Monday, May 20th: Andrew Carmellini & Architects Robin Standefer & Stephen Alesch
Andrew Carmellini & Architects Robin Standefer & Stephen Alesch Wollman Hall at The New School (66 West 12th St., 5th Fl., Manhattan) 6pm $10 in advance Although we often focus on the food and the service, restaurant dining is really the combination of food, service and environment. That’s where architecture and design come in. Design [...]
Monday, May 20th: ‘My Dirty Dumb Eyes’ by Lisa Hanawalt
My Dirty Dumb Eyes by Lisa Hanawalt powerHouse Arena DUMBO (37 Main St., Brooklyn) 7-9pm Free, RSVP appreciated: rsvp@powerHouseArena.com Lisa Hanawalt, who has drawn illustrations and funnies for places like The New York Times, McSweeney’s, and Vanity Fair, launches her debut, an always fun, sometimes naughty compilation of unforgettable illustrations. Click here for more free [...]
Sunday, May 19th: Gemini & Scorpio’s Goldmine! Shopping Party
Gemini & Scorpio’s Goldmine! Shopping Party RSVP for location – Gowanus, Brooklyn 2-8pm Free, RSVP here Have you ever wanted to shop (or at least rifle through) Miss Scorpio’s closet? This is your chance. She’s teaming up with burlesque bombshell Veronica Varlow, a fellow dress-up addict, for some spring cleaning and fundraising for their respective [...]
Sunday, May 19th: Flux Factory at Noguchi Museum
Flux Factory at Noguchi Museum Noguchi Museum (9-01 33rd Rd., Queens) 11am-6pm $10 museum admission In an interview from 1986, Isamu Noguchi described the newly-created Noguchi Museum as “a place to reflect and see an alternative existence.” The Noguchi Museum’s upcoming Community Day celebrates slowing down and focusing, and explores the contemplative opportunities offered by [...]
Sunday, May 19th: Pop Souk Market
Pop Souk The Standard Biergarten (848 Washington St., Manhattan) Noon-6pm Free admission Nightlife personalities, artists, musicians, DJs, designers, fashion junkies, and the rest of us who make up the creative landscape of Downtown NYC, are usually blessed—and cursed—with fabulously overflowing closets. More than just a marketplace, Pop Souk is an event where you’ll find some [...]
Sunday, May 19th: Tie-Dye Party
Drop In Tie-Dye Party Brooklyn Brainery (190 Underhill Ave., Brooklyn) 2-5pm $7 in advance Attention all: tie-dye does not have to be garish or tacky! Or rainbow colored or in a big spiral (not that there’s anything wrong with that). We know more than a dozen ways to get understated, sophisticated results that help you [...]
Sunday, May 19th: Ridgewood Market
Gottscheer Hall (657 Fairview Ave., Queens) 11am-5pm Free RIDGEWOOD MARKET A MONTHLY ARTISAN FLEA MARKET Click here for more free New York City events & things to do.
Sunday, May 19th: Circuit Building and Bending Workshop & BBQ
Circuit Building and Bending Workshop & BBQ The Living Gallery (1094 Broadway, Brooklyn) Noon-5pm Free admission, $5-10 suggested for materials Learn how to build and bend your own instruments! Materials will be available and bring some food to GRILLLLLL. Alex will demonstrate how to build a 40106 oscillator – an extremely simple circuit design that [...]
Saturday, May 18th: Free Admission to NYC Museums for Art Museum Day
Museums around the city are offering free or discounted admission today for Art Museum Day: Asia Society Museum, New York Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn 2-for-1 admission Grey Art Gallery, New York Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Coupon for $10 off a purchase of $50 or more in Metropolitan Museum shops. Coupons are available at the [...]
Saturday, May 18th: Aeolian Ride Rockaway
Aeolian Ride, is an international art event where the public becomes inflated sculpture on bicycles, transforming the landscape of each city. The effect is a sort of joy loop: those riding feel the elation of being a child at play, dazzling bystanders who become giddy, returning joy to the riders. Come join the fun! The [...]
Saturday, May 18th & Sunday, May 19th: 16th Annual New York City Tattoo Convention
16th Annual New York City Tattoo Convention Roseland Ballroom (239 W. 52nd St., Manhattan) Saturday: noon-midnight Sunday: noon-8pm $20 in advance Features tattoo artists from around the world as well as piercing professionals, cool merchandise vendors, live stage entertainment, and tattoo contests all at the Roseland Ballroom in the heart of New York City. Don’t [...]
Saturday, May 18th: Beach Party with Martin Parr
Beach Party with Martin Parr Aperture Gallery and Bookstore (547 West 27th St., Manhattan) 9am-6pm Free perture presents an all-day portrait shoot and beach party with the one and only Martin Parr, in conjunction with the release of the beach-bag-size edition of his monograph Life’s a Beach and the related exhibition at Aperture Gallery. This [...]
Saturday, May 18th: ‘All the Buildings in New York’
All the Buildings in New York Brooklyn Art Library (103A N. 3rd. St., Manhattan) 1-3pm Free An attempt to draw all the buildings in New York by James Gulliver Hancock, an illustrator originally from Australia currently based in Brooklyn, New York. Click here for more free New York City events & things to do.
Through Sunday, May 19th: Bohemian Festival 2013
Bringing together a diverse palette of live music, globally sourced DJs, dancers, performers, art and workshops, our second annual Bohemian Festival will be both a culturally rich and insanely festive camp-out and non-stop party on the grounds of the historic Onderdonk House in Ridgewood, Queens. The festival will feature the renowned ensemble Yuri Yunakov & [...]
Saturday, May 18th: Market Hotel Tag Sale
Market Hotel Tag Sale Market Hotel (957 Broadway, Brooklyn) Noon-8pm Free admission :: all proceeds to benefit the Market Hotel Project :: … special guests tba … :::: NARWHALZ OF SOUND :::::: Cammisa Buerhaus :: dj Mr Ad Hoc Click here for more free New York City events & things to do.
Through Sunday, May 19th: Hell’s Kitchen Art Festival 2013
Hell’s Kitchen Artist Studios Tour (HK:ArtiST) is a weekend long opportunity to visit local artists in their studios, to view works-in-progress as well as completed work, and to talk to artists about their creative process and the agony and ecstasy of the creative life in New York. On view will be the latest creations of [...]
Friday, May 17th: The Neapolitan Cult of the Dead: An Illustrated Lecture with Chiara Ambrosio
The Neapolitan Cult of the Dead: An Illustrated Lecture with Chiara Ambrosio Observatory (543 Union St., Brooklyn) 8pm $8 Naples is a unique city in which the sacred and the profane, Catholicism and paganism, beauty and decay blend and contrast in intriguing ways. No practice illustrates this tangle of ideas better than what is known [...]
Friday, May 17th: Be Sweet New York City
Be Sweet New York City Chelsea Market Passage on The High Line, W. 16th St., Manhattan 10am-8pm Free
Friday, May 17th: Drink + Draw + Draw
Drink + Draw + Draw LaunchPad (721 Franklin Ave., Brooklyn) 8pm $5 suggested You are cordially invited to a model drawing session at Launchpad at 8:00 pm on May 17th. There will be beverages on hand. The recommended donation shall be $5, but any extra support of the space is appreciated. The session will run [...]
Through Saturday, May 25th: video_dumbo 2013
video_dumbo Eyebeam (540 W. 21st St., Manhattan) $5/screenings, $10 day pass, $20 festival pass in advance Eyebeam is pleased to present video_dumbo’s eighth annual festival and exhibition of contemporary moving image artwork, curated by Caspar Stracke and Gabriela Monroy. On view from May 16 – 25, video_dumbo will include fourteen video screening programs, alongside eight [...]
Thursday, May 16th: Instant Photography Blue Hour with Free Drinks & Photobooth
Instant Photography Blue Hour Lomography Gallery Store New York (41 W. 8th St., Manhattan) 6pm Free We are celebrating the awesomeness of instant film! Come by the Lomography Gallery Store NYC and check out our instant photo booth and grab a drink with all your best analog friends. We all love the instant gratification of [...]
