Ten curated Scope NYC picks for Thursday, June 25.
This five o'clock opening at Sikkema Malloy Jenkins gives Chelsea gallery-hopping a clear first stop, with a title that promises a pointed look at domestic space and belonging.
The Painting Center's young-artist exhibition arrives with a timely pressure-cooker premise and the social energy of an early-evening Chelsea opening.
Ingrid Laubrock opens the evening at Vision Festival's thirtieth edition, bringing a major improvising composer into one of the city's essential gatherings for adventurous music.
A new presentation at White Columns carries the downtown nonprofit's history of giving idiosyncratic artists an early platform, making it a sharper opening-night bet than a passive museum visit.
Iverson alone at the piano in the Jazz Gallery puts his sharp repertory instincts and dry wit under a microscope, with none of a larger ensemble to soften the edges.
Bassists Devon Gates and Liany Mateo make Cafe Erzulie's Soundoff Session a focused Brooklyn meeting of two rising players rather than another anonymous Thursday set.
Lucía Aleñar Iglesias appearing with Forastera gives the Film Forum screening the live context that earns cinema a place amid Thursday's stronger performance options.
Laurel Halo and composer Ash Fure share Pioneer Works for a night of exploratory electronic and acoustic sound, a serious Red Hook double bill with real one-off weight.
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe joins Eyvind Kang and Jessika Kenney on a Kou Records program that suits Roulette's appetite for patient, boundary-blurring music.
La MaMa turns an encounter between unknown people into live East Village inquiry, a premise better suited to experimental performance than conventional scripted theater.