Some Of The Harlem News That's Fit To Click: Weekend Activities Edition
Huge dude on a mission will match up kids and sports will be doing just that at the Harlem Armory on the 29th. [Post]
Former executive director and president of the Studio Museum in Harlem is now a curator at the Museum of Arts & Design. [Times]
And speaking of the arts and stuff to do...
MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street. Saturday at 1 p.m., “East Harlem Baseball: Walking Tour,” with a curator-led tour of the exhibition “The Glory Days: New York Baseball 1947-1957,” on view at the museum through Dec. 31, followed by a visit to a baseball exhibition at the nearby Julia de Burgos Cultural Center and a stop at an old-timer’s stickball game on 104th Street and Madison Avenue. Free with Museum admission: $9; $5 for members, students and 62+, free for children under 12; $20 for families; reservations required: (212) 534-1672; mcny.org. [Times]
NOSHWALKS Tomorrow at 2:30 p.m., East Harlem spots that specialize in Caribbean, Mexican, French and Italian foods, meeting at the Malcolm Shabazz African Market, West 116th Street between Fifth Avenue and Malcolm X Boulevard. (212) 222-2243; noshwalks.com. $35. [Times]
THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: 'MIDNIGHT'S DAYDREAM,' through Oct. 28. The three artists in this show were artists in residence at the Studio Museum of Harlem in the last year, but their work represents very different approaches. Titus Kaphar is the classicist, taking European and American portrait paintings from the 18th and 19th centuries and reconfiguring them into strategic compositions. Wardell Milan II is the archetypal collagist, photographing arrangements of art reproductions, family photos and images cut from magazines. Demetrius Oliver is the Conceptualist, working in the trickster vein of David Hammons and Duchamp. All three, however, actively confront race and (art) history, which often seems a mandate for young black artists. 144 West 125th Street, (212) 864-4500, studiomuseum.org. (Schwendener) [Times]
ANNUAL ASTHMA MARCH, Saturday at 10 a.m., a two-and-a-half mile march beginning at the office of Melissa Mark-Viverito, city councilwoman, 105 East 116th Street, and ending at the Adam Clayton Powell Jr. State Office Building, 163 West 125th Street, Harlem. Sponsored by the East Harlem Asthma Working Group, a consortium of health professionals and social and community leaders formed in 1996 to promote programs to combat asthma in homes and schools in the community. Also, breakfast will be available at the starting location beginning at 9 a.m., and there will be asthma screenings for those 18 and younger as well as lunch and raffles from noon to 4 p.m. at the ending point. (646) 331-4565. Free. [Times]





