MUSEUMS & CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS AMERICAN CRAFT MUSEUM 40 W. 53rd St. ...

40 W. 53rd St. (betw. 5th & 6th Aves.), 212-956-3535, www.americancraftmusem.org Weds.; Fri.-Sun.; Tues. 10-6. Thurs. 10-8. Closed Mon. $5, $2.50 st./sc., child. under 12 free. "Memories of Murano: American Glass Artists in Venice" exhibit looks at Italian influence on revolution post-war American glass art [through 1/8/01]. Related exhibit in the comprehensive "Venetian Glass: 20th-Century Italian Glass" [through 1/7/01].

 

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. "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. "Hip-Hop Nation: Roots, Rhythm, & Rage" exhibit explores 25 years of hiphop music through urban lyrical art, artifacts, & manuscripts of lyrics & audio components worn by artists much as Run-DMC, Tupac & Brooklyn-bred Notorious B.I.G. & Jay-Z [through 12/31]

 

DAHESH MUSEUM

601 5th Ave. (49th St.), 212-759-0606. Weds.-Sat. & Tues. 11-6; Closed Sun. & Mon. Free. "A Distant Muse: Orientalist Works," European views of the Middle East during 18th- & 19th-centuries [through 10/30].

 

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 [through 1/7/01].

 

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. "Defending our Future" exhibits machinery, statistics & Pentagon's latest project [permanent]. "Desert Storm Strike," "A-6 Cockpit Challenge" & "Cold War/Berlin Wall Exhibit" [permanent]. "Prepare to Dive: Centennial Exhibit of the Navy's First Submarine" feat. submarine built in 1878 [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. "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]. "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 3/01]. "Morocco: Jews & Art in a Muslim Land" feat. 2000 years of cultural artifacts from center of traditional Jewish culture [through 2/11/01].

 

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. "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]. See more than 90 photos of legendary beauty & secret agent, the Countess de Castiglione in "La Divine Comtesse" [through 12/31]. "Art & the Empire City: New York 1825-1861," art explosion that accompanied New York's ascendance as the dominant national city [through 1/7/01]. View evolution of quintessential Chinese art form over last 1400 years during "The Embodied Image: Chinese Calligraphy" exhibit [through 1/7/01]. "The Year One: Art of the Ancient World East & West," synthesis of global art from 2000 years ago [opens Tues., through 1/14/00] "Egyptian Art at Eton College," rare exhibition of ancient Egyptian art from the Myers museum [through 1/21/01].

 

MUSEUM FOR AFRICAN ART

593 B'way (betw. Prince & Houston Sts.) 212-966-1313, museum@africanart.org Weds.-Fri., 10:30-5:30; Sat. & Sun. 12-6. $5, $2.50 st./sc. & child. "In the Presence of Spirits" exhibit feat. over 140 works depicting interplay between life & supernatural in Africa [opens Weds., through 12/31].

 

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. "Fly to Freedom: Art of the Golden Venture Refugees", collection of paper sculptures created while refugees were incarcerated [opens Sun., through 11/4]. "Chinatowns in North America," William Chu's CD-ROM tour documents 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. Twenty-five students learning to pitch fashion & merchandise display their works in "FMM: The Business of Marketing" exhibit [through 10/7]. "Bonnie Cashin: Practical Dreamer," retrospective of a pioneering sportswear & Hollywood costume designer [through 1/6/01].

 

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]. "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] "Under the El, City Life in 20th-century Prints & Drawings," depictions of life during era of elevated trains [through 12/3]. 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 MODERN ART

11 W. 53rd St. (Betw. 5th & 6th Ave.), 212-708-9755, www.moma.org Closed Weds. Thurs., Sat-Tues. 10:30-5:45. Fri. 10:30-8:15. $10, $6.50 st./sc., child. under 16 free. "Architecture Hot & Cold", images of buildings real & imagined [opens Thurs., through 1/2/00]. "Innocence & Experience", examines how perceptions of childhood have gone from positive to dark & threatening [opens Thurs., through 1/2/00]. "Matter", explores role of material in defining art [opens Thurs., through 1/2/00].

 

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. "Madison Avenue Goes To Washington" exhibit exposes the genius of Jay Ward & campaigning via television [through 11/12]. Experience variety of radio programs turned television shows during "From Radio to Television" series feat. Dick Tracy to Father Knows Best [through 12/3]. "Monster in the Box: Horror on Television" explores five decades of camp, fear, creepy & frightful programs in 90 minute packages [through 12/10].

 

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN

George Gustav Heye Center, 1 Bowling Green (betw. State & Whitehall Sts.) 212-668-6624. Weds. & Fri.-Tues. 10-5; Thurs. 10-8. Free. "Who Stole the Tee Pee?" exhibition of how modern Indian artists have responded to change since 1900. [opens Sun., through 1/21/00]. "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].

 

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. "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. "The Jenny Lind Festival" include. memorabilia from 1850-1852 tour of the Swedish nightingale, America's first celebrity [through 10/29]. Exploration of works by a man most famous for the Woolworth Building exhibited in "Inventing the Skyline: the Architecture of Cass Gilbert" [through 1/21]. "Kid City" [permanent]. "Masterworks of 19th-century American Painting" feat. nearly 50 oil paintings by such artists as William Sydney Mount, Thomas Cole & Asher B. Durand [permanent].

 

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. "Santiago Sierra: New Work," performance based pieces on labor & its exploitation [through 11/00]. View first retrospective in America of the dream worlds of "John Wesley: Paintings 1961-2000" [through 11/00.].

 

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]. "Queens Focus" displays work of local artists [permanent]. "Tiffany in Queens: Selections from the Neustadt Museum Collection" [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. "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 12/31]. "From Tent to Temple: Life in the Ancient Near East," interactive children's exhibit centers on life during biblical age [through 1/14/01]. "Major Intersections," broad overview of Jewish history feat. many previously unseen works of art, documents & historical objects [through 3/2001].