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Art Bath mixes music, dance, theatre, opera and visual art in one interdisciplinary evening. Mara Driscoll and Liz Yilmaz's project returns to the Atrium with an emphasis on close encounters between different forms.
American art beside the Hudson, with the High Line close by. Make a gallery visit the anchor of a west-side afternoon.
Self-taught artists and folk traditions offer a focused art stop near Lincoln Center.
Bassist Corcoran Holt presents Freedom of Art with Freddie Hendrix, Abraham Burton, Benito Gonzalez and Kweku Sumbry. His original music connects personal history with jazz improvisation and West African rhythmic influences.
Drummer Carl Allen assembles former Jazz Messengers for an Art Blakey tribute. Brian Lynch, Donald Harrison, Robin Eubanks and Benny Green join a sextet revisiting the band's hard-bop tradition.
Queer art and its histories shape this focused downtown museum.
Modern and contemporary art in Midtown. Choose a few galleries to linger in, then leave room for the sculpture garden.
SoHo drawings, a Village slice, the Whitney, the High Line and a Meatpacking night. A west-side day with several changes of scene.
Three cultural visits with different rhythms: a public library, a design museum and a sculpture park beside the East River.
A Fifth Avenue collection on a vast scale. Choose a few rooms, then let one unexpected object redirect the afternoon.
Noguchi, Socrates Sculpture Park, the Museum of the Moving Image and Queens Museum. Four reasons to leave Manhattan, arranged as choices rather than a rushed borough-wide tour.
Gardens, art and Hudson River views make this Bronx cultural landscape a slower-paced alternative to a dense museum day.
Frank Lloyd Wright’s spiral gives the art a remarkable setting, making the architecture part of every visit.
Art and Jewish culture meet on Museum Mile, inside the historic Warburg mansion.
Art and the Panorama of the City of New York make this a strong starting point for exploring Flushing Meadows Corona Park.
Books, manuscripts and art surround a remarkable historic library, a compact cultural retreat in Midtown.
New York and American history are told through objects, art and changing exhibitions beside Central Park.
Art Deco interiors and a large-scale stage make a Rockefeller Center performance feel like an occasion.
German and Austrian art offers a concentrated museum visit beside Central Park.
Latin American, Caribbean and Latino art give East Harlem a cultural destination of its own.
Toshi Reagon curates a musical remembrance of her mother, Bernice Johnson Reagon. Live performances and personal testimony connect the Sweet Honey in the Rock founder's work with her wider history of art and activism.
A compact green space among landmark buildings, with public art adding another reason to stop and look.
A Hudson Yards cultural space hosts projects that move between performance and visual art.
Spanish and Latin American art rewards a dedicated trip to Washington Heights.
