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In just a little over three weeks since taking over the former Champs Shoe Store at the South Street Seaport, the Algonquin Seaport Theater opens for business this April 1st.

The Sheldon Art Galleries presents a free Gallery Talk with Bärbel Schulte, curator of the exhibition Max Lazarus: Trier / St. Louis / Denver - A Jewish Artist's Fate, Saturday, April 23, 1 p.m. Dr. Schulte will speak on Max Lazarus' life and career in conjunction with the exhibition, admission free.

This collaborative print project was produced by St. Louis artists Gina Alvarez and Jana Harper during a residency at Pyramid Atlantic in Silver Spring, Maryland. The series was inspired by a child's notebook of poems made in the 1940s by a distant relative of Alvarez. The artists appropriated the titles of his poems and worked to create 'collaged' images that combine photographs, appropriated images, shapes and colors inspired by Japanese prints, and Indian miniatures. They were made by layering digital prints with traditional printmaking techniques and hand-work that included drawing, stitching and collage.

The Children's Art Village (CAV) works with children in orphanages and schools to introduce art, music and dance components into the children's education and to foster self-confidence, personal growth and healing. Their mission is to connect children to themselves and to their creative spirits through art, with a focus on using art and music as mediums of expression to initiate the process of healing for children who have been abandoned. They promote and support creating and maintaining sustainable art and music programs in each of the different locations around the world where they work. CAV uses art and music therapy practices to help the children work through trauma related to abandonment, poverty and slavery.

Larry Fink: Attraction and Desire - 50 Years in Photography, organized by the Sheldon Art Galleries in St. Louis, provides an overview of work by the internationally renowned photographer Larry Fink, and includes over 120 photographs spanning his 50-year career. Works from the series The Beatniks; Social Graces; Boxing; Somewhere There's Music; Runway; The Democrats, as well as intimate photographs of his home, family, travels and commissions are represented in this major exhibit.

'Dance: Under the Influence,' a provocative program of dance works inspired by other art practices will debut in the intimate MAD Theater on Wednesday, February 9, 2011 and continue one Wednesday performance a month through May 18, 2011. The program is guest-curated by renowned arts writer, editor, and George Balanchine-biographer, Valerie Gladstone.

In its ninth year, Modfest is Vassar College's exploration of the arts of the 20th and 21st centuries. This year's program will celebrate the visual arts, dance, drama, film, literature, poetry, and music in a series of events that will take place across the Vassar campus from January 20 through February 5, 2011.

This collaborative print project was produced by St. Louis artists Gina Alvarez and Jana Harper during a residency at Pyramid Atlantic in Silver Spring, Maryland. The series was inspired by a child's notebook of poems made in the 1940s by a distant relative of Alvarez. The artists appropriated the titles of his poems and worked to create 'collaged' images that combine photographs, appropriated images, shapes and colors inspired by Japanese prints, and Indian miniatures. They were made by layering digital prints with traditional printmaking techniques and hand-work that included drawing, stitching and collage.

The Children's Art Village (CAV) works with children in orphanages and schools to introduce art, music and dance components into the children's education and to foster self-confidence, personal growth and healing. Their mission is to connect children to themselves and to their creative spirits through art, with a focus on using art and music as mediums of expression to initiate the process of healing for children who have been abandoned. They promote and support creating and maintaining sustainable art and music programs in each of the different locations around the world where they work. CAV uses art and music therapy practices to help the children work through trauma related to abandonment, poverty and slavery.

Larry Fink: Attraction and Desire - 50 Years in Photography, organized by the Sheldon Art Galleries in St. Louis, provides an overview of work by the internationally renowned photographer Larry Fink, and includes over 120 photographs spanning his 50-year career. Works from the series The Beatniks; Social Graces; Boxing; Somewhere There's Music; Runway; The Democrats, as well as intimate photographs of his home, family, travels and commissions are represented in this major exhibit.

In its ninth year, Modfest is Vassar College's exploration of the arts of the 20th and 21st centuries. This year's program will celebrate the visual arts, dance, drama, film, literature, poetry, and music in a series of events that will take place across the Vassar campus from January 20 through February 5, 2011.

'Dance: Under the Influence,' a provocative program of dance works inspired by other art practices will debut in the intimate MAD Theater on Wednesday, February 9, 2011 and continue one Wednesday performance a month through May 18, 2011. The program is guest-curated by renowned arts writer, editor, and George Balanchine-biographer, Valerie Gladstone.

Brooklyn Museum Presents Adult Public Programs in January

With barely a week and a half before Christmas, many shoppers have found themselves scrambling to buy last minute gifts. But what about those romantic couples destined to have a holiday engagement?

In its ninth year, Modfest is Vassar College's exploration of the arts of the 20th and 21st centuries. This year's program will celebrate the visual arts, dance, drama, film, literature, poetry, and music in a series of events that will take place across the Vassar campus from January 20 through February 5, 2011.

Brooklyn Museum Presents Adult Public Programs in January

The Jewish Museum will present Hanukkah Family Day, a fun-filled day of activities, on Sunday, December 5 from 12 noon to 4 pm.

During November and December the Brooklyn Museum will present a variety of public programs for adults including an exciting new series of Talks and Tours to take place on Thursdays at 7 p.m., as part of the Museum's newly expanded hours, as well as performances by the Brooklyn Philharmonic and Brooklyn-based jazz pianist Randy Weston, a panel discussion about young women and feminism, and an artist talk with Fred Tomaselli.

The Jewish Museum will present Hanukkah Family Day, a fun-filled day of activities, on Sunday, December 5 from 12 noon to 4 pm.

During November and December the Brooklyn Museum will present a variety of public programs for adults including an exciting new series of Talks and Tours to take place on Thursdays at 7 p.m., as part of the Museum's newly expanded hours, as well as performances by the Brooklyn Philharmonic and Brooklyn-based jazz pianist Randy Weston, a panel discussion about young women and feminism, and an artist talk with Fred Tomaselli.