ART

IMPRESSION, SUNRISE The Wildenstein & Co. Gallery presents “Claude Monet: A Tribute to Daniel Wildenstein and Katia Granoff,” an exhibit of more than 60 paintings by the Impressionist culled from public institutions and private collections to benefit the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. The show, which honors the late and highly influential art dealers, is the largest retrospective of Monet’s work to be held in New York in more than 30 years and spans the length of his career. Sunday, exhibit through Friday, June 15, Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m., Wildenstein & Co., 19 E. 64th St., between Fifth and Madison avenues, $10 general, $5 students and seniors.

FILM

IT’S THE MOVIES, IT’S NEW YORK The Sixth Annual Tribeca Film Festival kicks off tonight with an invitation-only, green-themed gala hosted by Vice President Gore at the Borough of Manhattan Community College TribecaPAC Center. Festival screenings, which include more than 250 selections — with 75 world premieres among them — begin showing tomorrow. Among the highlights are Hollywood actors taking a turn behind the camera. Actress Julie Delpy stars and makes her directorial debut in “2 Days in Paris” (2007), a “dramedy” that revolves around Marion, who brings her American boyfriend, Jack (Adam Goldberg), to Paris. Between clashes of culture, language, and ex-boyfriends, the couple’s relationship is tested. (In English and French.) Tomorrow, 7 p.m., Clearview Chelsea West Theater 2, 333 W. 23rd St., between Eighth and Ninth avenues, 212-989-0060, $25. In the dark comedy “Gardener of Eden” (2007), directed by actor Kevin Connolly, Adam Harris (Lukas Haas) leads an aimless life, working at a deli, living with his parents, and generally slacking, but soon finds new purpose when he accidentally captures a serial rapist. The film is produced by Leonardo DiCaprio. Tomorrow, 9:30 p.m., BMCC TribecaPAC Theater 1, 199 Chambers St., between Greenwich and West streets, 212-220-1459, $18. Festival runs through Sunday, May 6, dates, times, and venues vary. For a complete schedule of films, talks, and musical events, go to tribecafilmfestival.org.

NORTHERN EXPOSURE Anthology Film Archives and the Images Festival of Toronto present the final installments of screenings from the showcase “Six of One, Half Dozen of the Other: Images From Canada,” featuring the works of Canadian filmmakers. Tonight, the series “Learning by Hand” features various short films that were hand processed or hand-drawn. Tomorrow, the series “Of Gardens and Dreams” features films by international filmmakers who present meditations on their homelands. Featured filmmakers include Gariné Torossian, Larissa Fan, and Susan Oxtoby. Tonight and tomorrow, 8 p.m., Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Ave. at 2nd Street, 212-505-5181, $8 general, $6 students and seniors, $5 members.

MUSIC

SCHUBERT SPECIAL The St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble performs a program of Schubert as part of its final concert during its annual series at the Morgan Library. Pieces include “Erlkönig,” “Der Lindenbaum” from “Winterreise,” and the vocal work “The Shepherd on the Rock.” Performers include mezzo-soprano Mary Westbrook-Geha, violinists Mayuki Fukuhara and Naoko Tanaka, and cellist Myron Lutzke. Tonight, 7:30 p.m., Morgan Library and Museum, 225 Madison Ave. at 36th Street, 212-594-6100, $35 general, $25 library members.

POETRY

LOVELY VERSES The Friends of the City College Library present the 10th annual William Matthews Memorial Reading, featuring a reading by Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Philip Levine. A reception follows. The event is featured as part of National Poetry Month. Tonight, 6 p.m., the City College, North Academic Center, Cohen Library Archives, 160 Convent Ave. at 135th Street, 212-650-7271, free.

CELEBRATE BROOKLYN New York University Press, the Brooklyn Historical Society, and the Poetry Society of America host an evening of readings to celebrate the publication of “Broken Land: Poems of Brooklyn” (NYU), a collection edited by Julia Spicher Kasdorf and Michael Tyrell. The poems range from 17th-century verse to contemporary, and include paeans to such Brooklyn landmarks as Coney Island. Among the featured readers are contributing poets Vijay Seshadri, Jessica Greenbaum, L.S. Asekoff, and Sapphire. Refreshments are served. Tonight, 7 p.m., BHS, 128 Pierrepont St. at Clinton Street, Brooklyn, 212-998-2576, free.

VALLEJO IN HIDING As part of the culmination of National Poetry Month festivities, Poets House, the St. Mark’s Poetry Project, PEN World Voices, and the University of California Press present an evening to honor the work of César Vallejo. On more than one occasion, the Peruvian poet was forced for lack of money to drop out of college, where he was studying philosophy and letters. He went to work in the accounts department on a large sugar estate in one instance. There, Vallejo saw thousands of workers arrive in the courtyard at dawn to work in the fields until nightfall for a few cents a day and a fistful of rice. The experience not only devastated the budding modernist poet, it inspired both his writing and his politics. Among the featured guests are poets Mónica de la Torre, Jayne Cortez, Forrest Gander, and Edward Hirsch, and actor Sam Shepard, who reads from Clayton Eshleman’s translation “César Vallejo: The Complete Poetry” (University of California). Mr. Eshleman is on hand to discuss Vallejo’s life’s work. Tomorrow, 8 p.m., the Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church, 131 E. 10th St. at Second Avenue, 212-431-7920, $8 general, free for members of Poets House and Poetry Project.

READINGS

A HEARTBREAKING FAILURE Open City Magazine and Press and the blog Moistworks.comhost an evening of readings by writers Sam Lipsyte and Jenny Offill. Mr. Lipsyte is the author most recently of “Home Land” (Open City), a comic novel written as a series of strangely baroque, intimate letters to a high school alumni newsletter 20 years after graduation. The author of the letters, the underemployed Lewis Miner, or “Teabag,” eventually reunites with his classmates at a “togethering.” Ms. Offill is a Brooklyn-based writer whose stories have appeared in such literary journals as Story, Gettysburg Review, and the Black Warrior Review. A culture and arts writer, Alex Abramovich, and an editor of Open City, Joanna Yas, are hosts of the event. Tonight, 7 p.m., KGB Bar 85 E. 4th St., between Second and Third avenues, 212-769-6816, free.

NO PLACE LIKE HOME As part of the New York Festival of International Literature, PEN World Voices hosts “Town Hall Readings: Writing Home,” an evening with writers who explore what binds people to home and what drives them to abandon it. The assembled readers discuss the domestic, the exiled, the global, and the imagined in search of a place one can call his own. Featured writers include Nadine Gordimer, Don DeLillo, Kiran Desai, Saadi Youssef, and an actor-cum-novelist, Steve Martin. Tonight, 8 p.m., Town Hall, 123 W. 43rd St., between Sixth Avenue and Broadway, 212-840-2824, $15 general, $10 PEN members.

TALKS

BRAIN POWER “Acting and Mirror Neurons” is a roundtable discussion about how the craft of acting is related to the work of mirror neurons in the brain, which show activity both when a subject performs an action and when it observes the same action performed by another. The neurons are thought to be responsible for the empathic response in humans. Participants discuss how this adaptation might come into play for an actor. Included in the discussion are a professor of physiology from the University of Parma, Vittorio Gallese; actor and director Joe Grifasi; a teacher of the dramatic arts at the University of North Carolina, Glenna Batson, and the founder and director of the Drama Therapy program at New York University, Robert Landy. Tonight, 7:30 p.m., New York Psychoanalytic Institute, Philoctetes Center for the Multidisciplinary Study of Imagination, 247 E. 82nd St., between Second and Third avenues, 646-422-0645, free.

SCULPTURE

TURNING CORNERS In the exhibit “Missed the Turn,” German artist Stefan Kern turns seemingly everyday objects, such as orange traffic cones, into minimalist art. He also uses benches, tables, bookshelves, and seesaws. The sculptures in the exhibit, including that pictured above, are untitled and were made in 2006. Through Saturday, 11 a.m.–6 p.m., Andrew Kreps Gallery, 525 W. 22nd St., between Tenth and Eleventh avenues, 212-741-8829, free.

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