Ten curated Scope NYC picks for Thursday, June 18.
A 6 p.m. gallery opening at Kravets Wehby is a better art plan than drifting through all-day listings, with a title odd enough to invite a closer look.
Fredericks & Freiser gives this opening a Chelsea after-work shape, and the plainspoken title has more snap than the day's institutional art entries.
Abrons keeps the Shakespeare pick downtown and intimate, a stronger theater bet than defaulting to the Broadway board.
Metrograph is exactly the right room for this punishing repertory heavyweight, one of the few films strong enough to break into a live-heavy night.
Klein at the Jazz Gallery is the musician-led pick with real downtown weight, more exploratory than a standard club set.
Cafe Erzulie gives donSMITH a neighborhood-scale stage, the sort of Brooklyn music night that can turn social without feeling generic.
Sonido Gallo Negro at National Sawdust brings a sharper international groove to the night, with enough venue focus to lift it above the party listings.
Hersch, Gress, and Erskine make the Vanguard the night's surest jazz plan, a compact trio with enough history and bite for that basement.
Judson is a resonant setting for Pinderhughes' project, giving the evening a civic and musical charge that feels specific to this date.
Alfreda's Juneteenth program at the Prospect Park Boathouse gives the film slot a live civic frame and a setting that makes it more than another screening.