with which he moved between the fine and applied arts. The exhibition will include more than 250 collages, drawings, ephemera, films, paintings, photograms, photographs, photomontages, and sculptures, including works from public and private collections across Europe and the United States, some of which have never before been shown publicly in the U.S. AGNES MARTIN OCTOBER 2016 – JANUARY 2017
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FILLING THE GUGGENHEIM rotunda, this exhibition will trace Agnes Martin’s (1912–2004) career from her early experiments of the 1950s through her mature oeuvre and final paintings, making it the first comprehensive survey of the artist’s work since her death in 2004. One of the preeminent American painters of the twentieth century, Martin created subtle and evocative canvases that had a
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significant influence on artists of her time and subsequent generations. For more than four decades, she explored limited compositional motifs yet discovered endless nuance and variation. By 1960, she had developed her signature grid-pattern works – radical presentations of interlocking horizontal and vertical lines in pencil on large square canvases that at first seem to appear blank. Martin’s geometry, however, is never mechanical. Her hand-drawn arrangements of coordinates, lines, and stripes shift in scale and rhythm between works. Often associated with and considered an important figure of Minimalism, Martin’s work stands apart. Influenced by Asian belief systems including Taoism and Zen Buddhism and the natural surroundings of her home in New Mexico, her restrained style was underpinned by a personal conviction in the emotive and expressive power of art. 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) 799-3100 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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