VIKA KIRCHENBAUER PGM 1
Six experimental shorts by Vika Kirchenbauer, from a seductive address out of a black void to a work on the impossibility of tickling yourself. She is there in person.
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VIKA KIRCHENBAUER PGM 2
Four shorts by Vika Kirchenbauer that take on the art economy's labor politics and its complicit institutions, from a welcome address to a study of early public art exhibitions. The filmmaker attends.
Archtober: Ancestral Ecologies Sunset Tour
The garden's curators walk you through a site-specific exhibition of new work by the first fellows of a new art and environment fellowship, with the tour timed for sunset.
Panel Discussion: Photography Education
Four people who run photography programs talk about who gets to tell the story: Shahidul Alam of Pathshala, Helen Alonzo Hurtado of Las Fotos Project, Gary Knight of VII, and Michael Kamber.
Shinnecock Oral History Plant Tour
Chenae Bullock, a member of the Shinnecock Nation, leads a walk through the Native Flora Garden, with plants explained through Indigenous traditional ecological knowledge. A small, specific tour.
VACANCES
Filmed over ten years at a Provence villa, this documentary follows a bohemian countess grandmother and her strained family around the pool. The filmmaker will be there in person.
PLAYING WITH FIRE: AN ECOSEXUAL EMERGENCY
Annie Sprinkle and Beth Stephens close their ecosexual climate trilogy with a film about fire, narrated partly by a white peacock, and they open each show with a performative "Ecosex 101."
Talk of the Town: Before New York with Eric Sanderson
Landscape ecologist Dr. Eric Sanderson gives a public lecture on historical ecology, looking at what the land was like before the city. It's held in a historic house.
Before New York: Staten Island
Dr. Eric W. Sanderson reconstructs the original forests, wetlands, and waterways of the place and ties them to today's flooding, climate resilience, and environmental justice.
Marlon James: The Disappearers
A celebration of Marlon James's Booker-finalist novel, in which eight men rehearsing a play are brutally attacked one night and must reckon with the hatred the violence exposed.
WOMEN IN ANIMATION PGM 1: ANIMATED ANIMALS
Ten shorts spotlighting women in animation, from a silent flower-fairy film to Mary Ellen Bute and Sally Cruikshank, many from 35mm and 16mm. Mindy Johnson and Rachael Guma introduce.
Exhibition Tour: Whitney Biennial 2026
A guided walk through the Whitney Biennial, the museum's survey of new American art. A tour is a good way to get oriented and hear how the show's pieces fit together.
Studio Salon: Primary: After and With Alma Thomas
A conversation and reading built around Primary: After and With Alma Thomas, a book on the painter. It's part of the museum's own Studio Salon series, held on The Stoop.
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.
