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today's MUG 06.14.19

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music ‣ Vessel Orchestra is a performance exhibition by British artist Oliver Beer opening at the Met Breuer on July 2. Beer uses 32 objects selected from the Met collection, adding a microphone, allowing each object to moonlight from its day job, repurposed into instruments. Concerts with this orchestra will be performed on Friday nights from July 5 through August 9.

art ‣ At Carvalho Park, 112 Waterbury [Maujer/Ten Eyck] Bklyn 718.366.2550, Telephone to the Divine, a show by Se Yoon Park, GJ Kimsunken, and Joseph Hart is a contemplation of light and shadow.

movie ‣ 5B is a flawed but worthwhile documentary about the exceptional caretakers of ward 5B at San Francisco General in 1983, during the early days of the AIDS crisis. At Village East and AMC Empire 25.

tv ‣ Dead to Me is Netflix's series version of a popcorn movie, highly bingeable, boasting a fine performance by Christina Applegate. Tonally, it's a comedy, a dark one, about death, friendship, and restitution.

book ‣ For the skiier in your life: the book of James Niehues maps, almost 200 of them, of skiing trails on mountains throughout the U.S. and the world. $75, shipping starts in August.