Interesting. Unusual. Uniquely NYC. Highlights of this week’s top events include the Frick’s Cocktails with a Curator, Fall for Dance Festival 2020, Womanist is to Feminist as Purple is to Lavender and more. Get the NYC-ARTS Top Five in your inbox every Friday and follow @NYC_ARTS on Instagram or @NYCARTS on Twitter to stay abreast of events as they happen.

Fall for Dance Festival 2020
New York City Center
Manhattan
Wed, Oct 21, 2020 - Sun, Nov 01, 2020
New York City Center President & CEO Arlene Shuler announced programming for an unprecedented 2020 Fall for Dance Festival in two programs premiering October 21 and 26, and available on demand through November 1. Reflecting this singular moment in history, this season marks the first time the Festival will be filmed live on the City Center stage and presented digitally—making the annual sold-out “highlight of the city’s cultural calendar” (The New York Times) accessible to the entire world ...

Cocktails with a Curator
Frick Collection
Manhattan
Fri, Oct 16, 2020 - Fri, Feb 26, 2021
In this week’s episode of Cocktails with a Curator, examine the exceptional Mughal carpets—the only two objects at the Frick made in India—with Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator Xavier F. Salomon. These incredibly luxurious carpets were likely created during the reign of Shah Jahan, one of the greatest Mughal emperors and the builder of the Taj Mahal. Rarely on view, they will be on display at Frick Madison in early 2021. This week’s complementary ...

Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration
MoMA PS1
Queens
Thu, Sep 17, 2020 - Sun, Apr 04, 2021
As its first exhibition upon reopening to the public, MoMA PS1 presents a major exhibition exploring the work of artists within US prisons and the centrality of incarceration to contemporary art and culture, on view from September 17, 2020 through April 4, 2021. Featuring art made by people in prisons and work by nonincarcerated artists concerned with state repression, erasure, and imprisonment, "Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration" highlights more than 35 artists, ...

Lift Lab Live
St. Mark’s Church-in-the-Bowery
Manhattan
Wed, Oct 21, 2020 - Sat, Nov 14, 2020
New York Theatre Ballet presents "Lift Lab Live," featuring live performances of new choreography, from October 21-November 14, 2020 at St. Marks's Church-in-the-Bowery, 131 East 10th Street (entrance on 11th Street), 2nd floor, with performances Wednesdays at 12pm & 8pm and Saturdays at 7pm. Tickets are $20 general admission, available at www.nytb.org. Tickets must be purchased in advance online and will not be sold at the door. Choreographers and Composers Program A (October 21, 24, November 4, 7) ...

Womanist is to Feminist as Purple is to Lavender
Hauser & Wirth
Manhattan
Mon, Oct 19, 2020 - Thu, Dec 31, 2020
Beginning 19 October, Hauser & Wirth presents ‘Womanist is to Feminist as Purple is to Lavender,’ an online exhibition comprising five new small-scale portraits made by Amy Sherald over the course of the pandemic. Taking as its title a widely cited statement by celebrated novelist, poet, and activist Alice Walker, this presentation finds Sherald returning to the medium of gouache for the first time since she was a child, with results that reaffirm the inherent ...
Fall for Dance Festival 2020
131 West 55th Street
new york N.Y. 10019
2125811212
New York City Center President & CEO Arlene Shuler announced programming for an unprecedented 2020 Fall for Dance Festival in two programs premiering October 21 and 26, and available on demand through November 1. Reflecting this singular moment in history, this season marks the first time the Festival will be filmed live on ...
Cocktails with a Curator
One East 70th Street
New York N.Y. 10021
2122880700
In this week’s episode of Cocktails with a Curator, examine the exceptional Mughal carpets—the only two objects at the Frick made in India—with Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator Xavier F. Salomon. These incredibly luxurious carpets were likely created during the reign of Shah Jahan, one of the greatest Mughal ...
Lift Lab Live
131 East 10th Street
new york N.Y. 10003
2126746377
New York Theatre Ballet presents "Lift Lab Live," featuring live performances of new choreography, from October 21-November 14, 2020 at St. Marks's Church-in-the-Bowery, 131 East 10th Street (entrance on 11th Street), 2nd floor, with performances Wednesdays at 12pm & 8pm and Saturdays at 7pm. Tickets are $20 general admission, available at ...