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Exhibition/ Folk Nation: Crafting Patriotism in the United States
2026-08-02 11:30 - 18:00, 2026-08-01 11:30 - 18:00, 2026-07-31 11:30 - 18:00, 2026-07-30 11:30 - 18:00, 2026-07-29 11:30 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | American Folk Art Museum, 2 Lincoln Square, New York, NY 10023, New York, 10023, United States
Mounted during the celebration of the United States semi quincentennial, Folk Nation: Crafting Patriotism in the United States draws from the American Folk Art Museum’s rich collections to explore links between vernacular art and the construction of an American sense of self. Introducing visitors to the concept of “folk” as a category developed in conjunction with the art and antiques markets, this exhibition positions works as multilayered in their meanings, imbued with cultural significance by not only their creators, but also their collectors and subsequent owners. Americans have long preserved objects as a way of telling stories about themselves. Beginning after the Revolutionary War and gathering momentum in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, people turned to early American things to construct a national history and sense of collective identity—an impulse often driven by lingering insecurity about the young nation’s perceived cultural provinciality compared to Europe.
This concentrated exhibition illuminates how makers both historical and contemporary have employed a kaleidoscopic variety of media to express love of country while also revealing the complexities and contradictions embedded in such expressions.

Sunday Platform
2026-08-02 11:00 - 12:30 | Ceremonial Hall, 4th Floor, 2 West 64th Street, New York, 10023, United States
Free in-person and online!
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Community lunch follows, free for first-time guests and families participating in the Young Ethical Explorers Program.
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About Sunday Platform
Sunday Platform is our most important and long-standing community event. These gatherings educate, stimulate personal growth, inspire reflection and action, and strengthen our community. Sunday meetings begin with music, followed by greetings and a talk given by a Society Leader, member, or guest. Platforms cover a variety of topics that reflect current events, pressing social issues, and Humanist philosophy. Each Sunday meeting is followed by a luncheon and social hour.

Young Ethical Explorers
2026-08-02 10:30 - 14:30 | New York Society for Ethical Culture, 2 West 64th Street (at Central Park West), New York, NY, 10023, United States
10:30am: Peace-play on the rooftop playground (weather permitting)
11:00am: This week’s activity
12:30pm: Community Lunch
1:30-2:30pm: Peace-play on the rooftop playground (weather permitting)
How to Join
To join, please RSVP to Youth Programs Director Audrey Kindred at ethicalfamilies@nysec.org. For more information about our youth and family programming, please visit ethical.nyc/families.
About Young Ethical Explorers
Young Ethical Explorers is the New York Society for Ethical Culture’s Humanist Sunday school for ages 3-11. Sessions raise issues of personal identity and integrity, appreciation and respect for others, and knowledge of religions, philosophies, and social concerns. Topics are explored in an age-appropriate way through discussion, storytelling, dramatization, music, art, games, and field trips.
RSVP is essential to guarantee your place and for planning purposes. If you are enrolled for the season or are members of Ethical NYC your spot is guaranteed. To RSVP as a guest, become a member, or enroll in season, please contact Audrey at ethicalfamilies@nysec.org. Newcomers and visitors are always welcome!
Photo courtesy of: New York Society for Ethical Culture

OUT of the Jewelry Box
2026-08-02 10:00 - 18:00, 2026-08-01 10:00 - 18:00, 2026-07-31 10:00 - 18:00, 2026-07-30 12:00 - 20:00, 2026-07-29 10:00 - 18:00 | Museum of Arts and Design, 2 Columbus CircleNe
Expanding the voices represented in MAD’s permanent collection, OUT of the Jewelry Box considers the importance of queer perspectives in the world of studio and contemporary art jewelry. The exhibition showcases an extraordinary gift from Ron Porter and Joe Price, who have collected and worn art jewelry throughout their forty-one-year relationship, nine of those legally married.
On view are 56 newly acquired works from The Porter Price Collection by queer artists and their allies, and 22 pieces by queer artists already represented in MAD’s permanent collection. The jewelry dates from the 1950s to the present, and stories from the artists and collectors about the role of jewelry in the construction of queer histories and identities accompany each work.
Photo credit: Jenna Bascom

Dana Barnes: Untamed Gestures
2026-08-02 10:00 - 18:00, 2026-08-01 10:00 - 18:00, 2026-07-31 10:00 - 18:00, 2026-07-30 12:00 - 20:00, 2026-07-30 10:00 - 18:00 | Museum of Arts and Design, 2 Columbus CircleNe
The first major museum exhibition spotlighting the artist’s singular vision, Dana Barnes: Untamed Gestures features monumental hand-formed fiber works alongside a fully immersive recreation of Barnes’s Lower East Side studio in New York City. Barnes’s sculptural landscapes composed of fibers such as merino, yak, alpaca, and silk create a compelling tactile environment in which motion and stillness, as well as strength and fragility, coexist in dynamic tension. Inspired by the slow, persistent forces of nature, Barnes twists, knots, and fuses her materials into sprawling, living forms that sag, climb, and unfurl across the gallery space. Her works pulse with a quiet vitality, inviting viewers into a dialogue between materiality and metamorphosis.
The exhibition’s immersive studio experience meticulously replicates Barnes’s original workspace, a former 19th-century synagogue once home to Abstract Expressionist painter Pat Passlof. Within the space, visitors will encounter a laboratory of creativity: overflowing sacks of colorful fibers, experimental maquettes, geological fragments, and handmade tools bearing the patina of daily use. A self-directed drawing exercise will invite visitors to participate in the same spirit of wonder and material exploration that animates Barnes’s practice.
Photo credit: Daniel Root Photography

Exhibition/ Self-Made: A Century of Inventing Artists
2026-08-01 11:30 - 18:00, 2026-07-31 11:30 - 18:00, 2026-07-30 11:30 - 18:00, 2026-07-29 11:30 - 18:00 | American Folk Art Museum, 2 Lincoln Square, New York, NY 10023, New York, 10023, United States
Self-Made: A Century of Inventing Artists takes a critical look at the historical definition of the “self-taught artist” in the United States from the early twentieth century to today. The exhibition examines how artists without academic training have depicted, conceptualized, and identified themselves on their own terms. In doing so, it aims at challenging reductive, long-standing narratives that have cast these artmakers as amateurs or isolated geniuses working out of time, without lineage, influence, or artistic networks.
Image: Untitled. Adolf Wölfli (1864-1930).

Greenmarket at Richard Tucker Park
2026-08-01 08:00 - 16:00, 2026-07-30 08:00 - 16:00 | Richard Tucker Park, 130 Columbus Avenue, New York, NY, 10023, United States
The Richard Tucker Park Greenmarket offers locally grown produce just across the street from Lincoln Center. Seasonal vegetables range from fresh staples like corn and greens to delicacies like squash blossoms and fairtytale eggplant. Orchards boast sweet berries, stone fruit, and over 80 varieties of apples. Knowledgeable growers are at market to explain just how to care for their plants, flowers, and herb pots indoors and out. Impeccable farmstead cheeses, fresh seafood, grass fed beef, eggs, artisanal baked goods, and New York’s only producer of both sorghum and maple syrup round out the offerings.
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Martha Graham: The Mother of Psychological Dance
2026-08-01, 2026-07-31, 2026-07-30, 2026-07-29 | The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, 10023, United States
This centennial exhibition traces the arc of Martha Graham’s groundbreaking career, centering her visionary approach to dance as psychological expression. Graham transformed the dancing body into a vessel for inner life, using movement to externalize emotion, memory, and the unconscious. By putting the raw psychology of the individual and social collective on stage, she redefined what movement could express—not just in dance, but across all art forms. The show displays rarely seen archival materials from the Jerome Robbins Dance Division’s Martha Graham archive, set pieces by Isamu Noguchi, and costumes by Graham, as well as offer insight into the genius and legacy of Graham and the dance company.
Born in 1894, Martha Graham was an American modern dancer and choreographer. Initially proclaimed as a great dancer, she started to fundamentally change the way dance looked and was perceived when she founded her Martha Graham Dance Company in 1926.
Today, she is often placed alongside artistic household names who significantly impacted their medium. She is recognized as “the mother of modern dance” in dance history not only from her choreographic masterworks, but also her invention of a new and codified dance language. Her signature Graham technique, now used by dance companies all over the world, was the first of its kind that stood in contrast to classical ballet.
Curated by choreographer, writer, and educator Jack Ferver, the exhibition is part of the Martha Graham Dance Company’s centennial celebration.
Image: Martha Graham and Company in “Act of Judgement,” from “American Provincials,” 1934.
Photo © Paul Hansen, by permission of Vicki Quade. Jerome Robbins Dance Division, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.

Chair Yoga
2026-07-31 11:00 - 12:00 | New York Society for Ethical Culture, 2 West 64th Street (at Central Park West), New York, NY, 10023, United States
The New York Society for Ethical Culture is delighted to introduce a new weekly wellness program at the Society: Chair Yoga led by experienced instructor Sara Jane Wellock.
Trained in India in 2009, Sara brings a deep, compassionate approach to teaching and a gift for meeting students exactly where they are. Her classes are gentle, accessible, and tailored to the needs and requests of participants.
Sessions may include:

Balance and stability work
Stress-reduction techniques
Gentle movement to ease physical or emotional discomfort
Practices that support healthy aging
Deep relaxation

Whether you’re new to yoga or returning to your practice, you are welcome! These sessions offer a calm, welcoming space to reconnect with your body and breath.
No equipment is needed—just come as you are, and feel free to bring a friend!
PRICING
Members: $10/class
Non-members: $15/class
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Image Credit: New York Society for Ethical Culture

Summer Jazz Sensations: Steve Davis featuring Abena Koomson-Davis
2026-07-29 12:00 - 13:30 | Dante Park, Broadway 64st, New York, NY, 10023, United States
Steve Davis is widely regarded one of today’s leading voices on the trombone. Davis first gained widespread recognition with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers (‘90) composing the title track of Blakey’s last album, One For All (A&M). In the years since, Steve has worked with a broad range of jazz luminaries such as Jackie McLean, Chick Corea, Freddie Hubbard, Benny Golson, Slide Hampton’s World of Trombones, Cecil Payne, Horace Silver, Hank Jones, Cedar Walton, Harold Mabern, Larry Willis, Roy Hargrove, Willie Jones III, Joe Farnsworth, Eric Alexander & One For All. Davis has also been a steady member of big bands led by Jimmy Heath, Ron Carter, Christian McBride and John Lee & The Dizzy Gillespie All-Stars. Steve has appeared on The Jimmy Fallon Show with Stevie Wonder and at The White House Tribute to Ray Charles (PBS).
Davis performs on nearly 200 recordings, including 20 as a leader. His latest release, We See (Smoke Sessions) features Davis in a live setting along with a stellar lineup including Eddie Henderson, Ralph Moore, Renee Rosnes, Essiet Essiet and Lewis Nash. The album has received extensive critical acclaim. Steve’s original composition Optimism appears on the McBride Big Band’s Grammy Award-winning release Bringin’ It (2018). Davis also received a Grammy for playing on Chick Corea’s Spanish Heart Band release Antidote (2019). Davis collaborates with his wife, vocalist Abena Koomson-Davis on her debut Where Is Love (WJ3 Feb ’24) which also features his son, guitarist Tony Davis. Steve & Abena appear together on Natalie Merchant’s 2023 release, Keep Your Courage (Nonesuch).
A long-time educator, Steve has guided generations of emerging musicians including a thirty-one-year tenure at The Hartt School’s Jackie McLean Institute, University of Hartford where he was honored as ’23 Alumni Of The Year. In Fall ’22, Davis joined the Berklee College of Music Brass Dept. as Full Professor.

Martha Graham: The Mother of Psychological Dance Gallery Tour
2026-07-29 11:00 - 12:00 | Dorothy & Lewis B. Cullman Center, Bruno Walter Auditorium, 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, 10023, United States
Discover the history of Martha Graham and her dance company in a free, guided tour of our exhibition, Martha Graham: The Mother of Psychological Dance, on view at the Library for the Performing Arts. The staff-led tour highlights the legacy of Graham and her dance technique, as well as the company, which is the oldest continuously operating dance company in the United States.
