New York Magazine - 02.03.2020

TV

7.Wat ch

Amazing Stories
The late Robert Forster is (basically) a superhero.
Apple TV+, March 6.
Steven Spielberg’s 1985 anthology series gets a
reboot, with Spielberg as one of the executive pro-
ducers and a vibe that, based on the trailer for the
series, is indeed Spielbergian. j.c.
POP MUSIC

8.Listen to Ceremony
Ft. alt-rock ballads.
Republic Records, March 6.
Following singles like “Into Happiness,” “Mister
Impossible,” and “Pedestal,” the electropop duo
Phantogram return with their fourth album.
Cere mony muses on the loss of singer and multi-
instrumentalist Sarah Barthel’s sister Becky in
2016 as it blends trip-hop and rock vibes with
poignant lyrics and sharp hooks. c.j.
MOVIES

9.See Epicentro
A Sundance winner.

Museum of the Moving Image, March 11.
Opening the Museum of the Moving Image’s First
Look festival, Austrian director Hubert Sauper’s
portrait of modern-day Cuba unfolds as a mixture
of historical-poetic analysis and a ground-level
journey among the denizens of Havana—
schoolkids, teachers, parents, artists, sex workers,
tourists, and others. The director’s remarkable
eye for lived-in detail and spectacular imagery
will mesmerize you even if you don’t agree with
his theories about the state of the world and
where Cuba fits within it. bilge ebiri
CLASSICAL MUSIC

10.Hear David Briggs
The Great Organ.

Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine, March 10.
Until the development of the symphony orches-
tra, no musical machine or ensemble could match
the church organ’s all-enveloping sound, kaleido-
scopic colors, thundering drama, and contrapun-

BEYOND THE ARMORY SHOW

Don’t miss it, but there are other must-see

exhibitions in the art world right now.

Judd at the Museum

of Modern Art, through

July 11

Curtis Talwst Santiago

at the Drawing Center,

through May 10

JR at the Brooklyn

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Jordan Casteel at the

New Museum, through

May 24

The Armory Show,

March 5 to 8,

Piers 90 and 94

IF YOU’RE GOING TO ... YOU MIGHT LIKE

Spring/Break Art

Show, March 3 to 9,

625 Madison Avenue

VOLTA,

March 4 to 8,

639 West 46th Street

Independent Art

Fair, March 6 to 8,

50 Varick Street

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embodies all of these, as did this production.”

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