Picasso News

Andrew Lloyd Webber, who sold Picasso's The Absinthe Drinker (Angel Fernandez de Soto) last year, has donated £32M (about $52M) to the arts.

13th year this summer. The event, produced by Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, will again take place in Shubert Alley on July 9 with festivities beginning at 3:30 pm and celebrity presentations of pets from citywide animal shelters beginning at 5:30 pm. Broadway Barks 13 will help many of New York City's shelter animals find permanent homes by informing New Yorkers about the plight of the thousands of 'homeless' dogs and cats in the metropolitan area.

Now celebrating its 33rd year, the annual Museum Mile Festival (www.museummilefestival.org) takes place rain or shine on Tuesday, June 14, 2011, from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm.

The winner of an Emmy Award, Clarence Derwent Award and Theatre World Award, actor Thom Christopher is still most recognized for the role he played as The Hawk in 1981 on the cult television series Buck Rogers and the 25th Century.

In conjunction with the new exhibition, Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore, The Jewish Museum is presenting three related lectures. On Monday, May 9 at 11:30 am, exhibition curator Karen Levitov will give a lecture entitled Visionary Collectors: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore; Julie Reiss, Associate Professor in the Master's Program at Christie's Education, will lecture on Pablo Picasso in the Cone Collection on Monday, May 16 at 11:30 am; and on Thursday, May 19 at 6:30 pm, Dr. Jack Flam, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Art History at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, will present A Feminine Mystique: The Special Qualities of the Cone Matisses.

WHAT?: 'Once Upon A Mattress', music by Mary Rodgers, lyrics by Marshall Barer, book by Jay Thompson, Dean Fuller, and Marshall Barer. Directed by Jon Reimer.

The Jewish Museum will present a fun-filled, multi-generational family day celebrating the vibrant worlds of illustrator, author and designer Maira Kalman and artist Henri Matisse on Sunday, May 15 from 12 noon to 4 pm.

Asolo Repertory Theatre is thrilled to introduce Florida audiences to Las Meninas, by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Lynn Nottage.

After a decade of shows at UCB, Magnet, The PIT, and countless bars and venues around New York City, Beauty Love Truth's elegant format of "improv inspired by music" takes it up a notch at Barrow Street Theatre.

In 1958, the young French-Algerian couturier Yves Saint Laurent met and fell in love with the industrialist and patron Pierre Bergé, forging a relationship that would endure fifty years of extraordinary success, emotional turbulence and lingering devotion.

After a decade of shows at UCB, Magnet, The PIT, and countless bars and venues around New York City, Beauty Love Truth's elegant format of "improv inspired by music" takes it up a notch at Barrow Street Theatre.

Northlight Theatre, under the direction of Artistic Director BJ Jones and Executive Director Timothy J. Evans, announces the World Premiere of The Outgoing Tide, by Bruce Graham, directed by BJ Jones. The cast features John Mahoney, Rondi Reed and Thomas J. Cox. The Outgoing Tide runs May 12-June 19, 2011 at Northlight Theatre, 9501 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie. The press opening is Saturday May 21, 2011.

Northlight Theatre, under the direction of Artistic Director BJ Jones and Executive Director Timothy J. Evans, announces the World Premiere of The Outgoing Tide, by Bruce Graham, directed by BJ Jones. The cast features John Mahoney, Rondi Reed and Thomas J. Cox. The Outgoing Tide runs May 12-June 19, 2011 at Northlight Theatre, 9501 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie. The press opening is Saturday May 21, 2011.

Northlight Theatre, under the direction of Artistic Director BJ Jones and Executive Director Timothy J. Evans, announces the World Premiere of The Outgoing Tide, by Bruce Graham, directed by BJ Jones. The cast features John Mahoney, Rondi Reed and Thomas J. Cox. The Outgoing Tide runs May 12-June 19, 2011 at Northlight Theatre, 9501 Skokie Blvd. in Skokie. The press opening is Saturday May 21, 2011.

The 2011-2012 season of Metropolitan Museum Concerts combines the return of acclaimed ensemble series - Pacifica Quartet, New York Philharmonic CONTACT!, and Metropolitan Museum Artists in Concert - with unique programs conceived to complement the Met's collection and galleries by a distinguished roster of world-renowned artists.

In conjunction with the new exhibition, Collecting Matisse and Modern Masters: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore, The Jewish Museum is presenting three related lectures. On Monday, May 9 at 11:30 am, exhibition curator Karen Levitov will give a lecture entitled Visionary Collectors: The Cone Sisters of Baltimore; Julie Reiss, Associate Professor in the Master's Program at Christie's Education, will lecture on Pablo Picasso in the Cone Collection on Monday, May 16 at 11:30 am; and on Thursday, May 19 at 6:30 pm, Dr. Jack Flam, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Art History at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, will present A Feminine Mystique: The Special Qualities of the Cone Matisses.

The Prague Shakespeare Festival, Guy Roberts Artistic Director, and the Classical Theatre Company, John Johnston Executive Artistic Director, are proud to announce an exciting and unprecedented collaboration for Czech and Houston audiences and artists alike: rotating repertory productions of Shakespeare's King Lear and As You Like It, directed by Guy Roberts, starring Czech superstar Pavel K?íž and featuring a multinational company of artists from America and Europe.

Berkeley's acclaimed Aurora Theatre Company, now celebrating its 19th season, lit up the night on Monday, May 2 with an evening of heavenly wining and dining at Aurora Borealis, the company's 13th annual benefit, held at the historic Hotel Shattuck Plaza in Berkeley.

Second Stage Theatre (Carole Rothman, Artistic Director) kicks off this summer's Second Stage Theatre Uptown Series with the world premiere of Sex Lives of Our Parents, written by Michael Mitnick. Directed by Davis McCallum, Sex Lives of Our Parents will feature Teddy Bergman (Peter and the Starcatcher), Lisa Emery (Far East), Daniel Jenkins (Mary Poppins), Virginia Kull (Dividing the Estate), Ben Rappaport (NBC's 'Outsourced') and Mark Zeisler (Second Stage Theatre's Eurydice). Previews begin on June 7th and opening night is Wednesday, June 22.

Henri Matisse called them "my two Baltimore ladies." Their friend Gertrude Stein wrote a poem about them entitled "Two Women."