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Museum of the Moving Image's ongoing series See It Big! presents classic and contemporary films on the big screen in the beautiful Sumner M. Redstone Theater. In November and December, the Museum will showcase 22 films photographed by some of the world's greatest cinematographers, including Gordon Willis, Vittorio Storaro, Vilmos Zsigmond, Nestor Almendros, Raoul Coutard, James Wong Howe, and more. The series, See It Big!: Great Cinematographers, runs from November 8 through December 29, 2013.

Co-Producers Juliana Hansen and Jonathan White will present a one night only benefit performance, ONE STARRY NIGHT: Hollywood and Broadway Come Together to Fight ALS, on Monday, January 13, 2014 at 8pm, hosted by The Pasadena Playhouse. The evening will also include a silent auction and VIP post-show meet-and-greet. Proceeds will provide critical funding for The ALS Association Golden West Chapter's mission priorities in care services, public policy, and cutting-edge global research toward treatments and cure.

Harry Connick, Jr. has joined the star-studded, international lineup of artists performing Edith Piaf songs tonight, September 19 at the Beacon Theatre. The concert marks both the 50th anniversary of Piaf's passing and the American debut of France's premier music festival, Francofolies.

The Museum of Modern Art has announced its exhibitions and events for September 2013. Details below!

FlatandJuicy's 'City of Elephants' eBook & App, on Kickstarter, introduces the company's launch title together with their new platform and mission to support scientists and researchers. The FlatandJuicy platform enables creative eBooks/Apps of brilliant but hard-to-access research expeditions around the world, to help make the work more accessible to a wider audience. It provides a fundraising source for the Missions through a revenue share on the sale of published titles, and challenges the status-quo of the closed-access nature of the scientific and scholarly publishing industry.

This summer, Shakespeare Santa Monica returns for its 10th year anniversary season with eight performances of TWELFTH NIGHT and THE TAMING OF THE SHREW with six performances. Admission is always a suggested donation of $20 or pay what you can. Kids and teens 16 years old or younger are always free.

The Museum of Modern Art has announced its exhibitions and events for September 2013. Details below!

Harry Connick, Jr. has joined the star-studded, international lineup of artists performing Edith Piaf songs September 19 at the Beacon Theatre. The concert marks both the 50th anniversary of Piaf's passing and the American debut of France's premier music festival, Francofolies.

Under the title ART, TWO POINTS. Barcelona lives contemporary art, the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) and the Obra Social 'la Caixa' (“la Caixa” Welfare Projects) present the first exhibition jointly organised and displayed at the same time in both headquarters. For the first time in Barcelona, the high quality of one of the most important collections of contemporary art in the South of Europe, bringing together more than 6,000 works, is presented. The merging of these collections has made it possible to create a new account that questions our recent past and places us in a better position to understand contemporariness. Art, dos punts is a broad selection of the collections of both institutions that explores the concept of modernity and its relationship with the avant-garde within the context of our history. The exhibition links MACBA's galleries, where the different episodes of the modern era in Barcelona are revisited from the point of view of contemporary art, with those of CaixaForum, where the interests of the post-modern generation are echoed. In a new global context, the visitor experiences the fragility and disenchantment resulting from the loss of the utopias that fought for freedom, as it appears in the art works of the 1980s and 1990s. Art, dos punts gathers 400 works by 125 artists such as Ignasi Aballí, John Bock, Joseph Beuys, Joan Brossa, Eduardo Chillida, Christo, Tony Cragg, Pep Duran, Öyvind Fahlström, Lucio Fontana, Richard Hamilton, Joan Hernández Pijuan, Jenny Holzer, Mike Kelley, Paul Klee, Jannis Kounellis, Muntadas, Juan Muñoz, Gerhard Richter, Martha Rosler, Dieter Roth and Jeff Wall, among others.

The Music Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport, showcases the best of contemporary French cinema in the expanded third annual Chicago French Film Festival. With an entire week dedicated to the festival this year, Music Box seizes the opportunity to program more titles and additional screenings of the very best in contemporary French film and some newly restored classics.

Since its inception in 1985, in the historic French coastal town of La Rochelle, Francofolies has grown to be one of the country's-and indeed, one of Europe's-most popular and acclaimed music festivals. In addition to drawing audiences of approximately 100,000 to concerts spread over five days in La Rochelle, the festival has expanded internationally to include editions in Belgium and Quebec. September 19 will mark the debut of Francofolies New York, a star-studded concert at the Beacon Theatre that will celebrate the music of Edith Piaf on the 50th anniversary of her passing.

The Music Box Theatre, 3733 N. Southport, showcases the best of contemporary French cinema in the expanded third annual Chicago French Film Festival. With an entire week dedicated to the festival this year, Music Box seizes the opportunity to program more titles and additional screenings of the very best in contemporary French film and some newly restored classics.

MoMA is the only U.S. venue for the exhibition, which will travel to Fundació “la Caixa” in Madrid (April 1–June 29, 2014), and to Fundació “la Caixa” in Barcelona (July 15–October 19, 2014).

Sprat Theatre Company will present the world premiere of One Day in the Life of Henri Shnuffle at Henri Shnuffle's Apartment at the Loomstate/Rogan Showroom on Bond Street. Performances begin tonight, May 16, 2013.

Sprat Theatre Company will present the world premiere of One Day in the Life of Henri Shnuffle at Henri Shnuffle's Apartment at the Loomstate/Rogan Showroom on Bond Street. Performances begin May 16, 2013.

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The Film Society of Lincoln Center (FCLC) and African Film Festival, Inc. (AFF) have teamed up once again for the 20th New York African Film Festival (NYAFF) April 3-9, presented under the banner theme LOOKING BACK, LOOKING FORWARD: 20 YEARS OF THE NEW YORK AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL. This year's lineup will pay homage to master Senegalese director Ousmane Sembene and the first generation of African filmmakers, while passing the baton to a new generation of African visual storytellers, who continue to transform our understanding of, and vision for, the Continent. The NYAFF will also run throughout April and May at Columbia University's Institute of African Studies, Maysles Cinema Institute and the Brooklyn Academy of Music's BAMcinematek.

Beginning February 22nd to 27th, 2013, DOCTOR BELLO, the latest Tony Abulu produced and directed film, will show exclusively at AMC Theatres. 'Doctor Bello' is the first film to be released under an exclusive theatrical distribution partnership between AMC Theatres and Black Ivory Communications, a multi-faceted media firm specializing in film production, entertainment, and tourism.