More information about this exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History
Shakespeare in the Park
Date: May 28 – August 18, 2013
Enjoy Shakespeare in the Park, New York City's FREE beloved summertime tradition at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park. 2013 Shakespeare in the Park performances include The Comedy of Errors and Love's Labour Lost, A New Musical.
Location: Delacorte Theater in Central Park.
The Central Park entrances closest to the theater are at 81st Street
and Central Park West or 79th Street and Fifth Avenue.
More information about Shakespeare in the Park
Patty Griffin Performs at Celebrate Brooklyn's Opening Night
Date: Wednesday, June 5, 8pm
35th Opening Night Gala and Concert Featuring Patty Griffin. Tickets are not required for the Patty Griffin concert, which is free and open to the public. Gates will open at 6:30pm.
Location: Prospect Bark Bandshell, 9th Street and Prospect Park West
More information about Celebrate Brooklyn
Governors Ball Music Festival
Date: June 7-9, 2013
The Governor’s Ball Music Festival is a 3-day festival
featuring some of the biggest and best live acts in electronic, dance,
hip hop, and indie music.
Location: Governors Island - Governors Island is only accessible by
Ferry Boats, which will be servicing both Manhattan and Brooklyn all day
and night.
NYC 11th Annual Big Apple Barbecue
Date: June 8-9, 2013, 11am-6pm
The BIG BARBECUE BLOCK PARTY is one of the country's premiere festivals, attracting people from near and far to celebrate America's authentic culinary and musical traditions. Event admission is free for this weekend long event that boasts award-winning barbecue and Southern-inspired fare from the country's top pitmasters, live performances from emerging and established musical artists, and daily seminars that include cooking demonstrations from top chefs. Proceeds from the Big Apple Barbecue Block Party support the Madison
Square Park Conservancy, the organization responsible for the beauty,
ongoing maintenance, and programming of this historic park.
Location: Madison Square Park, Madison Avenue Between 23rd and 26th Street
More information about Ne York City's 11th Annual Big Apple Barbecue
NYC National Puerto Rican Day Parade
Date: Sunday, June 9, 2013, begins at 11am
The parade marches along Fifth Avenue from 44th Street to 79th Street
and has grown to become the largest demonstration of ethnic pride in the
nation. Since 1957, the parade has been a cultural icon and a permanent
fixture of the Puerto Rican diaspora. Over 80,000 people participate in
the Puerto Rican Day Parade in New York City each year. Over two
million people attend the Puerto Rican Day Parade and many more watch it
on television.
The Theme for this year parade is “Celebrating the natural beauty of
Puerto Rico,” in an effort to educate the community of how to preserve
the natural beauty of our island.
Location: Fifth Avenue from 44th to 79th Street
More information about the National Puerto Rican Day Parade in NYC
35th Annual New York City Museum Mile Festival
Date: Tuesday, June 11, 2013, 6-9pm
One day a year, for the past 35 years, ten of the country’s finest museums —all ones that call Fifth Avenue home— collectively open their doors from 6pm – 9pm for free to New Yorkers and visitors for a mile-long block party and visual art celebration. This traffic-free,
music- and art-filled celebration fills the street and sidewalks of
Fifth Avenue from 82nd to 105th street, the mile now officially
designated as Museum Mile. Over 50,000 visitors attend the festival
annually.
Location: Fifth Avenue between 82nd and 105th Streets
More information about the Museum Mile Festival
Buy tickets in advance to your favorite New York City museums and attractions
Annual Gay Pride March in New York City
Date: June 30, 2013
This
is arguably the must-see event of Gay Pride in New York City, drawing
thousands of spectators. It began as an annual civil rights
demonstration beginning the year after the Stonewall Riots in 1970. Over
the years its purpose has broadened to include recognition of the fight
against AIDS and to remember those we have lost to the illness,
violence and neglect. It has also evolved to include being a celebration
of our lives and our community.
Edith Windsor, Harry Belafonte and Earl Fowlkes will be leading the 2013 March down 5th Avenue.
Book a NYC Gay Pride vacation in New York City
Location: Starts at 36th Street & 5th Avenue, ends at Christopher & Greenwich Streets.
More information about the Gay Pride March in NYC
31st Annual Coney Island Mermaid Parade
Date: June 22, 2013, 11pm
The
Mermaid Parade is the largest art parade in the nation. A celebration of
ancient mythology and honky-tonk rituals of the seaside, it showcases
over 1,500 creative individuals from all over the five boroughs, opening
the summer with incredible art, entrepreneurial spirit and community
pride. The parade highlights Coney Island Pageantry based on a century
of many Coney parades, celebrates the artistic vision of the masses, and
ensures that the summer season is a success by bringing hundreds of
thousands of people to the amusement area in a single day.
Founded in 1983 by Coney Island USA, the not-for-profit arts
organization that also produces the Coney island Circus Sideshow, the
Mermaid Parade pays homage to Coney Island's forgotten Mardi Gras which
lasted from 1903 to 1954, and draws from a host of other sources
resulting in a wonderful and wacky event that is unique to Coney Island.
The Mermaid Parade specifically was founded with three goals: it brings mythology to life for local residents who live on streets named Mermaid and Neptune ; it creates self-esteem in a district that is often disregarded as “entertainment”; and it lets artistic New Yorkers find self-expression in public.
Location: The Parade will start on West 21st and the Surf Avenue. It
will roll East to West 10th Street, where the cars and motorized floats
will park. The marchers and push pull floats will go to the Boardwalk
and march West to Stillwell Avenue where the Parade will disband.
More information about the 31st Annual Coney Island Mermaid Parade
Date: Through June 23, 2013
The Metropolitan’s bronze statue Sleeping Eros is the
finest example of its kind. Scholars have long wondered whether it is an
original Hellenistic work or a very fine Roman Imperial copy.
Variations of the type are known from hundreds of sculptures, which, to
judge from the number of extant replicas and adaptations, was one of the
most popular ever produced in Roman Imperial times. It was also among
the earliest of the ancient statues rediscovered during the Renaissance,
when artists revisited the theme. This exhibition presents the results
of a recent study of the Museum's statue, utilizing scientific and
technical analyses as well as art-historical research, which supports
its identification as a Hellenistic bronze but one that was restored in
antiquity, likely during the Roman Imperial period.
Location:Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street
Date: Through June 30, 2013
The Sau-Wing Lam collection of violin-family instruments is
one of the most important collections of bowed Italian stringed
instruments ever assembled by a private individual. Sau-Wing Lam
(1923–1988) was born in Shanghai, China, where he graduated with a
degree in economics from the prestigious Saint John's University. In
1948 he moved to New York City and eventually became the president of
the Dah Chong Hong Trading Corporation, Inc., an import-export business
that founded some of the most successful automobile dealerships in the
country.
Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street
Flight of the Butterflies IMAX Film at the American Museum of Natural History
Date: Through July 7, 2013
Flight of the Butterflies takes
viewers on the epic 3,000-mile journey traveled every fall by half a
billion Monarch butterflies. This migration, which begins in Canada and
continues through the United States to Mexico, is the longest and most
amazing insect migration on Earth.
Buy Tickets to this exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History
Location: American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West and 79th Street
More information about this exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History
"A Sport for Every Girl" - Women and Sports in the Collection of Jefferson R. Burdick at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Date: Through July 14, 2013
Beginning in the late 1870s, tobacco producers
used inventive imagery of actresses, athletes, politicians, animals,
flags, and world capitals—to name only a few of the hundreds of
categories—to advertise their brands. The first to use printed images
was the New York–based company Allen & Ginter, whose 1887 series The
World's Champions was so popular that it was reproduced almost
immediately in expanded editions. Included in the first series of fifty
cards representing baseball players, pugilists, billiards players, and
oarsmen are a group of sharpshooters, among them Annie Oakley and her
patron for many years, Buffalo Bill Cody. As the only woman represented,
Oakley not only is unique as an athlete but also distinguishes herself
from other women shown in the same period, who are used as pretty and
often provocative props in series such as Parasol Drills, Fans of the
Period, Racing Colors of the World, and The World's Beauties.
Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street
Date: Ongoing
London Street Photography features images by over 70 photographers who have recorded fleeting moments in London, capturing the faces and lives of ordinary people who populate this complicated and ever-changing metropolis. The exhibition, organized by the Museum of London, where it brought in record crowds, features work by such notables as John Thomson, George Rodger, Bert Hardy, Roger Mayne, and Nick Turpin, as well as by countless anonymous photographers whose contributions have been just as important in recording the city. Through more than 150 striking images, London Street Photography traces two compelling histories: the development of the practice, aesthetics, and technology of street photography the course of a century and a half, and the simultaneous growth of a modern city.
Location: 1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd St.
Date: Through June 24, 2013
More than 20 sets of large-format images showcase the wide range of research being conducted at the Museum as well as how various optical tools are used in scientific studies. Whether Museum scientists are studying parasites, people, or planets in other solarsystems, cutting-edge imaging technologies such as infrared photography, scanning electron microscopes, and CT scanners now make it possible to examine details that were previously unobservable. This exhibition, curated by Mark Siddall, curator in the Division of Invertebrate Zoology, features more than 20 sets of large-format images that showcase the wide range of research being conducted at the Museum as well as how various optical tools are used in scientific studies.
Enjoy a Museum of Natural History Vacation Package
Location: American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West and 79th Street
More information about this exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History
Our Global Kitchen: Food, Nature, Culture at the American Museum of Natural History
Date: Through August 11, 2013
In the new exhibition Our Global Kitchen: Food, Nature, Culture,
the American Museum of Natural History explores the complex and
intricate food system that brings what we eat from farm to fork. In
sections devoted to growing, transporting, cooking, eating, tasting, and
celebrating, the exhibition illuminates the myriad ways that food is
produced and moved throughout the world. With opportunities to taste
seasonal treats in the working kitchen, cook a virtual meal, see rare
artifacts from the Museum's collection, and peek into the dining rooms
of famous figures throughout history, visitors will examine the
intersection of food, nature, culture, health, and history—and consider
some of the most challenging issues of our time. Our Global Kitchen will
answer such essential questions as: How does food reflect and influence
culture and identity? What’s the role of human ingenuity in shaping
food – past, present, and future? How does what we eat affect the
planet? Why is the diversity of food important? What’s the role of food
in human health? How does our sense of taste affect our food choices?
Location: American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West and 79th Street
More information about this exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History
Date: Ongoing exhibitions
Founded in 1804, the New-York Historical Society is New York's oldest museum. Now, we're the newest...so step inside, join the revolution, and discover how we're making history matter more than ever. The New-York Historical Society is the only museum in the metropolitan area where you will encounter acclaimed exhibitions that are part history lesson and part art exhibition. Buy tickets to the New-York Historical Society
Location: 170 Central Park West between 76th and 77th Street
More information about the New-York Historical Society
Date: Through September 2, 2013
Featuring
the Metropolitan's own holdings as well as loans from public and
private collections, the exhibition will include some forty wood
sculptures from West and Central Africa presented alongside photographs,
sculptures, and paintings by Alfred Stieglitz, Charles Sheeler, Pablo
Picasso, Francis Picabia, Diego Rivera, and Constantin Brancusi.
Together, these works of art from Africa and the Western avant-garde
will evoke the original context in which they were first experienced
simultaneously almost a century ago.
Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue at 82nd Street
Date: Ongoing
Through interviews, photographs and artifacts, this exhibition chronicles the role of the NYPD during the response to the attacks of September 11. Additionally, the museum is a collaborative partner for the Mutual Aid exhibit organized by the NYC Fire Museum and the Tribute Center. Location: 100 Old Slip
Date: Ongoing
Activist New York explores the drama of social activism in New York City from the 17th century right up to the present. In a town renowned for its in-your-face persona, citizens of the city have banded together on issues as diverse as historic preservation, civil rights, wages, sexual orientation, and religious freedom. Using artifacts, photographs, audio and visual presentations, as well as interactive components that seek to tell the entire story of activism in the five boroughs, Activist New York presents the passions and conflicts that underlie the city's history of agitation.
Location: 1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd St.
Date: Ongoing
The New York City Fire Museum offers a permanent memorial to the 343 FDNY responders who made the supreme sacrifice at the World Trade Center. A vigil will be held at the memorial around-the-clock beginning September 9, with an FDNY wreath-laying ceremony on September 11th. The Fire Museum is also presenting a special exhibit exploring the tradition of Mutual Aid within the fire service and its pivotal role in New York City's recovery, as well as additional artistic and cultural events.
Location: 278 Spring Street
Winged Tapestries: Moths at Large at the American Museum of Natural History
Date: Through September 29, 2013
Witness
the arresting beauty and surprising diversity of moths in a
presentation of more than 30 large-format prints by Canadian
photographer Jim des Rivières. Des Rivières creates these
larger-than-life images by scanning each moth at high resolution to
reveal unexpected colors and intricate patterns.
Location: American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West and 79th Street
More information about this exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History
Theodore Roosevelt Memorial and the Hall of North American Mammals Reopens
Date: Through October 27, 2013
On October 27, Theodore Roosevelt’s 154th birthday, the Museum
officially reopened the Theodore Roosevelt Memorial and the Hall of
North American Mammals, launching a year-long celebration of Roosevelt’s
love of nature and his instrumental role in the American conservation
movement, both inspired by his lifelong association with the Museum.
Designed by John Russell Pope and dedicated in 1936, the recently
restored two-story Memorial—which includes the Central Park West façade,
Theodore Roosevelt Rotunda, and Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Hall—serves
as New York State’s official memorial to its 33rd Governor and the
nation’s 26th President.
The
Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Hall includes a new exhibition charting
Roosevelt’s journey from budding naturalist to elected leader committed
to conservation.
Location: American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West and 79th Street
Highlighted New York City Events by Month
January
February
March