The collection comprises artworks by seminal figures such as Alberto Giacometti, Joan Miro, Jean Tinguely, Max Ernst, Andy Warhol, Alexander Calder, Le Corbusier, Sol LeWitt, Edgar Degas, Nicolas de Stael, Barbara Hepworth and Picasso.

The 35,600-square-foot Bechtler museum building was designed by the Swiss architect  Mario Botta.

Cézanne and American Modernism brings together 16 of the French master's paintings and watercolors with more than 80 works by 33 American artists, including Marsden Hartley, Maurice Prendergast, Alfred Stieglitz, and Man Ray. Along with the BMA’s two great Cézanne paintings, Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from the Bibémus Quarry and Bathers, the exhibition showcases outstanding works from public and private collections throughout the U.S., including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

Paul Cézanne (1839–1906) is universally acclaimed as the father of modern art for his revolutionary use of flattened perspective, carefully structured compositions, and his signature technique of painting with patches of color.

Detroit Experiences: Robert Frank Photographs, 1955 showcases more than 50 rare and many never-before-seen black-and-white photographs taken in Detroit by legendary artist Robert Frank.

According to Frank, 'The Americans' included “things that are there, anywhere, and everywhere…a town at night, a parking lot, the man who owns three cars and the man who owns none…the dream of grandeur, advertising, neon lights…gas tanks, post offices and backyards….” The exhibition includes nine Detroit images that were published in 'The Americans'. as well as, for the first time, an in-depth body of work representative of Frank’s Detroit, its working-class culture and automotive industry.

Frank was drawn to Detroit partly by a personal fascination with the automobile, but also saw its presence and effect on American culture as essential to his series. Frank was one of the few photographers allowed to take photographs at the famous Ford Motor Company River Rouge factory, where he was amazed to witness the transformation of raw materials into fully assembled cars. In a letter to his wife he wrote, “Ford is an absolutely fantastic place…this one is God’s factory and if there is such a thing – I am sure that the devil gave him a helping hand to build what is called Ford’s River Rouge Plant.” Frank spent two days taking pictures at the Ford factory, photographing workers on the assembly lines and manning machines by day, and following them as they ventured into the city at night.

In 1900, Edward S. Curtis (1868 – 1952) undertook the momentous task of documenting American Indian cultures across the United States. Over the next thirty years, he took over 40,000 photographs and collected information about more than eighty tribes, ranging from the Inuit people of the far north to the Hopi people of the Southwest. Curtis assembled this material into twenty lavishly illustrated text volumes, each accompanied by a folio of approximately thirty-eight printed, hand-pulled photogravures

Gabriel Orozco's work has had a wide-reaching impact on contemporary art practice. Known for his wanderings through many countries, in both urban and natural environments, Orozco (Mexican, b. 1962) has worked without a studio since the late 1980s.

He has transformed found objects and situations through subtle but radical interventions and has created enigmatic and intimate works that reveal his thought processes.

MoMa's midcareer retrospective examines two decades of Orozco's career in an exhibition of some 80 works, revealing how the artist roams freely and fluently among drawing, photography, sculpture, installation, and painting to create a heterogeneous body of objects that resists categorization. Works in the exhibition come from international public and private collections, including the collection of The Museum of Modern Art.

Orozco was born in 1962 in Jalapa, in the state of Veracruz, Mexico, to Cristina Félix Romandía, a student of classical piano, and Mario Orozco Rivera, a mural painter and art professor at the Universidad Veracruzana. In 1981, Orozco enrolled at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas (ENAP), a division of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), from which he graduated in 1984. In 1986, to broaden his knowledge of contemporary art practice, Orozco left Mexico City for Madrid. There he enrolled in courses at the Círculo de Bellas Artes and, using Madrid as a base, traveled throughout Europe; but by 1987, he returned to Mexico City. He formed a workshop with other artists—Damián Ortega, Gabriel Kuri, Abraham Cruzvillegas, and Dr. Lakra (Jerónimo López Ramírez)—and worked with this group for the next five years.

The exhibition will travel to three other museums after MoMA: Kunstmuseum Basel (April 18 to August 10, 2010); Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (September 15, 2010, to January 3, 2011); and the Tate Modern, London (January 19 to April 25, 2011). Each exhibition will be a uniquely designed collaboration between the artist and the institution where it is presented.

Leonardo da Vinci: Hand of the Genius features approximately 50 works, including more than 20 sketches and studies by Leonardo, some of which will be on view in the United States for the first time.

Through an examination of the sculpture that Leonardo studied, the drawings he created for his own sculptural projects (the majority of which were never realized) and his interactions with other Renaissance sculptors, the exhibition seeks to shed new light on Leonardo's seminal role in the development of Renaissance sculpture and the work of artists who followed him.

Luc Tuymans features approximately 75 key paintings from 1978 to the present and reunites works from important series as initially set out by the artist. Luc Tuymans (born 1958) is considered by many to be one of the most significant painters working today, and his distinctive visual style and approach to issues of history and memory have influenced an entire generation of younger artists. Interested in the aftereffects of some of the most traumatic events of the last and present century and their representation in the mass media, Tuymans uses a muted palette to create paintings.

Born and raised in Antwerp, where he continues to live and work, Tuymans draws on the historical traditions of Northern European painting as well as photography, cinema, and television. He appropriates images from a variety of sources and makes use of cropping, close-ups, framing, and sequencing to offer fresh perspectives on the medium of painting as well as larger cultural issues.

Perhaps best-known for his early work on the Holocaust, the artist has turned more recently to such topics as the postcolonial history of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the dramatic turn of world events after 9/11, and the role of institutional religion in an increasingly secular world.

Nexus New York: Latin/American Artists in the Modern Metropolis explores the interactions between Caribbean and Latin American artists and U.S.-born and European artists working in New York in the early twentieth century, who together fomented many of that era’s most important avant-garde art movements.

This ambitious exhibition will present for the first time together more than 200 important works by artists from Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Puerto Rico, Uruguay, as well as, U.S. and European artists working in New York. Contextual material—such as period photographs, original magazines and books, reproductions of poems, writing, and other documentary materials.


Joaquín Torres-García: New York Street Scene
Courtesy of Yale University Art Gallery
© 2009 Artists Rights Society

Conceived by El Museo’s director, Julian Zugazagoitia, and organized by its chief curator, Deborah Cullen the show is divided into five sections:

The first section of Nexus New York focuses on artists who chose realist or expressionist formal means during a period from approximately 1910 through the 1920s, and their key artistic exchanges as they traveled to New York and its environs to study with renowned American teachers. For exmaple, Puerto
Rican artist Miguel Pou y Becerra traveled to New York in 1919 to study at the Art Students League with Robert Henri, whose realist Ashcan School theories paralleled Pou’s own developing proposition to document quotidian life on his island in order to venerate its national ideals. Similarly, Celeste Woss y Gil left the Dominican Republic to study at the League from 1922 to 1924 and 1928 to 1931. Previously stifled by her island’s conservative artistic environment, she embraced teachers such as George Luks and his fleshy, gritty painted realities. Upon her return to Santo Domingo, her bold nude mulatto and black females established her as an influential teacher to younger Dominican generations, later going on to direct an important art academy that initiated the founding of the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes in 1942.

A more complex exchange was that of Alice Neel and Carlos Enríquez who met in 1924 at the Pennsylvania Academy summer school. They were married in 1925 and returned to his home in Havana, Cuba, where Enríquez participated in the early vanguard exhibitions. After returning to New York in 1927, they eventually separated, however the impact of the Caribbean modern movement on Neel’s work continued to evidence itself in her bold formal style and social agenda.

The second section will include pioneering travelers to New York who moved within Dada and Cubist circles in the 1900s and 1910s. This section focuses on the 291 Gallery, the De Zayas Gallery, and the Modern Gallery.

The third section features Joaquin Torres-Garcia whose time in New York from 1920 to 1922 fostered his radical formal experimentation and influenced others. The Uruguayan innovator travelled to the city to manufacture wooden toys of his own design. Supported by Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Juliana Force, Katherine Dreier, the Anderson Gallery and others in New York, Torres-García met Marcel Duchamp, Joseph Stella, Max Weber and the Peruvian Carlos Baca-Flor, among others.

The fourth section looks at the expansive influence of the Mexican modernists in New York, whose dominance had been felt beginning in the 1920s, but which peaked during the 1930s. One important location was Union Square, where both the Siqueiros Experimental Workshop and the New School for Social Research were located. In 1936, Mexican artist David Alfaro Siqueiros founded his "Experimental Workshop (A Laboratory of Modern Techniques in Art)” in Union Square, the primary goal of which was to develop, promote and teach experimental techniques that would lead to the crystallization of a truly revolutionary art form.

The exhibit also features for the first time ever, a fresco panel from Diego Rivera’s New Workers’ School Cycle, completed in late 1933 after his ill-fated Rockefeller Center mural, one of the most significant art world controversies ever to take place on U.S. soil. This scandal involved Rivera’s 1933 mural Man at the Crossroads, which was destroyed in 1934 before completion due to Rivera’s sympathetic depiction of Lenin.

Frustrated Rivera utilized his large Rockefeller family fee to carry out the Union Square mural cycle that clearly depicted his political ideologies, once the other project was abruptly destroyed.

This section also examine the connection between the goals of the Mexicanidad movement and that of the "New Negro" project, based in Harlem. Pioneers include Miguel Covarrubias, who moved to New York in 1923, publishing his artworks and impressions of the city in Vanity Fair and The New Yorker.

The fifth section focuses on various sites of Surrealism, which gained currency as international artists joined forces in New York starting with World War II’s approach in the late 1930s to the war’s end. These include the 1939 World’s Fair and the New School for Social Research, which housed Paris’ Atelier 17 during the War.

Candido Portinari of Brazil, who had garnered attention at the 1935 Carnegie International, also sent major panels to the 1939 World’s Fair, although he did not finally visit the city until late 1940 for his retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art when he also undertook a series of murals for the Library of Congress.

An illustrated, bilingual scholarly catalogue, distributed by Yale University Press accompanies the exhibition with essays that focus on specific environments, exchanges, or centers, and which detail the various artists’ New York milieus and artistic development.

Marian Goodman Gallery shows two new works by award-winning British artist and film maker Steve McQueen. On view in the North Gallery is Giardini, 2009, a work first shown at the 53rd International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, 2009, when McQueen represented the UK. This will be the first U.S. presentation of the work and its New York premiere. A second new work, Static, 2009, made especially for this exhibition, is on view in the North Gallery viewing room.

Steve McQueen was recipient of the Turner Prize in 1999 and an OBE in 2002. His debut feature film Hunger (2008),  won the Camera d’Or at Cannes in 2008. Steve McQueen attended Chelsea School of Art, London (1989-90); Goldsmith College, London (1990-93); and Tisch School of the Arts, NYU (1993-94). Born in London in 1969, he currently lives in Amsterdam and London. 

Upcoming projects include a film to be directed by McQueen based on the life of Fela Kuti, the African musician and activist who died in 1997, and a solo survey exhibition in the U.S. and Europe slated for 2012-2013.

During the Spanish Counter-Reformation, religious patrons, particularly the Dominican, Carthusian and Franciscan orders, challenged painters and sculptors to bring the sacred to life, to inspire both Christian devotion and the emulation of the saints. The exhibition brings together some of the finest depictions of key Christian themes including the Passion of Christ, the Immaculate Conception and the portrayal of saints, notably Pedro de Mena’s austere rendition of Saint Francis Standing in Meditation, 1663, which has never before left the sacristy of Toledo Cathedral.

By installing 16 polychrome (painted) sculptures and 16 paintings side-by-side, the exhibition aims to show that the ‘hyperrealistic’ approach of painters such as Diego Velázquez and Francisco de Zurbarán was clearly informed by their familiarity – and in some cases direct involvement – with sculpture.

In Seville, Francisco Pacheco taught Velázquez, later his son-in-law, and a generation of artists the skill of painting sculpture as an integral element of their training. Pacheco himself painted the flesh tones and drapery of exquisite wooden sculptures carved by fellow Andalucian, Montañés, known by his contemporaries as ‘the god of wood’. Among the most important examples is their life-size Saint Francis Borgia Meditating on a Skull' 1624 (Church of the Anunciación, Seville University) commissioned by the Jesuits to celebrate his beatification that year. Another highlight of the exhibition is the fascinating juxtaposition of Velázquez’s The Immaculate Conception, 1618–19 (National Gallery, London) with Montañés’s exquisite polychrome sculpture of the same subject, about 1620 (Seville University).

To obtain even greater realism, some sculptors such as Pedro de Mena and Gregorio Fernández introduced glass eyes and tears as well as ivory teeth into their sculptures. Fernández’s astonishingly realistic Dead Christ, 1625–30 (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid; on long term loan to the Museo Nacional Colegio de San Gregorio, Valladolid) incorporates the bark of a cork tree to simulate the effect of coagulated blood, and bull’s horn for Christ’s fingernails. It was fully intended that believers should feel truly in the presence of the dead Christ.

During 'Semana Santa' (‘Holy Week’), some 17th-century polychrome sculptures are still carried through the streets by religious confraternities, particularly in Seville, Granada and Valladolid, the most important centres of this art. During the evening of Palm Sunday, Seville’s Archicofradía del Cristo del Amor (‘Confraternity of the Christ of Love’) process a life-size sculpture of the Crucifixion by Juan de Mesa. The exhibition features a smaller version of this work, about 1621, which although non-processional, plays a vital role in the pastoral life of the confraternity.

While sometimes deeply unsettling, depictions of Christ’s suffering or indeed Juan de Mesa’s Decapitated Head of Saint John the Baptist, about 1620 (Seville Cathedral) are also exquisitely finished. When depicting the saints, sculptors and polychromers combined their skills to achieve maximum facial expressiveness. Alonso Cano’s life-size head of Saint John of God, 1655 (Museo de Bellas Artes, Granada), which has never left Spain before, depicts with astonishing sensitivity the compassionate expression of Granada’s patron saint.

Zurbarán’s heightened illusionism, in particular his handling of fabric, shows an acute understanding and appreciation of sculpture. Saint Serapion, 1628 (Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT), is among the artist’s greatest achievements. The saint’s voluminous white habit cascades with astonishingly rendered crevasses of deep shadow. Here, Zurbarán demonstrates that painting can indeed achieve the same disconcerting realism as sculpture.

The Secrets of Tomb 10A: Egypt 2000 BC showcases funerary objects discovered in Deir el-Bersha, a necropolis in central Egypt, by the joint Harvard University-Museum of Fine Arts Expedition in 1915. It includes the famous painted "Bersha coffin," the mummified head of one of the tomb’s two occupants, and hundreds of items deemed necessary for a comfortable afterlife in ancient Egypt. This find represents the largest Middle Kingdom burial assemblage ever discovered and sheds light on the grand lifestyle enjoyed by local governor and priest Djehutynakht and his wife, Lady Djehutynakht. The conservation and reconstruction of many of the items—damaged by grave robbers in antiquity—have taken almost a century to complete. For the first time since they were placed in the tomb, the assemblage will be displayed in its entirety.

The Secrets of Tomb 10A examines the mysteries surrounding the Djehutynakhts: their lifestyle, the fate of their possessions after they were buried, and whether the mummified head is male or female. It also offers an engaging introduction to evolving funerary practices in Egypt from the 11th through 13th dynasties and provides insights into daily life of the high officials of the time. Featured are more than 250 objects, many of which have never before been on view. These include four painted coffins, cult objects, vessels for food and drink, furniture, jewelry, walking sticks, and sealed beer jars (one of which will be opened and examined), as well as the largest known collection of wooden models from the Middle Kingdom representing—in miniature form—a range of activities and items that would have been found on the couple’s estate.

The exhibition includes 50 major artifacts excavated from the tomb of King Tut, including his royal diadem (the gold crown discovered on his head), as well as one of the gold and precious stone inlaid coffinettes that contained his mummified internal organs. More than 70 objects from other royal graves of the 18th Dynasty (1555 B.C.-1305 B.C.) are on view as well.

A further highlight is the loaned collection of pieces from the intact tomb of Yuya and Tuyu, the parents-in-law of Amenophis III. This tomb was discovered some 20 years before that of Tutankhamun, and had until then been the most celebrated find in the Valley of the Kings.

The objects are accompanied by photos of Howard Carter taken in 1922 to illustrate the condition of the tomb during the first opening.

Exploring a cross section of art made during a period marked with revolution and socio-political tumult, this exhibition also embraces five interventions by a current generation of artists whose work reflects the concerns of 1969 and brings the exhibition into the present. This exhibition includes examples of painting, sculpture, photography, print, illustrated books, design, drawing, media, and film as well as a wealth of documents drawn from MoMA's archives. 

Diverse artistic practices, concerns, and themes are presented ranging from the minimalist sculpture of Sol LeWitt and Carl Andre, abstract painting and drawing of Helen Frankenthaler and Gego, to films by Walter de Maria and Michael Snow, and politically charged works of the Art Workers Coalition and Martha Rosler.

Wind/Rewind/Weave investigates the global crisis of production and skill based textile labor through three major works: Wind-Up: Walking the Warp, a unique installation titled 'Local Industry,' and the first exhibition of Rewinds, a large sculpture in glass.

As the project 'Local Industry,' Anne Wilson has transformed one museum gallery into an active factory site, using it as a productive space where museum visitors work together through the production of a bolt of cloth.

Anne Wilson is a Chicago based visual artist who creates sculpture, drawings, video animations and installations that explore themes of time, loss, private and social rituals.

Cuban group Rumbankete - open dance floor!

Voices: Gonzalo Chomat, Eddie Felix, Iris Cepeda
Violin: Kirsten Bersch, Naomi Sato
Trombones: Denis Jiron, Nick Daley, Jim Miller
Percussion: Michael Duffy, Alberto Lopez, Joey de Leon
Piano: Matt Amper
Bass: Larry Vasquez

All-Star 14 piece band from Los Angeles - Rumbankete is their Cuban Dance Music Big Band and labour of love! - Includes players who have performed & toured with Stevie Wonder, Donna Summer, Queen Latifa, Poncho Sanchez, Ozomatli, Joan Sebastian, Luis Enrique, Domingo Quiñones, Lalo Rodríguez, Michael Stuart, Tito Nieves, Jimmy Bisch, Dave Valentín, Andy Montañez, Snoop Dogg, Mariah Carey, Mos Def, Kim Burell & Seal.

510 Embarcadero West
Oakland, CA 94607

Curated by Max Presneill, FYI - The Reflected Gaze - Self Portraiture Today focuses on self-portraits by contemporary artists.

Artists featured:

Justin Bower, Chuck Close, Emily Counts, Ariel Erestingcol, Mark Greenwold, Julie Heffernan, Damien Hirst, Per Huttner, KAWS, Tom LaDuke, Hung Liu, Jennifer Nehrbass, Gavin Nolan, Fahamu Pecou, Dane Picard, Frank Ryan, Peter Sudar, Terri Thomas, Holly Topping, Alexandra Wiesenfeld, Cindy Wright and Liat Yossifor

Each of the artists in One on One engages the life of one person. The goal of each examination is different, as are the means and the findings. But in each case, the artists use their subjects as mirrors, not only for themselves, but also for the viewer.

Terry Allen creates works in a wide variety of media including music, painting, sculpture, drawing, video, theater, and installation. SITE will present Terry Allen's latest work GHOST SHIP RODEZ, a multi-dimensional, multimedia exhibition inspired by an episode in the life of the great French theater visionary, poet, and artist Antonin Artaud (1896-1948).Taking its title from the French mental institution "Rodez," where Artaud spent a number of years, this exhibition will consist of drawings and multimedia works blending sculpture and video. Allen invites us to take a journey into the depths of Artaud's mind as he sees it — a place where the boundaries of time and space are broken, where the past and future come together in the present.

In 2002 Hasan Elahi was falsely accused by a misinformed neighbor of involvement in the 9/11 terrorists plots, and was subsequently subjected to a sixth month long investigation by the FBI. Provoked by this ordeal, Elahi initiated Tracking Transience: The Orwell Project a web-based project that provides his location in real-time and archives the traces of his life, such as photographs of every meal he has eaten and his bank transaction records. Elahi's obsessive use of technology to track himself is "an exaggerated version of the life we live now," where photographic and electronic surveillance have become the norm. SITE will exhibit the most complete presentation of Tracking Transience to date with a multimedia installation streaming material drawn from an extensive database representing Elahi's activities over the last eight years.

The husband and wife team McCallum & Tarry create works that investigate issues of social justice. Their practice includes a variety of media including painting, photography, video, sculpture, and public interventions. By focusing on the voices of individuals, McCallum & Tarry create works that highlight the personal dimension of issues such as civil rights, homelessness, and war. In a significant number of their works, McCallum & Tarry have used themselves as their subjects. SITE  presents three of their most intimate and poetic video-based works: Topsy-Turvy (2006), Cut (2006), and Exchange (2007). These works explore the complex legacy of race and the way it figures into contemporary relations, particularly rooted in their own experiences as an interracialcouple.

Kaari Upson's The Larry Project, is a multi-disciplinary investigation into the life of a man she has never met. Initially based on the life of a real person, Larry has become more fiction than fact, and Upson's relentless investigation of the minutia of his life offers extraordinary insight into the mind of the artist herself. Through an archival method, Upson has given Larry a multifaceted life while simultaneously assimilating her life with his. Upson conceived of the project in three chapters, representing different levels of psychological engagement. Selected works from each of these chapters include drawings, paintings, video, and sculpture.

When a young German playwright named Alois Senefelder developed a new printmaking process in the 1790s, little did he know that his discovery would start a communication revolution. Lithography, or flatsurface
printing, transformed the exchange of information and everyday life for the next century and beyond. This technique brought art, literature, music, and science to the masses; gave rise to product advertising and consumer culture; educated a growing middle class; and turned commercial printing from a craft into an industry. Lithography also colorized a predominantly black and white publishing world.

The Color Explosion: Nineteenth Century American Lithography from the Jay T. Last Collection presents about 250 examples of 19th century American lithography from The Huntington’s Jay T. Last collection of lithographic and social history. Advertising posters, art prints, calendars, certificates, children’s books, colorplate illustrations, historical views, product labels, sales catalogs, sheet music, toys, games, and trade cards are just some of the artifacts that will be included in this comprehensive exhibition.

Entitled Tseng Kwong Chi: Body Painting with Bill T. Jones and  Keith Haring, this is an exhibition of photographs taken by the American artist Tseng Kwong Chi in 1983 in collaboration with the choreographer Bill T. Jones and the artist Keith Haring.

Shown in commemoration of the 20th anniversary of Tseng's and Haring's deaths, these large-format photographs document the spirit of interconnected creativity that pulsed throughout the East Village in the 1980's.

Tseng Kwong Chi (1950-1990) was born in Hong Kong and immigrated with his family to Vancouver, Canada as a teenager. He studied art in Paris before moving to New York in 1978. His work is included in numerous public collections, including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Walker Museum of Art in Minneapolis, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. In 2010, his photographs will be included in Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. and in Dreamlands at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, France.

Catherine Opie (American, born 1961) created inkjet prints from scans of 7x17-inch negatives of the mini-malls that characterize Los Angeles's automobile culture.

Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao (Taiwanese, born 1977) digitally combined color film negatives into seamless inkjet prints for his Habitat 7 project, which traces the route of the New York subway from Queens to Manhattan. By layering hand-cut chromogenic prints made in Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland, during the summer solstice, Soo Kim (American, born South Korea, 1969) achieved the three-dimensional effect of a semitransparent city.

The Getty Center
1200 Getty Center Drive
Los Angeles, California 90049

Victorious Ones presents paintings and sculptures depicting the Jinas, the founding teachers of Jainism, and the spaces they sanctify throughout the universe. Central to this Indian ascetic faith, dating from between the 6th and 5th century BCE, is an ethic of nonviolence and respect for all living beings.

Images of the Jinas embody these ideals of perfection and serve as objects of devotion through which the Jinas can be accessed. Their life stories are told in illuminated manuscripts and the places where they are revered are portrayed in detailed pilgrimage maps and diagrams of the vast Jain cosmos. 

Present-day practitioners of the this little known ancient faith accumulate few material possessions, and look at things from the points of view of others.

All-Haydn piano recital

András Schiff, piano

21 February 2010 at 7:00 pm
Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1
Dvorak: Symphony No. 9

22 February 2010 at 8:00 pm
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig
Riccardo Chailly, conductor
Louis Lortie, piano

J.S. Bach, Grieg, Schumann, Ravel

Joshua Bell, violin
Jeremy Denk, piano

Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 5, “Emperor”
Beethoven: Symphony No. 7

Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly, conductor
Louis Lortie, piano

J. S. Bach: Cantata No. 12, “Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen”
Agostino Stefani: Stabat Mater
J. S. Bach: Cantata No. 4, “Christ lag in Todesbanden” 

While the two Bach cantatas need no introduction, Stefani's Stabat Mater is less well-known.

A contemporary of Bach, Italian-born Agostino Steffani composed a number of operas that were presented throughout Germany during the late 1600s. He was an ordained priest and was named as an ambassador, giving him a good deal of diplomatic power. In 1724, the Academy of Ancient Music in London named Steffani as its honorary president for life, and in return, he gave them a magnificent setting of the Stabat Mater for six soloists, choir and orchestra. Steffani set the 20 strophes of the devotional Stabat Mater poem in 12 movements for either solo or choir with string orchestra accompaniment, using expressive word painting and suspensions to represent the grief of the Virgin Mother. Both Bach in his Cantata 4 and Steffani in this work make use of divided violas for a darker, more somber musical color. 

At 7:00pm, Associate Director of Music Renée Anne Louprette presents a pre-concert organ recital featuring settings of Christ lag in Todesbanden and Crucifixus from the B Minor Mass by J.S. Bach, excerpts from Marcel Dupré’s Le Chemin de la Croix and Franz Liszt’s Variations on “Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen.”

Choir and Chamber Orchestra of St. Ignatius Loyola
Kent Tritle, conductor
Jamet Pittman and Michèle Eaton, sopranos
Katie Geissinger and Ory Brown, mezzo-sopranos
Steven Fox and Michael Steinberger, tenors
Peter Stewart, baritone
Steven Hrycelak, bass

Beethoven

String Quartet No. 2 in G Major, Opus 18, No. 2
String Quartet No. 11 in F minor, Opus 95, “Serioso”
String Quartet No. 15 in A minor, Opus 132

Artemis String Quartet

Holst: The Planets
Walton: Violin Concerto

San Francisco Symphony
Charles Dutoit, conductor
Alexander Barantshik, violin
Women of the San Francisco Symphony Chorus

Telemann, Brahms, Poulenc, Pablo de Sarasate

Augustin Hadelich, violin
Ian Parker, piano

4:00 pm at the Beverly Hills Women's Club

The Da Camera Society
Mount St. Mary's College
10 Chester Place
Los Angeles, CA 90007s

Beethoven: Quartet in F major, Op. 18, No. 1
Fauré: Quartet in E minor, Op. 121
Mendelssohn: Quartet in F minor, Op. 80

Ebène Quartet

The Bolshoi Ballet performs th production of former artistic director Yuri Grigorovich's Spartacus. The classic story of a man who falls from king to slave, rises from gladiator to rebel leader, and dies a martyr, Spartacus is filled with bravura dancing, epic staging, and heart-pounding drama. While the tale is set in Rome, its themes have links to Russia's historic struggle with class and despotism.

Principal Casting:

Tue., Feb. 16 & Fri., Feb. 19 at 7:30 p.m. and Sun., Feb. 21 at 1:30 p.m.
Spartacus: Ivan Vasiliev
Crassus: Alexander Volchkov
Phrygia: Nina Kaptsova
Aegina: Svetlana Zakharova
 
Wed., Feb. 17 & Sat., Feb. 20 at 7:30 p.m.
Spartacus: Pavel Dmitrichenko
Crassus: Yury Baranov
Phrygia: Anna Nikulina
Aegina: Maria Alexandrova
 
Thu., Feb. 18 at 7:30 p.m. and Sat., Feb. 20 at 1:30 p.m.
Spartacus: Egor Khromushin
Crassus: Andrey Merkuriev
Phrygia: Marianna Ryzhkina
Aegina: Ekaterina Shipulina

Russia's Mariinsky Ballet performs Konstantin Sergeyev's 1952 version of the full-length staging of The Sleeping Beauty.

Music: Pyotr Tchaikovsky

Principal Casting:

Tue., Feb. 9 at 7:30 p.m.
Aurora: Diana Vishneva
Prince Desire: Andrian Fadeyev
Lilac Fairy: Ekaterina Kondaurova
 
Wed., Feb. 10 at 7:30 p.m.
Aurora: Alina Somova
Prince Desire: Evgeny Ivanchenko
Lilac Fairy: Anastasia Kolegova
 
Thu., Feb. 11 & Sat., Feb. 13 at 7:30 p.m.
Aurora: Viktoria Tereshkina
Prince Desire: Vladimir Shklyarov
Lilac Fairy: Ekaterina Kondaurova
 
Fri., Feb. 12 at 7:30 p.m.
Aurora: Anastasia Matvienko
Prince Desire: Andrian Fadeyev
Lilac Fairy: Oksana Skoryk
 
Sat., Feb. 13 at 1:30 p.m.
Aurora: Alina Somova
Prince Desire: Evgeny Ivanchenko
Lilac Fairy: Alexandra Iosifidi
 
Sun., Feb. 14 at 1:30 p.m.
Aurora: Anastasia Kolegova
Prince Desire: Anton Korsakov
Lilac Fairy: Oksana Skoryk

Alex Escalante: The 25th Frame

Curated by Yasuko Yokoshi

In his newest work, choreographer Alex Escalante draws inspiration from propaganda techniques found in advertising, politics, and public relations for his investigation of the persuasive nature of language and its effects on the human body and its psyche.

The live musical score to The 25th Frame is composed by Jon Moniaci and performed by Nancy Garcia, Moniaci, and Escalante.

An Ewe Proverb

Joe Galeota and the Berklee West African Drum and Dance Ensemble will perform an evening of traditional Ewe music from Southern Ghana and Togo, featuring Berklee Africa Scholar Victor Dogah. Jordan Benissan, a Togolise Ewe master drummer who teaches at Colby College in Maine, will MC the night.

92nd Street Y
1395 Lexington Avenue
New York, NY 10128

Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour

Regina Carter, violin
Kurt Elling, vocals
Russell Malone, guitar
Kenny Barron, piano
Kiyoshi Kitagawa, bass
Johnathan Blake, drums

Nancy Wilson’s musical style is so diverse that it is hard to classify.  Over the years her repertoire has included pop style ballads, jazz and blues, show tunes and well known standards.  Critics have described her as “a jazz singer,” “a blues singer,” “a pop singer,” and “a cabaret singer.”  Still others have referred to her as “a storyteller,” “a professor emeritus of body language,” “a consummate actress,” and “the complete entertainer.”  Then who is this song stylist (that’s the descriptive title she prefers) whose voice embodies the nuances of gospel, blues, and jazz?  Her colleague and long time friend Joe Williams used to call her “the thrush from Columbus.”

After years with Capitol Records, during many of which she was second in sales only to the Beatles, surpassing even Frank Sinatra, Peggy Lee, the Beach Boys, and early idol Nat King Cole, the business had changed providing Nancy Wilson with an opportunity to seek out projects that allowed her to express the maturity that she acquired throughout her then 55 years of life.

One of the more interesting albums from her later period came about in 1991, when singer Barry Manilow was given a sheath full of lyrics written by the late Johnny Mercer which the great songwriter had never put to music.  Manilow added melodies and chose Ms. Wilson to sing the resultant songs.

In 1995, when National Public Radio (NPR) was looking for an articulate voice with both name value and jazz credibility to host their Jazz Profiles series, Nancy Wilson was the obvious choice.  Not only did she know the music, but she knew the artists personally.  Her first profile for this program was the 75th birthday tribute to Charlie Parker.

In the late 1990s, Nancy Wilson teamed up with MCG Jazz, a social enterprise supporting the youth education programs of the Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild, a nonprofit, minority-directed, arts and learning organization located in Pittsburgh, PA. 

Three years later Nancy Wilson gave MCG Jazz and the world of music another gift – R.S.V.P. (Rare Songs, Very Personal) – which was released on August 25, 2004.  Receiving gifts in return, R.S.V.P. (Rare Songs, Very Personal) won the 2005 GRAMMY® Award for Best Jazz Vocal Album and the 2005 NAACP Image Award for Best Jazz Artist.  (This was her second GRAMMY®, the first being in 1964 for “How Glad I Am,” and her second Image Award, the first being in 1986.)  Other honors Nancy Wilson has received include a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, streets and days dedicated in her name, honorary doctorate degrees, and in 2005, the UNCF Trumpet Award celebrating African-American achievement, a Lifetime Achievement Award from the NAACP in Chicago, and Oprah Winfrey’s Legends Award.

Her third CD on the MCG Jazz label, Turned To Blue (released in August 2006), brought her a third Grammy award. While Ms. Wilson has “retired from touring,” she still continues to perform select engagements and, happily, to record. In addition, she has just taken on the role of Honorary Spokesperson for the National Minority AIDS Council and is working very hard to raise AIDS awareness in the African-American communities.

The Afro-Caribbean band Kalbass Kreyol emerged from the open-mic scene in Alameda, California. In April of 2005 Sophis and his Haitian friend guitarist, Mr.G, founded Kalbass Kreyol.

The band's music is intently designed for dancing. At the center of their sound are elements of Haitian Kompa and Rara which are mélanged with particles of Merengue, Reggae, Salsa, Zouk, Rock and Funk to create an unusual rhythmic formula that keeps their audience glued to the dance floor.

www.youtube.com/kalbasskreyol

U.S. audiences recently saw Jeff Beck's guitar mastery at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 25th anniversary concert at Madison Square Garden. Beck's 40 minute set with guests such as Sting, Buddy Guy and Billy Gibbons along with a blistering rendition of "Superstition" in Stevie Wonder's set received strong critical acclaim.

Jeff Beck's recent release, Live at Ronnie Scotts DVD, has gone platinum in USA, Canada and Japan. Beck is currently recording his first studio album in five years in London with Trevor Horne and Steve Lipson producing. Eric Clapton's recent release Crossroads Guitar Festival DVD has gone multi-platinum in the US. Clapton also just completed a sold-out North American tour with former Blind Faith band member Steve Winwood.

The Georgia Aquarium opened in downtown Atlanta, Georgia on 23 November 2005, as the world’s largest aquarium. With more than 8 million gallons of marine and fresh water, and more than 100,000 animals of 500 different species, the Georgia Aquarium is a gift to the people of Georgia from Bernie Marcus, co-founder of The Home Depot, and his wife Billi, through the Marcus Foundation. The $200 million building, designed to look like a ship breaking through a wave. The facility hosts five viewing galleries along with a 4-D movie theater.

Wolfgang Puck Catering operates exclusive special event catering services at the Aquarium.  Chef Puck and his staff serve seafood at the Aquarium and participate in the Seafood Watch Program, pioneered by the Monterey Bay Aquarium to raise consumer awareness about the importance of buying seafood from sustainable sources.

Michael Longoria 
Christian Hoff - Tony Award Winner
Sebastian Arcelus
J Robert Spencer

Book by Marshall Brickman and Rick Elice
Music and Lyrics by Bob Gaudio and Bob Crewe
Directed by Des McAnuff
Choreography by Sergio Trujillo

After having utterly transformed herself in the extraordinary Lee Daniels film, Precious, Mariah Carey is back on the road. She is in the second week of her six week “Angels Advocate” Tour across North America - her first major tour since The “Adventures of Mimi: The Voice, The Hits, The Tour” of August-October 2006.  The opening act on the “Angels Cry” Tour is RydazNrtist, a new R&B group signed to Nick Cannon’s NCredible Entertainment.  (Since mid-January, the tour has played through MGM Grand Theater at Foxwoods in Mashantucket, CT; Fox Theatre in Atlanta; Seminole Hard Rock Hotel in Hollywood, FL; and Fox Theatre in Detroit.

The international superstar has completed her 13th studio album, Angels Advocate, a brand new collection of newly remixed duets with some of her favorite artists, performing Mariah’s favorite songs from her #1 R&B album Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel (released September 2009). Angels Advocate will be released on March 30th.

In advance of the Angels Advocate album release, two new Mariah Carey singles are on the way this week - “Angels Cry” featuring fellow Island Def Jam artist Ne-Yo and “Up Out My Face” featuring Nicki Minaj. New videos for both tracks were co-directed by Nick Cannon and Mariah Carey.  Both videos premiere at search site VEVO.com on Thursday, January 28th, followed by Friday debuts on MTV and BET.

After having utterly transformed herself in the extraordinary Lee Daniels film, Precious, Mariah Carey is back on the road. She is in the second week of her six week “Angels Advocate” Tour across North America - her first major tour since The “Adventures of Mimi: The Voice, The Hits, The Tour” of August-October 2006.  The opening act on the “Angels Cry” Tour is RydazNrtist, a new R&B group signed to Nick Cannon’s NCredible Entertainment.  (Since mid-January, the tour has played through MGM Grand Theater at Foxwoods in Mashantucket, CT; Fox Theatre in Atlanta; Seminole Hard Rock Hotel in Hollywood, FL; and Fox Theatre in Detroit.

The international superstar has completed her 13th studio album, Angels Advocate, a brand new collection of newly remixed duets with some of her favorite artists, performing Mariah’s favorite songs from her #1 R&B album Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel (released September 2009). Angels Advocate will be released on March 30th.

In advance of the Angels Advocate album release, two new Mariah Carey singles are on the way this week - “Angels Cry” featuring fellow Island Def Jam artist Ne-Yo and “Up Out My Face” featuring Nicki Minaj. New videos for both tracks were co-directed by Nick Cannon and Mariah Carey.  Both videos premiere at search site VEVO.com on Thursday, January 28th, followed by Friday debuts on MTV and BET.

This new center documents Muhammad Ali's odyssey from then-segregated Louisville, Kentucky and his youth as Cassius Clay, to a Gold Medal at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome to his conversion from Christianity to Islam and to the pinnacle of the boxing world.

Through five floors and 93,000 square feet, the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville (which opened in November  2005) is no typical sports museum; it is equal parts elegance (the prominent atrium display of his Presidential Medal of Freedom) and kitsch (the equally prominent display of the bejeweled robe,a gift from Elvis Presley before a fight in Las Vegas.) It is pluck - his youthful boasting of how pretty he was - and pathos- his Parkinsons' wracked body painstakingly lighting the torchat the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. It is crass commercialization - his 1977 Rolls Royce Corniche - and the best of the human spirit- a collage by children from 141 countries in which they express their hopes and dreams.

The National World War I Museum at Liberty Memorial in Kansas City, Mo., opened to the public on 2 December 2006 as the first American, and only national, museum dedicated to preserving the artifacts, history, and experiences of what was deemed “the war to end all wars.” Designed by Ralph Appelbaum, the National WWI Museum houses a collection of more than 49,000 artifacts.

The 30,000-square-foot core exhibit is built directly beneath the existing Liberty Memorial. Beginning with a surreal walk across a glass-floored bridge, beneath which lie 9,000 poppies, each representing 1,000 fallen military fatalities, visitors pass into an vast interactive museum that seeks to tell the story of the war through the experiences of those who lived it.

Now in its first Broadway revival, South Pacific features  Kelli O'Hara (The Light in the Piazza) and baritone Paulo Szot in the leading roles with direction by Bartlett Sher (The Light in the Piazza and Awake and Sing).

Music by Richard Rodgers
Lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II
Author, Tales of the South Pacific
James Michener

Cast:

Kelli O'Hara , Paulo Szot
Matthew Morrison , Danny Burstein , Loretta Ables Sayre , Sean Cullen , Victor Hawks , Luka Kain , Li Jun Li , Laurissa Romain , Skipp Sudduth , Noah Weisberg, Becca Ayers , Wendi Bergamini , Genson Blimline , Grady McLeod Bowman , Charlie Brady , Matt Caplan , Christian Carter , Helmar Augustus Cooper , Jeremy Davis , Margot De La Barre , Christian Delcroix , Laura Marie Duncan , Mike Evariste , Laura Griffith , Lisa Howard , Maryann Hu , Zachary James , Robert Lenzi , Garrett Long , Nick Mayo , George Merrick , William Michals , Kimber Monroe , Emily Morales , Darius Nichols , George Psomas , Andrew Samonsky , Jerold E. Solomon

Sylvan Heights Waterfowl Center operates the world's largest collection of waterfowl, including many rare and endangered species. The 8 acre avian breeding preserve in Scotland Neck, North Carolina is now home to over 170 species of birds-- more than half of the world’s known species of ducks, geese and swans--along with cranes, pheasants, parrots and many other birds.

Sylvan Heights has now embarked on a new and exciting mission--providing conservation-oriented programs and avian exhibits to the public. Building on an adjacent 18-acre property owned by the North Carolina Zoological Society, the new Waterfowl Park & Eco-Center has been open to the public since October 7, 2006.

Scotland Neck is only a few miles from the Roanoke River, an environmentally protected waterway that attracts many thousands of migrating ducks, geese and swans to the North Carolina coastal plain.  The cypress-tupelo swamp forests and wetlands surrounding Scotland Neck are a wintering home for many bird species, and provide opportunities for waterfowl, raptor and songbird observation. In fact, this area was named one of the top 500 most important bird areas by the American Bird Conservancy Guide.

Terence Rattigan's 1948 masterpiece about a schoolmaster who must give up his 18 year post at an English public school brilliantly explores the complexity of the human heart. It predates Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf in its scathing examination of a marriage. A contemporary of Noel Coward and Somerset Maugham, Rattigan's wit and depth remain timeless.

Cast:
Michael Balsley, Orson Bean, Caitlin Beitel, Bruce French, Justin Preston, Michael Redfield, Sally Smythe

Marilyn Fox, director

Set Design Scott Viman
Costume Design Audrey Eisner
Light Design William Wilday
Sound Design Chris Moscatiello

Grand Jury Prize winner and Golden Palm nominee this year at Cannes, writer/director Jacques Audiard (Read My Lips, The Beat That My Heart Skipped) continues his specialty in the underground crime genre with his fifth feature: A PROPHET. A huge success at the French box office, the film will represent France as the official submission for a Foreign Language nomination at the Oscars this year. This internationally critically acclaimed prison drama stars newcomer Tahar Rahim as Malik, a part Arab, part Corsican teen condemned to six years in prison. Confronted by the leader of the Corsican gang (Niels Arestrup – The Beat That My Heart Skipped) currently ruling the prison, Malik is forced to carry out a number of missions to prove himself and, as he rises through the prison ranks, secretly devises his own criminal network.

Cast: Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup

Will Power: Fetch Clay, Make Man
Directed by Des McAnuff

Featuring John Earl Jelks, Sonequa Martin, Richard Masur, Evan Parke, and Ben Vereen

Set Design:  Riccardo  Hernandez
Costume Design:  Paul  Tazewell 
Original Music:  Justin  Ellington

In the days before one of the most anticipated fights in boxing history, 23-year-old heavyweight champ Muhammad Ali formed an improbable bond with controversial former Hollywood star Stepin Fetchit. Set in the heady times of the mid-1960s, after years of struggle and a series of Civil Rights victories, Fetch Clay, Make Man explores the true story of two wildly different men, each struggling to create and shape his image and legacy. Will Power’s absorbing tale is a rhythmic, expressive, and innovative exploration of one of the missing pages in America’s history book.

Douglas Carter Beane: Mr. & Mrs. Fitch
Scott Ellis, director

According to the press release: Meet gossip columnists Mr. & Mrs. Fitch. When the social circuit no longer provides any scandalous news, they find that great celebrity can appear out of thin air. Tony Award nominee Douglas Carter Beane's wicked new comedy is a scathing look at who is in, who is out and who may not even exist at all.

Cast
John Lithgow, Jennifer Ehle

Previews begin 26 January 2010. Opening night 22 February 2010

Sam Moore, the "Original Soul Man", of Sam & Dave

The Divine Sister is a comic homage to nearly every Hollywood film involving nuns. Evoking such films as The Song of Bernadette, The Bells of St. Mary’s, The Singing Nun and Agnes of God, The Divine Sister tells the story of St. Veronica’s indomitable Mother Superior (author Charles Busch) who is determined to build a new school for her Pittsburgh convent. Along the way, she has to deal with a young postulant who is experiencing “visions,” sexual hysteria among her nuns, a sensitive schoolboy in need of mentoring, a mysterious nun visiting from the Mother House in Berlin, and a former suitor intent on luring her away from her vows.

Directed by Carl Andress

Cast:
Alison Fraser, Julie Halston, Amy Rutberg, Jennifer van Dyck, Charles Busch  &  Jonathan Walker

Whisper House (world premiere musical)
Music & Lyrics: Duncan Sheik
Book & Lyrics: Kyle Jarrow
Directed by Peter Askin

Tony and Grammy Award®-winning songwriter Duncan Sheik follows up his Broadway sensation, Spring Awakening, with this new musical.

Set in 1942 at the height of World War II, Whisper House is the story of an 11-year-old boy, Christopher, who lives with his Aunt Lilly in a haunted New England lighthouse following the death of his father.  All of the songs in the musical are performed by the ghosts, played by David Poe and Holly Brook, and embody the boy’s subconscious thoughts and fears.  Moreover, these ghosts tell him that Yasujiro, a Japanese worker that Lilly has employed, should not be trusted. When Christopher begins to hear strange music seeping through the walls, is his imagination getting the best of him, or is he receiving warnings of the very real dangers that lie ahead? 

In addition to Brook, Poe and Winningham, the cast also includes Arthur Acuña (Yasuhiro), Kevin Hoffmann (Lieutenant Rando), Ted Koch (Charles) and Eric Brent Zutty (Christopher).

Duncan Sheik introduced the story of Whisper House last January in the form of a CD of the same name. The collection of songs, written specifically for the theatrical production, marked Sheik's first solo album.

Duncan Sheik initially found success as a singer, most notably for his 1996 debut single, “Barely Breathing,” which spent 55 weeks on Billboard’s Hot 100.  He has since expanded his work to include compositions for motion pictures and the Broadway stage.