Ten curated Scope NYC picks for Tuesday, June 30.
A 6 p.m. CANADA opening puts the art pick into a real gallery-hour window, the sort of Lower East Side stop that can start the evening properly.
Fridman Gallery's curated group show adds a more pointed art stop to the night, with a title that promises argument rather than passive looking.
Greg Mendez at Music Hall of Williamsburg is the night's indie songwriter bet, intimate in tone even when the room is bigger than a basement.
Lincoln Center Theater gives Ragtime a more deliberate reason to be here than the Broadway defaults, with enough scale to carry a Tuesday-night theater slot.
Le Poisson Rouge gives Asgeir's glacial art-pop a polished downtown setting, with Elly Kace making the bill feel more considered than a standard tour stop.
ABT's Don Quixote at the Met is the full-scale dance option, useful when the rest of the feed tilts toward small clubs and movie screens.
Rooftop Films turns this shorts program into a summer-evening plan, the rare film pick here that earns space through setting as much as screen time.
James Brandon Lewis brings a serious saxophone-led quartet into the Vanguard, giving Tuesday its clearest jazz anchor without leaning on a routine club booking.
Zorn at Roulette is exactly the sort of downtown-meets-Brooklyn collision that can make a weeknight feel much sharper than the calendar suggests.
Pioneer Works gives this science-and-culture night enough Red Hook scale to feel like a real gathering, not just another lecture listing.