Our Fair City Virtual Conversation: In Between
Basketball & Activism: A Conversation with Tina Charles
Basketball & Activism: A Conversation with Tina Charles
American Utopia: David Byrne and Maira Kalman in Conversation
Change the Way We See NYC
Curators from the Couch: Stettheimer Dollhouse Up Close
Our Fair City: Building a More Equitable New York
Andre Barrett on City/Game
Our Fair City Virtual Conversation: Home
MCNY Live presents New York magazine's "Encyclopedia of New York": How NYC Changed the World
Curators from the Couch: Activist New York and Voting Rights
Curators from the Couch: City/Game
Horse Crazy from Coast to Coast with Sarah Maslin Nir & Walter Thompson-Hernández
There are over seven million horses in America – not only in rural areas, but also in many cities across the country -- including New York City and Los Angeles. Two journalists who have explored the surprising world of horses, Sarah Maslin Nir (New York Times) and Walter Thompson-Hernández (New York Times and host of new NPR podcast “CALIFORNIA LOVE”), will sit down for a virtual conversation about their recently published books. Horse Crazy: The Story of a Woman and a World in Love with an Animal (August 2020) explores life-long rider Nir’s personal connection to these animals and profiles of some of the little-known yet intriguing figures involved in the riding world. In The Compton Cowboys: The New Generation of Cowboys in America’s Urban Heartland (April 2020) Thompson-Hernández takes a look at the Compton Cowboys, a group of Black horseback riders in Compton, CA who continue the little-known western tradition of Black cowboys, while defying stereotypes and forging new connections to their community. The two will discuss the place that horses hold in the American canon -- past, and present -- and the powerful and surprising stories that horses led them to uncover.
NBA Legend Albert King on City/Game: Basketball in New York
"There's nothing like New York City basketball," according to Albert King. See why in City/Game: Basketball in New York, now on view. Book your timed tickets: https://www.mcny.org/exhibition/citygame
Curators from the Couch: The City Within
Join curator Sean Corcoran and artists Alex Webb and Rebecca Norris Webb for a discussion about their work, which is the focus of the exhibition The City Within.
Moonlight & Movies | Love & Basketball: Live Q & A
Celebrate the end of summer with a virtual conversation inspired by the now-classic film Love & Basketball (2000), one of the few portraits of a pro woman basketball player ever to hit the big screen. The film's director and writer Gina Prince-Bythewood will join former NCAA and WNBA star Chamique Holdsclaw and Harlem native, playground powerhouse, player and coach/mentor Priscilla Edwards for a lively discussion about the film -- and how women in pro basketball (and beyond) navigate issues of power, representation, activism, and equity. Author and sports journalist William Rhoden moderates.
Moonlight & Movies | The Dominican Dream: Live Q & A
The NYC basketball scene has made, and broken, the dreams of kids who play both on the city's legendary street courts as well as its prestigious high school teams. Back in the 1990s, Dominican immigrant Felipe López was a New York City high school basketball prodigy. The recent documentary, The Dominican Dream (2019), explores López's journey to stardom, and his life after his star-studded high school days were behind him.
Join López and the film's director Jonathan Hock for a conversation about the making of the film, López's experiences as a player and after his Pro career ended, and the power of basketball to shape young lives and fortunes in New York City.
#womenssuffragenyc
“We must not only vote but fight to vote. The voting booth really is the one place on earth where the least powerful equal the powerful.”- @gloriasteinem
#womensequalityday
Curators from the Couch: Activist New York/19th Amendment
Join Sarah Seidman, Puffin Foundation Curator of Social Activism, and scholars Allison Lange and Mary Phillips for a discussion connected to our exhibition Activist New York and the 100 years since the 19th Amendment's ratification.
Uptown Bounce: From Street to Screen
Let's get ready to BOUUUUNNNCCEEEEE! Join us on August 19 at 7PM for Uptown Bounce - a free virtual block party for the ages. More details at https://www.mcny.org/bounce2020.
Alicia Keys / Census2020.gov
🎵 "These streets will make you feel brand new.....Big lights will inspire you....Hear it for New York, New York, New York." 🎵 Absolutely ❤️ these sentiments from the amazing @AliciaKeys from her song "Empire State of Mind" about #NYC. Check out what she has to say about the #Census and what it means for our beloved city-- & then go to My2020Census.gov to fill out your forms. New York City is counting on YOU to be counted!
Curators from the Couch: City as Canvas
Inspired by the traveling exhibition City as Canvas, join curator Sean Corcoran who sits down with John "CRASH" Matos and Lee Quinones to discuss their work and the resurgence of graffiti and street art in the city.
MCNY X ProjectK!d - A Wonder-ful Time
Build your very own model of the Coney Island Wonder Wheel using materials found at home.
Celebrate the 100th birthday of this iconic amusement park ride with historic facts about Coney Island and vintage images from the Museum’s photography collection.
In this virtual video, Amanda Kingloff, founder of PROJECT KID, will teach you the basics for creating this 3-D model Ferris wheel.
Craft projects are geared toward families and kids ages 7 and up. Younger children may require adult supervision, and all families are encouraged to craft together.
Moonlight & Movies: Nuyorican Básquet
A quintessential New York City sport, basketball has connected New Yorkers for decades. Played in over 1800 public outdoor courts across the five boroughs, the game has traditionally bridged ethnicity, race, class, and language and has long embodied the diversity of NYC. Beyond the five boroughs, New York players have served as ambassadors for this spirit of inclusivity and for the promise of basketball to forge connections. Nuyorican Basquet (2017, 108 min.) highlights the 1979 Pan American games in San Juan where many of the supremely talented players on Puerto Rico's national basketball team were Nuyorican (born in New York) and their participation in the games was an integral factor in building unity among Puerto Ricans at a politically tenuous moment.