If you’re in NYC this week, check out the beautiful collection of Disney animation art that will be auctioned off at Bonhams on June 5th. Over 290 original Disney drawings, celluloids, posters, and more can now be viewed until that time. Bonhams animation specialist Dana Hawkes will be available to answer questions, and she’ll tell you more about the background of these treasures.

Click HERE for more info.

 

Here are some other things to do in NYC, as compiled by Louis Lucero II of  The New York Times:

FOR CHILDREN

Science to Make Small Eyes Grow Wide: World Science Festival

From the depths of New York’s waterways to the most distant stars in its firmament, this annual celebration offers many adventures for children. Three are outdoors: “Science in the Square,” an exhibit extravaganza in Times Square through Saturday; the multisite Great Fish Count, all day Saturday, where young explorers can don waders and grab nets to help document the region’s aquatic species; and, that evening, from 7 to 11, “Saturday Night Lights,” a chance to stargaze with astronomers and astronauts in Brooklyn Bridge Park. Indoors, at 4 p.m. on Saturday, Alan Alda hosts “Flame Challenge: What Is Energy?,” an interactive investigation at the N.Y.U. Skirball Center. Also at Skirball, Sunday at 1:30 p.m., is “Cool Jobs,” an encounter with the hippest of science teachers. (One is a science rapper.) The N.Y.U. Kimmel Center will end the festival on Sunday with two free daylong events: Ultimate Science Sunday, an immersive fair whose activities will include playing soccer with robots, steering underwater rovers and taking a virtual reality tour of the moon; and “Science and Storytime,” a gathering of authors with cosmic concerns.

POP & ROCK

Between the East and Harlem Rivers, 3 Days of ‘Melodrama,’ Uplift and More: Governors Ball Music Festival at Randalls Island Park

Since its founding in 2011, Governors Ball has grown into a worthy counterpart to more established destination festivals like Coachella and Bonnaroo. The biggest draws this year are Lorde, who will preview her coming album, “Melodrama,” on Friday, and Chance the Rapper, who will try to outdo her later that evening with a headlining set of feel-good hip-hop. The sleek, refreshing synth-pop grooves of Phoenix (Saturday); the metal-tinged prog-rock epics of Tool (Sunday); and the hardheaded rhymes of Wu-Tang Clan (Saturday) are among the other sounds you’ll find in the eclectic lineup of this three-day festival.

MUSEUMS & GALLERIES

By Many Measures, Maybe Its Best Yet: 2017 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art

This Biennial, closing on June 11, is arguably the best in years, and perhaps the best ever in its combination of demographics, aesthetics and political urgency. Nearly half the featured artists are female, and half nonwhite. Their works reach from figure painting to virtual reality. Such realities as income inequality, racism, misogyny, immigration and violence are confronted in ways that set a h

CLASSICAL MUSIC

A Spotlight on Stars in the Pit: The Met Orchestra at Carnegie Hall

The players of the Metropolitan Opera continue their survey of Mahler, conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen. Saturday afternoon, Schumann’s Symphony No. 3 prefaces “Das Lied von der Erde,” with the mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill and the tenor Stuart Skelton. At 8 p.m. on Tuesday, Mahler’s “Blumine” and the “Kindertotenlieder,” sung by Anne Sofie von Otter, come with Sibelius, in the form of the Violin Concerto, played by Christian Tetzlaff, and the Symphony No. 7.

THEATER

An Immigrant Tale With a Built-In Sequel: ‘Sojourners’ and ‘Her Portmanteau’ at New York Theater Workshop

Mfoniso Udofia’s twinned plays about Nigerian immigrants will end their theatrical journey on June 11. Jesse Green described these “stunningly acted” dramas, directed by Ed Sylvanus Iskandar, as “a moving and powerful corrective to the notion that what immigrants leave behind is always awful, and that what they find is always worth the trip.”

DANCE

Graded on a Point System: School of American Ballet at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater

This New York City Ballet-affiliated school will present its end-of-the-year workshop performances on Saturday and Monday, an anticipated showcase now in its fifth decade. The program features Christopher Wheeldon’s “Scènes de Ballet,” created for students at the school in 1999 and an instant hit, and Peter Martins’s “Hallelujah Junction” (2001; set to music by John Adams, it features two pianos onstage). But beyond the opportunity to see ballet’s next generation, the main highlight is George Balanchine’s “Scotch Symphony” (1952), staged by the school’s esteemed Suki Schorer and Susan Pilarre. Chances are, it will sparkle with new life.

JAZZ

A Political Ensemble Ready to Speak ‘Truth to Power’: Eco-Music Big Band at Zankel Hall

Since the dissolution of Sam Rivers’s Rivbea Orchestra, we’ve been low on big bands ready to mix the high-dial energy of experimental improvising with a syncretic approach to America’s vast popular-music tradition. So it’s good to find this politically engaged ensemble doing its thing. Since 2015 it has released two thrilling albums, full of big-shouldered groove, fine-grained harmonies and frothy improvising — as well as occasional operatic vocals. On Saturday the group will play a program that it’s calling “Speaking Truth to Power,” with a jazz rendition of Stravinsky’s “L’Histoire du Soldat” (featuring the actor John Palladino, of “Orange Is the New Black”), and a performance of Fred Ho’s baritone saxophone concerto, “When the Real Dragons Fly.” The program is being presented by Marie Incontrera and David Whitwell.

AROUND TOWN

Sit as Close as You Like: Split Screens Festival at IFC Center

This theater, home to the country’s largest documentary film festival, Doc NYC, is now bingeing on the fictional marvels of television. Programmed by the film and TV critic Matt Zoller Seitz, this festival, which will continue through Thursday, is divided into premieres, including HBO’s “The Deuce”; showcases, including a panel on Amazon’s “The Man in the High Castle”; close-ups — as the festival is calling its onstage interviews — with Margo Martindale and Rami Malek; and a rewind of the nightmarish finale of NBC’s “Hannibal.

For more info on this and other events going on this week, click HERE.