Free events in New York City tonight

List of shows

• Visual arts

  until Apr 30

  Homecoming: Chakaia Booker

  Chakaia Booker

  Socrates Sculpture Park · Long Island City, Queens

  • Visual arts

  Free

• Visual arts

  until Apr 9

  Artists Choose Artists: The Socrates Annual Fellowship Anniversary

  Cynthia Alberto · Francheska Alcántara · Josué Guarionex · Xayvier Haughton · Vaishu Ilankamban · Manami…

  Socrates Sculpture Park · Long Island City, Queens

  • Visual arts

  Free

• Visual arts

  until Nov 1

  Public Art Along Flushing Avenue: BUILD THE FUTURE by Peter Miller

  Peter Miller

  Brooklyn Navy Yard · Brooklyn Navy Yard, Brooklyn

  • Visual arts

  Free

• Visual arts

  until Nov 1

  Homecoming: John Morse

  John Morse

  Socrates Sculpture Park · Long Island City, Queens

  • Visual arts

  Free

• Visual arts

  until Jun 27

  Homecoming: Sanford Biggers

  Sanford Biggers

  Socrates Sculpture Park · Long Island City, Queens

  • Visual arts

  Free

• Visual arts

  until Feb 8

  Homeroom: Artists Against the Bomb

  MoMA PS1 · Long Island City, Queens

  • Visual arts

  Free

• Music

  until Nov 8

  Josiah McElheny: Instrument Object

  Josiah McElheny

  The Kitchen · West Village, Manhattan

  • Music
  • Visual arts

  Free

• Visual arts

  until Nov 1

  Lines of Survival: Living, Adapting, Imagining Tomorrow

  2026 Africa Soft Power Climate Change Storytelling Fellowship · Photo Essay Prize exhibition · presented ·…

  The Africa Center · East Harlem, Manhattan

  • Visual arts

  Free

• Visual arts

  until Nov 15

  Ecologies of Care

  Lizania Cruz

  Socrates Sculpture Park · Long Island City, Queens

  • Visual arts

  Free

• Visual arts

  until Dec 6

  How We Work: Smack Mellon at 30

  Smack Mellon · DUMBO, Brooklyn

  • Visual arts

  Free

• Visual arts

  until Feb 8

  Teresa Margolles: En el lugar de los hechos (At the Scene)

  Teresa Margolles

  MoMA PS1 · Long Island City, Queens

  • Visual arts

  Free

• Dance

  until Nov 7

  Martha Graham: The Mother of Psychological Dance

  New York Public Library for the Performing Arts · Lincoln Square, Manhattan

  • Dance
  • Visual arts

  Free

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• Visual arts

  until May 8

  Unleashed: Pets of the Performing Arts

  New York Public Library for the Performing Arts · Lincoln Square, Manhattan

  • Visual arts

  Free

• Music

  11 AM

  Historical Performance Chamber Music at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

  The Juilliard School · Lincoln Square, Manhattan

  • Music
  • Classical

  Free Tickets ↗

• Comedy

  11:59 AM

  Free Karaoke

  The Tiny Cupboard · Bushwick, Brooklyn

  • Comedy

  Free Tickets ↗

• Literature

  4 PM

  Ayendy Bonifacio's BLESS ME, PAPI

  Word Up Community Bookshop · Washington Heights, Manhattan

  • Literature

  Free

• Music

  4 PM

  Concerto Competition Finals

  The Juilliard School · Lincoln Square, Manhattan

  • Music
  • Classical

  Free Tickets ↗

• Comedy

  5 PM

  Numbskull

  Pete's Candy Store · Williamsburg, Brooklyn

  • Comedy

  Free

• Music

  6 PM

  Karaoke with Jazz & DJ Chauncey D

  DJ Chauncey D

  The Stonewall Inn · West Village, Manhattan

  • Music
  • Jazz

  Free

• Other

  6 PM

  Proximity Opening Reception

  Snug Harbor Cultural Center · Livingston, Staten Island

  Free Tickets ↗

• Music

  6 PM

  Rush Hour Performance

  The Juilliard School · Lincoln Square, Manhattan

  • Music

  Free Tickets ↗

• Other

  6:30 PM

  Family Fridays: “Hidden in the Star: The surprising secrets of the pentagram”

  National Museum of Mathematics (MoMath) · Flatiron, Manhattan

  Free Tickets ↗

• Other

  7 PM

  Houdini: Preserving a Legacy of Magic, Escapes, and Showmanship

  New York Public Library for the Performing Arts · Lincoln Square, Manhattan

  Free Tickets ↗

• Music

  7 PM

  Kweendom

  Pete's Candy Store · Williamsburg, Brooklyn

  • Music

  Free

• Music

  9 PM

  Kelsey Hughen

  Pete's Candy Store · Williamsburg, Brooklyn

  • Music

  Free

• Music

  10 PM

  Kory Burrell

  Pete's Candy Store · Williamsburg, Brooklyn

  • Music

  Free

• Music

  11 PM

  Ndanu and the BlueJeans

  Pete's Candy Store · Williamsburg, Brooklyn

  • Music

  Free

• Nights out

  —Time not announced

  KARAOKE TREMENDOUS

  Union Hall · Park Slope, Brooklyn

  • Nights out

  Free Tickets ↗

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