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PAGES 19-25 “Battle of Lights, Coney Island, Mardi Gras” by Joseph Stella / BROOKLYN MUSEUM FALL ARTS GUIDE “Battle of Lights, Coney Island, Mardi Gras” by Joseph Stella BROOKLYN MUSEUM www.metro.us Weekend, September 18 - 20 , 2015 FALL ARTS GUIDE 20 “I am completely enchanted.” —Her Royal Highness Princess Michael of Kent “One: Number 31, 1950” by Jackson Pollock JOHN WRONN |MOMA Fall’s most exciting art exhibitions Get ready for Jackson Pollock at MoMA. Plus, Jazz Age glamour, Coney Island kitsch and animated joy from Pixar. RAQUEL LANERI painting, drawing, collage, A Grand Night [email protected] photography, architecture, fi lm and fashion exploring this to Remember... The beaches may be closed for politically volatile and culturally the season, but there are plenty rich period in Germany’s notori- of other ways to escape the ous capital city. Don’t just settle for an metropolis without ever leav- THE NEUE GALERIE, 1048 FIFTH AVE, ing. The biggest art institutions OCT. 1 - JAN. 4, 2016 ordinary night out— are stepping up to the plate, make it memorable. transporting us to Jazz Age Archibald Motley: Shen Yun Symphony Paris, Weimar-era Berlin and even Coney Island. Jazz Age Modernist Orchestra brings togeth- One of the most important art- er the greatest musical ists of the Harlem Renaissance, Berlin Metropolis: by way of Chicago, Archibald traditions of East and 1918-1933 West. Original music in- erhu pipa Motley gets a long overdue The Neue Galerie, devoted to NYC retrospective. The Whitney spired by ancient China. German and Austrian modern spotlights 40 of the painter’s World-renowned Chinese tenors and sopra- art, has mounted a few exhibi- vibrant depictions of black life nos. Celebrated classics from Tchaikovsky, tions on Weimar-era Berlin, during the 1920s and ’30s, and each has been spectacular. from classical portraits to Paris Sarasate, and more. Don’t miss the most So expect great things from its nightclub scenes. THE WHITNEY MU- uplift ing concert experience this year. latest: a survey bursting with SEUM OF AMERICAN ART, 99 GANSEVOORT more than 300 works spanning STREET, OCT. 22 - JAN. 17, 2016 Experience Shen Yun music at shenyun.com/symphony Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage at Carnegie Hall Saturday, October 10 | 2PM & 8PM ShenYun.com/symphony/nyc 800-818-2393 Box Offi ce at 57th & Seventh 212-247-7800 Tickets: $118, $108, $98, $78, $58, $38 “Tongues (Holy Rollers)” by Archibald J. Motley, Jr., 1929 WHITNEY MUSEUM Embroidered Coat, ca. 1920 THE NEUE GALERIE FALL ARTS GUIDE 21 Coney Island: Visions of an American Dreamland Miss summer? Escape the late-fall chill at the Brook- lyn Museum’s Coney Island exhibition, which will feature 140 paintings, photographs and other objects exploring the history of this people’s playground, from modernist art to sideshow curios. THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM, 200 EASTERN PARKWAY, On View BROOKLYN NOV. 20 - MARCH 13, 2016 Jackson Pollock: A Collection Survey, 1934–1954 It’s a Jackson Pollock survey. At MoMA. Need more? Fifty works will be on display, including the radical artist’s iconic drip paint- ings as well as lesser-known drawings and prints. Start lining up for tickets now. THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, 11 WEST 53 STREET, NOV. 22 - MARCH 13, 2016 “Coney Island Embrace,” New York City, 1938, by Morris Engel BROOKLYN MUSEUM The Wrath of the Gods: Masterpieces by Rubens, Michelangelo, and Titian Through December 6 Opening Soon Robert Kondo, Remy in the Kitchen, “Ratatouille,” 2007. Digital painting. Pixar breaks out of the screen The Cooper feature never-before-seen Central to Pixar’s paintings, sketches and design process is research Hewitt brings three-dimensional models and prototyping, from that show how the fi lms visiting thousands of animation into the — and the characters and trash heaps in order to museum. worlds in them — evolve render the postapocalyp- and get made. (Check out tic world of “Wall-E” in a those early, very weird believable way, to getting Audubon to Warhol: Work on What You Love: Get ready, Pixar fans sketches of Woody the the bounce of “Brave” Art of American Still Life Bruce Mau Rethinking Design (that’s everyone, right?): Cowboy!) heroine Merida’s fl ame- Opens October 27 Opens November 21 The Smithsonian’s Cooper “Animation is highly haired curls just right. Hewitt, housed in Andrew designed, particularly Yet, visitors will see Carnegie’s stately 1902 today,” says exhibition how even the most manse uptown, is mount- curator Cara McCarty. minute details serve For a full list of generous donors to the exhibitions listed here, visit us online. ing an exhibition devoted “Most people don’t think a narrative, and emo- philamuseum.org to the studio that has of it that way, but the tional, purpose. “Those brought us such contem- way Pixar operates and curls defi ned Merida’s porary classics as “Toy the kinds of language its character — the way Open Late Story,” “Finding Nemo” animators use is not that they move reinforces her and “Inside Out.” diff erent from, say, the personality,” says McCarty. Wednesday & Friday Nights “Pixar: The Design way a car manufacturer or “After working on the until 8:45 p.m. of Story,” which opens a fl atware designer refi ne, exhibition, I look at their Prometheus Bound (detail), begun c. 1611-12, completed by 1618, by Peter Paul Rubens and Frans Snyders (Purchased with the W. Oct. 2 at the museum’s innovate and sell their fi lms now in very diff erent P. Wilstach Fund, W1950-3-1); Carolina Parrot (detail), from The Birds of America, c. 1828, by John James Audubon (Virginia Museum new Process Lab, will products.” way.” RL of Fine Arts, Richmond: Gift of Alma and Harry Coon) © Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; photo: Travis Fullerton; 24HRS2MC buttons (detail), 2015, by Bruce Mau. www.metro.us Weekend, September 18 - 20 , 2015 FALL ARTS GUIDE 22 If you go Re-‘Awakening’ “Spring Awakening” Sept. 27-Jan. 9 A cult-hit musical time they’ll be able to expe- and the lack thereof. Brooks Atkinson Theatre rience a Broadway musical. “It highlights the perils 256 W. 46th St. returns to “I’ve been a fan of of not telling our children $49-$139 ‘Spring Awakening’ since the truth,” he says. “Its www.springawakeningth- Broadway — in a I attended the very first themes are as relevant The story emusical.com production for the preview at the Atlantic now as [when the play that Theater Company in 2006. inspired the musical was In 2006, Duncan Sheik’s hearing-impaired. I think it’s such an impor- written in 1891]. Our world “Spring Awakening” quickly tant work,” says director is in great need of better became a cult classic in the Michael Arden. “I’m hop- communication.” vein of “Rent,” similarly T. MICHELLE MURPHY ing that this production is Not only does this pro- using an alt-rock score to @TMichelleMurphy able to not only bring this duction provide a service [email protected] distill the frustrations of a story to deaf and hard-of- for modern audiences to generation. An adaptation hearing audiences, but that understand the beloved of Frank Wedekind’s 1891 “Spring Awakening” is it will bring a better un- musical in a new way, it German play, the musical bursting back onto the derstanding of the piece to also provides an important is a parable of innocence Broadway scene, in a re- hearing audiences as well.” opportunity for deaf actors. lost as schoolchildren begin vival that’s been rocking Arden knows firsthand “It’s my hope that it to question the lies their critics and audiences alike the value of transferring will bring greater aware- parents tell. since Deaf West Theatre this show to New York: He ness to the incredible debuted it last year in Cali- played Tom Sawyer in Deaf talent often overlooked fornia. West’s 2003 production of in this industry,” Arden embrace change. What makes this pro- “Big River,” which went on explains. “I firmly believe “It’s a big bridge we duction stand out, how- to win a Tony Award for what might be seen as have to build in terms ever, is that many of its ac- theatrical excellence. ‘disability’ is often our of making theater more tors are hearing-impaired Even so, it’s taken more greatest ability.” accessible,” Arden says, and the entire libretto is than a decade for the com- Opening Sept. 27 for a “but if anyone leaves the simultaneously sung and pany to find its way back to strictly limited run, this theater more equipped to signed in American Sign Broadway. Arden believes adaptation will have just start a conversation with Language. this particular show is an 18 weeks to make a last- someone they might not For many hard-of-hear- ideal vessel, since it’s all ing mark on an industry have before, we’ve done ing, this will be the first about communication — that’s notoriously slow to our work.” An actor performs “Spring Awakening” in Sign Language.