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Times Square Valentine Heart Unveiling
Through March 1
Duffy Square, Times Square
Times Square Arts and Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum unveil "Heart Squared," this year's winning Times Square Valentine Heart designed by MODU (Led by Rachely Rotem and Phu Hoang) and Eric Forman Studio. Tilted in various directions within a steel frame that evokes the outline of an anatomic heart, the 125 mirrors of Heart Squared transform the spectacle of Times Square into kaleidoscopic images of people, buildings, and brightly-lit billboards.

Film
Resonance
March 13 | 6:30 PM
March 16 | 4:00 PM
MoMA
Marian Anderson once said that "a singer starts by having his instrument as a gift from God." What seems to follow, however, is an artistic life of striving and struggle. Rarely has the exquisite precision of opera singing been so mesmerizingly demonstrated on screen as it has in Resonance, the latest documentary by Itay Marom, which follows the private lessons of three eminent German voice instructors and their students over the course of a semester. Participating in DocFortnight 2020: MoMA's Festival of International Nonfiction Film and Media.

Music
Roni Gal-Ed at Jupiter
February 17 | 2 PM & 7:30 PM
Good Shepherd Presbyterian Church
Described as "one of the finest oboe players in the country" by The Jerusalem Post and "Outstanding...the star soloist of the evening" by The New York Times - Roni Gal-Ed will be playing two concerts with Jupiter - a chamber music series to acknowledge and perpetuate the legacy of conductor Jens Nygaard. 

Film

Wild Life, Death and Love in a Wildlife Hospital
Directors' Statement
Directors Danel Elpeleg and Uriel Sinai, about the difference between directing animals and human beings.
Wild: Life, Death and Love in a Wildlife Hospital screens through February 18 at Film Forum.
"During one of the first days of filming, we noticed that the doctors and caretakers in the hospital keep covering the animal's eyes. Ariella, one of the film's protagonists, told us that a wild animal does not feel comfortable being so close to human beings: 'even one wrong look can kill it'. Therefore, during filming, we found ourselves constantly trying to be there, invisibly. A director is always accountable for their protagonist - humans and animals alike - but a life or death responsibility is specific to directing animals."


Art
You Belong Here
Through April 23
C24 Gallery
At a time when questions of home, homeland and displacement loom large on the global landscape, artists Orit Ben Shitrit & Nirit Takele each channel their personal histories of mixed identity, culminating in a multi-media exhibition that collectively explores notions of self and belonging in a complex and dangerous world.

Film
In Times Like These: Amos and Efratia Gitai
March 5-9
MoMA
Staged reading and film series introduced by Amos Gitai. Featuring Marthe Keller, Ronald Guttman and Edna Stern. The intellectual and artistic bond between mother and son, the birth of a nation both emerge through the prism of Jewish history and literature.

Art
Growing a Garden for an Unknown Lover by Boaz Aharonovitch
Through February 28
ZAZ10TS
Friends of Bezalel present Israeli artist Boaz Aharonovitch's photo-diary, artfully documenting a gardening project that took place in his studio. The outcome of the process is a meditation on the fleeting nature of the garden as a metaphor for the passage of time and longing. Curated by Aya Goshen.

Film
New York Sephardic Jewish Film Festival
Feb 23 - March 2
Center for Jewish History
Opening its 2020 edition with the NY Premiere of Keren Yedaya's Red Fields, among numerous other Israeli films included in the festival, the NYSJFF specializes in screening compelling, Greater Sephardi narratives and documentaries, that celebrate the beauty, diversity, and vitality of the Jewish experience.

Art
Adi Nes
Through March 1
Fotografiska New York
Adi Nes explores social and political questions revolving around gender, the center vs. the periphery, Eastern vs. Western cultures, ethnicity, Judaism, local myths, militarism, humanism and social justice through his portraits.

Film
Incitement
Ongoing
Landmark at 57 West
Village East Cinema
Kew Gardens Cinemas
After a highly successful festival run including TIFF, New York Jewish Film Festival and a Best Film win at the Israeli Academy Awards, Yaron Zilberman's Incitement arrives in New York theaters.