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Tonight’s Music / West Village – Chelsea

Alton Fitzgerald White
Metropolitan Room, 34 W22nd st
212.206.0440, metropolitanroom.com
7 pm, $25, 2 Beverage Minimum

Alton Fitzgerald White, “MUFASA” In Disney’s THE LION KING on Broadway, Sings BROADWAY MY WAY.
Accompanied by Pianist Doyle Newmyer
The voice is magnificent! “Alton Fitzgerald White sings with smoky soulfulness,” says Variety Magazine. “Alton can sustain a note as if breathing were an optional activity,” says The New York Times. “Blessed with an irresistible smile and rich singing voice, Alton Fitzgerald White is completely charismatic,” says the Denver Post. “The timber of his voice is a throaty combination of honey over grave!” says the Seattle Post.

VANGUARD JAZZ ORCHESTRA
Village Vanguard, 178 7th Avenue South.
7th Avenue just below West 11th Street
8:30pm & 10:30pm, $25.00 per set plus a 1 drink minimum

Monday nights are reserved for the VANGUARD JAZZ ORCHESTRA. Established by Thad Jones and Mel Lewis, the Grammy-winning VJO has been playing Monday nights at the club since 1966.

Charnett Moffett: Solo Bass Recital 
Small’s Jazz Club, 183 W 10th st
7:30pm, $20

The virtuoso bassist Charnett Moffett will release his first solo bass CD, The Bridge (Solo Bass Works), tomorrow on April 9 on the multi-Grammy-nominated Motéma label in their 10th anniversary year. Moffett will celebrate The Bridge with Moffett Meets Manhattan: A Bassathon, an unprecedented series of solo live performances throughout New York City during the release week of April 8-14.

Before making final plans, we suggest you call the venue to confirm dates and check times, as schedules are subject to change.

A PremierPub and 3 Good Eating places – West Village

“Pub” is used in it’s broadest sense – bars, bar/restaurants, cocktail lounges, wine bars, tapas bars, craft beer bars, dive bars – just about anyplace you can get a drink without a cover charge.

Corner Bistro
331 W. 4th St.

Sometimes you just need a beer and a burger. If so, Corner Bistro is the place you want. Located just outside the hip Meatpacking district, this corner bar and grill is decidedly unhip, but it’s not uncrowded, especially at night. Seems that everyone knows this place has one of the better burgers in town.

In the maze of streets known as the West Village, where West 4th intersects with West 12th (and West 11th, and West 10th, go figure), you will eventually find Corner Bistro on the corner of West 4th and Jane Street. An unassuming neighborhood tavern, it looks just like dozens of other taverns around town. The bartender tells me that the Corner Bistro will be celebrating it’s 50th anniversary next year. The well worn interior tells me that the place itself is much older.

Corner Bistro has outlasted many of those other taverns around town because they know how to keep it simple — just good burgers and beer, fairly priced. The classic bistro Burger is only $6.75, and should be ordered medium rare, which will be plenty rare for most folks. Actually, it will be a juicy, messy delight – make sure you have extra napkins. I like to pull up a stool and sit by the large front window in the afternoon, where I can rest my burger and beer on the shelf, and watch the Villagers walk by.

Corner Bistro seems to attract very different groups of patrons depending on time of day. While it’s crowded with locals in the evening,  in the afternoon you hear different foreign languages, and watch groups of euro tourists wander in, led by their guidebooks and smartphones.

For the classic Bistro experience, order your burger with a McSorley’s draft, the dark preferably. This is the same beer that you can get over at the original McSorley’s in the East Village, the pub that claims to be the oldest continually operating bar in NYCity. The only difference is that this McSorley’s ale is served with a smile by the bartenders here. Or you  can get a Sierra Nevada, Stella, or Hoegaarden on tap if you want to go upscale a bit. Either way this is a simple, but quality burger and beer experience that is just too rare these days (sorry for the pun).

Top Events / WestSide

Macy’s Flower Show
Macy’s Herald Square
151 W. 34th St.
phone: 212-695-4400|
“Outside in Broadway Plaza, beautifully bright floral arrangements will channel South Asia for this year’s Macy’s Flower Show, The Painted Garden. Guests will be treated to such sights as a ceremony-ready elephant draped in jewel-toned flowers, brightly colored tree trunks and “bouquets of the day” from talented florists. Special events including live music, kids’ activities and seminars will also take place throughout the show. For more information and a full schedule of events, visit macys.com. (nycgo.com)” LAST DAY.

New York International Auto Show
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, 655 West 34th Street,
(212) 216-2000,   autoshowny.com.
Automotive extravaganza. Regular show hours are daily from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., except Sunday when the hours are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tickets range from $15 for daily admission ($5 for those 12 and younger) to $35 for an early-access pass. LAST DAY.

 John Singer Sargent Watercolors
Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, at Prospect Park
718-638-5000, brooklynmuseum.org

“The exhibition brings together 93 of his watercolors and 9 oil paintings from the Brooklyn Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Both institutions acquired significant quantities of his work early on, the Brooklyn Museum from Sargent’s career debut show in New York in 1909 and the Boston museum from a solo show there in 1912.

The beauty of Sargent’s watercolors is in how seemingly effortlessly yet exactly he captured outdoor light and complicated man-made and natural forms. In landscapes, close studies of fruit and flowers and portraits of women you see at once the supremely deft action of the brush and the illusions of a sun-drenched halcyon world that it conjures. Prepare for bedazzlement. (KEN JOHNSON) NYT”

Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company
Joyce Theater
2 and 8 p.m, $10 to $69
175 Eighth Avenue, at West 19th Street
(212) 242-0800 / joyce.org

‘The company celebrates its 30th anniversary with “Play and Play: An Evening of Movement and Music,” two programs that highlight the interplay between dancers and musicians, accompanied live by the Orion String Quartet. Program A features some of Mr. Jones’s classics, including “D-Man in the Waters” and the exhilarating “Continuous Replay.” Program B offers two new dances closely tied to their scores: “Ravel: Landscape or Portrait?” and “Story,” set to Franz Schubert. — SIOBHAN BURKE, NYT”

Monterey on Tour
Blue Note, 131 West Third Street, Greenwich Village,
At 8 and 10:30 p.m., $45 at tables or $30 at the bar
475-8592,  bluenote.net;

“Conceived as a 55th-anniversary celebration for the Monterey Jazz Festival, this all-star package has been barnstorming the country almost without pause since early January — an impressive fact made all the more so by the stature of the personnel, who could have found other things to do. Along with the bassist Christian McBride, serving as musical director, the group features the singer Dee Dee Bridgewater, the trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire, the saxophonist Chris Potter, the pianist Benny Green and the drummer Lewis Nash. (Chinen) NYT”

Enrico Pieranunzi Trio
Village Vanguard, 178 Seventh Avenue South, at 11th Street,
At 9 and 11 p.m., $25 cover, with a $10 minimum.
(212) 255-4037, villagevanguard.com

“Enrico Pieranunzi is one of the leading jazz pianists in Italy, a careful rhapsodist with a more than casual appreciation of the Bill Evans style. His partners for this engagement are the bassist Marc Johnson and the drummer Joe LaBarbera, former members of Evans’s acclaimed last trio, which recorded memorably in this room.  (Chinen) NYT”

Before making final plans, we suggest you call the venue to confirm dates and check times, as schedules are subject to change.

Top Events / WestSide

Macy’s Flower Show
Macy’s Herald Square
151 W. 34th St.
phone: 212-695-4400|
“Outside in Broadway Plaza, beautifully bright floral arrangements will channel South Asia for this year’s Macy’s Flower Show, The Painted Garden. Guests will be treated to such sights as a ceremony-ready elephant draped in jewel-toned flowers, brightly colored tree trunks and “bouquets of the day” from talented florists. Special events including live music, kids’ activities and seminars will also take place throughout the show. For more information and a full schedule of events, visit macys.com. (nycgo.com)”

New York International Auto Show
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, 655 West 34th Street,
(212) 216-2000,   autoshowny.com.
Automotive extravaganza. Regular show hours are daily from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., except Sunday when the hours are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tickets range from $15 for daily admission ($5 for those 12 and younger) to $35 for an early-access pass.

Wycliffe Gordon Big Band: Within Our Gates
Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway, at West 95th Street
8 p.m. $45, $38 for members, $15 for 30 and under
(212) 864-5400, symphonyspace.org
“About a dozen years ago Mr. Gordon, a jocular trombonist then in the ranks of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, presented his first work for big band, as a soundtrack to the 1925 silent film “Body and Soul,” by Oscar Micheaux. So this concert is a sequel of sorts, involving “Within Our Gates,” an earlier and more pointed Micheaux film, for a large ensemble with three vocalists (including Mr. Gordon himself). The concert is a cornerstone of the Harlem Resonance festival at Symphony Space, which runs through May 11. — NATE CHINEN, NYT”

Gwen Welliver
New York Live Arts, 219 West 19th Street, Chelsea
At 7:30 p.m.; $15 to $20, $16 for students and 65+.
(212) 924-0077, newyorklivearts.org
“Ms. Welliver is that rare choreographer who can make the simplest motions seem inexplicably resonant: fingertips tracing an arc through space; a knee lifting at a 90-degree angle. That quality should be even more pronounced when she performs with the wonderful cast she’s assembled for her new work, “Beasts and Plots”: Julia Burrer, Beth Gill, Kayvon Pourazar and Stuart Singer. It sounds as if there will be some elements of fantasy too: the publicity materials say “Beasts” is “a semi-narrative work that explores the outline of a woman’s body, a death and the idea of a unicorn.” (Burke) NYT”

Monterey on Tour
Blue Note, 131 West Third Street, Greenwich Village,
At 8 and 10:30 p.m., $45 at tables or $30 at the bar
475-8592,  bluenote.net;
“Conceived as a 55th-anniversary celebration for the Monterey Jazz Festival, this all-star package has been barnstorming the country almost without pause since early January — an impressive fact made all the more so by the stature of the personnel, who could have found other things to do. Along with the bassist Christian McBride, serving as musical director, the group features the singer Dee Dee Bridgewater, the trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire, the saxophonist Chris Potter, the pianist Benny Green and the drummer Lewis Nash. (Chinen) NYT”

Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company
Joyce Theater
2 and 8 p.m, $10 to $69
175 Eighth Avenue, at West 19th Street
(212) 242-0800 / joyce.org
‘The company celebrates its 30th anniversary with “Play and Play: An Evening of Movement and Music,” two programs that highlight the interplay between dancers and musicians, accompanied live by the Orion String Quartet. Program A features some of Mr. Jones’s classics, including “D-Man in the Waters” and the exhilarating “Continuous Replay.” Program B offers two new dances closely tied to their scores: “Ravel: Landscape or Portrait?” and “Story,” set to Franz Schubert. — SIOBHAN BURKE, NYT”

Before making final plans, we suggest you call the venue to confirm dates and check times, as schedules are subject to change.

SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS @ 3 MUSEUMS:
(Museum Mile & other Fifth Avenue area Museums)

‘The Path of Nature: French Paintings from the Wheelock Whitney Collection, 1785-1850’ (through April 21)
“Impressionism, Fashion and Modernity” (through May 27)
“African Art, New York, and the Avant-Garde” (through Sept. 2)
Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1000 5th Ave,@ 82nd street /
(212) 535-7710, metmuseum.org

“Zarina: Paper Like Skin” (through April 21)
“Gutai: Splendid Playground” (through May 8)
“No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia” (through May 22)
 “The Hugo Boss Prize 2012: Danh Vo’” (through May 27)
Guggenheim Museum: 1071 Fifth Avenue, at 89th Street, /
(212) 423-3500, guggenheim.org.

“Drawing Surrealism” (through April 21)
“Degas, Miss La La and the Cirque Fernando” (through May 12)
Morgan Library & Museum: 225 Madison Avenue, at 36th Street, /
(212) 685-0008, themorgan.org.

Tonight’s Music & Film / Upper West Side

‘Juilliard Dances Repertory’
Peter Jay Sharp Theater, 155 West 65th Street,
Lincoln Center
at 8 p.m; $30, $15 for students and 65+.
(212) 721-6500, juilliard.edu
“Juilliard’s end-of-semester concert always inspires a certain measure of awe, as you realize that the immensely sophisticated performers in front of you are still in college. The conservatory’s current crop of dance prodigies performs repertory works by Murray Louis (“Four Brubeck Pieces”), Paul Taylor (“Sunset”) and William Forsythe (“One Flat Thing, reproduced”), accompanied live by their peers from the music division. (Burke) NYT”

New York African Film Festival
Walter Reade Theater, 165 West 65th Street, and the Elinor Bunin Munroe Film Center, 144 West 65th Street
$13, $9 for students, $8 for members.
For films & screenings:
(212) 875-5601, africanfilmny.org

Gregory Generet
“No longer just subbing for Gregory Porter, who is on an extended world tour throughout 2012, jazz vocalist Gregory Generet has turned Thursday nights into a top destination at Smoke. “Mr. Generet is a crooner in the tradition of Billy Eckstine and Johnny Hartman…(with) a voice so sultry you might get burned” –New York Times, 2012” 
Gregory Generet (voice) • Mark Gross (saxophone) • Willerm Delisfort (piano) • Gerald Cannon (bass) • Lawrence Leathers (drums)

Smoke Jazz Club, 2751 Broadway, (btw 105/106th st)
7pm & 9pm / no music charge
10:30pm $20 minimum (dinner optional) / no music charge
(212) 864-6662 / http://www.smokejazz.com

Before making final plans, we suggest you call the venue to confirm dates and check times, as schedules are subject to change.

A PremierPub and 3 Good Eating places – Upper West Side

“Pub” is used in it’s broadest sense – bars, bar/restaurants, wine bars, cocktail lounges,  tapas bars, craft beer bars, dive bars – just about anyplace you can get a drink without a cover charge.

Dinosaur
700 W125th st @ 12th ave

Walk only five minutes from the 125th st. station on the #1 line to find this authentic honky-tonk barbecue joint. Some folks think Dinosaur is just a place to eat ribs. Au contraire. With 24 carefully selected taps, this is a place to drink beer, and eat ribs.

No food goes better with American craft ales than American barbecue. Dinosaur may be the best combo of good beer drinking and hearty eating in town, which makes the trip to Harlem totally worthwhile.

This second incarnation of Dinosaur in Harlem is in an old brick warehouse near the Hudson River. Don’t let that run down exterior fool you. Inside it’s a large space with huge, rough wooden columns and unfinished wooden floors and brick walls – just right for a bbq joint. As soon as you open the door you are hit with that tantalizing aroma of barbecue coming from the large open kitchen. Reminds me of all those great rib joints I frequented when stationed in North Carolina all those years ago. If your stomach wasn’t grumbling before, it is now.

Head to the bar, sit down and try to decide on a beer. It’s not an easy decision – a good problem to have. This is a pretty damn good beer list to choose from, one that most beer bars should be jealous of. I love that they feature NY craft beers. You may want to try the four beer sampler, which is always fun, and in this place may be necessary.

The Mississippi blues music playing in the background will get you in the mood for their North Carolina style barbecue, and even when it’s a full house your order shouldn’t take too long. The food is all slow smoked, so it’s already mostly done and ready to go. I always start with an order of their giant, spice rubbed wings, so good they may make you give up Buffalo wings.

Unfortunately, a place this good does not fly under the radar. There can be some humongous waits at dinnertime. So you need a strategy – avoid prime time, and try not to arrive with your entire posse, which will limit your seating options.

A seat at the bar, a small table in the bar area, or in the summer, an outside table, underneath what’s left of the elevated W. Side Hwy., all may open before a table inside the main dining room. Otherwise, try Dinosaur for lunch, or come very early or late for dinner.

Website: http://www.dinosaurbarbque.com/
Phone #: 212-694-1777
Hours: M-Th 11:30am-11:00pm; Fr-Sa 11:30am-12:00am;
Su 12:00pm-10:00pm
Happy Hour: 4-7pm every day; $1 off all drinks
Music: Fri / Sat 10:00pm
Subway: #1 to 125th st
Walk 2 blk W on 125th to Dinosaur Bar-B-Q,
just past the elevated highway

TOP EVENTS / WEST SIDE

New York Public Library: ‘Celebrating 50 Years of the New York Review of Books: The Future of Literary Journalism’
Stephen A. Schwarzman Building, New York Public Library
At 7 p.m., FREE, but reservations are necessary and can be made online at tinyurl.com/cauyhmr.

This discussion, co-sponsored by The New York Review of Books, features a panel of scholars and writers who have written for the publication, including Ian Buruma, Andrew Delbanco, Alma Guillermoprieto and Zoë Heller. The moderators will be Robert Silvers, co-founding editor, with Barbara Epstein, of the Review, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author Joseph Lelyveld, who is a former executive editor of The New York Times.

Art Talk: David Smith
National Academy Museum, 1083 Fifth Avenue, at 89th Street
At 6:30 p.m., $15, $10 for students, free for members
(212) 369-4880, Ext. 201, nationalacademy.org;

The career and artwork of the American sculptor David Smith — in particular, the pieces he created while in Italy during the early 1960s — are the subjects of a talk by Michael Brenson, an art critic, historian and writer. Mr. Brenson, who was an art critic for The New York Times from the early 1980s to the early 1990s, is writing a biography of Mr. Smith, who died in 1965 at 59.

New York International Auto Show
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, 655 West 34th Street, (212) 216-2000,   autoshowny.com.

Automotive extravaganza. Regular show hours are daily from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., except Sunday when the hours are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tickets range from $15 for daily admission ($5 for those 12 and younger) to $35 for an early-access pass.

Diva Jazz Orchestra 
Iridium Jazz Club, 1650 Broadway, at 51st Street,
8 and 10 p.m., $30 cover, with a $10 minimum.
(212) 582-2121,    theiridium.com

“This all-female big band, led by the drummer Sherrie Maricle, is celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2013 — notably with this engagement, part of Todd Barkan’s Keystone Korner Nights series. (Chinen) NYT”

Monterey on Tour
Blue Note, 131 West Third Street, Greenwich Village,
At 8 and 10:30 p.m., $45 at tables or $30 at the bar
475-8592,  bluenote.net;

“Conceived as a 55th-anniversary celebration for the Monterey Jazz Festival, this all-star package has been barnstorming the country almost without pause since early January — an impressive fact made all the more so by the stature of the personnel, who could have found other things to do. Along with the bassist Christian McBride, serving as musical director, the group features the singer Dee Dee Bridgewater, the trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire, the saxophonist Chris Potter, the pianist Benny Green and the drummer Lewis Nash. (Chinen) NYT”

Enrico Pieranunzi Trio
Village Vanguard, 178 Seventh Avenue South, at 11th Street,
At 9 and 11 p.m., $25 cover, with a $10 minimum.
(212) 255-4037, villagevanguard.com

“Enrico Pieranunzi is one of the leading jazz pianists in Italy, a careful rhapsodist with a more than casual appreciation of the Bill Evans style. His partners for this engagement are the bassist Marc Johnson and the drummer Joe LaBarbera, former members of Evans’s acclaimed last trio, which recorded memorably in this room.  (Chinen) NYT”

Before making final plans, we suggest you call the venue to confirm dates and check times,
as schedules are subject to change.

SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS @ 3 Museums & Galleries: 
(WestSide Manhattan)

‘Edvard Munch: The Scream’ (through April 29)
‘Inventing Abstraction: 1910-1925’ (through April 15)
‘Artist’s Choice: Trisha Donnelly’ (through April 8)
‘Projects 99: Meiro Koizumi’ (through May 6)
‘Bill Brandt: Shadow and Light’ (through Aug. 12)
Museum of Modern Art:11 W 53rd St, / (212) 708-9400 / moma.org.

‘Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg’ (through April 6)
Grey Art Gallery: New York University, 100 Washington Square East, Greenwich Village / (212) 998-6780 / nyu.edu/greyart.

‘Jean-Michel Basquiat’ (through April 6)
Gagosian Gallery: 555 West 24th Street (btw 10th/11th ave)
212-741-1111 / gagosian.com

Tonight’s Music  / Greenwich Village

Top Events / WestSide

New York International Auto Show
Jacob K. Javits Convention Center
Daily from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., except Sunday when the hours are 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
$15 for daily admission ($5 for those 12 and younger) to $35 for an early-access pass
655 West 34th Street, at 11th Avenue
(212) 216-2000 / autoshowny.com
“March 30 is the official opening day for this automotive extravaganza, but a preview is available on March 29, beginning at 9 a.m. Regular show hours are Saturday and Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Tickets range from $15 for daily admission ($5 for those 12 and younger) to $35 for a early access pass. — ANNE MANCUSO, NYT”

American Museum of Natural History: ‘Whales: Giants of the Deep’
American Museum of Natural History
Daily from 10 a.m. to 5:45 p.m.
$25; $19 for students and 60+ and $14.50 for children 12 and under.
Central Park West, enter at West 79th Street
(212) 769-5200, amnh.org
‘This interactive exhibition covering the world of the giant mammals, in context to humans and other animals, will be on display through Jan. 5.  Timed tickets are necessary for the exhibition. — ANNE MANCUSO, NYT”

Dan Weiss, Eivind Opsvik, Jacob Sacks
55 Bar, 55 Christopher Street, West Village,
(212) 929-9883, 55bar.com;
At 10 p.m., $10, with a two-drink minimum.
“Dan Weiss is a drummer of adaptable flow and microscopic focus, as he has shown in a range of instrumental settings. In this one he’s the first among equals: Mr. Opsvik, a bassist, and Mr. Sacks, a pianist, are his regular partners in a band led by the alto saxophonist David Binney, a semi-regular feature of this room.  (Chinen). NYT”

‘Dancing the Rite of Spring at 100’
Julius S. Held Lecture Hall, Barnard College, 304 Barnard Hall, Barnard College, 3009 Broadway, north of 116th Street,
At 7 p.m., FREE
212.854.5262,   barnard.edu/events
“The Rite of Spring has stirred controversy ever since the composer Igor Stravinsky and the choreographer Vaslav Nijinsky brought it to the stage 100 years ago in Paris. This spring, to mark the centenary of the premiere, dancers who appeared in four of the work’s more than 200 versions will share their experiences of reinventing an avant-garde classic with Barnard professor of dance Lynn Garafola.  The evening will spotlight Millicent Hodson’s recreation of Nijinsky’s original for the Joffrey Ballet along with versions by the choreographers Pina Bausch, Shen Wei, and Molissa Fenley”
Barnard College site

Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company
Joyce Theater
2 and 8 p.m, $10 to $69
175 Eighth Avenue, at West 19th Street
(212) 242-0800 / joyce.org
‘The company celebrates its 30th anniversary with “Play and Play: An Evening of Movement and Music,” two programs that highlight the interplay between dancers and musicians, accompanied live by the Orion String Quartet. Program A features some of Mr. Jones’s classics, including “D-Man in the Waters” and the exhilarating “Continuous Replay.” Program B offers two new dances closely tied to their scores: “Ravel: Landscape or Portrait?” and “Story,” set to Franz Schubert. — SIOBHAN BURKE, NYT”

Before making final plans, we suggest you call the venue to confirm dates and check times,
as schedules are subject to change.

SPECIAL EXHIBITIONS @ 3 MUSEUMS:
(Museum Mile & other Fifth Avenue area Museums)

‘The Path of Nature: French Paintings from the Wheelock Whitney Collection, 1785-1850’ (through April 21)
“Impressionism, Fashion and Modernity” (through May 27)
“African Art, New York, and the Avant-Garde” (through Sept. 2)
Metropolitan Museum of Art: 1000 5th Ave,@ 82nd street / (212) 535-7710, metmuseum.org

 “Zarina: Paper Like Skin” (through April 21)
“Gutai: Splendid Playground” (through May 8)
“No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia” (through May 22)
 “The Hugo Boss Prize 2012: Danh Vo’” (through May 27)
Guggenheim Museum: 1071 Fifth Avenue, at 89th Street, / (212) 423-3500, guggenheim.org.

“Drawing Surrealism” (through April 21)
“Degas, Miss La La and the Cirque Fernando” (through May 12)
Morgan Library & Museum: 225 Madison Avenue, at 36th Street, / (212) 685-0008, themorgan.org.