Last chance to investigate: Carroll Dunham
The vivid, strange Matthew Brown exhibition closes October 24; confirm hours before travelling.
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Dinner watch: Brasserie Boulud, with a pescatarian route
The current menu supports a clean pescatarian order near Lincoln Center.
Read the note →Tonight: School Nite at MoMA PS1
Isabella Lovestory, B0YG1RL and ali rq lead an after-hours museum night.
Read the note →NYC: Mitani is easier to book, not easier to justify
The Tokyo legend reaches Midtown with immediate reservations and formidable pricing.
Read the note →A plaza becomes the performance
A free outdoor work returns to Lincoln Center this week.
Read the note →Houses their owners invented as they went
Primers for a Handmade Utopia at Cooper Union follows Northern California’s back-to-the-land builders through photographs, oral histories, handmade tools and period publications.
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Porcelain meets the printer at Westbeth
A smaller, newly opened stop: Vessels: Bodies, Tales & Machines, at Westbeth Gallery, 55 Bethune Street, through October 31.
Read the note →Eight stair towers, and apartments with two sides
At Stevenson Square in Soundview, WXY makes circulation visible.
Read the note →Procario’s wood and light, from October 27
John Procario’s first solo museum show at MAD runs October 27–April 4, 2027.
Read the note →Val-Kill furniture: museum study without museum copying
The Met’s Cottage Industry: The Val-Kill Furniture Shop is now on view through May 9, 2027.
Read the note →Tonight’s difficult film choice
IFC Center has Ken Russell’s The Devils at 7:00 and 9:40 p.m. today, on a new 35mm print made from the 4K restoration; the run continues through October 22.
Read the note →One action before the weekend
Open House New York Weekend runs Friday through Sunday across more than 300 destinations in all five boroughs.
Read the note →Latinx food workers and activism at MCNY
MCNY's free 6:30 p.m. curator-led tour considers Latinx food workers and activism with Sarah Seidman, Alexandra Délano Alonso and La Morada's Marco Saavedra.
Read the note →An everyday-and-divine visual system
the Whitney's eighth-floor Minnie Evans retrospective runs through January 10.
Read the note →Design, without a deadline
Van Alen's Open Access asks five artist/design teams to read 130 years of competition boards and jury records for both evidence and absence.
Read the note →Kramer/Fauci at St. Ann’s Warehouse
Daniel Fish's one-hour Kramer/Fauci stages the pair's combustible 1993 televised AIDS-crisis conversation.
Read the note →A street-design result, not a rendering
NYC DOT says the permanent Avenue B redesign is complete from East 4th to East 14th Streets.
Read the note →Movement as psychology
the free NYPL Performing Arts exhibition on Martha Graham runs at Lincoln Center through November 7.
Read the note →Cooper Hewitt’s Design Across Time
At Cooper Hewitt, Design Across Time avoids the usual march through periods.
Read the note →New York tonight: let concrete wander
John Wilson’s The History of Concrete is at IFC Center today at 11:15 a.m., 12:55, 1:30, 3:40, 8:35 and 9:05 p.m. The late 8:35 show is the best practical choice.
Read the note →The architecture film festival's usable plan begins Tuesday
The Architecture & Design Film Festival opens tonight at MoMA, but that first screening was already sold out as of October 9.
Read the note →Today at the Whitney: Lichtenstein, with the copying visible
Whitney exhibition image. © Estate of Roy Lichtenstein.
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