Ten curated Scope NYC picks for Monday, June 22.
Shunji Iwai's feverish portrait of adolescence and online obsession remains singular on a big screen, and Metrograph is the right place to disappear into it.
Altschul brings decades of searching, hard-swinging drumming into Smalls, making the early set a serious downtown jazz choice rather than a routine Monday booking.
Claffy and Brazilian guitarist Toninho Horta are a distinctive pairing for Mezzrow, where the close quarters should put every harmonic turn in focus.
This violin program connects music to the lived history of the AIDS era, giving the Performing Arts Library a focused evening with real New York memory behind it.
Eileen Myles brings downtown literary presence to an evening linking James Schuyler and Fairfield Porter, a sharper convergence of poetry and painting than a passive gallery visit.
The installation-performance format turns Hunter into an active art destination for the evening, with a ceremonial frame that promises more than a standard exhibition walkthrough.
The Tank is a natural home for a piece with this pointedly anonymous title, offering a more specific downtown theater bet than the Broadway defaults.
BAM's Masahiro Shinoda presentation gives this Japanese drama the repertory scale it deserves, a rare screening strong enough to take the second film slot.
The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra owns Monday nights in that basement, a long-running New York ritual that still rewards hearing a full big band at close range.
Kenny Mason's collision of rap and guitar-heavy energy gives Music Hall of Williamsburg the night's most forceful younger-crowd live option.