http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/28/arts/spare-times-for-nov-28-dec-4.html 2014-11-28 14:59:08 Spare Times for Nov. 28-Dec. 4 A selected guide to readings, exhibitions, walking tours and other cultural events in New York City. === Around Town Holiday Tree Lightings and Celebrations A stage at 63rd Street will feature performances by Arlo Guthrie and cast members from “Kinky Boots” on Broadway, including Billy Porter, who won a Tony Award last year for his leading role as Lola. Dishes from nearby restaurants can be sampled from 6 to 8:30 p.m., for $1 to $4; more details: winterseve.org. On Tuesday at 7 p.m., an interactive tree-lighting ceremony — dedicated to eradicating mother-to-child H.I.V. transmission — is planned in Bryant Park at Avenue of the Americas and 42nd Street. The event will help promote the work of RED, an advocacy group seeking to raise awareness and money to help eliminate AIDS. Entertainment, with music by Ingrid Michaelson and others, begins at 6 p.m. and the holiday shops will be open as well, top; wintervillage.org. Spectacle and charity; the best of the holidays. (Anne Mancuso) Museums and Sites Alice Austen House: Holiday Arts & Crafts Fair American Museum of Natural History: ‘Lonesome George’ American Museum of Natural History: Origami Holiday Tree American Museum of Natural History: ‘Pterosaurs: Flight in the Age of Dinosaurs’ Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum: ‘Masters of Disguise: The World of Camouflage’ Italian American Museum: Neapolitan Crèche Display and Talk Metropolitan Museum of Art: ‘Early American Guitars: The Instruments of C.F. Martin’ Morbid Anatomy Museum: ‘The Art of Mourning’ Museum of Sex: ‘Funland: Pleasures and Perils of the Erotic Fairground’ New York Hall of Science: Rocket Park Mini Golf New-York Historical Society: ‘Chinese American: Exclusion/Inclusion’ New York Society Library: ‘From the Western Front and Beyond: The Writings of World War I’ New York Transit Museum Annex: Holiday Train Show New York Transit Museum: ‘Spanning the Narrows: The Verrazano Bridge at 50’ Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian: Photography and Jewelry Display Gardens New York Botanical Garden: Holiday Train Show and ‘Bar Car Night’ Events African Diaspora International Film Festival The Ally COALITION Presents: A Talent Show ‘Bascove/Bridges: Transporting the Metropolis’ Christmas Tree Lighting in Bryant Park and Lincoln Square Christmas Tree Lighting in Park Slope, Brooklyn Christmas Tree Lightings Around Town Day With(out) Art: ‘Alternate Endings’ Holiday Markets at Union Square, Bryant Park and Columbus Circle Holiday Markets at Grand Central Terminal and in SoHo Woody Guthrie Tribute at Brooklyn Historical Society Spoken Word Roz Chast in Conversation Talks With Margaret Atwood and Wendy Whelan Walking Tours Flatiron District Walking Tour History of Wall Street Tour Not Starving Artists: How the New York Art Scene Spawned the Co-Op Union Square: Crossroads of New York Victorian Christmas: Origins of Christmas Traditions Recreation Walk Off the Turkey