ART

FROM PAPER TO CANVAS “First in Line: Preparatory Drawings for Paintings in the Collection” is an exhibit of seven paintings from the Brooklyn Museum’s collection that displays line studies next to complete paintings. Selections include Daniel Ridgway Knight’s “At the Well” (1880), left, and Knight’s “Peasant With Water Jug: Study for ‘The Well'” (c. 1880), above. Through Sunday, Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., Wednesday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway at Washington Avenue, Brooklyn, 718-638-5000, $8 general, $4 students and seniors, free for children and members.

THE HUNGER FOR MORE The Chelsea Art Museum presents “The Food Show: The Hungry Eye,” a group exhibit of works that ventures beyond the representation of food as still life to explore with irony and humor the human preoccupation with food. Featured artists include Jonathan Seliger, Priscilla Monge, Will Cotton, and Janet Fish. Robert Edelman and Gina Fiore are curators of the show. Through Saturday, February 24, Tuesday–Saturday, noon–6 p.m., Thursday, noon–8 p.m., Chelsea Art Museum, 556 W. 22nd St. at Eleventh Avenue, 212-255-0719, free.

RAY OF LIGHT The Rubin Museum of Art presents “Humanitas II,” an exhibit of 26 photographs by Frederic Roberts, who depicts his spiritual trek through Asia from 1986–2006. Deborah Willis is curator of the exhibit. Through Monday, February 26, hours vary, Rubin Museum, 150 W. 17th St., between Sixth and Seventh avenues, 212-620-5000, $10 general, $7 seniors, students, artists, and museum neighbors, free for children and members. For complete information, go to rmanyc.org.

AUCTIONS

STAR POWER Swann Auction Galleries host “From the 20th Century Fox Archives: Documents from the Golden Age of Hollywood,” a benefit auction for the Motion Picture and Television Fund’s insurance program, which provides health insurance to actors. Documents include an internal memo announcing Marilyn Monroe’s name change from Norma Jean Dougherty, and Humphrey Bogart’s first studio contract. Today through Thursday, Monday-Wednesday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m., Thursday, 10 a.m.–1 p.m., Swann Auction Galleries, 104 E. 25th St., between Park Avenue South and Lexington Avenue, 212-254-4710, prices vary on sale items.

BOOKS

I’M THE WANDERER Ron McLarty’s “Traveler” (Penguin) follows the saga of a struggling actor and bartender in New York after he learns that his childhood love in Rhode Island died from a bullet lodged in her shoulder. The author reads from and signs his novel. Tonight, 7 p.m., Barnes & Noble, 675 Sixth Ave. at 22nd Street, 212-727-1227, free.

ENTRY-LEVEL STRESS Adam Rapp reads from “The Year of Endless Sorrows” (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), a novel about an aspiring Midwestern writer who struggles to get his book published while working a low-level job at a publishing agency. Tonight, 7 p.m., Barnes & Noble, 1972 Broadway at 66th Street, 212-595-6859, free.

DANCE

MANY BEAUTIES New York City Ballet dancers Megan Fairchild, Sterling Hyltin, Ana Sophia Scheller, and Joaquin De Luz participate in “The New Beauties,” a discussion about the difficulty of playing Princess Aurora in the ballet “Sleeping Beauty,” which the NYCB is currently performing. The dancers discuss topics including working with a partner on a fulllength ballet. A volunteer director for the NYCB, Joan Quatrano, moderates the discussion. Tonight, 6 p.m., Lincoln Center, New York State Theater, 63rd Street and Columbus Avenue, 212-870-5690, $5, tickets available at the doors.

FOOD & DRINK

BROOKLYN’S BEST The James Beard Foundation Greens, a group designed to attract younger foodies, presents “A Taste of Smith Street,” the group’s first Brooklyn outing. A chef of the Brooklyn restaurant Chestnut, Daniel Eardley, and Patrick Watson and Michele Pravda of the Brooklyn stores Smith & Vine and Stinky Bklyn are hosts of the event. Dishes include smoked potato gnocchi with black truffles and guanciale, made by a chef of Porchetta, Jason Neroni. Tonight, 6:30 p.m., Chestnut, 271 Smith St., between Sackett and Degraw streets, 212-627-2308, $90 general, $75 members, reservations required.

WEEKLY DELIGHTS NYC and Company’s annual Winter Restaurant week kicks off on Monday: Restaurants across the city offer lunch for $24.07, and dinner for $35. Participating restaurants include August (lunch and dinner, 357 Bleecker St., between 10th and Charles streets, 212-929-8727), Chinatown Brasserie (lunch and dinner, 380 Lafayette St., between 4th and Great Jones streets, 212-533-7000), Gramercy Tavern (lunch only, 42 E. 20th St., between Broadway and Park Avenue South, 212-477-0777), Le Cirque (lunch only, 151 E. 58th St., between Lexington and Third avenues, 212-644-0202), Megu (lunch and dinner, 62 Thomas St., between Church Street and West Broadway, 212-964-2171), and the Post House (lunch only, 28 E. 63rd St. at Madison Avenue, 212-935-2888).

MUSIC

SET THIS PARTY OFF RIGHT Jamie Foxx performs selections from his platinum album “Unpredictable” on the New York leg of a national tour. The singer-actor-comedian whose stirring performance in the biopic “Ray” (2004) won him an Academy Award loosens up the crowd with a sampling of stand-up before segueing into a slow R &B jam concert to please the ladies. Tonight, 8 p.m. Madison Square Garden, 4 Pennsylvania Pl., between Seventh Avenue and 32nd Street, 212-307-7171, $39.75-$125.

WATCH THOSE HANDS “Pianos/ Pianists — A Celebration of the Keyboard” is a concert given by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. The program includes Faure’s Dolly Suite for Piano, Four Hands, Op. 56, Witold Lutoslawski’s Variations on a Theme of Paganini for Two Pianos, and Mozart’s Andante and Five Variations in G major for Piano, Four Hands, K. 501. Four-hand music was popular in the era before the introduction of the phonograph and proved particularly useful in the seductive arts: One never knew when a player’s hand might discreetly brush that of his lover during a delicate musical passage. Performers include Gilles Vonsattel, Wu Han, and Anne-Marie McDermott. Tomorrow, 7:30 p.m., Lincoln Center, Alice Tully Hall, 1941 Broadway at 65th Street, 212-875-5050, $30-$52.

ONE NIGHT ONLY The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents the Hamburg Symphony, which performs Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto in D Major, Opus 35 and the Symphony no. 2 in D Major, Opus 73, by Brahms. Conductor Andrey Boreyko leads the orchestra and violinist Robert McDuffie is a featured performer. Friday, 8 p.m., the Met, Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, 1000 Fifth Ave. at 82nd Street, 212-535-7710, $50.

TALKS

MASTERLY WORKS As part of the exhibit “Spanish Painting from El Greco to Picasso: Time, Truth, and History,” the Guggenheim Museum presents “Velázquez, Zurbarán, and the Spanish Manner,” a lecture by a curator at the Institute of Fine Arts, Jonathan Brown. He discusses how despite their contrasting styles, Francisco de Zurbarán and Diego Velázquez typify a “Spanish” style of painting that was common during the Renaissance. Wednesday, 6:30 p.m., Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Ave. at 89th Street, 212-423-3587, $10 general, $7 students, seniors, and members.

THEATER

OFF THE BEATEN PATH Horse Trade and Firecracker productions present “Dirty Girl,” a story about a “nice Jewish girl from Long Island” who answers a newspaper advertisement to become an editor of a magazine that features male nudity. The play is based on the autobiography of Ronnie Koenig, a former editor at Playgirl magazine. The show is directed by Robert McMaster, and featured actors include Corrie Beula and Bridget Harvey. Ms. Koenig also appears in the play. Through Saturday, Thursday–Saturday, 8 p.m., Kraine Theater, 85 W. 4th St., between Second Avenue and the Bowery, 212-868-4444, $18 general, $15 students and seniors.

THE BIG BREAK A musical adaptation of C.S. Lewis’s “The Great Divorce,” by the Magis Theater Company, follows the struggles of a husband as a magical giant steals his voice while he reunites with his wife. The play, featuring puppets by Ralph Lee, is directed by George Drance. Tonight through Sunday, February 11, Wednesday–Saturday, 8 p.m., Sunday, 7 p.m., Salvation Army’s Theatre, 315 W. 47th St., between Eighth and Ninth avenues, 212-686-4444, $25 before January 24, $30 afterward.

PHOTOGRAPHY

BEFORE COMMENCEMENT The final projects of 13 graduating seniors from the Department of Photography and Imaging at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts are on display. Artists include Alyson Perry, Ryan James MacFarland, and Blaine Davis, who photographed the female members of a middle class family in Dakar, Senegal. Included in the exhibit is a photo from 2006 of a teenager, Mama Diallo, as she prepares for a morning prayer, top, and a photo of Ms. Diallo helping a friend apply lip gloss before she goes to another friend’s wedding in the neighborhood, above. Through February 18, Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-7 p.m., Saturday, noon-5 p.m., Tisch School of the Arts, Gulf+Western Gallery and the 8th Floor Gallery, 721 Broadway at Waverly Place, 212-998-1930, free.

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