Ten curated Scope NYC picks for Sunday, May 24.
A hands-on automata workshop at Lincoln Center Presents is a much livelier daytime arts pick than passive all-day filler.
A Woman Among Women gives the theater lane a sharper contemporary shape than the generic weekend standards.
Ragtime keeps the matinee slot anchored to something substantial instead of broad tourist theater.
A 16mm puppets program is the kind of highly specific film idea that can hold its own against the live options.
BAM giving Black Girl a Sunday screening is exactly the kind of repertory weight that earns a second film slot.
A Chris Byars octet at Smalls is the sort of arrangement-heavy jazz booking that feels bigger than a routine Sunday set.
Roseanna Vitro at Mezzrow gives the early evening a more intimate, song-centered option than most holiday-weekend spillover.
Night two of this Frisell-Morrison-Keaton hybrid still feels like a real occasion, not a repeat that lost its charge.
Kenny Garrett remains one of the easiest ways to keep a Sunday shortlist live, direct, and high-level.
Selwyn Birchwood at Iridium gives the list a blues-rock lane with enough chops and room credibility to matter.