ART

COME SAIL AWAY Arden Scott hails from Greenport, N.Y., and makes sculptures of sailing vessels and their riggings. Inspired by the sea, she keeps near her home a 28-foot sailboat, Annie, which she built 20 years ago. Selections from an exhibit of recent sculpture include “We’re Here” (2007), above. Through Sunday, May 20, Kathryn Markel Fine Art, 529 W. 20th St., between Tenth and Eleventh avenues, 212-366-5368, free.

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.

A GRAVE MATTER Monya Rowe Gallery presents “130,000 Years of Last Tendencies,” a solo exhibit of works by artist Abigail Lazkoz. Ms. Lazkoz shows a series of large-scale works on paper that act as a sitespecific installation. Visitors to the gallery are thrust upon entering the installation, into a cemetery where not only are the headstones visible, but also the inhabitants of the graveyard. Her drawings depict an array of characters in compromising arrangements and are suffused with the artist’s dark humor and existentialist references. Scientists have concluded that the first burial rituals by human were conducted about 130,000 years ago. Through Saturday, May 12, Tuesday–Saturday, 11 a.m.–6 p.m., Monya Rowe Gallery, 526 W. 26th St., no. 605, between Tenth and Eleventh avenues, 212-255-5065, free.

DANCE

DOWNTOWN DANCES The annual La MaMa Moves! festival takes over the three spaces that the experimental theater company has to offer. The festival features new and contemporary dance companies based downtown, and performances are grouped thematically. La MaMa Moves! begins with “New Virtuosity” in the Annex space, which features choreographers who honor their mentors through dance, while infusing their work with their own touches. Performers include the Nicolas Andre Dance Theater, CorbinDances, the Dusan Tynek Dance Theater, and the Ko-Ryo Dance Theater. In the first floor Black Box theater, “World Summit” features international choreographers who study the influence of their homelands in their dances. Performers include Bianca Falco, Gerald Casel, Max Pollak, and the Lee Saar Company. Tonight, “New Virtuosity,” 7:30 p.m., “World Summit,” 8 p.m., La MaMa, 74 E. 4th St., between the Bowery and Second Avenue, 212-475-7710, $15 general, $10 students and seniors.

FILM

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. 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, 8 p.m., Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Ave. at 2nd Street, 212-505-5181, $8 general, $6 students and seniors, $5 members.

AWAY FROM HER Actress Sarah Polley gives a talk following a preview screening of her directorial debut film, “Away From Her” (2006), about a long-married professor who must come to grips with the onset of his wife’s memory loss. The film, which is an adaptation of Alice Munro’s “The Bear Came Over the Mountain” (Random House), depicts how a lifetime of intimate details can create a marriage. Actress Julie Christie has a starring role in the film. The talk is featured as part of the Pinewood Dialogue series at the Museum of the Moving Image. A free screening of John Schlesinger’s “Darling” (1965), a satire about the swinging 1960s featuring Ms. Christie, is shown at 5:30 p.m. A reception follows. Friday, 7:30 p.m., Museum of the Moving Image, 35th Avenue at 36th Street, Astoria, Queens, 718-784-0077, $18 general, $12 museum members. For complete information, go to movingimage. us.

MUSIC

DRUM LINE Al Harewood began his career as a jazz drummer when his brother, Eustace, was drafted into the Army during World War II, leaving his drum set unoccupied in the Harewood family house. Al picked up the sticks and eventually became a legendary musician. He discusses his career as part of the Harlem Speaks series, produced by the Jazz Museum in Harlem. Tonight, 6:30 p.m., Jazz Museum, 104 E. 126th St., between Park and Lexington avenues, 212-348-8300, free.

NO FURY LIKE A RAPPER SCORNED A Virginia-based rap duo, Clipse, performs as part of the Seagram’s Gin Live Tour. The real-life brothers, who are also known by the nom de plumes Pusha-T and Malice, are the verbal wizards behind one of last year’s most highly anticipated — and delayed — sophomore albums, “Hell Hath No Fury.” Clipse performs selections from its recent release, including the anthemic single, “Mr. Me Too,” a crowd favorite, “Wamp Wamp (What It Do),” and cuts from the group’s acclaimed debut “Lord Willin’.” R&B songstress Monica is an accompanying act. She performs songs from “The Makings of Me,” and revisits such classic bubble-gum soul hits as ‘The Boy Is Mine.” Tonight, 8 p.m., B.B. King’s Blues Club & Grill, 237 W. 42nd St., between Seventh and Eighth avenues, 212-997-4144, $30.

ROCKING AT THE OPERA The East Village Opera performs its innovative band of powerhouse rock opera. The program includes arrangements of such classic arias as “La Donna è Mobile” from “Rigoletto,” the catchy “Habanera” from “Carmen,” and “Nessun Dorma” from “Turandot.” A founder of the company, Peter Kiesewalter, arranged the selections, which are performed full length and in their languages of origin. Singer Tyley Ross is a cofounder with Mr. Kiesewalter and a featured performer. The East Village Opera performs with a full band, including a string quartet, and has been known to pepper its concerts with divergent styles such as bossa nova, disco, and Celtic music. Tomorrow, 8 p.m., Town Hall, 123 W. 43rd St., between Sixth Avenue and Broadway, 212-840-2824, $37.50–40.

POETRY

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 due to 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. Tonight, 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.

THE WAITING IS OVER The Tribeca Film Festival begins public screenings of films today. 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.) Tonight, 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. Tonight, 9:30 p.m., BMCC Tribeca-PAC 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.

READINGS

STORY TIME FOR HIPSTERS As part of the New York Festival of International Literature, PEN World Voices hosts “An Evening With the Moth,” a special storytelling event in the manner of the old-fashioned open mics regularly hosted around the city by the nonprofit literary group. Featured readers include writers and festival guests Laila Lalami, Neil Gaiman, and Pico Iyer. Author Jonathan Ames is emcee of the event. Complimentary wine and beer are served throughout. Tonight, 8 p.m., 37 Arts, 450 W. 37th St., between Ninth and Tenth avenues, $30.

TALKS

AMERICAN ANALYSIS The Richard Gilder Distinguished Lecturer Series at the New-York Historical Society presents “Ending Tyranny: The History of an Idea,” a lecture with a professor of history at Yale University, John Lewis Gaddis. Mr. Gaddis discusses President Bush’s proclamation, made during his second inaugural address, of “ending tyranny in our world,” and how feasible it is to make it an objective for national and international policy in the 21st century. Tonight, 6:30 p.m., N-YHS, 170 Central Park West at 77th Street, 212-868-4444, $18 general, $10 students, educators, and seniors, $8 members.

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