“Crusader: Martin Luther King Jr.” at Schomburg Center
HARLEM, Mon-Sat, Jan 15 to Apr 6, 2019 ~ Behind-the-scenes photo exhibit of Dr. King traveling, at rest and in celebration.
# african photography exhibition
Martin Luther King Weekend 2020
Things to do in NYC around Martin Luther King Weekend ~ Friday-Monday, January 17-20, 2020
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. “Free at Last, Free at Last”
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, Jan 15, 1929 (HOLIDAY JANUARY 20, 2020) ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. was born in Atlanta, Georgia. He taught that we should get educated, vote, stand up for ourselves in a non-violent way, and keep going until we are truly free at last.
# african civil rights leader
Black Comic Book Festival 2020 at Schomburg Center
HARLEM, Fri-Sat, Jan 17-18, 2020 (unconfirmed) ~ Harlem is Wakanda this weekend. Buy, sell, learn, watch or show your stuff at this family festival.
# african comic book festival cosplay
Join the Women’s March on NYC 2020
UPPER WEST SIDE & MIDTOWN, Sun, January 19, 2020 ~ We march for the civil rights of every human regardless of gender, race, sexual orientation, ethnicity, disability, religion or creed.
# women’s parade
5,000 years at the Winter Antiques Show at the Park Avenue Armory
UPPER EAST SIDE, Opening night Thu, Jan 17, Show Jan 18-27, 2019, daily ~ African, French, Haitian, Italian, Mexican, Puerto Rican and Spanish antiques, art and design. The show benefits East Side House Settlement which provides educational programs to families in the South Bronx and Upper Manhattan.
# antiques fair bronx philanthropy
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More Things to do in NYC on Martin Luther King Weekend
Arturo O’Farrill Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, Cuban Jazz at Birdland
HELL’S KITCHEN, most Sundays ~ Multi-Grammy winners carry on the Sunday tradition started by Chico O’Farrill in 1997
# live cuban jazz
Dance Argentine Tango at El Destino at Solas
EAST VILLAGE, Sundays ~ NYC’s best social Argentine tango dancers embrace in an intimate room and dance to one of New York City’s best tango DJs
# argentine tango dancing
Plácido Domingo conducts Verdi’s Italian opera “Aida” at the Met
LINCOLN CENTER, Thu, Feb 28; Mon, Mar 4, Thu, Mar 7, 2019 ~ Kristen Lewis stars in Verdi’s grand opera set in ancient Egypt.
# italian opera live music
See Phantom or Chicago during NYC Broadway Week
JAN 21 – FEB 10, 2019 ~ 2-for-1 tickets to popular Broadway shows are on sale now.
# broadway #theatre #sale
Isabel Leonard stars in Debussy’s “Pelléas et Mélisande” at the Met
LINCOLN CENTER, Thu, Jan 31 ~ Debussy’s only French opera is a slice of tragedy.
# french opera argentine star
Try new restaurants with friends during NYC Restaurant Week
Jan 21 – Feb 8, 2019 ~ 2-course lunches for $26 and 3-course dinners for $42.
# african brazilian cuban french italian mexican latin & spanish food
Discover Art Brut at the 2019 Outsider Art Fair
CHELSEA, January 17-20, 2019 ~ America’s leading art fair for “Art Brut” or art created outside the art world.
# french art fair
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Try a Restaurant with Friends
Try new restaurants with friends during NYC Restaurant Week
Jan 21 – Feb 8, 2019 ~ 2-course lunches for $26 and 3-course dinners for $42.
# african brazilian cuban french italian mexican latin & spanish food
Legendary film ‘I am Cuba’ (Soy Cuba) at Film Forum
HUDSON SQUARE, daily Feb 15-21, 2019, classic Cuban movies ~ 1964 Cuban-Soviet film tells four stories of Cuba with the most amazing tracking shots. Presented by Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese.
‘Birds of Passage’ an epic Colombian movie at Film Forum
HUDSON SQUARE, Feb 14-21, 2019. Indigenous Colombian movies ~ This epic ‘Godfather’-like crime drama made the 2019 Oscars shortlist for Best Foreign Language Film
Early Italian Drawings at the Morgan Library
MURRAY HILL, Tue-Sun, Feb 15 – May 19, 2019, Italian Renaissance art exhibition ~ The development of Renaissance drawing practices in the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries
Salvador Dali Spanish Art at ACA Galleries
CHELSEA, Tue-Sat, Jan 10-Mar 9, 2019 ~ Etchings, tapestries and drawings from the famous Argillet Collection (his collaborator & publisher).
# spanish modern art exhibition
Socrates Annual at Socrates Sculpture Park
ASTORIA, QUEENS: Daily, Oct 7, 2018 to Mar 11, 2019 ~ Annual outdoor sculpture show in the NYC park founded by Italian-American abstract expressionist sculptor Mark di Suvero. FREE
# dominican french peruvian puerto rican outdoor sculpture
Lucio Fontana ‘Spatial Environment’ (1968) at El Museo del Barrio
EAST HARLEM, Jan 24-Apr 14, 2019 ~ El Museo reconstructs the Argentine-Italian modern artist’s last environment. Go see how his ideas influenced performance art and take a selfie.
# argentine italian post war art exhibition
Lucio Fontana ‘On the Threshold’ Argentine-Italian art at the Met Breuer
UPPER EAST SIDE, Tue-Sun, Jan 23 to Apr 14, 2019 ~ The minimalist abstract artist mixed painting, sculpture and architecture in ways that foretold performance art.
# argentine italian post war art exhibition
Mariana Castillo Deball ‘Finding Oneself Outside’ at the New Museum
LOWER EAST SIDE, Tue-Sun, Jan 22 – Apr 14, 2019 ~ Castillo Deball looks at cross sections of space and time with culture and philosophy.
# mexican contemporary art exhibition
Da Vinci Drawings and Prints at the Met Museum
UPPER EAST SIDE, Jan 28-Apr 28, 2019, Italian old masters art exhibition ~ The Met celebrates the Italian master’s 500th anniversary by showing drawings and prints from the permanent collection.
“Crusader: Martin Luther King Jr.” at Schomburg Center
HARLEM, Mon-Sat, Jan 15 to Apr 6, 2019 ~ Behind-the-scenes photo exhibit of Dr. King traveling, at rest and in celebration.
# african photography exhibition
‘Crown of the Andes,’ Colombian art at the Met Museum
UPPER EAST SIDE, Daily ~ The legendary Colombian religious icon from Popayán contains the Atahualpa Emerald which belonged to the last Inca emperor.
# colombian colonial art exhibition
Taíno culture at the Museum of the American Indian
FINANCIAL DISTRICT, Daily, Jul 28, 2018 – Oct 2019 ~ Caribbean communities are reclaiming our Taíno roots. FREE
# indigenous caribbean art exhibition
“Hamilton” Puerto Rican Broadway at the Richard Rodgers
TIMES SQUARE, Open-ended run. Dark Mon ~ The Broadway hit of our generation was written by Lin-Manuel Miranda (“In the Heights”), a Puerto Rican New Yorker.
# puerto rican broadway musical
“Phantom of the Opera” Broadway at the Majestic Theatre
MAJESTIC THEATRE, TIMES SQUARE THEATER DISTRICT, Dark Sundays, Ongoing ~ The Paris Opera House is haunted
“Chicago the Musical” Broadway
AMBASSADOR THEATRE, TIMES SQUARE THEATER DISTRICT, Dark Wednesdays, Open-ended run. ~ Puerto Rican Broadway legend Chita Rivera originated the role of Velma Kelly. Italian-American Liza Minnelli added her style.
See Phantom or Chicago during NYC Broadway Week
JAN 21 – FEB 10, 2019 ~ 2-for-1 tickets to popular Broadway shows are on sale now.
# broadway #theatre #sale
‘La Celestina’ Spanish comedy opens at Repertorio Español
KIPS BAY, Fri Feb 22; Mar 1, Classic Spanish comic theatre, based on the Fernando de Rojas masterpiece (1499), adapted by Cuban New York playwright Leyma López.
Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER, COLUMBUS CIRCLE, Nightly ~ World-class jazz any night in one of the great New York rooms overlooking Central Park
#JAZZCLUB #LIVEMUSIC
Blue Note
GREENWICH VILLAGE, Nightly ~ One of NYC’s legendary jazz clubs
#JAZZCLUB #LIVEMUSIC
Birdland
HELL’S KITCHEN, Nightly, Sundays, Arturo O’Farrill Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra
#JAZZCLUB #LIVEMUSIC
Jazz Standard
NOMAD, Nightly ~ One of New York’s great jazz rooms
The Django
ROXY HOTEL, TRIBECA, Wed-Sat ~ A retro jazz cellar
Zinc Bar
GREENWICH VILLAGE, Sun, December 9 & 16, 2018 ~ Argentine Tango Dancing to live music by the Zinc Tango Trio
Jazz Gallery
1160 Broadway
at 27th St
NoMad, Manhattan
Village Vanguard
178 Seventh Ave South
between 11th & Perry St
West Village
Closed on Mondays
Latin clubbing at La Boom
WOODSIDE, QUEENS ~ Touring artists Fridays, Tropical dance party Saturdays, Mexican night Sundays.
# latin night club dancing
Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater
PUBLIC THEATER, EAST VILLAGE, Nightly ~ A music showcase
House of Yes
BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN, Tue-Sun ~ NYC’s aerial burlesque nightclub is as close as you can get to the good old party days in public
Nublu Classic and Nublu 151
EAST VILLAGE, Nightly, Wed Nublu Classic Brazilian night ~ Late night underground experimental world jazz clubs. Young and fun without attitude.
Webster Hall is a popular nightclub in the East Village
EAST VILLAGE, December 2018 ~ Webster Hall is closed for remodeling
SOB’s Sounds of Brazil
HUDSON SQUARE ~ NYC’s oldest World Music nightclub
#WORLDMUSIC #NIGHTCLUB
Cielo is House music heaven and the home of Louie Vega
18 Little West 12th St
Meatpacking District
West Village
Terraza 7
It’s a tropical experience. Lots of great local Latin Jazz artists play.
40-19 Gleane Street
at Roosevelt Ave
Elmhurst / Jackson Heights, Queens
Nightly
Gonzalez y Gonzalez has dancing to live Salsa bands Friday & Saturday
192 Mercer St
between Bleecker & Houston
Greenwich Village
Closed on Mondays
Le Poisson Rouge
GREENWICH VILLAGE, Nightly ~ Music and art cabaret
#NIGHTCLUB #LIVEMUSIC
DROM is a Turkish Gypsy world music club in NYC’s East Village
85 Avenue A
between 5th & 6th St
East Village, Manhattan
Open nightly
Subrosa is closed (for now)
Closing Party
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
House of Yes
BUSHWICK, BROOKLYN, Tue-Sun ~ NYC’s aerial burlesque nightclub is as close as you can get to the good old party days in public
Nublu Classic and Nublu 151
EAST VILLAGE, Nightly, Wed Nublu Classic Brazilian night ~ Late night underground experimental world jazz clubs. Young and fun without attitude.
Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER, COLUMBUS CIRCLE, Nightly ~ World-class jazz any night in one of the great New York rooms overlooking Central Park
#JAZZCLUB #LIVEMUSIC