Block by Block: Streetscapes
Stoops and streetscapes from the Greenest Block in Brooklyn winners, rebuilt on the garden's grounds and co-created with the gardeners who grew them. Plenty of ideas for your own stoop.
Art
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Art Dialogues: Bellini's "St. Francis in the Desert"
One painting, one long look. A museum educator leads a conversation with fellow attendees in the galleries, with Bellini's St. Francis in the Desert as the focus and everyone encouraged to join in.
The History of Concrete
Listed as a visual arts event, with a plain, curious title that takes the story of concrete seriously. It's at Syndicated Bar Theater Kitchen, so a drink and a bite are close by.
Verbal Description Tour: Geometries
A guided tour of the Geometries exhibition built around verbal description, so blind and low-vision visitors can take in the work through spoken detail. Part of the museum's access programs.
Docent Tour: Reading Under Fire
A casual guided walk through the exhibition with the education team, unpacking the historical context and the design techniques behind the posters on the wall.
Open House New York (OHNY) at The Frick Collection | 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
A morning in a Gilded Age mansion full of Vermeer, Rembrandt, Fragonard and Turner, with the gallery talk A Home for Art on how the house became a museum.
Word Art Workshop and Artist Talk with Roemello Agjmurati
A send-off to the triennial: hear how artist Roemello Agjmurati works, then make your own graphic design, with all materials provided.
Ancestral Ecologies
Four multisensory installations from the Heidi Nitze Art × Environment Fellows, each using a different environmental or material phenomenon to explore animist ways of seeing the living world.
SI OFFSITE | Rafał Skoczek: Kino Drift
Marching with the Kasama plays beside two related films, in a project that folds exchanges with audiences and militants into how the material is interpreted and distributed.
Regift | An Evening with Rirkrit Tiravanija, Amy Sillman, John Miller, and Catharine Czudej
Yayoi Shionoiri draws the winning ticket in Rirkrit Tiravanija's lottery, where the prize is the keys to his apartment. Part of the Regift show on generosity, exchange, and value.
Visions of the American Landscape: An Evening of Films by Allison Janae Hamilton, with Imani Perry in Conversation
A screening of Allison Janae Hamilton's films on the American landscape, followed by a conversation between the artist and Imani Perry. It's a focused pairing of an artist and a thinker.
Trouble x Diamond Terrifier: Emanate / Crenellate with Antenes, Luke Stewart, Patrick Higgins, Dome Theater, and DJ sets by R. Gamble & Heidi Sabertooth
A multi-channel video installation made for site-specific performance, with sets from Antenes, Luke Stewart, Patrick Higgins and Dome Theater, plus DJ sets by R. Gamble and Heidi Sabertooth.
Saturday Salons
Artists, writers, musicians and performers show works-in-process, and the rougher and stranger the better. Jennifer Krasinski curates a lineup with Trinie Dalton and Sibyl Kempson.
Aaron Gilbert: Alex Katz Chair in Painting Artist Talk
A painter talks about his work: intimate scenes of private life set against the fluorescent glow of technocapitalism, in the social realist line of Courbet, Otto Dix, and George Tooker.
Photobook Talk: Santiago Escobar-Jaramillo — El pez muere por la boca
Santiago Escobar-Jaramillo talks through his photobook El pez muere por la boca in the Tim Hetherington Photobook Library, a small room built for looking closely at books. RSVP required.
Exhibition Tour, The Battle of Brooklyn: Fought and Remembered
A guided walk through an exhibition on the first and largest battle of the American Revolution, built from primary sources and told by the Center for Brooklyn History.
AUNTS The hAUNTing
An artist-run performance platform stages its first haunted house, a Halloween experiment from a collective that treats art as something that can happen anywhere, from basements to dance floors.
Kiku: Spotlight on Tradition
Japanese chrysanthemums coaxed into traditional forms over 11 months, including the ozukuri, where a single stem carries hundreds of blooms. Fall flowers in warm hues fill out the glasshouse.
PAF New York 2026: Bestiary of Darkness
Valentýna Janů's neo-noir video, partly shot at Pioneer Works, gets live performance woven through it. Vojtěch Fröhlich scales the building floor by floor, then 33 close with a set.
Photobook Talk: Serhii Korovayny — Love Letters to Donbas
Ukrainian photographer Serhii Korovayny talks through his photobook Love Letters to Donbas with Bernadette Tuazon, CNN Digital's Director of Photography, moderating a close look at one project.
