Stepping Out

What's happening on Long Island this weekend

Weekly calendar of exhibits, theater, music, and more

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Across Time & Place: Treasures from the Permanent Collection
This rotating exhibition highlights a broad range of works by 19th and 20th century American and European artists from the Heckscher Museum’s Permanent Collection. Of particular interest is Étienne Berne-Bellecour’s monumental Embarkation Maneuver, 1882, which factually depicts the departure of a regiment of cuirassiers following the Franco-Prussian War. Heckscher Museum of Art, Main St. and Prime Ave., Huntington. (631) 351-3250 or www.heckscher.org.
Artists in America
A survey of 300 years of great American paintings. Artists from every era of American art are featured among the exhibit’s 79 works, including John Singleton Copley, Charles Willson Peale, John Singer Sargent, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, Norman Rockwell, Robert Motherwell and Sol LeWitt. The works are selected from the permanent collections of the New Britain Museum of American Art in Connecticut. Through Feb. 24. Nassau County Museum of Art, 1 Museum Dr., Roslyn Harbor. 484-9337 or www.nassaumuseum.org.
The Lyon, the Which and the Warhol
An exhibit of photographs by photojournalist Danny Lyon and visionary pop artist Andy Warhol, culled from the Hofstra University Museum’s extensive photography collection. The exhibit connects their works to those in other media by Chuck Close, Jim Dine, and Lisbeth Firmin (the “Which”), emphasizing parallels between these artists. Through May 19. Hofstra University’s David
Filderman Gallery, Joan and Donald E. Axinn Library, South Campus, Hempstead. 463-5672.
Using the Lessons of the Holocaust to Teach Tolerance
A contextualized history that explains the 1920s’ increase of intolerance, reduction of human rights, and lack of intervention that enabled the persecution and mass murder of millions of Jews and others. Holocaust Memorial and Tolerance Center of Nassau County, 100 Crescent Beach Rd., Glen Cove. 571-8040 ext. 100 or www.holocaust-nassau.org.
Village Art Club Meeting
The Village Art Club welcomes the new year with a demonstration by multi-media artist Donna Harlow Moraff, Thursday, Jan. 24, 7 p.m. Admission is free and open to non-members. Rockville Centre Public Library, downstairs meeting room, 221 N. Village Ave., Rockville Centre.For information, call Anne Bailey at 887-1770.
Afternoon Movie
See “Men in Black III,” the action comedy with Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones, Friday, Jan. 25, 2:30 p.m.; also “Arbitrage,” the drama about a trouble hedge fund magnate, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 2 p.m. Elmont Memorial Library Theatre, 700 Hempstead Tpke., Elmont. 354-5280.
At the Movies
See the action thriller “The Bourne Legacy,” Friday, Jan. 25, 1 p.m.; Monday, Jan. 28, 6:30 p.m. Baldwin Public Library, 2385 Grand Ave., Baldwin. 223-6228.
Feature Film
See “Arbitrage,” the drama about a troubled hedge fund magnate, with Richard Gere, Friday, Jan. 25, 2 p.m. Rockville Centre Public Library, 221 N. Village Ave., Rockville Centre. 766-6257.
Monday Movie
Watch “Beasts of the Southern Wild,” the indie film that takes place in a southern Louisana bayou community, Monday, Jan. 28, 1:30 and 7 p.m. Oceanside Library, 30 Davison Ave., Oceanside. 766-2360.
Film Screening
See “The Moderns,” set in 1920s Paris about a struggling young artist and his involvement with the literary and artistic figures who reside there, Tuesday, Jan. 29, 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Peninsula Public Library, 280 Central Ave., Lawrence. 239-3262.
Movie Showing
See “Red Tails,” a dramatization of the Tuskegee Airmen, Thursday, Jan. 31, 2 p.m. Franklin Square Public Library, 19 Lincoln Rd., Franklin Square. 488-3444.

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