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Workshop | Boot Camp Workout in the Park


An early-morning core body Boot Camp. Rotations through exercises like crunches, planks, push-ups, burpees, more and mountain climbers ensure a mixture of cardio and strength training that will keep you coming back, and seeing results. No equipment necessary; smiles and high fives welcome. less
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Workshops, March 26, 2025, 03/26/2025, Boot Camp Workout in the Park

Museums | New York City: History, Architecture, Social Movements, Cultural Diversity


This museum holds over 1,5 million artifacts, including photographs, paintings, decorative arts, costumes, more and documents that tell the story of New York's development and its inhabitants. Explore the galleries and discover the rich history and vibrant culture of New York City! less
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Museumss, March 26, 2025, 03/26/2025, New York City: History, Architecture, Social Movements, Cultural Diversity

Park Walk | Park Tour: From Freight to Flowers


Hear the story behind New York City's park in the sky: an insider's perspective on the park's history, more design, and landscape. less
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Park Walks, March 26, 2025, 03/26/2025, Park Tour: From Freight to Flowers

Lecture | "There is something mad about the art”: The German-Jewish Art Dealer Alfred Flechtheim and His Heirs’ Fight for Restitution (online)


Journalist Michael Sontheimer will speak about Alfred Flechtheim, who was born in 1878 in Münster as more the son of a wealthy German Jewish grain dealer. He was trained as a trader but did not want to stay in the family business. As he was fascinated with art, he left his hometown and moved to Düsseldorf, where he opened a gallery in 1913. After serving in the German Army during the First World War, in 1921 he opened a second gallery in Berlin, the place to be in the 1920s. He brought works from modern French artists like Picasso, Braque, Chagall, and others to Germany. He also made German painters like Max Beckmann, George Grosz, and Paul Klee widely known. less
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Lectures, March 26, 2025, 03/26/2025, "There is something mad about the art&rdquo;: The German-Jewish Art Dealer Alfred Flechtheim and His Heirs&rsquo; Fight for Restitution (online)

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. more 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. less
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Museums | Tiffany Glass and Other Exhibitions


The museum is dedicated to showcasing the history, art, and culture of its area with a permanent collection more of 10,000 items. One of the exhibitions includes famous Tiffany's leaded glass objects and a valuable insight into the development of the inuctry in the US at the turn of the 20th century. less
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Museumss, March 26, 2025, 03/26/2025, Tiffany Glass and Other Exhibitions

Tour | Tour of New York City Hall


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 a designated interior landmark as well. less
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Tours, March 26, 2025, 03/26/2025, Tour of New York City Hall

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 more in an intimate venue. less
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Concerts, March 26, 2025, 03/26/2025, Bach at Noon (In Person and Online)

Workshop | Lunchtime Meditation (online)


Take a break and calm your mind and nourish your soul with this 30-minute meditation excersize to reduce more stress and build resilience. All levels meditators are welcome. less
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Slide Lecture | Anna Hallprin who Redefined Dance in Postwar America: With Dance Historian (in-person and online)


Interdisciplinary scholar, Janice Ross, explores the connection between dance and cultural politics, more examines how homes and landscape architecture shaped choreography through the work of California dancer Anna Halprin (1920-2021). Halprin played a key role in redefining dance in postwar America, pioneering the experimental art form of postmodern dance, and proudly saw herself as a rule-breaker of modern dance. Drawing on decades of research, interviews with the Halprins and their associates, and firsthand experiences in their homes, Ross provides a fresh perspective on Halprin’s career, enriched by archival films of her workshops, rehearsals, and outdoor studio, the dance deck. less
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Slide Lectures, March 26, 2025, 03/26/2025, Anna Hallprin who Redefined Dance in Postwar America: With Dance Historian (in-person and online)

Workshop | Downtown Beats Chorus


Directed by Church Street School of Music, the Downtown Beats adult chorus is open to all who love to more sing! Learn contemporary and classic songs and perform at community events throughout the year. less
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Film | Women Talking (2022): drama


The women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling their reality with their faith. more The women come together to figure out how they might move forward together to build a better world for themselves and their children. Stay and fight, or leave. They will not do nothing. Director: Sarah Polley Cast: Claire Foy, Jessie Buckley and Rooney Mara less
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Workshop | Figure Drawing


Challenge your artistic skills by drawing the human figure. Each week a model will strike short and long more poses for participants to draw. Artists/ educators will offer constructive suggestions and critique. Materials provided, and artists are encouraged to bring their own favorite media. less
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Book Discussion | Borders and Belonging: Toward a Fair Immigration Policy


A uniquely broad and fair-minded guide to making immigration policy ethical. Immigration is now a polarizing more issue across most advanced democracies. But too much that is written about immigration fails to appreciate the complex responses to the phenomenon. Too many observers assume imaginary consensus, avoid basic questions, or disregard the larger context for human migration. Author Hiroshi Motomura offers a complex and fair-minded account of immigration, its root causes, and the varying responses to it. Taking stock of the issue's complexity, while giving credence to the opinions of immigration critics, he tackles a series of important questions that, when answered, will move us closer to a more realistic and sustainable immigration policy. less
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Book Discussions, March 26, 2025, 03/26/2025, Borders and Belonging: Toward a Fair Immigration Policy

Lecture | Becoming Visible, Staying Visible: 50 Years of Taking a Stand


At a time when erasure is rampant, when stories are being lost and buried, it is all the more important more to honor and recognize the overlooked contributions of women. “Igniting a revolution in knowing about women” is a charge all of us can support and sustain. One of the people taking action to reshape our knowledge of history now and into the future is Dr. Gina Luria Walker,\ professor of women’s history. Dr. Walker is founder and director of The New Historia, a research center dedicated to recovering women in history.  less
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Lectures, March 26, 2025, 03/26/2025, Becoming Visible, Staying Visible: 50 Years of Taking a Stand

Master Class | Viola Master Class


Viola Master Class with Ettore Causa.
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Concerts, March 26, 2025, 03/26/2025, Viola Master Class

Workshop | Bodyweight Burn Workout


Increase your strength and endurance with this one-hour total body workout. Open to all levels of fitness! more Please bring a mat. less
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Museums | Historical and Modern Design Spanning Centuries


The museum is dedicated to showcasing the history, influence, and importance of design in everyday life. more Housed in a historic mansion, the museum features a diverse collection of design objects, including decorative arts, architecture, graphic design, textiles, and industrial design. Free admission is daily 5 pm - 6 pm. less
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Discussion | On the Italian Stage: Solo Shows (online)


On the Italian Stage is a series of encounters conceived and led by Laura Caparrotti (Artistic Director, more Kairos Italy Theater) that journeys into the history of Italian theater to explore its language, and its contribution to Italian society and world theater. Solo shows are increasingly becoming a cornerstone of Italian theater. Their affordability, ease of production, and flexibility for touring make them a practical choice for many artists and companies. Despite their simplicity, these performances are highly impactful, often delivering powerful narratives with minimal resources. In fact, solo shows may currently represent the heart of the Italian theatrical landscape, offering a genuine reflection of both the audience’s interests and the artists’ passions. They provide an intimate platform for storytelling, giving voice to personal, social, and cultural themes that resonate deeply in today’s Italy. less
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Discussions, March 26, 2025, 03/26/2025, On the Italian Stage: Solo Shows (online)

Classical Music | Prize-Winning Musicians Perform Works of Brahms and Rachmaninoff


Yanguang Bruce Zhang, violin, and Jack Gao, piano, perform two pieces from Romantic/20th Century composers. more Program Sergei Rachmaninoff (1873-1943) Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14 Brahms (1833-1897) Violin Sonata No. 3 in D Minor, Op. 108 less
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Talk | 150 Years of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney: A Tour of the New York Studio School


Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney was born on January 9, 1875. The life she chose for herself was nothing short more of revolutionary, having a huge impact upon the art world, and the Village. Mark the 150th anniversary of Whitney's birth with a tour of the very place she created, the original Whitney Museum (now the New York Studio school), which contains many of her incredible artworks 2024 marked the 60th anniversary of the founding of the New York Studio School in 1964 by Mercedes Matter and her students. Since its inception, the New York Studio School has been an innovator in arts education, prioritizing daily continuity of study for artists through work in the studio. In 1967, the School moved into what had been the original Whitney Museum of American Art on West 8th Street, where it continues today to offer its signature programming: MFA and Certificate programs, Evening Lecture Series, exhibitions, and internationally recognized Marathons. The tour will discuss the storied art career and patronage of Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, the founder of the Whitney Museum of American Art, who was also a prominent sculptor in her time. Participants will walk through the historic spaces that have played a significant role in the history of American art for over a century, including the Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney Studio, decorated by Robert Winthrop Chanler. This tour will be guided by Lauren Allshouse, the Librarian at the New York Studio School. She received an Master of Library Science degree from Pratt Institute and a Bachelor of Arts in Painting from the University of Minnesota. less
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Book Discussion | Bruno Schulz and Galician Jewish Modernity: A Writer at a Historical Juncture


Author Karen Underhill discusses her book. In the 1930s, through the prose of Bruno Schulz (1892–1942), more the Polish language became the linguistic raw material for a profound exploration of the modern Jewish experience. Rather than turning away from the language like a number of his Galician Jewish colleagues who would choose to write in Yiddish, Schulz used the Polish language to explore his own and his generation's relationship to East European Jewish exegetical tradition, and to deepen his reflection on golus or exile as a condition not only of the individual and of the Jewish community, but of language itself, and of matter. Drawing on new archival discoveries, this study explores Schulz's diasporic Jewish modernism as an example of the creative and also transient poetic forms that emerged on formerly Habsburg territory, at the historical juncture between empire and nation-state. less
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Book Discussions, March 26, 2025, 03/26/2025, Bruno Schulz and Galician Jewish Modernity: A Writer at a Historical Juncture

Lecture | Belonging with Songs: Towards an Historical Anthropology of Medieval French Chansons


Why do we sing? How does singing shape how we see ourselves and how we relate to one another? Emma Dillon more takes up these universal questions in the context of a medieval song community. Her talk explores Medieval French songs (trouvere songs) as a social practice, linked to specific people and families from Northern France and to other forms of social activity. She offers a case study of twelfth-century trouveres (using new recordings of their songs), and shows how songs, charters and seals foster a sense of belonging to a community. Her talk also introduces the UKRI-funded project, Musical Lives, which takes further the possibility of song-centred histories through interdisciplinary collaboration with scholars and performers. less
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Workshop | Cardio Circuit Blast Workout


This high-energy total body workout will keep you moving with challenging yet fun bodyweight circuits. more Cardio Circuit Blast is a heart-pumping, high-intensity class that is open to all levels and the perfect way to increase your overall endurance. less
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Workshop | Zumba Workout


Zumba is a fusion of Latin, International and popular music dance themes creating a dynamic, exciting, more effective fitness system! The routines feature aerobic, fitness interval training with a combination of fast and slow rhythms that tone and sculpt the body with easy to follow dance steps. less
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Book Discussion | My Friends: Coming of Age in the Arab Spring


One evening, as a young boy growing up in Benghazi, Khaled hears a bizarre short story read aloud on more the radio, about a man being eaten alive by a cat, and has the sense that his life has been changed forever. Obsessed by the power of those words—and by their enigmatic author, Hosam Zowa—Khaled eventually embarks on a journey that will take him far from home, to pursue a life of the mind at the University of Edinburgh. There, thrust into an open society that is miles away from the world he knew in Libya, Khaled begins to change. He attends a protest against the Qaddafi regime in London, only to watch it explode into tragedy. In a flash, Khaled finds himself injured, clinging to life, unable to leave Britain, much less return to the country of his birth. To even tell his mother and father back home what he has done, on tapped phone lines, would expose them to danger. When a chance encounter in a hotel brings Khaled face-to-face with Hosam Zowa, the author of the fateful short story, he is subsumed into the deepest friendship of his life. It is a friendship that not only sustains him but eventually forces him, as the Arab Spring erupts, to confront agonizing tensions between revolution and safety, family and exile, and how to define his own sense of self against those closest to him. With author Hisham Matar less
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Book Discussion | Whatever Happened to Frankie King?: Brooklyn, Books, and Basketball


Come meet father-son duo, author-illustrator Eli Neugeboren and author Jay Neugeboren for an authors' more talk for the new graphic memoir. less
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Talk | Artist Talk: My Mother and Eye


A public talk with artist Carmen Winant and Public Art Fund Senior Curator Melanie Kress as they discuss more My Mother and Eye, Winant’s Public Art Fund exhibition and her largest public art project to date. On view from February to April 2025, My Mother and Eye features 11 compositions assembled from  over 1,200 film stills from works created by Winant and her mother as teenagers. The works will be displayed on 300 JCDecaux bus shelters in New York, Chicago, and Boston. This exhibition explores themes of generational kinship, self-discovery, and agency, offering a reflection on the personal and cultural landscapes shared by mother and daughter. During the talk, Winant will offer a short experimental lecture, give insights into her creative process, the significance of public space for this project, and the ways in which photography can shape both personal narratives and collective histories. The conversation will delve into the powerful role of self-representation and the importance of bringing intimate, familial stories into public view. less
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Classical Music | Dialogues in Time: Cello Works by Bach and More


A musical dialog that connects 300 years, with Austrian cellist and composer Matthias Bartolomey. Bartolomey more brings a bold new solo program centered around the principle of duality. The performance features a blend of Johann Sebastian Bach's iconic Six Suites for Solo Cello and Bartolomey's own contemporary compositions, influenced by groove, rock, and modern rhythms. By drawing inspiration from Bach's timeless motifs and intricate baroque rhythms, Bartolomey creates a unique tonal language that intertwines with the traditional while never altering Bach's original works. His compositions serve as a reflection of today's world, offering a modern commentary on the centuries-old dance forms. A musical dialogue that spans over 300 years, Dialogues in Time captures the essence of both the past and the present, merging the classical with the contemporary. Known for his innovative and boundary-pushing approach, Bartolomey invites the audience into a deeply emotional and thought-provoking performance, where tradition and modernity coexist in harmony. less
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Concerts, March 26, 2025, 03/26/2025, Dialogues in Time: Cello Works by Bach and More

Opening Reception | Overdrive Festival: Installation, Sculpture, Prints


This artwork exhibition features audiovisual installation, video art, sculpture, painting, and lenticular more prints, on view for the duration of the festival. less
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Book Discussion | Joan Didion: Exploring the Legacy of Legendary Journalist (in-person and online)


The New York Times film critic Alissa Wilkinson examines Joan Didion's (1934-2021) lasting impact through more the lens of American storytelling and mythmaking. Wilkinson's We Tell Ourselves Stories explores Joan Didion's impact on Hollywood and American culture, examining her 40-year screenwriting career with John Gregory Dunne. Wilkinson highlights how Didion both shaped and exposed the myths of postwar America, revealing the power and peril of the stories we tell. less
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Film | Poly Styrene: I Am A Cliche (2021): Daughter's Documentary on Punk-Musician Mother


Poly Styrene was the first woman of color in the UK to front a successful rock band. She introduced the more world to a new sound of rebellion, using her unconventional voice to sing about identity, consumerism, postmodernism, and everything she saw unfolding in late 1970s Britain. As the frontwoman of X-Ray Spex, the Anglo-Somali punk musician was also a key inspiration for the Riot Grrrl and Afropunk movements.   The death of punk icon and X-Ray Spex front-woman Poly Styrene sends her daughter on a journey through her mother's archives in this intimate documentary. Directors: Celeste Bell, Paul Sng 96 min. less
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