On July 26th The Bolshoi Ballet will dance the U.S. premiere of “The Taming of the Shrew” by French choreographer and Director of Ballets de Monte-Carlo Jean-Christophe Maillot. The full-evening ballet in two acts is based on the Shakespearean comedy and set to musical selections from film scores composed by Shostakovich.

Arts news highlights: “500 Years of Treasures from Oxford”” at the Center for Jewish History, Yeshiva University Museum; “”Irving Penn: Centennial”” at The Metropolitan Museum of Art; “”This Ever New Self: Thoreau & His Journal”” at The Morgan Library & Museum; Victory Dance at New Victory Theater.

A profile of artist Jeffrey Gibson, whose beadwork, ceramics, sculptures and paintings are inspired by his complex cultural heritage as well as by minimalism and abstraction. And a visit to the American Museum of Natural History for a look at the exhibition “Cuba.”