Just in time for Earth Day, Apr. 22, Cirque du Soleil brings its newest spectacle to New York—OVO, a lively, colorful ecosystem inhabited by insects who cavort in a world of exquisite beauty and biodiversity. Of course, this being Cirque du Soleil, the insects are played by a company of 54 performing artists from 13 countries who are champion acrobats, tumblers, jugglers and aerialists. For the first time in its 26-year history, a woman—Brazilian writer and choreographer Deborah Colker—directs a Cirque du Soleil show. Colker has expanded the troupe’s repertoire by introducing dance movements into many of the acts (right)

» OVO by Cirque du Soleil, Randall’s Island Park, Randall’s Island in the East River, 1-800-450-1480, Apr. 9-Jun. 6

Jane Sauer of Santa Fe, N.M., whose eponymous gallery is among the more than 50 premier dealers from North and South America, Europe and the Far East showing at the 13th International Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair (SOFA), represents artists who are intelligent, technically adept, often unconventional but always limitless in their vision. The stars in her galaxy break the mold, like Irina Zaytceva, whose “Last Day of Summer” (left, 2008) is a hand-built and overglazed ceramic.

» SOFA New York 2010, Park Avenue Armory, Park Ave., at E. 67th St., 1-800-563-7632, Apr. 16-19

Thirty jewelers along 30 blocks of upper Madison Avenue celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Central Park Conservancy—the private, not-for-profit organization that manages New York’s 843-acre centerpiece—in grand style when horticulturists curate lavish, traffic-stopping window arrangements that mix Central Park flowers with precious platinum jewelry and gems from Asprey, Graff, Cartier, Kaufmann de Suisse, Chopard and others.

» Platinum Jewels in Bloom, Madison Ave., btw E. 57th & E. 86th sts., madisonavenuebid.org, Apr. 8-17

Tutankhamun has been dead for 3,333 years, but his mystique endures. “The legend of this beloved pharaoh will continue, in the words of the ancient Egyptians, ‘forever and for eternity,’” says Zahi Hawass, secretary general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities. An exhibition of King Tut’s funerary treasures (left) arrives in New York this month.

» Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs, Discovery Times Square Exposition, 226 W. 44th St., 1-866-987-9692, Apr. 23-Jan. 2, 2011