Findlay // Sandsmark broken (iteration III- for LIC)
A farewell piece made as the artists lost their own venue, and a quiet goodbye to stages that disappear. It offers no narrative or stated idea, just an open frame to experience.
Everything coming up
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makemake presents: Opera Praktikos’ La Sonnambula
Opera Praktikos rebuilds Bellini and Romani's The Sleepwalker so spoken, sung, and signed languages work as one voice, with accessibility built in from the start rather than added on.
S*an D. Henry-Smith + julie ezelle patton
An evening of poetry read aloud, with S*an D. Henry-Smith and julie ezelle patton sharing one bill at St. Mark's Church. A simple pairing of two poets, one room.
Alexis Cuadrado Group - Silent Film Scores Album Release Show
Bassist-composer Alexis Cuadrado brings an album of silent film scores to the stage with a big band of violin, vibraphone, trombone, reeds, and Miles Okazaki on guitar.
Book Launch at Columbus Circle: The Fair Fields: My Way to Words by Rosanna Warren in conversation with Margo Jefferson
A poet's memoir in linked vignettes rather than a straight story, recalling childhood in a literary household in the 1950s. Margo Jefferson joins her in conversation.
Sống: Photographs by Ocean Vuong
An exhibition of photographs by Ocean Vuong, open to the public. A quiet chance to take in his pictures up close, hung on the wall rather than seen on a screen.
The Music of Siena: Graindelavoix
Björn Schmelzer leads an ensemble known for visceral, ornament-rich early music, answering the Siena bronzes show. Wander the galleries while it plays, or claim one of the few seats.
Press Play 2026
Hundreds of exhibitors fill Pioneer Works with art books, zines, records, and underground publications, with talks and workshops built around a theme drawn from what's alive in publishing.
TJG George Wein Fellowship Commission 2026 presents Becca Stevens
A newly commissioned work from Becca Stevens on guitar and vocals, joined by Gretchen Parlato, banjoist Brad Kolonder and bassist Alan Hampton, in a small room built for close listening.
Minor Theater: Pity Whore
Julia Jarcho runs the Jacobean shocker 'Tis Pity She's a Whore into the present, with a waitress, her sad brother at college, and humor from somewhere unhinged.
Live at the Frick: Hisham Matar on Siena and the Imagination
The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Month in Siena speaks about his bond with the city and how it shaped the imagination of artists, including the bronze sculptors in the exhibition.
Hannah Ishizaki, Chiori Miyagawa, and Mark Campbell: A Thousand Generations
Hannah Ishizaki is writing a one-act chamber opera in 11 scenes, retelling the folk story The Crane's Gratitude for three vocalists, chamber ensemble, and electronics.
Pizza or A Door In The Dark Does Not Dance or The Meaning of Life
A chamber opera that starts as a pizza party, then a dying guest vanishes and opens a door to ghosts with unfinished business. Small in scale, intimate, irreverent, and aching.
Paul Lewis, Solo Piano
A pianist known for lucid Beethoven and Schubert pairs Mozart's sonatas K. 330 and K. 457 with Poulenc's Improvisations and Debussy's L'isle joyeuse, Mozart heard through a French lens.
Blood Be Sweet
A poetic ritual drama by Abigail C. Onwunali, directed by Obie Award winner Awoye Timpo, moving between the seen and unseen, duty and defiance, sacrifice and survival.
Bioethics Colloquium: On Chaos, What we Ought to Do, and What we Ought to Regret
MIT philosophy professor Caspar Hare draws on his new book, Living in a Strange World, to explore a striking idea about how almost every action ever taken reaches future generations.
Hildegard Commission Concert 2026
Four rising composers each write new music answering an illustration from Hildegard von Bingen's codices, brought to life with animations and projections in an immersive setting.
Kwaidan
Listed as a visual arts event at Syndicated Bar Theater Kitchen, a room that pairs a bar and a kitchen with its stage, so a drink and a bite fit easily around it.
Caleb Wheeler Curtis & Jason Moran: "Incantation" Album Release Celebration
Saxophonist Caleb Wheeler Curtis and MacArthur fellow Jason Moran celebrate their album on Imani Records, exploring space, time, and melody through a shared fascination with musical ancestry.
Book Launch: Arguments by Benjamin Gucciardi in conversation with Pádraig Ó Tuama
Poems on inner conflict, ethical action and fraying ties to family and land, from a Lexi Rudnitsky Editor's Choice Award winner, in conversation with Pádraig Ó Tuama.
