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ART

‘TIL DEATH “I Am As You Will Be: The Skeleton in Art,” a group exhibit of more than 30 works, is on view at Cheim & Read. Featured artists include Damien Hirst, Jenny Holzer, Alice Neel, and Jean Michel Basquiat. The pieces are an examination of the long history of the skeleton’s artistic representation, and are emblematic of human nature’s vested interest in mortality. Through Saturday, November 3, Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m., Cheim & Read, 547 W. 25th St., 212-242-7727, free.

REAR WINDOW Stephen Pentak traveled to Italy’s Tuscan and Umbrian coastlines for his latest exhibit. “Trasimeno” features watercolor paintings based on photographs and study drawings Mr. Pentak made during his travels by train through Italy. Through Saturday, November 11, Tuesday–Friday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m., Saturday, 11 a.m.–6 p.m., Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, 529 W. 20th St., between Tenth Avenue and the West Side Highway, 212-366-5368, free.

BENEFITS

AMERICAN FOLK TRIBUTE “A Celebration of Woody and Marjorie Guthrie,” a tribute to the music and work of the folk singer and songwriter and his wife, is held at Webster Hall. Mrs. Guthrie helped found the Huntington’s Disease Society of America the death of her husband from the rare neurological disorder in 1967. The event benefits and recognizes the 40th anniversary of the research and advocacy organization. Featured performers include singer Billy Bragg, who performs with drummer Stone Gossard of the band Pearl Jam, and an alt-country musician, Steve Earle. Mr. Bragg performs selections from the album “Mermaid Avenue,” a collection he recorded with the indie band Wilco using Mr. Guthrie’s previously unrecorded lyrics. Tonight, 8 p.m., Webster Hall, 125 East Eleventh Street, 212-353-1600, $75 general, $250–$500 VIP seating.

MUSIC

RAVI DOES RAGA World music icon Ravi Shankar and his youngest daughter, Anoushka Shankar, perform as part of the “Around the Globe” series at Carnegie Hall. Mr. Shankar first became well known to Westerners during the 1960s, when he famously tutored a young Beatle, George Harrison. More proof that musical gifts can be hereditary, the sitar master is also the father of singer Norah Jones. Saturday, 8 p.m., Carnegie Hall, Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage, 54 W. 57th St. at Seventh Avenue, 212-247-7800, $31–$106.

MUSIC IN MIDTOWN A lunchtime concert series is presented at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Featured performers include students of the doctoral program in music at the university, and a faculty member, french horn player William Purvis. The program spans classical and contemporary works. Tonight, 1 p.m., CUNY Graduate Center, Elebash Recital Hall, 365 Fifth Ave., between 34th and 35th streets, 212-817-8607, free.

PAINTINGS

LOOKING BACK S.H. Raza was born in 1922 in the Narmada River Valley in Central India. By his 20s, Mr. Raza was teaching art in Bombay and preparing to attend art school. He has studied in India, Europe, and America, and has become a celebrated painter. Hisworksincethe1940s has become progressively more abstract, and in the 1980s he attributed an obsession with bindu, a symbol of cosmic code, to revitalizing his art. Selections from “Raza: A Retrospective” include an untitled painting from 1975, above. Through Wednesday, October 31, Monday–Friday, 11 a.m.–7 p.m., Saturday, 11 a.m.–6 p.m., Saffronart, the Fuller Building, suite 900, 595 Madison Ave. at 57th Street, 212-627-5006, free.

READINGS

A MALLOMAR AND A DREAM The author of “Dough: A Memoir” (University of Georgia), Mort Zachter, reads from his newly published book. In it, Mr. Zachter chronicles a childhood that revolved around a small bakery on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, owned by his two eccentric uncles. At age 36, the author discovered that he was heir to several million dollars bequeathed to him by his bachelor uncles. Tonight, 7 p.m., McNally Robinson Booksellers, 52 Prince St., between Lafayette and Mulberry streets, 212-274-1160, free.

TALKS

HOLOCAUST HORRORS The Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York presents “The Holocaust, Racism, and the Mentally Ill.” A clinical professor in the Department of Psychiatry at New York University Medical School, Martin Gittelman, gives a talk on the theories related to eugenics and on Nazi regime attitudes toward the victims of this practice. During the early half of the 20th century, a movement emerged arguing for the “improvement” of the human race by regulating heredity. Tonight, 6:15 p.m., CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave., between 34th and 35th streets, 212-817-2005, free.

FOR THE BAG SNOB An assistant curator at the Museum of the Fashion Institute of Technology, Clare Sauro, gives a talk on accessories. Ms. Sauro explores the fashion-obsessed consumer’s insatiable search for the next “It” bag, shoe, or gem. Accessories have become the driving force in contemporary fashion, often underwriting the garment businesses of major retailers and design houses. Tonight, 6 p.m., the Museum at FIT, Seventh Avenue at 27th Street, 212-217-4585, free.

THEATER

FADED GLORY Lincoln Center Theater presents preview performances of “The Glorious Ones,” a musical about performers in a 16th-century commedia dell’arte troupe in Italy. Based on a novel by author Francine Prose, the musical tells how the troupe captured the public’s adoration with its bawdy comedy, before changing artistic modes set in. The play is set to lyrics by Lynn Ahrens and the music of Stephen Flaherty. (The production opens Monday, November 5.) Today, 2 and 8 p.m., open run, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, 8 p.m., Wednesday and Saturday, 2 and 8 p.m., Sunday, 3 p.m., Lincoln Center, Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, 150 W. 65th St. at Broadway, 212-239-6200, $70–$75.

TOURS

HIGH ART The Chelsea High Line Open Studios Art Walk offers public access to more than 50 private artist studios. The tour brings visitors to the High Line, an elevated structure soon to become a city park, in West Chelsea. A reception and group show by participating artists, “Floating above the Highline,” kicks off at Art Gotham. Featured artists include painters Tad Wiley, Asya Geisberg, and Cynthia Rojas. Opening reception, tomorrow, 6–8 p.m., tours, Friday–Sunday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m., Art Gotham, fifth floor, 547 W. 27th St., between Tenth and Eleventh avenues, 212-714-1100, maps of the artists’ studios are available in the lobby of 508 W. 26th St., between Tenth and Eleventh avenues, or at artgotham.com/highline, free.

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This article is from the archive of The New York Sun before the launch of its new website in 2022. The Sun has neither altered nor updated such articles but will seek to correct any errors, mis-categorizations or other problems introduced during transfer.


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