Lincoln Square BID

Young Ethical Explorers
2026-04-26 10:30 - 14:30 (America/New_York) | 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

Weeknight Cacio e Pepe Shells
2026-04-26 11:00 | The Shops at Columbus Circle, 10 Columbus Circle, 2nd Floor, New York, NY, 10019, United States
This weeknight-friendly take on the Italian classic comes together effortlessly with the help of the Breville+ Cooking App.

Exhibition/ Folk Nation: Crafting Patriotism in the United States
2026-04-26 11:30 - 18:00, 2026-04-27 11:30 - 18:00, 2026-04-28 11:30 - 18:00, 2026-04-29 11:30 - 18:00, 2026-04-30 11:30 - 18:00 | 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.

Exhibition/ Self-Made: A Century of Inventing Artists
2026-04-26 11:30 - 18:00, 2026-04-27 11:30 - 18:00, 2026-04-28 11:30 - 18:00, 2026-04-29 11:30 - 18:00, 2026-04-30 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.

NYCB Presents: Innovators & Icons
2026-04-26 15:00, 2026-04-28 19:30 | David H. Koch Theater, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, 10023, United States
Artist in Residence Alexei Ratmansky’s inventive Voices is led by five female dancers performing intricate solos to an experimental Peter Ablinger score featuring recordings of six notable women speaking in various languages, overlaid with a live solo piano. Also, an ingenious pairing of music and choreography, Jerome Robbins’ in Memory of… casts a haunting spell that reflects the emotional nuances of a violin concerto by modernist composer Alban Berg. The program concludes with Diamonds, one of Balanchine’s supremely beautiful displays of classical dance, a tribute to late 19th- and early 20th-century ballet’s regality as exemplified by the work of the master choreographer Marius Petipa.

Giacomo Puccini: La Bohème
2026-04-27 19:30 | Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023, New York, 10023, United States
With its enchanting setting and spellbinding score, the world’s most popular opera is as timeless as it is heartbreaking. Franco Zeffirelli’s picture-perfect production brings 19th-century Paris to the Met stage as Puccini’s young friends and lovers navigate the joy and struggle of bohemian life. Sopranos Juliana Grigoryan, Angel Blue, and Aleksandra Kurzak trade off as the feeble seamstress Mimì, opposite tenors Freddie De Tommaso, Stephen Costello, Adam Smith, and Long Long as the ardent poet Rodolfo.
Prior to the April 25 performance, children and families are welcome to join the Spring Open House. The Open House is free to all ticketholders for the April 25 performance; register here or when completing your ticket purchase.

Dana Barnes: Untamed Gestures
2026-04-28 10:00 - 18:00, 2026-04-30 10:00 - 18:00, 2026-04-30 12:00 - 20:00 | Museum of Arts and Design, 2 Columbus Circle, New York, NY, 10019, United States
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

OUT of the Jewelry Box
2026-04-28 10:00 - 18:00, 2026-04-29 10:00 - 18:00, 2026-04-30 12:00 - 20:00 | Museum of Arts and Design, 2 Columbus Circle, New York, NY, 10019, United States
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

Syncopated Stages: Black Disruptions to the Great White Way
2026-04-28 10:30 - 18:00, 2026-04-29 10:30 - 18:00 | The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, 10023, United States
Although the common nickname for Broadway, “the Great White Way,” refers, historically, to its dazzling lights, the phrase also suggests the ways in which many histories of New York theater center white artists. Black artists, though, have been important shapers of musical theater in the United States before the electric light was ever used on stage. In the early 20th century, Black composers and writers created many popular musicals in New York that helped define the genre, setting it apart from 19th-century traditions. New forms of syncopation, the disruption of the dominant rhythm, and narratives composed and written by Black artists challenged the prevailing sounds and depictions of Black people on stage. These innovations were more than stylistic. They pushed back against exclusion and stereotype, laying the groundwork for generations of Black artists whose contributions have reshaped Broadway. Syncopated Stages spotlights their work, acknowledges the challenges they faced, and celebrates the brilliance of what they made. We invite you to explore how Black artists transformed the New York stage and how their work still reverberates today.
This exhibition is organized by The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and curated by playwright, professor, and scholar Michael Dinwiddie.
Photo credit: New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

Adult Board and Card Games
2026-04-28 14:30 - 16:30 | New York Public Library – Riverside Branch, 127 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY, 10023, United States
Calling all Bridge, Mahjong and tabletop game players! Join us in person for two hours of gaming fun! This program is for adults ages 18+. First come first served!
**Limited to 16 People**
Photo credit: Minh Nguyen

Jazz + Wednesdays
2026-04-29 13:00 - 14:00 | American Folk Art Museum, 2 Lincoln Square, New York, NY 10023, New York, 10023, United States
Join us in the galleries while jazz guitarist Bill Wurtzel and guests play standards from the American Songbook.
Bill Wurtzel began playing guitar at age 9, and was a radio and TV country music performer by age 12. He attended art school and had a career as an award-winning advertising creative director. He continued to play professionally and switched to music full time in 1989. Bill has played worldwide with many jazz legends, including the Count Basie Countsmen, Wild Bill Davis, Bill Doggett, Jimmy McGriff, the Harlem Blues & Jazz Band, singers Gloria Lynne and Terri Thornton, as well as Paul Simon. Bill is a director of the Jazz Foundation of America. He also improvises with food and has authored Funny Food, Funny Food Made Easy, and Foodie Faces. Bill has performed for over a decade at the American Folk Art Museum.
Jay Leonhart began his musical journey at the age of 7 on piano and percussions at the Peabody School of Music in Baltimore. At age 14, he chose the biggest instrument that he could find—the bass violin—and has since played with many of the major jazz musicians, big bands, pop singers, and jazz groups of this world. He has three times been voted the “Most Valuable Bassist in the Recording Industry.” Jay is known for his work with artists such as Jim Hall, Marian McPartland, Mel Torme, Maureen McGovern, Rosemary Clooney, Sting, and James Taylor, among others.
Capacity for this program is limited; to ensure your space, we strongly recommend you arrive early.

The Dance Historian Is In: The Legendary Tap Master Carnell Lyons
2026-04-29 13:00 - 14:30 | Dorothy & Lewis B. Cullman Center, Bruno Walter Auditorium, 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, 10023, United States
For this month’s Dance Historian Is In, Kurt Albert, Klaus Bleis and Max Pollak present on the life and legacy of tap dancer Carnell Lyons. Born in 1917 in Kansas City, Missouri, Lyons was famous for his “Paddle & Roll” tap style, and is the dancer that brought Rhythm Tap to Germany. Becoming known during the 1930s and ‘40s with his tap trio “The Businessmen of Rhythm,” Lyons’ popularity rose with the tap and acrobatic act “Jesse, James & Cornell” in the 1950s, performing with show business greats like Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Josephine Baker, and all the famous jazz orchestras like Ellington and Basie. In the mid ’50s he relocated to Europe and started the German tap comeback in 1979 teaching his unique Kansas City tap style all over Germany and Austria.

Creative Era: Pop Star Night
2026-04-29 16:30 - 18:30 | Color Me Mine, 177 Amsterdam Avenue (Corner West 68th St.), New York, 10023, United States
We’re always in our Creative Era at Color Me Mine UWS 🎨 Join us for an April 29th exclusive Pop Star Night! This pop-inspired pottery painting night is dedicated to glitter, friendship, and all your favorite feel-good anthems! 🎤✨ Spend the evening painting ceramics while enjoying a playlist full of iconic chart-toppers that celebrate every era of self-expression. Paint mugs, plates, or keepsakes while singing along and bonding with fellow fans.
As a special bonus, we’ll have a Friendship Bracelet Making Station, as well as light bites and beverages!
This is sure to be a night filled with color, nostalgia, and good company. Grab your friends, dress in your favorite inspired look, and get ready for a night that’s as unforgettable as your favorite song.
Two Sessions: 4:30–6:30 PM & 7:00-9:00 PM

NYCB Presents: Eclectic NYCB II
2026-04-29 19:30 | David H. Koch Theater, 20 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, 10023, United States
A program that illustrates the breadth of the company’s repertory opens with a Balanchine classic, Divertimento No. 15, a scintillating dance set to a Mozart composition that features eight leading dancers in a series of variations that illuminate classical technique with captivating clarity. It is joined by Peter Martins’ Zakouski, a ballet for two dancers that takes its title from the Russian word for hors d’ouevres, honoring the four composers whose music the ballet employs—from Tschaikovsky to Stravinsky. Gianna Reisen became the youngest choreographer commissioned by the company with the frolicsome Composer’s Holiday when it premiered in 2017, while Justin Peck’s Heatscape marks another of his frequent creations with prominent collaborators, in this case the artist Shepard Fairey.

Greenmarket at Richard Tucker Park
2026-04-30 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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Duke Ellington Documentary: Screening & Discussion with Mercedes Ellington
2026-04-30 18:00 - 19:30 | Dorothy & Lewis B. Cullman Center, Bruno Walter Auditorium, 40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, 10023, United States
Filmed just six years before Duke Ellington’s passing and at the height of his creative power, the documentary film On the Road with Duke Ellington offers a rare and intimate portrait of one of America’s most influential artists. The film captures Ellington not only as a legendary composer and bandleader, but as a working artist on tour, revealing his wit, discipline, generosity, and deep connection to his musicians and audiences.
Following the screening, audiences are invited to a post-film discussion featuring Duke Ellington’s granddaughter, Mercedes Ellington—director, choreographer, performer, and founder of The Duke Ellington Center for the Arts. Drawing from her personal family history and distinguished career, Ellington will share unique perspectives on the film and her grandfather’s artistic legacy.
