By Ethan Wolff
Events marking this semiquincentennial American year are starting to dot the calendar, just part of a full month of smart happenings in NYC. We are especially looking forward to talks on quantum weirdness, an intimate conversation with Liza Minnelli, tarot readings by Michael Cunningham, and Fintan O'Toole on The Idiocy of Greatness.
Sunday, March 1. Examine the isolation of small city apartments in a work choreographed by Anna Sokolow (1910–2000) with a jazz score by Kenyon Hopkins. Rooms at the Museum of Jewish Heritage is part of Carnegie Hall’s United in Sound: America at 250 festival.
Monday, March 2. Focus on one word as the New York Academy of Sciences hosts anthropology professor Pamela Geller, speaking on An Archeology of Plastics: From Small Things Forgotten to the Synthetic Revolution.
Tuesday, March 3. Revisit the downtown poetry scene of '70s New York with author Richard Hell at the launch of the re-issue of his Godlike, inspired by Arthur Rimbaud and Paul Verlaine’s notorious affair. e-flux.
Moschino Cheap and Chic, acetate and rayon jacket referencing Girl with Hair Ribbon (1965) by Roy Lichtenstein, spring 1991, Italy. Gift of Michelle Perr. Photo by Eileen Costa/The Museum at FIT.
Wednesday, March 4. Arrive fashionably on time for a Person Place Thing with Museum at FIT curator of costume and accessories Dr. Elizabeth Way, looking at the new exhibit Art X Fashion.
Thursday, March 5. Gear up for an International Center of Photography (ICP) talk on photography’s historical use both as a witness to violence and a tool of authoritarian domination, with an eye toward new possibilities.
Image: virtual view of Bisj poles as seen in Oceania: A New Horizon of Space and Time, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in collaboration with Atopia.
Friday, March 6. Exit the everyday world of the Metropolitan Museum of Art for a conversation and virtual reality experience that explores Oceania: A New Horizon of Space and Time.
Saturday, March 7. Recall the destruction of Jerusalem through a historic lens with a pre-concert lecture and performance of Polyhymnia: Nocturnes—Tudor Settings of The Lamentations of Jeremiah at Saint Ignatius of Antioch Episcopal Church.
Esther before Ahasuerus. Artist: Artemisia Gentileschi (Italian, born Rome 1593–died Naples 1654 or later).
Sunday, March 8. Cross the aisle, as it were, for a Salon Sanctuary Concerts performance of Baroque masterwork "Ester, Liberatrice Del Popolo Ebreo" inside the Museum at Eldridge Street's magnificently restored 1887 Main Sanctuary.
Monday, March 9. Celebrate 250 years of the U.S.A. with historian Robert Watson and a talk on the stories behind the stories—and a corrected record on myths and misconceptions—around the Declaration of Independence and the nation’s founding. Fraunces Tavern Museum.
Tuesday, March 10. Hone in on the ways the quantum world "defies everyday intuition and conventional notions of reality" at a Pioneer Works Scientific Controversies session on "Quantum Weirdness."
Wednesday, March 11. Go beyond dominance in trade and commerce for a look at the state of "public science" 19th century Britain. Historian Jessica Ratcliff gives a Columbia University talk inspired by her recent book Monopolizing Knowledge: The East India Company and Britain's Second Scientific Revolution.
By freezelight - Spam wall, CC BY-SA 2.0
Thursday, March 12. Let "spam spam spam" reverberate through your head as the Museum of Food and Drink hosts a look at a pressed pork journey from Minnesota to Korea and back. Tickets include bites, a drink, and access to current exhibition Street Food City.
Friday, March 13. Travel Into the Heart of the Doomsday Glacier as The Explorers Club hosts leading polar scientist David Holland for a first-hand account of "a place whose fate may influence coastlines for generations."
By Siebbi - Werner Herzog, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Saturday, March 14. Stay up late with ideas as the Brooklyn Public Library's overnight festival returns, bringing in Werner Herzog, Molly Crabapple, one-on-one tarot readings with Michael Cunningham, and much more—until 3:14am.
Sunday, March 15. Prepare yourself for midterm mayhem at The 92nd Street Y, New York, home to a conversation between Pulitzer Prize-winning Times reporter Maggie Haberman and Politico’s Alex Burns.
Monday, March 16. Reexamine your preferences at the New York Society for Ethical Culture, where choral conductor Dr. Harold Rosenbaum "shows why you—yes, you!—actually do like modern classical music, you just don't know it yet."
Tuesday, March 17. Exchange experience for innocence with the Graduate Center, CUNY and anthropology professor Miriam Ticktin (Against Innocence: Undoing and Remaking the World), who shares her critique of a seeming moral good that can cause serious harm.
Wednesday, March 18. Be present with the artist as Seth Meyers joins Marina Abramović for a look at her boundary-smashing career. The Cooper Union.
Thursday, March 19. Appreciate the role of intellectuals in the battle for freedom during World War II with historian Elyse Graham, author of the best-selling Book and Dagger: How Scholars and Librarians Became the Unlikely Spies of World War II. Neue Galerie.
Friday, March 20. Wrap your head around the American Dream, the theme of the next Moth Mainstage storytelling session, taking place at the NYU Skirball Center.
Saturday, March 21. Take advantage of an offer you can't refuse as production designer Dean Taucher provides an inside look at the efforts involved in rendering shows like The Sopranos. Museum of the Moving Image.
Lloyd Knight. Photo by Luque Photography.
Sunday, March 22. Shake a leg over to the Guggenheim Museum for a Works & Process performance, with a new work by choreographer and dancer Jamar Roberts in advance of the Martha Graham Dance Company's 100th season. A discussion follows.
Monday, March 23. Willkommen, bienvenue, welcome to an intimate look at Liza Minnelli; she shares her new memoir Kids, Wait Till You Hear This! with her closest friend and collaborator, the Tony-winning Michael Feinstein. Temple Emanu-El.
NASA/ESA/Joseph Olmsted.
Tuesday, March 24. Stargaze at the latest James Webb Space Telescope data with astronomy professor Eileen Gonzales, who gives an American Museum of Natural History Frontiers Lecture on Investigating Clouds on Worlds Beyond Our Solar System.
Wednesday, March 25. Ponder The Idiocy of Greatness with the great Fintan O'Toole, who looks at Brexit, Putin, and MAGA as examples of the pitfalls of imagined pasts and the generation of "a constant state of disappointment." Stephen A. Schwarzman Building.
Thursday, March 26. Rehabilitate Jean-Baptiste Lamarck with Stanford historian Jessica Riskin, who blends biography, history, and science in the fresh appraisal The Power of Life: The Invention of Biology and the Revolutionary Science of Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. The New York Society Library.
Friday, March 27. Brief yourself on the coming future of militarized AI as Bloomberg reporter Katrina Manson discusses her new book, Project Maven: A Marine Colonel, His Team, and the Dawn of AI Warfare, looking at a 2017 program rife with ethical and technological dilemmas. The Strand at Columbus Ave.
Saturday, March 28. Infiltrate the Woolworth Building on an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of the “Cathedral of Commerce” with the New York Adventure Club.
Sunday, March 29. Keep the competitive fires burning with NYC’s Secrets & Lies and a storytelling look at the grit and glory of the city’s athletic past. South Street Seaport Museum.
Nocturne by Simon Dinnerstein, 1982, Conte crayon and colored pencil on paper, 2024.014 ; Brooklyn Public Library, Center for Brooklyn History. Gift of Lucille Nurkse.
Monday, March 30. Dwell on Simon Dinnerstein’s 1982 painting Nocturne, which juxtaposes brownstone Brooklyn and the call of the past, at a Center for Brooklyn History conversation between the artist and his daughter, acclaimed pianist Simone Dinnerstein.
Tuesday, March 31. Drift over to National Sawdust where pianist Eunbi Kim performs the intimate solo program it feels like a dream, exploring family and identity.
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