We’re writing to you from upstate New York, where in a few hours we’ll watch the moon take center stage and give its avant-garde performance of a lifetime. The reviews we’ve heard are great: interesting choices to lower the temperature, enlist crickets to chirp in the afternoon, and demand that the crowd wear extra-strength sunglasses for the entire show except the climax. We hear it’s not to be missed. Full theatrical review coming next week.
In the meantime, whether you’re able to catch the eclipse or not, we encourage you to place yourself in the path of totality of something, anything this week. It could be the sound of a cat orchestra played by Oliver Beer at Almine Rech on Tuesday, the good vibe of a great launch party at Radicle Wine on Friday, or the powerfully gentle beauty of the weeping higan cherry blossom tree at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, now in peak bloom.
This week’s Most Likely to Succeed events:
Btw, have you seen Christopher Wool’s magnificent exhibition, See Stop Run, yet? Richard Hell’s review in the Brooklyn Rail is great. You have a few more months to catch the show on the 19th floor at 101 Greenwich St, and we recommend seeing it a few times throughout the day when the light shifts and Wool’s sculptures light up differently.
🆓 = costs $0, 🎨 = art, 🎼 = music, 🎬 = film, 📚= books, 🌳 = nature, 🎭 = performance, 🧠 = extra smart people, 🍸 = drinks available, 🦩 = party/friendly vibe
🔑 Click the venue link under each listing for full event details.
This week, we’re presenting events in a briefly noted format because we learned that, unfortunately, we can’t write from the backseat of a car en route from Brooklyn to Rochester. Back to our regular format next week.
Monday, April 8
Catch the Solar Eclipse 2024 with a gathering organized by Pioneer Works at the Greenwood Cemetery (Greenwood Heights), 1:30-5p 🌳
Or, catch it at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (Crown Heights), 1-5p 🌳 🆓 🦩
Curator’s Tour of ICP at 50: From the Collection, 1845–2019 at the International Center of Photography (Lower East Side), 5-6p 🆓 🎨
Conservation Center Open House with self-guided tours of the collection at the NYU Institute of Fine Arts (Upper East Side), 5:30-8p 🆓 🎨
Author! Author!: A Simon & Schuster Centennial Celebration at Town Hall (Times Square and virtual), 7p 🎭 📚
Honor, a sort of lecture/performance, starring Lili Taylor and directed by Geoff Sobelle opens at NYU’s Skirball Center (West Village), 7:30p 🎭
Tuesday, April 9
The Stories of NYC: Downtown New York City Writers of the 1970s and ‘80s with Naomi Huffman and Julia Ringo kicks off at the Center for Fiction (virtual), 6-7:30p Tuesdays through June 11 📚 🧠
Paris, 1852-1900: modernity, colonialism, and the underlying cultures of urban violence lecture at the NYU Institute of Fine Arts (Upper East Side and virtual), 6p 🆓 🧠
Books are Magic presents Nell Freudenberger on The Limits with Friend of the List Julie Orringer at the Brooklyn Public Library - Brooklyn Heights Branch (Brooklyn Heights), 6-7p 📚 🧠
Dial-a-Poem USA launches with readings by Courtney Bush, Ian Dreiblatt, Stephon Lawrence, and Patricia Spears Jones at Giorno Poetry Systems at 222 Bowery (Bowery), 6:30p doors, 7p readings 🆓 📚 🦩
Brad Gooch on Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring at 192 Books (Chelsea), 7p 🆓 📚
Artist Talk and Performance: Oliver Beer on Cat Orchestra at Almine Rech (Tribeca), 6:30 doors, 7p talk and performance 🆓 🎨 🎭
A Conversation on Humor, Vulnerability, and the Shaping of Narratives with Ceramicist Lauren Cohen and PHA Ceramics Studio Director Biata Roytburd at Powerhouse Arena (Dumbo), 6:30-8p 🆓 🎨🦩 🍸
Garrard Conley on All the World Beside with Marlon James at The Center for Fiction (Fort Greene and virtual), 7p 📚 🍸
Wednesday, April 10
Somehow 70: an evening celebrating Anne Lamott’s 70th birthday and 20th book (Somehow: Thoughts on Love) in conversation with Debbie Millman with readings by some actors at Symphony Space (Upper West Side), 7p 📚
Thursday, April 11
Yves Klein and the Tangible World opens at Lévy Gorvy Dayan (Upper East Side), 10a-6p 🆓 🎨
Face to face: Realist portraiture of the 21st century opening reception at Salmagundi Club (Union Square), 6p 🆓 🎨
The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon with Adam Shatz and Julian Lucas at Albertine Books (Upper East Side), 6-7p 🆓 📚
Singing in Unison Part 9: Brooklyn Rail presents Peter Acheson and Gret Sterrett Smith with an opening cooking performance by Rirkrit Tiravanija (!!) at SLAG&RX (Chelsea), 6-8p 🎭 🆓 🎨
Lucy Puls’ Here Everywhere: Selected Works: 1989–2003 opening reception at Nicelle Beauchene Gallery (Tribeca), 6-8p 🆓 🎨
Artist Reading by Pamela Sneed & LA Warman at Company Gallery (Nolita), 6-7p 🆓 📚 🎨
Book Event: Rahim Fortune’s Hardtack at the International Center of Photography (Lower East Side), 6:30-8p 📚 🎨
Hieronymus Bosch: The Garden of Earthly Delights 4-week course kicks off at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research (Dumbo), 6:30-9:30p and all Mondays through May 2 🎨 🧠
Tomorrow Belongs to Me: A Screening and Discussion of Cabaret presented by the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research at Nighthawk Cinema (Prospect Park), 8:30p 🧠 🎬 🍸
Friday, April 12
Walton Ford: Birds and Beasts of the Studio opens at at The Morgan (Midtown), 10:30a-7p 🎨
Francesc Tosquelles: Avant-Garde Psychiatry and the Birth of Art Brut opens at the American Folk Art Museum (Upper East Side), 🎨
Rad Wine and Catch & Release unveil a new wine tonight at a low-key launch party featuring spring’s most chuggable red at Radicle Wine (Clinton Hill), 6-10pm 🆓 🦩 🍸
Tanya Merrill’s Watching Women Give Birth On The Internet And Other Ways Of Looking opening reception at 303 Gallery (Chelsea), 6-8p 🆓 🎨
Sanam Khatibi’s We Wait Until Dark opening reception at PPOW (Tribeca), 6-8p 🆓 🎨
Brave, Unbodied Scheme—a McNally Jackson poetry reading series featuring Brian Teare, Mónica de la Torre, Shin Yu Pai, and Wayne Koestenbaum at McNally Jackson (South Street Seaport), 7p 📚 🍸
Richard Kennedy presents Guttural (Conducted Contact), “a musical encapsulation of the African diaspora” in the Armory’s historic rooms at Park Ave Armory (Upper East Side), 8p 🎭 🎨
Saturday, April 13
In Response: Arlene Shechet on No One Thing. David Smith, Late Sculptures at Hauser & Wirth on 22nd St (Chelsea), 2p 🆓 🎨
Three shows opening: THE NEW SCHOOL OF PARIS THROUGH ITS PIONEERING WOMEN (1945-1964), VIVIAN GREVEN: WHEN THE SUN HITS THE MOON, and JOHAN CRETEN’S STRANGERS WELCOME opening receptions at Perrotin (Lower East Side), 4-8p 🆓 🎨(with a talk about the New School of Paris at 4p)
Woods & Avey Tare with LARAAJI (!!) at the Knockdown Center (Ridgewood), 7p 🎼🦩 🍸
Last call for these art shows closing Saturday:
Huma Bhabha’s Welcome…to the one who came at David Zwirner on 20th (Chelsea), 10a-6p 🆓 🎨
Sadie Laska’s Homesick at Canada Gallery (Tribeca), 10a-6p 🆓 🎨
Judging A Book By Its Cover: Bookbindings From The Collections Of The Grolier Club, 1470s-2020 at the Grolier Club (Upper East Side), 10a-5p 🆓 🎨 📚
Arcmanoro Niles’s The City Lights Can't Shine Quite like the Stars: Got So Far From My Raising I Forgot Where I Come From at Lehmann Maupin (Chelsea), 10a-6p 🆓 🎨
Sunday, April 14
Last day to see Kay WalkingStick / Hudson River School at the New York Historical Society (Upper West Side), 11a-5p 🎨
The Café & Bar Presents Drink & Draft Night at the Center for Fiction (Fort Greene), 5-7p 🦩 🍸
Sunday service with Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir at Earth Church (East Village), 5p 🆓 🦩🎨 🎼
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