Ten curated Scope NYC picks for Saturday, August 1.
A noon Broodthaers Society stop with this many sharp names feels more deliberate than the day's all-day museum defaults.
This Knockdown Center bill has the scale of a proper summer destination without smoothing out the stranger edges of the lineup.
globalFEST gives Lincoln Center's outdoor calendar a wide, live pulse, better than a passive plaza hang.
A mini-retrospective at Film-Makers' Cooperative earns one of the film slots by feeling like a real cinephile appointment.
The Bell House is a good fit for a loose Bollywood-theater hybrid that should play louder and messier than standard stage fare.
McCraven at the Vanguard is the day's surest jazz anchor, with a drummer-bandleader who can make the basement feel newly alive.
Close Up gets a serious improvising lineup here, the kind of small-room set that rewards paying attention.
Bob James with Christian McBride gives Blue Note a polished Saturday booking with enough musicianship to rise above name-brand nostalgia.
Metrograph gives this late Hong Kong repertory pick enough atmosphere to work as the night's sharpest movie detour.
The all-day tag is usually a penalty, but Greater New York is big enough to shape the Queens art conversation on its own.