Future States - Late Spring 2026

News from Home (1977). New York through the eyes of an outsider. Chantal Akerman's letters from home drift across images of the city, transforming streets, subway cars, and distant skylines into a meditation on displacement, memory, and belonging.
The Naked City (1948). Eight million stories, and this is one of them. Jules Dassin's landmark noir captures the city as both promise and peril. A city alive with possibility, tension, and shadows.
Smithereens (1982). Downtown New York at its rawest. Punk ambition, artistic longing, and the restless desire to become someone else. A time capsule of a city that no longer exists, and a reminder that every generation imagines its own version of the future.
Finding Vivian Maier (2013). An accidental archive. Thousands of photographs hidden in storage, discovered decades later. A portrait of observation itself, and of a life spent quietly looking.
Moments Like This Never Last (2020). A city, an artist, a disappearing era. Through the life of Dash Snow, this intimate documentary captures the fragile intersection of art, friendship, freedom, and impermanence. A portrait of New York before the myth settles into memory.

Alone Together Interview Series by Show me the Body. Conversations from within New York's creative underground. A living document of community & creative survival. Follow the thread into Show Me The Body's own work, where hardcore, distortion, and community collide.
Moin & Sediment Club. Uneasy rhythms, fractured melodies, and late-night intensity. A recent dual discovery at SAT. One of those rare performances that follows you home.
Beats in Space. New York after dark. A long-running archive of underground sounds, emerging scenes, and late-night discoveries. Radio that still feels very much alive.
Chances With Wolves. Another kind of transmission. Soul, dub, folk, field recordings, and forgotten histories assembled into sprawling sonic journeys. For long walks, late nights, and curious minds.

Through the Lens of Saul Leiter. Rain-soaked windows, reflections, fleeting silhouettes. Ordinary moments transformed into quiet revelations. A masterclass in noticing.
Daniel Arnold. Contemporary street photography at its sharpest. Humorous, chaotic, intimate. The city caught off guard.
Pomegranate Press. A publisher of visual archives, forgotten histories, and beautifully observed worlds. Slow, deliberate, and deeply attentive.
Jesus Hilario-Reyes. Steel, concrete, wire, and memory. Works assembled from the language of construction sites and overlooked places. Raw material transformed through instinct, persistence, and care.
Abigail Lucien. Intimate worlds shaped through texture, memory, and material sensitivity. Her work lingers between presence and absence, where personal histories become quietly monumental.

Invisible Cities, by Italo Calvino. Imagined places become reflections of memory, desire, and perception. A book about cities that feels less concerned with geography than with the futures we project onto them.
Just Kids, by Patti Smith. Friendship, artistic faith, and the uncertain road toward becoming. A love letter to creativity before success arrives.
Faces in the crowd, by Valeria Luiselli. A city haunted by memory. Lives, places, and timelines overlap as New York becomes both setting and apparition. A novel about the versions of ourselves that linger in the places we've left behind.
The Lonely City, by Olivia Laing. Art, solitude, and urban life viewed through the work of artists who transformed isolation into creation. A thoughtful meditation on what it means to be alone among millions.