A Concert of New Works for Saxophone, Electronics, and Video May 1, 8:00 PM THE BLANC, New York Composer, saxophonist, and transdisciplinary artist Neil Leonard presents Midtown Live, a concert of new works for saxophone, electronics, and video, developed during his inaugural residency at THE BLANC. The performance builds on ideas from his current installation Midtown Sound: Listening Legacy, tracing shifting urban soundscapes and the enduring debate over what counts as music

THE BLANC presents An Evening of Music and Dance: The One and the Other on Saturday, April 25 at 7:30 PM. Exploring timbre as something inseparable from bodily motion, the program follows sound as it is bowed, blown, struck, plucked, and danced into being, with bodies setting air and space into vibration. Bringing Bach into dialogue with contemporary works, The One and the Other traces resonances across time, where ritual, color, gesture, and movement pass between past and

THE BLANC presents Sieben frühe Lieder || La voix humaine as part of the Pulsing Sound series. Bringing together voice, piano, theater, and visual design, this immersive evening highlights the emotional intensity of two masterworks by Alban Berg and Francis Poulenc. Following its initial performance at Juilliard’s Black Box Theater (305) on Saturday, April 4 at 1 PM, Sieben frühe Lieder|| La voix humaine comes to The BLANC on Friday, April 10 from 7:30 PM to 9 PM. Program Sie

We are pleased to share that our studio artist Jenny Santi will present her upcoming exhibition Gardens I Never Knew at the Philippine Center New York from March 16–27, 2026. In this new body of paintings, Santi explores the emotional and psychological experience of nature through gesture, color, and abstraction. Rather than depicting botanical forms directly, the works evoke the sensation and memory of landscapes, with floral impressions emerging through rhythm, movement, an

THE BLANC is pleased to announce the opening of its Artist Studios, ten newly renovated spaces on the sixth floor of its historic Midtown building. One studio will be reserved for THE BLANC’s inaugural artist-in-residence program. The studios mark the first dedicated artist workspaces within the facility and continue THE BLANC’s mission of fostering an interdisciplinary artistic ecosystem. Throughout March and April, the studio spaces will welcome the first cohort of ten arti