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Wednesday Sep. 24, 2025

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9 – 11:30 pm

Follow the Yellow Brick Rave 🌪 DJ Sunshine’s in NYC

Free
Music

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Thursday Sep. 25

RCLiveatRockefellerCenter

7 am – 7 pm

Ryder Cup Live at Rockefeller Center

Free
Sports

Rockefeller Center PlazaManhattan

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8 am – 5 pm

Gagosian presents Christopher Kulendran Thomas’ first solo exhibition in the United States: Peace Core

Free

GagosianPark Avenue

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9 am – 5 pm

Adapt/Evolve

Art
Free

FIT Art and Design GalleryManhattan

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9 am – 7 pm

Creative Climate Forum 2025

Ages: All
Environment
Family
Free

Pier 57Manhattan

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11 am – 6 pm

Rachel Siporin: Bathers

Art
Free

Bowery GalleryChelsea

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Noon – 6 pm

Homage: Queer lineages on video

Art
Free

Wallach Art GalleryManhattanville

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Noon – 8 pm

Dress, Dreams, and Desire: Fashion and Psychoanalysis

Art
Free

The Museum at FITChelsea

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Noon – 5 pm

L’Alliance New York Announces North American Premiere of Les tutomouves 2025 Crossing The Line Festival

L’Alliance New YorkManhattan

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Noon – 6 pm

Heather Stivison – Ebb & Flow: The Many Faces of Water

Art
Free

Pleiades GalleryChelsea

4 – 6 pm

Bright Horizons Fall Family Festival

Ages: 3 – 8
Family
Festivals
Free

Bright Horizons at East VillageEast Village

5 – 6 pm

Designing Memory: A Look Back at the 9/11 Memorial Competition

Free

9/11 MuseumBattery Park

Workshop

5:30 – 7:30 pm

NYC Facilitation Lab with Voltage Control & Noelle Pourrat

Classes
Free

Fabrik NYC TribecaUpstate NY

Rose & Acanthus by Joseph Grusczak for Charterhouse; Date Unknown, Pen and Ink on Paper (Joseph Grusczak Archive @ NYSID)

6 – 8 pm

Sketching the Surface Exhibition Opening

Art
Free

New York School of Interior Design170 East 70th Street New York, NY 10021

6:30 – 8 pm

Double Dutch

Ages: All
Family
Free
Sports

Garibaldi Plaza at Washington Square ParkManhattan

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6:30 – 11 pm

Illumination NYC: Light Festival

Ages: All
Art
Dance
Family

Wagner ParkBattery Park City

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6:30 – 11 pm

Illumination Light Art Festival

Ages: 5 and up
Art
Attractions
Family

Wagner ParkBattery Park City

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7 – 11:59 pm

The Happiest Hour with WONDERLAND

Free
Music

New Well ChelseaNew York,

Friday Sep. 26

RCLiveatRockefellerCenter

7 am – 7 pm

Ryder Cup Live at Rockefeller Center

Free
Sports

Rockefeller Center PlazaManhattan

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8 am – 5 pm

Gagosian presents Christopher Kulendran Thomas’ first solo exhibition in the United States: Peace Core

Free

GagosianPark Avenue

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9 am – 5 pm

Adapt/Evolve

Art
Free

FIT Art and Design GalleryManhattan

10 – 11 am

Le Carrousel Extravaganza

Ages: All
Family
Free

Bryant ParkManhattan

10:30 – 11:30 am

Shigeru Ban Builds a Better World

Ages: 5 – 8
Family
Free

The Skyscraper MuseumBattery Park

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11 am – 6 pm

Rachel Siporin: Bathers

Art
Free

Bowery GalleryChelsea

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Noon – 6 pm

Homage: Queer lineages on video

Art
Free

Wallach Art GalleryManhattanville

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Noon – 8 pm

Dress, Dreams, and Desire: Fashion and Psychoanalysis

Art
Free

The Museum at FITChelsea

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Noon – 5 pm

L’Alliance New York Announces North American Premiere of Les tutomouves 2025 Crossing The Line Festival

L’Alliance New YorkManhattan

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Noon – 6 pm

Heather Stivison – Ebb & Flow: The Many Faces of Water

Art
Free

Pleiades GalleryChelsea

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5 – 10 pm

Free Friday Nights

Art
Free

The Whitney Museum of American ArtManhattan

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5 – 6 pm

THEATERLAB’S ROUND THE BLOCK!™ FREE COMMUNITY PROGRAMMING FOR THE GARMENT DISTRICT

520 8th AvenueGarment District

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