Mayor Adams convenes NYC's first-ever live performance industry council to discuss issues plaguing industry. Learn more about this groundbreaking initiative.
Want to see new art in New York this weekend? Check out an exhibition at Mishkin Gallery that pays homage to Puerto Rican art. And at MoMA PS1, in Queens, two artists explore their Aymaran roots.
The University of Massachusetts (UMass) Amherst Fine Arts Center is honoring the late legendary Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto with a free online series of special performances. Key details: “Sakamoto Blue Sky,” which refers to one of the composer’s most popular compositions, “Bibo no Aozora” (“Beautiful Blue Sky”), will be made available on the Fine Arts Center website, UMass announced on Monday. This will be followed by Molissa Fenley’s “In the Garden (with Ryuichi)” on Sept. 7; Carl Stone’s “The Journey” on Sept. 14; and DJ Spooky’s “Butterfly Soul” on Sept. 21.
Three current Yale students and three recent graduates have received Soros fellowships, which support graduate study for immigrants or children of immigrants.