ART

BUILDING BLOCKS “David Adjaye: Making Public Buildings” is an exhibit of the Ghanaian architect’s projects, currently on view at the Studio Museum in Harlem. Mr. Adjaye is the architect of the “Idea Store,” an innovative library of sorts of with two London locations. Featured commissions include his design for the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art. Through Sunday, October28, Wednesday–Friday and Sunday, noon–6 p.m., Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m., 144 W. 125th St., between Lenox and Seventh avenues, 212-864-4500, $7 general, $3 seniors and students, free for members and children under age 12.

DREAMS I HAVE HAD “Love and Loss: A Video Trilogy by Neil Goldberg” is a document of the artist’s reflectionsonaging, mourning, and death concerning his family. Mr. Goldberg features his family members in his videos. They include “My Parents Read Dreams I’ve Had About Them” (1998), in which Mr. Goldberg has his parents read autobiographical transcripts. In “A System for Writing Thank You Notes”(2001), Mr. Goldberg’s now widowed father talks about his own approach to answering condolence notes and sympathy greetings. The trilogy is co-presented by the Jewish Museum and the National Jewish Archive of Broadcasting. Through Friday, October 12, Saturday–Wednesday, 11:45 a.m.–5:45 p.m., Thursday, 11:45 a.m.–8 p.m., the Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Ave. at 92nd Street, 212-423-3200, $12 general, $10 seniors, $7.50 students, free for children and members.

FILM

FRIGHT NIGHT The Tartan Asia Extreme film distributor and the New York Korean Film Festival host “Korean Horror Day,” a series of screenings of eight features that showcase some of the most blood-chilling and cutting-edge work produced by Korean directors. Screamers include Kim Tae-kyung’s “The Ghost” (2004), about a mother whose psychotic delusions come to haunt the house she shares with her daughter, and Kim Yong-gyun’s “The Red Shoes” (2005), a nightmarish inversion of “The Wizard of Oz.” The now classic “Whispering Corridors” (1998), directed by Park Ki-hyung, is shown tomorrow at 3 p.m. In the film, a teacher dies in his high school classroom. In the wake of his death, the students’ dirty secrets and dark furies are set loose. Tonight and tomorrow, screening times vary, Cinema Village, 22 E. 12th St., between Fifth Avenue and University Place, 212-924-3363, $10 general, $7.50 students, $5.50 seniors and children under 13.

WITH A HEART OF GOLD The Museum of the Moving Image presents a screening of Alan Pakula’s “Klute” (1971), on Saturday. The film is presented as part of the museum’s ongoing series “Uneasy Riders: American Film in the Nixon Years, 1970–1974,” which highlights rarely seen gems produced by the film industry during a period marked by a turbulent presidency and the unrest of the Vietnam War. In “Klute,” the conventions of film noir and the candor of the unfolding sexual revolution produce an example of 1970s “paranoia cinema.” Actress Jane Fonda earned an Academy Award for her portrayal of Bree, a prostitute who falls in love with a detective. Donald Sutherland and Roy Scheider are among the other featured actors. Other selections include Neil Simon’s “The Heartbreak Kid” (1972), an acerbic variation on Mike Nichols’s “The Graduate.” In it, a New York couple on their honeymoon in Miami discover their quirks and grow to dislike each other, before the husband falls for an attractive blonde on vacation. Featured actors include Cybill Shepherd and Charles Grodin. Saturday, 3 p.m., through Sunday, September 2, dates and times vary, Museum of the Moving Image, 35th Avenue at 36th Street, Astoria, Queens, 718-784-0077, $10 general, $7.50 students and seniors, $5 children under age 18, free for members. For complete information, go to movingimage. us.

MUSIC

RED-HOT SALSA As part of the Lincoln Center Out of Doors series, the “Princess of Salsa,” singer La India, performs a program that fuses salsa and reggaeton. Selections include tracks from the her recent release “Soy Diferente,” a collection of infectious sounds and beats. Tonight, 8 p.m., Lincoln Center, Damrosch Park Bandshell, southwest corner of Lincoln Center Plaza, between 62nd Street and Amsterdam Avenue, 212-875-5456, free.

PHOTOGRAPHY

THE RISING “New York Rises: Photographs by Eugene de Salignac,” on view at the Museum of the City of New York, is a selection of the striking images taken by the photographer for the New York City Department of Bridges/Plant and Structures for the first three decades of the 20th century. “Municipal Building (showing front elevation from Pearl Street )” (1912) is above. Through Sunday, October 28, Museum of the City of New York, 1220 Fifth Ave. at 103rd Street, 212-534-1672, free with museum admission, $9 general, $5 students and seniors.

READINGS

RICHES TO RAGS A reporter for the Wall Street Journal, Lucette Lagnado, reads from and discusses her newly published memoir “The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit; My Family’s Exodus From Old Cairo to the New World” (Ecco). Ms. Lagnado and her formerly wealthy Egyptian, Jewish family arrived in New York City destitute and in debt in 1963. Having fled her father’snativeCairo, theauthorrecounts how the Lagnados crafted a new life for themselves through poverty and hardships. The author paints a vivid picture of the opulence of life in Cairo before the rise to power of Gamal Abdel Nasser. Tonight, 7 p.m., Strand Bookstore, 828 Broadway at 12th Street, 212-473-1452, free.

THEATER

FAIRY QUEEN The Public Theater presents “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” as part of its its ongoing season of Shakespeare’s comedic repertoire. In the play, four lovers flee Athens for the forest. Once in the woods, the foursome crosses paths with a band of fairies and a group of amateur actors, unaware that their romantic squabble and parental difficulties will soon be overshadowed by magic. Daniel Sullivan directs the play, and featured actors include Tim Blake Nelson, Keith David, Chelsea Bacon, Mireille Enos, and Martha Plimpton. Through Sunday, September 9, Tuesday–Sunday, 8 p.m., Central Park, Delacorte Theater, enter Central Park at 79th Street and Fifth Avenue or 81st Street and Central Park West, follow footpath to theater, free.

BIG BOX “Walmartopia The Musical!” is a send-up of the growing presence big-box stores such as Wal-Mart and Target enjoy in the lives of American consumers. In the play, a Wal-Mart employee and single mother speaks out against her company’s working conditions. Thereafter, she time-travels to 2036, where she finds that the store dominates all aspects of life. The play is directed by Daniel Goldstein, and featured actors include Cheryl Freeman and Nikki James. Tonight, 8 p.m., open run, Tuesday–Friday, 8 p.m., Saturday, 3 and 8 p.m., Sunday, 3 p.m., Minetta Lane Theater, 18 Minetta Lane, between Sixth Avenue and Macdougal Street, 212-307-4100, $45 and $65.

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