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Our Guide - Your Interdisciplinary Weekend

It’s Columbus Day weekend, and whether or not you have off from work on Monday—a convention that seems increasingly rare, alas—there are some art events you won’t want to miss. Here are our picks!

  CBGB Festival: Though the “undisputed birthplace of punk” closed its doors (to plenty of uproar) in 2006, CBGB has been running a long-weekend festival of live music, film premieres, and artist talk-backs and panels since 2012. Emily Danger, who you can expect to see in CRETUS's winter Performance issue, will perform on Saturday night; the band’s “cabaret rock” is high-energy and richly layered and Emily Nicholas’s soaring and full-bodied vocals will inevitably give you chills.

  “Heinz Mack: From ZERO to Today, 1955–2014” at Sperone Westwater: Timed to the Guggenheim’s survey of the ZERO Group—a highly interdisciplinary post-war art collective which Mack founded in Europe along with Otto Piene—this show includes prime examples of Mack’s early work on metallic surfaces and his general play with light effects, from monochrome to color-banded paintings. A selection of rare photographs from the Bauhaus period will also be on view.  The architecturally striking Sperone Westwater space is worth a visit on its own if you’ve never been.

Archtober NYC Tours: On Friday and Sunday, step out of the usual swim and get on a boat. Architectural tours will be running on the Classic Harbor Line’s yachts (definitely a step up from the Staten Island Ferry!) by the American Institute of Architects. Friday’s tour focuses on  “starchitecture,” the skyscrapers of Lower Manhattan. Sunday’s trip passes under the Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Williamsburg Bridges, focusing on historic monuments and the newest (and increasingly beautiful) developments along the waterfront. Walking tours of Art Deco buildings on Central Park West and a bike tour of sustainable architecture and industry in Brooklyn are also on offer.

Open House New York: This might be one of the most original events that our great city offers. Every year, there is a weekend dedicated to the opening of doors to residential, commercial, and historical sites large and small, public and private, so that we can see what makes up the unseen fabric of New York. There are too many amazing offerings to list here, but one that we have experienced first-hand is at Brooklyn Glass. This huge industrial space in Gowanus encompasses glowing glass-blowing furnaces and a neon studio, with tours running all weekend and live demonstrations of lamp working, neon making, and glass blowing.

Photo: Emily Danger by Daniel Cassady