May 9th
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The Museum of the City of New York is a nonprofit institution that educates the public about the rich history and diverse character of the city. With a collection of approximately 750,000 objects, the museum offers exhibitions, educational programs, and publications to connect the past, present, and future of New York City.
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New York on Film: A Thousand and One
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
Experience the raw and unapologetic story of a mother and son navigating the harsh realities of mid-1990s New York City in this deeply American film. Follow Inez as she fights against a gentrifying Harlem, determined to build a life for herself and her son. Winner of the top U.S. Dramatic Prize at Sundance 2023.
Thu, May 9th, 6:30–8:45pm EDT
(2 hours & 15 minutes)
Unexpected Pairings: Sake & Tacos
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
Experience a unique New York mashup of Japanese and Mexican flavors: sake and tacos. Brian Polen, co-founder of Brooklyn Kura, the city's first sake brewery, and Julian Hoyos, owner of East Harlem's own Cascalote Latin Bistro, curate an only in New York pairing of Japanese and Mexican flavors. Both take inspiration from infusing familiar foods with new flavor and meaning. Brooklyn Kura offers a subtle...
$25
Photo Camp: I Spy New York
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
Calling all budding photographers ages 7-9! Join us for a week-long digital photography camp. Discover the Museum’s collections and exhibitions, take field trips around the city, and learn from a professional photographer through hands-on projects. This event is currently scheduled to take place as planned. The Museum will be in contact with all registered participants with any updates.
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Unexpected Pairings: Cider & Kimchi
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
Inspired by the age-old practice of fermentation, try an unusual pairing made here on New York State farms: cider and kimchi. While cultures around the world have relied on fermentation to prevent food from spoiling as far back as 6000 B.C., in the United States today the practice is rare. Join two New York State farmers, Melissa Madden, founder of Finger Lakes Cider House, and Madalyn Warren, owner of Kimchee Harvest, for a conversation...
$25
NYC Tots: Spring Series
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
Participate in this six-session course to learn about how the City reawakens in the Spring through song, play, and special art Toddler programs are geared towards families with children ages 2–4 years old and include all materials and a snack. Activities are designed for adults and children to complete together. The spring series costs $180 for one child and one adult. An additional charge of $80 applies for a second participating child...
Athletes to Activists: Politics of the Playing Field
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
When Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947, he became first black major league baseball player of the modern era – and paved the way for athletes to serve as harbingers of social change. Twenty years later, at the 1968 Olympic Games, track and field star John Carlosraised his fist in silent protest of American racial and economic injustice, resulting not only in a world famous photograph, but also his suspension from the U.S. Olympic...
$40
Earth Day Celebration
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
Drop-in for a family celebration in honor of the 47th annual Earth Day! Participate in a scavenger hunt in the exhibition Activist New York to learn about the various ways that New Yorkers work to protect our planet. Enjoy activities, songs, books, and healthy snacks. Then design a pot inspired by the environment, and plant a seed to take home with you! Registration suggested, though not required. Family programs are free with Museum admission...
Free
New York Meets Havana
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
Synonymous with mojitos, sultry nightclubs, and classic cars, Cuba, the Caribbean’s largest island, is enjoying a new moment in the sun thanks to a relaxing of U.S. relations. Inspired by our upcoming exhibition, Rhythm & Power: Salsa in New York (opens June 13), discover how Cuba's love of music and dance has mixed and melded with Puerto-Rican and Afro-Caribbean rhythms to create a sizzling cultural fusion unique to New York City. ...
$20
The Butterfly & the Ashcan: The Impact of Whistler
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
Most of the artists comprising The Eight – William Glackens, Robert Henri, Ernest Lawson, Maurice Prendergast, Everett Shinn, and John Sloan – were influenced by the nineteenth-century American artist James McNeill Whistler, as were their close friends Alfred Maurer and George Bellows. Whistler was an extraordinarily prominent artist, so positing him as an inspiration may seem obvious. However, these painters – advocates of urban realism...
Free
Hidden Figures: Paper Doll Making
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
Celebrate the New York City women who have championed for change. Explore rare artifacts, documents, costumes, photographs, and audio-visual materials in the exhibition Beyond Suffrage: A Century of New York Women in Politics to learn about their stories. Choose a figure as inspiration to make your own activist paper doll with a message for change.
Free
Fun with Fashion: Design a New York Look
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
The exhibition Mod New York: Fashion Takes a Trip explores the full arc of 1960s fashion, shedding new light on a period marked by tremendous and daring stylistic diversity. Get inspired by New York designers such as Mary Quant, Geoffrey Beene, and Pauline Trigère, then use fabric swatches to create a 3-dimensional sketch of your very own design!
Free
Satchmo in the Studio
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
On International Jazz Day 2018, The Louis Armstrong House Museum and the Museum of the City of New York are teaming up for the first public screening of the only known film of Louis Armstrong in the studio, recording his 1959 album, Satchmo Plays King Oliver. The acquisition of the film made headlines in 2015 but it has never been shown publicly until now. Armstrong scholar Ricky Riccardi will provide commentary on the film...
$20
Intimate Subjects: Thomas Holton and the Lams
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
In this intimate, behind-the-scenes look at our upcoming exhibition, Interior Lives: Contemporary Photographs of Chinese New Yorkers, documentary photographer Thomas Holton sits down with several members of the Lam family, including Steven and Cindy Lam, both subjects featured in his series of photographs, "The Lams of Ludlow Street." Holton and the Lams will discuss their unique 15-year working relationship as photographer and subject in...
$15
New York in 27 Buildings
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
Can the bricks, glass, wood, and mortar of our city's most emblematic buildings reveal how and why New York City has become the modern global metropolis we know today? To celebrate the launch of his latest book, A History of New York in 27 Buildings: The 400-Year Untold Story of an American Metropolis, former New York Times urban affairs correspondent Sam Roberts sits down for a conversation with Curbed architecture critic Alexandra Lange. They'll...
$17
New York at Its Core: The Archaeology
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
Manhattan’s dramatic growth over the centuries is often pictured as a process of expansion, either northwards (up the island) or upwards (with ever taller skyscrapers). But since the 17th century, the island has also been expanding outwards into the East and Hudson Rivers through landfill. Garbage and rubble have long been used to create hundreds of acres of new, artificial land along Manhattan’s coastline. Once overlooked, this landfill...
$15
Feminists in Fashion with Norma and Christene
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
Although fashion has sometimes been seen as anti-feminist, the cut of a top or the flash of a thigh can empower women to decide for themselves what it means to be female. No one knows this better than Norma Kamali and Christene Barberich. Creator of such iconic styles as the sleeping bag coat and "athleisure," Kamali has emerged as one of the most influential women in fashion in the last five decades. Barberich is the co-founder and...
$25
'60s Fashion: The Youthquake and Its Aftershocks
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
In the tumultuous 1960s, fashion underwent a radical transformation from the styles of the straight-laced 1950s to clothes inspired by the cultural and societal changes that defined the new decade. This shift was spurred on by designers who launched new looks and paved the way for trends of the ‘70s onward. Join New York designers Andrea Aranow and Anna Sui for a conversation with fashion historian Hazel...
$25
I ❤ (MC) NY: Valentine's Day Evening Tour
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
Join an after-hours Valentine’s Day stroll through the Museum to discover the weird, the cool, the famous, and the infamous stories of romance in this fabled city. Price includes the fun-filled tour and a champagne toast in the marble Rotunda under the dazzling Starlight. Space is limited and advance registration is required.
$100
Meet the Curators: Sean Corcoran
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
Meet the Curators: Sean Corcoran, Curator of Prints and Photographs As part of the new “Meet the Curators” tour series, join Sean Corcoran, Curator of Prints and Photographs, as he guides you through Interior Lives: Contemporary Photographs of Chinese New Yorkers. As you stroll through the gallery, Corcoran will discuss the three featured photographers—Thomas Holton, Annie Ling, and An Rong Xu—and how the exhibition provides a window...
$16
Who is the Parisian Roz Chast?
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
For the final event in our Roz Chast: Cartoon Memoirs program series, we lift our eyes up to gaze across the Atlantic at the ever-lively and inventive world of French cartooning. What does the contemporary cartooning, graphic novel and comics scene look like in France today, home of the beloved classic comix series of Tin Tin and Asterix, but also the provocative/incendiary Charlie Hebdo magazine? Who is the Parisian Roz Chast (if there even is...
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