Art inSight at Home: Ed Ruscha
2023-12-07 18:00 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street, New York, NY, 10019, United States
Art inSight at Home is an online program for individuals who are blind or have low vision. In each session, staff educators highlight specific themes, artists, or exhibitions through verbal description and discussion using the Zoom platform.
In this interactive session, we will have a conversation about the current exhibition ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN with the curatorial team. Artist Ed Ruscha has recorded and transformed familiar subjects—whether roadside gasoline stations or the 20th Century Fox logo—often revisiting motifs, sites, or words years later. Together we will trace shifts in the artist’s means and methods over time in works that make use of everything from gunpowder to chocolate.
Art inSight at Home is free of charge. Participants may join with the Zoom app or website, or toll free via phone.
Space is limited, and preregistration is required. Please register at least 24 hours in advance of the program to ensure you receive the Zoom login information. Register today
For more information, please call Access Programs at 212-408-6447 or email AccessPrograms@moma.org.

Free Night at Frick Madison
2023-12-08 17:00 - 21:00 | Frick Madison, 945 Madison Avenue, New York, NY, 10021, United States
Celebrate the must-see fall exhibition Barkley L. Hendricks: Portraits at the Frick with a free evening at Frick Madison! Enjoy after-hours access to the show along with all the galleries and the Frick Art Reference Library’s reading room. The evening also includes sketching, themed talks, live music, and complimentary refreshments from The SisterYard.
American Sign Language interpretation and Assistive Listening Devices will be available at all the talks.

Discoveries (Ages 14–22)—Follow Your Nose
2023-12-10 11:00 - 12:30 | The Met Fifth Avenue, 1000 5th Avenue, New York, NY, 10028, United States
For young people and adults with learning and developmental disabilities and those on the autism spectrum. Join us for an in-person workshop to talk about and make art!
Free, though advance registration is required. Space is limited.
For updates on upcoming programs, connect with us on Facebook or contact us at access@metmuseum.org.

Discoveries (Ages 23+)—Follow Your Nose
2023-12-10 14:00 - 15:30 | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10028, United States
For young people and adults with learning and developmental disabilities and those on the autism spectrum. Join us for an in-person workshop to talk about and make art!
Free, though advance registration is required. Space is limited.

ASL Tour: Only the Young, Experimental Art in Korea
2023-12-10 18:30 - 20:30 | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY , NY, 10128, United States
The Guggenheim welcomes visitors from the D/deaf community for an in-person American Sign Language (ASL) tour on Sunday, December 10, from 6:30 to 8:30 pm. Join us at the museum to explore the exhibition Only the Young: Experimental Art in Korea, 1960s–1970s.
This after-hours program will be led by educator Joyce Hom. We’ll begin with a tour in the galleries followed by a light reception and art-making activities in the education center.
Designed for the D/deaf community, the tour is in ASL only without voice interpretation. Due to limited capacity, we are not able to accommodate ASL students at this time.
Free, but space is limited. Please RSVP at least three days before the program. To RSVP, click here or email access@guggenheim.org.

Lincoln Center Moments: Morley: Songs of Freedom
2023-12-13 13:00 - 15:00, 2023-12-14 13:00 - 15:00, 2023-12-15 13:00 - 15:00, 2023-12-16 13:00 - 15:00, 2023-12-17 13:00 - 15:00, 2023-12-18 13:00 - 15:00, 2023-12-19 13:00 - 15:00, 2023-12-20 13:00 - 15:00 and 2 more dates | Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse, 165 West 65th Street, New York, NY , NY, 10023, United States
Join Morley as she weaves the threads of jazz, soul, and folk traditions into a singular tapestry of vocal and acoustic splendor — the sound wave of a life lived with uncommon devotion to human rights and environmental justice.
This event is part of Lincoln Center Moments, a free performance-based program specially designed for individuals with dementia and their caregivers.
Performances at 11:00 am are Relaxed Performances, designed for a neurodiverse audience. In addition to audiences impacted by dementia, these performances are also open to adults with developmental disabilities.
Performances at 1:00 pm are followed by an hour-long workshop specially designed for audiences impacted by dementia—facilitated by educators and music therapists that explore the work through discussion, movement, music, and art-making.
This event is part of Lincoln Center Moments. Register to join the community and gain access to this event. Contact access@lincolncenter.org or 212-875-5375 with questions or for registration assistance.

Caroling with The Filomen M. D’Agostino Greenberg Music School
2023-12-14 11:00 - 11:30 | The Met Cloisters, 99 Margaret Corbin Dr, New York, NY, 10040, United States
The Filomen M. D’Agostino Greenberg Music School’s vocal ensemble performs a cappella versions of sacred and secular winter holiday songs in the Fuentidueña Chapel at The Met Cloisters.
Free with Museum admission. Note: Space is limited; first come, first served.
The Filomen M. D’Agostino Greenberg Music School is committed to helping people pursue their study of music while addressing the challenges posed by vision loss.
Masks are strongly recommended. See our visitor guidelines.

Access for Visitors Who Are Blind or Partially Sighted
Sighted guides will be available at the Museum entrance to assist visitors who are blind or partially sighted. Accessibility at The Met Cloisters is somewhat limited for wheelchair users and others who need step-free access due to the building’s landmark status. Find out more about accessibility at The Met Cloisters.
For questions or assistance, contact us at access@metmuseum.org or call 212-650-6050.

Memory Connections
2023-12-14 11:00 - 12:00 | Zoom, NY, United States
Memory Connections is a free program for people living with dementia and their caregivers. On the second Thursday of every month, trained teaching artists and special performers facilitate an online experience designed to promote engagement between participants and the art and cultures of the Himalayan region.
In addition to an in-depth look at two artworks from the Museum’s collection, the December program will be the second and final session of a mini series in partnership with Stories in the Moment, an evidence-informed program for people living with dementia, as well as their care partners and friends. The program uses dance and movement as a form of storytelling and is built on the principle that all of us, regardless of our modes of cognition, have stories to tell and the means to tell them. Together, we bring our minds and bodies together to build stories in the moment. All activities can be done seated or standing.

Caroling with The Filomen M. D’Agostino Greenberg Music School
2023-12-14 14:00 - 14:30 | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1000 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10028, United States
The Filomen M. D’Agostino Greenberg Music School’s vocal ensemble performs a cappella versions of sacred and secular winter holiday songs in the Medieval Sculpture Hall.
Free with Museum admission. Note: Space is limited; first come, first served.
The Filomen M. D’Agostino Greenberg Music School is committed to helping people pursue their study of music while addressing the challenges posed by vision loss.

NYBG Holiday Train Show Touch Tour
2023-12-15 14:00 - 15:30 | New York Botanical Garden, 2900 Southern Boulevard, Bronx, NY, 10458, United States
This tour, led by an NYBG Tour Guide, gives visitors who are blind or partially sighted an enhanced 90-minute sensory experience through the Holiday Train Show at The New York Botanical Garden. Nearly 200 scaled iconic buildings and structures are displayed under thousands of twinkling lights. Step into a miniature city where famed New York architecture is re-created using bark, leaves, and other natural materials.
Free, though advance registration is required. Space is limited. To register, contact 718.817.8765 or volunteerservices@nybg.org.

ASL Tour: Spike Lee: Creative Sources
2023-12-16 11:00 - 13:00 | Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY, 11238, United States
11 am–1 pm
Meet in Rubin Pavillion, 1st Floor

Register for free
Visitors from the d/Deaf community are invited to experience our special exhibition Spike Lee: Creative Sources in an American Sign Language (ASL) tour, led by a Deaf teaching artist. After a brief meet-and-greet, discover connections and community through art, historic photographs, memorabilia, and other works that give a rare glimpse into the world of filmmaker Spike Lee.
Free; registration is required.
This tour is designed for the d/Deaf community and is in ASL only, without voice interpretation. If you are an ASL student, email access@brooklynmuseum.org for more information about tours for those at level 3 or above.
Questions? Contact us at access@brooklynmuseum.org.

NYBG ASL Women Leaders of the Garden Tour
2023-12-16 12:30 - 13:30 | New York Botanical Garden, 2900 Southern Boulevard, Bronx, NY, 10458, United States
Throughout its history, women cultivated NYBG as pioneers in botany, gardening, philanthropy, and the arts. Explore the ways these leaders contributed to horticulture, education, and scientific discovery across Garden grounds. This tour is led by an NYBG Tour Guide accompanied by an American Sign Language interpreter and gives visitors who are Deaf an enhanced experience learning about the women who helped establish the Garden.
To better serve our audience, please register if you plan to attend this event here. Admission required to enter Garden. Explore admission options, including free options for Bronx residents here. On-site parking is additional.

Online: Verbal Description Tours with Emilie L. Gossiaux and sonia louise davis
2023-12-16 14:00 - 16:00 | Queens Museum, New York City Building, Flushing Meadows Corona Park , Queens , NY, 11368, United States
Visitors who are blind or have low vision are invited to join Emilie L. Gossiaux and sonia louise davis in a virtual verbal description tour of their respective exhibitions, Other-Worlding and to reverberate tenderly. Using various media and approaches across sculpture, drawing, painting, figuration, abstraction, and improvisation, Gossiaux and davis find common ground in their pursuit of softness and joy as a mode of resistance. Join these two artists as they each verbally describe three works from their solo exhibitions and discuss their work with participants.
Emilie L. Gossiaux: Other-Worlding celebrates the autonomy that guide dogs and the white cane provide the blind and low-vision community in navigating a world predominantly designed for sighted people. Central to this exhibition is the question: can we imagine another world where unity is co-built across species and disability status? Through large-scale sculptural installation and drawings, Gossiaux creates a world beyond the hierarchical structures of capitalism and ableism.
sonia louise davis: to reverberate tenderly focuses on improvisation as a crucial practice of care, resilience, and self-determination in the face of systemic injustices. Situated within a lineage of Black feminist abstraction and avant-garde music, davis’ invented graphic notation system invites new ways of resonating, vibrating, gesturing, listening, and responding. Throughout the exhibition, davis presents this visual vocabulary in tufted soft paintings, a site-specific mural with neons, sculptural instruments, and performances that engage with the process of improvisation as a generative and emancipatory form of research.
This two-hour program will be facilitated by Sarah Cho, Assistant Curator. The virtual description tour will be accessible by Zoom link or by dial-in, depending on your preference.
RSVP Required via Zoom. Please sign up using this link: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYqf-2sqzsuH93YFKcwLbEHrghhDSPCw9YV
For questions or assistance registering for the program, please email accessibility@queensmuseum.org or call 718 592 9700 x 247
About the Artists:
sonia louise davis (b. 1988, New York, NY) earned her BA with honors in African American Studies from Wesleyan University and is an alumna of the Whitney Independent Study Program. She is a 2023-2024 Artist in Residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem. Her latest solo exhibition, resonant frequencies, blossoming tones, at Hesse Flatow (NY) was listed a “must see” by Artforum in 2022. She has presented her work at the Whitney Museum (NY), ACRE (Chicago), Sadie Halie Projects (Minneapolis), Ortega y Gasset (Brooklyn), and Artists Space (NY), among other venues. Residencies and fellowships include the Laundromat Project’s Create Change Fellowship, Civitella Ranieri, New York Community Trust Van Lier Fellowship at the International Studio & Curatorial Program, Culture Push Fellowship for Utopian Practice, and Stoneleaf Retreat. Her newest book, slow and soft and righteous, improvising at the end of the world (and how we make a new one) was published in 2021 by Co—Conspirator Press, which operates out of the Feminist Center for Creative Work in Los Angeles. Sonia lives and works in Harlem.
Emilie L. Gossiaux (b. 1989 New Orleans, LA) lives and works in New York City. Gossiaux earned a BFA from the Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in 2014, and an MFA from Yale School of Art in 2019. Her solo shows include Memory of a Body (2020) and Significant Otherness (2022) at Mother Gallery, among others. Select group exhibitions include Crip Time, Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt (2021); Greater New York, MoMA PS1 (2021); and 52 Artists, A Feminist Milestone, The Aldrich Contemporary (2022); among others. Gossiaux was awarded a John F. Kennedy Center’s VSA Prize (2013), the Wynn Newhouse Award (2019), a NYFA Barbara and Carl Zydney Grant (2021), the Colene Brown Art Prize (2022), and The Pébéo Production Prize (2023). Her work has been featured in publications such as The Brooklyn Rail, The New Yorker, Art in America, and Topical Cream Magazine.

Film: Malcolm X
2023-12-16 14:00 - 17:30 | Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY, 11238, United States
2–5:30 pm
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium, 3rd Floor

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Catch a Saturday matinee of Spike Lee’s epic biopic Malcolm X (1992, 201 min.), and witness one of Denzel Washington’s most iconic performances in his titular role.
Tickets are $25 and include access to Spike Lee: Creative Sources before the screening. Member tickets are free. Not a Member? Join today!
This program will include live captions. For access needs, email us at access@brooklynmuseum.org.
Image caption and credit: Denzel Washington in Malcolm X (Spike Lee, 1992, 201 min.). (Photo: courtesy of Warner Bros.)

Sakasaka
2023-12-17 11:00, 2023-12-17 14:00 | Clark Studio Theater at Lincoln Center, Samuel B & David Rose Building, 70 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY, 10023, United States
To request Audio Description seats, submit the Ticket Request Form or contact access@lincolncenter.org or 212-875-5375. The performance on December 17th is also a Relaxed Performance.
Joyful, silly, and… soaking wet! A delightful wordless comedy for all ages created by Madagascar’s La Compagnie Zolobe, Sakasaka will add joy to everyone’s day. In the great tradition of slapstick comedians like The Three Stooges, La Compagnie Zolobe’s clown trio uses physical comedy and body language to tell their story while remaining completely silent. They are accompanied by a musician who plays traditional instruments: kabosy (a rectangular guitar) and djembe (drum). The word sakasaka means “thirsty” in Malagasy and, using just a mop, bucket and a few bottles of water, the clowns take audiences on hilarious adventures that gently and sincerely explore the preciousness of water. Laugh out loud and learn important lessons as you go on a journey of dance, music, splashes, and joy!

Share the Toy: Fourth Annual Toy Giveaway
2023-12-17 12:00 - 15:00 | Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY, 11238, United States
Sunday, December 17, 2023
12–3 pm (donate toys November 14–December 14)
Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Pavilion, 1st Floor

’Tis the season! To help spread holiday cheer, we’re hosting our fourth annual toy drive. From November 14 through December 14, stop by the Admissions Desk to drop off new, unwrapped toys for children ages 0–14 in the designated bins. On December 17, 12–3 pm, pick up gifts for your little loved ones while supplies last. After the giveaway, any remaining toys will be donated to local family shelters.
This program is free and open to the public in partnership with the Office of the Brooklyn Borough President and Grandma’s Hands.
Support local businesses! After donating a toy, receive a code for a discount at the Museum Shop. Plus, shop at Little Things Toy Store in Park Slope or online with discount code BKLYN MUSEUM to receive 10% off.

Big Band Holidays
2023-12-17 14:00 - 16:00 | Rose Theater, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Broadway at West 60th Street, 5th Floor, New York, NY, United States
Jazz at Lincoln Center’s annual Big Band Holidays performance has become a true fan favorite. This December, Ashley Pezzotti’s expressive and commanding presence rings in the most wonderful time of the year.
Together with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis, she interprets classic holiday favorites like “Winter Wonderland,” “The Christmas Song,” “Deck the Halls,” and “Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel.” Don’t miss this year’s hardest-swinging holiday event, music-directed by Marcus Printup and featuring vibrant new arrangements from members of the JLCO.

Guggenheim Mind's Eye: Year-End Celebration
2023-12-18 18:30 - 20:30, 2023-12-20 14:00 - 16:00 | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1071 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY , NY, 10128, United States
Join the Guggenheim virtually in December to celebrate our favorite Mind’s Eye moments from 2023.
Our end-of-year program will be led by the Interpretation and Access team through verbal description and conversation. We’ll reflect on the past year of programs and turn toward what’s to come in 2024. For this program, participants will receive a special holiday package to ring in the new year!
These virtual programs will be accessible by web link and by dial-in phone number, depending on your preference. Please only RSVP to one of the following dates:
Monday, December 18, 6:30-8:30pm ET
Wednesday, December 20, 2:00-4:00pm ET
The program is free, with RSVP required by December 4 to receive the holiday package; please include a mailing address with your RSVP. If you prefer not to receive the package, RSVP is required by three days before the program. To RSVP, call 212 360 4355 or email access@guggenheim.org.

Verbal Description Tour: Winter Celebration
2023-12-19 15:00 - 16:30 | Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Pkwy, Brooklyn, NY, 11238, United States
3–4:30 pm
Meet in the Rubin Lobby, 1st Floor

Register for free
Blind individuals and those with low vision are invited to experience our collections and exhibitions in vivid, detailed verbal description tours incorporating multisensory interactions with art. Each program offers an opportunity to enjoy works of art and one another’s company. This month, pause for reflection and inspiration in a winter-themed exploration of art in the Museum’s permanent collections.
Free; registration is required. Service animals are welcome.
Questions or need assistance registering? Contact us at access@brooklynmuseum.org.
Image caption and credit: Bertram Lesser (American, born 1924). “Racer” Sled, patented March 30, 1965. Aluminum, rubber, other metals, 7 1/8 × 43 × 25 in. (18.1 × 109.2 × 63.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum; Gift of M. Christmann Zulli and David J. Ramsay, 2003.86. Creative Commons-BY. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 2003.86.jpg)
