It’s a big week for books, climate talks, art, and Giorno Poetry Systems (turning 50 this week and celebrating with solid programming). Catch it all in this week’s report, in a briefly noted format.
This week’s best bangers:
🆓 = 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.
Monday, September 16
Book launch and panel discussion: Inventing the Modern at MoMA (Midtown), 5:30p doors, 6-7 talk 🆓 📚 (get a spot on the waitlist for the IRL event and get a copy of Inventing The Modern: Untold Stories Of The Women Who Shaped The Museum of Modern Art here)
Ace Hotel and Pioneer Works present Crit Night at Ace Hotel Brooklyn (Downtown Brooklyn), 6:30p doors, 7p event 🆓 🎨 🧠🍸
Music Mondays presents: the Miró Quartet performs Beethoven’s String Quartet, op. 135 and others at Advent Lutheran Church (Upper West Side), 6:45p doors, 7:30p event 🎼 🆓 (with RSVP)
Tuesday, September 17
The Albertine Book Club reads Balzac’s The Lily of The Valley at Albertine Books (Upper East Side), 6-7p 🆓 📚
A Planetarium Lecture: The Future of Space Exploration (part of Astronomy Live) at the Hayden Planetarium Space Theater (Upper East Side), 7p 🧠
Isle McElroy talks about the book People Collide with Abbi Jacobson at Books are Magic (Brooklyn Heights), 6-7p 📚🧠
Get ready for the New York Film Festival by seeing a screening at Lincoln Center: A Complicated Passion: Two Films by Agnès Varda at Lincoln Center (Lincoln Square), 6p 🎬
Visiting lecture: Danish architecture studio Dorte Mandrup presents A Dialogue Between Place and Form at the Cooper Union’s Rose Auditorium (East Village and virtual), 6:30-8:30p 🆓 🧠
Ian Frazier on his new book Paradise Bronx in conversation with the New Yorker’s Zach Helfand at 192 Books (Chelsea), 7p 🆓 📚
GPS 50th Anniversary celebration kicks off with a screening, gathering, and discussion at the Giorno Poetry Systems HQ (Bowery), 7p 🆓 (with RSVP)🎬 🎨🦩
Wednesday, September 18
GPS archivist Bonnie Whitehouse leads a guided tour of the GPS archive, with correspondence, posters, ephemera, photographs, board minutes, ledgers, and more at Giorno Poetry Systems (Bowery), 12:30 - 1:30p 🆓 (with RSVP)🎨
Jack Boul : paintings and prints artist talk at the Salmagundi Club (Greenwich Village), 5p 🆓 🎨
Rafael Klein’s Venice / New York – A Sense of Place: a night of readings + screening at Printed Matter (Chelsea), 6-8p 🆓 🎬 📚 🎨
Opening reception for three big shows at Salon 94 (Upper East Side), 6-8p 🆓 🎨
FULL MOON CELEBRATION at La Plaza Community Garden, SW corner of 9th St & Ave C (East Village), 8p 🆓🌳
Thursday, September 19
Beyond Patchwork: The Abstractions of Yvonne Wells opens at Fort Gansevoort (Meatpacking District), 10a-6p 🆓 🎨
Downtown Artists: Neighborhood Tour presented by the New Museum (Bowery), 6p 🎨 🧠
NEW YORK CITY PLAYERS in collaboration with Christopher Wool’s SEE STOP RUN present Buildings I & II play at 101 Greenwich (Financial District), 6-8p 🎭. First show is tonight! Runs through October 6.
Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation presents the Members Walking Tour: Historic Diversity in the East Village. Meet at St. Mark’s Church (East Village), 6-7p 🧠
Jiro Takamatsu’s The World Expands opening reception at Pace (Chelsea), 6-8p 🆓 🎨
The Cooper Union and The New Yorker present a screening and panel discussion of The New Yorker Documentary’s award-winning short documentary Incident at Cooper Union’s Great Hall (East Village), 7-8:30p 🎬 🆓
The Elegant Universe: 25th Anniversary Edition — Brian Greene in Conversation with Janna Levin at Pioneer Works (Red Hook), 7p doors, 8p event 🧠 📚 🆓 (but give a donation)
Fighting the Power: Stories of Resistance in the Climate Crisis at Adler Hall at The New York Society for Ethical Culture (Upper East Side), 7-8:30p 🆓 🧠
GPS 50th Anniversary party at Giorno Poetry Systems (Bowery), 8-11p 🆓 (with RSVP)🎼 🎨🦩
Friday, September 20
Virtual Lecture: Brendan Dooley on the Renaissance Transmission of News presented by the Grolier Club (virtual), 12-1p 🆓 🧠
Steve McQueen opens at Dia Chelsea (Chelsea), 12-6p 🆓 🎨
Lucas Samaras exhibition opens at Dia Beacon (Beacon, NY), 12-6p 🆓 🎨
Saturday, September 21
The National Arts Club Community Day at the National Arts Club (Gramercy Park), 10a-4p 🆓 🎨 🎼
Climate Science Fair at the High Line between 14th and 16th St (Chelsea), 10a-7p 🆓 🧠 🌳 runs through Sep 23
Hein Koh, the New Yorker’s Naomi Fry, and artist Loie Hollowell in conversation on Koh’s latest exhibition Hope Springs Eternal at Anton Kern Gallery (Midtown), 1p 🆓 (with RSVP to rsvp@antonkerngallery.com) 🎨 🧠
Performance: Food Offering with Tsohil Bhatia & Red Flower Collective at NADA House (Governor’s Island), 2-4p or til food runs out 🆓 🎨 🦩
Brooklyn Psychedelic Society presents Internal Family Systems (IFS): Advanced Workshop at the Rakit Club (Bushwick), 3-6p
Robert Rauschenberg’s Arcanums show opening reception at Gladstone 64 (Upper East Side), 5-7p 🆓 🎨
Sunday, September 22
The Brooklyn Book Festival kicks off today across various locations in Brooklyn, runs through 9/30 🆓 📚
Climate Week kicks off at various locations throughout the city, runs through 9/29
Climate Science Fair at the High Line between 14th and 16th St (Chelsea), 10a-7p 🆓 🧠 🌳 runs through Sep 23
Works & Process presents Helen Pickett on American Ballet Theatre’s Crime and Punishment at the Guggenheim (Upper East Side), 3-4p 🎭
Reverend Billy and the Stop Shopping Choir present Sunday Services at Earth Chxrch (East Village), 5p 🆓
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