Out & About
Thu 9
The Spotlight Investigation92nd Street Y, Lexington Avenue at 92nd Street
8:15 p.m. From $40
See Boston Globe “Spotlight” journalists Ben Bradlee Jr. and Mike Rezendes, with their book “Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church.”
212-415-5500. www.92y.org/Event/The-Spotlight-Investigation
Conversation with a ConservatorMet Fifth Avenue, Fifth Avenue and 82nd Street
11–11:30 a.m. Free with museum admission
Jean-François de Lapérouse, conservator with the Department of Objects Conservation, discusses “Cylinder Seal: Scorpion-Man and Bull-Man Attacking Kneeling Nude Male.”
212-535-7710. www.metmuseum.org/
Fri 10
Films To Come: Moholy-Nagy and the Moving ImageGuggenheim Museum, Fifth Avenue and 89th Street
11 a.m. Free with museum admission.
This film program includes documentaries on László Moholy-Nagy and the Bauhaus, selections of abstract cinema, modern interpretations of Moholy-Nagy’s scenarios for “Dynamic of the Metropolis,” and works by contemporary filmmakers inspired by the artist.
212-423-3500. www.guggenheim.org/
THEL with special guest FlutronixMet Fifth Avenue, Fifth Avenue and 82nd Street
5-8 p.m. Free with museum admission
Ralph Farris, viola; Dorothy Lawson, cello; Nathalie Joachim, flute; Allison Loggins-Hull, flute perform works by Schickele, Farris, Loggins-Hull, Joachim
212-535-7710. www.metmuseum.org/
Sat 11
Art Gallery Tour Meet at 1018 Madison Ave., near East 78th Street
1 p.m. $25
Visit seven modern art galleries in the uptown center for contemporary art, including exhibits in painting, sculpture, electronic media and photography.
917-250-0052. www.nygallerytours.com
Handels’ XERXES recital96th Street Library, 112 East 96th St.
1-4 p.m. Free
New York Opera Forum performs the complete opera. A live musical recital performed in concert with piano accompaniment.
212-289-0908. www.nypl.org/
Sun 12
The Grand Victorian TeaMount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden, 421 East 61st St.
4-8 p.m. $40A proper tea party, with finger sandwiches, scones and fancies in a darling garden attached to an impossible Victorian cottage overlooking modern Manhattan.
All guests will have access to the museum as well as the garden. 1800-1910s summer garden party with all white, cream and pastel colors encouraged. No modern casual wear, please.
212-838-6878. www.mvhm.org/
Caribbean-American Heritage Fashion ShowMuseum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Ave.
1-5 p.m. Free with museum admission.
Celebrate Caribbean culture with a fashion show highlighting local designers whose works are inspired by their heritage, and enjoy music and snacks.
212-534-1672. www.mcny.org/
Mon 13
MILFORD GRAVES & DEANTONI PARKSPark Avenue Armory, 643 Park Ave.
8 p.m. $45
The art of music making gets examined through the lenses of science and technology in this thrilling double bill of music and projection by percussion pioneers.
212-616-3930. www.armoryonpark.org
Community Board 8Marymount Manhattan College, 221 East 71st St., Regina Peruggi Room,
6:30pm
Landmarks Committee meeting
212-758-4340. cb8m.com/calendar-meeting_date
Tue 14
‘Lincoln’s Generals’ Wives’Hunter College, Roosevelt House, 47-49 East 65th St.
6-8 p.m.
In her new book, subtitled “Four Women Who Influenced the Civil War for Better and for Worse,” Candice Shy Hooper focuses on the extraordinary and influential lives of Jessie Frémont, Nelly McClellan, Ellen Sherman and Julia Grant.
212-396-7919. www.roosevelthouse.hunter.cuny.edu
CinéSalon: ‘Miss and the Doctors’French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF), Florence Gould Hall, 55 East 59th St.
4 & 7:30 p.m. $14; students, $7; members; day of, free; in advance, $3.
Writer-director Axelle Ropert’s 2013 feature about two bachelor brothers and the woman they fall in love with. With Cédric Kahn, Laurent Stocker and Louise Bourgoin. In French with English subtitles.
212-355-6100
Wed 15
Community Board 8Church of the Holy Trinity, 316 East 88th St., Draesal Hall
6:30 p.m.
Full board meeting
212-758-4340. cb8m.com/calendar-meeting_date
‘Writing from Experience’Shakespeare & Co, 939 Lexington Ave at 69th Street
7 p.m.
A conversation, with writers and teachers Judith Hannan and Nancy Davidoff Kelton.
212-772-3400. shakeandco.com/