Week of January 20

Plastered, Misc. Pippa, and other happenings

How can we bear a world without David Lynch? Celebrate the dearly departed by catching screenings of Inland Empire and Mulholland Drive at IFC. Metrograph also shows Inland Empire this week and next, and Blue Velvet screens throughout February. What do we think Lynch will be reincarnated as? Drop your predictions in the comments.

Meanwhile, we have an incredible week of happenings including those from our absolute heroes like Hilton Als, Etel Adnan, and Pippa Garner.

🆓 = 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, January 20

• Last day to see Matisse’s Cut-Outs: A Celebration at the MoMA (Midtown), 9:30a-7p 🎨

• The 39th Annual Brooklyn Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at BAM (Fort Greene), 10:30a 🆓

• 2nd Annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day Beloved Community Festival at the New York Society for Ethical Culture (Upper West Side), 1-5p 🆓

• Reading Ulysses with Philip Weinstein 7-part course kicks off at the 92nd Street Y (Upper East Side), 2-3:30p 📚 🧠

• Party Monster screening at Singers (Bed Stuy), 9p 🆓 🎬 🍸

Tuesday, January 21

• Designing Tomorrow’s Met: An Evening with Frida Escobedo at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Upper East Side), 6-7p 🎨

• Malpaso Dance Company kicks off performances at the Joyce Theater (Chelsea), 7:30p 🎭 runs through Jan 26

Wednesday, January 22

Etel Adnan’s This Beautiful Light opens at White Cube

White Cube New York kicks off a new year of programming with a show of work from Etel Adnan, the great Lebanese-American poet and artist who died in 2021. This exhibition “showcases works from the last 20 years of the artist’s practice, including a large-scale ceramic work, tapestries, paintings, works on paper and leporellos - folded books that extend to several metres in length.” We will never get enough of Adnan. This show runs through March 1.

White Cube, Upper East Side
Wed from 10a-6p 🆓 🎨 (opening preview on Tuesday from 3-7p)

In Conversation: Hilton Als and David Leeming on Beauford Delaney

The writer David Leeming first published Amazing Grace: A Life of Beauford Delaney in 1998. Karma Books picked it up for a new edition and had one of the greatest writers in the world—Hilton Als—write a new introduction for it. Tonight, Als and Leeming will chat about the book at Hill Art Foundation.

Stop by early to see The Writing’s On the Wall: Language and Silence in the Visual Arts, the remarkable Als-curated show.

Hill Art Foundation, Chelsea
Wed at 6p 🆓 🎨 📚 🧠

Opening reception for Nicole Eisenman’s Plastered at Anton Kern

The great painter and sculptor Nicole Eisenman presents new plaster work including ten relief portraits and two large-scale wall reliefs along with various recent work, including a brand new portrait painting (Eisenman’s sweetest spot, in our opinion). Catch an opening reception at the always solid Anton Kern and see her work, Fixed Crane, on view in Madison Square Park through March 9. Plastered is on display through March 6.

Anton Kern, Midtown
Wed from 6-8p 🆓 🎨

Other Wednesday events, briefly noted:

• Opening reception for Nolan Oswald Dennis: overturns at the Swiss Institute (East Village), 6-8p 🆓 🎨

• John S. Jacobs talks The United States Governed by Six Hundred Thousand Despots at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (Harlem), 6:30-8:30p 🆓 📚 🧠

• Book launch: A Solitary Traveler in the Long Night: Zhang Qin on the life of renowned architect and architectural educator in contemporary China Tong Jun at Rizzoli Bookstore (Nomad), 6-8p 🆓 📚

• Book Event: Breakthrough: The Quest for Life-Changing Medicines with Dr. William Pao at the New York Society for Ethical Culture (Upper West Side and online), 7-8p 🆓 📚

Thursday, January 23

Opening reception for three new shows at the ICP

The International Center of Photography opens three shows tonight:

• American Job: 1940-2011, a group show of over 40 photographers drawn from the ICP’s collection

• Weegee’s Society of the Spectacle, a big character famous for photographing crime scenes and celebrities

• To Conjure: New Archives in Recent Photography, a group show featuring seven photographers who play around with concepts of archiving

The International Center of Photography, Lower East Side
Thurs from 5-8p 🎨

Other Thursday events, briefly noted:

• Rest and Reprieve: A Window into Creative Solitude, A Benefit for Eighth House Residency opening reception at Canada at 61 Lispenard (Tribeca), 6-8p 🆓 🎨

• Opening reception for Lexicon: Mark Ryan Chariker, Killion Huang, Marin Majić, Radu Oreian, Anna Ortiz, Catherine Repko and Adriel Visoto at 1969 Gallery (Tribeca), 6-8p 🆓 🎨

• Opening reception for Todd Gray at Lehmann Maupin (Chelsea), 6-8p 🆓 🎨

• Opening reception for Cy Twombly at Gagosian at 980 Madison (Upper East Side), 6-8p 🆓 🎨

• Opening reception for Frank Holliday’s Wish You Were Here at Swivel Gallery (Hudson Square), 6-8p 🆓 🎨

• Opening reception for Loft Projects’ presentation Slumber Party group show at 155 East 2nd Street (East Village), 6-8p 🆓 🎨

• An Evening in Siena with Pulitzer Prize-winning Writer Hisham Matar at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Upper East Side), 6-7p 🧠 🎨

• The Uncollected Stories of Mavis Gallant with Garth Risk Hallberg and Brandon Taylor at McNally Jackson (South Street Seaport), 6:30p 📚 🍸🧠

• PS1’s inaugural season of Winter Talks continues with a lecture by Malcolm Harris on “social movements necessary to avert climate disaster” at MoMA PS1 (Long Island City), 7p 🆓 🧠 🎨

• Art History Happy Hour: Arts of Asia tour at the Brooklyn Museum (Crown Heights), 7-9p 🎨🍸

• 2 performances about T I M E by Jason Fulford & Laurel Schwulst and a launch for Fulford’s latest book of photographs at Topos Too (Ridgewood), 7p 🆓 🎭 🎨 📚

Friday, January 24

The Book of Marvels: Imagining the Medieval World opens at The Morgan

The Morgan’s collection of illuminated manuscripts is among the best in the world, and this show shows off its best specimens. “At the exhibition’s center is the Book of the Marvels of the World, an illustrated guide to the globe filled with oddities, curiosities, and wonders—tales of fantasy and reality intended for the medieval armchair traveler. Bringing together two of the four surviving copies of this rare text—one from the Morgan’s collection, the other from the J. Paul Getty Museum—the exhibition examines medieval conceptions and misconceptions of a global world.”

The Morgan, Midtown
Fri from 10:30a-7p 🎨 (runs through May 25)

Heavy Traffic Reading at Earth

Heavy Traffic is a very cool fiction magazine. Tonight, they join forces with the very cool venue Earth for a reading featuring the incredible Sheila Heti along with more writers we don’t know super well: Amalia Ulman, Sean Thor Conroe, Sam Kriss, and Ada Antoinette.

Earth, Lower East Side
Fri at 8p 🆓 🎭 📚🧠

Other Friday events, briefly noted:

• Juilliard Historical Performance Chamber Music Series inside Gallery 681 where they house all those cool old instruments at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Upper East Side), 11a-12p 🎼

• Lunar New Year Plants Talk & Walk at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden (Crown Heights), 1-2:15p 🌳 (also on Saturday from 11a-12:15p)

• Julius Eastman & Glenn Ligon show opening reception at David Zwirner’s 52 Walker (Tribeca), 6-8p 🆓 🎨

• 2024 Paris Photo–Aperture PhotoBook Awards opening reception at Printed Matter (Chelsea), 6-8p 🆓 🎨

• Opening reception for Nicola Turner’s Fabric of Undoing at Carvalho Park (East Williamsburg), 6-8p 🆓 🎨

• Opening reception for Yulia Iosilzon and Nicola Turner’s The Threshold Beckons at Carvalho Park (East Williamsburg), 6-8p 🆓 🎨

• Annual Arturo A. Schomburg Lecture and Conversation at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (Harlem), 6:30-9p 🆓 🧠

• Opening reception of American Artist’s Shaper of God at Pioneer Works (Red Hook), 🆓 🎨

• Selva and St. Vitus Bar present A Benefit For Musicians Impacted By The LA Fires at Selva (Bushwick), 8p 🎼🍸🦩

Saturday, January 25

Last day to see Pippa Garner’s Misc. Pippa at Matthew Brown

You have one last day to see supremely clever work from the late and great Pippa Garner, who passed away last month, at Matthew Brown.

Matthew Brown, Tribeca
Sat from 10a-6p 🆓 🎨

Black Earth Study Club kicks off at the Swiss Institute

Nolan Oswald Dennis’s overturns opened earlier this week, and it’s a heady exhibition engaging with big, big ideas. To accompany the work, the Swiss Institute presents Black Earth Study Club, “a series of transdisciplinary gatherings informed by Dennis’s artistic, scientific, and philosophical ruminations on the material and metaphysical conditions of decolonization.”

The first installment kicks off today: Languaging the End of the World features theorists Denise Ferreira da Silva and J. Kameron Carter. Both will present ideas, then host a Q&A with the audience.

The Swiss Institute, East Village
Sat at 2p 🆓 🧠

Other Saturday events, briefly noted:

• Lunar New Year Festival: The Year of the Snake at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Upper East Side), 12-5p 🎨

• Transcribe-a-thon: Remaking the World of Arturo Schomburg at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (Harlem), 1-5p 🆓

• The New York premiere of Schiele in Prison presented with the Neue Galerie at The Carl Fischer Building (Noho), 6:30p 🎭

Last call for these art shows closing on Saturday:

• Lines of Distribution at The Kitchen at Westbeth (West Village), 🎨

• Les Levine’s ANALYZE LOVERS Organized by Alex Kitnick at Ulrik (Chinatown), 12-6p 🆓 🎨

• Hunter Reynolds / Dean Sameshima’s Promiscuous Rage at PPOW (Tribeca), 11a-6p 🆓 🎨

• Biala’s Paris, The Later Years at Tibor de Nagy (Lower East Side), 10a-6p 🆓 🎨

Sunday, January 26

Last day to see The Brooklyn Artists at the Brooklyn Museum

Catch work from over 200 Brooklyn artists in this show—today’s your last chance to see it.

The Brooklyn Museum, Crown Heights
Sun from 11a-6p 🎨

Velvet Goldmine screening at The Paris

We’re grateful to whoever at The Paris programmed this event just for us. Todd Haynes’ 1998 film, a bonkers ode glam rock, screens for one day only at Carrie Bradshaw’s favorite movie theater.

The Paris, Midtown
Sun at 12p 🎬

Other Sunday events, briefly noted:

• Last day to see Playing with Design: Gameboards, Art, and Culture at the Folk Art Museum (Upper East Side), 11:30a-6p 🎨

• Mystical Abstraction: Women, Spiritualism, and the Arts talk at the American Folk Art Museum (virtual),1-2:15p 🆓 🎨

• Community Critique at Field of Play (Gowanus), 2-6p 🆓 🎨🦩

• Henry IV opens at the Theatre for a New Audience (Downtown Brooklyn), 7p 🎭 (runs through March 2)

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