While the weather in New York City is cooling down, the cultural scene in NYC is just about to start heating up! Make the most out of your fall between midterms and pumpkin spice lattes by seeing all that New York City has to offer! Her Campus Barnard brings you a guide to all the best events, attractions, and exhibitions that are happening in New York City this fall.
Featured Events
1.The New Yorker Festival
October 4-Oct 6
Staff writers and editors from the magazine interview various movie stars, authors, musicians and more.
2.Village Halloween Parade
Six Avenue, Spring St to 16th st
Thursday October 31
New York’s Village Halloween Parade is an annual holiday parade and street pageant presented every Halloween in Greenwich Village. It is the largest celebration of its kind in the world and has been picked by Festivals International as “The Best Event in the World” for October 31. This annual holiday parade draws two million spectators, fifty thousand costumed participants, dancers, artists and circus performers, and dozens of floats bearing live bands and other musical performing acts!
Arts Events
1.“Chris Burden: Extreme Measures”
New Museum of Contemporary Art
October 2 to January 12
“Extreme Measures” is an expansive presentation of Chris Burden’s work that is the artist’s first New York survey and his first major exhibition in the US in over twenty-five years. Spanning a forty-year career and moving across mediums, the exhibition presents a selection of Burden’s work where physical and moral limits are called into question.
2.Mike Kelly
MoMa PS1
October 13 to December 30
For the first time in 25 years, the museum is devoting its entire building to a single artist, Mike Kelly, whose provocative and multi-layered output commented upon and critiqued numerous aspects of contemporary life.
3.Dumbo Arts Festival
September 27, 28, 29
The Festival is a three-day celebration of art, music and performance that spans the neighborhood of DUMBO, Brooklyn, between the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges.
4.New York City Ballet Fall 2013
David H. Koch Theater (at Lincoln Center)
September 17 to October 13
Free Events
1.Museum Day Live!
Saturday September 28
In the spirit of Smithsonian Museums, who offer free admission everyday, Museum Day Live! Is an annual event hosted by Smithsonian magazine in which participating museums across the country open their doors for free to anyone presenting a Museum Day Ticket.
2.Atlantic Antic
Atlantic Avenue, Brooklyn
Sunday September 29
With more than 500 vendors and ten stages, Atlantic Antic is NYC’s largest street fair. It features food stands, live music, belly dancing, and entertainment for children.
3.Columbus Day Parade
Fifth Avenue, New York City
Monday October 14
The parade features 35,000 marchers, over 100 groups, including bands, floats and contingents and nearly one million spectators!