ART

MOVIE METROPOLIS “Celluloid Skyline: New York and the Movies,” a multimedia exhibit that celebrates the city’s rich cinematic history, opens on Friday. The exhibit, based on a book of the same name by architect James Sanders, includes photographs and digitally projected video footage of familiar film scenes. Visitors will find stills from such quintessentially New York films as the Lloyd Bacon musical “42nd Street” (1933); the original “King Kong” (1933), directed by Merian Cooper and Ernest Schoedsack; Martin Scorsese’s “Taxi Driver” (1976); Woody Allen’s “Annie Hall” (1977), and Spike Lee’s “Do the Right Thing” (1989). The show is on view at Vanderbilt Hall in Grand Central Terminal, and is presented by Turner Classic Movies and Time Warner Cable. Friday, 10 a.m.–7 p.m., through Friday, June 22, Monday–Sunday, 10 a.m.–7 p.m., Grand Central Terminal, Vanderbilt Hall, Lexington Avenue at 42nd Street, 212-340-2347, free.

COAST TO COAST London-based Greek artist Emi Avora and New York artist Julia Kunin join forces in the exhibit “Against Nature.” The title is taken from a 19th-century novel by Joris-Karl Huysman, which describes elements of decadence, taste, and beauty from the perspective of the narrator, Des Esseintes. Through Friday, June 22, Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m., Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, the Crown Building, 730 Fifth Ave. at 57th Street, 212-445-0444, free.

NEO-GERMAN EXPRESSIONIST The Metropolitan Museum of Art presents the opening of an exhibit of new paintings by a German artist, Neo Rauch. The show includes 14 paintings that feature Mr. Rauch’s distinctive industrial palette. The works depict a parallel world of hypertrophied humans, for which the acclaimed 47-year-old artist references Surrealism, public murals, and the heroic 1950s workmen and women of Eastern bloc political posters — all elements of the socialist realist aesthetic of communist East Germany, where Mr. Rauch grew up and received his artistic training. Gary Tinterow is curator of the exhibit. Through Sunday, October 14, the Met, 1000 Fifth Ave. at 82nd Street, 212-535-7710, $20 suggested donation, $10 seniors and students, free for members and children under 12. For more information, go to metmuseum.org.

DANCE

IT WAS ALL A DREAM The American Ballet Theatre dances George Balanchine’s “Symphonie Concertante,” a reflection on Mozart’s work of the same name for violin and viola, and Sir Frederick Ashton’s “The Dream,” a retelling of Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.” Dancers Xiomara Reyes, Julie Kent, Paloma Herrera, and Gennadi Saveliev are among the featured performers during Friday’s performance. Friday, 8 p.m., Saturday and Wednesday, 2 p.m., Sunday–Thursday, 8 p.m., through Thursday, May 31, ABT, Lincoln Center, Metropolitan Opera House, between Columbus Avenue and 64th Street, 212-362-6000, $24-$91.

FAMILY

WORM YOUR WAY OUT The New York Botanical Garden hosts “Wild Wiggly Worms,” an instructional course about the squiggly, softbodied animals. Participants feed worms in a worm farm, and learn how to sift rich worm compost for plants at home or create a worm mobile. The event is featured as part of a four-month festival at the NYBG, “Caribbean Gardens: Journey to Paradise.” Through Monday, 1–5:30 p.m., festival events and exhibit through Sunday, September 16, New York Botanical Garden, Ruth Rea Howell Family Garden, 200th Street at Southern Boulevard, Bronx, 718-817-8700, $18 general, $16 seniors and students, $5 childrenage 2-12, free under 2. For complete information, go to nybg.org.

FILM

SUNDAY, BLOODY SUNDAY “A Transcontinental Weekend With John Schlesinger,” presented by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, features four films from the first two decades of the director’s career. Movies include the British releases “Billy Liar” (1963) and “Sunday Bloody Sunday” (1971) and the Hollywood releases “Midnight Cowboy” (1969) and “Day of the Locust” (1975). Unlike many of his British contemporaries who worked as writers or critics before turning to filmmaking, Schlesinger worked as an actor before becoming a director for the BBC in 1957. Friday and Saturday, screening times vary, FSLC, 165 W. 65th St. at Amsterdam Avenue, 212-875-5600, $11 general, $7 students, seniors, and members.

MEMORIAL DAY

HOLIDAY FANFARE The Queen Library in Long Island City, Queens, presents a Memorial Day concert featuring pop, jazz, and classical selections performed by the Medical Support Teams of the 319th Statue of Liberty Army Band. Saturday, 3 p.m., Queens Library, 40-20 Broadway at Steinway Street, Long Island City, 718-721-2462, free.

WALKING IN TRIBUTE Central Park celebrates Memorial Day on Monday with a walking tour of monuments dedicated to soldiers and military moments in American history. Tour highlights include the Maine Monument, Heckscher Ballfields, Tavern on the Green, the 7th Regiment Memorial, the Memorial Flag Pole, the Navy Walk, the 307th Regiment Memorial Grove, the 107th Infantry Memorial, the Arsenal, Grand Army Plaza, and the General Sherman memorial. The tour lasts 90 minutes, and the Park advises walkers to wear comfortable shoes. Monday, 10 a.m., meet at Merchants’ Gate, Columbus Circle, 59th Street and Central Park West, 212-360-2741, free.

BLAZING TRUMPETS The Green-Wood Historic Fund celebrates its ninth annual Memorial Day Concert with a performance by the Band of Long Island, conducted by Michael Flamhaft, and the Fanfare Trumpets from the United States Merchant Marine Academy. Vocalist Erin Brooks also performs. Guests are invited to picnic on the Green-Wood Cemetery grounds during the show. Monday, 2 p.m., Historic Green-Wood Cemetery, Victorian Archway, 25th Street at Fifth Avenue, Brooklyn, 718-768-7300, free.

MUSIC

SWEET, SOLEMN SUNDAY Jazz at Lincoln Center presents “In This House, on This Morning,” a concert jam led by the artistic director of JALC, Wynton Marsalis, and his septet. The performance coincides with the 15th anniversary of Mr. Marsalis’s first in-house commission for JALC. That piece fused gospel and jazz and paid homage to Mr Marsalis’s roots in the black church of his native New Orleans. Friday and Saturday, 8 p.m., JALC, Frederick P. Rose Theater, 33 W. 60th St. at Broadway, 212-258-9800, $37.50–$127.50.

READY AS EVER The Reddy Music Concert Series presents the Jef Lee Johnson Group and the Rob Reddy Trio at Brooklyn’s Jalopy Theater. This is the second event presented by this new monthly series, which is curated by Mr. Reddy, a saxophonist and composer. Accompanying musicians include bassist Chico Huff and drummer Timmy Hutson. Friday, 9 p.m., Jalopy Theater, 315 Columbia St. at Woodhull Street, Brooklyn, 718-395-3214, $10.

GET ON THE DRUMS “Caribbean Music and Dance: Traditional Haitian Music With Kongo,” an afternoon of music and dancing is featured as part of an ongoing festival at the New York Botanical Garden that celebrates the Caribbean. The band Kongo performs a program of percussive and acoustic music and dancing, and leads a cultural lesson in Afro-Haitian culture and history. Saturday, noon, 1, and 3 p.m., festival events and exhibit through Sunday, September 16, NYBG, Conservatory Courtyard 200th St. at Southern Boulevard Bronx, 718-817-8700, $18 general $16 seniors and students, $5 children age 2-12, free under 2. For complete information, go to nybg.org.

PLAY IT LOW KEY Rapper and cur rent jazz musician Mos Def per forms from his latest studio album “True Magic” with a jazz ensemble at the newly opened HighLine Ball room. The venue donates 25 cents from every ticket to the nonprofit organization Friends of the High Line, which is dedicated to the preservation and reuse of the ele vated rail structure on the West Side. Saturday, 9 p.m., HighLine Ballroom, 431 W. 16th St., between Ninth and Tenth avenues, 212-414 5994, $60.

THEATER

A KIND OF MAGIC The Irish Repertory Theater presents a New Works Reading Series to support new plays and emerging play wrights. Gary Duggan’s “Dedalus Lounge” is featured in the current installment of the series: The play follows three friends in Dublin one tries to start a Queen tribute band, one balances a high-profile affair with caring for her dying grandmother, and one commits dark acts in dark places. Readers include Patch Darragh, Annie Parisse, and Paul Sparks. Tomorrow, 3 p.m., Irish Repertory Theatre 132 W. 22nd St., between Sixth and Seventh avenues, 212-727-2737 free, tickets required.

EAST SIDE RULES F. Murray Abraham, who recently starred in his off-Broadway version of Shake speare’s “The Merchant of Venice, is a headlining performer at this year’s Lower East Side Festival the Arts, presented by the Theater of the New City. Mr. Abraham also performs the legendary speech given by Bartolomeo Vanzetti — of Sacco and Vanzetti the Italian-born anarchists — their history-making trial Massachusetts in 1927. Other performers during the three-day festival include Lola Pashalinski, Crystal Field, Reno, Penny Arcade, and Helen Hanft. Friday through Sunday, Friday, 6 p.m.-1 a.m., Saturday 11 a.m.–1 a.m., Sunday, 5 p.m.– a.m., Theater for the New City, 155 First Ave. between 9th and 10 streets, 212-254-1109, free.

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