DART Partners with the Arts at Musuem of the City of New York
Tuesday, March 16 at 6:30 pm
The Addams Family: An Evilution, with Kevin Miserocchi
FREE for DART Subscribers

Charles Addams is probably best known for the ghoulish family that showed up in The New Yorker as cartoon characters, and later in a mid-1990s TV show, two films, and now as a Broadway play starting Nathan Lane and Bebe Neuwirth. Kevin Miserocchi, Director of the Tee and Charles Addams Foundation, is giving an illustrated talk about the foundation's new book on the characters that the illustrator introduced in a 1947 New Yorker cartoon.

Left: Boats to New York City. Right: Chartered Bus. Copyright Charles Addams, used with permission of Tee and Charles Addams Foundation.

The Addams Family: An Eviluton (Pomegranate 2010) traces the history of Morticia, Gomez and their spooky clan through more than 200 cartoons created by Charles Addams (1912-1988), many of them never before published.

This special program is FREE to DART subscribers, but reservations are required as space is limited: 917.492.3395 or programs@mcny.org. Just mention DART/AI-AP and your tickets will be held for you. Visitors may arrive at 6:00 to preview the exhibition before the program begins. A book signing will follow the program.

Charles Addams's New York is on view through May 16 at the Museum of the City of New York, Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street; 212.534.1672, mcny.org. See the recent review and slide show in The New York Times.
From the press release: One of the leading humorists of the 20th century, Charles Addams portrayed New York as a comic underworld populated with characteristic New Yorkers who interacted with monsters, creepy creatures, offbeat people, and other hapless inhabitants, all depicted in unusual situations. The more than 80 drawings, cartoons, sketches, watercolors, and pencil sketches on view - published and unpublished, black and white and in color - as  well as examples of the artist's personal ephemera, demonstrate the inspiration Addams derived from New York City as well as his singular approach to the city's visual and imaginative possibilities.

The Museum of the City of New York is located at Fifth Avenue and 103^rd Street.
By bus: M1, M3, M4 or M106 to 104th Street, M2 to 101st Street.
By subway: #6 Lexington Avenue train to 103rd Street, walk three blocks west. #2 or #3 train to Central Park North (110th Street), walk one block east to Fifth Avenue, then south to 104th Street.
Ramp access is available at the 104th Street entrance.