Events Calendar
Upcoming events
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Jazz at Lincoln Center - 25th Anniversary Exhibit
Price: Free
May 26, 2013 10:00am - 11:00pm
Featuring historical photographs, documents, videos, commissioned scores, ephemera and more, our newest visual art exhibit, Jazz at Lincoln Center: Twenty-Five Years of Celebrating America's Music, documents JALC's origins and growth in commemoration of our 25th anniversary in 2012-13, and celebrates the organization's ongoing commitment to the uniquely American art form of jazz.
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Ashe to Amen: African Americans and Biblical Imagery
Price: Free
May 26, 2013 10:00am - 06:00pm
The exhibition examines the complex place of the Bible in the life and art of African Americans, with particular emphasis on how biblical traditions were used by artists of African descent to help cope with the life that was imposed on them in the Americas. Although the majority of the works included in the exhibition date from the 19th and 20th centuries, they often reflect the experiences of the Middle Passage and slavery, which left their indelible mark on the artistic consciousness of the African American community.
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Exhibition - Reaching Out
Price: Free
May 26, 2013 10:00am - 06:00pm
Reaching Out traces American Bible Society’s relationship with the African American community built through Bible publication and distribution. Beginning shortly after 1816 and through the following decades, the Society was quick to respond to requests for Bibles mainly in the Northern States. During the Civil War, ABS provided with Bibles both Union and Confederate soldiers and escaped slaves who came North. The Reconstruction era allowed the Society to intensify its work among freedmen and African Americans living freely in the North. At the turn of the century ABS created a special “Agency for the Colored People of the South” to satisfy the African American community’s need for Scripture and hired local distributors who also brought relief in times of natural disasters. In the 1960s, with the advent of the Civil Rights Movement, ABS reached out to its African American constituency through pamphlets and special imprints. ABS’ activity reached new milestones with the publication of the African American Jubilee Edition of the Bible in 1999 and the release of the first New Testament translated into Gullah or Sea Islands Creole in 2005.
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WWII & NYC
Price: $15.00
May 26, 2013 11:00am - 06:00pm
When World War II broke out, New York was a cosmopolitan, heavily immigrant city, whose people had real stakes in the war and strongly held opinions. WWII & NYC will explore the impact of the war on the metropolis, which played a critical role in the national war effort, and how the city was forever changed. Admission: Seniors $12.00, Students $10; Pay-as-wish 6pm-8pm Fridays.
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Animating Earth- Ethics For Children
Price: $100.00
May 26, 2013 11:00am - 12:30pm
An Ethics For Children Course helping children develop ideas & stories about our environment, using stop-motion animation. Open House March 24th 11-1:30pm. Come and enjoy Peace Games, Peace Animations and more! An 8-week session starting April 7th to June 9th. $100 per family Sundays 11-12:30. Children Ages 3-12 Years. To Register email Ethicsforchildren@nysec.org. Entry to our 100-year-old building and meeting rooms is available for most wheelchair users with prior arrangements. Please call ahead (212-874-5210 x 107) for setup of our portable system and plan to arrive one hour before start time.
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Exhibition-Artist and Visionary: William Matthew Prior Revealed
Price: Free
May 26, 2013 12:00pm - 07:30pm
Organized by the Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, New York, this exhibition includes more than 40 oil paintings spanning William Matthew Prior’s career from 1824 to 1856. Through his pragmatic marketing strategy, Prior was able to document the faces of middle-class Americans throughout his lifetime, making art accessible to a previously overlooked group. A versatile artist, Prior is well known not only for the skill and range of his technique but for the diversity of his sitters. Prior’s involvement with Millerism (early Adventism) was instrumental in his personal development as well as providing access to new clients, including many African Americans.
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Exhibition-Women’s Studies
Price: Free
May 26, 2013 12:00pm - 07:30pm
Featuring the work of Eugene Von Bruenchenhein, Paul D. Humphrey, Nellie Mae Rowe, and Inez Nathaniel Walker. The late twentieth century has seen great strides for women working within visual mediums, yet the male gaze persists as the primary perspective from which women are considered — and thus perceived — in film and art. This exhibition presents drawings and photographs of women by four self-taught artists from the 1940s through the late twentieth century, two male, two female. Eugene Von Bruenchenhein, Paul D. Humphrey, Nellie Mae Rowe, and Inez Nathaniel Walker offer four very different approaches that raise questions of intent, portrayal, and self-identity: Are the portraits acts of creation or acts of documentation, mimesis or wish fulfillment? Are self-taught artists immune from the pervasive male gaze of mainstream artmaking spheres, or do they reflect a gender divide that still runs deeply within American society?
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Exhitition-Highlights from the Historical Society of Early American Decoration
Price: Free
May 26, 2013 12:00pm - 07:30pm
The American Folk Art Museum is home to the collection assembled over many decades by the Historical Society of Early American Decoration. The Society was founded in memory of Esther Stevens Brazer (1898–1945), a direct descendant of one of Maine’s pioneering families in the tin industry. The Society is dedicated to preserving the techniques of early American decoration in a variety of mediums through their own re-creation of historical forms and through the collection of original works, including decorated tin, furniture, and other objects, as well as stencils, tools, and ephemera related to the development of these arts in America. On continuous view.
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Jazz at Lincoln Center - 25th Anniversary Exhibit
Price: Free
May 27, 2013 10:00am - 11:00pm
Featuring historical photographs, documents, videos, commissioned scores, ephemera and more, our newest visual art exhibit, Jazz at Lincoln Center: Twenty-Five Years of Celebrating America's Music, documents JALC's origins and growth in commemoration of our 25th anniversary in 2012-13, and celebrates the organization's ongoing commitment to the uniquely American art form of jazz.
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100 Years of Flamenco in New York, 1913-2013
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Vincent Astor Gallery, 40 Lincoln Center Plaza
New York [map]Price: Free
May 27, 2013 12:00pm - 06:00pm
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in collaboration with Flamenco Vivo Carlota Santana will be hosting this exhibit. Photographs, costumes and performance regalia, film, oral histories, and the sound of castanets and taconeo will entertain and educate visitors. Special performances, film screenings, panels, and educational programs will continue through the spring and summer. Don't miss "The Dance, the Music, the Song"-a panel discussion with Sir Brook Zern, noted flamencologist and curators of the exhibit K. Meira Goldberg and Nina Bennahum on Thursday, March 28 at 6:00pm in the Bruno Walter Auditorium.
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