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November 24–November 30, 2013
1/ From Book to Screen to Broadway — Big Fish: A Conversation with the Creative Team
A conversation and performances from the creative team and cast from the new Broadway musical Big Fish.
When: Sunday, November 24, 2013, 7:30pm
Where: 92nd Street Y, Buttenwieser Hall, 92nd Street, NYC
Price: $29 general public
2/ The New York Nobody Knows
William Helmreich walked every block of all five boroughs to get to know and understand our town and wrote a book about his journey. Find out what motivated him to do this and what sights and sounds he found in Queens.
When: Monday, November 25, 2013, 5pm-6:15pm
Where: Queens Library, 20-12 Madison Street, Ridgewood, Queens, NY
Price: Free and open to the public
3/ The American Algorists: Linear Sublime
The MFA Computer Art Department at the School of Visual Arts (SVA), in partnership with the New York Digital Salon (NYDS), presents The American Algorists: Linear Sublime an exhibition exploring the elegance that can be achieved with a line through the use of programming a computer and printing the work on paper with plotters, inkjet printers or other media.
When: On display through Wednesday, November 27, 2013
Where: SVA Flatiron Gallery, 133 West 21st Street, NYC
Price: Free and open to the public
4/ The Collection of Michael Maslin and Liza Donnelly
Michael Maslin and Liza Donnelly, long-time contributors to The New Yorker Magazine, are also huge fans of the magazine’s cartoons, past and present. For over thirty years they have been collecting cartoons by New Yorker artists any way they can (gifts, ebay purchases, auctions, and as trades with their contemporaries). This exhibit represents the decades-long obsession with works by such cartoon luminaries from the magazine’s past as James Thurber, Gluyas Williams, and Helen Hokinson and present: Jack Ziegler, Roz Chast, Bob Mankoff, Mick Stevens, Drew Dernavich, Zachary Kanin, Barbara Smaller.
When: On display through December 21, 2013
Where: Society of Illustrators, 128 East 63rd Street, NYC
Price: Free and open to the public