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The quality and quantity of
free events,
free things to do
that happen in New York City
every day of the year
is truly amazing.
So don't miss the opportunities
that only New York provides:
stop wondering what to do;
start taking advantage of
free events to go to,
free things to do in NYC
today!
59 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, November 5, 2026
All events are free unless otherwise noted.Editor's Picks
Tour | New York City Hall Guided Tour
One of the oldest continuously used city halls in the nation that still houses its original governmental functions, New York's City Hall is considered one of the finest architectural achievements of its period. Constructed from 1803 to 1812, the building was an early expression of the City's cosmopolitanism. City Hall is a designated New York City landmark, and its rotunda is also a designated interior landmark. Note: When registering, choose the "Individual Tour" option.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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10:00 am
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Film | Spider-Man (2002): Superhero Film with Kirsten Dunst & Willem Dafoe
After being bitten by a genetically altered spider at Oscorp, nerdy but endearing high school student Peter Parker is endowed with amazing powers to become the superhero known as Spider-Man. Director: Sam Raimi Cast: Tobey Maguire, Willem Dafoe, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco Kirsten Dunst is an actress who has received several awards, including nominations for an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and four Golden Globe Awards. Willem Dafoe is an American actor. Known for his prolific career portraying diverse roles in both mainstream and arthouse films, he is the recipient of various accolades, including nominations for four Academy Awards, a BAFTA Award, and four Golden Globe Awards.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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11:00 am
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Workshop | Mat Pilates Session (Beginners Welcome)
Sweet Water Dance & Yoga leads a session of mat pilates, a strengthening and lengthening exercise that focuses on conditioning your core muscles while also training your arms and legs. This class incorporates key Pilates principles such as postural alignment, breathing, strength, controlled movement, and flexibility. This class is perfect for beginners but intermediate and advanced movers will also benefit. Bring your own mat.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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11:00 am
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Tour | Discovering Sculptures Built with Unconventional Objects
Take a tour of the beloved CANSTRUCTION exhibition, which challenges teams of architects, engineers, and contractors to build large-scale sculptures made entirely out of unopened cans of food which are later donated to City Harvest to help feed those in need.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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12:00 pm
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Workshop | Learn to Juggle in the Park
This juggling class is ideal for a quick lesson, an extended practice session, or just enjoy watching jugglers put their skills to the test. They're a friendly group and open to drop-ins, even if you catch them outside of the regular juggling lessons.
All skill levels welcome. Equipment is provided.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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12:00 pm
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Classical Music | Organ Works by J.S. Bach in a Beautiful Church (In Person AND Online!)
Take a momentary respite from a busy day to enjoy a selection of organ works by Johann Sebastian Bach in an intimate venue.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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12:20 pm
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Film | Nobody's Fool (1994): Comedy-Drama Film with Paul Newman
Sully, an older man freelancing in construction and splitting his time between that and a local bar, is visited by his estranged son and grandson. Having lived independently for some time, Sully strives to take on the roles of father and grandfather in their time of need. Director: Robert Benton Cast: Paul Newman, Jessica Tandy, Melanie Griffith Paul Newman was an American actor, film director, racing driver, philanthropist, and entrepreneur who received numerous awards, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, three Golden Globe Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, a Silver Bear, a Cannes Film Festival Award, and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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1:00 pm
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Classical Music | Vocal Works by Robert Schumann & More (In Person AND Online!)
Tenor Christopher Pfund presents a recital. A concert of works by Robert Schumann, Norman Carey, and John Musto.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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1:00 pm
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Classical Music | Works Bringing the Baroque Fiddle To Life
Aniela Eddy, violin, Rebecca Scout Nelson, violin, Cullen O'Neil, cello, and Elliot Figg, harpsichord. Lively dances, memorable melodies, and toe-tapping rhythms bring the Baroque fiddle to life in this spirited program featuring works by Henry Purcell, Francesco Basarti, James Oswald, John Playford, and Rebecca Scout Nelson. From elegant tunes to lively dance melodies, this program is full of character, charm, and surprises, inviting listeners to experience the rich sound and expressive range of the Baroque fiddle.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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1:15 pm
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Film | The Mandalorian And Grogu (2026): Sci-Fi Film in Star Wars Universe
Once a lone bounty hunter, Mandalorian Din Djarin and his apprentice Grogu embark on an exciting new Star Wars adventure. Director: Jon Favreau Cast: Pedro Pascal, Jeremy Allen White, Brendan Wayne, Lateef Crowder, Jonny Coyne, Martin Scorsese, Sigourney Weaver
Manhattan, New York, NY
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | How To Level-Up Your Smartphone Photography (+ Photowalk)
How to think, see, and shoot with greater intention using the camera you already own. 2:30pm - 4:00pm This workshop is designed for photographers of every level who want to develop a more intentional, repeatable, and confident approach to iPhone photography. The classroom portion will introduce a proven framework for understanding how the iPhone camera actually works: its strengths, its limitations, and the specific settings and skills that lead to consistently better photographs and video. Participants will learn how to think about resolution, compression, stabilization, exposure, focus, white balance, and lens choice in ways that support a deliberate photographic practice rather than a casual point‑and‑shoot habit. 4:00pm - 6:00pm After the classroom session, the group will head out for a guided photowalk where attendees will put these concepts into action. This portion is designed to help photographers translate theory into muscle memory: how to see a scene, how to simplify it, how to choose the right lens, how to stabilize the shot, how to expose correctly, and how to make quick, confident decisions in real‑world conditions. The goal is to leave participants with a practical, repeatable approach they can use every day-whether shooting travel, street, portraits, macro, or video.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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2:30 pm
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Workshop | Photo-Based Creative Writing Session
This event is an afternoon of creative writing inspired by photographs. No formal writing experience is required - just enthusiasm and curiosity to see where writing takes you. Come write freely and meet other people who love writing for the sake of writing!
Manhattan, New York, NY
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2:30 pm
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Galleries | Exhibition Walkthrough: Immersive Dome Installation
A walkthrough with artist Cristina Iglesias and Director of International Programs at The Fondation Cartier in Paris, Béatrice Grenier. Spanish artist Cristina Iglesias debuts a new immersive dome installation alongside four wall-based sculptures from her new series, exploring the shifting boundaries between the built and natural worlds. With this exhibition, Iglesias brings two strands of an extraordinary practice into captivating dialogue, moving between expansion and erosion, formation and dissolution, considering the interplay between natural processes and human invention.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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5:00 pm
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Workshop | Full-Body Fitness Class in the Park (All-Levels Welcome)
An outdoor workout in the park for building strength, balance, and community. This full-body fitness class is designed to energize your week, boost your mood, and build community in the heart of Lower Manhattan. Every movement can be modified, making it perfect for beginners, returning exercisers, and parents looking to reset after school drop-off.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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5:30 pm
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Classical Music | Works by Dvorak & Ravel for Violin & Piano
Angie Wang, violin, and Haerin Kim, piano. Program: Antonin Dvořák (1841-1904) Movements I and II from Violin Concerto in A Minor, Op. 53 Maurice Ravel (1875-1937) Tzigane
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5:30 pm
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Opening Reception | After the Fire: Solo Exhibition Transforming Materials Recovered from Built Environments
A new body of sculpture and works on paper by Ilan Averbuch. The exhibition continues a defining thread in Averbuch’s practice: the transformation of materials recovered from built environments – stone pulled from old bridges, curbstone salvaged from city streets, steel drawn from industrial sites – into vessels for memory, history, and interpretation. The exhibition brings together sculptures in granite and steel with an extensive body of drawings, including large-format works on paper and smaller drawings framed and installed together in a single, mosaic-like composition. The accumulation of drawings creates a field of shifting scale, gesture, and mark-making, placing the intimacy of the drawn line in dialogue with the physical weight and monumentality of Averbuch’s sculpture. Central to Averbuch’s practice is what he calls a “rupture of balance.” Providing recycled materials with a new purpose, he resists the notion that a structure’s first function determines its final meaning. The resulting works transform the heavy and literal objects into something more elusive, imbuing them with a sense of memory, movement, and suspension. In Red Moon, stone and steel form an eclipse that shifts and dissolves as the viewer moves around it. Nearby, Even Walls Can Move transforms brick and bent steel on an intimate scale, enlivening the brick wall in a boat form, providing it with a sense of animacy and motion. On a larger scale Bearers of Memory extends this inquiry into human ingenuity and the long history of migration.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Between Lines: Solo Painting Exhibition Capturing Movement as both a Physical & Psychological Experience
A new series of paintings by Ludovic Nkoth. Across the exhibition, Nkoth explores movement as both a physical and psychological experience, depicting dancers, figures in moments of interaction, and a constellation of profiles whose gestures move between performance and private experience. Drawing on ballet, performance, and the experience of migration, Between Lines considers the ways we learn to move through the world through discipline, adaptation, memory, change and what remains within the body after that movement has passed.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | BOILED: Solo Exhibition of Visceral Material Interactions
A sculptural exhibition by Hannah Levy. Seven new sculptures examine the uneasy relationship between the body and the designed world through visceral material interactions. Combining blown glass with hand-carved and polished stainless steel, Levy draws on the anatomies of arthropods and serpents alongside references to furniture, Art Nouveau ornamentation, and mobility aids. Bubbling glass in warm, organic hues is blown through, encased, and compressed by jointed limbs, pointed extremities, and sinuous supports. Her creature-object hybrids hover between defense and vulnerability, playing with the inherent tensions of the structures and systems designed to support, protect, transport, and treat the body. Both elegant and unsettling, Levy’s sculptures serve as sensuous reminders of precarious negotiations–ornament and function, care and constraint, flesh and mechanism–making tangible how designed forms accommodate and constrain the bodies they encounter.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Boxes and Reconstructions: Solo Avant-Garde Exhibition Exploring Selfhood & Identity
Two seminal bodies of work by the influential Greek-born American artist Lucas Samaras. Alongside a selection of iconic, deeply enigmatic box sculptures from the 1960s through the 1980s, Boxes and Reconstructions will also feature never-before-seen fabric paintings from Samaras’s pioneering and little-known Reconstructions series of 1979. Across more than seven decades at the forefront of the avant-garde, Samaras’s work remained both profoundly personal and formally inventive. Drawing on elements of his personal history—from his childhood amid the Greek Civil War to his later experiences as part of the New York City’s avant-garde of the 1950s and 1960s—he engaged sculpture photography, painting and drawing, and digital art to explore the nature of selfhood and identity. Samaras’s boxes, the works for which he best known, underscore his enduring interest in assemblage as an assertion of the self. Presented in dialogue with the sewn fabric works that Samaras called Reconstructions, they illustrate the artist’s uncanny ability to assemble and transform banal materials from the world around him into surreal, self-contained environments.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | En Parábola/Conversations on Tragedy: A Two-Part Film Installation + Exhibition
A work spanning performance, film, and visual art that reassembles the Greek myth of Antigone through collaboration with an ensemble of nontraditional actors residing in Puerto Rico and in New York City’s Puerto Rican diasporic community. Developed through a multi-year process of collaborative rehearsal and experimental filmmaking, the ensemble creates a shared space to examine the collective consciousness shaped by decades of environmental, economic, political, and spiritual tragedies in the archipelago.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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6:00 pm
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Film | Forbidden Planet (1956): Classic Sci-Fi Film
A starship crew in the 23rd century goes to investigate the silence of a distant planet's colony, only to find just two survivors, a powerful robot, and the deadly secret of a lost civilization. Director: Fred M. Wilcox Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen, Warren Stevens, Robby the Robot
Manhattan, New York, NY
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | PG-13: Solo Exhibition of Vibrant Swirling Forms
The exhibition showcases the first body of work PamGlick has produced since returning to live in New York City after a 30-year hiatus. Reflecting her recent forays into isolating stacks of color, these bold paintings engage with earlier works, in which vibrant swirling forms reveal an ongoing interest in the direction of movement and color across the picture plane. Animated by a language of her own, Glick’s compositions are organized through numerous horizontal and vertical delineations, suggesting the regularity of a grid. Upon closer observation however, one notices the continuous disruption by curved, looping, and free gestural marks. White lines form an intricate web across a predominant color, overlap and intersect, break through, and, in doing so, create a complex network of positive and negative spaces. The resulting tension between geometric organization and spontaneous mark-making gives the surface a sense of dynamism and visual vibrancy.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Possible Matter: Solo Exhibition Considering the Interplay between Natural Processes & Human Invention
Spanish artist Cristina Iglesias debuts a new immersive dome installation alongside four wall-based sculptures from her new series, exploring the shifting boundaries between the built and natural worlds. With this exhibition, Iglesias brings two strands of an extraordinary practice into captivating dialogue, moving between expansion and erosion, formation and dissolution, considering the interplay between natural processes and human invention.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Rita Lundqvist: Works of Balance in Composition & Narration
An exhibition of new work by Rita Lundqvist. An exquisitely rendered group of new oil paintings on panel pulls the viewer into Lundqvist’s enigmatic world of stillness and silence. With relentless consistency, the intimately scaled compositions feature a familiar vocabulary of figures and objects that appear engaged in mysterious activities. Discrete yet seemingly interconnected scenes depict a singular figure or pair in spiritual or ritual contexts, inviting varied narrative interpretations. In Lundqvist’s work, the focus is always composition and color, with flattened forms and a subdued palette of muted greys, indigos, pale yellows, and ochres, imbuing them with a sense of sublimity. The spare scenes and scale of the works leave space for quiet contemplation.
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | STACKS: Solo Exhibition Inquiry into the Histories, Objects, Gestures, & Ideas Shaping Jazz
An exhibition of new and recent work by Jason Moran. The presentation continues Moran’s inquiry into the histories, objects, gestures, and ideas that shape jazz and its cultural landscape, explored through a range of materials including works on paper, sculpture, and video. Moran’s practice is grounded in the relationship between music and language. Working through experimentation and improvisation, and in dialogue with the musicians and artists who have preceded him, Moran moves between sound, image, performance, and material. At the center of the exhibition is a new sculpture of two small upright parlor pianos precariously stacked on top of each other. Through mirroring and inversion, a familiar instrument becomes a monumental architectural form that evokes both the significance of the piano to the history of jazz, as well as the gravity of layers that stack across generations.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | The Path to Stars: Solo Painting Exhibition Examining the Sun & Stars
An installation of a major new work by Sandra Cinto. For over three decades, Sandra Cinto has explored the potential of drawing to create intricate images and immersive environments, often using the line as a gesture to deconstruct the physical and conceptual boundaries between painting, sculpture, and site. New paintings, wall paintings, and folding screens further examine the sun and the stars as inspirational elements, offering powerful means of connection, particularly during times of polarization and discord. The Path to Stars invites the viewer to reflect on the idea of perception through the lens of opposites. At the entrance to the gallery, a dark blue tondo painting greets visitors. Reminiscent of the night sky, Nocturne begins the journey from night to day. Continuing into the main space, the palette of the paintings transitions through waning twilight to a large tondo, Aurora, depicting the first light of sunrise. A series of smaller skyscapes captures the golden light of daytime, before culminating in the inky blue of dusk. Together, the paintings in the exhibition investigate how contrasts influence the way we see, feel, and interpret the world around us. By exploring the relationships between light and shadow, presence and absence, balance and imbalance, the exhibition encourages visitors to question the boundaries between extremes and to realize that opposites do not cancel each other out; rather, they can coexist, complement one another, and undergo mutual transformation.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | The Street: Solo Painting Exhibition Intersecting Private & Public Moments
A new body of work roused from a lucid dream of remembered places and human intrigue set halfway between the Renaissance and the present day. Across six large-scale paintings, a cast of characters move through brick-lined streets with uncanny spatial logic, fragmenting their bodies into a palimpsest of limbs, faces, and disembodied hands. Layered and diluted paint flows in translucent swathes of color dammed by assertive outlines, occasionally revealing the ghostly pentimenti of an altered pose or worked-over figure. Introducing contemporary costumes and observed environments, Walker’s expanded visual language grounds and reinvents the drama of an interior self set loose in the outside world. Reading like a frieze around the perimeter of the gallery, the horizontal and vertical tableaus rally across pictorial space, shuttling the viewer between public settings and private rooms. Walker intersects these private moments of awakening with the directive to unmask and perform – a central theme in her practice – in the covertly theatrical space of the street.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | the year of mud: Solo Painting Exhibition Where Certainty Dissolves
An exhibition of new paintings by London-based artist Li Hei Di. the year of mud will situate Li’s oneiric, effervescent compositions in a mediated viewing environment. Existing between figuration and abstraction, Li’s paintings inhabit a space where certainty begins to dissolve. Li understands life as an ongoing act of transformation—an unending negotiation between interior experience and external reality. Their figures are never fixed, continually shifting between states of becoming and allowing the body to function less as a stable form than as a vessel through which memory, emotion, and desire flow. The compositions, rendered in a rich and almost shimmering palette, reveal themselves gradually as forms surface, recede, and transform.
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Opening Reception | TRANSITION: Dual Artist Exhibition on the Performative Aspects of Architecture
The duo Elmgreen & Dragset debuts one of their most ambitious projects to date: a 40-ton, traversable steel sculpture will be shown alongside a new series of wall works. These works pursue the artists’ longstanding interest in the performative aspects of architecture.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | TRUSS LIGHT SCULPTURES 01: Solo Sculptural Exhibition Exploring Light, Industrial Form, & Material Transformation
The first exhibition of sculpture by Alexandre de Betak and his first solo show in New York. Across two rooms, de Betak presents twelve works in which light, industrial form and material transformation are brought together into a new sculptural language. For more than three decades, de Betak worked with light, scale and the dynamics of perception to redefine the spectacle of live shows. In this new body of work, he turns to the very apparatus that made them possible - the truss and the stage light. De Betak transforms this peripheral infrastructure from supporting act to protagonist - reimagining it as something with its own permanence, atmosphere and presence. These new sculptures extend de Betak's ongoing explorations of light, scale and material contrasts.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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Opening Reception | Wishful Thinking: Solo Sculptural Exhibition Reconsidering the Nude through a Contemporary Lens
Karon Davis' meditation on the complicated, all too often absent role of the Black figure within the canon of art history. The exhibition presents new life-size, nude sculptures created from body casting friends, muses, and models. Incorporating and expanding upon the classical tradition of sculpture, Davis reconsiders the nude through a contemporary lens. Drawing from visual art, mythology, and theatre from antiquity to the modern era, Davis creates figurative tableaux that reflect on and reimagine Western traditions of representation.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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Opening Reception | Zeng Fanzhi: Multi-Media Solo Exhibition Investigating Color, Perception, & Material Possibilities
A new sculpture and a suite of new paintings that conjure imagined celestial landscapes and topographies. The works advance the celebrated Beijing-based artist's ongoing investigation of color, perception and the material possibilities of paint.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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6:00 pm
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Staged Reading | Bilingual Staged Reading of Excerpts from the Award-Winning Novel, Jacaranda with the Author (in French and English)
An intimate evening with acclaimed Rwandan-French novelist and hip-hop artist Gael Faye as he presents his novel, Jacaranda--a rich, deeply felt story of family, memory, and healing in post-genocide Rwanda. The event will feature a bilingual staged reading of excerpts from Jacaranda in French and English, performed by Gael Faye and Brooke Habit, featuring Sarah Ardizzone's translation. The reading will be followed by a conversation in French with the author, exploring the creative process, intergenerational memory, and history. Reading in French and English. Conversation in French.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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Classical Music | Contemporary String Works (In Person AND Online!)
The Rhythm Method string quartet. This program gives voice to competing visions for the future of the earth and the universe, journeying through whirlwinds of fear, joy, and resilience.
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Book Discussion | Debut Novel Celebration: Flat Earth (+ Signing)
Anika Jade Levy celebrates the paperback release of her book. She will be in conversation with Lili Anolik, followed by a signing. "A stunning debut novel about the trials of female friendship in New York."
Manhattan, New York, NY
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Opening Reception | Multi-Artist Exhibition Featuring Paintings of Feline Friends
This exhibition is about the celebration of cats by four internationally acclaimed artists (Kathy Anderson, Nancy Guzik, Susan Lyon, Jen Starling), all of whom are madly in love with their kitties! With their different visions, this promises to be a very exciting show. For fellow cat lovers, this is a chance to see the animals you adore elevated as the muses they’ve always been. There will be a special auction of an original painting or drawing by each of the artists with 100% of the proceeds going to Our Companions Animal Rescue and Sanctuary!
Manhattan, New York, NY
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Professional Development Expert Discusses the Emotional Toll of Career Loss & Change
In conversation with Tiffany Dufu, Jovian Zayne will explore the emotional realities that often accompany career transitions, job loss, burnout, caregiving, parenting, professional reinvention, and the everyday pressure to keep it all together. Together, they'll discuss practical ways to reframe challenging seasons, quiet the inner critic, ask for help, and create more room for relief, reflection, and renewed possibility. In Soft Landings for Hard Days, Jovian Zayne offers a compassionate companion for navigating the moments when life, work, and responsibility feel heavier than usual. Drawing from her work as an executive coach and her own experiences navigating career, motherhood, uncertainty, and difficult seasons, Jovian invites readers to question the pressure to simply push through--and consider what it might look like to meet hard days with greater compassion.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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6:00 pm
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Open Studios | Yoshitomo Nara: Solo Exhibition from MoMA-Featured Artist
An exhibition by Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara (b. 1959) featuring new paintings and drawings, recent sculptures, and early works selected by the artist. This exhibition will be the artist's first major solo exhibition in New York in nearly a decade.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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Concert | Resonance Studies: Experience of Listening & Smelling
A lecture performance by Viennese artist, musician, and perfumer Alexander Kasses exploring the deep structural kinship between music and scent. What does a chord smell like? Can a fragrance have a rhythm? In Resonance Studies, Kasses explores two art forms that share a vocabulary of notes, accords, and composition, as well as a powerful ability to unlock memory and emotion. Part performance and part sensory experience, the evening moves between listening and smelling. Kasses traces episodes from the history of perfumery, demonstrates how olfactory compositions are constructed like pieces of music, and invites the audience to experience both media directly.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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6:30 pm
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Film | The Killers (1946): Film Noir with Ava Gardner
Adapted from an Ernest Hemingway short story, an insurance investigator pieces together the tragic life of an ex-boxer named "the Swede," revealing how he was drawn into the underworld. Director: Robert Siodmak Cast: Edmond O'Brien, Ava Gardner, Albert Dekker, Sam Levene, Burt Lancaster Ava Gardner was an American actress - a part of the Golden Age of Hollywood. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in Mogambo (1953), and for Best Actress for both a Golden Globe Award and BAFTA Award for her performance in The Night of the Iguana (1964). In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Gardner No.25 on its greatest female screen legends list.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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Opening Reception | The Red and the Violet: Historical Exhibition on McCarthyism in Hugher Education
This exhibition tells the stories of three NYU professors who were persecuted for their left-wing activism during the Red Scare in the early 1950s. Two of them, Lyman Bradley and Edwin Berry Burgum, were hauled before US Congressional committees, before being stripped of tenure and fired by NYU. The third, Margaret Schlauch, fled to Poland rather than testify before Congress and lose her job. This exhibition uncovers a connection to the Spanish Civil War. This exhibition is curated by Zachary Samalin, NYU Associate Professor of English/
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Gallery Talk | Award-Winning Illustrator & Fine Artist Shares Her New Book on Famous Modern Artist
Janice Hechter shares her journey to writing and illustrating a new picture book about artist Theresa Bernstein. Hechter will discuss Bernstein’s art and how she beat the odds by becoming a successful working artist, despite living in a time when women’s art was frequently ignored. An award-winning illustrator and fine artist, Janice Hechter has exhibited her paintings in various galleries and museums throughout the country. Hechter’s new picture book, The Power of Her Paintbrush: The Story of Theresa Bernstein, was published in March, and has received strong critical acclaim.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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6:30 pm
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Workshop | Intermediate Chess-Playing: Level-Up Your Game
Develop your strategies and take your game to the next level with chess expert Tamar Chanadiri from the Marshall Chess Club. Chess has many benefits, including:
Improving cognitive skills
Encouraging creativity
Building confidence
Developing problem-solving skills
Manhattan, New York, NY
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6:30 pm
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Classical Music | "Eclectic" String Works
Featuring music from Villa-Lobos to Brahms, and a piece written by the quartet, this program represents the intention to connect the music of the past with the music of the present.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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7:00 pm
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Poetry Reading | Contemporary Poetry with 2 Writers
A poetry reading with Andrea Fry and Elizabeth Coleman. Elizabeth J. Coleman’s Mega-Galaxies won the 2025 Adrift Chapbook Competition. Andrea Fry is the author of three poetry collections.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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7:00 pm
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Concert | From the Andes: Jazz, Improvisation & Colombian Folk Traditions
Colombian musicians Ricardo Gallo, piano and Alejandro Florez, guitar present music that bridges traditional folk music and contemporary jazz.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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7:00 pm
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Opera | New York Stage Premieres of 2 Short Operas: Trials and Tears & Sacajawea: Women of Many Names
Trials and Tears is a collaboration between Avery and Oneida/Ojibwe multi-disciplinary artist Ty Defoe; the piece is in response to Trail of Tears (2005), a painting by Benny Andrews (1930-2006). Trials and Tears connects dark chapters of American history: the forced resettling of Indigenous people and the trials that have resulted in incarceration of minorities. Sacajawea: Women of Many Names sets out to show Sacajawea, as performed by mezzo-soprano Kate Morton (Cherokee), from the perspective of her Shoshone ancestral traditions, unfettered from Western mythologies about her life and motivations. Both pieces are by Dawn Avery, a Grammy-nominated cellist-composer of Mohawk descent. Danielle Olana Jagelski (Oneida Nation of Wisconsin and Red Cliff Band of Ojibwe) serves as music director.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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7:00 pm
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7:30 pm
Regular: $54
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Lecture | Princeton Archeologist Discusses the Traveling Craftsmen of Ancient Greece
The designs of Greek temples, with their recognizable Doric and Ionic columns, spread widely in the ancient Mediterranean and Black Sea in the 6th and 5th centuries BCE. The dissemination of these architectural forms depended on highly mobile stone masons, who cross-pollinated design ideas as they worked far from home. Sam Holzman- Assistant Professor of Art & Archaeology at Princeton University- presents a talk that surveys a range of evidence for the mobility of ancient builders, from inscribed records to new lead-isotope analysis.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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7:30 pm
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Reading | Readings & Musical Performances Inspired by Howard Zinn
A night featuring actors Wallace Shawn, Jessica Hecht, and Arian Moayed, comedian Hari Kondabolu, musician Ali Dineen, poet Staceyann Chin, and other special guests to be announced. The night is inspired by author Dave Zirin’s acclaimed new biography, The People's Historian: The Outsized Life of Howard Zinn, and will feature selections from Zinn’s own writing and speeches, as well as work that deeply inspired him; narrated by Dave Zirin and Haley Pessin. There are two ways to access this event: 1. General Admission, first-come first-served. Just show up! 2. Fast Track opening the Monday before the event at noon.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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7:30 pm
free, fast-track option...
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Screening | Sneak Peek at Netflix's New Korean Animated Series, Bass X Machina
The screening of the first episode of this TV show. A conversation between series creator LeSean Thomas and Kwang Il Han of Studio Mir, the animation studio behind the series. The two will discuss the creation of Bass X Machina, its real-world Old West inspiration, and the cross-cultural production process between an American series creator and Korea’s acclaimed Studio Mir. The conversation will explore how the project moved from concept and development into animation production, how creative responsibilities were shared across countries, and how Studio Mir’s artists and production team helped translate the series into its finished animated form.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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7:30 pm
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7:30 pm
Regular: $30
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Dance Performance | Various Dance Works (In Person AND Online!)
Enjoy a series of dance works choreographed and performed by students at NYU Tisch.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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7:30 pm
free, RSVP required
free, RSVP required
8:00 pm
Regular: $20
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Comedy Club | Standup Show
Catch some of the best comedians at this free weekly stand-up show, featuring a lineup of rising stars and seasoned favorites. Past performers include Sheng Wang, Mark Normand, Dan Soder, Annie Lederman, and more.
Manhattan, New York, NY
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8:00 pm
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9:30 pm
Regular: $31.60
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