bThen: BAM Director of Film Programming. Now: curatorial director of the Criterion Collection. This weekend: Ashley Clark presents a series inspired by his new book, 'The World of Black Film'.
Read on: https://bit.ly/3MLiVQH
🎟️: https://tr.ee/L6sTsg
"Set and Reset is not only the brainchild of three stars but also a moving portrait of collaboration itself. Here...three artistic visions are each given adequate autonomy even as they are delivered simultaneously."
📰 bit.ly/3N3V8vn
🎟️ tr.ee/LY3Wvn
One performance remaining.
"Having opportunities to show archival works becomes critical as its own form of preservation. After all, when pieces stop getting taught, rehearsed and staged, they lose their bodily presence."
🗞️ https://bit.ly/4s7vIf2
🎟️ https://tr.ee/LY3Wvn
"With 'Set and Reset,' Brown’s aim was to decenter the action, so she created a long phrase of movement that directed the audience’s attention from one side of the stage to the other."
Only 2 performances left.
🗞️ https://nyti.ms/4aUhWp7
🎟️ https://tr.ee/LY3Wvn
"Ashley Clark,...critic, historian, film programmer, curatorial director of the Criterion Collection, and author, is bringing an 8-film series “back home” to the Brooklyn Academy of Music this weekend, with a project that reflects the work of his life."
https://bit.ly/4aSSmkr
Update: BAM's matinee performance of Age of Content is going on as scheduled today, Sunday, Feb 22. Cinemas are operating under a modified schedule today due to the weather. Please check bam.org for the current film schedule.
22.02.2026 17:18 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This season is an embarrassment of riches—how will you even choose which shows to see?
https://bit.ly/4aEN0sP
"It’s unbelievable. We’ve dreamed about this. For the longest time. It’s a stage where our heroes showed their work. And it means so much to be standing where they once were."
https://www.dance-enthusiast.com/features/the-dance-enthusiast-asks/view/LA-HORDE-Age-of-Content-BAM
One night only: Riverbend, ft. a Q&A with dir. Sam Firstenberg and actors Julius Tennon and Vanessa Tate, moderated by Melissa Lyde of Alfreda’s Cinema.
📅 Tue, Feb 24 at 7PM
🎟️ https://tr.ee/9GEfmB
"What to See in New York This Spring"? Mark Morris Dance Group, Hamlet, and Moby Dick, right here at BAM.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/arts/nyc-shows-concerts-spring.html
"Next up is Set and Reset...It originally debuted at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in 1983 as part of the Next Wave Festival. Later this month, it touches down again in that very venue as part of the stellar Dance Reflections by Van Cleef & Arpels."
https://bit.ly/4bSoozn
As hyperrealistic avatars and endless streams of images flood our screens, the line between our physical bodies and virtual selves has begun to blur. In Age of Content, (LA)HORDE explores how identity is fractured in the digital age.
📅 Feb 20—22
🎟️ https://tr.ee/aS4Ues
What shows are we excited for this season? So glad you asked.
This Winter/Spring season brings opera, the Bard, free concerts, and so much more. Hope to see you there.
"A recently restored Nadja is currently traveling to North America’s most elite theaters in a new 4K print...The latest version features a few extra minutes that most have never seen before, including an added scene."
Nadja is now playing at BAM.
https://bit.ly/4rCdfr2
Nadja is not to be missed—the film has already debuted at BAM, but if you're still on the fence, check out #IndieWire's trailer.
https://www.indiewire.com/news/trailers/watch-david-lynch-restored-nadja-trailer-1235173770/
Cinéma du Cashiers: this 10-film series contemplates “cinema work” itself—the lives of those very ticket takers, popcorn scoopers, and clean-up crews who work within the walls of movie theaters around the world.
📽️ Opens Feb 13
🎟️ https://bit.ly/3ZF7Cw5
"The 2026 edition of the BAMkids Film Festival on Feb. 7 and 8 features not only two days of children’s programming but also circus antics from Parallel Exit...the troupe turns physical comedy into art and demonstrates how you can do the same."
https://nyti.ms/4btHxr3
Where does the self end and the feed begin?
Age of Content is fast, ferocious, and wired to the pulse of the internet.
This high-velocity performance from LA(HORDE) pulls from the endless scroll to ask what still feels real when we’re always online.
🎟️ https://tr.ee/aS4Ues
We're proud to present black& loving: the artist way, a slate of films celebrating Black & queer artists 🎬 Chronicles of a Lying Spirit (by Kelly Gabron), Looking for "Looking for Langston", Looking for Langston.
One night only: Wed, Feb 11 at 7PM 🎟️ https://bit.ly/3LS0Hwp
Michael Almereyda’s cult classic Nadja returns in a brand-new 4K restoration of the director’s cut, and we’re excited to welcome Almereyda for two in-person Q&As.
Get your tickets: https://tr.ee/EJ6i32
Attention high school–aged young people: we're kicking off Teen Space, a weekly after-school hangout built for community, creativity, and connection.
Know a teen looking for a place to land after school? Invite them in.
RSVP & we'll see you soon: https://bit.ly/4bn46xD
Nadja | A vampire attempts to reunite with her brother following their father’s death at the hands of Dr. Van Helsing. We’re thrilled to screen a brand-new 4K restoration of the director’s cut plus 2 Q&As with the director himself: tr.ee/EJ6i32
28.01.2026 20:14 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
All the nom nom noms at BAM. 🍿
Tickets at the link in bio, or BAM.org.
Students: do you believe art can change the world?
Arts & Justice brings high school students together to create original theater rooted in social justice—then share it on a BAM stage.
📝 Applications end Jan 19, 2026! Apply now: bam.org/arts-and-justice
Described as a post-rock opera-- a pageant of seductiveness gone wrong.. Click the link to read this preview in the New York City edition of Picture This. Post
@bambrooklyn.bsky.social #NYCOpera #NYCMustic #NYCTheater #PictureThisPostTheater #PictureThisPostMusic @richardforeman.bsky.social
Rev. Dr. William Barber is the speaker @bambrooklyn.bsky.social 40th Annual King Day event, Monday JAN 19, 2026
Free RSVP requested www.bam.org/mlk40
Announcing this season's slate of School-Time Performances, where NYC students can watch professional shows accompanied by a pre- or post-show workshops to bring the work to life.
🎭 Robot Song, Hamlet, Word. Sound. Power., and DanceAfrica.
https://www.bam.org/education/school-time-performances
"St. Vincent enjoys working with Parson so much that she immediately agreed to participate. 'My first impression was just being totally blown away by the music,' she said over the phone. Then the reality of the show hit."
What to wear opens tonight.
https://nyti.ms/45fD1sl
"'I was singing Mexican music, for Mexican people,' [Lafourcade] said...'I don’t want to sing in English anymore. I don’t want to pretend to be any indie artist.'"
Read the full New Yorker article: https://bit.ly/4jqkiA0
Get 🎟️ to Lafourcade @ BAM: https://tr.ee/Qif62k
Revisit last week's 20th-anniversary screening of The Squid and the Whale was followed by a Q&A with writer/director Noah Baumbach and stars Jeff Daniels and Jesse Eisenberg, moderated by Emily Mortimer.
Hit us with your favorite The Squid and the Whale quote or moment. 🦑 🐋
