Coming Soon
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May 20: Warner Library Movie
Roofman
A charismatic criminal, while on the run from the police, hides in a hidden space of a toy store. There, he adopts a new identity and becomes involved with an employee, beginning an unlikely yet risky relationship.
Directed by Derek Cianfrance. Starring: Channing Tatum, Kirsten Dunst, LaKeith Stanfield. Comedy/Drama/Biography 2025 Rated R 2hr 6m
Location: Warner Library, 121 North Broadway, Tarrytown Date/Time: Wednesday, May 20; 2 - 4 pm Cost: Free
Note: Viewing room can be chilly. Bring a sweater.
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May 22-23: Jazz Forum Arts Presents
Ted Rosenthal Quartet, Featuring Terell Stafford Celebrating The Good Old Days CD Release
The LA Times called Ted Rosenthal “a pianist of rarest skill.” An incredibly versatile and impactful presence since winning the 1988 Thelonious Monk Competition, he’s recorded best-selling albums (like 2014’s Rhapsody in Gershwin), thrilled audiences with his own trio and accompanied giants like Wynton Marsalis and Randy Brecker.
Ted is celebrating his new album The Good Old Days, which has Ted putting his own spin on early jazz, including ragtime, stride, swing classics, plus his originals. He’ll feature the brilliant trumpeter, Terell Stafford. at Jazz Forum.
Location: Jazz Forum Arts, 1 Dixon Lane, Tarrytown Dates/Times: Friday, May 22 & Saturday, May 123; 7 pm & 9:30 pm Cost: General Admission: $37.75 Child/Student: $32.50
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May 22: Warner Library Zoom
Lost New York
Behold a bygone New York! Explore the landmarks, vistas, pastimes, environments, monuments, communities, and modes of transportation that once defined this city. “Losses” include river swimming, high-wheel bike riding, elevated railways, the original Penn Station, the old Croton Reservoir, the Chinese Theater, Seneca Village, the Central Park Hooverville, the fake window decals of the 1980s, and Bowling Green's monument to King George III.
Presented by the New-York Historical Society.
Hosted on Zoom. Free & open to all.
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May 24: Jazz Forum Arts Presents
Gili Lopes Quartet
As a youth in southern Brazil, bassist/bandleader/composer Gili Lopes was captivated by the mysterious rhythms of samba. He rose from local bands, moved to London and graduated from the prestigious Guildhall School. Gili gigged for years in Europe, before settling in New York. He’s played on award-winning albums and was named a 2024 Intercontinental Music Award winner. His debut album Algures–inspired by his world-wide travels as a touring musician–was awarded 4-stars by AllAboutJazz.com.
Location: Jazz Forum Arts, 1 Dixon Lane, Tarrytown Dates/Times: Sunday, May 24, 4 & 6 pm Cost: General Admission: $27.25 Child/Student: $22
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May 29-August 30: Hudson River Museum
Black Cowboys in America—Photographs by Ron Tarver
From before the Civil War, Black cowboys played an active role in the building of the American West working alongside white and brown cowboys wrangling horses, branding cattle, and steering herds long distances on cattle drives. They lived a nomadic and often lonely life—one that helped shape the myth of the American cowboy in popular culture as a symbol of this country’s individualism and freedom. Yet, until recently, when Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter album and Pharrell Williams’s Louis Vuitton collection shined a spotlight on the proud history of Black cowboys and cowgirls, their existence has seldom been acknowledged.
In the early 1990s, Ron Tarver, then a photojournalist for The Philadelphia Inquirer, set out to document the rich visual narrative of Black cowboy life. Tarver’s photographs are a tribute to a way of life both enduring and evolving. They capture the beauty, romance, and visual poetry of cowboy culture while reflecting a renewed interest within the Black community in reclaiming its Western roots. This exhibition affirms the thriving culture of Black-owned ranches, rodeo operations, parades, inner-city riders, and retired cowhands—and invites deeper conversation about what it means to be an American cowboy.
A Pulitzer Prize–winning photographer, Ron Tarver distinguished himself in the fields of photojournalism and fine-art photography on the staff of The Philadelphia Inquirer for thirty-two years. He has exhibited his photographs nationally and internationally in over thirty solo and fifty group exhibitions and earned Guggenheim and Pew Fellowships. Currently, Tarver is an associate professor of art at Swarthmore College.
The exhibition is accompanied by the catalog The Long Ride Home: Black Cowboys in America (George F. Thompson Publishing, 2024). The 160-page, fully illustrated volume features more than 100 photographs from Tarver’s series. It has received numerous honors, including a 2025 Gold IPPY Award for Photography, a 2025 Next Generation Indy Book Award Winner in the African American (Nonfiction) category and Best Cover Design (Non-fiction), and a 2024 Foreword Indies Silver Medal for Best Photography Book.
Location: Hudson River Museum, 511 Warburton Ave, Yonkers Date/Times: May 29-August 30, 11am–5pm
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May 29, 2026-March 20, 2027: The Pocantico Center
Woven Wonders: Kykuit’s Picasso Tapestries
Woven Wonders: Kykuit’s Picasso Tapestries showcases eight monumental tapestries based on Pablo Picasso’s bold paintings and handwoven with his approval by Jacqueline de la Baume Dürrbach (1920-1989) between 1955 and 1975. The exhibition explores the origins and painstaking artistry behind this unique commission for Nelson A. Rockefeller and an extraordinary collaboration between artists, curators, and collectors.
Jacqueline de la Baume Dürrbach was trained in low-warp tapestry weaving with a former Aubusson master weaver in Paris. She and her husband, René Dürrbach, ran one of the few French studios that combined the medieval tapestry tradition with the 20th-century Abstract Art movement by creating weavings after designs by modern artists. Over the course of this 20-year collaboration, de la Baume Dürrbach developed a friendly working relationship with Picasso, who trusted her to translate his brushstrokes into textile.
This will be the first time since the 2014 exhibition at the San Antonio Museum of Art that the tapestries are on view outside of Kykuit. A catalogue published by the San Antonio Museum of Art containing color plates of the tapestries and essays on the history of the commissions, the original paintings, and correspondence between Rockefeller, Picasso, and the weavers is available here.
Location: The Pocantico Center, 200 Lake Road, Tarrytown Dates/Times: May 29, 2026-March 20, 2027. Fridays, 11 am-3 pm; Saturdays, 11 am-4 pm. Free guided exhibition tours on the first Saturday of each month, at 2 pm Cost: free
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May 20-June 25: Community Quilts for Our 250th Commemoration
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May 23: Jewish American Heritage Month Celebration
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May 23: The Pinkster Festival
Join us for a celebration filled with art, live music, dance, and storytelling honoring region’s African American history and culture. Pinkster (the Dutch word for Pentecost) is the oldest African American holiday. It began as the only time when enslaved Africans in New Netherlands were given an opportunity to rest from their forced labor and reunite with loved ones. Over the centuries, Pinkster grew into a multifaceted celebration of African culture, featuring music, dance, drumming, storytelling and foodways that enabled enslaved and free Black Americans to reclaim their heritage and served as a form of joyful resistance against oppression. Historic Hudson Valley has commemorated Pinkster at Philipsburg Manor since 1977. Our celebration has evolved into a festival of contemporary Black arts and culture that is rooted in historical memory but looks to a liberated future. Co-curated by poet and playwright Malik Work and artist and DJ Will Ellis, the day includes crafts, foods of the African Diaspora, and more.
Location: Philipsburg Manor, 381 N Broadway, Sleepy Hollow Date/Time: Saturday, May 23; 11am - 4pm (last entry: 3:15) Cost: Members: Free Adults: $14 Seniors & Young Adults: $12 Children under 18: Free
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May 23-June 27: An Audience with Poe
Sip, savor, and shiver with Poe’s darkest tales brought to life through storytelling, cocktails, and confections. Professional storytellers bring to life the “powerful graphic effect” that Washington Irving once praised in Edgar Allan Poe’s writing, with haunting renditions of The Raven, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Black Cat, and The Masque of the Red Death. We pair the tales with complimentary cocktails or mocktails designed to capture the spirit of the stories. The evening begins in the Library, where visitors enjoy their first drink while standing among the shelves, listening to a creepy tale. From there, the experience deepens in an intimate theater setting, with three more of Poe’s dark masterpieces performed in turn, as those gathered sip drinks and enjoy small treats—indulgences to savor in the night’s shadows.
Location: The Library at Historic Hudson Valley, 639 Bedford Rd, Sleepy Hollow Dates/Times: May 23-June 27; 3, 5, and 7pm Cost: $65 (Members save 15%)
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May 23-July 26: Rip Van Winkle’s Journey
Follow the path of Rip Van Winkle in this reimagined, high-energy, immersive experience set across the historic home and grounds of Sunnyside. Experience one of Washington Irving’s most famous tales like never before. Led by a cast of costumed actors, you’ll travel from scene to scene through a multi-sensory light and soundscape of live music and dreamscapes, where you’ll join in festivities, enjoy complimentary alcoholic and non-alcoholic libations and snacks, and interact with the tale as it unfolds around you. It’s a story about losing time, but finding yourself at just the right moment in time—it’s bold, atmospheric, and definitely inspiring!
Location: Washington Irving’s Sunnyside, 3 West Sunnyside Lane, Irvington Dates/Times: Fridays-Sundays, May 23-July 26, 6-8pm Cost: $65 (Members save 15%)
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Now Through January 3, 2027: Hudson River Museum
Ever Becoming: Our Stories, Our America
This year, the United States commemorates the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. While this milestone marks a pivotal moment in 1776, it also invites reflection on how the nation has been continuously shaped, challenged, and reimagined over time. The Museum’s collection—spanning the 19th century to the present—offers insight into this ongoing process, expressing diverse aspects of the American experience in all its complexity.
Throughout the year, we are marking this momentous occasion with special exhibitions and displays of artworks and historical objects throughout the Museum. The first presentation highlights the work of folk artists, self-trained painters, and craftspeople who express popular-culture interests and traditions, starting with a quilt made by three Yonkers women to honor the US Bicentennial and the origins and growth of the city of Yonkers. Nearby, a group of maritime paintings by James Bard underscores the vital role of ships in the development of a modern, mobile nation. Downstairs in Everything Has a Story: Reflections on the Collection, a folk-art table embellished with a forty-star American flag commemorates the centennial of George Washington’s inauguration in New York City.
Location: Hudson River Museum, 511 Warburton Ave., Yonkers Date/Time: Now through January 3, 2027 Cost: Members Free Non-Members:
Adults $15
Youth (3–18) $8
Westchester High School Students on Saturdays & Sundays (13–18 with valid ID)Free
Students (19+ with valid ID) $9
Seniors (65+) $9
Veterans $9
Children (under 3) Free
Museums for All* $2
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