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ART
BROOKLYN’S FINEST Photographer Seth Kushner and author Anthony LaSala have created a tribute to Brooklyn in their new exhibition, “The Brooklynites.” The show coincides with the publication of a book of the same name, in September. The exhibition features photographs, essays, and interviews that Messrs. Kushner and LaSala believed would provide a comprehensive portrait as they trekked through the borough over the course of three years. Thursday through Sunday, November 11, Monday–Thursday, 11 a.m.–9 p.m., Friday–Saturday, 11 a.m.–9:30 p.m., Sunday, 11 a.m.–8:30 p.m., Brooklyn Industries–Chelsea, 161 Eighth Ave. at 18th Street, 212-206-0477, free.
WELL-DESERVED RELIEF Eli Bornstein is considered a pioneer of the Structurist Relief movement, which sprang from the Constructivist movements of painting and sculpture that developed between 1915 and 1922 in Russia and the Netherlands. Bornstein’s work features colorful planes of enameled aluminum that seem to defy dimensions, with small pieces rising or jutting into the foreground. Through Saturday, November 24, Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–5:30 p.m., Forum Gallery, 745 Fifth Ave., between 57th and 58th streets, 5th floor, 212-355-4545, free.
FAMILY
PETER AND THE WOLF In honor of the work of the Harmony Program, an organization that helps bring music to New York City children, an actress and current cohost of ABC’s “The View,” Whoopi Goldberg, narrates Prokofiev’s classic “Peter and the Wolf” during the Park Avenue Chamber Society’s gala event. Prokofiev originally composed the piece as a way to introduce children to an orchestra, with each instrument or group of instruments representing a character. The concert also features an 18-year-old Costa Rican piano prodigy, Graciela Arguedas, who performs Mozart’s Piano Concerto no. 21 and Stravinsky’s spectacular “Firebird” suite. Tomorrow, 8 p.m., New York University, Skirball Center for the Arts, 566 Laguardia Pl. at Washington Square South, 212-279-4200, $50.
IT’S THE GREAT PUMPKIN! Costumes, jack-o’-lanterns, crafts, and storytelling are featured as part of the 17th annual “Halloween Pumpkin Sail” at Central Park’s Harlem Meer. The event is presented by the Central Park Conservancy. Children are invited to carve their own pumpkins for the city’s largest pumpkin flotilla, and will have their orange treats illuminated at sunset. Pumpkins are then arranged to float across the Harlem Meer. Costumes are encouraged! Saturday, 4 p.m., Central Park, Charles A. Dana Discovery Center, 110th Street, between Fifth and Lenox avenues, 212-860-1370, free.
PHOTOGRAPHY
IN TOO DEEP A photojournalist who contributes regularly to European magazines, Dutch photographer Alex Ten Napel, trains his lens on parents and children in “Water Portraits,” his latest exhibit at Cook Fine Art. One part of the show features fathers protectively holding their children while standing half-submerged in a pool of water. Some of the men appear aloof in the images, as if preoccupied more by their children than by the camera. Another part of the exhibit shows closeups of children who are neck deep in water. Selections from the exhibit include “Eric, Timo and Raymon” (2006), above. Through Wednesday, November 21, Monday–Friday, 11 a.m.–6 p.m., Cook Fine Art New York, 1063 Madison Ave. at 81st Street, 212-737-3550, free.
READINGS
EVERYTHING IS THE WORD A literary humor publication featuring fiction, poetry, cartoons, and quirky art, Opium magazine, hosts its first “literary death match” in conjunction with the release of its fifth print issue. The magazine, which first began as an online publication, brings together recent and past contributors for this contest as they compete in a comic series of short readings. Featured guest judges include writers Ben Greenman, Amanda Stern, and Joshua Furst. Tonight, 7 p.m., the Kitchen, 512 W. 19th St., between Tenth and Eleventh avenues, 212-255-5793, $7.
SEPTEMBER RAIN Authors Rick Moody and Helen Schulman read fromanddiscussthethemesoftheir recent work as part of the Reading Series presented by the Creative Writing Program of New York University. Mr. Moody is author of the 1994 novel “The Ice Storm” (Little, Brown and Company), which was later adapted into a film by director Ang Lee. He reads “Right Livelihoods: Three Novellas” (Little, Brown), which pits its wayward characters against conspiracies sometimes entirely imagined, in stories heavily influenced by the attacks on September 11, 2001. Ms. Schulman reads from “A Day at the Beach” (Houghton Mifflin), which depicts 24 harrowing hours in the life of a family of artists on a September day in 2001. Thursday, 7 p.m., New York University, Bobst Library, Fales library room, 70 Washington Square So. at LaGuardia Place, 212-998-8850, free.
TALKS
FEAR IN AMERICA The Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York hosts author Susan Faludi, who discusses her book “The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America” (Metropolitan). An associate professor of political science at Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, Corey Robin, leads the discussion. Ms. Faludi argues that the country has reverted to an earlier mythology of the protective male and the dependent female since the attacks of September 11, 2001. Tonight, 7 p.m., CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave., between 34th and 35th streets, 212-817-8607, free.
GANGS OF NEW YORK The Museum of the City of New York hosts “Ethnic Power in New and Old New York: The Irish, the Jews, and the Italians,” a discussion about how successive groups of immigrants and their descendants affected the political, financial, and social scopes of the city in the 20th century. Participants include a former newspaper columnist and author of the novel “North River” (Little, Brown), Pete Hamill; Mayor Koch, and a former chancellor of schools, Frank Macchiarola. The moderator of the discussion is author Joshua Zeitz. Tomorrow, 6:30 p.m., New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Ave., between 102nd and 103rd streets, 212-534-1672 ext. 3395, $9 general, $5 students, seniors, and members.
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