What to do in May? The Robert Mapplethorpe exhibit at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, or the Alicia Keys concert in San Jose, California? We took a peek inside the calendars of several prominent individuals to find out who's going to be where and which events would be worth attending. Here's what they're doing this month:

Eli Broad, founder of SunAmerica and KB Home; founder of the Broad Foundation
Wouldn't miss:
- The "Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy" exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, opening May 7.

Also on the calendar:
- Traveling to Paris with Richard Serra for the May 7 opening of the artist's show "Promenade" at the Grand Palais.
- The premiere of French Twist, a dance-cabaret-opera mélange, at the Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis, on May 9.
- The contemporary art auctions in New York, May 13 and 14.
- The New York Philharmonic's semi-staged performance of Lerner and Loewe's Camelot, May 7 to 10, at Lincoln Center.

Sandy Weill, former chairman and C.E.O. of Citigroup; chairman of Carnegie Hall
Wouldn't miss:
- The graduation of Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar's inaugural class, in Doha on May 8.

Also on the calendar:
- The Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater's annual gala in New York on May 20. (Weill's wife, Joan, is chairwoman of the organization.)
- The final concerts of Citi Global Encounters, a series that introduces high-school students to music from around the world, at Carnegie Hall, in New York, at the end of May.

Caroline Rose Hunt, founder and honorary chairwoman of Rosewood Hotels & Resorts
Wouldn't miss:
- The Annual Spring Gala of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, in Washington, D.C., on May 2. (Hunt is on the advisory board.)

Also on the calendar:
- The Dallas Children's Theater’s musical production If You Give a Pig a Party. It's based on a favorite book of her twin granddaughters.
- The J.M.W. Turner exhibition at the Dallas Museum of Art. (Hunt refers to an 1848 Turner exhibition in London in a novel she wrote.)
- Hal Holbrook in his Tony Award-winning one-man-show Mark Twain Tonight!, in Santa Barbara, California, on May 16.
- The Atlanta Jazz Festival over Memorial Day weekend.
 
Leonard Lauder, chairman of the Estée Lauder Companies; chairman of the Whitney Museum of American Art
Wouldn't miss: 
- The 2008 Whitney Biennial, running through June 1. (Lauder always visits the Biennial three or four times.)

Also on the calendar:
- "Polaroids: Mapplethorpe" opening May 3 at the Whitney Museum.
- Reading Trading Up by Michael J. Silverstein and Neil Fiske.

Brook Byers, partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Wouldn't miss:
- The 51st San Francisco International Film Festival, which runs through May 8.
- The 15th Annual KFOG KaBoom fireworks display, synchronized to a rock soundtrack, at Piers 30/32 in San Francisco on May 10.

Also on the calendar:
- The 2008 San Francisco Decorator Showcase, running through May 26.
- R.E.M.'s outdoor concert at the University of California at Berkeley’s Greek Theater, on May 31.
- The Alicia Keys concert in San Jose, California, on May 10
- The Lee Friedlander photography retrospective show at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, running through May 18.
- Dancin' with Gershwin by the Smuin Ballet, running May 2 to 11 in San Francisco.

Marissa Mayer, vice president of search products and user experience at Google
On the calendar:
- The San Francisco Ballet's New Works Festival, running through May 6.  
- The opening of Sex and the City: The Movie, on May 30.
- The "Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy" exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, opening May 7.
- The San Francisco MOMA's Modern Art Council Art Auction 2008, on May 14.