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September 6, 2024. Free shows, concerts, movies, tours are New York (NYC) best kept secret! New York City never ceases to amaze you with quantity and quality of its free culture and free entertainment whether it's day or night, weekday or weekend, summer or winter, spring or fall, January or June, May or September. If you are looking for inexpensive things to do and where to go in Manhattan today, tonight, tomorrow, or any other time, or any other day of any week - you came to the right place: just click on any day on the calendar dispayed on the every page of our site and you will see how many events you can attend in Manhattan free of charge on that very day.

New York's cultural scene is at its busiest in October and March (and the same goes for free events, free things to do), but other months of the year still offer incredible amount of high quality, off the beaten path, unique free events, free things to do which will take your breath away! So if you looking for something to do in April or November, December or February, you will find tons of free things to do, free events to go to. (In June, July and August lots of those free events take place outdoors, of course).

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Where else but in New York City can you listen to a world-class musician, discuss a book with a famous author, take a part in poetry reading, have a glass of wine at an art exhibition opening, and all that on the same day, and all that free of charge, and all of that on any day of the year, whether it's December or July, April or November!

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Free things to do, free events that take place in the City every day of the year are truly amazing. So if you're looking for something interesting to do today (September 6, 2024) or on any other day of the year don't miss those free-of-charge opportunities that only New York provides! You can find lots of high quality, off the beaten path, unique free events, free things to do which will take your breath away!

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In addition to providing information about free events, free things to do in New York, Club Free Time offers its members complimentary tickets to classical music concerts, dance performances and theater: when a producer wants that special buzz of the 'full house' - Club Free Time members are welcomed for their enthusiasm and sophistication!

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Experience an entirely new perspective on New York. 'Open up a whole new cultural world... in one of the most vibrant capital cities in the world, sampling cultural delights beyond anyone's wildest dream.' Rupert Parker, journalist, photographer, cameraman, and TV producer
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37 free  things to do in New York City (NYC) today:
Friday, September 6, 2024

All events are free unless otherwise noted.

Concert | LL Cool J, Multiplatinum Rapper and Actor


Long Island's LL Cool J was one of the first rappers to achieve mainstream success in the 1980s. He later became a TV actor. Returning to music, his latest CD is The FORCE. Check-in: By 5:15 a.m. (concert concludes at 9:30 a.m.)
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Concerts, September 06, 2024, 09/06/2024, LL Cool J, Multiplatinum Rapper and Actor

Workshop | Tai Chi


Improve balance, strength and focus through gentle exercises. The sights and sounds of the river provide a serene background for the ancient flowing postures.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshops, September 06, 2024, 09/06/2024, Tai Chi

Tour | NYC Walking Tours: A Variety of Neighborhoods - Choose One Tour Or Many


These tours take place at various times. You can make reservations for as many tours as your schedule allows. See link for details: scroll down to find the daily scheduled tours at $4 (more costly tours are listed on top). Daily tours may include: Brooklyn Bridge SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown Lower Manhattan Brooklyn Bridge Harlem Downtown Greenwich Village Central Park Lower Manhattan Midtown Manhattan Graffiti and Street Art Tours
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9:30 am
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Tours, September 06, 2024, 09/06/2024, NYC Walking Tours: A Variety of Neighborhoods - Choose One Tour Or Many

Workshop | Adult Zumba


Exercise in disguise! Join in on the fun featuring easy-to-follow Latin dance choreography while working on your balance, coordination and range of motion. Bring your friends and come prepared for enthusiastic instruction, a little strength training and a lot of fun.
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Workshops, September 06, 2024, 09/06/2024, Adult Zumba

Park Walk | Island Walking Tour


Look into the past of the Island and learn about its excit­ing trans­for­ma­tion and future. In this walk­ing tour led by volunteer guides, you’ll explore the Island's historic district and new 43-acre park. Tours exam­ine how his­toric preser­va­tion, inno­v­a­tive design, and envi­ron­men­tal stew­ard­ship make the Island what it is today: one of the most unique pub­lic places in New York City. The tour route is approximately 1 mile on paved, wheelchair accessible paths. Comfortable walking shoes are recommended. 
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Park Walks, September 06, 2024, 09/06/2024, Island Walking Tour

Workshop | Learn Juggling in the Park


Get in a quick lesson, stay for the whole time, or just enjoy watching them 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.
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Workshops, September 06, 2024, 09/06/2024, Learn Juggling in the Park

Concert | Piano in the Park


Come on by and tap your toes to The Big Apple's finest ragtime, stride, and jazz pianists around! Featuring special events and performances by distinguished musicians. Today's pianist: Armen Donelian.
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Concerts, September 06, 2024, 09/06/2024, Piano in the Park

Film | The Wedding Banquet (1993) Directed by Ang Lee


Wai-Tung and his boyfriend live happily as a gay couple in New York City. Wai-Tung has not been open about his sexuality with his Taiwanese parents and decides to acquiesce to their wish for a traditional Chinese union by marrying Wei-Wei, a struggling artist desperate for a green card. But the simple arrangement turns into a lavish debacle when Wai-Tung's parents plan an extravagant wedding banquet. Director: Ang Lee Cast: Gua Ah-leh, Lung Sihung, May Chin, Winston Chao, Mitchell Lichtenstein Ang Lee is a Taiwanese filmmaker. His films are known for their emotional charge and exploration of repressed, hidden emotions. During his career, he has received international critical and popular acclaim and numerous accolades including three Academy Awards, four BAFTA Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards. In 2003, he was ranked 27th in The Guardian's 40 best directors.
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Films, September 06, 2024, 09/06/2024, The Wedding Banquet (1993) Directed by Ang Lee

Book Discussion | Wide Awake by Jon Grinspan


In his new book, Jon Grinspan, Curator of Political History at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, offers a rare look into a largely forgotten chapter of American history: the Wide Awakes. The political club, composed of mostly working-class Americans in their twenties, became one of the largest and most influential political movements of the 19th century. To some, they embodied the power of a rising majority pushing back against slavery. To others, the torch-bearing, cape-wearing youths looked like a paramilitary force training to invade the South. At their core, the Wide Awakes illuminate a question that American democracy poses time and again about the precarious relationship between violent speech and violent actions.
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Book Discussions, September 06, 2024, 09/06/2024, Wide Awake&nbsp;by Jon Grinspan

Park Walk | Island Walking Tour


Look into the past of the Island and learn about its excit-ing trans-for-ma-tion and future. In this walk-ing tour led by volunteer guides, you'll explore the Island's historic district and new 43-acre park. Tours exam-ine how his-toric preser-va-tion, inno-v-a-tive design, and envi-ron-men-tal stew-ard-ship make the Island what it is today: one of the most unique pub-lic places in New York City. The tour route is approximately 1 mile on paved, wheelchair accessible paths. Comfortable walking shoes are recommended.
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Park Walks, September 06, 2024, 09/06/2024, Island Walking Tour

Museums | Free Admission at Famous Museum for NYC Residents


This is your chance to see multiple floors of galleries with famous paintings. Proof of residency required.
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4:00 pm
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Museumss, September 06, 2024, 09/06/2024, Free Admission at Famous Museum for NYC Residents

Opening Reception | Where Do We Go From Here? The Four Freedoms Photographs


Created by Hank Willis Thomas and Emily Shur, in collaboration with Eric Gottesman and Wyatt Gallery in 2018, the Four Freedoms Photographs are reinterpretations of American artist Norman Rockwell’s Four Freedoms paintings; representing the eponymous Four Freedoms coined by former President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his 1941 State of the Union Address —freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. By framing artists, activists, community organizers, and friends within these iconic works, For Freedoms modernized American imagery and sparked civic engagement by declaring diversity an essential and undeniable component of freedom. Sixteen of the Four Freedoms Photographs will be on view for the exhibition. Once created, the images were reproduced and distributed nationwide as billboards, artworks, posters and more as part of the organization’s 2018 50 State Initiative - named the largest creative collaboration in US history and featured on the cover of Time Magazine. In 2023, the Four Freedoms Photographs traveled to Athens, Lisbon, Geneva and Washington, DC at the Smithsonian Museum of American History as part of the permanent collection of the US Department of State Art In Embassies Democracy Collection. This traveling exhibition commemorated the 60th Anniversary of the Office of Art in Embassies, established by President John F. Kennedy to create cross-cultural dialogues and foster mutual understanding through the visual arts. For Freedoms co-founder Hank Willis Thomas was also honored with 2023 U.S. Department of State Medal of Arts, an award created by Art in Embassies, in partnership with the Secretary of State to formally acknowledge artists who have played an exemplary role in advancing the U.S. Department of State’s mission to promote cultural diplomacy around the globe.
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Opening Receptions, September 06, 2024, 09/06/2024, Where Do We Go From Here? The Four Freedoms Photographs

Birdwatching | Fall Migration Birding Tour


Spot the wonderful diversity of birds that visit the park during migratory season, with guided tours led by environmental educator and urban naturalist Gabriel Willow. Located in the heart of Midtown, 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!
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Birdwatchings, September 06, 2024, 09/06/2024, Fall Migration Birding Tour

Jazz | Jazz with Brazilian and Spanish Flair and Art Exhibitions at a Museum


The instrumental ensemble BeBimBop performs jazz infused with Brazilian and Spanish flair. Visitors also have access to the museum's fine art galleries with rare and noteworthy collections and a wide variety of exhibitions.
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Concerts, September 06, 2024, 09/06/2024, Jazz with Brazilian and Spanish Flair and Art Exhibitions at a Museum

Workshop | New Games Social - Outdoors


Curious about a board game or looking to try something new? Hosts will be teaching how to play a wide range of fun board games every Friday.
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Reading | Reading and Conversation with Writer Phillip B. Williams


Phillip B. Williams is from Chicago, Illinois, and is the author of two collections of poetry, Thief in the Interior, which was the winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and a Lambda Literary Award, and Mutiny, which was a finalist for the PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry Collection and the winner of a 2022 American Book Award. Most recently, he is the author of the novel Ours, chosen as a Most Anticipated Book of 2024 by Oprah's Book Club, Elle, Reader's Digest, The Rumpus, Kirkus Reviews, The Millions, Lit Hub, and more. Williams is also the recipient of a Whiting Award and fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and the National Endowment for the Arts.
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Readings, September 06, 2024, 09/06/2024, Reading and Conversation with Writer Phillip B. Williams

Book Discussion | 2 New Books on Mughal Painting


A panel featuring the authors of two groundbreaking monographs on Mughal painting, both published in 2023: The Brush of Insight by Dr. Yael Rice and Faces of God by Dr. Murad Khan Mumtaz. The authors understand paintings to have been portals for dreams, visions, and sacred presence, and to have invited spiritual insight. With innovative interpretations grounded in close looking, Rice and Mumtaz deepen our understanding of Mughal visuality.  Each explores the provocative question: what do Mughal paintings do? Additionally, the authors significantly advance the study of artists, patronage, and artistic processes. The panel offers a chance to learn about Indo-Muslim ontologies, the power of gazing, especially on beauty, and the expressive sophistication of Mughal pictures. We invite colleagues outside Mughal art history to engage with what these scholars have to teach us about images.
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Book Discussions, September 06, 2024, 09/06/2024, 2 New Books on Mughal Painting

Workshop | Bingo in the Park


BYO food and beverages to this all ages, free to enter, B-I-N-G-O night. A mix of music plays as the numbers roll out and each game winner receives a prize.
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Workshops, September 06, 2024, 09/06/2024, Bingo in the Park

Opening Reception | Alexandre Lenoir: Between dogs and wolves


In Alexandre Lenoir's solo exhibition, the top left corner of one of his canvases contains the enigmatic and alluring phrase "Tape the sky at the beginning." Direct and instructional, yet profound and poetic, this phrase illuminates the crux of Lenoir's distinctive artistic process and its rigorous, conceptual, physical, and metaphysical underpinnings. First and foremost, the phrase refers to Lenoir's signature method of trapping paint beneath masking tape to replicate nature, represent an image, and, as displayed in the works in the exhibition, showcase his continued experimentation with material and color. The lyrical scrawl also offers insight into Lenoir's studio practice, a crucial conceptual element of his work. Indeed, the text was written as a direct "instruction" to a studio assistant. These instructions are part of what the artist calls his "protocol" or "recipe" for a painting. Lenoir's meticulous protocols appear in the form of charts for studio assistants and speak to his own removal (his own absence) from the process of painting in search of an image steered by chance, one that he himself could not make, or rather decided not to make since he literally stood out. But here is the inherent in this protocol: while standing out, the artists becomes outstanding in his own absence. The artist shines through his own absence. He reveals himself though his own self-removal. Likening the artist to a conductor or architect, Lenoir draws on the formal and conceptual strategies of pioneering avant-garde artistic movements across the art historical canon, ranging from Les Nabis to Fluxus. The works in the exhibition also conjure the presence of Andy Warhol and Alighiero Boetti in Lenoir's conceptual, or indeed metaphysical, studio practice. Lenoir's practice can be called "metaphysical" in the simple sense of "meta-physics"--meta: after or beyond; physics: nature, presence. Insofar as Lenoir takes his own self, his own presence, away from making the work, his role is indeed meta-physical, or beyond-the-physical. As we loiter at the beginning, let us tape the sky and cross the threshold into Alexandre Lenoir's pictorial world.
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Opening Receptions, September 06, 2024, 09/06/2024, Alexandre Lenoir: Between dogs and wolves

Opening Reception | Alice Maher and Rachel Fallon: The Map and Untying the Knots


Multi-media Irish artists Rachel Fallon and Alice Maher bring their monumental textile sculpture that imagines and re-imagines the life, legacy, and mythology of Mary Magdalene, to New York as part of a building-wide exhibition at Irish Arts Center, including our flexible JL Greene Theatre. Sewn, hand-embroidered, and painted over a three-year period, Fallon and Maher approached the subject through the lens of the medieval Mappa Mundi, using elements of the cartographer’s practice as a device for their exploration. The Map addresses false narratives of the Magdalene, charting the social, political, and psychic changes that have loosened the knots of history in their own country, and traces an historical, mythological, and future cosmology that is fluid and full of possibility.
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Opening Receptions, September 06, 2024, 09/06/2024, Alice Maher and Rachel Fallon: The Map and Untying the Knots

Opening Reception | Elise Lafontaine: Les Vagues


A solo exhibition of new work by Montreal-based artist Élise Lafontaine. This marks the artist’s first solo exhibition with the gallery, as well as her first exhibition in New York City. Translated from French, the title means the waves, referencing the structural wave of her volumetric canvases and the organic forms painted on said surfaces. Les Vagues can also be interpreted as something difficult to grasp or decipher: to be vague, to have something on the tip of your tongue. This is an uncomfortable place for most, but not for Lafontaine. Just as certain words have the feeling of roundness in your mouth, Lafontaine’s paintings are soft and bulbous. Canvases morph towards the viewer, physically built up into sculptural paintings. Depending on the angle of viewing, and especially in photographs, the shape of the canvas is imperceptible. Both the 2D and 3D paintings require the eyes to work to understand depth perception and movement. Look closely at Lafontaine’s paintings, and you’ll uncover layers of colours that, when viewed together, morph into a cohesive composition. 
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Opening Receptions, September 06, 2024, 09/06/2024, Elise Lafontaine: Les Vagues

Opening Reception | Emily Harter: Eager for the Wound


Paintings and ceramics by Bay Area artist Emily Harter. Working in the tradition of genre painting, with an emphasis on hunting scenes as a narrative framework to represent desire, Harter creates dream-like, alluring compositions featuring a disjointed cast of characters consumed by hedonistic pursuits. Amidst the backdrop of a tangled thicket, figures accompanied by ferocious hounds chase after fowl and hare, while others merely indulge in an afternoon nap or an intimate coital embrace. Unlike portraiture, Harter’s subjects lack outward singularities; rather, they embody particular personas and tropes within art history, literature, and comic strips that appeal to a collective cultural memory. Striking a balance between specificity and the archetypical, Harter engenders familiar scenes that simultaneously encourage open-ended speculation. At the root of her practice is a question of identity–– a yearning for self-determination whose complicated entanglements with cruelty are personified through Harter’s hunts. As a queer artist, her experiences in articulating her individuality, while also recognizing the need for others to help construct it, inform the muddled actions of her characters as they variably conform to a playbook of expectations. Humor vies with inherent violences. Amidst the kerfuffle, figures set dubious booby traps, swipe with busted butterfly catchers, and trigger rifles that misfire in clumsy puffs of smoke. In the way that cartoon characters hover after running off the edge of a cliff, falling only when their mind catches up to the position of their body, Harter’s subjects exist in an anarchic relationship to reality, made possible as long as they believe in its possibility. Equipped with this form of agency, others disengage from the prescribed narrative; their unwillingness to participate creates a tension between the individual and the group.
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Opening Receptions, September 06, 2024, 09/06/2024, Emily Harter: Eager for the Wound

Opening Reception | Erik Van Lieshout: Farm Arts


A faux shop filled with marvelous objects made by Dutch artist Erik Van Lieshout including egg necklaces, hay sculptures, farm tool wall hangings (of the hoe, shovel, axe variety), bandana-wrapped egg jewelry, a worn-out wheelbarrow, and a suspended fourteen-pronged egg-pitchfork. Discarded farm implements are reshaped into improbable personal ornaments. The silhouette of an old-fashioned ploughman, hand-cut out of black vinyl, envelops the space. A short video in the Lafayette Street window hints at the origin of these objects, their background story, the larger context. Van Lieshout, who is known for his radical, interventionist and humorous films, sees Farm Arts as a gentle introduction to complex social and ecological issues, not only in the Netherlands.
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Opening Receptions, September 06, 2024, 09/06/2024, Erik Van Lieshout: Farm Arts

Opening Reception | Guomundur Thoroddsen: Up and Down


Icelandic artist Guomundur Thoroddsen presents Rorschach-like paintings that segue back and forth from micro to macro. Lichen, fungus or rot simultaneously appear as precipice, gorge or stream. Although Thoroddsen attempts to disassociate himself with the baggage of landscape in western thought and imagination, the matter-like pigment and scumbled voids are still subjected to our emotional and spiritual experience of them. In the quest for the untainted gesture however, Thoroddsen does attain a sense of self-erasure. The artist's hand, present but also not, coaxes into light imagery that exists in our collective subconscious, but by rendering it unfamiliar he leaves us unsure as to whether we are seeing rhapsodies in abstraction, barren environs, or the micro worlds of lichen-esque growths. As the mind's eye remains in flux, the results are paintings that defy categorization. In Rusty Lake, one can't help but search for a figure or an ant line of people trekking its topography, but Thoroddsen is a glorious misanthrope, people here are banished, it is only the viewer who occupies the paintings and subjects them to human regulation.
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Opening Receptions, September 06, 2024, 09/06/2024, Guomundur Thoroddsen: Up and Down

Opening Reception | Inaugural Group Exhibition: More Than 30 Artists


The gallery celebrates its new address with the following artists: Philip Akkerman, Thomas Barrow, Michael Berryhill, Julia Bland, Melissa Brown, Scott Covert, David Kennedy Cutler, Steve DiBenedetto, David Dupuis, Andre ?thier, Dan Fischer, Jameson Green, Clare Grill, EJ Hauser, Steve Keister, David Korty, Zachary Leener, Ellen Lesperance, Peter Linde Busk, JJ Manford, Jiha Moon, Barbara Nessim, Katy Schimert, Michelle Segre, Nancy Shaver, Alyson Shotz, Kathia St. Hilaire, Despina Stokou, Whiting Tennis, Tom Thayer, Austin Martin White, Joseph Olisaemeka Wilson, Karl Wirsum, Areum Yang
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Opening Receptions, September 06, 2024, 09/06/2024, Inaugural Group Exhibition: More Than 30 Artists

Opening Reception | Jeff Way: Press Release (Cycle XII)


A solo exhibition by Jeff Way (b. 1942)  traces the evolution of Way’s work from the 1960s to the present. Deeply focused on engagement with grid abstraction and spiritualism, Way distills qualities from West Coast and East Coast abstractionists alike. His work occupies a unique position alongside Agnes Martin, Mark Rothko, McArthur Binion, and Jack Whitten, who similarly share a profound connection to the exploration of geometric forms, grids, and their metaphysical implications.
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Opening Receptions, September 06, 2024, 09/06/2024, Jeff Way: Press Release (Cycle XII)

Opening Reception | Steve Wolfe: The Brutality of Fact


An exhibition of works by Steve Wolfe presented alongside materials from the artist’s archive. The installation will highlight a cohesive selection of Wolfe’s meticulously crafted replicas of timeworn books, well-used vinyl records, and works on paper, which are studies for his three-dimensional pieces. Wolfe was at the center of the burgeoning downtown New York art scene of the 1980s, and his first studio was located near the Tribeca gallery. Working in the trompe-l’œil tradition, he made his detailed sculptural simulacra through a combination of techniques such as exacting drawings, screen printing, and metal casting. Wolfe’s practice was considered and labor intensive, and perhaps the most scrupulous aspect of his process was his choice of subject matter. The cultural artifacts that he selected to recreate reflect his own sensibilities, as well as those of his generation. Featuring Beat Generation and counter-culture provocateurs such as Jack Kerouac, musical icons like The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix, literary legends Truman Capote, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, and Leo Tolstoy, as well as art world mainstays such as Piet Mondrian and Man Ray, the works in Wolfe’s oeuvre represent some of the most important writers, artists, and thinkers of the 20th century. His works pointedly illustrate traces of the object’s consumption in vivid detail – creases, folds, tears, bookmarks, stains, and scratches are the physical markings of the interaction that occurs when a book is read or a record is played.
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Opening Receptions, September 06, 2024, 09/06/2024, Steve Wolfe: The Brutality of Fact

Opening Reception | Zachari Logan: All of My Little Landscapes


An exhibition of recent works by Zachari Logan. The exhibition is an exploration of self portraiture through the lens of the natural world utilizing botanic, art historical, mythological, and biblical references. Zachari Logan, known for his meticulous draftsmanship and poetic visual language, invites viewers into a realm where the boundaries between the human body and the natural world are delicately blurred. This exhibition is a continuation of Logan's deep engagement with themes of transformation, memory, and the environment. His works act as portals, guiding us through landscapes that are at once familiar and fantastical, intimate and expansive.
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Opening Receptions, September 06, 2024, 09/06/2024, Zachari Logan: All of My Little Landscapes

Museums | Asia's Diverse Cultures: From Ancient to Contemporary


Discover art that traverses Asia's diverse cultures, regions, and narratives. The Museum's special exhibitions 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.
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Museumss, September 06, 2024, 09/06/2024, Asia's Diverse Cultures: From Ancient to Contemporary

Concert | Music at the Crossroads of the World


Check out NYC's buzziest up-and-coming talent live. Musicians from New York City and beyond will present free concerts, ranging from indie, pop, and electronic, many of whom will be celebrating the debut of new work or an upcoming summer album release.
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Opening Reception | "flipping through pages keeping a record of time": A 2-Artist Show


This exhibiton proposes an intergenerational dialogue between Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and Jimmy Robert. Sharing a prolific engagement with performance, Super 8 film, and text, this assembly of their work in all three mediums takes the limit of the page as both material and a contested site of meaning.
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Opening Receptions, September 06, 2024, 09/06/2024, "flipping through pages keeping a record of time": A 2-Artist Show

Movie in a Park | Sing (2016): Animated Musical


In a city of humanoid animals, a hustling theater impresario's attempt to save his theater with a singing competition becomes grander than he anticipates even as its finalists find that their lives will never be the same. Directors: Garth Jennings, Christophe Lourdelet Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Seth MacFarlane 108 min.
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Movie in a Parks, September 06, 2024, 09/06/2024, Sing (2016): Animated Musical

Classical Music | American Symphony Orchestra: Leonard Bernstein and More (In a Park)


American Symphony Orchestra; Leon Botstein, conductor. Program Scott Joplin (1868-1917), Treemonisha: Overture Florence Price (1887-1953), Suite of Dances Bernard Herrmann (1911-1975), Psycho Suite Kurt Weill (1900-1950), Kleine Dreigroschenmusik Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990), Three Dance Episodes from "On the Town"
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
Free
Concerts, September 06, 2024, 09/06/2024, American Symphony Orchestra: Leonard Bernstein and More (In a Park)

Workshop | Trivia Night in the Park


Test your knowledge at this general knowledge pop culture trivia night, hosted by the NYC Trivia League.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Workshops, September 06, 2024, 09/06/2024, Trivia Night in the Park

Concert | Powers: Fusing Electronic and Afrobeat Sounds


An experimental music performance from DAP the Contract, fusing electronic and house music with afrobeat and hip-hop sounds. The event captures DAP the Contract's perspective of the world for the last 4 years. Sparked by the COVID pandemic and the protests against the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor in 2020, the series tracks their journey entering the legal profession in 2020 to leaving in April 2024. Sonically, the series is an experiment, fusing electronic and house music with afrobeat and hip-hop sounds, a representation of a decade of a life spent in each of Nigeria, the U.K., and the U.S. Dolapo Akinkugbe p/k/a DAP The Contract - Lead Artist and Pianist Peter Enriquez - Guitarist Syl DuBenion - Saxophonist Rekha Akinkugbe - Videographer
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:30 pm
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Concerts, September 06, 2024, 09/06/2024, Powers: Fusing Electronic and Afrobeat Sounds

Movie in a Park | Are We There Yet? (2005): Road Trip Comedy with Ice Cube


To impress a foxy divorcee, ladies' man Nick offers to take her kids on an extended road trip, unaware of the torture he's in for. Director: Brian Levant Stars: Ice Cube, Nia Long, Aleisha Allen 95 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
8:30 pm
Free
Movie in a Parks, September 06, 2024, 09/06/2024, Are We There Yet? (2005): Road Trip Comedy with Ice Cube

Movie in a Park | Paw Patrol: The Movie (2021): Ruff Ruff to the Rescue


Ryder and the PAW Patrol pups are called to Adventure City in order to stop the recently-elected Mayor Humdinger from wreaking havoc. Director: Cal Brunker Stars: Tyler Perry, Ron Pardo, Will Brisbin 86 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 pm
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Movie in a Parks, September 06, 2024, 09/06/2024, Paw Patrol: The Movie (2021): Ruff Ruff to the Rescue
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Musical | A Christmas Musical

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Play | A Classic Story of Power, Redemption, and More

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Classical Music | Piano Works by Beethoven and More

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