Hear from a Prime Minister on power, discover a Nobel Laureate's perspective on the economy, and get up before dawn to celebrate the solstice among smart things coming up in NYC this June. Our roundup for events every day this month runs from Art Deco neighborhood tours to the Morgan Museum after hours.
Hevajra Mandala, Tibet (central), 15th century. Distemper on cloth. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Sunday, June 1: Transform confusion into wisdom with musician, meditation teacher, and author David Nichtern at a transformative daylong workshop on Buddhist Tantra. New York Insight.
Monday, June 2: Kick off Pride Month with James Beard Award–winning author John Birdsall as he celebrates his new book What Is Queer Food? How We Served a Revolution at a combined talk and tasting. Pier 57.
Tuesday, June 3: Measure twice, cut once ahead of a virtual Skyscraper Museum talk on a notorious engineering oversight with Michael Greenburg, author of the new The Great Miscalculation: The Race to Save New York City’s Citicorp Tower.
Wednesday, June 4: Acquaint yourself with A Different Kind of Power as the Right Honourable Dame Jacinda Ardern talks about her time as the 40th Prime Minister of New Zealand and alternative kinds of leadership. Temple Emanu-El.
Thursday, June 5: Trip out with Think Olio in the East Village at Ecstasies, Elves, and the Color of Time: On the ‘Realness’ of Psychedelic Effects, drawing on perspectives from the psychedelic humanities.
Friday, June 6: Nosh your way through the Lower East Side with the Museum at Eldridge Street and a midday tour of the neighborhood’s historic past and tasty present.
Saturday, June 7: Discover the intersection that launched the careers of both Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen at the New York Adventure Club walking tour Exploring Greenwich Village's Music History: From Dylan to Springsteen.
Sunday, June 8: Sip and settle in for a broad range of talent as classical, pop, and folk musicians, belly dancers, and a comedian take the stage at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery for the Tribecarts Cabaret & Cabernet Variety Show.
Monday, June 9: Delve into civic projects down South with the founding principals of a Mississippi architecture practice at The Cooper Union.
Terence Faircloth/Flickr
Tuesday, June 10: Explore New York City from The General Society Library with architectural historian Matt Postal and a look at Summer in the City—Art Deco's Lasting Legacy: Public Places and Spaces in the Modern Metropolis.
Wednesday, June 11: Get insight into insight with artist Yvette Vexta and a look at Street Art, Graffiti, and Neurological Roots with Vexta. The National Arts Club.
Thursday, June 12: Stay out after hours at the Morgan Library & Museum during a Summer Salon evening of live music, drinks, art, literature, and general Gilded Age glamour.
The Charles Engelhard Court, The American Wing. Photo by Anna-Marie Kellen © The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Friday, June 13: Take in Diverse Perspectives on American Art and Culture from the artists, authors, and historians who contributed to the audio guides for the reinstalled galleries of The American Wing at the Met, marking its 100th anniversary.
Saturday, June 14: Go on a myco mini-foray through the Alice Austen House grounds and garden with The New York Mycological Society.
Sunday, June 15: Find the way to Carnegie Hall for a choir-driven afternoon with the New England Symphonic Ensemble that ranges from Handel’s majestic coronation anthems to traditional African American spirituals.
Monday, June 16: Immerse yourself in a different era's embrace of pseudo-science at The New York Historical and a virtual talk on Wild Science: Mesmerists, Spiritualists, and Radicals in Nineteenth Century New York.
Tuesday, June 17: Join Printed Matter for a book launch and conversation on Tehran-based artist Farhad Qashqai's Kharabat Vol. 1, a found photo book documenting a hypermasculine working-class subculture.
Wednesday, June 18: Read into Johannes Vermeer's visual strategies at a Frick Collection talk on Vermeer’s Art of Discretion: Modern Love and Private Letters.
Thursday, June 19: Celebrate Juneteenth at the Jackie Robinson Museum with an intergenerational program that includes museum tours and interactive jazz performances.
Friday, June 20: Grab some popcorn for a Museum of the Moving Image screening of Sabbath Queen, the story of Amichai Lau-Lavie, both a drag queen and the descendant of an unbroken line of 38 rabbis stretching back a thousand years.
Steven Kelley/Flickr
Saturday, June 21: Honor the longest day of the year at Paul Winter's 30th Annual Summer Solstice Celebration, starting at 4:30am at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
Sunday, June 22: Cruise on over to the National Lighthouse Museum for The Staten Island Ferry, A History, looking at 400 years of New Yorkers and waterway travel.
Monday, June 23: Conserve some time to learn about four decades of saving cranes from extinction with Dr. George Archibald, cofounder of the International Crane Foundation. The Explorers Club.
Tuesday, June 24: Wax poetic at Wine Poetic, a night of wine tastings and a deep dive into the literary legacy of poet and activist Paul Monette. At Boerum Hill wine bar Anaïs.
Wednesday, June 25: Step over to the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts for a sneak-preview screening and conversation about contemporary flamenco dance.
Thursday, June 26: Thrill to NYC's history of death, burial, epidemics, and execution on a walk through downtown with Purefinder's Death in New York Evening Tour.
Photo: Alexandre Galliez
Friday, June 27: Come aboard PAC NYC where Montréal physical theater troupe The 7 Fingers blend cirque, music, and dance in the multi-disciplinary theatrical journey Passengers.
Saturday, June 28: Catch up with preservationist and architecture historian James Russiello on a Municipal Art Society tour of West Chelsea, onetime rural farmland now marked by well-preserved districts and contemporary high-style architecture.
Sunday, June 29: Head up In the Heights! Art Deco, That Is! with architectural historian Tony Robins and a walk through the beauty of Art Deco Washington Heights.
Monday, June 30: Brace for economic impact with a Nobel Prize-winning economist as The 92nd Street Y, New York presents Disaster Economics: Paul Krugman on the Trump Era and What Comes After.
For a printable PDF of the June 2025 calendar, click here.
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