Ten curated Scope NYC picks for Friday, June 26.
Marshall Allen leading the Cosmic Future All Stars gives Vision Festival's thirtieth edition a living free-jazz anchor, with Abrons holding the Lower East Side energy around it.
This gallery program turns New York School writing into a live evening rather than a wall-text exercise, a useful bridge between art opening and literary crowd.
The Hotelier at Bowery Ballroom should pull a devoted indie-rock crowd into one of Manhattan's best mid-size rooms, with enough feeling in the catalog to carry a Friday.
Joel Frahm's quartet at Smalls is the clean jazz pick: a strong tenor player in a basement that still rewards close, no-frills listening.
Araki's cult landmark at Museum of the Moving Image gives the night's film slot a real curatorial reason, especially in a Pride-week context.
The Moldy Peaches in acoustic mode at Carnegie Hall is a strange, very New York collision of anti-folk memory and institutional grandeur.
Laurie Anderson bringing Republic of Love to Central Park with Sexmob and amita has the scale of a summer city event without losing its downtown art-world charge.
Cheryl Dunye's essential queer cinema touchstone at Low Cinema is the sort of repertory pick that can compete with a packed Friday live calendar.
Drake and Parker's Black Cherry keeps the Vision Festival night moving into a later, tougher register, the sort of bill serious improvisers circle rather than stumble into.
La MaMa's Ellen Stewart Theatre gives Pairings an East Village performance frame, making it a sharper bet than another familiar Broadway Friday.