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SUNDAY | FEBRUARY 28 | 2:00 PM
Only in New York: Book Talk
Join the New York Times' Urban Affairs Correspondent Sam Roberts, author of Only in New York: An Exploration of the World's Most Fascinating, Frustrating and Irrepressible City (St. Martin's Press, 2009), as he explores what makes New York City unique. He will investigate riddles of urban life such as: Why do we have doormen? Is it noisier in the city or in the country? Are New Yorkers really as liberal as the rest of the country thinks they are? Why wasn’t Manhattan's street grid oriented by the points of the compass? Presented in conjunction with Only in New York: Photographs from LOOK Magazine. FREE with Museum admission!
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TUESDAY | MARCH 2 | 6:00 PM
Celebrating New York City's Mosaic
Gino Sitson Quartet
Join award-winning New York-based vocal virtuoso Gino Sitson, from the Beamlike region of Cameroon, for a special evening performance. Sitson is a pioneer in incorporating African polyphonic techniques into the improvisational jazz vocal tradition. Through his vocal wizardry and four octaves, he creates an endless range of stunning sounds. He freely combines his trademark vocal acrobatics with astonishingly creative body percussions and miscellaneous effects, turning the body and the voice into an endless musical resource. FREE! Reservations required; call 917.492.3395.
SUNDAY | MARCH 7 | 3:00 PM
Charles Addams's New York: Gallery Tour
Tour the Museum's newest exhibition, Charles Addams's New York, with Sarah Henry, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, and Kevin Miserocchi, Director of the Tee and Charles Addams Foundation. The exhibition features original artworks by the legendary New Yorker cartoonist that capture Addams's quintessentially idiosyncratic and slyly subversive view of the city, depicting his signature macabre characters, twisted situations, and distorted reimaginings of the cityscape. FREE with Museum admission!
TUESDAY | MARCH 16 | 6:30 PM
The Addams Family: An Evilution
The Addams Family: An Evilution (Pomegranate, March 2010) traces the history of the characters that became known as the "Addams Family," presenting more than 200 cartoons created by Charles Addams (1912-1988), many of them never before published. Join author Kevin Miserocchi, Director of the Tee and Charles Addams Foundation, for an illustrated lecture featuring work from the Foundation's new publication, as well as a discussion of the "evilution" of the Addams Family as they developed as mainstays of Addams's cartoons. Presented in conjunction with the Museum's newest exhibition, Charles Addams's New York. Book signing follows. Reservations required. $
RESERVE TICKETS
Reserve online at www.mcny.org or by telephone at 917.492.3395.
DIRECTIONS
By subway: #6 Lexington Avenue train to 103rd St., then walk three blocks west. #2 or #3 train to Central Park North/110th St., walk one block east to Fifth Avenue, then south to 103rd St. By bus: M1, M3, M4, or M106 to 104th St., M2 to 101st St.
