FOOTLIGHTS
NEWS  Home for Homage
The coming attraction at the Globe Theater beside the Thames River in London is the world's largest exhibition devoted to William Shakespeare. That was the word yesterday from Britain, where the $10.5 million combination of museum and theme park is to be opened on Thursday by the Oscar-winning actress Judi Dench. The show, which is expected to attract as many as 400,000 people annually, will enable visitors to compose a sonnet with a quill pen, witness swordplay, see Shakespeare's will and even put their own voices into a prerecorded scene from a Globe production.
In Collaboration
Emblematic of fervent faith, 20 rare sculptures and paintings and 55 documentary photographs from the Hispanic Society of America will be exhibited beginning on Thursday at the American Bible Society on Broadway at 61st Street. 'Images in Procession: Testimonies to Spanish Faith' examines the relationship between the believer and sculptured images as demonstrated in Spain in religious processions. The show, through April 29, includes paintings from Latin America and New Mexico to document the continuation of the tradition of religious processions in the New World.
Argentine Ways
Spring will be in the air when Buenos Aires comes to New York from today till March 26. The event is 'Celebrate Buenos Aires!' at the World Financial Center. This festival is centered around 'Buenos Aires 1910: Memories of the World to Come,' an exhibition of more than 500 objects and images that illuminate the city's life, social conflict and unrest, as well as the Centennial Celebration of 1910. 'Celebrate Buenos Aires!' begins at 8 tonight with a performance in the center's Winter Garden by the tango singer Susana Rinaldi. Coming events include performances by Ballet Argentino.
Sidewalks of New York
Using a hand-held 35-millimeter Leica camera, Ben Shahn (1898-1969) roamed the streets of New York in the 1930's, capturing images of places like Greenwich Village, the Lower East Side and  the Bowery. These powerful works of Social Realist art served as Shahn's inspiration for paintings, drawings, prints, posters, murals and other projects that promoted reform. Beginning on Saturday, more than 150 of these photographs, as well as ink drawings, mural studies and other relevant material, will go on display at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass. 'Ben Shahn's New York: The Photography of Modern Times,' drawn from Harvard's collections, continues until April 30.
LAWRENCE VAN GELDER