ART

BARCELONA AT THE FOREFRONT The Costume Institute at the Metropolitan Museum of Art presents the opening of “Barcelona and Modernity: Gaudí to Dalí,” an exhibit that recounts through art pieces, the transformation of the second-largest Spanish city from a provincial port into a cultural and intellectual capital. Among the 300 works from the period between 1888 and 1939 are paintings, sculpture, prints, posters, decorative objects, furniture, and architecture that trace Barcelona’s progress and follow its art movements. Paintings by Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dalí, and Joan Miró are among the highlights. Opens today, exhibit through Sunday, June 3, Tuesday–Thursday, 9:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m., Friday-Saturday, 9 a.m.–9 p.m., Sunday, 9:30 a.m.–5:30 p.m., Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Ave. at 82nd Street, 212-535-7710, $20 suggested donation, $10 seniors and students, free for members and children under 12. For complete information, go to metmuseum.org.

BOOKS

TRAPPED IN A BOX Brooklyn author Paul Auster reads from his novel “Travels in the Scriptorium” (Henry Holt), about a man who wakes up in a locked room without any memory of who he is or what he has done. Tonight, 7 p.m., Housing Works Used Book Café, 126 Crosby St., between Prince and Jersey streets, 212-334-3324, free, donations of used books welcome.

FILM

CALL ME BY YOUR NAME The Museum of the Moving Image presents a screening of Mira Nair’s “The Namesake” (2007), based on Jhumpa Lahiri’s novel about two transplanted Bengalis who raise a family in suburban America. Ms. Nair is on hand for a post-screening discussion with a chief curator at MMI, David Schwartz. Tonight, 7 p.m., AMC Loews Lincoln Square Theater, 1998 Broadway at 68th Street, 718-784-4520, $18 general, $12 members.

OUT OF AFRICA The documentarian John Kennedy Marshall first encountered the Ju/’hoansi people of southwest Africa in 1950, when his father, Lawrence, gathered his entire family on an anthropological hunt to find African bushmen and study the way they lived. Inspired by this family “vacation,” Marshall spent the rest of his life supporting the oppressed group through film and activism. The Anthology Film Archives presents a five-day retrospective of Marshall’s films, beginning with a screening of “The Hunters” (1957), about a group of Ju/’hoansi who hunt a giraffe for five days. Tonight, 7 p.m., tomorrow, 8 p.m., AFA, 32 Second Ave. at 2nd Street, 212-505-5181, $8 general, $6 students and seniors, $5 members.

MUSIC

KIRCHNER HONORED The Orion String Quartet performs an all-Leon Kirchner program, including a premiere of his Quartet No. 4 for Strings. Other pieces include his Quartets 1 and 2 for Strings, and Quartet No. 3 for Strings and Tape. Tonight, 7:30 p.m., Lincoln Center, Alice Tully Hall, Broadway and 65th Street, 212-875-5788, $30–$52.

RARE DUO PERFORMANCE The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music presents guitarists Jim Hall and Peter Bernstein, who give a concert as part of the school’s 20th anniversary celebration. Mr. Hall has been hailed ” the reigning master of jazz guitar” by the New Yorker magazine. Mr. Bernstein is a member of the faculty and has recorded more than eight records under his own name and in collaboration. Tonight, 8 p.m., the New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music, fifth floor, 55 W. 13th St., between Fifth and Sixth avenues, 212-229-5896, $10 general, free for seniors, students, and New School staff and faculty.

SINGING THE CLASSICS Carnegie Hall presents “Thomas Quasthoff: An American Songbook,” an evening of popular song performed by the versatile German bass-baritone. Featured performers include guitarist Chuck Loeb, pianist Alan Broadbent, and trumpeter Till Brönner. Mr. Quasthoff includes selections from his repertoire such as “They All Laughed” from the musical “Shall We Dance” and “I’ve Grown Accustomed to Her Face” from “My Fair Lady.” The concert is featured as part of Carnegie Hall’s Perspectives series. Tonight, 8 p.m., Carnegie Hall, Stern Auditorium, 54 W. 57th St. at Seventh Avenue, 212-247-7800, $18–$64.

NORTH AND NORTHEAST The jazzrock trio Radio I-Ching is comprised of members from the New York band the Bush Tetras and Toronto’s Martha and the Muffins. The trio combines contemporary jazz with such diverse genres as bluegrass and electronica. Tonight, 8 p.m., Barbès, 376 9th Street at Sixth Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn, 718-965-9177, $10.

CHOPIN TAKES JAZZ The Chicago-based jazz singer Grazyna Auguscik and Poland’s Andrzej Jagodzinski Trio perform a program of jazz inspired by the works of Chopin. The musicians combine Ms. Auguscik’s penchant for scat and tapping with Polish folk music interpreted through Chopin’s lens, which is a popular way of performing jazz in the Eastern European country. The performance is presented by the Polish Cultural Institute. Tonight, 9:30 p.m., Joe’s Pub, 425 Lafayette St., between 4th Street and Astor Place, 212-967-7555, $15.

ROMANTIC SOUNDS FROM THE EAST “Looking East: Debussy and the Javanese Gamelan” is a concert featured as part of Makor’s Classical Café series. The concert explores the stylistic relationships between Debussy’s Western roots and his Eastern influences. Debussy worked gamelan sounds — based on metallic percussion with some wooden xylophones and bowed strings — into his writing for chamber music after hearing an Indonesian ensemble in 1889. The program includes two of his final chamber sonatas. Featured performers include cellist Alex Greenbaum, pianist Steven Beck, and the ensemble Gamelan Kusuma Laras. Tomorrow, 7 p.m., 92nd Street Y, Makor Café, Steinhardt Building, 35 W. 67th St., between Columbus Avenue and Central Park West, 212-601-1000, $15 general, $9 open bar, $10 prix fixe dinner.

THE TIME OF HER LIFE Diahann Carroll performs “Both Sides Now,” an evening of songs and stories about her legendary career, during an extended engagement at the elegant Feinstein’s at the Regency. A Tony award-winning veteran of the stage and screen, Ms. Carroll, in 1968, became the first black actress in television history to star in her own series, “Julia,” for NBC. In the 1980s, she joined the campy nighttime soap, “Dynasty,” donning pearls and shoulder pads to play the wicked Dominique Deveraux. A PBS documentary on her life, “An Evening With Diahann Carroll,” recently aired on PBS stations. Through Saturday, March 24, Tuesday–Saturday, 8:30 p.m., Feinstein’s at the Regency, 540 Park Ave. at 61st Street, 212-339-4095, $75.

PAINTINGS

RUMBLE IN THE JUNGLE The works in Anne Podris’s exhibit “Enchanted Habitats” depict charmed views of animals, country scenes, and enchanted forests. Selections from the exhibit include “Drinking From the Mushroom Cup” (2007), top, and “Nugget’s Folley” (2007), above. Through Sunday, March 18, Thursday–Sunday, 1–7 p.m., Gitana Rosa Gallery, 19 Hope St., between Roebling and Havermeyer streets, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 718-387-0115, free.

READINGS

FIGHTING SLAVERY The Center for Religious Inquiry at St. Bartholomew’s Church present “Books and Their Authors,” a series of free lectures featuring authors of new books that are either religious in nature or explore human values. The series features a reading by Eric Metaxas, who discusses his latest book “Amazing Grace: William Wilberforce and the Heroic Campaign To End Slavery” (HarperCollins), about the British abolitionist who died three days after the former British colonies in America banished slavery in 1833. Tonight, 6:30 p.m., St. Bartholomew’s Church, 109 E. 50th St. at Park Avenue, 212-378-0222, free.

ONLINE VOICES SPEAK The Void Magazine Authors Night features readings and a panel discussion by the author of “East Fifth Bliss” (Behler) Douglas Light, writer Clay MacLeod Chapman, and the editor of an online magazine, Pindeldyboz, Kristin McGonigle. The discussion is led by the editor-inchief of Voidmagazine.com, Chris Steib. Tonight, 7 p.m., McNally Robinson Booksellers, 52 Prince St., between Lafayette and Mulberry streets, 212-274-1160, free.

SOIRÉES

SCENT OF A BENEFIT The March of Dimes 32nd Annual Million Dollar Beauty Ball raises funds for this organization that works to improve the health of babies by preventing birth defects, premature birth, and infant mortality. The president and chief executive officer of LVMH Perfumes and Cosmetics, Pamela Baxter, is honored. Tonight, 6 p.m., Cipriani 42nd Street, 110 E. 42nd St. at Park Avenue, 212-353-1012, $1,500 and up.

TALKS

GET YOURSELF FAMOUS The first lecture of the Riverhouse Art and Design Series features the owner and director of Bellwether Gallery, Becky Smith, who discusses the artist’s process of working with a gallery to build a collection. The series is curated by the deputy director of the P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Brett Littman. Tonight, 7 p.m., 4 World Financial Center, 250 Vesey St. at North End Avenue, 888-300-1732, free.

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