The NYC experimental performance company, Big Art Group, will be celebrating it's 10th anniversary with Big Art Group: Takeover at Abrons Arts Center, starting tomorrow night and running through the weekend. The internationally acclaimed group will use all three...
Along with our weekly music picks, here are a few other enticing activities happening in the hood this weekend:
Writer Patrick Pacheco will be on hand for a Q&A after the 7:30p screening of Waking Sleeping Beauty tonight...
There's plenty to do this weekend before your Oscar party/hopefully-historical-night-for-women-directors-celebration on Sunday:
Abrons Arts Center will host the premiere of Wallie Wolfgruber's Sacred Things, tonight and tomorrow, at 8pm. An evening of dance augmented by an Earth Installation by the...
Conceptual artist Mark Leckey will be at the Abrons Arts Center tonight through Saturday, with his piece, In the Long Tail
(2009). It is presented in conjunction with the Museum of Modern Art’s Performance Exhibition Series. Leckey won last...
Thirty-eight years ago, Verona Middleton-Jeter came to the Henry Street Settlement as a live-in social worker. Today she is executive director, managing a $37 million budget and overseeing a vast array of programs for 60-thousand New Yorkers. Middleton-Jeter,...
The Statue of Liberty's crown reopens to the public on July 4th. MTA head Elliot "Lee" Sander steps down. The governor will have the chance to put his stamp on the troubled agency. The New York Times profiles Abrons...
This delightful piece by Howard Fishman about the Donner Party
will be at the Abrons Arts Center this weekend. We stopped by one of the rehearsals to
speak with Howard about it. "we are destroyed" is directed by Ed Schmidt and...
Community Board 3's Transportation, Public Safety. Environment Committee meets. Among the issues to be addressed: requests for stop signs at Delancey and Lewis Streets, request for crosswalk on Clinton between Grand and East Broadway, funding proposals for LES Ecology...
At the New Museum, celebrating cutting edge artists, "younger than Jesus." (NYT)Sustainability: NYC Food Project's first meeting (Serious Eats)"A thrashing, bashing rendition of the Beowulf story" at Abrons Arts Center (NYT)Virtuoso fiddler to perform at Tenement Museum's gala (Tenement...
