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One of New York's great collections of modern art and architecture isn't in a museum, it's at Lincoln Center, where paintings, sculpture, limited-edition prints, posters, and buildings by the leading artists and architects of this and last century can be found outside and inside the theaters on the world-famous 16-acre campus.
During July and August the Brooklyn Museum will present an array of public programs for adults including a jazz tribute to hip-hop artist Keith 'Guru' Elam, a panel discussion about the life of Andy Warhol featuring artist-socialite Brigid Berlin and filmmaker Vincent Fremont, two curator talks about the exhibition American High Style: Fashioning a National Collection, and a Dr. Sketchy's live drawing class featuring cabaret performers as models.
Swim into beach season with the month-long Fish Tales Extravaganza at the Wildlife Conservation Society's (WCS) New York Aquarium every weekend in June. Summer will be a celebration of children's books this year at the WCS New York Aquarium. Visitors will be treated with a line-up of special events and performances.
Joe's Pub at The Public Theater debuted in October 1998 and has quickly became one of New York City's most celebrated and in-demand showcase venues for live music and performance. With its genre-blind booking and vast diversity of interests, the stage at Joe's Pub gives voice to a world of varied and stellar artists.
The Brooklyn Museum's 'Target First Saturdays' event attracts thousands of visitors to free programs of art and entertainment each month. July's event celebrates Independence Day and all things American, including the special exhibitions 'Andy Warhol: The Last Decade' and 'American High Style: Fashioning a National Collection.'
Swim into beach season with the month-long Fish Tales Extravaganza at the Wildlife Conservation Society's (WCS) New York Aquarium every weekend in June. Summer will be a celebration of children's books this year at the WCS New York Aquarium. Visitors will be treated with a line-up of special events and performances.
New Yorkers will be able to catch the next Andy Warhol or Sylvia Plath next month when Arts World Financial Center hosts a three-part tribute to current and past winners of The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards.
As previously reported on BroadwayWorld, the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center of Los Angeles and the Library Foundation of Los Angeles will present 'An Evening with John Waters: On Neurotic Happiness' on June 8, 2010 at 8pm. He will appear in conversation with actress and author Carrie Fisher. Waters will discuss his new memoir, 'Role Models.'
An Awards Ceremony for 2010-11 recipients of Rocket Grants is set for Tuesday, June 15, 6-7pm at Loose Park Garden Center Rose Room, at which brief presentations about awarded projects will be made. Rocket Grants are a brand new funding opportunity available to artists who live within an 80-mile radius of downtown Kansas City, which includes artists in Lawrence, KS.
Today, PBS enlists HISTORY DETECTIVES fans across the nation to solve a 40-year-old mystery: 'Who is John F.?' - and did he really help send Andy Warhol's art to the moon? HISTORY DETECTIVES has posted 'Moon Museum' online today, two weeks before the segment airs in the June 21 broadcast premiere. The producers of the PBS series, a summertime favorite, are releasing the story prior to the season launch in the hopes that online viewers will produce evidence to answer this question.
The 2009-2010 season of Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at the Music Center presents the world premiere of the revival of Merce Cunningham's Roaratorio as part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company's Legacy Tour, a final two-year celebration of Cunningham's lifetime of artistic achievement.
On Saturday, June 5, platinum-selling artist, humanitarian, and six-time Grammy nominee, Dave Koz will join Music Director & Conductor David Benoit and the Asia America Symphony Orchestra at the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center to perform music from his 'At The Movies' CD, as well as music of John Williams.
The 2009-2010 season of Glorya Kaufman Presents Dance at the Music Center presents the world premiere of the revival of Merce Cunningham's Roaratorio as part of the Merce Cunningham Dance Company's Legacy Tour, a final two-year celebration of Cunningham's lifetime of artistic achievement.
Swim into beach season with the month-long Fish Tales Extravaganza at the Wildlife Conservation Society's (WCS) New York Aquarium every weekend in June.
East River Commedia (Paul Bargetto, Artistic Director) announces the 4th annual undergroundzero festival of experimental theatre, featuring over twenty New York City and European theatre companies and artists at the legendary downtown performance venue Performance Space 122, July 6-25.
Andy Warhol: The Last Decade is the first United States museum exhibition of the late works of American artist Andy Warhol (1928-1987) and the first major Warhol survey in New York since the 1989 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. Created amid the frenetic activity of Warhol's celebrity, the nearly fifty paintings on view reveal the artist's vitality, energy, and spirit of experimentation. During this time Warhol produced more works, in a considerable number of series and on a vastly larger scale, than at any other point in his forty-year career. It was a decade of great artistic development for him, characterized by a dramatic transformation of his style and the introduction of new techniques.
Asia Society announces that Tony Award-winning star of Law & Order: SVU, BD Wong will lead the cast of a staged concert of 'Heading East', a Richard RodgersDevelopment Award-winning musical by Robert Lee and Leon Ko. Performances will be held in the Lila Acheson Wallace Auditorium at Asia Society. Asia Society will benefit from the proceeds of the event, which is co-produced by Andrew Asnes and directed by Darren Lee.
Actors Theatre is offering $25 tickets as part of season-ticket package purchases and for single-ticket balcony seats, not single-ticket purchases for orchestra and mezzanine seats. Single tickets for the upcoming 25th anniversary season are $37 to $41 for orchestra seating and $29-$33 for mezzanine.
Last month at the Brooklyn Museum Gala a 25 foot-high pinata that bore an uncanny resemblance to Andy Warhol was installed in the glass pavilion. Andy Warhol's image returns and is now on the walls of the Museum's first floor gallery.
Asia Society announces that Tony Award-winning star of Law & Order: SVU, BD Wong will lead the cast of a staged concert of 'Heading East', a Richard RodgersDevelopment Award-winning musical by Robert Lee and Leon Ko. Performances will be held in the Lila Acheson Wallace Auditorium at Asia Society. Asia Society will benefit from the proceeds of the event, which is co-produced by Andrew Asnes and directed by Darren Lee.
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