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Friday May 16, 2025

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Wildlife Wonders by Gillie and Marc

Animals
Art

North Oculus Plaza at the World Trade CenterManhattan

All day

THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART PRESENTS UNIQLO Friday Nights Fridays from 5:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

Art
Free

The Museum of Modern ArtManhattan

Painting by Amrit Khurana – Whispers In Bloom

All day

Perceptions of Sentience – Art Exhibition by artists with autism from around the globe

Art
Free

United Nations Visitors LobbyManhattan

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All day

The Lot at Culture Lab LIC – Free Outdoor Concerts in May!

Free
Music

Culture Lab LICLong Island City

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All day

Spring is Blooming at Rockefeller Center by Van Cleef & Arpels

Free

The Summer Rink at Rockefeller CenterNew Yoek

Innovative Resource Fair – Flyer

8 am – 5 pm

Innovative Resource-full 💡 Fair BRONX WEEK

3050 Webster Avenue PS/MS 20Bronx

9 am – 5 pm

Perceptions of Sentience

Art
Free

United NationsEast Side Midtown

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9 am – 7 pm

UNBANNED: Exploring Censorship in Books, Art, & Media

FDR Four Freedoms State ParkManhattan

THE LIGHT SHOW – SQUARARTISTS CARD (3000 x 3000 px)

9 am – 5 pm

The Light Show: A Celebration of Illuminating Ceramics

Art
Free

A.MANO BrooklynBrooklyn

5th Annual Breastfeeding Convening (2)

9:30 am – 1:30 pm

5th Annual Breastfeeding Convening

Free

Live on ZoomBrooklyn

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10 am – 7 pm

The Song of Skin Hotel Pop-Up Shop

Beauty
Free

188 Lafayette St, New York, NY 10013New York, NY

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11 am – 10 pm

“The Human Layer” gallery opening at Brooklyn Art Haus

Art
Free

Brooklyn Art HausBrooklyn

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11 am – 5 pm

Welancora Gallery Exhibition – Into the Shining Dark

Art
Free

Welancora GalleryBrooklyn

11 am – 5 pm

Welancora Gallery Exhibition – Reimagining Kinship

Art
Free

410 Jefferson Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11221Brooklyn

New York Trunk Show Creatives

11 am – 7 pm

Sarah & Sandeep NYC Luxury Trunk Show

Expo
Free

6 West 48th street 8th floor New York,New York,

11 am – 12:30 pm

The Young Lords – The Musical – Staged Reading

Free
Theater

The Producers Club Theaters & BarManhattan

Noon – 6 pm

Atlantic Avenue ArtWalk

Ages: All
Art
Community
Family

Atlantic Avenue from Fourth Avenue to the WaterfrontBrooklyn

Ceramics Now Exhibition-Announcement-2025

Noon – 5 pm

Jane Hartsook Gallery at Greenwich House Pottery presents ‘Ceramics Now’ featuring Daniel Barragán, Carson Culp, Kristy Moreno and Gina Tibbott

Greenwich House PotteryManhattan

The Space In Between

1 – 7 pm

The Space In Between

Art
Free

All Street GalleryEast village

2:30 – 6:30 pm

Family Fun Day

Ages: All
Community
Family
Free

Rufus King ParkQueens

Manhattan Teens Take The Met

4 – 8 pm

Teens Take The Met

Ages: 13 and up
Art
Attractions
Family

The Metropolitan Museum of ArtManhattan

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5 – 10 pm

Free Friday Nights

Art
Free

The Whitney Museum of American ArtManhattan

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5 – 10 pm

Decade Downtown Dance Party by DJ Justin Strauss and Public Records

Art
Free

The Whitney Museum of American ArtChelsea

5 – 8 pm

The Pepsi Challenge

Yankee StadiumBronx

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6 – 9 pm

Torch and Crown: Music with Shawn Parsons (@alabamashawn) & Matthew Lee & The Standbys (@mattyandthestandbys)

Torch and CrownManhattan

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6 – 9 pm

NoMad Design District Night: Fireclay Tile

Free

26 W 20th St, New York, NY 10011NoMad

Satellite Collective Event

7 – 10 pm

Satellite Collective’s Tribeca Show 2025

Manhattan

MAY Kween Poster

7 – 9 pm

Kweendom

Comedy
Free

Pete’s Candy StoreBrooklyn

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