17 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Friday, October 22, 2021
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
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The police hire a convicted bank robber to crack the Ministry of Interior's vault during the final days ...
more >> of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. But what they find inside is quite different from what they were expecting. Director: Peter Bergendy Stars: Zsolt Anger, Peter Scherer, Bence Tasnadi 75 min. In Hungarian with English subtitles
Dodge YMCA hosts a socially-distanced Pilates. Enhance your control, stability, coordination, endurance, ...
more >> balance, strength, and flexibility. Fridays, May 7-October 29, 2021 Advanced registration is required. Registration opens every Tuesday at 10:00am for classes the following week.
A docent-led 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.
This public program focuses on artists, researchers, designers, and architects whose work makes visible ...
more >> the often invisible infrastructures and systems that are transforming lives and territories across the Americas today. Featuring commissioned films and live conversation, the event presents long-term projects and in-process research, artworks and activism that address the complex post-colonial issues of land use in the twenty-first century, and shares campaigns and designs for a more equitable future. Participants include environmental activists focused on #landback, indigenous food sovereignty, and water equity; filmmakers and artists interrogating literal and metaphorical mining for digital currencies; and climate leaders with visionary ideas for a geoengineered future.
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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. Proof of at least one shot of a Covid-19 vaccine approved by the FDA or the WHO, valid ID, masks are required.
2:00 pm
free, advanced reservation...
This is Charles Atlas's site-specific commission is a series of installations. Atlas has been a pioneering ...
more >> figure in film and video for over four decades. Atlas has extended the limits of his medium, forging new territory in a far-reaching range of genres, stylistic approaches, and techniques. Throughout his production, the artist has consistently fostered collaborative relationships, working intimately with such artists and performers as Leigh Bowery, Michael Clark, Douglas Dunn, Marina Abramovic, Yvonne Rainer, Mika Tajima/New Humans, Antony and the Johnsons, and most notably Merce Cunningham, for whom he served as in-house videographer for a decade from the early 1970s through 1983; their close working relationship continued until Cunningham’s death in 2009.
Known for her critically acclaimed paintings, Tschabalala Self will present her first live performance ...
more >> in the form of brief scenes from a play that she has written and directed. Taking place on a stage designed by the artist as a sculpture that closely resembles her collage-paintings, a male and female actor will perform scenes of dialogue using humor and exaggerated sincerity in a conversation that ranges from literal to nonsensical, to explore emotional communication, gender roles and power play within intimate relationships. A Boney M cover band will perform some of their greatest hits to emphasize moments of the staged drama, akin to a chorus in a Greek play. The sculpture-esque stage--set in the amphitheater bandstand of Jackie Robinson Park in Central Harlem--will be designed and painted by Self, using the brightly colored geometry of her paintings. Self will design costumes and footwear for the performers, who appear to step out of her paintings onto the stage, bringing the domestic scenes she depicts in her canvases to life.
Discover art that traverses Asia's diverse cultures, regions, and narratives. The Museum's special exhibitions ...
more >> celebrate art forms that range from ancient to contemporary, including photography and multimedia, while its permanent collection galleries are focused primarily on art from the Himalayan region. Proof of vaccination, ID, masks required. Admission is free every Friday from 6:00 to 10:00 p.m. (reservations open two weeks in advance).
6:00 pm
free, advanced RSVP...
A group of high school students form a coven of witches. Director: Zoe Lister-Jones Stars: Cailee Spaeny, ...
more >> Zoey Luna, Gideon Adlon 97 min.
A two-person theater movement piece exploring relationship dynamics between a man and woman using space, ...
more >> shape, and sound. This piece looks at cyclical, performative, perhaps even manipulative patterns that develop knowingly or instinctively during a partnership.
7:00 pm
free, no reservation required
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An outdoor screening series of films by artists and filmmakers from Central and Eastern Europe and the ...
more >> Pacific, presented in conjunction with the exhibition Surrealism Beyond Borders. Each weekend features a different film program that extends the exhibition's reconsideration of Surrealism as a true "movement" across boundaries of geography and chronology, recasting appreciation of this revolutionary, emancipatory, and globe-spanning idea. The films explore the collective concerns that animated Surrealism, as well as the historical and national distinctions that characterized regional cinema. Face coverings are strongly recommended.
In this rarely screened film, renowned scholar Robert Farris Thompson takes viewers on a cultural tour ...
more >> of New York, revealing the city’s deep African roots. He traces the salsa music of Spanish Harlem back to Congo, observes Haitian Fete Ghede, Yoruba ceremonies, Capoeira, Santeria, and hip hop, offering a time-capsule portrait of a lesser seen side of New York during its golden era. Director: Mark Kidel 60 min. Followed by a panel dicussion
Immerse yourself in the sounds of Veils and Vesper, a composition by John Luther Adams formed by interactions ...
more >> of a mathematical algorithm and prime numbers to create a sensuous, ever-changing soundscape. Watch the installation come to life with the live performance version of the piece featuring a quartet is one of the most acclaimed, renowned, and respected groups performing today. It has maintained an unwavering commitment to their mission of performing and commissioning new works, giving voice to underheard composers, and cultivating an ever-greater sense of openness toward contemporary classical music. See link for COVID protocols.