Manhattan on the Web: Culture

Dance

Dance Theatre of Harlem
Founded in 1969, Dance Theatre of Harlem established new horizons in the history of classical ballet, bringing to it a uniquely American perspective - one born and nurtured in New York City.

Joyce Theater
The Joyce presents a broad selection of national and international dance programs in a state-of-the-art performance venue. The Joyce also provides a fertile ground for the development and the education of new audiences for dance.

New York City Ballet
The New York City Ballet is one of the foremost dance companies in the world. Currently, the Company has approximately 90 dancers, making it the largest dance organization in America. It has an active repertory of over 150 works, principally choreographed by George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins and Peter Martins.

Festivals and Fairs

Feast of San Gennaro

Fringe Festival
A festival of independent theater.

Jacob Javits Center Calendar
Expos, fairs and other events.

Mostly Mozart Festival

New York City Street Fairs
Schedules and descriptions.

New York City Underground Comedy Festival

Institutions and Organizations

Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation
The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation promotes the advancement and perpetuation of humanistic inquiry and artistic creativity by encouraging excellence in scholarship and in the performing arts, and by supporting research libraries and other institutions that preserve the resources which transmit this cultural heritage.

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Inc.
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council has fostered a cultural community downtown, which has contributed to Lower Manhattan's renaissance. LMCC programs serve artists and the public throughout the borough of Manhattan.

P.S. 122
Performance Space 122 is a not-for-profit arts center serving the New York City dance and performance community. P.S. 122 is committed to supporting the development of work by individual artists who create live art with an authentic vision.

Music

Amato Opera Theate
Under the direction of Anthony and Sally Amato, The Amato Opera Theater, provides a platform for aspiring young artists to perform grand opera.

Birdland
The official website for Birdland, the Jazz Corner of the World, features the club's schedule, menu, CDs and a history of this important jazz landmark.

Blue Note
The Blue Note is synonymous not only with great jazz in an intimate setting, but also critically-acclaimed food. Ever since the Blue Note opened its doors in 1981, the club has always opted for quality. Over the last sixteen years, the Blue Note has become an institution - the premier jazz venue in the world.

Carnegie Hall
For more than a century, Carnegie Hall has set the standard for excellence in performance. Though it is considered a world stage, Carnegie Hall is to a great extent an American institution, which continues to have a significant impact on the development of American culture.

Dicapo Opera Theater
Dicapo Opera Theater's internationally-acclaimed productions attract distinguished singers from the stages of The Metropolitan Opera, New York City Opera, as well as opera companies in San Francisco, Italy, and Germany.

Greenwich Village Orchestra
A community orchestra established in 1986 featuring players from all walks of life who bring great music to audiences at affordable ticket prices. Information is provided for talented musicians looking to play with a community orchestra, people interested in volunteer work with a performing musical group, and music lovers in search of schedule information.

Jazz at Lincoln Center
Jazz at Lincoln Center is the world's largest not-for-profit arts organization committed to promoting the appreciation and understanding of jazz through performance, education, and preservation.

Madison Square Garden
Throughout the past 30 years, the biggest names in the music industry have played Madison Square Garden, including Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra and Elton John to name a few.

Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera presents the world's most outstanding artists on one of the most important and impressive opera stages in the world. The Met is also reknown for its Saturday afternoon broadcast and televised opera performances.

New York City Opera
New York City Opera continues to produce innovative new productions, showcasing the best American talent, and to develop new opera audiences through its National Company, Live from Lincoln Center telecasts and educational programs in the public schools.

New York Grand Opera Company
Under the leadership of Vincent La Selva The New York Grand Opera Guild frequently offers programs in various New York venues including CarnegieHall and Weill Recital Hall. The New York Grand Opera has been presenting free staged performances of operas at Central Park's SummerStage, regularly attracting audiences of several thousand.

New York Repertory Orchestra
A community-based orchestra founded in 1991. The NYRO is composed of professional, semi-professional, and talented amateur musicians. Upcoming concerts are listed and information about playing memberships is included.

Oratorio Society of New
The Oratorio Society of New York has been an essential part of New York City's cultural fabric. Founded in 1873 by Leopold Damrosch, the Society is the city's second oldest cultural organization.The Official Website of The Oratorio Society of New York offers information about concerts, singing opportunities, society history, and more.

Radio City Music Hall
Radio City Music Hall offers one of the most diverse line-ups of shows, concerts and special events, not to mention the world famous Rockettes.

Smalls
Since it opened in 1994, Smalls has been "NY's cutting edge jazz club." The club features regular bands, frequent sit-ins by legendary and simply great jazz musicians, and jam sessions nightly from 2 AM until dawn.

The Soundart Foundation
Presenting a series of concerts in New York City featuring music in open forms often involving electronics, graphic notation, performance art, fluxus, computers, and other experimental forms.

The Village Light Opera Group of New York City
Twice a year this amateur group puts together a very professional operetta or musical play, often from the repertoire of Gilbert and Sullivan. Whether you want to join the production activities or simply enjoy the shows, the VLOG is certain to entertain you. Information is provided on upcoming events and past performances.

Village Vanguard
Described as the "Carnegie Hall of Jazz clubs" and "The Mecca of Hip", the Village Vanguard has servered as the heart and soul of live jazz in Manhattan for many years.

Theater

HighFive
High 5 Tickets to the Arts is a discount ticket program for middle school and high school students. High 5 tickets are donated by the participating arts organizations and can be purchased at all New York City Ticketmaster outlets.

Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs
MAC, The Manhattan Association of Cabarets & Clubs, Inc., provides members sites which include cabaret performers, jazz musicians, comedians and those who engage in all aspects of live entertainment.

Manhattan Theater Club
This organization is dedicated to the promotion and presentation of high quality theatrical productions, including experimental theater. It attracts a wide variety of playwrights and actors, from the well known to the unknown. In addition to plays, it presents readings and lectures in its Writers in Performance series. Information on upcoming events and ticket purchases is provided.

New York Shakespeare Theate
The Delacorte Theater in conjunction with The Public Theater hosts free performances in Central Park in its open-air amphitheater, during the months of June, July, and August, including at least one Shakespeare production each season.

Playbill Online
Playbill On-Line is the world's largest source of theater information via any medium. Published by the same company that has printed Playbill Magazine on Broadway for 114 years.. At Playbill On-Line you can get the latest theatre news, purchase tickets to Broadway shows, obtain discounts on theatre tickets as well as search an extensive listing of casting calls and job listings, order the latest theatrical merchandise from Broadway Gift Shop and much, much more.

Theater.com
Theater.com is one of the most comprehensive destinations for live theater on the Internet. The site also features theater reviews, interviews, visual exerpts, show synopses, online ticket purchasing, and more.

TKTS/Theater Development Fund
Theatre Development Fund is the largest not-for-profit service organization for the performing arts in the country.TDF's website offers information on TKTS booths, TDF vouchers, ticket programs and more.

Visual Arts

Aperture Foundation-Burden Gallery
Aperture is a not-for-profit public foundation devoted to photography and related visual arts.

Art Now Gallery Guide
Gallery Guide is the most comprehensive source of gallery and museum exhibitions nationwide. It has established a highly respectable place in the art world by providing a targeted audience (museums, art galleries, collectors, curators, journalists, art dealers, bookstores, art fairs, and the general art enthusiasts) with the most up to date information pertaining to the art world. The site contains an online version of Gallery Guide magazine.

Artists Space
Artists Space was founded in 1972 as a non-profit institution supporting unaffiliated contemporary artists working in the visual arts, including the media of video, performance, architecture and design.

Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
The only museum in the United States devoted exclusively to the study of historical and contemporary design, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum recognizes that individuals, societies, and the natural environment are linked through design.

El Museo del Barrio
El Museo's collections and programs respond to substantial growth in the Mexican, Central and South American, and Caribbean communities, both in New York and nationally.

Jewish Museum
The Jewish Museum is the largest Jewish museum in the Western Hemisphere. Art is its primary medium of communication; yet the Museum's permanent exhibition presents, within an historical context, the multiple facets of Jewish identity as it has emerged during more than four millennia.

Museum for African Art
The Museum for African Art is dedicated to increasing public understanding and appreciation of African art and culture.

Solomon R. Guggenheim
The Guggenheim Museum has one of the world's largest collections of Vasily Kandinsky, as well as major holdings of works by Constantin Brancusi, Alexander Calder, Marc Chagall, Robert Delaunay, Paul Klee, Joan Miró, Pablo Picasso, and many other artists of the 20th century.

Studio Museum in Harlem
Opened in 1968 as a working and exhibiting space for African-American artists, the Studio Museum offers special exhibition galleries, a Sculpture Garden, studios for artists-in-residence, and a Museum Store.

The Frick Collection
The Frick Collection includes some of the best-known paintings by the greatest European artists, major works of sculpture, superb eighteenth-century French furniture and porcelains, Limoges enamels, Oriental rugs, and other works of remarkable quality.

The International Center of Photography
The International Center of Photography is a museum, a school and a center for photographers and photography. ICP's mission is to present photography's vital and central place in contemporary culture, and to lead in interpretation issues central to its development.

The Metropolitan Museum Of Art
The Metropolitan Museum's collection now contains more than two million works of art from all points of the compass, ancient through modern times. About 3,500 objects are reproduced here as a first installment, as well as the entire Department of European Paintings. View highlights from the collection by selecting a curatorial department.

The Museum Of Modern Art
The Museum of Modern Art's collection includes more than 100,000 paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, architectural models and drawings, and design objects. MoMA also owns some 14,000 films and four million film stills, as well as 140,000 books, artist books, and periodicals, all part of the Museum's library.

The Museum of Television & Radio
The Museum of Television & Radio is a nonprofit organization founded by William S. Paley in 1975 to collect and preserve television and radio programs and to make these programs available to the public.

The New Museum
Founded in 1977, the New Museum is the premier contemporary art museum in New York City and among the most important internationally. Dynamic solo exhibitions and landmark group shows define key moments in the development of contemporary art, reflect the global nature of art today, and span a vast array of cultural activities and media.

Whitney Museum of American Art
The Whitney Museum houses one of the world's foremost collections of twentieth-century American art. The Permanent Collection of some 12,000 works encompasses paintings, sculptures, multimedia installations, drawings, prints, and photographs--and is still growing.