ART

NEW YORK PAINTER Davis & Langdale Gallery presents “Albert York: Paintings — a Loan Exhibition,” a collection of works from the traditionalist painter who has not created any since 1992 because of failing health. A contributing editor for The New York Sun, David Cohen, wrote of the exhibit, “These are gorgeous little pictures. … The delicious paint and the insouciant access to familiar masters are guaranteed to endear.” Selections from the exhibit include “Bread and Wine” (c. 1966), above. Through Saturday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m., Davis & Langdale, 231 E. 60th St., between Second and Third avenues, 212-838-0333, free.

DANCE

SCHOOL STAGE The Hunter College Dance Company performs a new work by choreographer Ronald Brown, who is a resident at the college this year. Mr. Brown, a Brooklyn native, combines modern dance with hip-hop and ballet styles. The company also performs works by choreographersin-residence Larry Keigwin and Keely Garfield and a reconstruction of Twyla Tharp’s “Country Dances.” Tonight through Saturday, 8 p.m., Hunter College, Kaye Playhouse, Lexington Avenue, between 68th and 69th streets, 212-772-4448, $15 general, $10 students.

FILM

POWER TO THE PEOPLE The Institute of African American Affairs of New York University hosts filmmaker William Greaves, who leads discussions and selected screenings of his work. “Black Power in America: Myth or Reality?” (1986), which considers the first post-civil rights generation of blacks who rose to positions of power and influence within the American mainstream, is shown tonight. “Black Journal” (1968–70), an account of the creation in 1968 of the first network television series “for, by and about” black lives, is on Friday. The series launched the careers of several black film and television producers. Featured panelists include the director of IAAA, Manthia Diawara, and producers of “Black Journal,” Kent Garrett and Madeline Anderson. The associate director of IAAA, Joan Harris, is moderator of the event. Tonight and tomorrow, 6:30 p.m., NYU, Cantor Film Center, 36 E. 8th St. at University Place, 212-998-4222, free.

MUSIC

LOCKED UP American Opera Projects presents concert readings of two new operas. “The Walled-Up Wife” is a one-act opera by composer Gilda Lyons that retells an ancient folk tale of young brides tricked into being buried alive in the foundations of royal construction projects to bring the sites good luck. Mezzo-soprano Elaine Valby and soprano Ruth Cunningham are featured performers. In Daniel Sonenberg’s “The Summer King,” the life of a Negro Baseball League player, Josh Gibson, is retold. Gibson, who was rumored to have hit the only fair ball out of “the house that Ruth built,” died at 35 years old, in 1947, just three months before Jackie Robinson broke the color barrier with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Featured cast members are Lori-Kaye Miller, Robert Hoyt, and Leon Browne. Steven Osgood is musical director of the productions. A post-performance discussion with the creators follows. Tomorrow and Saturday, 8 p.m., South Oxford Space, 138 S. Oxford St, between Atlantic Avenue and Hanson Place, Fort Greene, Brooklyn, 718-398-4024, $15 general, $12 students and seniors.

TRANSFIGURED NIGHT The Manhattan School of Music presents a performance by its artists-in-residence, the American String Quartet, who perform works by Beethoven, Strauss, and Schoenberg. Among the program selections are Schoenberg’s “Verklärte Nacht,” and Beethoven’s Quartet in E minor, Op. 59, No. 2. Beethoven’s Quartet in E minor is one of three quartets the composer wrote for his patron, the Russian ambassador Count Razumovsky, and it reflected a radical new style that bewildered contemporary critics in 1806. Featured performers include violinists Peter Winograd and Laurie Carney and cellist Wolfram Koessel. Sunday, 3 p.m., MSM, John C. Borden Auditorium, 120 Claremont Ave. at 122nd Street, 917-493-4428, $15 general, $7 for students and seniors.

READINGS

LOVE IS BLINDNESS The New York Book Club hosts a launch party in celebration of the publication of “Like Son” (Akashic), the second novel by Mexican-American author Felicia Luna Lemus. The novel follows a 30-something punk, born a girl, who undergoes a sex change and unwittingly inherits his blind father’s legacy. The novel is set amid a trio of outsider communities in present-day downtown New York City, 1990s Los Angeles, and Mexico City in the 1940s. Tonight, 7 p.m., NYBC, Visitors Center & Museum Shop, 108 Orchard St., between Delancey and Broome streets, 212-982-8420, free.

TALKS

HISTORY NOW This year’s theme of the 2007 Ranieri Colloquium on Ancient Studies at New York University is “Herodotus Now: The Personal and the Political.” Scholars discuss the timeliness of the Greek historian, who is called by some the “father of lies” and the “founder of the discipline of history.” Participants in the two-day conference include a professor at NYU and Cambridge University Paul Cartledge and a professor at Swarthmore College, Rosaria Munson. Tonight 6–7:15 p.m., tomorrow, 9 a.m.–4:30 p.m., NYU, Silver Center, Irving H. Jurow Lecture Hall, 100 Washington Square East at Washington Place, 212-998-8100, free.

THEATER

THE GLASS SLIPPER The Drama, Theatre, and Dance Department and the Aaron Copland School of Music at Queens College present a staging of Rogers and Hammerstein’s “Cinderella.” A cast of 42 actors, including three local children, dance and sing the production about a pair of ugly stepsisters, a fairy godmother, and a princess who finds her Prince Charming with the aid of a magical pair of glass heels. Tonight, 7 p.m., tomorrow, 8 p.m., Saturday, 2 and 8 p.m., Sunday, 3 p.m., City University of New York, Queens College, Susan Wallack Goldstein Theatre, 65-30 Kissena Blvd. at the Long Island Expressway overpass, Flushing, Queens, 718-793-8080, $15 general, $13 for seniors all times except Saturday night, $18 Saturday evening performance, $15 for seniors.

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