Vermeer, Rembrandt, and Hals at Frick Collection, Oct 2013 - Jan 2014. Free Friday nights

The Frick Collection is the final American venue of a global tour of paintings from the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis in The Hague, the Netherlands.
 While the prestigious Dutch museum undergoes an extensive two-year renovation, it is lending masterpieces that have not traveled in nearly thirty years.

The Frick will be open until 9:00 p.m. every Friday night during the show's presentation. The exhibition will be reserved for members only on the evenings of December 6, and January 3. The remaining Friday evenings will be open to the public free of charge from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Entrance to the exhibition on these special Friday evenings is on a first-come, first-served basis. Timed tickets are not required.
 All other time admission is $20.

WAITING FOR GODOT October 26, 2013 - March 2, 2014

Two old friends meet to converse, joke and argue with themselves as they wait through one day and then another for the mysterious Godot. The combination of music hall, poetry and tension redefined what is possible in theater, so that today Waiting for Godot is accepted as one of the most significant plays of the 20th century.

The Cort Theatre was built by and named for John Cort, general manager of the Northwestern Theatrical Association, a theatre circuit centered in Seattle with playhouses scattered throughout the western US and British Columbia. A fugitive from a vaudeville comedy team called Cort and Murphy, Cort moved from performing to management in the 1890s. The Shuberts acquired the theatre in 1927, two years before Cort’s death.

The Cort is the only surviving, still active, legitimate theatre designed by Thomas Lamb. Its classic exterior was inspired by the 18th century French Petit Trianon at Versailles. Architecture from the period of Louis XVI also inspired the interior. The lobby is constructed of Pavanozza marble with panels of Marie Antoinette plasterwork. The proscenium arch was constructed in perforated plaster treated with art glass that could be lit during performances; this arch still exists but is not operational today

Run time 2 hours and 30 minutes with one intermission. 

Cort Theatre

138 West 48th Street
Between 6th and 7th Avenues
New York, NY 10036

Vasily Kandinsky: From Blaue Reiter to the Bauhaus in Neue Galerie

Through Feb. 10

The Neue’s first show on Kandinsky centers on a rich 15-year period, also the purview of the Museum of Modern Art’s recent “Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925.”  During this time, Kandinsky shifted from the prismatic Expressionism of Der Blaue Reiter into pure abstraction and from easel paintings into set designs and murals.
Museum Hours :
Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday
 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. (closed Tuesday and Wednesday)

The Klimt Gallery and the Drawings will close at 4 p.m. on Monday, October 28.
The museum is located at the Southeast corner of Fifth Avenue
 and East 86th Street.

Admission  $20)
 November 1,December 6, and January 3 (the first Friday of every month)  the museum is open to the public free from 6 to 8 p.m.

Big Apple Circus, Oct 2013- Jan 2014

Linkoln Center
25 October2013-  - January 2014
It’s LUMINOCITY —celebrate the vitality of life at the Crossroads of the World! Catch the high-spirits and pulse-racing thrills of the World’s Greatest Circus Artists in one ring under our Big Top, where no seat is more than 50 feet from ringside! Watch rowdy pups perform amazing tricks, double trapeze artists soaring high above, a bashful clown, an irrepressible flimflam man, and a juggler extraordinaire; teeter-board acrobats flying through the air, a cavalcade of magnificent steeds, and a couple of amazing wire-walkers suspended in mid-air. The show runs two hours, including one intermission.
Buy tickets here

Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier in Brooklyn Museum, Oct 25, 2013-Feb 23, 2014

Brooklyn Museum, October 25, 2013-February 23, 2014
The Brooklyn Museum will be the only East Coast venue for The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk, the first international exhibition dedicated to the groundbreaking French couturier, organized by the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. 

The critically acclaimed touring show, already seen by half a million people, spans the Paris-based designer's 37-year career and includes iconic examples never before exhibited. The Brooklyn presentation will include new material not shown in the previous venues, including ensembles from his recent runway shows.  

Museum Hours:
Monday, Tuesday Closed 
Wednesday 11 a.m.–6 p.m. 
Thursday 11 a.m.–10 p.m. 
Friday, Saturday, Sunday 11 a.m.–6 p.m. 

First Saturday of the month  11 a.m.–11 p.m. 

Read more:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/10/24/my-friend-jean-paul-gaultier-by-dita-von-teese.html

Marc Chagall in Jewish Museum, September- February

Marc Chagall (1887–1985), one of the foremost modernists of the 20th century, created his unique style by drawing on elements from richly colored folk art motifs, the Russian Christian icon tradition, Cubism, and Surrealism.

 Beginning with the evocative paintings from his years in France, the exhibition illuminates an artist deeply responsive to the suffering inflicted by war—often expressed with Christian imagery—and to his own personal losses and intimate sorrows. The exhibition includes 31 paintings and 22 works on paper, as well as selected letters, poems, photos, and ephemera.
September 15, 2013 - February 2, 2014
Hours
Friday through Tuesday 11:00am - 5:45pm
Wednesday - Closed
Thursday - 11:00am - 8:00pm   
1109 5th Ave at 92nd StNY, NY 10128 
Adults: $15 Seniors/65 & over: $12 
Students: $ 7.5
18 and under: Free
Saturdays: Free 

Thursdays, 5:00-8:00pm: Pay-What-You-Wish 

Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary in MOMA. Sept 2013- Jan 2014

September 28, 2013–January 12, 2014
The Museum Of Modern Art,

Bringing together some 80 paintings, collages, and objects, along with a selection of photographs, periodicals, and early commercial work, the exhibition offers fresh insight into Magritte’s identity as a modern painter and Surrealist artist. A richly illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition.
Sunday 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
Monday 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
Tuesday 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
Wednesday 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
Thursday 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
Friday 10:30 a.m.–8:00 p.m.
Saturday 10:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m.
Admission is free for all visitors   every Friday evening from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m