CULTURAL PICKS

CULTURAL PICKS

A million people—manners free and superb—open voices—hospitality—the most courageous and friendly young men,
City of hurried and sparkling waters! city of spires and masts!
City nested in bays! my city!
“Mannahatta”
Walt Withman

We hope that during the annual conference "The Creative Ecosystem: People, Process and People," New York will become your city as well. The city is bursting with cultural offerings and diverse voices, and our conference schedule reflects that. While we can't possibly capture everything, we've curated a selection of Cultural Picks from the conference program and beyond to give you a taste.

Start your exploration of New York City with three art gazes on the Pre-Conference Day, organized by our host, Baruch College, and conclude with the closing reception at Weeksville Heritage Center. All Arts&Culture off-compass visits are open to conference participants on a first-come first-served basis.

NYC Arts & Culture off-campus visit to Whitney Museum’s Educational Department

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NYC Arts & Culture off-campus visit to The Arts Center at Governors Island - LMCC

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NYC Arts & Culture off-campus visit to South Street Seaport Museum

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Weeksville Heritage Center

The Center is a historical and cultural landmark that was home to one of the largest free Black communities in the country. Register for the conference here to join a round-trip and a closing reception at Weeksville on June 3rd.

If you plan to extend your stay in New York City before or after the conference, we highly recommend exploring the following cultural venues:

Exploration of Afrofuturism with Wangechi Mutu at the New Museum

A major solo exhibition “Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined” is on display in the New Museum until June 4th. “Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined” traces connections between recent developments in the artist’s sculptural practice and her decades-long exploration of the legacies of colonialism, globalization, and African and diasporic cultural traditions. 

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Exploration of Native Women Artists with Jaune Quick-to-See Smith’s retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art

This exhibition is the first New York retrospective of Jaune Quick-to-See Smith (b. 1940, citizen of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation), an overdue but timely look at the work of a groundbreaking artist. Jaune Quick-to-See Smith: Memory Map brings together nearly five decades of Smith’s drawings, prints, paintings, and sculptures in the largest and most comprehensive showing of her career to date.

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Exploration of Race, Gender and Class with Robert Icke at the Park Avenue Armory 

The 2023 Park Avenue Armory season kicks off with Robert Icke’s play The Doctor on June 3rd. This scorching examination of our age, a striking reimagining of the 1912 play Professor Bernhardi by Arthur Schnitzler, utilizes the lens of medical ethics to examine urgent questions of faith, identity, race, gender, privilege, and scientific rationality.

Juliet Stevenson reprises her Olivier Award-winning role as the doctor at the center of the drama where nothing is quite what—or who—it seems.

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Exploration of the American Experience at Tenement Museum

The Tenement Museum celebrates the enduring stories that define and strengthen what it means to be American. Explore historically restored tenement apartments and discover how immigrants lived on New York's Lower East Side in the 19th and 20th centuries on Orchard Street and the surrounding neighborhood on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, and the Museum’s newest initiative, Reclaiming Black Spaces.

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