Tonight, Share Our Strength’s Taste of the Nation benefit is at the Metropolitan Pavilion, and the Museum of the City of New York presents its Historic Business award at the museum. Thursday, the Frick Collection benefits from a preview of the International Fine Art Fair at the Park Avenue Armory (the fair opens Friday and runs through Wednesday). Also on Thursday the Bicycle Film Festival kicks off its schedule of bike-theme movies at Anthology Film Archives. The festival runs through Sunday, with a bike parade from Madison Square Park to the film center.
On Saturday Dia: Beacon holds its spring gala at the art center, and the Long Island City Cultural Alliance starts a weekend of tours, musical performances, and workshops at venues including the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, the Noguchi Museum, the Museum for African Art, and the American Museum of the Moving Image. The International Contemporary Furniture Fair (one of our Top 100 Events) begins Saturday, when its opening night party returns to the Museum of Modern Art. The show dominates the Javits Center until Tuesday. A new competing show—the I Saloni Worldwide fair, a New York presentation of the influential Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan—will run on Piers 90 and 92 of the Show Piers on the Hudson Friday through Tuesday. And the independent design fair Downtown also presents exhibitors Saturday through Monday at Drive In Studios. Also at Javits is the National Stationery Show from Sunday through Wednesday. Sunday the AIDS Walk New York begins and ends in Central Park.
Next week is Upfront Week, when the major television networks woo advertisers with their big sales presentations. NBC kicks off the roster on Monday with its pitch at Radio City Music Hall and a party at Rockefeller Center. On Tuesday, ABC gets its turn, at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall with a party at nearby Damrosch Park, and Telemundo presents at Jazz at Lincoln Center, which also serves as the site for its reception. The WB also holds its sales presentation Tuesday, at Madison Square Garden.
Posted 05.11.05
On Saturday Dia: Beacon holds its spring gala at the art center, and the Long Island City Cultural Alliance starts a weekend of tours, musical performances, and workshops at venues including the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, the Noguchi Museum, the Museum for African Art, and the American Museum of the Moving Image. The International Contemporary Furniture Fair (one of our Top 100 Events) begins Saturday, when its opening night party returns to the Museum of Modern Art. The show dominates the Javits Center until Tuesday. A new competing show—the I Saloni Worldwide fair, a New York presentation of the influential Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan—will run on Piers 90 and 92 of the Show Piers on the Hudson Friday through Tuesday. And the independent design fair Downtown also presents exhibitors Saturday through Monday at Drive In Studios. Also at Javits is the National Stationery Show from Sunday through Wednesday. Sunday the AIDS Walk New York begins and ends in Central Park.
Next week is Upfront Week, when the major television networks woo advertisers with their big sales presentations. NBC kicks off the roster on Monday with its pitch at Radio City Music Hall and a party at Rockefeller Center. On Tuesday, ABC gets its turn, at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall with a party at nearby Damrosch Park, and Telemundo presents at Jazz at Lincoln Center, which also serves as the site for its reception. The WB also holds its sales presentation Tuesday, at Madison Square Garden.
Posted 05.11.05
