Friday, Sept. 26
The 18th Annual DUMBO Arts Festival launches Friday, transforming the historic riverside community into an immersive art experience over the weekend. A highlight of the festival is Open Studios: artist studios and business storefronts become gallery spaces and windows into the creative processes of the DUMBO artist community. A full program of events is available at dumboartsfestival.com or on-site at The Friends And Family Lounge at the storefront at Main and Plymouth Street, DUMBO, Brooklyn. Festival hours are Friday 6 - 9 p.m., Saturday noon - 9 p.m. and Sunday noon - 6 p.m.
The Art.Write.Now.POP-UP is a weeklong art experience unfolding in the front window of the Soho Scholastic Store that ends Sunday. San Francisco-based Rhode Island School of Design graduate Harrison Love has been hard at work, creating “Love Spectrum,” an installation of mirrors and prisms. The residency marks the opening of the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards Call for Submissions. Any students in grades 7 through 12 can apply. Head to this website for more information and catch Harrison Love’s temporary art studio at 557 Broadway, Soho, where he is active from 10 a.m. – 6 p.m., today and over the weekend.
Saturday, Sept. 27
Curious about the history of New York City? On this three-hour tour, discover the oldest Brooklyn subway station house, gravestones carved in Dutch, and the original Ebinger’s Bakery. Organized by long-standing historical society Forgotten New York and supported by NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, this tour meets in Brooklyn at noon at the Avenue H station house on the Manhattan-bound side, Avenue H and East 16th Street (Q train), Brooklyn. $20, RSVP details here.
On Saturday, The French Embassy is celebrating the opening of Albertine, a new French reading room and bookshop designed to activate French-American intellectual exchange. Housed in one of the few remaining iconic Stanford White-designed mansions on Fifth Avenue, Albertine will offer more than 14,000 contemporary and classic titles from over 30 French-speaking countries around the world and offers a permanent venue for free events and debates. Next month Albertine is presenting a six-night festival curated by cultural critic and author Greil Marcus featuring French and American artists and thinkers. 972 Fifth Ave. (between 78th and 79th streets), Upper East Side. From 11 a.m. - 7 p.m., free.
Sunday, Sept. 28
The Food Bank For New York City, a nonprofit that organizes food, information and support for New York City’s neediest citizens is hosting the first Go Orange Urban Adventure Scavenger Hunt Sunday in Bryant Park. Form a team and test your knowledge of the Food Bank and New York City while racing around Midtown solving clues. Designed by City Hunt, the quest kicks off in Bryant Park and takes place within a 10-block radius of the park. You can register as a team or individual — each team must have two participants with a smartphone. The hunt is run through a free mobile app called "Social Scavenger," downloadable for Apple or Android. The hunt begins at 2 p.m., Bryant Park, Upper Terrace, Midtown. $25, register here.
The premiere-season viewership of "Bewitched" in 1964 made it the highest-rated ABC show ever. It kicked off a run of success that was maintained through the 1960s. Commemorating the 50th anniversary of the show’s premiere, The Paley Center asked "Bewitched" expert Herbie J. Pilato to select his seven favorite "Bewitched" episodes for this marathon screening. His selections, which include show star Elizabeth Montgomery’s favorite episode, are being screened from 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. 25 West 52nd St., Midtown. $10.
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