15 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Friday, January 28, 2022
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
Improve balance, strength and focus through gentle exercises. The sights and sounds of the river provide ...
more >> a serene background for the ancient flowing postures.
These free tours take place at various times during the day, all day long. You can make reservations ...
more >> for as many tours as your schedule allows.
SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown
Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights + DUMBO
3 Hour Lower Manhattan
Harlem
Chelsea and the High Line
6 Hour Downtown Combined
Greenwich Village
Central Park
Lower Manhattan
Midtown Manhattan
Grand Central Terminal
Graffiti and Street Art Tours
World Trade Center
Editor's Pick
War dominated the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Europe. New political ideologies also added tensions. ...
more >> Art responded by turning its focus onto the common man and woman in natural and urban environments. The Americas were impacted as well with cries for change. In Mexico, a ten-year revolution offered an opportunity for Mexico to acknowledge its pre-Hispanic past with a new blended population. Art became the medium to spark emotions and share with pride epic tales of how this blended world was to take shape. The Mexican Muralism Movement embraced European traditions of drawing and frescoes with social realism and new aesthetics that swept into North America. Our panel will discuss these impacts and the artists whose mark still moves us today. This is a panel discussion led by Savona Bailey-McClain, Executive Director and Chief Curator of the West Harlem Art Fund. Panelists include: -- Esther Adler, Associate Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints, MoMA -- Leon Tovar, Principal, Leon Tovar Gallery, NYC -- Dr. Orlando Hernandez-Ying, Rockefeller Brothers Fund Curatorial Research Fellow for the Hubert & Mireille Goldschmidt Works on Paper Fellowship, Hispanic Society Museum & Library -- With remarks from: Dr. Marcus B. Burke, Senior Curator, Paintings, Drawings, and Metalworks, Hispanic Society Museum & Library
This panel takes a global perspective on the history of money during the early modern period, an era ...
more >> often associated with the growth of state power, colonialism, and global commercial connections. By facilitating comparisons and drawing connections across different historiographies, we hope to elucidate the relationship between money and sovereignty, the links between social relations and market exchange, and the tensions between global currencies and localized values.
The collection of Tiffany's leaded glass includes an extraordinary array of floral and geometric lamps ...
more >> as well as landscape and figural windows. A unique feature of the collection is a vast, one-of-a-kind archive of original flat glass and pressed-glass "jewels" used by Tiffany Studios, which provides valuable insight into the development of the stained-glass movement in America at the turn of the twentieth century. Established in 1972, this art museum's permanent collection consists of around 10,000 items, over 6,000 of which are documents and objects related to the 1939 and 1964 World's Fairs, some of which are on long-term display. Covid protocol applies.
12:00 pm
free, tickets required
A poll showed Kosovo citizens were more optimistic than in the fall about the direction of the country. ...
more >> Economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and vaccination against the virus joined longstanding concerns related to unemployment and corruption. Concern about the safety of the vaccine was high, and belief in false COVID-19 narratives remained, just before Kosovo began its broader national vaccination campaign.
A docent highlights tour of the Morgan Library and Museum for an overview of the Morgan’s history, ...
more >> ranging from the beginning of the collection and the creation of the historic Library to the Museum’s expansion of the Morgan campus and ongoing acquisitions.
Of all the kinds of lies that proliferate in the public sphere, perhaps the most dangerous to the functioning ...
more >> of democratic government are government lies. This is because when the government lies, it threatens the ability of the people to perform their basic democratic function: namely, to judge whether their elected representatives are representing their interests satisfactorily. Government lies are also, however, harder to regulate than other kinds. The courts have almost unequivocally rejected the idea that constitutional law should do anything to constrain the government’s capacity to lie. The result is that what mechanisms exist to limit government lying—whistleblower laws, right of information statutes, norms forbidding political interference with bureaucratic practice—are entirely a product of legislative invention or institutional self-regulation. Are there reforms, either constitutional, legislative, or institutional, that could be made to limit the government’s capacity to lie or to mitigate the harms created by government lies? What might it do to preserve the integrity of the information that the federal and state bureaucracies produce? In an intensely partisan political environment, is it possible to prevent the government’s lies or limit their harms? Participants Hina Shamsi, ACLU Helen Norton, Colorado Law David Luban, Georgetown Law Wendy Wagner, Texas Law Moderator Genevieve Lakier, Knight First Amendment Institute
Rescued as a child by the legendary assassin Moody, Anna is the world's most skilled contract killer. ...
more >> However, when Moody is brutally killed, she vows revenge for the man who taught her everything she knows. 109 min. Director: Martin Campbell. Starring Michael Keaton, Maggie Q, Samuel L. Jackson.
2:00 pm
free, no reservation required
A Litany For Survival is a documentary that reflects on the life and work of Audre Lorde. Entitled for ...
more >> a work of her poetry that explores ideas of resistance, it follows her as she battles cancer in her final years. Lorde, her contemporaries, students, and friends offer insight on her life and legacy. Time will be left at the end for discussion. 90 min. Directors: Ada Gay Griffin and Michelle Parkerson.
3:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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Founded in 1906, the museum and library was built in an Italian Renaissance-style and reflects America's ...
more >> Age of Elegance. In its collection, there is Egyptian art, Renaissance paintings, Chinese porcelains, ancient seals and tablets, medieval art objects as well as literary and historical manuscripts, early printed books, old master drawings, photographs. Covid protocol applies.
5:00 pm
free, advanced reservation...
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Two cops investigate the disappearance of two teen sisters in a remote town, where it seems like everyone ...
more >> has something to hide - including the bodies. Director: Christian Alvart Stars: Trystan Putter, Nurit Hirschfeld, Felix Kramer 129 min. In German with English subtitles
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Composer Craig Safan will talk at a live event which will also include a viewing of the 1925 version ...
more >> of The Phantom of the Opera, starring Lon Chaney and featuring a new score by Safan.
Dr. Philip Zelikow of the University of Virginia will discuss his latest book. The book explores the ...
more >> little-known diplomatic attempt to end the carnage of the Great War potentially two years before its historical end.