ongoing events

thru 3/16: cindy sherman: hauser + wirth presents 30 new works by artist cindy sherman. the collages, made from various elements of sherman’s face to construct new characters, will be on display at the gallery’s wooster street location in soho. free admission. >>

sponsored: thru 3/17: target margin theater presents remember this trick: created by founding artistic director david herskovits alongside a cohort of artists, this new play exploring american antisemitism, stories of jewish survival, troubling conspiracy theories, and the trickster spirit that will save us all, weaves together tales of a young queen, a magician, and the 36 wise folk hidden in plain sight to heal the world. the doxsee theater (sunset park), $25+. >>

thru 3/17: 13th first look film festival: the museum of the moving image’s annual festival showcasing adventurous new cinema returns with more than three dozen works from 21 countries, plus in-person appearances, workshops, and gallery installations. museum of the moving image (astoria). $15-20 general, $11-20 students/seniors. >>

thru 3/18: : 11th annual socially relevant film festival: the socially relevant film festival focuses on socially relevant film content and human interest stories that raise awareness to social problems and offer positive solutions. cinema village, the maysles documentary center, the national arts club, mrhs, and online. various prices. >>

thru 3/21: the rink at brookfield place is open for the season: $15-27 admission, $5-7 skate rental (or byo). >>

thru 3/24 (closed mondays + tuesdays): untying the bow exhibition: from headwear to neckties to footwear and everywhere in-between, the school of graduate studies at the fashion institute of technology presents untying the bow, a new exhibition examining bows and how they moved beyond their utilitarian origins to become a component of personal style. free admission. >>

thru 3/24: two new exhibitions at american folk art museum: unnamed figures: black presence and absence in the early american north and marvels of my own inventiveness. american folk art museum (uws), free admission. >>

thru 3/24: taylor swift: storyteller exhibition: the museum of arts and design (midtown west) presents a costume exhibition highlighting t-swift’s music video and concert ensembles worn over the years, along with props, jewelry, ephemera, and projections. $25 ticket includes admission to the exhibition and museum. >>

thru 3/29: master class: photographs by four african american photojournalists: keith de lellis gallery (midtown) presents an exhibition highlighting photos by african american photojournalists ozier muhammad, beuford smith, coreen simpson, and eli reed. free admission. >>

thru 3/30: estrogenius festival: frigid new york and manhattan theatre source present the 23rd annual estrogenius festival: ‘expand,’ celebrating femme, non-binary, non-conforming, and trans artists at la mama, the cell, under st. marks, and brooklyn art haus. sliding scale admission. >>

thru 3/30 (saturdays at 10:15am): taproom yoga: spirit meets spiritual at female-founded taproom and brewery talea beer co. the cobble hill location is now offering 60-minute yoga classes hosted by heatwise through the end of the month. bring your own mat. $20 admission includes $5 off your first post-yoga drink. >>

thru 3/30: fashion forward exhibition: ‘b’ dry goods presents an exhibition celebrating the fashion arts, featuring original paintings and drawings by designers yves saint laurent, pierre balmain, hubert de givenchy, karl lagerfeld, alexander mcqueen, christian lacroix, antonio lopez, christian dior, and others, as well as original garments and accessories worn or advertised by figures such as josephine baker, david hockney, frank zappa, maria callas, duke ellington, paul newman, and others. opening reception 1/25 6-8pm. ‘b’ dry goods (crown heights), free admission. >>

thru 3/30 (saturdays at 10:30am): taproom yoga: spirit meets spiritual at female-founded taproom and brewery talea beer co. (williamsburg), where you can take a 60-minute yoga class in the sunny taproom. bring your own mat. $20 admission includes $5 off your first post-yoga drink (non-alcoholic options are available). >>

thru 3/31: witches, queers, and clowns: here arts center hosts a three-week performance series focused on societal outcasts. here arts center (south village), $25 general (there will be 10 tickets available for $10 each at every performance). >>

thru 3/31: poetry and prose: screen tests by andy warhol: craig ierce, director of film and video at the andy warhol museum in pittsburg, presents an exhibition of 41 warhol screen tests shot between 1964 and 1966, including members of the velvet underground, lucinda childs, edie sedgwick, and others. opening reception sat 6-9pm. ki smith gallery (les), free admission. >>

thru 3/31: copy machine manifestos: artists who make zines at brooklyn museum (prospect heights). suggested admission: $20 general, $14 seniors/students. >>

thru 3/31: marta minujín: arte! arte! arte! at the jewish museum (ues). $18 general, $12 seniors, $8 students, free saturdays. >>

thru march: rirkrit tiravanija: a lot of people: artist rirkrit tiravanija’s largest exhibition to date takes over moma ps1’s second floor galleries, lobby, and courtyard with over 100 works, from early experimentations with installation and film, to drawings, works on paper, ephemera, sculpture, and participatory works that include ping-pong, a music studio, a ceremonial tea tent, and pad thai servings. moma ps1 (lic), free admission for new york residents ($5-10 otherwise). >>

thru 3/31: five new screening series at metrograph (les):
also starring… john cazale: the conversation, the deer hunter, the godfather (parts i + ii). $17. >>
animal farm: pigs: babe, fritz the cat, the great muppet caper, and more. $17. >>
bad actress: mulholland drive, nina wu, sunset boulevard, veronika voss, and more. $17. >>
forever young: a clockwork orange, cruel intentions, ghost world, masculin féminin, and more. $17. >>
remember every frame: edited by dede allen: odds against tomorrow, reds, the addams family, and more. $17. >>

thru 4/6: saint patrick’s day parades: to avoid the scramble for pipers and marchers, numerous communities in the tri-state area opt to host their festivities before and after the 17th. here are more than 50 to choose from. >>

thru 4/7: open call at brooklyn museum: calling all brooklyn artists (who’ve maintained primary residence and/or an art studio in brooklyn during the past five years)! to kick off their 200th anniversary celebration, brooklyn museum is hosting a group show to spotlight artists in the borough. applications are open through 4/7. >>

thru 4/7: harry potter: the exhibition: choose your hogwarts house, wand, and patronus, and make your way through a new immersive harry potter exhibition in herald square. $29.99+. >>

thru 4/13: judging a book by its cover: bookbindings from the collections of the grolier club, 1470s-202: the grolier club highlights selections from seven centuries of bookbindings, largely donated by the club’s members over the course of its 140-year history. also on view: whodunnit? key books in detective fiction, thru 2/10. the grolier club (ues), free admission. >>

thru 4/21: the orchid show: ‘florals in fashion’: the orchid show returns to the new york botanical garden for its 21st year, with fashion-inspired floral displays created by a trio of designers – hillary taymour, olivia cheng, and kristen alpaugh. nybg (bronx), $35 general, $31 seniors/students. >>

thru 5/1: center for book arts 50th anniversary members exhibition: center for book arts (flatiron) celebrates 50 years with hello thank you come in, and exhibition featuring artists’ books or publications by 60 current cba members which make use of cloth, found objects, and archival materials in addition to traditional bookbinding materials and which challenge—and honor—the form of the book. opening reception 1/18 6-8pm. free admission ($5 suggested donation). >>

thru 5/6: klimt landscapes at neue galerie: the neue galerie’s landmark 1914 mansion hosts a new exhibition of austrian painter gustav klimt’s landscapes, examining the evolution of his style over time. neue galerie (ues), $28 general, $18 seniors, $15 students, free first fridays of the month 5-8pm. >>

thru 5/6 (closed tuesdays): two new exhibitions open at the international center of photography (les): david seidner: fragments, 1977-99, and icp at 50: from the collection, 1845-2019. international center of photography (les), $18 general, $14 seniors, $12 student, $5 thursdays 6-9pm, free every third thursday from 6-9pm. >>

thru 5/25: juilliard’s 2023-24 season: the juilliard school’s 2023-24 season presents more than 700 music, dance, and drama performances by college and preparatory division students at juilliard and venues across nyc. free-$45. >>

thru 5/27: rbg collars: photographs by elinor carucci: the jewish museum (ues) and edwin houk gallery (midtown east) present concurrent installations of two dozen photographs of former us supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg’s collars and necklaces taken by contemporary photographer elinor carucci. admission to the gallery is free, while the museum is $18 general, $12 seniors, $8 students, free saturdays. >>

thru 6/9: beatrix potter: drawn to nature: the morgan library + museum (murray hill) presents an exhibition of artwork, books, manuscripts, and more by beatrix potter (1866-1943), children’s book author, illustrator, and creator of peter rabbit, mr. jeremy fisher, and mrs. tiggy-winkle. $25 general, $17 seniors, $13 students, free admission fridays 5-7pm with rsvp. >>

thru 6/16: bronx calling: the sixth bronx museum of the arts aim biennial (part one): 50+ emerging artists from the 2020-2023 cycles of the bronx museum’s artist in the marketplace (aim) fellowship program unveil new works. part one runs thru 3/31, while the second installment is scheduled 4/12-6/16. opening party 1/26 7-9pm. free admission. >>

thru 6/21: this is new york: 100 years of the city in art and pop culture exhibition: in honor of the museum of the city of new york’s centennial year, a new exhibition features 400 objects depicting new york in film and television, visual and performing arts, music, poetry, literature, and more. highlights include carrie bradshaw’s tutu ensemble from sex and the city, taxi driver storyboards hand-drawn by martin scorsese, an interactive map of music inspired by the city’s streets and subways, and a 16-screen immersive film experience featuring footage from 400+ movies shot in and about nyc. museum of the city of new york (east harlem), suggested admission: $20 general, $14 seniors/students. >>

thru june: divine pathways: suspended from the vaulted nave of the cathedral church of st. john the divine (morningside heights), artist anne patterson’s new site-specific installation is made of more than 1,000 75-foot-long ribbons that contain written hopes, dreams, and prayers of new yorkers. opening reception 10/12 6-8pm. free admission. >>

thru 7/7: two new feminist exhibitions open at brooklyn museum: the elizabeth a. sackler center for feminist art at brooklyn museum (prospect heights) hosts two new exhibitions: in the now: gender and nation in europe, selections from the sir mark fehrs haukohl photography collection brings together nearly 50 women artists who are resisting traditional ideas of gender and nationality; nona faustine: white shoes examines the hidden histories of slavery in the places we call home and calls attention to the ancestors whose stories are often untold. suggested admission: $20 general, $14 seniors/students. >>

thru 7/7: giants: art from the dean collection of swizz beatz and alicia keys: the brooklyn museum presents a major exhibition of the personal art collection of music’s swizz beatz (kasseem dean) and alicia keys, featuring over 100 works by multigenerational black diasporic artists including gordon parks, jean-michel basquiat, lorna simpson, kehinde wiley, nina chanel abney, and many others. timed tickets are $25 general, $17 seniors/students, and include entry to all of the museum’s exhibitions and galleries. >>

thru 7/20: americans in paris: arists working in postwar franceexhibition: nyu’s grey art museum breaks in its new home at 18 cooper square (noho) with americans in paris: arists working in postwar france, an international loan exhibition featuring 130 paintings, sculptures, photographs, films, textiles, and works on paper by nearly 70 expatriates who lived in france for a year or more during 1946 to 1962. opening reception 3/1 5-8pm. free admission. >>

thru 7/28: the harlem renaissance and transatlantic modernism exhibition: through 160 works spanning painting, sculpture, photography, film, and ephemera, the metropolitan museum of art delves into the ways in which black artists portrayed everyday life in the new black cities that emerged in the 1920s-40s, particularly in harlem and across the nation during the early decades of the great migration. a significant percentage of the works on view are on loan from historically black colleges and universities. the met fifth avenue, pay-what-you-wish admission for new york state residents and ny, nj, and ct students ($30 general, $22 seniors, $17 students otherwise). >>

thru 8/11: coal + ice at asia society: coal + ice, an immersive photography and video exhibition at asia society and museum (ues), visualizes the causes, consequences, and potential solutions related to the climate crisis. a series of speaker events, performances, and films will accompany the exhibition. $15 general, $10 seniors/students, free fridays. >>

thru 8/25 (closed mondays + tuesdays): statement sleeves exhibition: the museum at fit (chelsea) rolls up its sleeves for a new exhibition examining puffed, ruffled, split, embellished, and sheer ‘statement sleeves’ from the 1700s to today. featuring 80 objects from the museum’s permanent collection, the exhibition includes designs by balenciaga, tom ford, schiaparelli, and vivienne westwood. free admission. >>

thru 9/2: give me a sign: the language of symbols exhibition: from the stop sign to the laugh-cry emoji and beyond, a new exhibition at cooper hewitt, smithsonian design museum marks the 50th anniversary of henry dreyfuss’ symbol sourcebook: an authoritative guide to international graphic symbols and explores how symbols have evolved over time as they continue to play a role in everyday life. cooper hewitt (ues), $18 general, $12 seniors/students, pay-what-you-wish 5-6pm daily. >>

thru 9/8: two new exhibitions at poster house: wonder city of the world: new york city travel posters and the anatomy of a movie poster: the work of dawn baillie fill the walls of poster house (chelsea). $12 general, $8 seniors/students, free fridays. >>

thru september: new high line art: pamela rosenkranz’s old tree: the high line unveils its latest plinth commission, swiss artist pamela rosenkranz’s old tree. resembling the branching systems of human organs, blood vessels, and tissue, the bright red and pink 25-foot-tall tree-shaped sculpture invites viewers to consider the connection between human and plant life. the high line at 30th street and 10th ave, free admission. >>

thru december (thurs-sat 5-9pm): field of light at freedom plaza: walk through a path of 18,750 fiber optic lights along the east river as artist bruce monroe’s immersive public art installation takes over six acres at 38th-41st street on first avenue. free, timed tickets required (note: not all dates have been released yet, so check their website and social media for updates). >>

misc.

nine bars and restaurants on the water in nyc: from a former aircraft carrier to a 1920s luxury yacht, untapped new york rounds up a list of nine docked and sailing vessels to enjoy a drink or a bite on the water. >>

nine old-fashioned soda fountains in nyc: enjoy a taste of old new york at these spots rounded up by untapped citites. >>

10 old-fashioned candy stores in nyc: get your sweet treats at these shoppes, rounded up by untapped new york. >>

where to find manhattan’s passageways named after theatre stars: find yourself walking on a street dedicated to leonard bernstein, humphrey bogart, katherine hepburn, jerry orbach, paul robeson, cecily tyson, and others whose work has graced the new york stage. >>

eight places to see art by keith haring in nyc >>

24 exceptional subway artworks to see in nyc: the folks at hyperallergic highlight some of the most interesting subway art installations across the boroughs. >>

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