During TAC Night we will feature two artists playing jazz and classical in an intimate local venue.

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Learn about the history of Vogueing during a Q&A session and exclusive dance performance by the Legendary Monster Labeija, an icon in the vogueing kiki and ballroom scene. The House of LaBeija is a prominent drag family founded by Crystal LaBeija and Lottie LaBeija in 1972. Originally from New York City, Legendary Monster Labeija performs and teaches internationally and has recently been featured in FX's series POSE.

The Untitled Space is pleased to present “IRL: Investigating Reality” a group exhibition of 46 contemporary artists exploring what “IRL” means to them in today’s digital world. Curated by gallery director Indira Cesarine, “IRL: Investigating Reality” will open on June 6, and run through June 21, 2019. The group show examines themes of “real life” and “reality” versus fictional, internet or idealized worlds through a wide array of mediums including painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, mixed media, installation, video art, and textiles. Each artist reveals their own personal vision of “reality” with works in the show juxtaposing the mundanities of everyday life, addressing themes of “authenticity” versus edited, retouched or fictitious realities, nature versus cyber constructed content, as well as exploring the intersection of digital and physical worlds.

Sound baths are an ancient healing practice/method/technique bringing peace, tranquility, and balance. A powerful experience for the mind, body, and spirit. Himalayan and crystal singing bowls, cymbals and tuning forks are used to induce deep relaxation and attuning of the bodies bio-rhythm. The sounds wave over and through the body inducing a meditative experience as each bowl is keyed to energy centers of the body, recharging the nervous system and recalibrating the somatic body. Invite yourself to receive the benefits of this multi-sensory immersive experience.

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Esmé Shapiro grew up amongst the succulents and coyotes of Laurel Canyon, California. She currently resides in a plant-filled apartment in Brooklyn, New York. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, Esmé is a past recipient of both the Nancy Lee Rhodes Roberts Scholarship and the SILA West 53 Gold Award-Philip Hayes Scholarship. She has exhibited at the Society of Illustrators and her work has been featured in Taproot, Quill and Quire, and Plansponsor Magazines. Her first book, OOKO, was nominated for a Governor General’s Literary Award and was #1 on the National Post Bestseller List.

A site-responsive performance, pushit!! is a meditation on emotional labor and the impossibility of the “stage” as a place of freedom for the Black performer. The work is choreographed and/or sculpted around the social/political landscapes of the city/space/present-ing body and the unique architecture of the building/private space.

This work is the first in a series of the exercises in getting well soon, a project/meditation based on the loose and often used phrase indicating a hope of recovery. The exercises in getting well soon have been articulated as movement, installation, theater, games, endurance and collective action. If “Hope is a Discipline” as the activist Mariame Kaba writes, what are the methods of hope in a performance practice? Or does hope have to be abandoned in order to get well, as Calvin Warren proposes in his essay “Black Nihilism and the Politics of Hope”?

Enjoy a walkthrough of “Kazumi Yoshida: The Rites of Spring”. Yoshida’s work spans drawings, paintings, collages, assemblages and sculptures, and deals with themes of subjectivity as well as formal composition through a deceptively childlike sensibility.

ARC (Archive of Contemporary Music) opens its doors to the public for the first time for an Open House session and a one-of-a-kind live musical performance of rockabilly-styled “ballads, boogies & blues” for your musical entertainment by Susquehanna Industrial Tool & Die Co

Pacifico Silano: Speaking Little, Perhaps Not a Word borrows its title from the final verse of Walt Whitman’s short poem, “A Glimpse,” a rumination on the quiet spaces where intimacy, memory, and longing reside amidst the spirited volumes of everyday life. Equally meditative, Silano's new body of work presented in Speaking Little, Perhaps Not a Word recombines imagery drawn from gay erotica, vintage advertisements, and queer archival media to explore the vesitges of loss, desire, and melancholy that continue to reverberate across the LGBTQ community owing to the 1980s AIDS crisis. The death of the artist's uncle due to complications of HIV and subsequent family erasure have been the catalyst for his ongoing work around these themes. Pacifico Silano: Speaking Little, Perhaps Not a Word is the artist's first solo exihibtion with the Bronx Museum and is presented alongside the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising.

During TAC Night we will feature two artists playing jazz and classical in an intimate local venue.

The Shirley Fiterman Art Center is pleased to announce its upcoming exhibition “Double Portrait: Mimi Gross and Marcia Marcus”. The show, which opens on May 23 and will remain on view through July 27, 2019, presents an overview of the work of these two innovative figurative artists, highlighting the intersection between art and identity.

Both Mimi Gross (b. 1940) and Marcia Marcus (b. 1928) lived and worked in Lower Manhattan from the late 1950s on. Despite the challenges inherent in being women artists at the time, both held fast to their visions, merging their interests in art history with contemporary understandings of their medium. The paths of both artists crisscrossed, overlapping during summers in Provincetown, MA, on their Italian sojourns, and in New York, where both were central figures in the downtown art scene. This overview includes 28 works made between 1958 and 2012, and examines the distinctive visions and lives of these two pioneering artists.

Offshore,  an Improvisational, cello/guitar duo with a fresh take on chamber music. Serena Jost on cello, Dmitri Shapira on guitar

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BM will personally walk you through the hat-making process, referencing color and detail options as well as a wide selection of materials. At the workshop-demo we will focus a bit on the history of hats, the craft and an interactive demo highlighting a few of the many processes required to build and create a quality piece.

** About BM Franklin ***

Based in New York City, B.M. Franklin is a classically trained hat-maker that fuses age-old craftsmanship with modern aesthetics of the present and the future.  Each B.M. Franklin hat is hand-crafted and custom made to reflect the individuality and personality of its wearer. Our one-on-one philosophy is reflected through individual design consultations, ensuring the clients are not only involved in the process but educated too.

Our mission is to revitalize the image of craftsmen, through meticulous demonstration and nuanced design innovations.

Postmasters Gallery is pleased to announce PRIDE, a large-scale exhibition marking the #Stonewall50 anniversary through art and artists from the LGBTQ+ community. Curated together by Ruben Natal-San Miguel and Magda Sawon, PRIDE will occupy both gallery spaces and feature 30 artists.

Formed in 2003, Astrograss has continually stayed at the forefront of New York's lively acoustic music and bluegrass scene.   The band's self-titled debut album, released in 2005, showcases its unique sound: earthy, bluegrass-inspired yet decidedly un-twangy. Astrograss is equally passionate in its vocal harmonies and surging improvisations.   In concert, Astrograss wows audiences with an eclectic yet solidly rooted mix of original material, choice covers ranging from Jimmy Webb to Guns n' Roses, and foot-stompin', "yee-haw"-inspiring fiddle hoedowns.

Explore the largest collection of vinyl records in America with B George, the legendary founder of Tribeca’s one-of-a-kind ARC (Archive of Contemporary Music) during an open house from 6–9PM.

Participate in a special look at Other Echoes Inhabit The Garden featuring artists Meena Hasan and Tommy Kha. Other Echoes Inhabit The Garden takes its title from T.S. Elliot's first poem in his Four Quartets. The artists in Other Echoes Inhabit The Garden interrogate colonialism and consider the history of their families. Hasan, a South-Asian-American is a painter while Kha, an East-Asian-American is a photographer. Kha's family settled in Memphis, TN after fleeing China and Vietnam. Hasan's settled in NYC in the 70s during Bangladesh's tumultuous efforts for Independence from Pakistan. Together, the artists attended Yale's MFA programs in 2013 and they borrow strategies and themes from each other's mediums, creating echoes between painting and photography and finding spaces between the two.

Barney Savage Gallery is pleased to premiere Regenbogenscherben, the first solo exhibition of new work by Tim Zercie. Created during residency at the Uferhallen AG Studios in Berlin, Tim Zercie orchestrates sewn fabrics into visual wormholes and arm motifs that spring out of pods and wrap throughout the image. Gesturing hands appear throughout these works and express an inner perfection or offer a profession of love towards the viewer. He likens these wormholes to the connections that generations of people make through festivities and music. Ephemeral and eclectic, each musical body sprouts arms that travel globally and connect like wormholes.

Open Studios at White Street Studio features the work of Regina Silvers, Michael P. Jenkins, Andrew Tomasulo and Aly Stosz. The night will also feature a curated guest exhibition entitled “From the Street to the Studio: Bringing Street Art in from the Outside”, and live music from Offshore,  an improvisational cello/guitar duo with a fresh take on chamber music (Serena Jost on cello, Dmitri Shapira on guitar)

Meet the gallerist and tour the exhibition. “Conceptual Art” is Keith J. Varadi’s first solo exhibition in New York. The exhibition is presented with the enigmatic tagline: “Art is not a hobby. Art is not a lifestyle. Art is not something you do for fun.”