Week of April 14
The world’s oldest comedienne graces the East Village and other happenings
The Frick is back and we have a week of extraordinary programming. Let’s dive in, shall we?
🆓 = costs $0, 🎨 = art, 🎼 = music, 🎬 = film, 📚= books, 🌳 = nature, 🎭 = performance, 🧠 = extra smart people, 🍸 = drinks available, 🦩 = party/friendly vibe, 🗽= extra New Yorky
🔑 Click the venue link under each listing for full event details.
Monday, April 14
Sam McKinniss talks about his new monograph with the excellent Jarrett Earnest at Rizzoli Bookstore (Nomad), 6-8p 🆓 📚 🎨
Disco Ball Gazing: Looking for Black Gay Habits of Mind lecture presented by Jafari Sinclaire Allen at NYU’s Institute of Fine Art (Upper East Side), 6p 🆓 📚 🧠
Smart and polarizing writer Agnes Callard discusses Open Socrates with Elizabeth Bruenig at the Brooklyn Central Library’s Dweck Center (Prospect Heights), 7-8:30p 🆓 📚
Singers Monday Movies Series: Period Films presents Caravaggio at Singers (Bed Stuy), 9p 🆓 🎬 🍸
Tuesday, April 15
The Roof Garden Commission: Jennie C. Jones, Ensemble opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Upper East Side), 🎨
222 Tuesdays at Giorno Poetry Systems (Bowery), 4-7p 🎨 📚 🦩
Thelma Golden in Conversation with Erich Kessel Jr. presented at the NYU Institute of Fine Arts (Upper East Side and online), 6p 🆓 🧠 🎨
The Village Preservation Society presents a lecture: The Village Independent Democrats, the Democratic Party Reform Movement, and the Demise of Tammany Hall, 1956 – 1965 at Willa Cather Room at Jefferson Market Library (Greenwich Village), 6p 🆓 🧠 🗽
Love Letter to a Garden by Debbie Millman book launch with Debbie and Roxane Gay at Rizzoli Bookstore (Nomad), 6-8p 📚
Opening reception for Elizabeth Colomba’s solo show at Venus Over Manhattan (SoHo), 6-8p 🆓 🎨
Curator talk: Chris Martin discusses his group show Singing in Unison Part 11: Love Poems with Brooklyn Rail Editor Raymond Foye at Anton Kern (Midtown), 6:30p 🆓 🎨
While We’re Here with Esther Fallick, a variety show featuring special guests like internet princess herself Rayne Fischer-Quan at C’Mon Everybody (Bed Stuy), 7:30p 🎭 🦩 🍸
Macbeth in Stride performances kick off at BAM’s Harvey Theater (Fort Greene), 7:30p 🎭 (runs through April 27)
Wednesday, April 16
Last day to see Ken Okiishi and Nick Mauss show at 303 Gallery (Chelsea), 10a-6p 🆓 🎨
Meticulous Markings Artist Talks Series Two presented by Fountain House (Online), 2-3p 🆓 🎨
Straightiolab LIVE at The Bell House (Gowanus), 7p doors, 7:30p show 🎭 🦩🍸
Performance Lecture: Future Trace Practice with IM Youngzoo and Martha Joseph at Amant (East Williamsburg), 6:45p doors, 7p lecture 🎭
Hear Me Out—a comedy showcase from Nick Smith at Union Hall (Park Slope), 7p doors, 7:30p show 🎭 🍸 🦩
Thursday, April 17
Grand reopening of The Frick
The Frick got some work done and she’s looking more gorgeous than ever. The classic is back in business, opening to the public today.
The Frick, Upper East Side
Thurs 11a-6p 🎨
Opening reception for Claes Oldenburg & Peter Moore’s New York Streets & Signs at Paula Cooper
From Paula Cooper: “Claes Oldenburg and Peter Moore both moved to New York in the mid–1950s and were immediately struck by the city’s streets, in particular the sidewalks, storefronts and signage that clamored for attention. Keenly alert to the visual assault of language and communication, Oldenburg made drawings and sculptures of storefronts, street objects and text-based posters, while Moore produced a historical record of city signage through documentary photographs. “
Paula Cooper, Chelsea
Thurs from 6-8p 🆓 🎨 🗽
Lynne Tillman talks Thrilled to Death with Whitney Mallett
Thrilled to Death: Selected Stories is the brilliant Lynne Tillman’s latest. Tonight, she talks about the book with the Whitney Review’s Whitney Mallett.
McNally Jackson, South Street Seaport
Thurs at 6:30p 📚🍸
D'yan Forest performs 90 Years of Song and Scandal
As part of New York Fringe Fest: comedian, cabaret artist, and living legend D'yan Forest (currently Guinness World Records Title Holder for Oldest Female Comedian in the World) performs a new show with material generated from 90 years of living. Can you imagine anything better?
The Wild Project, East Village and online
Thurs at 6:30p 🎭 (also April 20 at 3:40p)
Other Thursday events, briefly noted:
Opening reception for Free Play’s Sean Gerstley at Superhouse (Tribeca/Chinatown), 6-8p 🆓 🎨 🍸
Opening reception of Malick Sidibé’s Regardez-moi at Jack Shainman (Chelsea), 6-8p 🆓 🎨
Opening reception of Mary Ann Unger's Across the Bering Strait at Berry Campbell (Chelsea), 6-8p 🆓 🎨
Opening reception for Thaddeus Mosley’s Proximity at Karma (Chelsea), 6-8p 🆓 🎨 (author talk tomorrow from 12-1p)
Vincent Katz in conversation with Edmund Berrigan to discuss his book Daffodil at 192 Books (Chelsea), 6:30p 🆓 📚
Debbie Millman Design Matters 20th Anniversary celebration featuring Chelsea Clinton, Roxane Gay and Suleika Jaouad and special guests at Symphony Space (Upper West Side), 7p 🎭
An Evening with Carla Gannis, a brilliant artist who we know and love, at the National Arts Club (Gramercy Park), 7-8p 🆓 🎨
Opening reception for Repair Shop by Kathleen McDermott at Open Source Gallery (South Slope), 7-9p 🆓 🎨
Pete’s Reading Series featuring Jeremy Gordon, Jane Pek, Anton Solomnik, and Jeanne Thornton at Pete’s Candy Store (Williamsburg), 7:30p 🆓 📚🍸
Friday, April 18
Opening reception for Couch Paintings at Canada
This magnificent group show features work from Kim Gordon, Scott Reeder, Jo Messer, and so many others you can hardly believe it. From Canada: “A group of couches will be installed in the gallery, creating a space for people to convene and participate in the series of events happening over the course of the exhibition. Couches serve both practical and decorative functions, but they are also a generative place where we tap into our stream of consciousness, hang out with friends, and dream up our best ideas. We hope you’ll join us on the couches!”
There’s a great roster of events coinciding with the show: learn more here.
Canada’s 61 Lispenard St Gallery, Tribeca
Fri from 6p til late 🆓 🎨
Other Friday events, briefly noted:
Rashid Johnson’s A Poem for Deep Thinkers opens at the Guggenheim (Upper East Side), 🎨
Rhizome World kicks off at the WSA Building (Financial District), runs through May 11 🎨 🧠
Last day to see Thomas Scheibitz’s Argos Eyes at Tanya Bonakdar Gallery (Chelsea), 10a-6p 🆓 🎨
Mother Tongues Exhibition Opening at the Brooklyn Public Library’s Dweck Center (Prospect Heights), 6-7:30p 🆓 🎨
Opening reception for Dreamers w/ Cary Hulbert, Dingyue Fan, Eleonora Rinaldi at IRL Gallery (Tribeca), 6-8p 🆓 🎨
Good Friday performance of Images—a show written and performed by Gideon Jacobs at Earth (Lower East Side), 7p 🎭
Saturday, April 19
Screening Room: Dieter Roth by Edith Jud screens at Hauser & Wirth on 18th St (Chelsea), 3-5p 🆓 🎬 🎨
Sharif Farrag, Jake Troyli, and Chase Hall talk about Sharif Farrag's Exhibition, Hybrid Moments, at Jeffrey Deitch on Grand St (SoHo), 3p 🆓 🎨
Night of Music: The Long Last Day—A Performance of Furniture Music at Luhring Augustine (Tribeca), 6-8p 🆓 🎼 🎭 🎨
Philip Glass Ensemble performs a live score to Naqoyqatsi (non-narrative film directed by Godfrey Reggio and edited by Jon Kane, with music composed by Philip Glass) at Town Hall (Theater District), 7p doors, 8p performance 🎼 🎬
Last call for these art shows closing on Saturday:
David Altmejd solo show at White Cube (Upper East Side), 10a-6p 🆓 🎨
Dieter Roth’s Islandscapes at Hauser & Wirth on 18th Street (Chelsea), 10a-6p 🆓 🎨 🍸
Affinities: Anni Albers, Josef Albers, Paul Klee at David Zwirner on 20th Street (Chelsea), 10a-6p 🆓 🎨
Sharif Farrag’s Hybrid Moments at Jeffrey Deitch’s 76 Grand St. Gallery (SoHo), 10a-6p 🆓 🎨
Julio Galán’s show across Kurimanzutto and Luhring Augustine (Chelsea), 10a-6p 🆓 🎨
Mie Yim’s Drink Me at Broadway Gallery (Tribeca), 11a-6p 🆓 🎨
Marie Herwald Hermann’s Compound and Bridges in the Project Room at Broadway Gallery (Tribeca), 11a-6p 🆓 🎨
Giving Shape to Space: Frecon, Sandback, Taylor at David Zwirner on 19th Street (Chelsea), 10a-6p 🆓 🎨
Scapes group show featuring Sarah Anderson, Chase Biado, Emily Coan, Jessie Edelman, Olivia Sage Hamilton, Whit Harris, Greg Lindquist, Zoe McGuire, Taj Poscé, Brennen Steines, and Stephen Thorpe at DIMIN (Tribeca), 11a-6p 🆓 🎨
Olivia Erlanger's Spinoff at Luhring Augustine (Tribeca), 10a-6p 🆓 🎨
Longest Way Round group show at Charles Moffett’s brand new Tribeca gallery space (394 Broadway, Tribeca), 10a-6p 🆓 🎨
Dustin Emory’s Mourning Sun at Margot Samel (Tribeca), 11a-6p 🆓 🎨
Dustin Emory’s Mourning Sun at Fredericks & Freiser (Chelsea), 10a-6p 🆓 🎨
Giant Women on New York: Alice Neel, Anita Steckel, Joan Semmel, Juanita McNeely, Louise Bourgeois, Martha Edelheit, and Nancy Spero at James Fuentes (Tribeca), 10a-6p 🆓 🎨
Sunday, April 20
Last day of the NYC Fringe Fest (various locations) 🎭
Last day of Pets and the City at the New York Historical Society (Upper West Side), 🎨
Last day to see Fashioning Wonder: A Cabinet of Curiosities at the FIT Museum (Chelsea), 🆓 🎨
Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction opens to the public at the MoMA (Midtown), 🎨
Fringe Fest: comedienne, cabaret artist, and living legend D'yan Forest (currently Guinness World Records Title Holder for Oldest Female Comedian in the World) returns with a new show 90 Years of Song and Scandal at The Wild Project (East Village and online), 3:40p 🎭
Easter Sunday performance of Images—a show written and performed by Gideon Jacobs at Earth (Lower East Side), 7p 🎭
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