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.
This weekend
Category, neighborhood, free
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.
PI RECORDINGS 25th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION // Luke Stewart Silt Trio +
Bassist Luke Stewart's Silt Trio, with Brian Settles on tenor and Chad Taylor on drums, joins reedman Daniel Carter to mark a quarter century of an independent creative-music label.
PI RECORDINGS 25th ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION // Dan Weiss Quartet
Drummer Dan Weiss leads a quartet with guitarist Miles Okazaki, trumpeter Adam O'Farrill and vibraphonist Patricia Brennan, marking the label's anniversary in an intimate room with two sets.
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.
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."
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.
Find Your Own Voice: James Brandon Lewis and Anne Waldman // Oliver Lake and Josh Werner // Tuesday Taylor and Melanie Dyer // Taylor Pace and Kokayi
Four poet-and-musician pairings across generations, including James Brandon Lewis with Anne Waldman and Oliver Lake with Josh Werner, in a residency by a Jazz Generations Initiative fellow.
DUO
Harris Eisenstadt plays drum set and batá drums opposite pianist Aruán Ortiz. It's one of several piano duos in his residency, and the only one with Ortiz.
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.
VIKA KIRCHENBAUER PGM 1
Six experimental shorts by Vika Kirchenbauer, from a seductive address out of a black void to a work on tickling, with memory, state power and invisibility in between. She attends in person.
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.
Before New York: The Bronx
Panoramas rebuilt from scientific data show the land as it looked 400 years ago, plus an interactive topographic model that compares the ancient terrain with today's street grid.
ANDRZEJ WAJDA 100
A centennial retrospective of Polish director Andrzej Wajda, put together by Film Forum, an independent repertory house. A chance to see his films in a small room, on a limited run.
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.
Revolutionary Spirits
A trolley tour of the cemetery's Revolutionary War figures and early distillers, then on to a whiskey tasting: rye straight off the still, a pour from the barrel, and barrel-aged maple syrup.
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.
Growing America
American history told through food plants: historic botanical illustrations, planting ledgers and cookbooks inside, then outdoor beds tracing Indigenous foodscapes through the Great Migration.
