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| Tuesday May 13 2008 | New York | Dubai | Bangalore | Delhi | Mumbai | Chennai | Hyderabad | Kolkata |
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| Mingus Legacy at Iridium Jazz Club | |
| Iridium Jazz Club, 1650 Broadway, 51st Street 212-582-2121 The Mingus Big Band celebrates the music of the composer and bassist, Charles Mingus, who died in 1979. | |
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Nepal in Black and White: Photographs by Kevin Bubriski Rubin Museum of Art, 150 West 17th Street 212-620-5000 This exhibition presents a small portion of the work that Kevin Bubriski produced over his 35 years of visits to Nepal. |
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From the Land of the Gods at Rubin Museum of Art Rubin Museum of Art, 150 West, 17th Street 212-620-5000 This exhibition features the finest examples of Nepalese art from the RMA collection, highlighting the variety of forms and subjects, techniques and media that emerged from the Valley’s creative matrix. |
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Jacques and Natasha Gelman Galleries Metropolitan Museum of Art, Upper East Side, 1000 Fifth Ave 212-535-7710 The new Gelman Galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art display 50 French modern works, almost all paintings, drawn from the Gelmans' gift of their collection. |
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Beauty and Learning: Korean Painted Screens Arts of Korea Gallery, 2nd Floor, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue 212-535-7710 With the popularity of ch'aekkori ('books and things') paintings under royal patronage in the late eighteenth century, seemingly mundane objects such as books, porcelain vases, bronze vessels, and fruits emerged as legitimate subjects in the art of Choson dynasty. |
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Flow at Studio Museum Harlem The Studio Museum in Harlem,144 West 125th Street 212-864-4500 Flow is the first 21st century exhibition focusing on art by a new generation of international artists from Africa. |
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Double Album: Daniel Guzman and Steven Shearer at New Museum New Museum, 235 Bowery 212-219-1222 This exhibition brings together two artists , Daniel Guzman and Steven Shearer. |
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Paul Chan: The 7 Lights at New Museum New Museum, 235 Bowery 212-219-1222 This exhibition marks the American premiere of Paul Chan’s complete series 'The 7 Lights' , offering a unique occasion to explore the practice of a New York-based artist whose work engages such fundamental themes as politics, poetry, war, death, and desire. |
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Earthly Immortals: Arhats in Tibetan Painting at Rubin Museum Of Art Rubin Museum of Art, 150 West 17th Street 212-620-5000 Tibetan artists had already been exposed to arts from their northern neighbour, this massive influx had a profound effect on the development of Tibetan painting. |
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Everything Is Museum at The Guggenheim Museum Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue at 89th Street 212-423-3500 The socialist utopianism that pervades Cai Guo-Qiang’s artistic strategies has led to the use of the term “social projects” to describe a range of work for which the allure of socialist memory and the idea of absolute faith in communitarian values are key to the artist’s process, imagination, and narrative. |
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Tomma Abts at New Museum New Museum, 235 Bowery 212-219-1222 A hallmark of Abts’ work is that it is composed of forms painstakingly assembled into compositions that are as complex as they are contradictory. |
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Water: H2O = Life at AMNH American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street 212-496-3409 The American Museum of Natural History will open a new exhibition called Water: H2O = Lie, giving visitors an in-depth look at one of the most important substances and environmental issues that we face. |
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Gods, Myths & Mortals: Discover Ancient Greece at CMOM Childern's Museum of Manhattan, The Tisch Building, 212 west 83rd Street 212-721-1234 Gods, Myths and Mortals: Discover Ancient Greece will take you on a journey through the world of ancient Greece. |
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Gustav Klimt: The Ronald S. Lauder and Serge Sabarsky Collections Neue Galerie New York, 1048 Fifth Avenue 212-628-6200 The exhibition 'Gustav Klimt: The Ronald S. |
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Whitney Biennial Whitney Museum of American Art, Madison Ave. at E. 75th St. 800-WHITNEY The 2008 Biennial seeks to reveal the links among these seemingly disparate and sometimes ephemeral practices. |
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Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc., 70 Lincoln Center Plaza 212.721.6500 Music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, book by Oscar Hammerstein II and Joshua Logan. |
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The New Century at Lincoln Center Theater Lincoln Center Theater,Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc., 70 Lincoln Center Plaza 21-721-6500 When the playwright is Paul Rudnick, expectations are geared for a play both hilarious and smart, and THE NEW CENTURY is no exception. |
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Macbeth at The Metropolitan Opera The Metropolitan Opera, Lincoln Center 212-362-6000 The play tells of the dangers of the lust for power and the betrayal of friends. |
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NYGASP G&S Fest 2008 New York City Center, 130 West 56th Street 212-247-0430 The New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players, America's preeminent professional G&S repertory company is having its G&S Fest 2008. |
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NYGASP G&S Fest 2008 New York City Center, 130 West 56th Street 212-247-0430 The New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players, Americas preeminent professional G&S repertory company is having its G&S Fest 2008. |
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Leni Stern at 55 Bar 10:05 PM 55 Bar, 55 Christipher Street, East of Seventh Avenue 212-929-9883 Features Leni Stern on guitar and N'goni, Mamadou Ba on bass, Tim Keiper on drums, Makane Kouyate on kalabash, Brahim Frigbane on oud and Yocouba Sissoko on kora. |
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John Ellis and Doublewide at Jazz Standard Jazz Standard, 116 East, 27th Street 212-576-2232 Features John Ellis on saxophones, Matt Perrine on sousaphone, Gary Versace on Hammond B-3 and accordion, and Jason Marsalis on drums. |
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Tom Harrell Quintet at The Village Vanguard The Village Vanguard, 178 7th Avenue South 212-255-4037 Features Wayne Escoffery on saxophone, Danny Grisett on piano, Ugonna Okegwo on bass and Jonathan Blake on drums. |
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Celebrating Ellington:Juilliard Jazz Orchestra at Dizzy's Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, Home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, Broadway at 60th St 212-721-6500 Celebrating Ellington: Juilliard Jazz Orchestra, conducted by Cecil Bridgewater and special guest Gerald Wilson. |
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Pharoah Sanders at Birdland Birdland, 315 West,44 th street,between 8th and 9th Avenues, Manhattan 212-581-3080 Pharoah Sanders emerged as an artist from the New York free jazz scene of the 1960s performing with Sun Ra and Don Cherry among others. |
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Lionel Loueke: Blue Note Records CD-Release Party Blue Note, 131 W. 3rd St 212-475-8592 Born in Benin, Africa, Loueke has already forged a remarkable career path. |
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Avenue Q Golden Theatre, 252 West 45th Street 212-239-6200 |
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Wicked Gershwin Theatre, 222 West 51 Street 212-239-6200, 800-432-7250 |
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Hairspray Neil Simon Theatre, 250 West 52nd Street 212-239-6200, 800-432-7250 |
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Alter Boyz New World Stages / Stage 4, 340 West 50th Street 212-239-6200, 800-432-7780 |
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