Mary Mattingly grew up in a rural New York community with no access to safe drinking water. With this in mind, the artist recently organized a one-year virtual exhibition that documents the creation of the New York water supply system. In collaboration with More Art, she created a keystone project for this campaign, “Public Water,” a geodesic dome full of water filtration systems that works like this system. At the entrance to the Grand Army Plaza of Prospect Park in Brooklyn until September 7th, the piece shows what helps to supply millions of people with this natural resource despite the environmental challenges.

The artist Maya Lin shows what other dangers climate change can bring: a “ghost forest”, her installation in Madison Square Park in Manhattan, can be seen until November 14th. The work shows 49 dead cedars that Lin planted on charges of deforestation. In order to offer solutions as well, she has planned a number of public programs (listed on the park protection website) that focus on how we can help.
MELISSA SMITH

JAZZ

There is history around them in this area. Half a century ago, not long after a group of abstract expressionist painters founded the New York School there, jazz improvisers who lived and played nearby, such as Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor, showed how expressionism can be and how it can be a collective act he might sound.

Free jazz as a tradition in Lower Manhattan has never entirely gone, and after a year and a half of silence, AFA returns live this weekend with free concerts on Saturday and Sunday at 3:00 p.m. in the art space First Street Green between First and Second Avenues. William Parker will perform each day with some of New York’s best creative improvisers, including saxophonist Darius Jones, trombonist Steve Swell and multi-instrumentalist Joe McPhee.
GIOVANNI RUSSONELLO

CHILDREN

Regardless of how you feel about public transportation these days, a railroad adventure remains perfectly safe: the ride the New York Transit Museum offers on Saturday.

Though the institution has not yet reopened its headquarters, a disused subway station in Brooklyn, it still holds its annual family allowance Party on Wheels over a well-known high-speed means of transport – the internet.

This free virtual excursion ($ 25 per family donation is recommended) will run on Zoom from noon to 1 p.m. Eastern Time. After a brief tour of vintage cars, including the oldest in the museum’s collection – a Brooklyn Union Elevated car from 1904 – the married duo Dan + Claudia Zanes will present a concert on the theme of New York and Transit and participate in a short Q&A.

Join The Times theater reporter Michael Paulson in conversation with Lin-Manuel Miranda, see a performance of Shakespeare in the Park, and more as we explore the signs of hope in a transformed city. For a year now, the “Offstage” series has accompanied the theater through a shutdown. Now let’s look at his recovery.

One of the folk tunes they’ll be playing, the bluesy “Coney Island Avenue,” inspires the final activity. As they listen to the song, the children draw pictures that capture their own colorful visions of a trip to the beach.
LAUREL GRAVE

Film series

The New York Film Festival took place on the web and in drive-in theaters in September and October. From Friday to August 26th, around 30 features can now be played indoors. Big Screen Summer: NYFF58 Redux kicks off in the movie at Lincoln Center with Steve McQueen’s “Small Ax” anthology: “Lovers Rock” (who opened the festival) plays throughout the month, and the other “Small Ax” movies (including “Mangrove” and “Red, White and Blue”) will be shown several times in the coming week.

Later in June and July, expect revivals like “Hopper / Welles” (an extended dialogue between Dennis Hopper and Orson Welles, with Welles sometimes playing a role) and Hou Hsiao-hsien’s “Flowers of Shanghai”. The program will also have some selections that did not show up at all. The eight-hour “The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)” runs from July 16-22 in August the Polish film “The Hourglass Sanatorium” from 1973 will be shown.
BEN KENIGSBERG

Stand-up Kelly Bachman went viral in October 2019 for adapting her act when she saw Harvey Weinstein in the audience. Millions watched the clip on Twitter, and Bachman made the most of their moment by presenting the Rape Jokes by Survivors showcase at the 2019 New York Comedy Festival and participating in Hysterical, an FX on Hulu documentary that which was released in March.

In between, she developed a musical comedy hour, “Rape Victims Are Horny Too,” with Dylan Adler, another survivor and comedian of assaults. Bachman and Adler began performing in February 2020, then switched to livestreaming last year while simultaneously making a music video for one of their songs, “Tell Me I’m Hot and Don’t F *** ing Touch Me.”

Her first personal show since the pandemic is on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at Asylum NYC. Tickets are $ 20, and viewers must present proof of vaccination or a negative Covid-19 test on the same day to participate. Further performances are planned for June 24th in the Caveat and July 10th in the Asylum.
SEAN L. McCARTHY

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