ART

TAKING A GREYHOUND The exhibit “New York States of Mind” at the Queens Museum of Art is a meditation on the city’s contemporary cultural scene and how it compares to the rest of America. The multigenerational artists featured in this show are diverse and bound together primarily by the fact that they are New Yorkers. Their works focus on disparate social, political, racial, and artistic concerns, and they are divided among categories such as “Design and Desires,” “Shangri-La,” and “Compound Tropes.” Selections include Hans Haacke’s “Times Square Star Gazing” (2005), above, and Mary Ellen Mark’s “Batman and Little Barbies, New York, NY” (2002), right. Through Sunday, March 23, Wednesday–Friday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, noon–5 p.m., Queens Museum of Art, New York City Building, Flushing Meadows Corona Park, Grand Central Parkway and Roosevelt Avenue, 718-592-9700, $5 general, $2.50 seniors, free for children.

BALLET

A TEENAGE LOVE “Romeo + Juliet” is among the featured performances this season at the New York City Ballet. The recent staging of Shakespeare’s romantic tragedy features choreography by the company’s ballet-master-in-chief, Peter Martins, and set designs by Danish painter Per Kirkeby. Saturday, 2 p.m., and Sunday 3 p.m., New York State Theater, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza, between West 63rd Street and Columbus Avenue, 212-870-5570, $20–$120.

FILM

THREE’S COMPANY “Woman on the Beach” (2006), director Hong Sang-Soo’s comedy of manners, screens this weekend at Film Forum. The film follows a trio of 30-somethings who gather for a weekend at the beach during the off-season. Things quickly go wrong when the slumping filmmaker, played by Kim Seung-woo, falls for his pal’s girlfriend, played by Ko Hyun-joung. Confronted by his bespectacled pal, played by Kim Tae-woo, the auteur asks the woman at the center of the threesome to choose. (In Korean with English subtitles). Through Tuesday, January 22, 1:15, 3:45, 6:45, and 9:15 p.m., Film Forum, 209 W. Houston St., between Sixth and Seventh avenues, 212-727-8110, $10.50 general, $5.50 for seniors weekdays before 5 p.m., $5.50 children.

‘CARMEN’ GOES TO HARLEM Film Forum toasts Otto Preminger during a film festival devoted to the director. Preminger’s oeuvre boasts noirs and pop-culture classics such as “Bonjour Tristesse” (1959), about a swinging widower who falls hard for a new woman, drawing the scorn of his daughter, Cecile (Jean Seberg). Other highlights include “Carmen Jones” (1954), a modern adaptation of Bizet’s opera “Carmen.” Set in 1950s Harlem, it features an all-black cast that includes starlet Dorothy Dandridge and Harry Belafonte. It screens Friday at 1, 4:45, and 8:30 p.m. Through Thursday, January 17, dates and times vary, Film Forum, 209 W. Houston St., between Sixth and Seventh avenues, 212-727-8110, $10.50 general, $5.50 for seniors weekdays before 5 p.m., $5.50 children.

MUSEUMS

FEVER FOR THE FERVOR “Rejoicing in Tsfat and Meron: Capturing the Fervor: Photography by Win Robins,” an exhibit at the Yeshiva University Museum, features 11-by-17-inch images of Chasidic men captured in various states of spiritual release, whether dancing, entranced, or deep in prayer. All the images were taken in Israel between 2005 and 2007. Through Sunday, February 24, Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, 11 a.m.–5 p.m., Center for Jewish History, Yeshiva University Museum, 15 W. 16th St., between Fifth and Sixth avenues, 212-294-8330, $8 general, $6 seniors and students, free for members, children under 5, and Yeshiva University faculty, staff, and students.

ONCE ON THIS ISLAND “Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art,” an exhibit of more than 80 works created in the last six years, is on view at the Brooklyn Museum. The show features contributions from 45 artists who represent the complexity and vibrant nature of this culture. The art explores Caribbean societies through video, photography, print and drawings, sculpture, and installation. Through Sunday, January 27, Wednesday–Friday, 10 a.m.–5 p.m., Saturday and Sunday, 11 a.m.–6 p.m., until 11 p.m. on first Saturdays, Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Pkwy. at Washington Avenue, Prospect Heights, Brooklyn, 718-638-5000, $8 general, $4 students and seniors, free for children under 12.

MUSIC

CLASSIC DYLAN REVISITED The New York Guitar Festival kicks off the year with a commemoration of Bob Dylan’s legendary concert on May 17, 1966, at London’s Royal Albert Hall. The acoustic concert recording was famously bootlegged for years before Sony produced a legitimiate release in 1998. Guitarists and singers each perform a tune from the ’66 set list. Featured artists include Laura Cantrell, Jesse Harris, Chocolate Genius, Oakley Hall, Marshall Crenshaw, and others. Saturday, 8 p.m., World Financial Center, Winter Garden, 250 Vesey St., Battery Park City, bordered by West Street and the Hudson River, 212-945-2600, free.

WINTER WANDERLUST Schubert’s “Winterreise” is a lied cycle based on the poems of the German Romantic writer Wilhelm Müller, about a lonely wanderer in a winter landscape. The 24-song cycle was originally written for male tenors, but female singers have since performed it as well. Soprano Christine Schäfer takes up the song series in a recital. Pianist Eric Schneider accompanies. Sunday, 5 p.m., Lincoln Center, Frederick P. Rose Hall, 33 W. 60th St., between Broadway and Columbus Circle, 212-721-6500, $30–$60.

EYE ON JAZZ The annual avantgarde jazz series, Vision Festival, is producing various mini-festivals around the city, including the Vision Collaboration Festival at Symphony Space. It pairs jazz musicians with dance companies and visual artists during multimedia concerts. Trumpeter Roy Campbell and tap dancer Kendrick James, among others, are featured on Friday. Through Saturday, 7:30 p.m., Symphony Space, Leonard Nimoy Thalia, 2537 Broadway at 95th Street, 212-696-6681, $20 in advance, $25 at the door, $15 students and seniors.

CELEBRATING SAMMY The 92nd Street Y hosts an evening of song to honor the work of composer Sammy Cahn. The American lyricist’s collaboration with composer Jule Styne earned him four Academy Awards. Cahn’s work with the “Chairman of the Board,” Frank Sinatra, brought additional success: Sinatra recorded Cahn’s memorable tunes including “All the Way” and “Call Me Irresponsible.” Vocalists Julian Fleisher, Laura Marie Duncan, and Karen Morrow are among the featured performers. Saturday, 8 p.m., 92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Ave. at 92nd Street, 212-415-5500, $50–$60.

TALKS

GOOD FOR THE SOUL The Brainwave Festival, “dreamed” up by six New York cultural organizations, is held over the course of six months and features talks, exhibits, and concerts exploring how art, music, and meditation affect the human brain. In conjunction with the festival, the Rubin Museum of Art hosts a talk on Saturday by Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, a lama of the Tibetan Bon community. “Bon” refers also to a Tibetan spiritual practice. The spiritual leader discusses how sensory deprivation can be used to stimulate the brain during meditation. Other participating organizations include the Philoctetes Center at the New York Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, Exit Art, the Graduate Center at the City University of New York, and the School of Visual Arts. Saturday, 4 p.m., the Rubin Museum, 150 W. 17th St., between Sixth and Seventh avenues, 212-620-5000, $15.

THEATER

COME ON DOWN! In her one-woman show, “You Bet Your Life Live!,” comedian Lisa Levy takes on the role of game show host. Basing the unscripted piece on the 1950s Groucho Marx quiz program, Ms. Levy uses the original music and commercials employed by Marx. Audience members are encouraged to participate and answer trivia in such categories as “Oprah!,” “Formerly Unanswerable Not Trivial Questions,” and “Body Functions.” Friday, 10:30 p.m., open run, the Green Room, 45 Bleecker St. at Lafayette Street, 212-239-6200, $12.

PLAYS ON A HOT TIN ROOF The experimental theater group La MaMa E.T.C. presents “Morning, Afternoon and Good Night,” a program of three one-act plays directed by Oleg Braude. The program includes Michael Locascio’s “A Corner of a Morning” and Tennessee Williams’s “Talk to Me Like the Rain and Let Me Listen…” In Williams’s play, a man and a woman in a dingy flat on the Lower East Side let loose their despair in a stream of monologues. Saturday, 8 p.m., Sunday, 2:30 and 8 p.m., First Floor Theatre, 74A E. 4th St., between Bowery and Second Avenue, 212-475-7710, $15.

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