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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on March 26, 2024?
52 free events take place on Tuesday, March 26 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 March 26 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 March . 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 March 26, 2024?
52 free events take place on Tuesday, March 26 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 March 26 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 March . 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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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!
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!
52 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Tuesday, March 26, 2024
All events are free unless otherwise noted.Editor's Picks
Tour | 13 Tours, All City Neighborhoods, Any Time Of The Day, Choose One Tour Or Many
These free tours take place at various times during the day, all day long. You can make reservations for as many tours as your schedule allows.
SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown
Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights + DUMBO
3 Hour Lower Manhattan
Harlem
Chelsea and the High Line
6 Hour Downtown Combined
Greenwich Village
Central Park
Lower Manhattan
Midtown Manhattan
Grand Central Terminal
Graffiti and Street Art Tours
World Trade Center
New York City, NY; NYC
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10:00 am
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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.
New York City, NY; NYC
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10:30 am
Free
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Book Discussion | Reviving Classical Liberalism Against Populism: Fighting Deliberate Polarization
Nils Karlson discusses his book which explores the strategies used by left- and right-wing populists to make populism intelligible, recognizable, and contestable. It presents a synthesized explanatory model for how populists promote autocratization through the deliberate polarization of society. It traces the ideational roots of the core populist ideas and shows that these ideas form a collectivistic identity politics. Karlson argues that to fight back requires the revival of liberalism itself by defending and developing the liberal institutions, the liberal spirit, liberal narratives, and liberal statecraft.? The book also presents and discusses an extensive list of counterstrategies against populism.? Written within the tradition of political theory and institutional economics, this book uses a wide variety of sources, including results and analyses from social psychology, ethics, law, and history.
New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Talk | From Anti-Imperialism to Postcolonialism. Anti-Israel Continuities Among the (Radical) German Left (online)
A talk by Dr. Martin Kloke, political scientist, editor, writer, Berlin, Germany.
New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Lecture | Pioneering Preventive Solutions in Gun Violence Epidemiology (online)
Speaker: Paul Reeping, University of California, Davis
New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Book Discussion | The Jews of Summer: Summer Camp and Jewish Culture in Postwar America (online)
Remember the glorious days when your parents dropped you off at camp and you could reinvent yourself free of expectations, revel in your newfound independence and stay up all night whispering with your bunkmates? Or perhaps you didn’t experience this quintessentially Jewish rite of passage . . . but wish that you had. Fun, however, was not the intention of the founders of the Jewish camp movement. They were focused on helping immigrant children escape sweltering urban neighborhoods and, later, became obsessed with creating bulwarks against over-assimilation. Camps wound up providing a two-month bubble that was like a trip to Jewish Neverland almost accidentally. In her fascinating new book, Sandra Fox explores both the institution and the experience of camp, providing an unexpected window into the evolution of the American Jewish community.
New York City, NY; NYC
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11:30 am
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Book Discussion | Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said: Labor Migration and the Making of the Suez Canal, 1859-1906 (online)
Lucia Carminati's book probes migrant labor's role in shaping the history of the Suez Canal and modern Egypt. It maps the everyday life of Port Said's residents between 1859, when the town was founded as the Suez Canal's northern harbor, and 1906, when a railway connected it to the rest of Egypt. Through groundbreaking research, Lucia Carminati provides a ground-level perspective on the key processes touching late nineteenth-century Egypt: heightened domestic mobility and immigration, intensified urbanization, changing urban governance, and growing foreign encroachment. By privileging migrants' prosaic lives, Seeking Bread and Fortune in Port Said shows how unevenness and inequality laid the groundwork for the Suez Canal's making.
New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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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.
New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Classical Music | Bach at Noon (In Person and Online)
Take a momentary respite from a busy day to enjoy a selection of organ works by Johann Sebastian Bach in an intimate venue.
New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 pm
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Film | The Princess Bride (1987) Directed by Rob Reiner, Starring Mandy Patinkin and Billy Crystal
A fairy tale adventure about a beautiful young woman and her one true love. He must find her after a long separation and save her. They must battle the evils of the mythical kingdom of Florin to be reunited with each other. Based on the William Goldman novel The Princess Bride, which earned its own loyal audience. Director: Rob Reiner Cast: Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin, Chris Sarandon, Christopher Guest, Wallace Shawn, Andr? the Giant, Robin Wright, Peter Falk, Billy Crystal Rob Reiner is an American actor and filmmaker. Reiner made his directorial film debut with heavy metal mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap (1984). He then earned acclaim directing the romantic comedy The Sure Thing (1985), coming of age drama Stand by Me (1986), fantasy adventure The Princess Bride (1987), romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally... (1989), psychological horror-thriller Misery (1990), his military courtroom drama A Few Good Men (1992), which was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, and romantic comedy-drama The American President (1995). He has earned nominations for four Golden Globe Awards for Best Director, and for three Directors Guild of America Awards. Mandy Patinkin is an American actor and singer, known for his work in musical theatre, television, and film. As a critically acclaimed Broadway performer he has collaborated with Stephen Sondheim and Andrew Lloyd Webber. Patinkin's leading roles on stage and screen have received numerous accolades including a Tony Award, a Primetime Emmy Award as well as nominations for seven Drama Desk Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. Billy Crystal is an American comedian, actor, and filmmaker. Crystal is known as a standup comedian and for his film and stage roles. Crystal has received numerous accolades, including six Primetime Emmy Awards and a Tony Award as well as nominations for three Grammy Awards and three Golden Globe Awards. He was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1991, the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2007, the Critics' Choice Lifetime Achievement Award in 2022, and the Kennedy Center Honors in 2023.
New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Book Club | The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one is more astounded than Monique herself. Why her? Why now?
New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Jazz | Jazz Improv Ensembles
All instrumental students at the School of Jazz and Contemporary Music participate in small-group improvisation ensembles to foster individual musical creativity. Start Times: 1pm, 1:30pm, 2pm, 2:30pm
New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Film | Knock at the Cabin (2023) Directed by M. Night Shyamalan
While vacationing at a remote cabin in the woods, a young girl and her parents are taken hostage by four armed strangers who demand they make an unthinkable choice to avert the apocalypse. Confused, scared and with limited access to the outside world, the family must decide what they believe before all is lost. Director: M. Night Shyamalan Cast: Dave Bautista, Jonathan Groff, Ben Aldridge, Nikki Amuka-Bird, Kristen Cui, Abby Quinn, Rupert Grint M. Night Shyamalan is an Indian-American film director, producer and screenwriter. His films often employ supernatural plots and twist endings. His early films include Praying with Anger (1992) and Wide Awake (1998) before his breakthrough film The Sixth Sense (1999), which earned him Academy Award nominations for Best Director and Best Original Screenplay. He then released Unbreakable (2000), Signs (2002) and The Village (2004).
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3:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Our Others: Stories of Ukrainian Diversity (in-person and online)
In the book, Olesya Yaremchuk explores the histories and personal stories of fourteen ethnic minority groups living within the boundaries of present-day Ukraine. She traveled to many settlements, from the bustling cities of Donbas and Bukovyna to the quiet villages of Bessarabia and Zakarpattia, to document how ethnic minorities of Ukraine live today and what memories they keep about their past. Russia?s full-scale war is changing the ethnic landscape of Ukraine and the stories collected in the book become an archive of memory. Many members of national communities were forced to leave their homes. For instance, the Meskhetian Turks who lived near Bakhmut in Donetsk Oblast, the Greeks of Mariupol, or the Roma of Nova Kakhovka in Kherson Oblast.
New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Master Class | Composition Master Class
Composition Master Class with Joseph Trapanese.
New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Discussion | Women in Science: Lessons from the Past and Promise for the Future (online)
A discussion with panelists: Kate Zernike, Author, The Exceptions; Sharon Shattuck, Director, Picture a Scientist; Mimi Shirasu-Hiza, PhD, Columbia Genetics and Development; Gissette Reyes-Soffer, MD, Columbia Division of Cardiology. Moderated by Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, PhD, Chief, Division of Ethics. Over the long history of science, women have rarely been recognized for their extraordinary contributions. Director Sharon Shattuck's Tribeca Film Festival documentary Picture a Scientist and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Kate Zernike's recent book The Exceptions tell the stories of courageous women who fought for recognition and strove to change the power dynamics in academic science. Joining the filmmaker and author on the panel to share their real life experiences are Columbia University's Gissette Reyes-Soffer, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Mimi Shirasu-Hiza, PhD, Professor of Genetics and Development. Join us for a rich discussion about the past and current discrimination of women scientists in the field, and what kind of promise awaits for the future of women in STEM.
New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Workshop | Cardio Dance
This creative and fun workout fuses dance and aerobics to improve cardio fitness and tone the body. Instructor: Masayo Kado
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4:30 pm
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Film | Enough Said (2013) with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, James Gandolfini, and Toni Collette
Eva, a divorced single parent, seems generally happy but dreads her daughter's departure for college. Unexpectedly, Eva begins a romance with Albert, a nice man with whom she has much in common. Meanwhile, Eva finds a new friend in Marianne, a poet who is just about perfect except for one thing: She constantly denigrates her ex-husband — Albert. The more Eva hears, the more she doubts her relationship with him. Director: Nicole Holofcener Cast: Julia Louis-Dreyfus, James Gandolfini, Catherine Keener, Toni Collette, Ben Falcone Julia Louis-Dreyfus is an American actress and comedian. Often described as one of the greatest performers in television history, she is widely known for her roles as Elaine Benes on Seinfeld (1990–1998), Christine Campbell on The New Adventures of Old Christine (2006–2010), and Selina Meyer on Veep (2012–2019). Her list of accolades makes her one of the most award-winning actresses in American television history, and she has received more Primetime Emmy Awards and more Screen Actors Guild Awards than any other performer. James Gandolfini was an American actor. He was best known for his portrayal of Tony Soprano, the Italian-American Mafia crime boss in HBO's television series The Sopranos (1999–2007). For this role, he won three Emmy Awards, five Screen Actors Guild Awards, and one Golden Globe Award. His role as Tony Soprano has been described as one of the greatest and most influential performances in television history. Toni Collette is an Australian actress and producer. Known for her work in television and independent films, she has received various accolades, including a Golden Globe Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and five AACTA Awards, with nominations for an Academy Award and a Tony Award.
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5:00 pm
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Lecture | Space, Aeronautics and Climate (in-person and online)
Earth's climate is changing, and space provides one of the best places to observe these impacts. NASA’s leadership and work with partners in research, modeling and Earth observation helps us better understand how the planet is changing. In this talk, Dr. Kate Calvin will discuss NASA’s climate portfolio, including recently launched missions, recent climate data, space exploration and how NASA is working to advance aeronautical science and develop innovative technologies. Speaker: Dr. Katherine Calvin, Chief Scientist and Senior Climate Advisor, NASA
New York City, NY; NYC
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5:00 pm
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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.
New York City, NY; NYC
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5:30 pm
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Book Club | April in Spain by John Banville
Don’t disturb the dead… On the idyllic coast of San Sebastian, Spain, Dublin pathologist Quirke is struggling to relax, despite the beaches, cafés and the company of his disarmingly lovely wife. When he glimpses a familiar face in the twilight at Las Acadas bar, it’s hard at first to tell whether his imagination is just running away with him. Because this young woman can’t be April Latimer. She was murdered by her brother, years ago—the conclusion to an unspeakable scandal that shook one of Ireland’s foremost political dynasties. Unable to ignore his instincts, Quirke makes a call back home to Ireland and soon Detective St. John Strafford is dispatched to Spain. But he’s not the only one en route. A relentless hit man is on the hunt for his latest prey, and the next victim might be Quirke himself.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Charlie Hustle: The Rise and Fall of Pete Rose, and the Last Glory Days of Baseball
Author Keith O'Brien discusses his captivating chronicle of the incredible story of one of America’s most iconic, charismatic, and still polarizing figures—baseball immortal Pete Rose—and an exquisite cultural history of baseball and America in the second half of the twentieth century
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Film | Difret (2014): How Two Courageous Women Changed History
A young lawyer travels to an Ethiopian village to represent Hirut, a 14-year-old girl who shot her would-be husband as he and others were practicing one of the nation's oldest traditions: abduction into marriage. Director: Zeresenay Mehari Stars: Meron Getnet, Tizita Hagere, Abel Abebe 99 min. Followed by a discussion on the legal rights of women in Ethiopia, with our spring Fellow in Residence, Meaza Ashenafi — founder of the Ethiopian Women Lawyers Association — whose story inspired this film.
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Eileen O' Kane Kornreich: Pleasures of Duality
The show, including 8 recent canvases and 15 works on paper, unfolds as a captivating call to explore the fluidity of expression, form, and identity, and the fearless offering of flesh. Through her surrealist dreamscapes populated with nudes, beasts, dolls, and butterflies, the artist has created erotic windows into a universe where boundaries of expectation are shattered, allowing for expanded interpretations of human relationships.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Inside the Mirror: A Novel of India Under British Rule
In Parul Kapur's novel, Jaya Malhotra studies medicine at the direction of her father, a champion of women's education who assumes the right to choose his daughters' vocations. A talented painter drawn to the city's dynamic new modern art movement, Jaya is driven by her desire to express both the pain and extraordinary force of life of a nation rising from the devastation of British rule. Her twin sister, Kamlesh, a passionate student of Bharata Natyam dance, complies with her father's decision that she become a schoolteacher while secretly pursuing forbidden dreams of dancing onstage and in the movies. When Jaya moves out of her family home to live with a woman mentor, she suffers grievous consequences as a rare woman in the men's domain of art. Not only does her departure from home threaten her family's standing and crush her reputation; Jaya loses a vital connection to Kamlesh.
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Irina Danilova: The Alphabet Diet Project
Irina Danilova's The Alphabet Diet Project is an annual performance that began in 1996 within greater Project 59 when the artist, Irina Danilova, discovered that the Russian alphabet (33 letters) and English alphabet (26 letters) together comprised 59 letters. Since then, for 59 days in July and August, Irina Danilova has been eating food that begins with the same letter, first following the Russian alphabet and then – English. Each letter has a designated day. For example, August 4th is always an A-Day; August 9th is an F-day; August 17th is an N-day, and so on. In 2002 the Alphabet Project began to include meetings with people or visits to places with names that started with the corresponding letters. Several video documentaries were shot that year to record the change. In 2022 and 2023 instead of the Russian alphabet, Irina followed the Ukrainian alphabet, which has some different letters, but also 33 characters.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | London from the Air: Aerial Photography
Photographer, architect, and pilot Jeffrey Milstein takes us on a charming aerial tour of London's most iconic buildings and sights to celebrate the launch of London from the Air. Combining an architect's eye with low-flying, aerial views, Milstein shows London's charm, beauty, and iconic buildings in wonderful and breathtaking photographs.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | On Both Sides of the Tracks: Social Mobility in Contemporary French Literature
Morgane Cadieu talks about her new book which examines the figures who move between social classes. Focusing on recent French novels and autobiographies, she offers a fresh critical look at tales of social emancipation in the work of Annie Ernaux, Kaoutar Harchi, Michel Houellebecq, Édouard Louis, and Marie NDiaye, among others, shedding fascinating light on upward mobility today as a formal, literary problem.
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6:00 pm
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Performance | Payment of the Argentine Foreign Debt to Andy Warhol with Corn, The Latin American Gold
A special performance with the legendary Argentinian artist Marta Minujin, in conjunction with the exhibition Marta Minuj?n: Arte! Arte! Arte! The performance will be followed by a celebratory reception. In the original staging, created on a visit by the artist to New York in 1985, Marta Minujin invited her friend Andy Warhol to participate in a photo-performance in which she paid the pop icon, a symbol of American culture, with the Argentine foreign debt represented in gold-sprayed corn, claiming that the region had already covered its debt to the first world with the "invention" of corn, a staple that today feeds millions worldwide. The witty but nonetheless quite serious proposal directly addresses the commercial colonialism that the Global South is subjected to by world powers such as the United States. By pairing herself on an equal footing with Warhol, the most famous artist at the time, Minujiin also commented on the unequal trade of cultural capital in the art world. "Corn, the Latin American Gold" should balance these inequalities and put the world's regions on the same level, she claims.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Staged Reading | Sea Marks: A Play Reading About a Fisherman in Love
The touching story of Colm, a fisherman living on a remote Irish island, who is taken with Thomasina, a woman he's glimpsed only once. Unschooled in letter writing and courting, he unwittingly paints poetic pictures of ‘life at the Heads.’ After many months a meeting evolves at which, to his surprise, she persuades him to stay with her in Liverpool. The challenges of their relationship are buffered by the poetic language of Colm’s letters, which create unexpected problems, yet finally bind them both above all else.
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Work Flows: Stalinist Liquids in Russian Labor Culture
This thought-provoking book contends that the fascination with fluid channeling is deeply rooted in vertical power structures, whether embodied by the state in Stalin’s Soviet Union and present-day Russia or by corporate monopolies in the contemporary Anglo-American West. Originating in pre-revolutionary bio-utopianism, the Russian discourse on liquids and flow reached its zenith during Stalin’s First Five-Year Plan and resurfaced in post-Soviet “managed democracy” and Western neoliberalism. By unraveling the understudied theme of fluidity, Work Flows challenges historical boundaries, presenting Stalinism as a symptom of broader twentieth-century modernity. This is an engaging book discussion that explores the enduring legacy of flow in Russian labor culture, offering valuable insights into the dynamics of modernity.
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | A Grounded Feminist Critique of the Power of Finance and Debt: The Argentine Experience
Speaker: Dr. Lucia Cavallero, Universidad de Buenos Aires This event will be held in Spanish with live interpretation in English available.
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6:00 pm
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Slide Lecture | Berenice Abbott & Village Friends: A Love Letter to the Past
In 2018, A.G Norton discovered an old box of family photos of acclaimed photographer, Berenice Abbott, leading her down a 3 year long rabbit hole as she researched Ms. Abbott’s remarkable life and her family's personal connection. Norton’s extensive research has been turned into slideshow and lecture about Berneice Abbott, infused with storytelling from her grandfather’s time with the photographer.
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Cardio Dance
This creative and fun workout fuses dance and aerobics to improve cardio fitness and tone the body. Instructor: Masayo Kado
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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Play bridge in a stress-free environment
One of the most popular card games of the last century, bridge is still enjoyed by professional and amateur players alike today - and now you can stop by and enjoy it too! Bring your bridge partner, or you will be matched up with someone to play as a pair. There will be instructions and the chance to observe players, making this a perfect event for beginners looking to learn how to play bridge.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | What Makes It Italian?: Marble I (online)
"What Makes It Italian?" is a music listening and discussion group. The encounter will focus on Marble (part 1): Composer Alessandro Melani (1639-1703) with sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598 - 1680) Marble's suavity of surface chimes with smooth, legato musical surface. How can our understanding of italianita? in music be informed by Italian sculpture? The insubstantial nature of musical materials - mere vibrations that move through the air, imperceptible to sight and touch - creates in us a longing for an analog made of solid material. In sculpture we have just such an analog: run your hand across the carved wood; feel the heat radiating from the bronze; watch the light play off the marble surface. Find the substance of Italian music by exploring its relationship to the substance/s of sculpture, one medium at a time.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Writer Roberto Bolaño in Context, 20 Years On
Few writers have been as deeply engaged with their times, in as wide a range of contexts, and as presciently, as Roberto Bolaño. In the two decades since his death in 2003, Bolaño has become one of world literature’s most influential, critically acclaimed, widely read authors. Set most extensively in Chile, Mexico, and Spain, the three principal locations of his life and work, his remarkably diverse writing moves freely and expansively among three continents, Europe and the Americas. An aspiring poet from his early years on whose much greater fame came as a novelist, Bolaño offers an exceptional portal for understanding the challenges literature was facing in the late twentieth and first few years of this century, challenges that have continued to grow and evolve ever since. Situating his work and legacy in relation to contemporary transnational, global, “planetary” contexts for literature, this talk will explore several recent, pivotal responses to those challenges. A talk by Jonathan Beck Monroe (Cornell University).
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Book Discussion | Louise Nevelson's Sculpture: Drag, Color, Join, Face (in-person and online)
In this radical rethinking of the art of Louise Nevelson (1899–1988), Julia Bryan-Wilson provides a long-overdue critical account of a signature figure in postwar sculpture. Nevelson, a Ukrainian-born Jewish immigrant, persevered in the male-dominated New York art world. Nonetheless, her careful procedures of construction—in which she assembled found pieces of wood into elaborate structures, usually painted black—have been little studied. Organized around a series of key operations in Nevelson’s own process (dragging, coloring, joining, and facing), the book comprises four slipcased, individually bound volumes that can be read in any order. Both form and content thus echo Nevelson’s own modular sculptures, the gridded boxes of which the artist herself rearranged. Exploring how Nevelson’s making relates to domesticity, racialized matter, gendered labor, and the environment, Bryan-Wilson offers a sustained examination of the social and political implications of Nevelson’s art. The author also approaches Nevelson’s sculptures from her own embodied subjectivity as a queer feminist scholar. She forges an expansive art history that places Nevelson’s assemblages in dialogue with a wide array of marginalized worldmaking and underlines the artist’s proclamation of allegiance to blackness.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:15 pm
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Concert | in a dark blue night: Song Cycles Exploring Jewish immigrant New York City (online)
Celebrate the release of the follow-up to Alex Weiser's Pulitzer Prize nominated debut album and all the days were purple. A love letter to New York City, in a dark blue night features acclaimed singer Annie Rosen with a seven-piece chamber ensemble and comprises two song cycles that explore Jewish immigrant New York City. The first cycle, in a dark blue night, features five settings of Yiddish poetry written by newly arrived immigrants in the late 1800s and early 1900s. Coney Island Days follows and sets to music words from an oral history interview with Weiser's grandmother about childhood in the bilingual immigrant world of Coney Island in the 1930s and '40s. Musical performances from inside our recreated 1870s saloon will interweave songs from Weiser's album with Yiddish songs of the past that explore the Jewish immigrant experience. From a lullaby imagining America as heaven and a hymn to the Statue of Liberty to ballads of sweatshop labor and inequality, the musical selections will bring a diversity of experiences from the historic Jewish Lower East Side to life. The concert will feature introduction and historical commentary by Alex Weiser in conversation with Tenement Museum President Annie Polland, and musical performances by singer Annie Rosen and pianist Jason Wirth.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | Architects in Conversation
Madame Architect Founder and Editor-in-Chief Julia Gamolina will speak with Mecanoo's architect Francine Houben, as well as President of leading architect selection firm, Dovetail Design Strategists', Susanna Sirefman, on the foundations of both firms, how Mecanoo was selected as the design architect of one of New York's libraries, the design of that library, and what lies ahead for architecture and for library design in 2024 and beyond. Francine's new book will also be available at the program: Mecanoo: People Place Purpose Poetry.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Talk | Artist Talk: A Litter of Monsters
Monsters, in fiction, represent human conditions veering on the edges of the abnormal. Whereas monsters may depict grotesqueness, deformation, or further forms of otherness, they also are parables to galvanize people into acting normally. In this lecture, we will look at a range of stories and architectural projects with these features. Some may call them characters, creatures, or caricatures - but this is a story about monsters, a chance for allegories. Artist Jimenez Lai was born in Taiwan, came of age in Canada, and lives in Los Angeles. Before establishing Bureau Spectacular, Lai lived in a desert shelter at Taliesin and resided in a shipping container at Atelier Van Lieshout on the piers of Rotterdam. Lai's first book, Citizens of No Place: An Architectural Graphic Novel, was published by Princeton Architectural Press with a grant from the Graham Foundation. Lai has won various awards, including the Architectural League Prize for Young Architects, the Debut Award at the Lisbon Triennale, and the Designer of the Future at Art Basel. Lai represented Taiwan at the 14th Venice Architecture Biennale. Lai's work is in the permanent collection of MoMA, SFMOMA, Art Institute of Chicago, and LACMA.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Talk | Artist Talk: A Seed Takes Root (in-person and online)
Michele Oka Doner is an artist whose work is fueled by a lifelong study and appreciation of the natural world, from which she derives her formal vocabulary. Her artistic production includes sculpture, drawing, public art, functional objects, video, artist books, and costume and set design. She has created numerous permanent art installations throughout the world, including Radiant Site at the Herald Square MTA station in New York; A Walk on the Beach at Miami International Airport; and the entrance to the new Astronomy Museum in Shanghai.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshop | Cardio Dance
This creative and fun workout fuses dance and aerobics to improve cardio fitness and tone the body. Instructor: Masayo Kado
New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshop | Origami Meetup
OMG NYC (Origami Meetup Group! New York City) is a group for people to come together and share in the beautiful art of Origami - an ancient art of folding various mediums, most commonly paper. The word comes from the combination of the Japanese verb oru (to fold) and the noun kami (paper). Other materials often folded are fabric, wire mesh, sheet metal, tissue, thin plastic, cardboard, and straws. Ages Adult 18+
New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | The Story of Willa Cather (in-person and online)
The story of Willa Cather is defined by a lifetime of determination, struggle, and gradual emergence. Some show their full powers early, yet Cather was the opposite—she took her time and transformed herself by stages. The writer who leapt to the forefront of American letters with O Pioneers! (1913), The Song of the Lark (1915), and My Ántonia (1918) was already well into middle age. Through years of provincial journalism in Nebraska, brief spells of teaching, and editorial work on magazines, she persevered in pursuit of the ultimate goal—literary immortality. Unlike Hemingway, Faulkner, and Fitzgerald, her idealism was unironic, and she stood alone among the great modern authors—at odds with the fashionable attitudes of her time. Combining intricate analysis with an empathetic, lyrical voice, Benjamin Taylor uncovers the reality of Cather’s artistic development, from modest beginnings to the triumphs of her mature years. His book is simultaneously an homage to her character, a warm consideration of her work, and a call to read Cather with renewed vigor.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Discussion | Vision Is a Battlefield: Histories of Race and Media (in-person and online)
How is our basic perception of the world influenced by concepts of racial identity? This is an illuminating discussion with the authors of four recent books exploring the intertwined histories of photography, media, and race. The panel of experts on art and visual culture features Brooke Belisle, associate professor of art at Stony Brook University, speaking on computational imagery and AI; Emilie Boone, assistant professor of art history at New York University, on Harlem Renaissance photographer James Van Der Zee; Monica Huerta, assistant professor of English and American studies at Princeton University, on the aesthetics of racial capitalism; and Nicholas Mirzoeff, professor of media, culture, and communication at New York University, on the visual politics of whiteness. Claire Bishop, professor of art history at the CUNY Graduate Center, moderates.
New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Poetry Reading | Poetic People Power: Three Spoken Word Shows for Social Change
This book launch will feature readings by poets Tara Bracco, Bogar Alonso, Shanelle Gabriel, and Natalia Vargas-Caba. For 20 years, the New York City-based spoken word group Poetic People Power has creatively explored social and political topics, offering insights and solutions to issues that affect our everyday lives and the world around us. This debut anthology invites readers to explore three of their shows about environmental heroes, women’s voices, and human rights abuses. In today’s times of conflict and uncertainty, the poets featured in this book offer words of hope, connection, and possibility for a path forward. The anthology features work by writers Bogar Alonso, Suzen Baraka, Tara Bracco, Shanelle Gabriel, Philippe Javier Garcesto, Karla Jackson-Brewer, Angela Kariotis, Shane Michael Manieri, Shetal Shah, Natalia Vargas-Caba, Nabil Viñas, and Kesav Wable.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Play | Rhapsody in Black: Transcending Racism
Straddling the color line, not at home in any hue, a young man struggling with what it means to be black discovers what it means to be a man. Rhapsody in Black explores Leland Gantt’s personal journey to understand and eventually transcend racism in America. Follow his life story from an underprivileged childhood in the ghettos of McKeesport, Pennsylvania to teenage experiments with crime and drugs to scholastic achievement and an acting career that lands adult Leland in situations where he is virtually the only African-American in the room.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Gallery Talk | Expat Intermedia Arts in Paris
The exhibition Americans in Paris highlights the vibrant expatriate art scene in Paris after World War II, examining how the French capital fostered artistic freedom and experimentation in a way that New York could not. This panel takes up the exhibition’s offer to rethink our understanding of postwar American art in light of its Parisian influences by paying particular attention to practices that stretch across media and discipline and put painting and sculpture into dialogue with film, photography and writing. Panelists: Emily Apter, Julius Silver Professor of French Literature Thought and Culture and Comparative Literature Honey Crawford, Assistant Professor of English Lytle Shaw, Professor of English Robert Slifkin, Edith Kitzmiller Professor of the History of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts
New York City, NY; NYC
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Lecture | Former Supreme Court Justice Examines the Most Important Cases in the Nation's History (In Person AND Online)
ADVANCE REGISTRATION REQUIRED After 28 years serving as an associate justice of the Supreme Court, Stephen Breyer retired in 2022. This year he publishes his first book since stepping down from the bench, Reading the Constitution: Why I Chose Pragmatism, Not Textualism. It deconstructs the textualist philosophy of the current Supreme Court's supermajority and makes the case for a better way to interpret the Constitution. This lecture will be inspired by his book, which examines some of the most important cases in the nation's history, among them the Dobbs and Bruen decisions from 2022 that he argues were wrongly decided and have led to harmful results.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Talk | Photographer Talk: Stylized Portraiture Exploring Blackness and Queerness
A talk with Eric Hart Jr. (b.1999), a Georgia native and New York University graduate, is an artist based in Brooklyn, NY. As a photographer, Hart’s stylized portraiture is an exploration of Blackness and queerness. His visual language is heavily influenced by the notion of rejecting control. Through themes of power, freedom and historical representation, Hart strives to foster consciousness for audiences as he displays people like himself in all of their power and beauty. Hart’s photo work has been in publications such as i-D Magazine, The New York Times, The Washington Post and Rolling Stone magazine, as well as praised by artists such as Beyoncé and Spike Lee. Hart is a two-time Gordon Parks scholar, 2022 Forbes 30 under 30 Art & Style honoree, 2022 Doritos SOLID BLACK Changemaker and a Google Image Equity Fellow. In 2023 Hart released his first monograph titled When I Think About Power.
New York City, NY; NYC
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Book Discussion | Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
Isabella Stewart Gardner’s singular art museum, with its plain exterior enfolding an astonishing four-story Italian palazzo, rose from Boston’s Fens at the turn of the twentieth century. Natalie Dykstra's book is a biography of the extraordinary Gilded Age socialite who founded the Gardner museum. Eccentric, intelligent, and original, she was misunderstood by Boston’s insular society and suffered the death of her only child. But in time came friendships, glittering and bohemian; world travels to Egypt and Syria; and collecting beautiful things. Henry James and John Singer Sargent—whose 1888 portrait of Gardner was a scandalous masterpiece—prized her friendship.
New York City, NY; NYC
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