The best things to do in NYC this weekend

Step inside Daedalum at Lincoln Center and let your cares melt away. Nineteen egg-shaped domes make up this inflatable labyrinth, and walking through it truly feels magical.

The piece is basically a giant inflatable labyrinth stationed at Damrosch Park now through April 21. Folks are encouraged to walk inside of it (shoes off, though!) for free to explore all its different pieces.

You can show up anytime between 11am and 6pm through April 21 to wait in line, or you can reserve a "fast track" pass online.

Smorgasburg, the food bazaar spectacular, is back for 2024 with dozens of great local vendors across three locations.

In fact, with more than 70 vendors, it's the largest Smorgasburg lineup since 2018! Vendors this year will serve up fragrant Ethiopian stews, Hawaii-style street comforts, explosive pani puri, potato puff poutine, and lots more.

Smorgasburg WTC runs on Fridays; Williamsburg is on Saturdays; and Prospect Park is on Sundays. Each location is open from 11am-6pm and operates weekly through October. 

Dedicated to the cuisine and culture of the Latin diaspora, this event kicked off last year with near 20,000 fans. It's back for 2024 in the Dyckman area with to showcase South and Central American cultures offer. Expect a lineup of 50 vendors offering a diverse array of Latin flavors, plus a festive musical lineup.

"The Latin Night Market is more than an event; it's a celebration of diversity, community, and the vibrant tapestry of Latin culture," event organizers say. 

This night market runs on the third Friday of the month from April through October, starting on April 19. The event occurs in Uptown Manhattan on Dyckman Street between Dyckman Plaza and Inwood Park.

It’s hard to get good food on the cheap, but for seven years, Queens Night Market has prided itself on offering the city’s best eats for just $5-6.

The foodie festival runs on Saturday nights through the summer at the New York Hall of Science in Flushing Meadows Corona Park. New this year: The event will open at 4pm, an hour earlier than it has in the past and will include even more vendors than usual.

There will also be other items sale besides food, including vintage apparel, handmade jewelry, ceramic products, locally produced art pieces, crochet toys, stationery, and much more.

To celebrate the lead-up to Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, which starts in May, don't miss the 88RISING Head in the Clouds Night Market on April 19 happening from 5pm to 10:30pm at the Culture Lab in Long Island City. 

The market will gather more than 75 NYC brands and businesses under one delicious roof. Vendors confirmed for the event include New York favorites like 5ive Spice, Boba Family, Cakes by Lexi, Kitsby, Honeycakes, Lunar, Nom Wah, Silk Tea, Spot Desserts Bar, Twisted Potato and many others. You can check out a more extensive list of the vendors below. 

General admission to the event, which is $8 online or $12 at the door, will include free swag from Omsom, the wildly popular Vietnamese-American-founded brand that has introduced bold Asian flavors to urbanites all over the country.

The first annual Thai Fest is coming to Manhattan at Sixth Ave (between West 29th and 30th Streets) on Saturday, April 20, from 10am to 6pm for an all-day affair to coincide with the Thai New Year, known as Songkran.

Attendees can dress in their boldest prints and prep their bellies for a diverse and delicious array of authentic Thai street food from some of the best Thai restaurants in NYC.

Among the tasty offerings, you'll find Crab Fried Rice from Fish Cheeks, spicy KraPow (basil stir fry) from Mayree, savory Fried Meatballs from Sappe, rich Khao Soi (coconut curry noodle soup) from Soothr, crispy Fried Chicken from Somtum Der, classic Pad Thai from Rua Thai, flavorful Garlic Noodles from Obao, tangy Tom Yum Ramen from 11Tigers and sweet Mango Sticky Rice from Zabb PuTawn. 

This revolutionary three-week festival is an open lottery-based theater festival that gives 100% of proceeds to the artists who take part. Formerly known as the FRIGID Fringe Festival, this will be their biggest festival yet, with over 45 shows including A Little Less Than Kind, a gender-bending adaptation of Shakespeare’s Hamlet; Walt Kelly's Songs of the Pogo, a musical about cartoonist Walt Kelly; The Leading Lady Club: A Feminist (But Still Likable) Sketch Show; Brokeneck Girls: The Murder Ballad Musical, a true crime musical about the violence against women in folk music; and the TransMasculine Cabaret, Starring Vulva Va-Voom, a cabaret show about queer identity.

A garden oasis hidden away on the Upper West Side promises an ideal spot to soak in all that spring has to offer. 

Thousands of tulips in pink, yellow, red, purple, and orange fill the West Side Community Garden, and this Tulip Festival is free to visit daily from dawn til dusk through early May. While tulips steal the show, other spring scenes get the spotlight, too. Pastel pink cherry blossom petals float down from the branches above, birds flit from tree to tree, and the fragrance of hyacinths perfumes the air. 

You can find the tucked-away garden at 123 West 89th Street between Amsterdam Avenue and Columbus Avenue. Though it's free to visit, you can make a donation to keep the volunteer-run garden beautiful year after year. Garden volunteers will be on site on April 13-14 and 20-21 from 10am-6pm so you can learn more about the plantings and ask questions.

Good news, Francophiles: Good France Week is back for its seventh edition, with seven days' worth of delicious gatherings across NYC organized by the Consulate General of France from Saturday, April 13 through Friday, April 19. Loaded with wine workshops, pastry tastings and more, the series aims to France's storied cuisine stateside and introduce the city to the excellence of the country's chefs, artisans and food products.

You can register for the Good France Week events on Eventbrite. 

Little Thailand Way, that spirited stretch of Woodside Avenue between 77 and 76 Streets in Elmhurst, Queens, is one of New York City's best Thai enclaves, with dozens of Thai restaurants and thousands of Thai residents in the area. The area clearly makes for the best place to celebrate Songkran, or Thai New Year, with a series of special events throughout the month, in an effort to properly ring in the year 2568.

Celebrate at a street festival on Saturday, April 20, kicking off at 10am with music, Thai boxing, traditional dance and, of course, lots of delicious Thai food,from local spots including Isaan Thai eatery Hug Esan, critically acclaimed Ayada, dessert specialist Khao Nom, Thai rice and curry hotspot Khao Kang, James Beard Award semifinalist Zaab Zaab, local favorite Spicy Shallot, casual eatery Tea Cup Cafe and boat noodle spot Pata Paplean. 

The celebration is a marriage of clichés: the event is called MARY Fest—a reference to one of marijuana’s nicknames, Mary Jane—and it will take place on April 20, which is unofficial weed day. 

MARY Fest will take over a Brooklyn address (you’ll receive the exact destination after you register), where a curation of 30 vendors will show off “products innovating in the cannabis space today.” In addition to sampling new products and smoking in designated areas, attendees will get to participate in how-to programs, including a class dedicated to growing marijuana plants at home. 

Tickets are on sale here. General admission passes cost $50 but, for now, you can enjoy a $15 discount when using the code ROLLWITHUS. Keep in mind that you must be 21 or older to attend.

Following the legalization of cannabis in New York City, historic hip-hop venue S.O.B.’s began hosting annual 4/20-themed concerts for New Yorkers to celebrate the occasion with live music. For this year’s festivities, Raekwon of Wu-Tang Clan fame will be giving a full-length performance on Friday, April 19, with support from hip-hop up-and-comer Lord Sko. Shiest Bubz, the founder of the popular lifestyle brand “The Smoker’s Club” and the official Cannabis Grand Marshal in New York City will act as the evening’s host, and iconic hip-hop DJ Green Lantern will also be on hand providing beats.

Of course, there will be a variety of cannabis products to enjoy during the show, supplied by sponsors Blazy Susan, Zatix Lifestyle, Baker Brothers, Drops of Life CBD, Bungludetch Farms and DeLisioso. 

Sure, the rule usually is to not get high on your own supply, but you’ll definitely want to at this chocolate workshop at The William Vale. Held in the hotel’s coworking club The Malin Williamsburg on April 19 at 5:30 pm, the treats tutorial will show you how to craft your own THC- and CBD-infused chocolates, with expert “cannabis chefs” who will guide you through the process whether you’re an experienced cook or a total beginner, sharing tips and tricks along the way while you choose your own dosages and flavors.

Best of all? You’ll have plenty of tasty goodies to enjoy on 4/20 itself. Happy celebrating! 

Cypress Hill, the multi-platinum hip-hop group responsible for bops like "Insane in the Brain," is making a stop at Brooklyn Steel on April 19 for their "We Legalized It" tour, an homage to the group's long history of weed advocacy. The best part is they're putting their money where their mouth is; $1 from every ticket sold will be donated to The Last Prisoner Project, an organization that fights to get people who are imprisoned for marijuanna-related offenses out of jail. If you're really down for the cause, you can also purchase a VIP pass to the experience, which includes a meet and greet.

From a clothing swap to a climate discussion, Pier 57 is celebrating Earth Day with a variety of festive activities bringing together climate enthusiasts, local organizations, and community members of all ages.

On Saturday, April 20, the waterfront destination is partnering with Veggie Mijas, a BIPOC collective advocating for food and environmental justice, on a clothing swap in Pier 57’s Living Room space at 1:30pm. Bring up to five items of clothing or shoes — in good condition, of course — to swap and share. The Reclypt team will also be on hand for advice on mending, upcycling and caring for your clothes, and all leftover items will be distributed among local organizations like Collective Focus and NYC Fair Trade Coalition. Then at 2:30pm, you can sit in for a meaningful discussion about sustainability and climate action with Climate Café, Black Girl Environmentalist, Remake, We Are Atlas, and Worn Not Torn.

And since all that will have you working up an appetite, Market 57 vendor Local Roots will be offering a special Earth Day cookie, made with black sesame and matcha icing. You can register for all of the above here. 

When it comes to caring for the environment, it’s best to teach them young. The folks at the Seaport clearly agree, with a Seaport Kids x Earth Day lineup of activities coming to the waterfront on Saturday, April 20.

Hosted by Mommy Poppins and Brooklyn Bridge Parents, the afternoon event will be jam-packed with Earth-friendly activities and demonstrations to teach kiddos about the planet and how to embrace their green thumbs, including arts and crafts using recycled boxes and other salvaged materials, science experiments and planting activities, and a magic show. Children of all ages are welcome, but the activities are targeted for those aged 2 to 10. 

The third annual Broadway Celebrates Earth Day concert is returning to Times Square on Saturday, April 20, with a star-studded lineup that includes Tony winner Ruthie Ann Miles (Sweeney Todd), Tony Award nominee Anika Larsen (Almost Famous), Ben Cameron (Broadway Sessions), Michael Maliakel (Aladdin), Jelani Remy (Back to the Future), Alexandra Socha (Wicked), Nik Walker (Spamalot) and more.

The live performances will take place from 11am to 3pm on Broadway between 45th and 46th Streets. And joining those professional theater names, student performers will also take the stage from groups and schools like Epic Players, Marymount Manhattan College, NYU Steinhardt, Perkiomen Valley High School, and more.

To underscore “the Broadway community’s commitment to raise awareness about the climate and inspire actionable steps towards a more sustainable future,” the event will also feature guest speakers like Julie Tighe, Director of New York League of Conservation Voters.

Looking for a way to give back this Earth Day? You can head to Governors Island for its third annual Earth Day celebration, which will “celebrate the power of native plants” through free educational activities and workshops for all ages.

On Saturday, April 20, from 1-3pm in Colonels Row, you can partake in events like a guided tour through the Island’s open space, a participatory mural inspired by the relationship between milkweed and Monarch butterflies, cyanotype printing activities, seed ball workshops and free bike lessons with Bike New York, among others. Even more important, though, is the volunteer stewardship projects taking place in the morning, from 10am to noon: you can sign up for activities like invasive species removal with the Bee Conservancy, Fort Jay cleanup with the Nation­al Park Service, and Laven­der Field care with Earth Mat­ter. Check out the full lineup of Earth Day events at the Governors Island website. 

Ready for a sustainable closet refresh? Instead of buying a whole new wardrobe—and adding even more to the landfills—you can zhuzh up items you already own by letting Nadia Pinder from StuyDYED do her thing.

The tie-dye pro will be popping up at Talea Williamsburg on Sunday, April 21 from 11am to 2pm for an Earth Day drop-off service: you can bring in your old but clean clothes, Nadia will collect your items, re-dye them at her studio (three colorways will be available to choose from: “Solid Pantone Peach,” “Abstract Almost Navy” and “Striped Soft Silver”) and have them ready for you to pick up at the Brooklyn taproom one week later. And if you can’t pick it up in person, no worries—items can be shipped at an additional cost.

Speaking of pricing, the dye jobs start at $5 for a pair of socks, and go up to $40 for dresses and jeans and $50 for jumpsuits. 

Get the kiddos cultured with free, interactive and fun musical activities and performances at Carnegie Hall’s Family Day: Spring Fest. On Saturday, April 20 from noon to 4pm, children ages 3–10 and their caregivers are invited to the Hall’s Resnick Education Wing for an afternoon-long free open house that will “celebrate the earth, nature, and all things spring.”

Try your hand at instrument building with Bash the Trash; get your group sing on with artists Emily Eagen, Sonia De Los Santos, and Skye Steele; relax with a soothing sound meditation; and enjoy lively mainstage performances featuring People of Earth, Michael Hearst and the Unusual Creatures, and many more. After all, who said that grown-ups can’t tap into their own creativity and learning this Earth Day? 

Who says that October is the only time you can enjoy an ice-cold stein and a piping-hot pretzel? Not the folks over at Lower East Side favorite Loreley Beer Garden, which is celebrating National Pretzel Day and its own German roots with a Pretzel and Craft Beer Festival from Thursday, April 18 through Sunday, April 28. 

Head to the beer garden's heated outdoor space to feast on classic soft-baked German pretzels, giant New York-style versions, cheesy cheddar-jalapeño pretzel balls, dippable pretzel sticks, sweet cinnamon pretzels and even pretzel garlic knots. Sandwiches and sliders will be served on pretzel buns, and sausages and bratwurst on pretzel rolls, and all of the above can be enjoyed with warm, bacon-flecked beer cheese dip and, of course, crisp, craft beers.  

Don your sequins and tease your hair for an evening in a Smoky Mountain fairytale. Twenty ukulele virtuosos will strum their hearts out as they cover Dolly Parton's timeless tunes for Night of 1,000 Dollys. 

The event on Saturday, April 20, will transform Brooklyn’s Gowanus Dredgers Boathouse into a slice of Dollywood. It’s free to attend (RSVP here), but donations are welcome to support the Dredgers' mission of increasing waterfront access and education about shoreline neighborhoods.

Hosted by Ukulele Cabaret, the event is part of the The Creekers Jamboree series. For more than a decade, Ukulele Cabaret has provided a stage for musicians, artists, and performers from New York's underground ukulele scene. Despite their many performances over the years, this is the group's first Dolly-themed cabaret.  

Forget Coachella, head to Queerchella. This monthly music festival showcasing queer talent in NYC is back on Sunday, April 21 at Three Dollar Bill in Brooklyn. As the event organizers say: Come discover your new favorite queer artist.

The evening features nine performers for an evening of entertainment you won't want to miss. Plus, there's a spiritual/healing team, tarot, and cool vendors.  

“Laugh, dance and get lifted” and the second annual High Barbie! Comedy show and party, presented by comic Priya Blunts in partnership with NYCBUD. The performance is “entirely femme powered,” from the comic lineup—which includes funny folks like Eva Evans, Sureni Weerasekera, Sunny Laprade and Christiana Jackson—to the live DJ. (Gabalicious will be on the decks.)

Along with the stand-up comedy, the event on April 20 will include tarot readings by Oracle Electric, complimentary infused cocktails while supplies last, and interactive audience games such as weed trivia and a joint rolling contest. And in case that event name wasn’t clear enough, Barbie is very much encouraged!

Poster House, the country's first museum dedicated entirely to the global history of posters, turns its lens on its hometown for its latest exhibit. "Wonder City of the World: New York City Travel Posters," highlights 80 works that capture NYC's landmarks in vibrant color and detail. 

The exhibit explores how New York City was represented to thousands of travelers, immigrants, and tourists during the 20th century. A 19th century marketing strategy coined the phrase "Wonder City," and it appeared in dozens of newspaper and magazine advertisements, as well as articles, postcards and souvenir booklets. New York’s massive growth during this time ultimately led to the creation of more travel posters than were designed for any other city in the world. The images included scenes of the city as seen from the water, from the ground, and, eventually, from the air. 

The show was curated by Nicholas D. Lowry, and it's on view through September 8.

You might not be-leaf it, but you can get a free tree in NYC!

Now through May, the New York Restoration Project—a local non-profit that plants trees, renovates gardens and takes care of green spaces around town—is giving out 3,500 free trees to New Yorkers across all five boroughs.

To get your hands on one of the 3,500 free trees, you’ll have to register in advance on this website. Trees will be given away on Saturdays and Sundays through May.

Grand Bazaar is one of NYC’s oldest and largest marketplaces where you can buy vintage treasures, antiques, clothing and more goodies from more than 100 local merchants. Photographers, jewelers and furniture designers sell their best on Sundays between 10am and 5pm on the Upper West Side (77th Street at Columbus Avenue). 

Each week offers a different theme, from featuring women-owned businesses to focusing on handmade items to spotlighting international wares. The market runs both indoors and outdoors each week all year long.

For Earth Month, the bazaar will host several eco-friendly events, including the NYC Earth Day Bazaar on April 21, then wrapping up with the Vintage Treasures Bazaar on April 28.

Need a laugh? The Second City—the renowned comedy club with locations in Chicago and Toronto—just opened in Brooklyn, and you will definitely laugh out loud there. The New York City venue, which opened on the legendary club’s 65th anniversary, offers hilarious live comedy every single night of the week.

As of this week, starting on April 18, the club is debuting "The Second City Presents The Mainstage Revue 1: Ruthless Acts of Kindness," a completely original NYC revue, which has been created in conversation with the audience over the last ten-weeks.

Some of the funniest names in comedy got their start at Second City. Just a few Second City alumni include: Bill Murray, Eugene Levy, Catherine O'Hara, Amber Ruffin, Keegan-Michael Key, Chris Farley, Tina Fey, Stephen Colbert, and Aidy Bryant. You might just see the next comedy star on this stage.

The venue offers sketch shows and improv performances, along with a great restaurant and no drink minimums in a beautiful venue. Tickets start at $39.

For one day only, Gold in Motion is back at Hall des Lumieres. The immersive exhibit showcases the artwork of Gustav Klimt inside an gorgeous venue across from City Hall Park.

Gustav Klimt: Gold in Motion offers a "thematic journey through the golden, sensuous and revolutionary art of the Viennese painter." The exhibit first debuted in 2022, and now it's making its triumphant return for a one-day experience.

The April 20 revival of this exhibition will celebrate Klimt’s story in six distinct sequences, taking viewers on a journey through the artist’s life and the major themes of his work. The event will also include access to the day’s three pairing exhibitions: Hundertwasser, Five Movements, and Recoding Entropia.

Tickets start at $33 here.

One of New York City's largest celebrations of Chinese food, culture and heritage is back, and it's firing up an even bigger calendar of events for 2024. After Dragon Fest’s successful run in 2023, where it attracted 200,000 attendees across five events, the festival is back with an expanded lineup of 16 events across Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. 

Attendees can explore culinary traditions from nearly every province of China, with over 100 different Chinese dishes on offer, from slurp-ready soup dumplings to sugar-coated chestnuts, lotus root sandwiches to grilled cold noodles. Among the 2024 food vendors are Haidilao, Maobao, Na Tart, Jixiang BBQ, and dim sum classic Nom Wah.

Check all the dates and locations here.

Eat your way through Japan without ever leaving New York City at JAPAN Fes, the massive foodie festival, which is back and bigger than ever for 2024. The organization is hosting 30 outdoor events this year stretching through November in Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens. Event organizers say it's the largest Japanese food festival in the world, attracting 300,000 visitors and featuring 1,000 vendors every year.

Expect dishes including takoyaki, ramen, matcha sweets, yakisoba, karaage, okonomiyaki, and lots more. They're even hosting a ramen contest and a konamon contest this year to crown the best of the bunch. Vendors hail from New York City, as well as other states and other countries. 

Here's the full list of dates and neighborhoods.

Feast your eyes upon the best selection of contemporary and vintage jewelry designers at the NYC Spring Jewelry and Object Show at the Metropolitan Pavilion in Chelsea from April 18-21. The showcase hopes to provide a platform for jewelry collectors and enthusiasts to buy and check out unique jewelery all in one place. Brands taking part in the event include KIL N.Y.C., Duvenay, Jewels by Grace, Alex Streeter, Lily Streeter, Thea Grant, A Pocket of Rocks, and more.

It's free to attend and do a little window shopping.

New York City just rolled a D20 in performance!

A new Dungeons & Dragons theatrical experience is heading to NYC this spring from Curious Hedgehog, Showpath Entertainment, Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro.

Starting previews on April 19 at Stage 42, Dungeons & Dragons The Twenty-Sided Tavern will make the audience vote on decisions, therefore becoming a sort of “fourth player” by influencing and changing the course of the plot, including what characters appear, what experiences they explore and more.

The rumors are true: David Adjmi's behind-the-music studio drama Stereophonic, which earned rave reviews Off Broadway last year, will move to Broadway's John Golden Theatre this April.

This is terrific news for fans of theater and rock alike. Although the show is not a musical, its intimate depiction of one band's creative journey includes a great deal of live music in its three engrossing hours.

Stereophonic performances have begun, with an official opening on on April 19. Buy tickets here. Visit the production's website for more information.

Tchaikovsky’s ballet "Swan Lake" opens with soft-lapping melodies, before building to several great crashing crescendos. And so it is with Ready or Not pair Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett’s raucously entertaining, ballet-themed gorefest. Abigail is a vampire film that pirouettes over your funny bone while sinking its teeth into your neck… over and over again.

Six testy individuals stake-out a 12-year-old girl as she’s driven home from ballet practice. They drug and kidnap little Abigail (still in her tutu) and zip her into a bag during a set-piece that’ too slick to be tense. Then it’s off to the creepy isolated mansion where the rest of the film unfolds. 

While the third acts lag slightly, the tonal assurance never does. This is a delightfully-pitched, gory horror comedy that energetically creates a crossover genre we never knew we needed: the vampire ballet. 

See it as of April 19.

From now until mid-May, the Asia Society is hosting educational and community events in celebration of AAPI Heritage Month. Among them will be a talk in April 30 by acclaimed author Amy Tan, who is celebrating the release of her new book The Backyard Bird Chronicles; A talk about mental health in Asian-American communities by U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy and Dr. Sue Varma on May 1; a business summit on May 15; and much more. You can check out their full programming and get tickets on the Asia Society's website.

“We choose to go to the Moon,” President John F. Kennedy’s voice booms through speakers welcoming visitors to the massive new Space Race-themed exhibit at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum. With archival speeches, historic documents, and incredible space equipment, the exhibit whisks visitors back to the 1960s, an era when humanity first ventured into the unknown. 

"Apollo: When We Went to the Moon" is now open at the Intrepid Museum (that's the gigantic aircraft carrier in Hell's Kitchen along the Hudson River) through September 2. At 9,000 square feet, it's the largest temporary exhibit in the museum's history. Tickets are inlcluded with museum admission.

Co-created by Rachel Horwitz, Gus Laughlin, and Sarina Freda, "Look at Me" is a comedic dance recital that pokes fun at anyone living in New York is probably familiar with: Performative activism. The show includes multiple comedic dance pieces and other types of performance art by Gus as well as local acts Richard Perez, Francesca D'Uva, and Sydney Duncan.

Catch the funny this show with a side of social commentary at PAGEANT in Brooklyn on Friday, April 19. 

It's another election year, and once again, women's rights are on the ballot. What would the suffragists who fought for women's right to vote say to us now, a century later?

Shaina Taub, the powerhouse writer of Suffs, a musical coming to Broadway this spring, answers that question with a lyric: “Keep marching. Keep marching on.” It’s a line from the finale of the show, which she produced with support from former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Malala Yousafzai. The show has now made its Broadway Debut at the Music Box Theatre.

Fourteen international artists have come together for Fotografiska New York’s current exhibition Human / Nature: Encountering Ourselves in the Natural World, a mix of photographs, sculptures, and immersive video installations. These works from the likes of David Ụzọchukwu, Lewis Miller, Ori Gerscht, and more “explore the complex relationship between Earth and its human inhabitants," per a press release.

Though the show is open through Saturday, May 18, you’ll want to stop by the museum on Sunday, April 21 for a workshop on ikebana, the Japanese art of floral design, by instructor Paula Tam of the Ikenobo school, the oldest and largest school of ikebana. A ticket to the workshop ($110 for members, $125 for non-members) includes admission to Human / Nature, as well as the other world-class exhibitions on view at Fotografiska.

Reliability was probably the last thing Guy Ritchie had in mind for his filmmaking future when he unleashed his Tarantino-riffing breakthrough Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels on the world. Yet 26 years on, his cheerfully amusing new wartime spy yarn is exactly that: a sturdy piece of entertainment that he and super-producer Jerry Bruckheimer have made with the ethos that sometimes it’s better to entertain than to shock. 

If that early insolence has mellowed, the old Ritchie blueprint endures in The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare: charismatic lads having a laugh, blowing stuff up and nonchalantly dismissing calamities as "a spot of bother."

Aside from the overlong denouement, the action zips by so quickly that the end notes – about the remarkable true-life team – pull us up short. These extraordinary heroes had no time for larking about. But they’d probably be chuffed to see themselves as spies insouciant enough to inspire 007 himself.

See it in theaters as of April 19.

Digital art and poetry will combine for a dive into Afrocentricity and Afrofuturism at this new immersive exhibit in Chelsea. "Aṣẹ: Afro Frequencies" is now open at ARTECHOUSE and runs all summer.

The digital art exhibition promises a "vibrant reflection upon the past, present, and future of the Black experience." It's told through the perspective of London-based Afro-surrealist digital artist Vince Fraser alongside evocative poetry by ursula rucker.

Both artists worked to honor the legacy, struggles, and complexities of the Black experience in their work. Even the exhibition's title, "Aṣẹ" stems from a powerful mantra, affirmation, and philosophical belief held by the Yoruba people of West Africa, meaning "so will it be." (By the way, that's pronounced as AH-shay.)

Art nerds can’t wait until the Whitney Biennial, which happens every two years. It’s always a gigantic showcase of some of the coolest, newest, and most provocative art at a big New York City museum. It’s the Whitney Museum of American Art’s landmark exhibition series and the longest-running survey of American Art, on view through August 11.

This year, the Biennial is themed “Even Better Than The Real Thing” and features the work of 71 artists and collectives. It does a lot in this iteration. The survey examines rapidly advancing technologies and machine learning tools; the body and subjectivity as it pertains to queer identity, body sovereignty, motherhood, the aging body, and the trans body; material agency and the use of unstable media; and lots more.

Overarching is the focus on “the real,” an extremely present topic these days with the onslaught of incorrect ChatGPT answers, horrifying deep fakes and art made by AI. 

The Brooklyn Museum isn’t just a world-class spot to experience art—it’s also a great place to shop, thanks to its partnership with Brooklyn Pop-Up. Every month, the museum plays host to a weekend artisan market stocked with local vendors offering one-of-a-kind, handmade artwork, contemporary and upcycled fashion, wellness and apothecary goods, homewares and more.

The market's outdoor season is now underway. Plus, every Saturday, you can find Brooklyn Pop-Up’s artisans bazaar in Fort Greene along DeKalb Avenue between South Oxford and Washington Avenue, a neighborhood favorite boasting 30-plus local designers, makers and artisans weekly.

For more than a century, the Statue of Liberty has offered inspiration as a beacon of freedom, equality, and democracy. And for just as long, she has also served as an inspiration for tattoo artists. 

A new exhibit at City Reliquary, a jewel box of a museum in Brooklyn's Williamsburg neighborhood, features vintage State of Liberty tattoos. As the first show devoted to Lady Liberty ink, it also traces tattooing history in NYC since the 1800s. "Liberty the Tattooed Lady: The Great Bartholdi Statue as Depicted in Tattooing" is now open through January 12, 2025.

The exhibition spotlights antique flash, vintage photographs, drawings, and other ephemera that show how Lady Liberty has been a popular subject in tattooing for as long as she’s stood in New York Harbor. You'll even get to see vintage tattoo art that's never been on display before.

In the TV show "The Masked Singer," celebrity contestants disguise themselves head to toe in elaborate costumes to shield their identities. The concept has captivated audiences of all ages for 11 seasons, and now you can see the incredible costumes up-close and in-person. 

The Paley Center for Media will present " Spotlighting the Costumes That Captivated America" at its midtown museum through Sunday, May 19. 

The costumes on display, which helped the show win two Emmy Awards for Outstanding Costume Design, merge fashion, fantasy, and artistry. Each is a fantastical creation, extraordinary in its intricacy, originality, and scale. Some of the fan-favorite costumes include Miss Monster, Flamingo, Chameleon, and Gazelle.

See some of Broadway's most famous shows through fresh eyes at this new exhibit at the Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center. The exhibition showcases lenticular prints, which appear to animate as you move around. 

"Reanimating Theater: The Photography of Friedman-Abeles," runs through September 25, 2024. It brings to life photographs by Friedman-Abeles Studio of some of Broadway's most beloved productions from 1954-1970, like West Side Story, Camelot, and Bye, Bye Birdie. 

During the mega-popular Mel's F.O.M.O (Friends of Mel's Oven) pizza series, chef Melissa Rodriguez highlights creations by pro chef pals. The popular project is now in its third iteration, highlighting pizzas made by 2024 James Beard-nominated chefs like Telly Justice from Hags and Loring Place's Dan Kluger. 

The series runs through April 19 and reservations are required. You can make one right here.

Everybody knows that May 4th is every Star Wars fanatic’s favorite holiday—notably because the date sounds like one of the most iconic lines in the film (May the 4th be with you). Luckily, you don’t have to wait two more months for that date to roll by: Now through April 29, Star Wars is taking over the Empire State Building with multiple displays that celebrate the legendary franchise scattered throughout the building.

Leading up to May 4th, fans can also expect more announcements of new product drops, including for apparel, accessories, collectibles, and more.

The Rubin Museum, that legendary building in Chelsea that has housed the largest collection of Himalayan art in the world for two decades, is permanently closing its physical space later this year. As sad as this is for New York’s culture scene, New Yorkers at least get to enjoy the museum until October, and you should definitely plan to make the most of it until then. 

The museum’s last exhibit, “Reimagine: Himalayan Art Now,” will be an appropriate, forward-looking nod to 32 contemporary artists from the Himalayas and the Asian diaspora whose work will be shown in dialogue with objects from the museum’s existing collection.

The will continue all the way through the museum's physical closing on October 6. Expect to see 32 new commissions and work across mediums, including painting, sculpture, sound, video, performance and more.

Featuring 60 works from The Met's collection, this exhibition traces the history and transformation of product photography, and delves into the techniques and messaging that brands have used throughout time. The photos include an ad for Panama hats in 1916, lipstick from the 1940s, shoes from the 1950s, and so much more.

"The Real Thing: Unpackaging Product Photography" is on view through August 4.

The author and illustrator who ignited our childhood imaginations with tales of cuddly bunnies, mischievous squirrels and daring ducks is getting a well-deserved spotlight in NYC.

The wholesome and beautiful works of beloved children’s author and land conservationist Beatrix Potter are now on view at The Morgan Library & Museum through June 9.

“Beatrix Potter: Drawn to Nature” is the most darling show in the city right now. The exhibition even features a delightful recreation of Potter’s home that you can actually sit and read in. 

At a time when only 11% of acquisitions at U.S. museums are created by female-identifying artists, the Brooklyn Museum's Center for Feminist Art is displaying 48 emerging and established women photographers. 

The exhibit showcases photographs from artists born in or working from Europe, including Vanessa Beecroft, Carolle Bénitah, and Silvia Rosi. Everything in the exhibit was made after the year 2000 and focuses on issues of migration, the legacies of nationalism in Europe, and the male gaze as a patriarchal power structure. See it through July 7.

Guest curated by Valeri Larko, this mixed-media exhibition at Red Hook’s Basin Gallery & Studios spotlights the original works of four female artists: Rodriguez Calero, Airco Caravan, Daina Higgins and Arlene Rush.

In their own way, each of the creators addresses women’s rights and social justice issues throughout their art. For example, Calero’s acrollage paintings like “A Life Cut Short” and “Target of Prejudice” respond to hate crimes and acts of humanity against people of color, while Caravan comments on racism, sexism, misogyny and way through her bold, colorful series featuring humorous household products, like pest-spray bottles. The powerful art runs through April 21, 2024.

The Harlem Renaissance had an indisputable impact on American culture, but chances are that you probably didn’t spend much time learning about it in school. That’s because, even though it shaped global literature, music, and art, Black Americans’ historical contributions have been systematically erased or gone unacknowledged for centuries.

A groundbreaking exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art hopes to be a part of rectifying the erasure and celebrating Black artists and intellectuals.

"The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism" presents 160 works by Black artists from the Harlem Renaissance and delves into many different aspects of the movement, mostly through the lens of paintings and sculpture. You can get your tickets here. 

Puttery is a new, adults-only mini-golf and nightlife destination that just opened at 446 West 14th Street by Washington Street in the Meatpacking District and is backed by, among others, Irish professional golfer Rory McIlroy.

The first location of its kind in New York, Puttery spans 24,000 square feet over five levels that feature an underground lounge and a total of three bars, including a rooftop one that will be open year-round (yes, there will be heat lamps on site). 

With their vibrant colors, delicate ruffles, and dramatic shapes, orchids love to show off their looks. This spring, the New York Botanical Garden is giving the divas of the plant world their moment in the spotlight as part of “The Orchid Show: Florals in Fashion.”

Three up-and-coming designers created massive installations inspired by these fashionable flowers. In one, you'll see orchids turned into avant-garde clothing. Another features a regal orchid queen. The final section draws upon AI to create anthropomorphic creatures who don floral outfits. Florals in Fashion is on view through April 22 at NYBG in the Bronx; adult tickets cost $35.

There’s a lot of good to see at this Manhattan subway stop. 

Two years after opening the subterranean bar Nothing Really Matters, hospitality professional Adrien Gallo continues building his subway station empire, opening See No Evil Pizza last week on the concourse level of the downtown-bound 1 train station at 50th Street and Broadway—a space that once housed a Dunkin’. It joins his Tiny Dancer Coffee on the same concourse.

“I basically transformed a subway station that was super neglected to a destination spot in the middle of Times Square,” Gallo tells Time Out New York.  

Find See No Evil Pizza is located on the concourse level of the downtown-bound 1 train station at 50th Street and Broadway. It is open for pop-ins and Resy reservations Monday-Saturday from 5pm-midnight. 

Deep-dive into the works of American ceramist and painter Toshiko Takaezu with this retrospective and monograph at the Noguchi Museum in Queens through July 28, 2024.

The first nationally touring retrospective of Takaezu’s work in twenty years, Toshiko Takaezu: Worlds Within will feature about 200 pieces from private and public collections around the country, including her rarely-seen acrylic paintings and weavings, ceramic sculptures including her signature “closed forms,” Moons, Garden Seats, Trees, and select works from her late masterpiece, the Star Series. 

Following its presentation at The Noguchi Museum, the exhibition—which is organized with assistance from the Toshiko Takaezu Foundation and the Takaezu family—will travel to several additional venues across the United States.

This is more than your garden-variety art exhibition–None Whatsoever: Zen Paintings from the Gitter-Yelen Collection is, yes, a tranquil display of Zen Buddhist artwork. But it will also feature in-gallery activities like meditation sessions, calligraphy workshops, a tea ceremony demonstration and an ikebana (floral arrangement) workshop.

Spanning over 400 years and drawn from the Gitter-Yelen Collection, the exhibit explores the origins of Zen Buddhism through more than 50 works by Buddhist painter-monks, including the 18th-century master Hakuin Ekaku. You can check out the show now through Sunday, June 16 at the Japan Society. 

"Giants," the Brooklyn Museum's latest exhibition, fits its name in many facets. First of all, the show relies on the art collection of two titans in the music industry, Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz (Kasseem Dean). Much of the artwork itself is massive, taking over major swaths of the museum. The exhibition features artists who have made and continue to make a significant impact on the art world and contemporary culture.

Finally, and most importantly, the exhibit encourages big conversations that celebrate Blackness, critique society, and imagine a collective future. "Giants: Art from the Dean Collection of Swizz Beatz and Alicia Keys" runs through July 7, 2024. The show features 98 artworks by Black American, African, and African diasporic artists including Gordon Parks, Kehinde Wiley, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Mickalene Thomas, Hassan Hajjaj, Barkley L. Hendricks, Lorna Simpson, and Amy Sherald. 

"The Deans consider all of the artists in the show as giants. They have these very strong relationships with the artists that they collect. It's not about transaction. It's about being stewards and advocates and supporters of these artists," Brooklyn Museum curator Kimberli Gant told Time Out New York.

Mercer Labs, Museum of Art and Technology, a new immersive museum is now open. It's the brainchild of Roy Nachum, the artist behind Rihanna’s famous 2016 “Anti” album cover, and his business partner Michael Cayre, a real estate developer. 

The 36,000-square-foot space is located at 21 Dey Street, inside the bank building that used to be part of the now-nextdoor Century 21. It's filled with room after room of immersive fun.

The first of 15 experiences, for example, will take you through a giant room equipped with 26-foot-high projectors that blast a series of images all around that will have you feel like you've just taken a swim inside the sorts of motifs that Nachum explores throughout his work. You will quite literally land inside his art pieces.

In another room, which is being branded as one of only three 4D sound studios in the world, guests are asked to wear a blindfold and lay on the floor to properly enjoy the sounds blasting out of the 36 speakers that are embedded under the elevated floor.

The Harlem Renaissance changed the trajectory of American culture, and no other artist encapsulates the spirit of that era better than poet Langston Hughes. He wrote unapologetically about Black life at a time when segregation was law and few Black artists were allowed into the American cultural zeitgeist.

The Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture is honoring Hughes and his friendship with photographer, filmmaker, and U.S. Foreign Service Officer Griffith J. Davis in its exhibit "The Ways of Langston Hughes." The free exhibit at the Schomburg Center's Latimer Gallery in Harlem will include photographs of Hughes and Davis, who met in Atlanta, as well as more of Hughes' friendships through letters, artwork and other memorabilia.

Taking over the Asia Society through August 11, 2024, this immersive photography and video exhibition will bring together the works of more than 50 photographers and video artists from China and around the world to visualize the causes and consequences of the climate crisis.

The show—which will take attendees from deep within coal mines to the melting glaciers of the greater Himalaya—is co-curated by photographer Susan Meiselas and international exhibition designer Jeroen de Vries, and led by Orville Schell, Asia Society Vice President and Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations.

Along with the artworks themselves, the exhibition will feature a series of speaker events, performances, films and more throughout the run of the exhibition. 

Nicholas Sparks's bestselling 1996 novel, which inspired a popular 2004 movie, is now also the source of an original musical by indie singer-songwriter Ingrid Michaelson and playwright Bekah Brunstetter. The show charts a romance that begins in the 1940s, and the central is played—in different chapters of their story—by Maryann Plunkett, Dorian Harewood, Joy Woods, Ryan Vasquez, Jordan Tyson and John Cardoza; the supporting cast includes Andréa Burns.

The production, directed by Michael Greif and Schele Williams, arrives on Broadway after a well-received 2022 run at Chicago Shakespeare Theater.

Weaving is one of the oldest art forms in human history, dating back more than 10,000 years, but you can see the ancient craft from a news perspective in this new exhibition at the Met. Now through June 16, textiles from four modern practitioners—Anni Albers, Sheila Hicks, Lenore Tawney and Olga de Amaral—will be showcased alongside pieces by Andean artists from the first millennium BCE to the 16th century.

Weaving Abstraction in Ancient and Modern Art will feature more than 50 works, curated by Iria Candela (Estrellita B. Brodsky Curator of Latin American Art in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art) and Joanne Pillsbury (Andrall E.Pearson Curator of the Arts of the Ancient Americas in The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing).

Fans of RuPaul's Drag Race rejoice. Arlo Williamsburg is hosting 1,200+ person watch parties every Friday night from 7-10pm so you can experience this season the way it was meant to be experienced — around hundreds of screaming Drag Race fans.

Hosted by Drag Race alum Mirage, consider this your weekend pregame or it can be the main event, too — there will be cocktails, giant screens and drag queens with things to say.

Miranda Priestly once famously said, "Florals? For spring? Groundbreaking." But at Color Factory, florals for spring are actually groundbreaking as the interactive art experience in Soho takes flowery themes to immersive new levels. 

Color Factory's “Colors in Bloom” experience is now open—exactly at the time when we could all mercifully use a break from the gray landscapes and cold nights.

For example, there's the Central Park Confetti Room, complete with larger-than-life pink cherry blossoms inspired by the city's first sign of spring. Tickets start at $38/person for the experience, which runs through mid-May.

The International Center for Photography (ICP) in the Lower East Side is celebrating five decades of its existence with ICP at 50: From the Collection, an exhibit that will showcase photography from their archives dating back from 1845 till 2019. Notable names at the exhibit include Robert Mapplethorpe, Carrie Mae Weems, and Laurie Simmons. The show's on view through May 6. 

Along with the retrospective, the ICP is also celebrating the opening of David Seidner: Fragments, 1977-99, the first major exhibit highlighting Seidner's prolific fashion photography career before his passing in 1999. 

Head to a beloved West Village music shop for a banging musical comedy blowout every Friday night. This variety show mixes music, comedy, and characters with apperances by Stephen Sihelnik (NY Comedy Festival), Natan Badalov (Adult Swim), Alexander Payne (Netflix), and surprise guests.

Fun fact: The event's set in New York's oldest continually-run music and record store, Music Inn World Instruments. It's been in operation since 1958 and has been heavily featured in the first two seasons of "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel."

Show up early, save a seat and BYOB: You're in for a party.

In her first solo museum exhibition, sculptor Auriea Harvey will bring her net-based interactives and augmented reality sculptures to the Museum of the Moving Image through June. Titled Auriea Harvey: My Veins Are the Wires, My Body Is Your Keyboard, the showcase will highlight a collection of more than 40 works from Harvey’s nearly four-decade career, including oversized playable projections of her video games, intricate 3D-printed pieces and even early works plucked from her handbound sketchbooks. 

Regina Harsanyi, the Museum’s Associate Curator of Media Arts who organized the exhibition, notes: “Auriea Harvey has persistently reimagined and redefined the creative boundaries of networked technologies for more than three decades. She possesses a remarkable sensitivity to how the digital revolution of the 1990s spawned a societal shift in the way humans connect.”

Inside a venue dating back 100 years into the past, a new art show explores a question of the future: How can human creativity and artificial intelligence coexist?

ARTECHOUSE, located inside an old boiler room at Chelsea Market, has debuted its latest digital art exhibition, “World of AI·magination;” tickets are on sale here starting at $21/person. To create the exhibition, ARTECHOUSE Studio developed original visual elements with generative AI systems. Designers hope to inspire visitors to consider AI as a "creative associate rather than a mere tool for innovation." 

World of AI·magination centers around a 20-minute cinematic experience with six scenes. One scene, called the Library of Magical Portals, features colossal books brimming with dreams and algorithms. Another scene called Symphony of Illusions constantly morphs, while the Infinite Maze immerses visitors into multiple parallels.

On Sunday mornings at 11am in Manhattan, GatherNYC creates the community and spiritual nourishment of a religious service, but the religion here is music. All are welcome at these hour-long performances of classical music by celebrated local artists. Coffee and pastries are available for free.

These upcoming events are held at the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) in Columbus Circle. Shows are scheduled through May 2024. Here’s what’s on the calendar:

• April 14: Maeve Gilchrist (harp)
• April 28: Majel Connery + Felix Fan: Rivers are our Brothers
• May 12: Ocean Music Action: Megan Conley (harp) + friends
• May 26: Kristin Lee (violin) + friends 

Journey back in time to the Lower East Side at the turn of the century. A new exhibit at The Museum at Eldridge Street introduces the often-overlooked stories of 29 women who lived or worked in the neighborhood. 

The exhibition, titled "28 Remarkable Women...and One Scoundrel" features mixed media portraits by artist Adrienne Ottenberg, which are printed on silk and cotton banners. They're hung throughout the museum's gallery and historic sanctuary. Stories about the women highlight the work, life, and impact they made culturally, on social justice movements, and more.

Those featured in the exhibition include:

• Political activist Frances Perkins, who upon witnessing the tragic Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, took on an influential role in the worker's rights advocacy movement. That led her to eventually become President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Secretary of Labor—the first-ever woman cabinet member.
• Suffragist and activist Mabel Ping-Hua Lee who campaigned for women’s rights to vote and was the first Chinese woman in the U.S. to earn her doctorate.
• Public healthcare worker Elizabeth Tyler, who was the first Black nurse hired at Henry Street Settlement. She went on later to establish the Stillman House Settlement on Manhattan's West Side, which provided health care and social services to the Black community in San Juan Hill.

See the show at the Lower East Side venue through May 5, 2024. The museum is open Sunday through Friday from 10am to 5pm. Admission is $15/adult; pay-what-you-wish admission is offered on Monday and Fridays. Reserve in advance here.

After two years of outdoor play, Carreau Club, the nation’s first pétanque bar has expanded with an indoor location with more space to get your game on while sipping a drink.

The new indoor venue is now open at Brooklyn's Industry City. For the uninitiated, pétanque (pronounced puh-TONK) is a bocce-ball style French boules sport gaining popularity in the U.S., starting here in NYC.

Carreau Club operates primarily as a walk-in pétanque club and reservations are not required. But you can book a court in advance for a single party or multiple courts for larger groups. Reservations cost $50/court/hour.

Plus, every Friday, there's a free petanque tournament for all levels called the Mix and Match Tournament. Just show up before sign-ups at 7 and bring your A-game. The winner gets a free T-shirt. 

As she donned the black robe for her role on the Supreme Court, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was known to adorn the traditional garment with a wide array of collars and necklaces. 

Now, her fashion is getting the spotlight in a new photography exhibit called "RBG Collars: Photographs by Elinor Carucci." See it at The Jewish Museum on the Upper East Side through May 27, 2024. 

The installation features two dozen photographs of the late justice’s collars and necklaces taken shortly after Ginsburg died in 2020. This is the first time the Carucci’s photographs are being shown at the Jewish Museum since the images were acquired in 2021.

A pastel-hued floral mural with a feminist message is the newest addition to the High Line. Titled “Thank You Darling,” this mural by Dutch artist Lily van der Stokker celebrates the playful, feminine realm often overlooked or derided in our culture. 

"Van der Stokker’s work, which she has referred to as 'feminist conceptual pop art,' is undeniably joyful and positive. However, it often simultaneously speaks to weighty themes—aging, health, and, more generally, the lived experience of being a woman within patriarchal structures," a press release from High Line Art explains.

Her installation for the High Line continues this practice for a wide public audience, offering a sweet expression of gratitude to the millions of passersby and inhabitants of nearby buildings. Find the words THANK YOU DARLiNG (with that capitalization) on the side of a building adjacent to the High Line at 22nd Street.

With the word "darling" styled in bright yellow bubble letters, the mural seems to reach out to personally thank every single person who sees it. Check it out through November 2024.

"What a pleasure to lift Lily van der Stokker's cheerful message to the New York City skyline," said Cecilia Alemani, the Donald R. Mullen Director and Chief Curator of High Line Art. "We hope her work brings visitors and New Yorkers alike a feeling of joy and appreciation."

There's something unusual "blooming" among Bella Abzug Park's natural fauna.

Part of a solo exhibition by Korean American artist Sui Park, this outdoor installation in Hudson Yards features the artist's biomorphic sculptures, which are shockingly made using plastic materials like zip ties and fishing line.

For Park, who trained as both an architect and in the ancient art of Korean basketry, "nature is a sacred space that allows her to slow down, consider her surroundings, acknowledge her thoughts, and find inspiration," reads a press release. "With this exhibition, she captures that sentiment using humble materials and reconstructs them into whimsical forms, awakening one’s senses and encouraging others to connect with their thoughts as well as their surroundings."

See the artwork now through fall 2024.

The vibrant, ornate stained glass windows inside Manhattan's historic churches always create a dazzling spectacle. But now, a new long-term art display inspired by those rich colors has unfurled inside the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Morningside Heights—the world's largest Gothic cathedral. 

Titled "Divine Pathways," the monumental art installation is made up of more than 1,100 lengths of blue, red and gold fabric. Each ribbon measures 75 feet in length (approximately seven stories high). Combined, they are almost 16 miles long—that's longer than the island of Manhattan!  

St. John the Divine is open daily for self-guided sightseeing tours with a $15/adult admission fee; timed tickets are recommended. "Divine Pathways" will be on view through June 2024. 

Beautiful, buoyant, beguiling bubbles are coming back to the New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) in Queens as of Friday, November 17. The beloved bubbles exhibit, which has been closed for five years, will return bigger, better and bubblier than ever.

The Big Bubble Experiment encourages kids of all ages to experiment and discover through the joy of playing with bubbles. That includes blowing, stretching, popping and looking closely to see what happens at each move. 

The exhibit features 10 stations, each one with different tools and methods for exploring bubble solution.

Majestic, incredible elephants are getting the spotlight in a new exhibit at The American Museum of Natural History. "The Secret World of Elephants" showcases both modern and ancient elephants, offering visitors a chance to see a full-scale model of a woolly mammoth, learn about what elephants eat, touch an elephant's tooth, listen to elephant calls and more.

The exhibition is now open in the museum’s LeFrak Family Gallery. An additional ticket is required to visit the exhibit; museum members can visit for free.

Explore "The End of Fossil Fuel," the latest pop-up from the NYC Climate Museum. It's free to visit in Soho and offers a bevy of eye-opening activities for all ages.

Inside the gallery, a collection of maps will put climate change issues into perspective, alongside text panels about the history of the fossil fuel industry. The exhibits trace the origins of the climate and inequality crises and how we got to where we are today. Other activations include a sticker wall where visitors commit to specific climate actions and a kids' corner with books and drawing materials.

In New York City, it can be hard to find an apartment with a nice bathtub you'd actually want to soak in. Heck, it can be hard to find an apartment where the shower isn't in a closet in the living room (ahem, this $1.25 million StreetEasy listing).

But now cosmetics company LUSH is solving that very New York problem with a new book-a-bath service just launched this week. In addition to indulgent baths, LUSH Spa Lexington also offers massage treatments and facials, creating a calming oasis near hectic midtown. Find the newly opened spa on the Upper East Side at Lexington Avenue and East 61st Street.

Given the fact that LUSH invented the bath bomb, they’re pros when it comes to bathing. For the book-a-bath experience, head through the store and climb the stairs to the spa. Inside a petite pink-and-white bathroom, a clawfoot tub beckons. Before your bath, a staff member will prepare the water with a Snow Fairy bath bomb, which creates glittery pastel pink water. Plus, they’ll offer a fresh face mask tailored for your skin, a curated playlist and a cup of vegan hot chocolate. 

When Jack Kliger, President & CEO of the Museum of Jewish Heritage – A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in Battery Park City, and his team started working on a new kid-friendly exhibit about the Holocaust almost four years ago, they could not have imagined the chaotic world order that the show was eventually going to premiere in.

"Courage to Act: Rescue in Denmark" tells the story of the Danish Rescue, when citizens of the European country came together to usher nearly 7,000 Jews to safety and away from concentration camps during World War II.

There's a reason Chamber Magic has remained a staple in NYC's magic scene for more than two decades: It dazzles, show after show, with tricks that'll still leave you awestruck days later. 

The charming Steve Cohen, billed as the Millionaires’ Magician, conjures high-class parlor magic in the marble-columned Madison Room at the swank Lotte New York Palace. Dress to be impressed (cocktail attire is required); tickets start at $125, with an option to pay more for meet-and-greet time and extra tricks with Cohen after the show. If you've come to see a classic-style magic act, you get what you pay for.

Sporting a tuxedo and bright rust hair, the magician delivers routines that he has buffed to a patent-leather gleam: In addition to his signature act—"Think-a-Drink," involving a kettle that pours liquids by request—highlights include a lulu of levitation trick and a card-trick finale that leaves you feeling like, well, a million bucks.

Check out the brand-new mural by Brooklyn-based artist Steffi Lynn Tsai at 25 Kent in Brooklyn. Wedged between Williamsburg and Greenpoint, the vibrant mural is a reflection of the creative community around it, with an appropriate and resounding message in tough times: "Enjoy the Process, It Starts Here."

Can cow manure be turned into casings for loudspeakers and lamps? MoMA’s latest exhibition says “yes.”

“Life Cycles: The Materials of Contemporary Design” is now open on the museum’s street-level gallery. The exhibit explores the ways designers can repurpose the materials around us to extend their life cycle and promote environmental preservation. Approximately 80 pieces will be on display, including bricks made from crop waste and fungi mycelium and panels made from corn husks. 

The exhibition, curated by Paola Antonelli, will be on display until July 7, 2024.

Wild Captives, the nation’s first female- and LGBTQ-owned archery studio, is now open. It's a place where everyone can "be their own superhero." The studio in Brooklyn’s Industry City offers empowering and fun hour-long introduction to archery classes every weekend for $45/person. 

Each intro class includes a chance to learn about different parts of the bow and safety requirements. After the lesson, each participant gets a chance to shoot the bow trying to pop a balloon pinned onto the bullseye. Intro-to-archery classes are available each Friday, Saturday and Sunday, bookable online for anyone over age 12.

America’s first Black popular music icon is getting his due with a massive new center that houses a 60,000-piece collection and a venue for live music, lectures and screenings.

NYC’s Louis Armstrong House Museum has now opened its new facility, the Louis Armstrong Center—and it’s a big deal!

The space acts as a permanent home for the 60,000-piece Louis Armstrong Archive (the world’s largest for a jazz musician containing photos, recordings, manuscripts, letters & mementos) and a 75-seat venue for performances, lectures, films, and educational experiences.

The Center and the historic house are now open to the public Thursdays through Saturdays. Tickets can be purchased at louisarmstronghouse.org. Tours have limited capacity, so book in advance.

The phrase “women’s work” is often used derisively to indicate labor that’s seen as “less than,” but a new exhibit at New-York Historical Society reclaims that phrase. Aptly titled "Women's Work," the show chronicles the history of women's contributions to labor and how those efforts are both inherently political and essential to American society. 

The exhibit features dozens of objects in the museum's collection from indenture documents to medical kits to military uniforms. With items ranging from the 1740s to today, the show celebrates the strides society has made in equality while not shying away from highlighting the gender-based inequalities that persist today.

It's on view thorugh August 18, 2024. 

If you're not a paint-and-sip kind of person, try Act & Sip, a beer-fueled acting workshop in an Off-Broadway Theater with expert instructors. They pair students off with partners and hand over the pages to a scene from a well-known iconic NYC sitcom or movie, offering tips along the way to help performers conquer stage fright and discover their inner actor.

This event is perfect for bachelorette parties, after-work outings, or just a fun night with friends to get on stage with a little help from liquid courage. You don't need any experience, but you must be 21 or older and BYOB.

Muggles, take note: You won’t need to travel through Platform 9¾ to get to Hogwarts. The Wizarding World of Harry Potter is right here in New York City for a limited time.

The touring show, “Harry Potter: The Exhibition,” is now open in Herald Square, and it’s going transport you. Through the use of dramatic lighting, set design, interactive technology and even scent, the exhibit will make you feel like you are actually there—in Hagrid’s hut, in potions class, dining in the Great Hall, learning how to fight the dark arts, fighting the Battle of Hogwarts and more.

Tickets are on sale now, starting at $29 for adults.

On a typical visit to the Museum of Modern Art, crowds surround the most precious paintings, and it can be tough to squeeze your way in for a photo, let alone to admire the artwork’s brushstrokes. But now, thanks to these new exclusive tours by GetYourGuide, you can get in before the museum opens for a guided tour of amazing artwork. 

The new MoMA Before Hours Tour with Art Expert is available now; tickets are on sale here for $99/person. Few New York City experiences compare to the absolute thrill of gazing at famed works of art uninterrupted for as long as you like.  

With a full restaurant, craft cocktails, comfy reclining seats and even more bells and whistles, this new movie theater in Hell's Kitchen elevates the movie-going experience. LOOK Dine-in Cinemas is now open in VIA 57 West, the pyramid-shaped building located at West 57th Street and 11th Avenue. 

With a 15-year lease, LOOK's operating in a 25,000-square-foot venue that used to house Landmark cinema until it closed in 2020. This is the company's first New York City location. At this fancy theater, you can relax in a heated seat while ordering dinner directly to your seat in the theater. 

Many museums start with some kind of orientation, like a map or remarks from a docent. But not The House of Cannabis (a.k.a. THC NYC), the new weed museum now open in Soho. Instead, this museum starts, quite fittingly, with a trippy “Disorientation Room.”

While the museum boasts plenty of mind-bending multi-sensory bells and whistles, it also showcases art, highlights science and confronts the social justice issues baked into cannabis prosecution. The museum, the first of its kind at this scale, packs every inch of its four-story, 25,000-square-foot space at 427 Broadway with fascinating facts and delightful immersive experiences fit to entertain both tokers and non-smokers alike. Tickets ($35/adult) are on sale here.

Find your latest read at The Free Black Women’s Library, a new free library in Brooklyn's Bed-Stuy neighborhood, which also serves as a social art project, a reading room, a co-working space and a community gathering center. The library "celebrates the brilliance, diversity and imagination of Black women and Black non-binary authors." All 5,000 books in the library's collection are written by Black women and non-binary authors.

Here's how it works: Anybody can visit the space to read, work or hang out. If you want to take a book home, simply bring a book written by a Black woman or Black non-binary author, and you can trade. Whether you decide to bring the book back after you're done reading or keep it for your collection is up to you.

The library is currently open four days per week (Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday) at 226 Marcus Garvey Boulevard. In addition to offering a space to read or work, the library has also hosts a book club, art shows and workshops on topics like writing, drawing, poetry, painting and sewing. All are welcome. 

The name really says it all: Make bonsai in a bar! These teeny tiny trees are the definition of "happy little trees." 

The pros from Bonsai Bar will teach you the fundamental skills and techniques behind the art of bonsai while you sip your drink and have some fun with your friends. The teachers will also help you as you pot, prune and design your very own bonsai tree. 

Bonsai Bar events pop up all over the city at locations like Brooklyn Brewery, the Bronx Brewery and SingleCut Beersmiths Queens Taproom.

Peek inside this new, teeny-tiny shop in Harlem to find some fun gifts for someone on your list or for yourself.

MoonLab 42 measures in at just under 5 feet wide, but the store manages to house zines, books, records, incense, prints, candles, decorative objects, ceramics, jewelry, accessories, clothing and more. “It feels like a Mary Poppins bag,” Ruso Margishvili, the concept store’s co-owner tells us.

On a typical tour of Manhattan, the big tourist attractions—Times Square, the Empire State Building, Central Park—get all the attention. But on these new walking tours by a local author, you'll see fascinating historical sites that you won't find in a typical guidebook. 

K. Krombie's Purefinder tours, "Death in New York," "The Psychiatric History of New York" and "Hell Gate," explore the city's darker side through meticulously researched and theatrically presented historical narratives.

Each tour covers about 2.5 miles in about two-and-a-half hours. “Death in New York” and “The Psychiatric History of New York” are offered weekly, while “Hell Gate” is offered twice per month. Tours cost $32-$34 per person; you can book one here.

From amazing costumes to Broadway history to fun photo opps, this long-awaited new museum is a must-see for theater buffs.  

You can expect the new museum to highlight over 500 individual productions from the 1700s all the way to the present. 

Among the standout offerings will also be a special exhibit dubbed "The Making of a Broadway Show," which honors the on- and off-stage community that helps bring plays and musicals to life multiple times a week. 

This is the only stand-up comedy show in a Brooklyn Boathouse, boasting some of the best local talent for free on the shore of the Gowanus Canal. Cuba Libre BYOB but beer, seltzers and non-alcoholic beverages are available for donation. Go see it every Friday night; check the group's Instagram for the weekly lineup.