Kamasi Washington playing two nights at Music Hall of Williamsburg is the kind of booking a room that size doesn't usually get, and Wednesday's already sold out. I'd also point any maker toward Saturday's letterpress class at Bowne & Co., a real working 19th-century print shop inside the Seaport Museum.
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Kamasi Washington plays two nights at Music Hall of Williamsburg this week, a rare booking for a room this size. Wednesday's show is already sold out; Thursday still has tickets as of writing.
Wed Jul 29–Thu Jul 30, 8p -
Three concurrent shows fill Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition's Whale Building in Sunset Park this month: a survey of the Brooklyn landscape, a soccer-themed group show, and a lighter one called Crazy Joy Time for You. BWAC's actual Red Hook building burned down last September; this is the temporary space.
Sat/Sun through Aug 2, 1–6p -
Bertaglia leads a family-friendly hand-building session at Residency Unlimited's Governors Island space, working natural materials found on the island itself into the clay. Same Saturday as the letterpress class in Worth the Trip below, if you want to make a day of it.
Sat Aug 1, 2–4p -
Antal runs a workshop on combining collage techniques with comic-making at Powerhouse Arts' Gowanus fabrication campus.
Sun Aug 2 -
Anetha, a French techno producer known for glossy basslines and melancholic melodies who has played Berghain and Concrete, plays Public Records this week alongside 320.
Thu Jul 30, 10:30p -
The UK garage DJ plays an open-air set at the historic waterfront terminal as part of his North America tour. Saturday's show is already sold out; Friday's still has tickets.
Fri Jul 31, 4p -
NYC Rave Girls books an all-female lineup with Bonnie Spacey, Heidi Lawden, and Ksenyeah on the decks. The collective started as post-rave debriefs and now draws a community in the thousands.
Sat Aug 1, 8p
Scheichelbauer and Bologna teach a two-day class on designing variable fonts with the Glyphs software, inside a working 19th-century letterpress shop at the South Street Seaport Museum.
New paintings and works on paper across Jack Shainman's Chelsea location. Yiadom-Boakye invents her figures rather than painting from life, and the show closes two days after this issue ships.
Zoë Pulley works with textiles, photographs, and family archives to trace the everyday stories of Black American life. She's New York-based, with a studio at ISCP in Bushwick, and calls her method surfacing, pulling narrative out of ordinary material passed down through her own family. I keep thinking about one piece in particular: a flyer for her grandmother's own 1981 fashion show, recreated and pinned to the studio wall as part of the work itself. Her practice also traces her family's Great Migration north from Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee.
See you out there,
Sam