Ten curated Scope NYC picks for Tuesday, May 5.
Karla Black at Rodder is the cleanest gallery-opening signal in a feed otherwise crowded with low-value Tuesday filler.
BRIC's poetry slam gives the night a live Brooklyn center of gravity before the music calendar takes over.
A Monk con clave album release at Dizzy's has a sharper musical premise than the usual polished Lincoln Center jazz night.
Roulette is exactly where a Robert Ashley opera workshop can feel like an event rather than an academic footnote.
Douglas Stuart with Ari Shapiro gives McNally the strongest literary draw of the night.
Symphony Space can make a major-author evening feel more substantial than a standard bookstore stop.
A 75 Dollar Bill residency opener at Union Pool is the downtown music pick with the best chance of feeling genuinely lived-in.
Interference Archive screening WTO/99 brings protest memory into a room built for that kind of civic afterlife.
Seanchoíche at Public Records is a storytelling night with enough atmosphere to stand apart from the generic talks listings.
Mark Guiliana at the Vanguard is the drummer-led jazz anchor for a busy but uneven Tuesday.