Events Calendar
August, 2012
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The Clock
Price: Free
August 1, 2012 08:00am - 10:00pm
The Clock is a spectacular and hypnotic 24-hour work of video art by renowned artist Christian Marclay. Marclay has brought together thousands of clips from the entire history of cinema, from silent films to the present, each featuring an exact time on a clock, on a watch, or in dialogue. The resulting collage tells the accurate time at any given moment, making it both a work of art and literally a working timepiece: a cinematic memento mori. Marclay also composed the soundscape, driven by a racing and swelling symphony of ringing, ticking, footsteps, laughter, tears, and music. The Clock comes to Lincoln Center after recently being featured at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Hayward Gallery at London’s Southbank Centre. Admission is free. Visitors are admitted on a first-come, first-served basis, exhibit runs through July 13–August 1. Tuesdays–Thursdays, 8:00 am–10:00 pm. Runs continuously from Fridays at 8:00 am through Sundays at 10:00 pm. Closed Mondays.
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Britto Art Exhibit
Price: Free
August 1, 2012 09:00am - 11:00pm
Stop by Time Warner Center to see pop artist Romero Britto’s latest exhibit. Romero Britto (b.1963) is a Brazilian artist based in Miami. Born in the disadvantaged area of Recife, he was self-taught at an early age by painting on surfaces such as newspapers. In 1983, he traveled to Paris where he was introduced to the work of Matisse and Picasso. He combined influences from cubism with pop to create a vibrant and iconic style that The New York Times describes, “exudes warmth, optimism and love.”
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WeBop (Education for Children)
Jazz at Lincoln Center, Irene Diamond Education Center
Time Warner Center, 5th Floor, 10 Columbus Circle
New York [map]Price: $350.00
August 1, 2012 09:00am - 05:00pm
WeBop is an early-childhood jazz education program in which children (ages eight months - five years) and their parents/caregivers learn about jazz's improvisation, creative process, instruments, styles and great performers. The classes provide a creative outlet for parents and children to explore jazz as a tool to educate and express themselves together. Learn the ABCs of Jazz in WeBop this Fall! Join us for the Fall Term of WeBop (September 25-November 18, 2012) as we focus on swing, blues, improvisation, and other jazz essentials. Over the course of eight weeks, you and your child will explore your imagination, creativity, and musicality. Registrations are taken on a term-by-term basis. The fee for each eight-week term is $350. You may register according to the registration deadlines by calling 212-258-9922 or by faxing in your enrollment form to 212-258-9900.
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Printers, Monks & Craftsmen
Price: $7.00
August 1, 2012 10:00am - 06:00pm
This exhibition looks at the transitional period in hand press bookmaking through 14 Bibles printed between 1455 and 1525. As the era progressed, printers and other craftsmen involved in the production of a printed volume began to experiment with the possibilities hand press production afforded to create innovative, elegant books. Focusing on Gothic bindings and the structure of a selection of books drawn from the Rare Bible Collection a MOBIA, conservator Clare Manias explores regional differences in the volumes' styles, production, and form illustrating that printed books have stories to tell and are much more than what's between the covers. Tickets for Seniors and Students $4.00.
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The Adoration of the Magi by Bartolo di Fredi
Price: $7.00
August 1, 2012 10:00am - 06:00pm
Illustrating one of the most celebrated Renaissance themes, Bartolo di Fredi’s (c. 1330-1410) Adoration of the Magi will be reunited in this groundbreaking exhibition. The three known surviving panels of this Siense master’s unrivaled altarpiece are considered by many to be among Bartolo’s finest works. Composed of a monumental central panel depicting a tender visit of the Magi to the Christ Child, his Crucifixion and the mourning it brings, “Adoration of the Magi” by Bartolo di Fredi: A Masterpiece Reconstructed permits an in-depth study of this oft-depicted Christian narrative. Tickets for Seniors and Students $4.00.
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Jubilation|Rumination: Life, Real and Imagined at the American Folk Art Museum
Price: Free
August 1, 2012 12:00pm - 07:30pm
Life is not lived in black and white: reality may have the tinge of dreams and dreams an air of reality. This provocative tension exists between the experiential nature of early American folk art and the fantastical imagery it often displays—between what is real and what is imagined. The same is true of the work of contemporary self-taught artists, which may introduce unique—and sometimes puzzling—expressions that illuminate the iconoclastic nature that is the flip side of the collective American psyche. The viewer is placed in the peculiar but exhilarating position of deciding for him- or herself whether the artwork expresses a disjuncture with reality or an uninhibited embracing of interior life. After all, what is more true, the picture that looks real or the picture that feels real; the observer or the observed? These perceptions shift as new scholarship emerges. Often, real-life roots are discovered for even arcane and esoteric imagery that has already influenced our response to an artist and his work: does this disappoint or satisfy the viewer? Diminish or enhance the creativity of the artist? One need only contemplate the culture- and memory-driven gestures of Martín Ramírez, the impressionistic nineteenth-century portraits by Dr. and Mrs. Shute, and minimalist mid-twentieth-century soot drawings by James Castle to render these distinctions immaterial. Instead the viewer is urged to enjoy the permeable fluidity between art and imagination, dream and belief.The exhibition is sponsored, in part, by Joyce Berger Cowin, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, by Bloomberg Philanthropies, by the Ford Foundation, and by the Magazine Antiques. -
Star Quality: The World of Noel Coward
New York Library for the Performing Arts
Donald & Mary Oenslager Gallery, 40 Lincoln Plaza
New York [map]Price: Free
August 1, 2012 12:00pm - 06:00pm
The NYPL presentation of this collaborative traveling exhibition is part of an international festival celebrating Coward's long, transatlantic career and his prowess as songwriter, playwright and peformer. The multi-media exhibition features posters, photographs, manuscripts, and music from The Library for the Performing Arts and AMPAS documenting his multiple roles in theater and film. In addition, newly discovered film footage and artifacts from Coward's home will be displayed for the first time. It will be accompanied by a screening series fo films written or directed by Coward, as well as by concerts and symposia.
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Rock and Roll Icons
Price: Free
August 1, 2012 12:00pm - 06:00pm
Rock and Roll Icons: Photographs by Patrick Harbron is a new exhibition taken from Harbron’s rock and roll concert and portrait photography of influential musicians and groups of the 1970’s and 1980’s, captured at pivotal moments in their careers. The exhibition features many photographs that have never been published or exhibited. Harbron photographed artists such as Elvis Costello, Blondie and Deborah Harry, The Cars, Rush, Stevie Ray Vaughn, The Police, Tom Petty, Prince, Bruce Springsteen, KD Lang, Dire Straits and Van Halen early in their careers. He followed these artists to prominence and others that were already well known including The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, Ray Charles, Eric Clapton, David Bowie, Queen, Neil Young, Bob Marley, The Who, Genesis, Elton John, KISS, U2, Aerosmith, Santana, Michael Jackson and Ray Charles. The work has been published on album,CD and DVD covers, in books, magazines, for publicity and tour booklets. Harbron has received numerous awards including two JUNO Award nominations for album cover photography. Some of his album work is included in the Taschen books ‘1000 Records Covers and Rock Covers'.
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Free Summer Concerts at Richard Tucker Park
Price: Free
August 1, 2012 12:00pm - 02:00pm
Starting July 4 from noon until 2:00pm, and continuing every Wednesday through August 29, we will present our fifth season of Free Summer Concerts at Richard Tucker Park! This popular concert series, which was featured in The New York Times, is sure to bring a taste of New York's underground music scene to Lincoln Square as we once again partner with the MTA's Arts for Transit program, Music Under New York. This year, we'll kick off the series on Independence Day with "A Truly American Soundscape!" featuring the Yaz Band and William B. Johnson's Drumadics. We hope to have some delicious surprises and Yoga demonstrations from YogaWorks. The full line-up is still being finalized, but on Wednesday, July 18 we will welcome Pete Seeger's Walkabout Clearwater Chorus, which is dedicated to promoting environmental awareness and social action through song. And, we will of course bring back some favorites including The Hot Sardines on August 8 and Opera Collective on August 15.
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Lecture Series Masterworks
Price: Free
August 1, 2012 06:00pm - 07:30pm
Talks examining masterworks in the exhibitions: Jubilation/Rumination: Life, Real & Imagined and Compass: Folk Art in Four Directions from multiple perspectives. August 1: Bill Traylor, Jeffrey Wolf; August 8: Compass: Folk Art in Four Directions: Stacy C. Hollander; August 22: The Shipcarver's Art: Ralph Sessions; August 29: How the Field Determines Quality: Martin Ramirez, Jon Serl and Bill Traylor, Randell Morris.
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