POLLYTALK FROM NEW YORK
by Polly Guerin
February 18, 2008
Culture Vultures: Take New York On the Cheap
What New York on the Cheap??? That's right art exhibits, museums, poetry and book signings,
concerts, recitals, lectures and all kinds of cultural events are FREE for the taking or you pay a
minimum charge that won't break your budget.
I'm not ancient but I remember the Metropolitan Museum of Art when it was free and there was
hardly anyone there, but today it’s a madhouse as crowds swarm in droves to this Mecca of
culture. The museum open Tues-Sun was closed to the public every Monday for 30 years, but
now the museum is open on "Met Holiday Mondays" starting with President's Day, February 18th
and again on May 26th Memorial Day. If you can't afford the steep admission fee, remember it is
'Suggested Admission,' so give what you can afford, even one dollar and you'll get in.
Want to learn more about Meissen Porcelain and how the royals dined in fine china? Head to 18
W. 86th Street to view the exhibit "Fragile Diplomacy" at The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in
the Decorative Arts. It's FREE Thursdays after 5pm and only $3 for adults and $2 for
seniors/students on other days.
Windows of opportunity at other museums to view rare collections include The Frick Collection,
pay-what-you-wish on Sun. from ll-lpm, and the Morgan Library and Museum FREE Fri. 7-9pm.
Check it out. Barnes & Noble and Borders Books have FREE book readings, discussions and
signings. If it’s a celebrity author be sure to arrive early to get a seat.
What an opportunity!!! Hear Vladimir Feltsman at the piano playing Bach: Keyboard Concerto
No. 5 in F minor with The Mannes Orchestra on Tues., Feb. 19 at 8pm. FREE tickets are available
in person at Carnegie Hall Box Office.
Opera buffs hear this, Mozart's The Magic Flute featuring singers from the Juilliard Opera
Theatre and the Juilliard Orchestra is FREE, no tics required, doors open 7pm Wed Feb. 20 & Fri.
Feb. 22 at the Peter Sharp Theatre, 155 W. 65th St.
Wanna Dance? Club Manhattan, around for over 25 years is still in the grove. The Feb. 23
event features The Holidays, 4-piece band playing music in the ballroom dance genre from 8 to
midnight at 66th and Lexington Ave. $l2 entry fee lets you hustle your bustle and includes a free
drink, coffee and cake.
Churches around town merely ask for a free will offering and if you're strapped for cash you'll
not be turned away. St. Vincent Ferrer Church's musical program, the Crucifixion, is scheduled for
March 2 at 3pm.
Look no further than Macy's Herald Square on Feb. 21 at 6pm on 8, to hear The National Jazz
Museum in Harlem All-Stars in a FREE musical performance and tell fascinating stories about Billie
Holiday, Miles Davis and Duke Ellington.
Who says you can't learn about antiques. Madeleine Castaing, the Paris interior designer and
antiques dealer, who died in l992, is the subject of a half-hour documentary about her life, FREE
of charge at the New York School of Interior Design, 170 East 70th St., on March 26 at 6:30pm
Josiah Wedgwood, a self-educated scientist and innovator and ceramic artist is FREE in
"Wedgwood and His Circle" through April 18, at the UBS Art Gallery, between 5l and 52nd Sts.
CUNY Graduate Center at 34th & Fifth Avenue welcomes you to a FREE program "New Visions:
Poets & Artist in Collaboration" with guest Alice Quinn, Feb. 26th, 7pm in the Martin E. Segal
Theatre, 365 Fifth Ave.
Now that's a lot of culture for one week, but remember New York City can be had "On the
Cheap" all year round.
by Polly Guerin
February 18, 2008
Culture Vultures: Take New York On the Cheap
What New York on the Cheap??? That's right art exhibits, museums, poetry and book signings,
concerts, recitals, lectures and all kinds of cultural events are FREE for the taking or you pay a
minimum charge that won't break your budget.
I'm not ancient but I remember the Metropolitan Museum of Art when it was free and there was
hardly anyone there, but today it’s a madhouse as crowds swarm in droves to this Mecca of
culture. The museum open Tues-Sun was closed to the public every Monday for 30 years, but
now the museum is open on "Met Holiday Mondays" starting with President's Day, February 18th
and again on May 26th Memorial Day. If you can't afford the steep admission fee, remember it is
'Suggested Admission,' so give what you can afford, even one dollar and you'll get in.
Want to learn more about Meissen Porcelain and how the royals dined in fine china? Head to 18
W. 86th Street to view the exhibit "Fragile Diplomacy" at The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in
the Decorative Arts. It's FREE Thursdays after 5pm and only $3 for adults and $2 for
seniors/students on other days.
Windows of opportunity at other museums to view rare collections include The Frick Collection,
pay-what-you-wish on Sun. from ll-lpm, and the Morgan Library and Museum FREE Fri. 7-9pm.
Check it out. Barnes & Noble and Borders Books have FREE book readings, discussions and
signings. If it’s a celebrity author be sure to arrive early to get a seat.
What an opportunity!!! Hear Vladimir Feltsman at the piano playing Bach: Keyboard Concerto
No. 5 in F minor with The Mannes Orchestra on Tues., Feb. 19 at 8pm. FREE tickets are available
in person at Carnegie Hall Box Office.
Opera buffs hear this, Mozart's The Magic Flute featuring singers from the Juilliard Opera
Theatre and the Juilliard Orchestra is FREE, no tics required, doors open 7pm Wed Feb. 20 & Fri.
Feb. 22 at the Peter Sharp Theatre, 155 W. 65th St.
Wanna Dance? Club Manhattan, around for over 25 years is still in the grove. The Feb. 23
event features The Holidays, 4-piece band playing music in the ballroom dance genre from 8 to
midnight at 66th and Lexington Ave. $l2 entry fee lets you hustle your bustle and includes a free
drink, coffee and cake.
Churches around town merely ask for a free will offering and if you're strapped for cash you'll
not be turned away. St. Vincent Ferrer Church's musical program, the Crucifixion, is scheduled for
March 2 at 3pm.
Look no further than Macy's Herald Square on Feb. 21 at 6pm on 8, to hear The National Jazz
Museum in Harlem All-Stars in a FREE musical performance and tell fascinating stories about Billie
Holiday, Miles Davis and Duke Ellington.
Who says you can't learn about antiques. Madeleine Castaing, the Paris interior designer and
antiques dealer, who died in l992, is the subject of a half-hour documentary about her life, FREE
of charge at the New York School of Interior Design, 170 East 70th St., on March 26 at 6:30pm
Josiah Wedgwood, a self-educated scientist and innovator and ceramic artist is FREE in
"Wedgwood and His Circle" through April 18, at the UBS Art Gallery, between 5l and 52nd Sts.
CUNY Graduate Center at 34th & Fifth Avenue welcomes you to a FREE program "New Visions:
Poets & Artist in Collaboration" with guest Alice Quinn, Feb. 26th, 7pm in the Martin E. Segal
Theatre, 365 Fifth Ave.
Now that's a lot of culture for one week, but remember New York City can be had "On the
Cheap" all year round.
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