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My week is built around Roulette — John Zorn plays Friday with the New Masada Quartet, and Yarn/Wire opens Currents 2026 the night before. Heath Wae's Mineral Meridian closes at Carvalho in East Williamsburg this weekend. Go now if you don't want to miss it. There are some good maker events this week: the Brooklyn Ceramic Arts Tour kicks off Wednesday at Mouse Ceramic Studio Annex, the Pottery Fair takes over Old Stone House Saturday, and the PIT ROOM design show stays up in DUMBO through June. |
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| John Zorn: New Masada Quartet at RouletteFri May 29, 8pJohn Zorn brings the New Masada Quartet to Roulette on Friday. The quartet is Julian Lage on guitar, Jorge Roeder on bass, Kenny Wollesen on drums, and Zorn on saxophone. They work through the Masada songbook Zorn has been writing since the early 1990s. Roulette is the Boerum Hill concert hall that started as a Tribeca loft and has been programming improvised music ever since. I'd build a Friday night around it. Tickets are $45 in advance and $55 at the door. |
| Heath Wae: Mineral Meridian at CarvalhoThrough Sat May 30Heath Wae's paintings are built from hand-foraged pigments — minerals, seaweed emulsions, myrrh resin binders, frankincense tinctures. He calls them time-bearing materials. Orchids and floral geometries recur in the work as thresholds, not decoration. Carvalho is at 112 Waterbury Street, and the show closes Saturday. |
This Week |
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| 1. BCAT Opening Party at Mouse Ceramic Studio AnnexWed May 27, 7–10pThe Brooklyn Ceramic Arts Tour kicks off its fourth annual edition Wednesday night with an opening party at Mouse Ceramic Studio Annex on Coney Island Avenue. The night runs on BBQ, drinks, an art exhibition, and live music from Guarapitocuarteto, and it opens four days of studio visits across Brooklyn. The tour itself is the kind of programming I want to see more of in Brooklyn — a coordinated stretch where the makers open their doors. The opening party is free and open to the public. |
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| 2. Pashariko Bookbinding Workshop at Brooklyn Creative ReuseWed May 27, 7–10pPashariko teaches a three-hour pamphlet-stitch workshop at Brooklyn Creative Reuse on Wednesday night. The class is hands-on bookbinding with secondhand papers and salvaged materials. Students work through variations on the pamphlet stitch, pocket-sized notebook formats, and decorative finishes. If you've been wanting to make a zine, an artist book, or a small gift from materials that already exist, this is the workshop I'd point you to. |
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| 3. Yarn/Wire: Currents 2026 at RouletteThu May 28, 8pYarn/Wire is the New York percussion-and-piano quartet — Laura Barger and Julia Den Boer on piano, Russell Greenberg and Sae Hashimoto on percussion — that has spent two decades commissioning and premiering new music written specifically for their instrumentation. Currents is their annual showcase series, and this is the 2026 edition. I'd think of it as the right warm-up for Friday's Zorn — two nights, one venue, two very different rooms inside the same building. |
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| 4. Loretta Fahrenholz: Music Videos for Kim Gordon at AmantFri May 29, 6–9pLoretta Fahrenholz's video installation of music videos for Kim Gordon runs at Amant Friday night from 6 to 9. The installation is free, and it continues the thread that ran through Body/Head's set at Amant AZ on Wednesday. |
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| 5. HOMAGE: A Tribute to Self at The BoilerOpening Fri May 29, 4–7pEdward R. Murrow High School's senior art exhibition opens Friday at The Boiler — the gallery space inside ELM Foundation on North 14th Street, a former boiler room run as a community arts program. The show is built around self-portraiture and arranged as a set of intimate domestic environments, with each student's section reading like a room rather than a wall. The Boiler hosting a high school senior show is exactly the kind of community programming I want this newsletter to track. The show is free and open to the public, and it runs through June 5. |
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| 6. The Pottery Fair at Old Stone HouseSat May 30, 10a–5pOld Stone House and Washington Park hosts more than a hundred ceramic artists from across New York City for a free, all-day fair at 336 3rd Street in Park Slope. Artist demonstrations run alongside the booths, with a raffle on the side. Show up, walk through, talk to the makers. It's the kind of Saturday I'd build a day around. |
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| 7. Pinch of Us at Sunview LuncheonetteSat May 30, 6–8:30pLuLu Meng hosts a dumpling-folding workshop with collaborators Duffy Fan Du and Steven Mygind Pedersen at Sunview Luncheonette in Greenpoint, framed as a shift from domestic ritual into collective art experience. The premise is to move between roles — maker, server, guest, host — as a way of asking how communities connect through shared culinary labor. Sunview is the right register of room for this kind of program. The workshop runs Saturday evening from 6 to 8:30. |
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| 8. MIG Welding Half-Day Intensive at Makerspace NYCSat May 30Makerspace NYC runs an intro MIG welding intensive at their Brooklyn Army Terminal location on Saturday. The class covers machine setup, joint preparation, and supervised hands-on practice, which is useful if you have a furniture or sculpture project that's been waiting on metal fabrication skill you don't yet have. I'm putting this one on my list. Tickets are on Eventbrite. |
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| 9. PIT ROOM at ZAROLAT, DUMBOThrough June 11, 12–6p dailyPIT ROOM is the NYCxDESIGN spotlight exhibition at ZAROLAT on Plymouth Street in DUMBO — a group show of collectible furniture, lighting sculpture, and artwork from emerging international design studios. The work explores form, function, and material. The gallery treats the show as an introduction to its expanding contemporary roster. If you missed the design-week stretch in May, this one stays up through June 11, noon to 6 daily. |
Oh and... |
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The Ceramics Companion Podcast records live at Starr Bar in Bushwick on Sunday — exactly the kind of off-axis maker programming I like to highlight Everyday People NYC takes the 99 Scott courtyard in Bushwick Sunday afternoon for a day party |
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Heath Wae |
India, Colombia, Indonesia — these are the places Heath Wae has moved through, drawing on ceremonial traditions from shamanism to tea culture. He's a Melbourne-born painter based in Bundjalung Country, which spans the NSW–Queensland border. Trained at Sydney College of the Arts and the Melbourne Guild of Fine Woodworking, his practice keeps returning to the same question: what does it feel like when matter remembers? Visiting Mineral Meridian is the first step to finding the answer. I'd go this week. |
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-Sam
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