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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on September 10, 2026?
60 free events take place on Thursday, September 10 in New York City. Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides! Exciting, high quality, unique and off the beaten path free events and free things to do take place in New York today, tonight, tomorrow and each day of the year, any time of the day: whether it's a weekday or a weekend, day or night, morning or evening or afternoon, December or July, April or November! These events will take your breath away!
New York City (NYC) never ceases to amaze you with quantity and quality of its free culture and free entertainment. Check out September 10 and see for yourself. Summer or Winter, Spring or Fall! Just click on any day of the calendar above and you'll find most inspiring and entertaining free events to go to and free things to do on each day of September . Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides!
Some events take place all year long: same day of the week, same time there are there for you to take advantage of. One of the oldest free weekly events in Manhattan is Dixieland Jazz with the Gotham Jazzmen, which happen at noon every Tuesday. Another example of an event that you can attend all year round on weekdays is Federal Reserve Bank Tour, which takes place every week day at 1 pm (but advanced reservations are required). You can take at least 13 free tours every day of the year, except the New Year Day, July 4th, and the Christmas Day. If you are classical music afficionado, you can spend whole day in New York going from one free classical concert to another. If you love theater, then New York gives you an option to attend plays and musicals free of charge, or at deep discount. You just need to have information about it. And we are here to make that information available to you.
Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on September 10, 2026?
60 free events take place on Thursday, September 10 in New York City. Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides! Exciting, high quality, unique and off the beaten path free events and free things to do take place in New York today, tonight, tomorrow and each day of the year, any time of the day: whether it's a weekday or a weekend, day or night, morning or evening or afternoon, December or July, April or November! These events will take your breath away!
New York City (NYC) never ceases to amaze you with quantity and quality of its free culture and free entertainment. Check out September 10 and see for yourself. Summer or Winter, Spring or Fall! Just click on any day of the calendar above and you'll find most inspiring and entertaining free events to go to and free things to do on each day of September . Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides!
Some events take place all year long: same day of the week, same time there are there for you to take advantage of. One of the oldest free weekly events in Manhattan is Dixieland Jazz with the Gotham Jazzmen, which happen at noon every Tuesday. Another example of an event that you can attend all year round on weekdays is Federal Reserve Bank Tour, which takes place every week day at 1 pm (but advanced reservations are required). You can take at least 13 free tours every day of the year, except the New Year Day, July 4th, and the Christmas Day. If you are classical music afficionado, you can spend whole day in New York going from one free classical concert to another. If you love theater, then New York gives you an option to attend plays and musicals free of charge, or at deep discount. You just need to have information about it. And we are here to make that information available to you.
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that happen in New York City
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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!
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!
60 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Thursday, September 10, 2026
All events are free unless otherwise noted.
Tour | New York City Hall Guided Tour
One of the oldest continuously used city halls in the nation that still houses its original governmental ... more >> 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.
New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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Workshop | Make Your Own Collage Bookmarks
Use different types of colorful papers, markers, and craft materials. Put together the perfect bookmark ... more >> to use in your books! All materials provided. Limited to 10 participants. First come, first served.
New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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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 ... more >> 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.
New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Jazz | Piano in the Park: Jazz "Flame Keeper"
A five, six, seven, eight... Come on down and swing along to the best jazz the Big Apple has to offer. ... more >> As both a pianist and a violinist, Dr. Victor Lin has performed at venues throughout NYC such as The Blue Note, Flushing Town Hall, The Asia Society, and The Knickerbocker. Victor is a passionate believer in the power of music performance and education to impact and influence society in a positive manner. "One of the foremost keepers of the flame in jazz today." - Jack Kleinsinger, Highlights in Jazz
New York City, NY; NYC
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12:30 pm
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Film | I Met My Love Again (1938): Classic Romantic Drama with Henry Fonda
In Vermont, college student Ives Towner refuses to marry his longtime girlfriend, Julie Weir, until he ... more >> has a career. Soon after, Julie meets and grows infatuated with handsome writer Michael Shaw, and they marry and move to Paris. Years later, after Michael's accidental death, Julie and her daughter move back to Vermont to live with her aunt, and Julie finds Ives, now a professor, disinterested in resuming their romantic relationship. Directors: Joshua Logan, Arthur Ripley, George Cukor Cast: Joan Bennett, Henry Fonda Henry Fonda was an American actor whose career spanned five decades on Broadway and in Hollywood. On screen and stage, he often portrayed characters that embodied an everyman image. He received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role as Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath (1940). Fonda won the Academy Award for Best Actor at the 54th Academy Awards for his final film role in On Golden Pond (1981), which co-starred Katharine Hepburn and his daughter Jane Fonda. He was too ill to attend the ceremony and died from heart disease five months later.
New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Workshop | Artmaking on the Plaza with a Professional Artist
Led by a local teaching artist, this drop-in class invites participants to explore creativity through ... more >> hands-on artmaking. Past mediums have included plein-air drawing, printmaking, cyanotypes, and more. All materials are provided.
New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Film | Pressure (2026): WWII War Drama
In the tense 72 hours before D-Day, General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Captain James Stagg face an impossible ... more >> choice--launch the most dangerous seaborne invasion in history or risk losing the war altogether. Director: Anthony Maras Cast: Andrew Scott, Brendan Fraser, Kerry Condon, Chris Messina, Damian Lewis
New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Relaxing & Educational Fishing on the Hudson (Equipment Provided, All Ages)
At this Hudson River catch-and-release event, make a fish wish--you might just get a bite! Over 200 species ... more >> of fish are found in the Hudson Rive. Anglers ages 5 and up are invited to participate at this program, with parental supervision required. The organizer team provides all the necessary equipment and an on-site fishing tutorial. Participation is offered on a first-come, first-served basis. Beginners and experts alike are encouraged to join for a relaxing and educational experience at the water's edge.
New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Museums | Thursday Evenings at a Living Memorial Museum
Explore a museum dedicated to Holocaust remembrance, Jewish life, and education. View expansive galleries, ... more >> survivor testimonies, and tens of thousands of artifacts. The museum also offers a theater, a genealogy center, an outdoor memorial, and a cafe.
New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Opening Reception | ANNA--And The Infinite Line: Multi-Media Solo Exhibition on Migration, Motherhood & the Complexities of Daily Life
This exhibition celebrates the acclaimed Brazilian artist’s enduring practice and the release of a ... more >> documentary of the same title from The Forgotten Her Story. For more than six decades, Anna Maria Maiolino has pursued an expansive artistic practice shaped by her experiences of migration, motherhood and the complexities of daily life. Constantly reinventing her visual language, she has used drawing, photography, sculpture, performance and installation to plumb questions of corporeal existence, memory and the fundamental condition of being human.
New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Feather, Fin, and Fur: 400 Years of Japanese Animal Prints
This exhibition traces the animal kingdom through more than four centuries of Japanese woodblock printmaking. ... more >> It moves from intimate ukiyo-e studies of birds, flowers, and fish to the expressive animals of Shin Hanga, Sosaku Hanga, and contemporary woodblock printmaking. Works by Koryusai, Utamaro, Hokusai, Hiroshige, Koson (Shoson), Goyo Hashiguchi, Koshiro Onchi, Kiyoshi Saito, Tomoo Inagaki, and Daniel Kelly reveal the range of natural subjects within the Japanese print tradition. The exhibition begins with kacho-e, literally "pictures of flowers and birds," a subject with deep roots in East Asian art and a particularly rich history within Japanese painting, poetry, and printmaking. In the hands of ukiyo-e artists, closely observed plants and birds became vehicles for seasonal association, poetic exchange, and technical display. Feather, Fin and Fur takes this tradition as its point of departure while expanding beyond it to include fish, cats, rabbits, and other creatures represented with tenderness, wit, drama, and abstraction.
New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Talk | Discussions, Panel Conversations, & Artistic Presentations Celebrating Nobel Prize Laureate
An evening of conversations, performances, and international perspectives celebrating e Elfriede Jelinek ... more >> on the occasion of her 80th birthday. Bringing together leading scholars and artists from Austria, Japan, Poland, and the United States, the program explores the role of theater as a space for democratic dialogue, artistic resistance, and feminist intervention. This "Jelinek Day" examines Elfriede Jelinek's enduring relevance in today's global debates on democracy, gender, and the performing arts. Centered on the theme Theater & Democracy, the event highlights how contemporary theater can challenge authoritarian and patriarchal structures while creating new forms of artistic and political engagement. The evening features keynote discussions, panel conversations, and artistic presentations exploring Jelinek's work in dialogue with international theater practices. Additional sessions examine gender and democracy on stage, women shaping democratic structures through performance, and the relationship between comedy and subversion in contemporary theater.
New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Birdwatching | Evening Birding with NYC Audubon
Discover the surprising diversity of birds that call the park home during migratory season, with guided ... more >> tours led by environmental educator and urban naturalist Gabriel Willow. The park is a hotspot for avian visitors and birders alike. Past sightings include warblers, tanagers, vireos, thrushes, and even a Chuck-will's-widow!
New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Museums | Three Floors. Hundreds of Images. One Unforgettable Way to See
This museum is the world's leading institution dedicated to photography and visual culture. It was founded ... more >> in 1974 to champion "concerned photography"--socially and politically minded images that can educate and change the world. Through its exhibitions, education programs, community outreach, and public programs, the museum offers an open forum for dialogue about the power of the image.
New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Many Ways of Being: Solo Portrait Exhibition Celebrating the Richness of NYC Communities
Portraits by Lola Sandino Stanton of members of the LGBTQ+ community. She found her subjects among friends, ... more >> family, and chance encounters. Whether portraying an individual or couple, Lola approached each portrait as a collaboration, inviting her sitters to choose how they wished to appear, along with the objects, words, or places that helped tell their story. Together, these paintings celebrate the richness of New York’s communities and the dignity, individuality, and humanity of every life. Born in Nicaragua, Lola Sandino Stanton’s work explores identity, memory and the many ways people express themselves. Lola has received numerous honors, including the NAWA Medal of Honor twice. Her work has been exhibited at the Interchurch Center Galleries where she had her first solo exhibition, the Salmagundi Club, Taller Boricua, and the Monmouth Museum, where she received the 2024 Best in Show award.
New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 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 ... more >> 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.
New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Workshop | Jump into Double Dutch with the Pros
Learn the fundamentals of street-style and competitive jump rope with the Double Dutch Aunties.
New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Opening Reception | A Vivid Blur: Multi-Artist Exhibition Meditating on Light
This event features an exhibition of work by twelve artists who treat light simultaneously as medium ... more >> and subject. Artists include Beca Acosta, Angelina Almukhametova, Hence Bollinger, Lena Daly, Jacques Desbiens, Kate Hush, Dani Kaes, Kacie Lees, Louise Lessél, Luftwerk (Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero), Paul Simon (MFA 2019 Photography, Video and Related Media), and Celeste Voce.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | And Yet Again: Solo Exhibition Exploring the Dichotomy between Repetition & Differentiation
A solo exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by Katia Santibañez. These new paintings mark ... more >> the artist’s continuing exploration of structure and order within the framework of the grid, which first appeared in her paintings in 2007. The dichotomy between repetition and differentiation is at the core of this new body of work. Santibañez changes and shifts the sequencing and selection of color in each segment to animate color vibrations and geometric patterning. The exhibition’s title, And Yet Again, speaks to the consistent nature of the artist’s methodology and the cycles of life, time, and nature’s processes, which repeat but are never the same. Her process meditates on the balance of order and disorder within the world, whether political, environmental, or psychological, generating complexity, perception and meaning. Santibañez encourages viewers to look deeply at the surface of her paintings and seek out the variations. The all-over compositions draw the viewer in to start where they will, and continue through the painting as if lost in a field or garden. Every painting is filled with innumerable decisions, beautiful and seductive, moving with color and animating a rigid structure.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Annunciation: Solo Exhibition from MoMA-Featured Artist
An exhibition of new work by Hanna Hur. For Hur, who defines her practice of painting as “an act ... more >> of submission” the Annunciation is much more than a metaphor. As she describes her methodical process, the repetition of artistic gestures serves less to fill the canvas with a predetermined design than to invite—and receive—the appearance of an image from outside herself. —Daniel J. Marcus
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | As Close As Breath: Solo Painting Exhibition Exploring the Networks of the Natural World
An exhibition of recent paintings by artist Jody Guralnick. The artist’s work brings the complex, microscopic, ... more >> and often overlooked networks of the natural world into vivid, large-scale relief. Guralnick’s practice operates at the vital intersection of contemporary art, ecological taxonomy, and citizen science. Her heavily textured compositions explore the intricate, symbiotic structural systems of the "Fifth Kingdom"—focusing intensely on mosses, lichens, molds, and the branching hyphal threads of fungal mycelium. Using a rich, tactile application of acrylic impasto, the artist renders these lacy, baroque configurations in bas-relief against deep, luminous oil backgrounds that evoke a complex natural palette. While the canvases are not literal botanical illustrations or portraits of her physical collections, they serve as a powerful conceptual springboard. Her studio—overflowing with gathered mushrooms, bark, and lichen specimens—acts as a laboratory where natural systems are observed and translated. Through her paintings, the microscopic building blocks of nature become macro-level metaphors for ecological connectivity, memory, and the fragility of a planet undergoing rapid climatic shifts.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Blue: Solo Exhibtion Focusing on the Mutable Form of the Cloud
This exhibition features Blue, which brings together a new body of work spanning three distinct series. ... more >> The exhibition blurs the boundaries between traditional landscape and portraiture. Throughout the exhibition, painting emerges not simply as a mode of representation, but as an ongoing process of looking, discovering, and becoming. The act of observation—central to Kim's practice—first led her to capture the elusive, ever-changing nature of the human face. It is through this same perpetual attention, and through the lens of portraiture, that she also approaches landscape, focusing on the mutable form of the cloud.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Closer to the Sun: Solo Portrait Photography Exhibition from Vogue-Featured Photographer
This exhibition brings together almost two decades of Katharina Poblotzki's portraits of women and nonbinary ... more >> artists, drawn from her personal archive and commissioned work. Spanning her life from Cologne and Berlin to New York, the project grew from her search for community while also shaping her understanding of herself as an artist. In each photograph, Poblotzki looks for something of herself in her subject. Through self-portraits, she places her own body and image within the same conversation. She is interested in what it means to choose a creative life, the friction between strength and vulnerability that comes with it, and the relationships that make it possible. This event includes a conversation between the photographer Katharina Poblotzki and the curator Allen Frame.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Cold Meat, Cake, and a Variety of All the Finest Fruits in Season: Solo Sculpture Exhibition
This exhibition comprises more than thirty individual basswood sculptures displayed across a series ... more >> of artist-made plinths to form multiple tableaux. The exhibition approaches the cycle of making and exhibiting as a form of digestion: a continuous circuit of gathering, consuming, processing, and transforming ideas, materials, and research into physical form. This process unfolds through deliberate excess, embracing a Dionysian mode of consumption in which abundance heightens perception rather than giving way to restraint. Like a feast that extends beyond satiation into sensual experience, the objects invite viewers to dwell in accumulation, contradiction, and pleasure.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Edge Control: Solo Exhibition of Mirror-Framed Works Engaging with Personhood, Surveillance, & Control
Lawson debuts selections from Edge Control, a series initiated in 2023 in which Deana Lawson reimagines ... more >> the monitoring of individuals by beauty supply stores throughout the United States. Recontextualizing surveillance stills taped to windows and entryways, she preserves the ways in which these images warp identity and posit a mode of figuration, intervening only to protect the identities of those pictured. The exhibition of mirror-framed photographs and holograms engages issues of personhood, surveillance, and control. The title Edge Control derives from one of the stores’ most frequently stolen products: a gel used to smooth and lay down the baby hairs along women’s and girls’ hairlines, creating a sleek, polished look. The phrase refers to both the gel itself and to systems of control in the surveilled frame, extending to a broader culture of image-based policing. According to Lawson, “the aesthetic of surveillance imagery—deep-horizon blues and greens—opened my thoughts to an alien view of the supply chain, and its final landing point in the familiar beauty stores that I often frequent.” The pictures are framed with luminous black mirrors, underscoring both their reverence and their futurity. The work neither condemns nor valorizes alleged acts of petty theft, but instead foregrounds the implications of agency and transformative potential of beauty products within our late capitalist society.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Go! Figure!: Multi-Media, Multi-Artist Exhibition Exploring Diverse Viewpoints on Humanity
This show draws from nearly 60 different artists’ perspectives, in mediums spanning textile, painting, ... more >> drawing, photography, and sculpture. Go! Figure! was conceived by artist Michael Kronenberg, who is also a writer and curator. Kronenberg curated the exhibition along with: Sean Alday, a curator, writer, and chef based in Berlin, Germany; and curator (Mr.) Mikki Nylund of Stockholm, Sweden. Kronenberg said, “Drawing from Life has been a consistent part of my art practice for 46 years. My aim is to add my voice to the great stream of Figurative Art that has been flowing since the Neolithic period. We draw bodies because we are made in God’s image, and our souls rest in them and peek out at the world. All bodies are excellent machines and deserve careful consideration.”
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Hanging Out: Solo Exhibition Embracing the Key as a Motif
New work by Nate Lowman (b. 1979). The exhibition debuts a body of shaped canvases that take the form ... more >> of keys–objects freighted with associations of access, security, and exclusion–a new motif for the artist. Lowman has frequently employed universally recognizable shaped canvases including hearts, tree-shaped air fresheners, poppies, and maps, among others, each produced in iterations with distinct painted surfaces. His key paintings extend this vocabulary, ranging from tightly rendered replicas to more schematic, nearly abstract forms. Some reproduce dissonant photographic imagery taken by the artist; others appropriate the bright, patterned novelty finishes available at hardware stores to distinguish one key from another; whereas another work, a silkscreen diptych, represents two keys yet to be cut into their final shape. The paintings recall distinct art-historical registers—from hard-edged geometric abstraction to loose, gestural markmaking, to the flattened logic of the readymade—each employing a different painterly language on the same recurring form.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Heas or Tails: Surrealist Sculptures Transforming the Perception of Space
An exhibition dedicated to the seminal German-French modernist. This presentation takes Arp’s late ... more >> Threshold sculptures as a point of departure, situating this pivotal but underexamined body of work within the trajectory of Arp’s long career of aesthetic and philosophical inquiry. The exhibition’s design takes inspiration from Arp’s studio in Locarno, Switzerland, and traces a line from his early cut-outs and reliefs to his mastery of form as a tool for reconfiguring and transforming our perception of space.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | jpegs ny: Solo Photograph Exhibition Commemorating 9/11
A group of photographs by Thomas Ruff. Featuring images from jpegs ny, a subset of the artist’s larger ... more >> jpegs series, the twelve works on view are derived from images of the World Trade Center attacks in New York on September 11, 2001. Coinciding with the twenty-fifth anniversary of the attacks, this exhibition was conceived by the artist as a commemoration of that day.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | KNOTTING, TYING, FOLDING: SOlo Sculpture Exhibition Embracing Vivid Color & Sensuous, Organic Surfaces
An exhibition of sculptures by Lynda Benglis. Alongside glazed ceramic, bronze, pleated, and paper works ... more >> created by Benglis between 1972 and 2024, the presentation will also spotlight rarely exhibited glass sculptures from 1985. Since the late 1960s, Benglis has developed her lively, flowing forms across a wide range of materials—from beeswax, latex, and polyurethane foam to later innovations with plaster, gold, vaporized metals, glass, ceramics, and paper. Emerging amid the rise of Postminimalism, she set herself apart from her contemporaries with an enthusiastic embrace of vivid color and sensuous, organic surfaces. She has continuously pushed the boundaries of painting and sculpture over the course of her career, engaging in a radical investigation of sensorial perception. KNOTTING, TYING, FOLDING will feature a robust range of sculptures created by Benglis over more than five decades, illuminating her use of diverse methods and materials.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Film | Letty Lynton (1932): Classic Romantic Drama Starring Joan Crawford
A glamorous New York socialite begins a shipboard romance with a wealthy man, but is blackmailed by a ... more >> former lover, with devastating consequences. Director: Clarence Brown Cast: Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, Nils Asther, Lewis Stone, May Robson Joan Crawford was an American actress, who, during the 1920s into the 30s, was one of Hollywood's most prominent movie stars and one of the highest-paid women in the U.S.
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Opening Reception | Lo grabado de lo vivido (What is etched from what has been lived): Solo Monorpint Exhibition Exploring Land, Labor, & Identity
An exhibition of new works by Gamaliel Rodríguez. Conjuring vibrant images of his native Puerto Rico ... more >> and the wider Caribbean, Rodríguez's new monoprints revisit themes central to his practice while exploring the expansive possibilities of printmaking at a new scale. Rendered across sweeping surfaces exceeding four feet, the works transform landscapes of the artist's homeland into meditations on the contested relationship between nature and the built environment. Rodríguez’s new body of work confronts the enduring tension between nature and industry across the postcolonial Caribbean and American landscapes. Rodríguez's electric chroma palette recalls the idyllic imagery of vintage travel postcards and tourist advertisements while subtly unsettling those familiar scenes. While appearing to be tropical scenes, the works on view are actually rooted in specific sites that register the climate implications of commercialized industrialization, including the Milwaukee War Museum, the ethanol power plant in Medina, New York, and the Cataño distillery in Puerto Rico. By anchoring the works in real destinations of commerce, production, and power, the artist renders the traceable weight of colonial history embedded in the landscape. Power appears both literally, through electrical infrastructure and industrial sites, and metaphorically through the systems that continue to shape land, labor, and identity across the Caribbean.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Metamorphosis: Solo Butterfly Motif Exhibition
The genesis of Lis Sam's new series, Metamorphosis, can be traced to a formative visit to a butterfly ... more >> greenhouse in southern France. Observing the delicate movement of butterflies among dense botanical landscapes, Lis Sam became captivated by the illusion of feminine forms emerging from their wings. This experience gave rise to an enduring body of work in which the butterfly serves not only as a visual motif but also as a symbol of transformation, fragility, and continual renewal. Born in 1989 in Tunisia and raised in France, Lis Sam is a self-taught artist whose practice explores the intersection of photography, sculpture, and the natural world. His work is defined by meticulously composed images that blur the boundaries between portraiture and installation, transforming organic materials into immersive visual environments.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | On, In, Off the Grid: Multi-Artist Exhibition Questioning Constructed Systems
A group exhibition highlighting abstract paintings, mixed media works, and works on paper by Joell Baxter, ... more >> Lisa Corinne Davis, Valerie Jaudon, Alfred Jensen, Richard Kalina, Holly Miller, Stephen Mueller, Leslie Roberts, James Siena, Stanley Whitney and George Woodman. The artists in this exhibition organize their work around constructed generative systems and methodology that explore the grid as a foundational basis for sustained inquiry and artistic expression. The shifting, twisting, morphing grids and patterns reflect investigations into spatial, optical, and conceptual dimensions. Spaces for repeated interval, motif and color can stabilize the matrix or can act as rule-breakers to forge new pathways and create variation.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Pastels: Solo Exhibition of Scenes from an Allegorical Universe
A showing of new works on paper by London-based artist Sara Anstis. For Pastels, Anstis expands an ... more >> allegorical universe informed by the visual languages of mythology, folklore, and art history. Realized at a small scale, the nearly thirty works on view encourage close looking while contrasting with the expanse of the gallery architecture. Anstis works in soft, delicate pastels, retaining an intimate sense of touch that charges her scenes with introspective intensity. In Pastels, Anstis draws from a deepened engagement with art history. Architecture and interiors assume a more pronounced role, contrasting with Anstis' archetypal landscapes, and her compositional structures recall sources ranging from medieval traditions and the proto-Renaissance period to the Early Netherlandish masters.Themes of motherhood surface across the exhibition – treated with the same tenderness and strangeness that characterize Anstis' broader vision of daily life.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Rana Begum: Abstraction through a Phenomenological Lens
Lana Begum’s solo exhibition. Over the past two decades, Begum has cultivated a distinctive visual ... more >> language that explores abstraction through a phenomenological lens. Treating light as both subject and medium, her sculptural works absorb, reflect, and transform their surroundings in ways that feel both temporal and sensorial.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Reprise: Solo Painting Exhibition
REPRISE, the latest body of work by London-based artist George Rouy spotlights the artist’s ongoing, ... more >> helictical exploration of the human body in states of transformation, reconstruction and becoming.
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Opening Reception | settle for a good fantasy: Multi-Photographer Portrait Exhibition Rejecting Notions of Idealization
This exhibition features the work of four photographers, Janice Guy, Joe Mama-Nitzberg, Shaun Pierson, ... more >> and David Seidner. Sharing an approach to portraiture that rejects notions of idealization, these artists embrace strategies of patchworking in which the “puzzle pieces” will not, and should not, fit together seamlessly. Eschewing the classical approach of emphasizing a cohesive ideal, they each weave a picture of their subjects from disparate sources of information to create nuanced and multi-faceted impressions. For these artists, the imperfect and the unresolved are paramount: fracturing, then reintegration becomes a pathway towards image-building, slippages erode archetypal portrayals, and questions dominate over answers.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Opening Reception | Silent Night: Solo Exhibition from Award-Winning Landscape Painter
An exhibition by Scott Kahn focusing on the artist’s singular landscapes—a genre that is central ... more >> to his practice. The exhibition will bring together a significant group of new and recent paintings alongside works spanning the previous twenty-five years that explore Kahn’s most enduring motifs. Over more than five decades, Kahn has maintained a commitment to a representational mode of expression, using a distinctive formal language to achieve a nuanced and poetic rendition of the simultaneous splendor and mundanity of the world around him. Rooted in his everyday life and experiences, Kahn’s enigmatic landscapes blend real and surreal elements. Many read as near facsimiles of lived experience shot through with electric color or ghostly shadows: billowing clouds that seem to come alive, ominous moonscapes, bare trees electrified by unexpected hues, and picture windows that open onto worlds both known and unknown. Seasons turn and day recedes into night, change often sweeping across a single canvas.
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Opening Reception | The Anatomy of Every Setting Sun: Solo Exhibition Transcending Nature through Technology & Systems of Control
An exhibition with Lee Bul, one of the most influential artists of her generation and a singular voice ... more >> in contemporary art’s ongoing reckoning with the promises and failures of modernity. Bringing together major new sculptures with recent bodies of work, The Anatomy of Every Setting Sun extends Lee’s decades-long examination of humanity’s drive to transcend nature through technology and systems of control. The works on view reveal the tensions between utopian aspiration and inevitable collapse, exposing the entangled relationships between technology, history and nature.
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Gallery Talk | Classicist Discusses the Life & Craft of Baroque Artist Diego Velazquez
This talk explores the life and work of Diego Velazquez (1599-1660). Trained in Seville, in 1623, he ... more >> was called to Madrid to paint a portrait of King Philip IV and from then on, only Velazquez could paint the King. His style, therefore, is seen as Aristocratic Baroque. His brushwork and drawing in the royal portraits and in those of the court buffoons becomes broader and more fluid. Velazquez visits Italy twice and paints the Pope. His painting now has evolved to sparkling and free. He unites space and atmosphere in foreground and background, always painting the light.
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Opening Reception | Clocks: Solo Exhibition from Met-Featured Artist
New works on paper by London-based artist Pablo Bronstein. Clocks features a suite of imagined antique ... more >> mantel clocks complete with allegorical elements, deepening Bronstein’s longstanding fascination with the history of aesthetics and bourgeois material culture. Extending as far as 6 feet wide, each work on view comprises an imaginary model for a clock. Drawing from vintage pattern books from his personal collection, Bronstein combines design elements from various styles and movements, creating original compositions that resist historical categorization. He draws inspiration from the mantel clocks that filled family homes across 18th-century Europe, filled with allegorical motifs and today recognized as material projections of human imagination. Bronstein presents these at large scale, as if to magnify designs ready to be manufactured. The works are united by this fixed format, inviting the suggestion that the elements could be swapped in limitless variations.
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Dancing | Evening of Dancing in the Park: Swing & Salsa (In Person AND Online!)
Lindy hop and jitterbug followed by Latin jazz and salsa. On the upper terrace: 6pm-6:25pm: Swing dance ... more >> lesson 6:25pm-6:50pm: Salsa dance lesson Live performances: 7pm-7:55pm: George Gee Swing Orchestra 8:10pm-9pm: Alfredo de la Fe All Star Band
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Book Discussion | Literary Fiction Novel Book Launch
Michaela is the story of the Murphys, who meet on a playground in Upper Manhattan, court at Coney Island, ... more >> and bring four children into the world. It’s a great life until catastrophe strikes, and the surviving Murphy kids find church, family and one another inadequate for coming to terms with the loss.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Muay Thai Lessons: Hands-On Instruction To Improve Your Fitness
This summer, learn the fundamentals of Thai Boxing and kickboxing with Patrick Stout; starting with: ... more >> stance, footwork, then moving on to offense, defense, and techniques. This is a great opportunity to receive hands-on instruction and hone your craft. Whether you’re looking to learn the fundamentals, improve your fitness, or challenge yourself with something new, the instructors will guide you every step of the way. Expect a dynamic mix of drills, conditioning, and technique. No experience is required.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Film | Orgasm Inc. (2009): Healthcare & Sexuality Documentary (+ Filmmaker Discussion)
Prescription drugs help millions of Americans live longer, more productive lives. But has the quest ... more >> for optimal wellness opened a Pandora's pill bottle? When filmmaker Liz Canner started editing videos for a pharmaceutical company seeking FDA approval for a drug to treat Female Sexual Dysfunction (FSD), that job turned into an opportunity to document the medical industry and the marketing campaigns that are literally and figuratively reshaping our everyday lives around health, illness, and desire. Director: Liz Canner Followed by a discussion with the filmmaker and two of the film's contributors: Dr. Leonore Tiefer, clinical psychologist specializing in sex and gender who has studied the medicalization of sexuality, and Dr. Susan Bennett, internist and assistant professor at Harvard Medical School.
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6:30 pm
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Workshop | Cardio & Strength Workout (All Levels Welcome)
Instructor Natalie Hahn leads 45 minutes of bodyweight exercises, combining cardio and strength for ... more >> a full-body workout. This class is high-energy with programming options for all levels!
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Workshop | Evening Yoga on the Water: Relax, Stretch, & Reset
Unwind and find your balance along the waterfront with Chelsea Piers Fitness. This class is the perfect ... more >> place to relax, stretch out and reset. A great fit for any fitness level.
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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 ... more >> Marshall Chess Club. All ages are welcome! Chess has many benefits, including:
Improving cognitive skills
Encouraging creativity
Building confidence
Developing problem-solving skills
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Poetry Reading | Pulitzer Prize-Winning Writer Shares His Poetry (+ Live Music & Dancing)
Experience words and music from around the globe at the World Poetry Salon. This salon will feature ... more >> a reading by poet Forrest Gander accompanied by dancers Zelda and Georgia B. Smith. A printout will be available for attendees to follow along with Gander's poetry during the reading. Following the reading, Gander will be interviewed by event host Patricio Ferrari. The author of twenty books of his own and as many books of translations, Forrest Gander was born in the Mojave Desert. He has degrees in geology and literature. Awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the Best Translated Book Award, Gander has been a signal voice for environmental poetics.
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Dancing | Sunset Salsa on the Pier
Get ready to dance the night away! Sunset Salsa returns for summer rhythm, hosted by acclaimed dancer ... more >> and choreographer Talia Castro-Pozo, hailed by Latina Magazine as "The Woman of Salsa." Each evening begins with a beginner-friendly salsa lesson and a vibrant open dance party under the setting sun. Whether you're a seasoned dancer or a curious first-timer, all are welcome to join this joyful, high-energy celebration of Latin dance. 6:30 PM: Beginner Lessons 7:15 PM: Open Dance
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Workshop | Sunset Yoga in the Park
Sweet Water Dance & Yoga instructors lead a multi-level sunset yoga practice. Suitable for all fitness ... more >> levels. Please wear loose, comfortable clothing and bring your own mat. Seating is limited, unreserved, and available on a first-come, first-served basis. If there is heavy rain at the time of the event, the event will be canceled.
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6:30 pm
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Concert | An Evening of Live Folk Music
Performed by Jo Kroger.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Former Journalist Discusses His New Family Memoir, Ausländer: One Family’s Story of Escape and Exile
A conversation with Michael Moritz, celebrated investor, philanthropist, and author of the newly released ... more >> memoir. When sorting through family papers after his mother's death, Moritz uncovered the stories of relatives murdered during the Holocaust and embarked on a journey to understand the legacy of displacement that shaped his family for generations. In Ausländer, he traces his parents' escape from Nazi Germany, their lives as refugees in Britain, and his own enduring sense of being an outsider, even after achieving extraordinary success in Silicon Valley. Moritz will be in conversation with Meredith Kopit Levien, President and Chief Executive Officer of The New York Times Company, for a discussion about family, memory, identity, and the lessons history continues to hold for our present moment.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Author Reading | National Book Critics Circle Award-Winning Writer Valeria Luiselli Shares Her Work (+ Q&A)
A reading by an award-winning author followed by a conversation/Q&A with Darin Strauss. Valeria Luiselli ... more >> is an acclaimed writer of both fiction and nonfiction. She is the author of the essay collections Sidewalks and Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions; and the novels Faces in the Crowd, The Story of My Teeth, the international bestseller Lost Children Archive, and, most recently, Beginning Middle End. She is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the winner of two Los Angeles Times Book Prizes, an American Book Award, the Rathbones Folio Prize, and the 2021 Dublin Literary Award. Her work has been translated into more than thirty languages.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Museums | Thursday Nights at One of NYC's Leading Museum
Contemporary art is a vital social force that advances questioning, learning, and working towards a better ... more >> society. This weekly program offers an accessible opportunity to explore groundbreaking exhibitions by emerging and established artists from around the globe. Engage with current artistic dialogues and help expand the definition of art.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Dance Performance | Curriculum IV: Spin and Spin! Turn! Turn! Turn! -- Dance Meditation on Loss from 2X Tony Winning Choreographer
The world premiere of a new work from National Medal of the Arts and Kennedy Center Honoree, Bill T. ... more >> Jones, a show that was originally scheduled to premiere on September 12, 2001 on the plaza of the Twin Towers. This new work, with original music from composer Samora Pinderhughes, commemorates the 25th anniversary of that suspended moment—and all that has unfolded since. Jones, in collaboration with Pinderhughes, forge an intergenerational bridge as both artists search within themselves and their respective creative interests to meditate on loss, and their distinct responses to the 25-year aftermath of 9/11 and other cataclysms spiralling into our era of loss of freedom, speech, movement, and justice. Featuring performances from Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Company and live musicians, Spin and Spin! Turn! Turn! Turn! brings dance back to Lower Manhattan, shaped by resilience and the passage of time.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Jazz | Cross-Cultural Trio Brings Transatlantic Sound to the Stage
Canadian bandleader and instrumentalist George Crotty has carved out a unique niche in the contemporary ... more >> music world by reimagining the role of the cello in modern music. Crotty's vibrant compositions expand the instrument's boundaries to encompass moody jazz, ecstatic Hindustani ragas, and emotionally charged Arabic maqam. Crotty's Trio (GC3), featuring John Murchison on bass and Jeremy Smith on percussion, recently released their fourth album, 2025's Heart Music. The new LP is an accessible, cinematic, and daringly transatlantic narrative that foregrounds the combo's clever cross-cultural interplay while emphasizing groove, melody, and texture over bombast. For this set, the GC3 will introduce New York audiences to the innovative sound that All About Jazz calls "a stream of genre-blurring invention." 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.
New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Movie in a Park | Blue Beetle (2023): Superhero Origin Story in the Park
An alien scarab chooses Jaime Reyes to be its symbiotic host, bestowing the recent college graduate with ... more >> a suit of armor that's capable of extraordinary powers, forever changing his destiny as he becomes the superhero known as Blue Beetle. Director: Angel Manuel Soto Stars: Xolo Maridueña, Bruna Marquezine, Becky G Organizers strongly encourage you to bring your own blanket or mat to sit on and get comfortable. Glass bottles and alcoholic beverages are strictly prohibited. In the event of heavy rain or extreme weather, the screening may be canceled.
New York City, NY; NYC
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8:30 pm
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