MUSEUMS & CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ...

Central Park W. (79th St.), 212-769-5200, www.amnh.org Weds., Thurs. & Sun.-Tues. 10-5:45; Fri. & Sat. 10-8:45. $9.50, $7.50 st./sc., $6 child. "Full Moon: Apollo Mission Photographs of the Lunar Landscape" depicts prints from NASA's missions to the moon [through 9/23]. "Fighting Dinosaurs: New Discoveries from Mongolia" exhibit centers on a Velociraptor & a Protoceratops locked eternally in final combat [through 10/29]. Live jazz every Friday, 212-769-5000 for info [6-8, free w/mus. adm.].

 

BROOKLYN MUSEUM OF ART

200 Eastern Pkwy. (Washington Ave.), Bklyn., 718-638-5000, www.brooklynart.org Weds.-Fri. 10-5; Sat. & Sun. 11-6; first Sat. of the month 11-11, eve. free; closed Mon. & Tues. $4, $2 st./s.c. "African Masterworks from the Collection of Beatrice Riese" exhibition feat. 35 wood & metal masks & sculptures from West & Central Africa [through 9/10]. Carol Beckwith & Angela Fisher's pictures of African life displayed in "Passages: Photographs in Africa" exhibit [through 9/17].

 

FRAUNCES TAVERN MUSEUM

54 Pearl St. (Broad St.), 212-425-1778. Weds.-Fri., Mon. & Tues. 10-4:45; closed Sat. & Sun. $4, $2 st./sc., child. 6 & under free. "The Only Pleasure An American Knows: Politics in 1800" feat. political drawings & images of the era [through 12/31].

 

THE GALLERY AT THE AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY

1865 B'way (betw. 61st & 62nd Sts.), 212-408-1500. www.americanbible.org Weds., Fri., Mon. & Tues. 10-6; Thurs. 10-7; Sat. 10-5; closed Sun. Free. "The Word as Art: Contemporary Renderings," 14 artists from 3 nations offer modern interpretations of religious art [through 10/21].

 

GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM

1071 5th Ave. (89th St.), 212-423-3500. Weds. & Sun.-Tues. 9-6; Fri. & Sat. 9-8; closed Thurs. $12, $8 st./sc., child. under 12 free. Influential work of six early 20th-century Russian women on display in "Amazons of the Avant-Garde" exhibit [opens 9/8]

 

GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM~SOHO

575 B'way (betw. Houston & Prince Sts.), 212-423-3500. Thurs.-Mon. 11-6; closed Weds. & Tues. Free. "Andy Warhol: The Last Supper" exhibits his take on Da Vinci's work through silkscreens & paintings [permanent].

 

INTREPID SEA AIR SPACE MUSEUM

Pier 86, W. 46th St. (12th Ave.), 212-245-0072, www.intrepidmuseum.org Weds.-Sun. & Tues. 10-5; closed Mon. $10, $7.50 veterans, reservists, st./sc., $5 ages 6-11, $1 ages 2-5, free for active duty & toddlers. "Prepare to Dive: Centennial Exhibit of the Navy's First Submarine" feat. submarine built in 1878 [permanent]. "Defending our Future" exhibits machinery, statistics & Pentagon's latest project [permanent]. "Desert Storm Strike," "A-6 Cockpit Challenge" & "Cold War/Berlin Wall Exhibit" [permanent].

 

JEWISH MUSEUM

1109 Fifth Ave. (92nd St.), 212-423-3271, www.thejewishmuseum.org Weds., Thurs., Sun. & Mon. 11-5:45; Tues. 11-8; closed Fri., Sat. $8, $5.50 st./sc., child. under 12 free. Pay-what-you-wish Tues. after 5. "Pickles & Pomegranates: Jewish Homes Near & Far" displays reproductions of century's worth of Jewish homes around the world with composite characters inviting your children to play house with them [through 10/00]. "Moritz Daniel Oppenheim: Scenes from Frankfurt's Jewish Past," retrospective of first famous Jewish painter in 19th-century Western Europe [through 10/19]. "Drink & Be Merry: Wine & Beer in Ancient Times" looks at 5000 years of drinking & its cultural role in eastern Mediterranean & Near East [through 11/5].

 

LOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT MUSEUM

90 Orchard St. (Broome St.), 212-431-0233. Call for times & prices. "Sitting Shiva: The Rogarshevsky Family Apartment" interactive exhibit feat. home of Jewish immigrant family from Lithuania in mourning [permanent]. "The Gumpertz & Baldizzi Apartments," restored to 1870 & 1935 (respectively) specifications [permanent]. Tours incl. "19th-century Tenement," "The Confino Family Apartment," & "The Streets Where We Lived."

 

METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART

1000 Fifth Ave. (82nd.), 212-535-7710, www.metmuseum.org Weds. & Thurs. 9:30-5:30; Fri. & Sat. 9:30-9; Sun. 9-5:30; Tues. 9:30-5:30; closed Mon. $10, $5 st./sc., child. under 12 free w/adult. "Riding Across Central Asia: Images of the Mongolian Horse in Islamic Art" exhibition symbolizes new cultures & traditions of eastern Islamic world [through 9/24]. "Painters In Paris: 1895-1950" feat. more than 100 paintings by Picasso, Matisse, Miro & others from the School of Paris [through 12/31]. "European Helmets, 1450-1650: Treasures from the Reserve Collection" feat. 75 helmets from the apogee of helmet design [through 1/2001]. "Sculpture & Decorative Arts of the Spanish Renaissance" collection of Spanish sculpture & decorative arts bridges 16th- & 17th-centuries [through 1/2001]. "American Modern, 1925-1940: Design for a New Age" exhibition of furniture, appliances, lamps, etc., by first wave American industrial designers [through 1/2001].

 

MUSEUM OF CHINESE IN THE AMERICAS

70 Mulberry St. (Bayard St.), 212-619-4785. Weds.-Sat. & Tues. 12-5; closed Sun. & Mon. $3, $1 st./sc., child. under 12 free. "Chinatowns in North America," William Chu's CD-ROM tour documenting the Chinese immigrant experience [permanent]. "Family Portraits" [permanent]. "Where Is Home? Chinese in the Americas," personal stories, photos, mementos & poetry encased in a structure reminiscent of a glowing Chinese lantern [permanent].

 

MUSEUM AT THE FASHION INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

7th Ave. (27th St.), 212-217-5800, www.fitnyc.suny.edu Weds.-Fri. & Tues. 12-8; Sat. 10-5; closed Sun. & Mon. Free. "Storytelling, From Thumbnail to Finish" exhibits evolution of ideas from books to computer programs [through 9/16].

 

MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK

1220 5th Ave. (103rd St.), 212-534-1672, www.mcny.org Weds.-Sat. 10-5; Sun 12-5; Tues. 10-2; closed Mon. $5, $4 st./sc./child., $10 families. Discover New York City & its inhabitants through the works of 41 photographers during "New York Now 2000: Contemporary Work in Photography" [through 10/15]. "Under the El, City Life in 20th-century Prints & Drawings," depictions of life during era of elevated trains [through 12/3]. "Renewing a Block & the Spirit of Its People," b&w photo exhibit by Bill Foley on the renewal of Camel Hill community in Harlem [through 11/12] Photographs & essays by NYC high school students document changes in city's immigrant neighborhoods with "New York Toy Stories" & "The Infamous Andrew Jackson Head" exhibits [permanent].

 

MUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE

18 First Pl., Battery Park City, 212-968-1800, www.mjhnyc.org Weds., Sun.-Tues. 9-5; Thurs. 9-8; Fri. 9-3. $7, $5 st./sc., child. under 5 free. "Children of a Vanished World," 70 photos by Roman Vishniac of children who lived in doomed Jewish communities of pre-war Eastern Europe [through 10/20]

 

MUSEUM OF TELEVISION & RADIO

25 W. 52nd St. (5th Ave.), 212-621-6600, www.mtr.org Weds., Sat., Sun. & Tues. 12-6; Thurs. 12-8; Fri. 12-9. $6, $4 st./sc., $3 child. under 13. The genius of Jay Ward presented in "The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle & Friends" [through 9/17]. "Madison Avenue Goes To Washington" focuses on campaigning via television [through 11/12]. "From Radio to Television" from Dick Tracy to Father Knows Best, experience a variety of radio programs turned television shows [through 12/3].

 

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN

George Gustav Heye Center, 1 Bowling Green (betw. State & Whitehall Sts.) 212-668-6624. Weds.-Tues. 10-5; Thurs. 10-8. Free. "All Roads Are Good: Native Voices on Life & Culture" displays more than 300 symbolic objects chosen by 23 Native selectors [permanent].

 

NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART

583 B'way (betw. Houston & Prince Sts.), 212-219-1222. Weds. & Sun. 12-6, Thurs.-Sat. 12-8, closed Mon. & Tues. Thurs. 6-8 free. $6, $3 st./s.c., free for those under 18. "Martha Rosler: Positions in the Life World," issues from militarism to sexism are explored in the first retrospective of this artist [through 10/8].

 

NEWSEUM/NY

580 Madison Ave. (betw. 56th & 57th Sts.), 212-317-7596. Weds.-Sat., Mon. & Tues. 10-5:30; closed Sun. Free. "The Pulitzer Prize Photographs: Capture the Moment" over 100 winning images drawn from 1941 through the present [through 9/23].

 

NEW YORK HALL OF SCIENCE

47-01 Flushing Meadows Corona Park, 718-699-0005. Weds., Mon. & Tues. 9:30-2; Thurs.-Sun.; 9:30-5. $7.50, $5 child./sc. Free Thurs. & Fri., 2-5. "Reptiles: Real & Robotic" visited occasionally by the genuine articles, this exhibit of robotic snakes, crocodiles, turtles, etc. offers a friendly view of the reptile kingdom [through 9/17]. "Marvelous Molecules?The Secret of Life" illustrates similar chemistry traits among living things?humans, amoebas & cockroaches [permanent].

 

NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY

2 W. 77th St. (Central Park W.), 212-873-0509. Weds.-Sun. & Tues. 11-5; closed Mon. $5, $3 st./sc., child. 12 & under free. "Masterworks of 19th-century American Painting" feat. nearly 50 oil paintings by such artists as William Sydney Mount, Thomas Cole & Asher B. Durand [permanent]. "Revisiting The Stork Club" looks at the once center of NYC night life [through 9/17]. "The Jenny Lind Festival" memorabilia from 1850-1852 tour of the Swedish nightingale, America's first celebrity [through 10/29]. "Kid City" [permanent]. "Inventing the Skyline: the Architecture of Cass Gilbert" exploration of works by a man most famous for the Woolworth Building [opens 9/12].

 

P.S.1

22-25 Jackson Ave. (46th St.), L.I. City, 718-784-2084, www.ps1.org Weds.-Sun. 12-6; $5, $2 st./sc. "DJ Warm-Up Series" exhibition of experimental sounds by Lo-Ki, Bob Sinclair, Andrea Parker & more; feat. DJs weekly [Sats. through 9/00]. "Dunescape" displays indoor environment where visitors can lounge in summer weather [through 9/00]. "Volume: Bed of Sound" exhibits 60 artists with wall to ceiling speakers [through 9/00]. "Max Neuhaus: Drawings" displays well known favorites such as "Fan Music" & "Times Square" installation [through 9/00]. "Special Projects" exhibits site-specific, process motivated & audience oriented works [through 9/00].

 

QUEENS MUSEUM OF ART

New York City Bldg., Flushing Meadows Corona Park, 718-592-9700, www.queensmuse.org Weds.-Fri. 10-5; Sat.-Sun. 12-5; closed Mon. & Tues. $4, $2 st./sc., child. under 5 free. "QF:02" offers Matthew Bakkom's three listening stations along scale model of five boroughs with historic recordings & music [through 10/01]. "Tiffany in Queens: Selections from the Neustadt Museum Collection" [permanent]. "Queens Focus" displays work of local artists [permanent].

 

WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART

945 Madison Ave. (75th St.), 212-570-3600, www.whitney.org Weds., Fri.-Sun. & Tues. 11-6; Thurs. 1-8; closed Mon. $12.50, $10.50 st./sc./groups of 10 or more. "Carnival Strippers: Photographs by Susan Meiselas" works feat. female strip tease artists from the 1970's [through 9/10]. "The Art of Alice Neel" showcases half a century of works portraying artist's life & people in it [through 9/17]. "Barbara Kruger" represents artist's first major showing [through 9/22]. "Expanding Horizons: Landscape Photographs" displays 15 landscape images by 10 different photographers [through 10/6].

 

YESHIVA UNIVERSITY MUSEUM~CAMPUS LOCATION

2520 Amsterdam Ave. (185th St.), 212-960-5390. Weds., Thurs., Mon. & Tues. 10-5; closed Fri.-Sun. Free. Museum acquisitions from the past decade are displayed as corresponding to the Hebrew aleph-bet in "From Aleph to Tav: Collecting at the Turn of the Century" [permanent].

 

YESHIVA UNIVERSITY MUSEUM AT THE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY

15 W. 16th St. (5th Ave.), 212-294-8330. Weds., Sun. & Tues. 11-5; Thurs. 11-8; closed Mon., Fri. & Sat. $6, $4 st./sc., child. under 5 free, Yeshiva Univ. students free w/id. American turned Israeli artist portrays biblical cast of characters as modern figures confront ageless concerns in "David the King: Paintings by Ivan Schwebel" exhibit [through 12/2000]. "From Tent to Temple: Life in the Ancient Near East," interactive children's exhibit centering on life during the biblical age [through 12/2000]. "Major Intersections," broad overview of Jewish history feat. many previously unseen works of art, documents & historical objects [through 3/2001].