ART

MOUTHFUL OF WORDS “Tranquility of the Heart, Torment of the Flesh — Open Wide the Eye of the Heart, and Nothing is Invisible” is the title of a new exhibit of drawings by Takashi Murakami, who combines the Japanese cartoon anime and manga styles with traditional Japanese drawing techniques. Selections include “My arms and legs rot off and though my blood rushes forth, the tranquility of my heart shall be prized above all” (2007), above left, and “I am not me. I cannot become myself” (2007), right. Through Saturday, June 9, Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m., Gagosian Gallery, 980 Madison Ave., between 76th and 77th streets, 212-744-2313, free.

DANCE

TAP DANCING YOUNG The Tap City Youth Ensemble dances a free concert at the Capezio’s Flagship store for dance apparel and accessories. Guests are invited to bring their own tap shoes and join the ensemble of young hoofers in the finale “Shim-Sham Shimmy” performance. Founded in 2005 by the American Tap Dance Foundation, Tap City Youth offers serious, young dance students professional training and performing experience at a variety of New York venues. Sunday, 2 p.m., Capezio’s, 1650 Broadway at 51st Street, 646-230-9564, free.

FILM

BEFORE ARCADIA Carl Theodor Dreyer’s “The Passion of Joan of Arc / La Passion de Jeanne D’Arc” (1927–28) stars Renee Falconetti. Anthology Film Archives screens a new print of the film donated by David Mulkins. The film exemplifies Dreyer’s philosophy of simplicity, renowned for its spare acts, lack of embellishment, and use of simple shots. Tomorrow, 7 p.m., Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Ave. at 2nd Street, 212-505-5181, $8 general, $6 students and seniors, $5 members.

A LOVE TRIANGLE IN PARIS As part of its Weekend Classics series, the IFC Center presents “Essential Art House: Janus at 50,” an ongoing tribute to the legendary cinema distributor, including new 35 mm prints of classics from the Janus collection. A screening of François Truffaut’s “Jules et Jim” (1962), a new–wave film based on the semi-autobiographical novel by the Parisian journalist and art dealer Henri-Pierre Roché, is shown this weekend. The tale begins in Paris in the early 1900s and follows two friends who fall in love with the same woman, Catherine, played by celebrated French actress Jeanne Moreau. A free-spirited Catherine loves and marries Jules, but after World War I, when the trio is reunited in Germany, Catherine falls for Jim. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, noon, IFC Center, 323 Sixth Ave. at West 3rd Street, 212-924-7771, $10.75 general, $7 seniors and ICP members.

MUSIC

CINEMATIC MELODY Jazz at Lincoln Center hosts “What’s Innovative Now?” a talk about developments and changes in jazz and film. Much as with cinema, the tension between innovation and tradition is part of what makes jazz music dynamic. The director of the master’s program in jazz history and research at Rutgers University, Lewis Porter, leads the discussion. A panel of featured guests performs and discusses film collaborations, including trombonistcomposer Wycliffe Gordon and pianist Ron Blake. Tonight, 7 p.m., JALC, Irene Diamond Education Center, fifth floor, 33 W. 60th St. at Broadway, 212-258-9800, $17.50.

ELEVEN HOURS OF MELODY Symphony Space presents its annual Wall-to-Wall Marathon extravaganza, celebrating the 400-year history of Western opera, between 1607 and the present. The all-day event offers a full and varied program of operatic works from Monteverdi to Bellini and Mozart to Bermel, performed by musicians and singers from throughout New York’s artistic community. Wall-to-Wall begins its overview with the birth of opera (an excerpt from Monteverdi’s 1607 Orfeo), and continues through different periods, from Grand Opera to Modern Opera, concluding the day with recent works by Ricky Ian Gordon, Tarik O’Regan, Victoria Bond, and Derek Bermel. Featured events include a bel canto class taught by soprano Renata Scotto. Saturday, 11 a.m.–midnight, Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway at 95th Street, 212-864-5400, free.

READINGS

COUNTRY LIVING The James Beard Foundation’s “Beard on Books” series features Georgeanne Brennan, author of “A Pig in Provence: Good Food and Simple Pleasures in the South of France” (Chronicle Books). Ms. Brennan set out to realize the dream of a peaceful, rural existence in Provence 30 years ago. She and her husband, with their young daughter in tow, bought a small farmhouse with a little land, and a few goats and pigs, and so began a life-affirming journey. Today, noon, James Beard House, 167 W. 12th St., between Sixth and Seventh avenues, 212-627-2308, $20 general, free for students.

TALKS

ITALIAN GENIUS The Frick Collection presents “Why François Du Quesnoy Should Have ‘Dy’d Mad’: The Intentions of Roman Baroque Sculptors,” a lecture by an honorary fellow at the Warburg Institute in London, Jennifer Montagu. When executing their works, Roman baroque sculptors took into account both the placement of the finished object — in niches, above eye level, or on the sidewalls of chapels — and the available light. Ms. Montagu discusses how they adapted their art to fit a specific site, and how we should look at it. Tonight, 6 p.m., the Frick Collection, 1 E. 70th St. at Fifth Avenue, 212-547-0667, free.

SAIL ON, SAILORS The author of “Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War” (Penguin Group), Nathaniel Philbrick, discusses the history of the Pilgrims on their perilous journey from England on a battered, leaky ship through their first bitter North American winter, to their establishment of a precarious colony. Mr. Philbrick is the founding director of the Egan Institute for Maritime Studies on Nantucket Island. Tomorrow, 6:30 p.m., New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West at 77th Street, 212-868-4444, $15 general, $10 students and seniors, $8 members.

THEATER

INTO THE WOODS The American Musical Theater Ensemble of the Manhattan School of Music stages its first-ever full-length musical with a performance of Stephen Sondheim’s “Into the Woods.” The popular musical depicts the world of a pair familiar to readers of classic fairy tales. A childless baker and his wife cannot have a child until they follow the bidding of the witch next door, who instructs them to get, among other things, a cape as red as blood and a slipper as pure as gold. A band of fairy tale characters including Little Red Riding Hood and Cinderella assist the couple in their pursuit of happily ever after. Dan Gettinger is musical director of the student production and a member of the MSM voice fac ulty, Maitland Peters, is cast as “The Narrator.” Tomorrow through Satur day, 7:30 p.m., MSM, John C. Borden Auditorium, 120 Claremont Ave., be tween 122nd Street and Broadway 917-493-4428, free.

AMERICAN HISTORY IN THE CITY Brooklyn writer James Grant, author of “John Adams: Party of One” (Far rar, Straus and Giroux), and compos er Terry Quinn share their respective works on the second president of America during “An Evening of John Adams in Word and Song,” presented by the Brooklyn Historical Society While Mr. Grant was writing his book, which was published in 2005 Mr. Quinn was writing his operetta song cycle “John Adams in Amster dam: A Song for Abigail,” about Adams’s time as America’s first envoy to Holland in 1780. The cycle is based on letters that Adams wrote to his wife during his two-year stay in Eu rope. Performers include baritone Richard Lalli. Tickets are on sale now. Saturday, 8 p.m., Brooklyn Historical Society, 128 Pierrepont St., between Clinton Street and Monroe Place Brooklyn, 718-222-4111, $45 general $30 members.

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