ART

TESTINO’S TASTE Fashion photographer Mario Testino curated the group exhibit “Instinctive” at Andrea Rosen Gallery. It includes Latin-American artists working in a variety of media, from a large Tomas Espina triptych made with gunpowder combustions on canvas, to a small polyester resin figure pointing toward the ceiling by Tiago Carneiro da Cunha. In another room at the gallery, Hannah Greeley’s series of painstakingly hand-crafted Budweiser bottles are strewn around the room. Through Saturday, January 15, Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Andrea Rosen Gallery, 525 W. 24th St., between Tenth and Eleventh avenues, 212-627-6000, free.

BENEFITS

AMERICAN SONGSTRESS Vocalist Audra McDonald premieres a one-woman show at a gala fund-raiser for Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. Accompanied by a 10-piece band, she performs pop music by songwriters including Elvis Costello and Stevie Wonder, along with works by contemporary stage composers including Michael John LaChiusa and Adam Guettel. The performance is part of Lincoln Center’s “American Songbook” series. Thursday, 5:30 p.m. cocktails, 6:15 p.m. dinner, 8 p.m. performance, 212-875-5316, $1,000 and up. Performance only: Friday and Saturday, 8 p.m., Rose Theater, Time Warner Center, Broadway at 60th Street, 212-721-6500, $35, $50, $75, and $100.

BOOKS

THE KING AT THE HALF KING Pamela Clarke Keogh reads from her illustrated biography “Elvis Presley: The Man. The Life. The Legend.” (Atria). The book was written with the cooperation of Elvis Presley Enterprises and access to the Graceland archives. Presley would have turned 70 on January 8. Tonight, 7 p.m., the Half King, 505 W. 23rd St. at 10th Avenue, 212-462-4300, free.

PROGRESSIVE POLITICS Contributors to the “instant book” “What We Do Now” (Melville House) talk about how progressives can respond to the presidential election results. The book’s editor, Dennis Loy Johnson, joins Jennifer Pozner and Danny Schechter at the discussion. Wednesday, 7 p.m., Bluestockings Bookstore, 172 Allen St., between Rivington and Stanton streets, 212-777-6028, free.

AMERICA (THE READING) Jon Stewart and writers of “The Daily Show” read from their best-seller “America (The Book)” (Warner). Proceeds go to 826NYC, a free tutoring center and writing lab for children in Brooklyn. Thursday, January 13, 8 p.m., Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway at 95th Street, 212-864-5400, $36.

DANCE

TAP INTO THE CLASSICS Tap-dance impresario Savion Glover performs a program set to composers including Stravinsky and Bach. “Classical Savion” is accompanied by a live ensemble. Tomorrow through Sunday, January 23, Tuesday-Friday, 8 p.m., Saturday,2 and 8 p.m.,Sunday,2 and 7:30 p.m., the Joyce Theater, 175 Eighth Ave. at 19th Street, 212-242-0800, $42.

FILM

HISTORY OF FILM The Museum of Modern Art’s mammoth film series “112 Years of Cinema,” which began in November and runs through the end of 2005, will screen one film from each year of moving-image history – starting with an 1893 Thomas Edison creation and proceeding nonchronologically. Upcoming highlights include the 1938 Howard Hawks classic “Bringing Up Baby” (tonight, 8:15 p.m.) and 1991’s “Daughters of the Dust,” a story set in the Georgia Sea Islands when the traditional Gullah culture met the modern world of African-American society at the turn of the 20th century (Wednesday, 5 p.m.). A pianist provides accompaniment for an impressive collection of D.W. Griffith short films, created during his five years (1908-13) as director and head of production at the Biograph Collection. Todd McCammon’s 2004 short “Heaven,” which tells the history of cinema within one minute, opens the Griffith program (Wednesday, 8:15 p.m., Thursday, 5 p.m.). All screenings: Museum of Modern Art, 11 W. 53rd St. at Fifth Avenue, 212-708-9480, $10 general, $8 seniors, $6 students, free for children under 16. Note: Tickets do not include admission to the museum but the cost may be applied to a museum ticket within 30 days. Paying the full museum admission allows admission to same-day screenings.

GRAINY GROUP The Flicker film screening series presents an evening of Super 8 and 16-mm films. Tomorrow, 6:30 p.m. doors open, 7 p.m. screening, Knitting Factory, 74 Leonard St., between Church Street and Broadway, 212-219-3132, $5.

HEALTH

WOMEN’S HEALTH Community members and health-care professionals are invited to a forum addressing health problems faced by women in New York. Thursday, 9 a.m.-2:30 p.m., Bronx Community College, Colston Hall, University Avenue and 181st Street, Bronx, free.

MUSIC

EARLY JAZZ The series “Highlights in Jazz” presents an evening of early jazz performed by trombonist Wycliffe Gordon, clarinetist Ken Peplowski, trumpeter Randy Sandke, and vocalist Carrie Smith. The eight-piece Manhattan Ragtime Orchestra joins in. Thursday, 8 p.m., Tribeca Performing Arts Center, 199 Chambers St., between Greenwich and West streets, 212-220-1460, $27.50 general, $25 students.

GLOBAL GATHERING GlobalFest assembles 13 performers from five continents for a five-hour concert that plays out on three stages. Featured musicians include Argentine “folktronica” singer Juana Molina, Japanese shamisen players the Yoshida Brothers, the Polish “hardcore folk” Warsaw Village Band, and the French Congolese guitarist and singer Lokua Kanza. Saturday, 7:30 p.m. until after midnight, the Public Theater, 425 Lafayette St. at Astor Place, 212-239-6200, $40 includes access to all stages.

OLD KID ON THE BLOCK Is it too soon to be nostalgic for the 1990s? Former New Kids on the Block heartthrob Jordan Knig ht brings his solo act to Irving Plaza for an evening of slow jams and songs with un-New Kids titles such as “Give It to You.” Mr. Knight is currently enjoying popularity in Asia and Europe and making a bid for a second chance at American superstardom. His brother (and former NKOTB member), Jon Knight, and fellow “Surreal Life” castmate Flavor Flav are among the concert’s several special guests. Friday, January 21, 8 p.m., Irving Plaza, 17 Irving Place, between 15th and 16th streets, 212-777-1224 for information, 212-307-7171 for tickets, $20 in advance, $25 at the door.

TALKS

CEMETERY SCULPTURE Artist Patricia Cronin discusses how the 19th-century use of bronze and marble in sculpture influences her work. Ms. Cronin is best known for “Memorial to a Marriage” (2002), a plaster sculpture of the artist and her partner, the painter Deborah Kass, embracing in bed. Created for their graves, it is installed permanently in Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx, where the couple wishes to be buried. The talk is part of the Dahesh Museum’s “First Thursday” program, which includes late hours and free admission to the collection. Thursday, 6:30-7:30 p.m. talk, 6-9 p.m. free admission, Dahesh Museum of Art, 580 Madison Ave., between 56th and 57th streets, 212-759-0606, free.

CHAMPAGNE CHAT The president of Clicquot Inc., Mireille Guiliano, discusses her new book “French Women Don’t Get Fat” (Knopf) at an event sponsored by the French Alliance/Alliance Francaise. Without delving into calories or carbs, Ms. Guiliano explores how the French seem to stay eternally slim by examining their attitudes toward eating. (She suggests that good Champagne is a factor.) Thursday, 7 p.m., Florence Gould Hall, 55 E. 59th St., between Park and Madison avenues, $18 general, $12 members.

THEATER

CAPITAL ‘PUNISHMENT’ Russian director Kama Ginkas’ splay “K.I. From ‘Crime'” opens in New York. The work is an adaptation of Dostoyevsky’s “Crime and Punishment” that depicts the last evening of the novel’s marginal character Katerina Ivanovna. Staged in two rooms, rather than on a stage, the play casts the audience as guests at a dinner party thrown by Ivanovna as a memorial for her dead hus band. Moscow-based actress Oksana Mysina stars in the play, which is a production of the Foundry Theatre and the Baryshnikov Dance Foundation. Previews begin: Wednesday, 7:30 p.m. Runs: Monday, January 10, through Sunday, January 30, Wednesday-Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Sunday, 4 p.m., Freight Entrance/Chashama Theatre,208 W. 37th St., between Seventh and Eighth avenues, 212-868-4444, free.

INTERNATIONAL LAUGHS Each of the seven one-act comedies in Rich Orloff’s “Foreign Affairs” is set in a different country: The action plays out in Argentina, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Antarctica, and the Vatican (where the pope finds himself married to a showgirl). Holli Harms directs the Foolish Theatre Company and Work-Shop Theater Company production. Previews begin: Friday, 8 p.m. Opens: Monday, 7 p.m. Runs: Fridays, 8 p.m., Saturdays, 6 and 9 p.m., Sundays, 7 p.m., 312 W. 36th St. at Eighth Avenue, fourth floor, 212-352-3101, $15.

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