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East Village Underground: Two Centuries of Creativity and Rebellion, Walking Tour

Ottendorfer Library 135 Second Avenue, New York, NY, United States

Join Marc Catapano and uncover the dynamic history of NYC's East Village and its famous underground movements. Explore its radical political past, its avant-garde art, and groundbreaking jazz, rock, and punk scenes. Visit iconic sites like CBGB’s, St Mark’s Place, and Tompkins Square Park, and revel in the area's extraordinary cultural legacy.

$30 – $35
Fabio Fantuzzi

Norman Raeben and Bob Dylan: A Lecture by Fabio Fantuzzi

The Renee & Chaim Gross Foundation 526 Laguardia Place, New York, NY, United States

Bob Dylan once said that Norman Raeben “put my mind and my hand and my eye together, in a way that allowed me to do consciously what I unconsciously felt… didn’t teach you so much how to draw … he looked into you and told you what you were.” From late March to August 1974, Dylan made the daily journey uptown to Raeben’s eleventh-floor studio above Carnegie Hall, developing a visual approach to writing that shaped seminal albums like Blood on the Tracks, Desire, and Street Legal. Reflecting on that creative period in a 1991 interview, Dylan added: “That was my painting period… that’s like taking a brush and painting those songs onto a canvas.”

$20
The Cornelia Street Cafe in Exile film poster

The Cornelia Street Café in Exile: A Documentary (2025)

IFC Center 323 Sixth Avenue (at West 3rd St), New York, NY, United States

For 41 years, the Cornelia Street Café was a Village fixture, a great place to go, whether to relax with friends and a bottle of wine, or to write at a corner table, fueled by excellent coffee. Downstairs, on its diminutive stage, Suzanne Vega might be trying out a new song, Oliver Sacks presenting a science evening, Eve Ensler directing an early performance of The Vagina Monologues. David Amram played regular gigs in what he called “the Cornelia Street Stadium.”

$15 – $18
Fight the Power Homocats Exhibition Opening Reception poster

Fight the Power! 15 Years of HOMOCATS

LGBTQ Center 208 W 13 Street, NY, United States

HOMOCATS and the Bureau of General Services—Queer Division are excited to present Fight the Power! 15 Years of HOMOCATS, an art exhibition celebrating 15 years of the HOMOCATS zine series. Morrison was inspired during Obama’s presidency to create a zine advocating for affordable health care, marriage equality, and equal rights. Paying homage to historic queer symbols such as the rainbow flag and pink triangle, Morrison’s work also engages pop art and pop culture with playfulness and humor.

Free
Sixth Avenue Elevated at Third Street, 1928 by John Sloan

Sloan and the Ashcan School: The Art that Shook the World, Walking Tour

Washington Square Arch at Fifth Avenue & Washington Square North NY, United States

John French Sloan arrived in Greenwich Village in 1904 and joyfully proceeded to observe and record in oils the rollicking daily life of the neighborhood. Along with his painter friends, dubbed “The Ashcan School,” Sloan changed American art forever. Walk led by artist and historian Marc Kehoe.

$25 – $30

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