Steady Wednesday: 8 items, 5 of them free — three live-music options tonight (free garden jazz in the LES, a free Queens bandshell revue, a Broadway-voices Fleetwood Mac set in Midtown), the week’s first uptown art window at the Studio Museum, a free UES gallery show of never-exhibited Soulages, and a free drag-bingo night tomorrow.
Live Music
- 15th LUNGS Harvest Arts Festival — still on, day 6 of 10 through Sun 9/27, 50+ events in 30 LES community gardens, all free, no tickets. Tonight: Ras Moshe 6pm then trombonist Dick Griffin 7pm at 11BC Serenity Garden, Comedy in the Garden 6:30–8pm at El Sol Brillante, a community jam with The Head Peddlers & Santo 6:30pm at DeColores, and Jason Hammonds’ films (The Serpent, Richard Freeman’s Natural Universe) 7pm at La Plaza Cultural. The schedule page still carries a stale Sun 9/20 rain-postponement banner with no makeup dates posted; tonight’s program is unaffected.
- Divas of Music Television — Janet • Paula • Cyndi • Madonna — tonight 7:30–9pm, George Seuffert Sr. Bandshell, Forest Park (Queens) — free: Nikki Torres’ high-energy MTV-era revue, the last show of the Parks free bandshell season.
- Fleetwood Mac: Stripped at The Cutting Room — tonight 5:30pm, 44 E 32nd St, Midtown — Broadway Sings’ “raw and intimate” acoustic Fleetwood Mac set with a live band and Broadway/TV vocalists, $38–43 plus a $25 food/drink minimum.
Art & Exhibitions
- Studio Museum in Harlem: Geometries — still on through Jan 31, 2027, 144 W 125th St — free with timed tickets: today is the week’s first open window uptown (the museum is dark Mon–Tue, so Wednesday 11–6 is the earliest you can walk in). Thelma Golden’s show on geometry — Al Loving, Alma Thomas, Julie Mehretu, Jack Whitten, Torkwase Dyson and 25 more.
- Pierre Soulages: Paintings on Paper at Lévy Gorvy Dayan — on view 9/17–10/24, 19 E 64th St, Upper East Side — free, Tue–Sat 10am–6pm: more than twenty paintings on paper, several never exhibited publicly, organized with the artist’s widow.
Comedy & Film
- Drag King Bingo + open set at Tiny Cupboard — Thu 9/24, 6:30–8:30pm, Tiny Cupboard Comedy Club, Bushwick — free admission; bingo cards are $5 with half the night’s take going to the round-3 winner, plus free drinks and prizes.
- Celebrating Jim Henson’s 90th Birthday at MoMI — Thu 9/24–Sun 9/27, Museum of the Moving Image, 36-01 35th Ave, Astoria — free gallery admission Thursday 2–6pm, then Muppet Show best-episode screenings, puppet workshops, Henson fan art, a collectible swap meet and live music in the courtyard Sunday. Some programs free with RSVP, others ticketed.
Festivals & Culture
- 2026 Mid-Autumn Festival at China Institute — Sat 9/26, 2–5pm, 100 Washington St, FiDi — $15 general / $6 kids 12 and under: snow-skin mooncake-making and rice-dough sculpture workshops (sign up at the 1:30pm check-in, first-come), Dunhuang dance and Chinese music performances 2:05–2:30, sugar painting and lacquer-fan stations, plus a guided tour of the gallery’s China Institute Gallery at 60 exhibition.
All gathered items - what was cut and why (16)
- The Armory Show, Javits Center, Thu 9/24-Sun 9/27 (no URL found) - DEDUP: the week’s biggest art fair, but $60 single-day and edged by the free Soulages gallery show (web · Time Out weekly roundup)
- Another Free Comedy Show @ Rose’s R&R Bar - DEDUP: free and fully described yesterday; still on tonight at 457 Graham Ave if you’re in Williamsburg (r/Williamsburg)
- NOW / THEN: ARC’TERYX x BEAMS - DEDUP: third mention, no new information; free and in its last day tomorrow at 45 Grand St (web · nycforfree.co)
- Zero Parlour ice cream in Madison Square Park (brand activation) (no URL found) - OFFTOPIC: free-samples marketing today only, not an event (web · nycforfree.co calendar)
- Angelina Bakery free tastings (brand activation) (no URL found) - OFFTOPIC: free-samples marketing, not an event (web · nycforfree.co calendar)
- Gotham Burger’s 100 free singles (brand activation) (no URL found) - OFFTOPIC: free-samples marketing, not an event (web · nycforfree.co calendar)
- Naya × Clove (brand activation) (no URL found) - OFFTOPIC: free-samples marketing, not an event (web · nycforfree.co calendar)
- AC/DC PWR/UP pop-up at Hard Rock Times Square (brand activation) (no URL found) - OFFTOPIC: free-samples marketing, not an event (web · nycforfree.co calendar)
- New Open Mic & Jam - UNVERIFIABLE: no date or venue given, 2nd run of the cut (r/Bushwick)
- New Open Mic & Jam - UNVERIFIABLE: no date or venue given, 2nd run of the cut (r/Williamsburg)
- [Sunset Park] Gotta Paint Em All - Pokemon paint event is coming together for Oct - UNVERIFIABLE: no firm date or venue, 3rd run of the cut (r/Brooklyn)
- First time checking the Streeteasy in two years and I gotta say… - OFFTOPIC: a rent-listing parody thread, not an event (score 1294) (r/Astoria)
- WTF, Wall St just now - OFFTOPIC: a photo post, not an event (score 1283) (r/nyc)
- Prospect Park bikers - it is on you to slow down for safety, not on everyone else to help you maintain your line and speed - OFFTOPIC: a neighborhood rant, not an event (score 931) (r/Brooklyn)
- Police and Dept of Sanitation have raided the Myrtle-Wyckoff Market - CRIME: enforcement raid, not an attendable event (score 228) (r/Bushwick)
- man in hospital gown and wheelchair - NSFW: exhibitionism photo post, not an event (score 124) (r/Greenpoint)
29 events auto-dropped by the timing filter (past dates) - logged in the Obsidian raw dump.