A preview of the Miller Theatre lobby installation

New York City is packed with amazing culture and inspiring art, but sometimes it’s difficult to break the Morningside-bubble and experience it all first-hand. “Where Art Thou” is a weekly guide to interesting and notable lectures, events, and performances for the literary/musically/ theatrically-inclined on campus.

Tuesday, September 13

• Tomo Mori: Concerto Encircling, 5:30 pm, Miller Theatre – Join Deborah Cullen, Wallach Art Gallery Director and Chief Curator, for a conversation with Tomo Mari, a “Harlem-based visual artist” who has transformed the Miller Theatre lobby into “an immersive work surrounding viewers with a sponge-stamped waterfall of images…In contrast to the ultramarine northern lobby, Mori [has created] ‘Sakura Sanctuary’ on the southern wall, evoking the delicate falling petals of cherry blossom trees.”

Thursday, September 15

• Steve Reich: Variations, 8:00 pm, Miller Theatre ($7 with CUID) – A celebration of composer Steve Reich’s 80th birthday.”Miller partners with regular Reich collaborators Ensemble Signal to spotlight…the Daniel Variations and You Are (Variations). The former is a moving tribute to journalist Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped in Pakistan in 2002; the latter, an energizing meditation on the self—its essence, its relationship to the divine, and how it comes to life in our actions.”

Saturday, September 17

• An Evening of Jazz Featuring Donato Cuzzato & Habaka Kay Foster Jackson, 8:00 pm, 405 Milbank (Barnard College) – International jazz singer Habaka Kay Foster Jackon and Italian keyboard artist Donato Cuzzato will “offer an exciting program of American standards by George Gershwin and Hoagy Carmichael, as well as new music by contemporary European artists.”