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Exhibitions, performances, after-dark events and openings worth putting on your week.

Coming up · November 2026

Fri. Nov. 6

Pace’s November exhibitions

Pace Gallery, West 25th Street · Through December–January — New shows by Li Hei Di, Lucas Samaras and Elmgreen & Dragset open across the gallery’s Chelsea spaces.

Thu. Nov. 12

UNFILTERED: 25 Years of New York Stories

Music Hall of Williamsburg · 7:30 p.m. (doors 6:30 p.m.) — The Moth celebrates 25 years of New York StorySLAMs with favorite storytellers, new voices and host Ophira Eisenberg.

Sat. Nov. 14

Na Mira: NO SMOKING opens at MoMA

MoMA · On view through Feb. 15, 2027 — Infrared video, holographic projections and unstable signals animate a new installation about technology, perception and military landscapes.

Fri. Nov. 13

Wang’s World opens in the Bronx

Bronx Documentary Center Annex, 364 E. 151st St. · Opening 6–9 p.m. — Photographs and films trace the changing city, from the East Village in the 1970s and ’80s to portraits of workers and neighbors. Free; through January 9.

Fri. Nov. 20

An Evening with David Sedaris

Kings Theatre, Brooklyn · 8 p.m. — Sedaris returns with new, unpublished stories and a book signing.

December preview

Thu.–Sun. Dec. 3–6

En Mer Avec Louise Bourgeois

La MaMa, East Village — Sisters Michelle Beshaw and Deborah Beshaw-Farrell animate found objects in a new puppet work shaped by the sculptor’s memories and obsessions.

Thu.–Sat. Dec. 10–12

CONDOLENCE Or A Rug & An Elf

New York Live Arts · 7:30 p.m. — Ain Gordon and Josh Quillen turn family keepsakes, strange details and live sound into an unconventional ritual of mourning.

Sun. Dec. 6

The Ultimate Spirited Away Experience

Metro Private Cinema · $250 per person
A one-night screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s film, with a multicourse feast synchronized to scenes in the movie. Dinner, beverage pairing, tax and gratuity included. Tickets and details.

On our radar

Layered expressive abstract artwork reproduced from Pace's November gallery invitation — Artwork courtesy Pace Gallery.

Three new exhibitions at Pace

Li Hei Di, Lucas Samaras and Elmgreen & Dragset open in Chelsea November 6.

A blacksmith inside his Astoria workshop in 1988, photographed by Harvey Wang — *Blacksmith, Astoria, NY*, 1988. Photograph © Harvey Wang.

Harvey Wang’s changing New York

Photographs and films of ordinary city life open November 13 at the Bronx Documentary Center.

Just in

A child beneath a concrete doorway on a beach in Togo — From Nicolas Vava’s *Stand in the Sand*. Photograph by Nicolas Vava. Courtesy of The Africa Center and Africa Soft Power.

Lines of Survival

The Africa Center · Extended through March 2027
Five photographers follow people adapting to coastal erosion, flooding, drought and precarious work. 1280 Fifth Avenue. Exhibition information.

Lucien Clergue photograph of the Camargue marshes, 1965. — Lucien Clergue, *Marsh, Camargue*, 1965. Gelatin silver print, vintage, 13 × 9 in.

Lucien Clergue: A Life Through the Lens

Throckmorton Fine Art · Through Jan. 16, 2027
Forty-five vintage prints range from Clergue’s Nus de la mer series to studies of the Camargue marshes, bullfighting and surrealist compositions. 145 East 57th Street, 3rd Floor.