PHOTOGRAPHY

LONG-RANGE VIEW Sze Tsung Leong’s exhibit “Horizons” features expansive yet detailed vistas. And while his long, horizontal prints can be described as landscapes, the subject matter is diverse, from rooftops and pastoral fields to desert plains, many in faraway places such as India, Iceland, the Dead Sea, Mexico, and Italy, the latter of which is captured in a detail of “Castello I, Venezia” (2007), above. Through Saturday, May 17, Tuesday–Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m., Yossi Milo Gallery, 525 W. 25th St., between Tenth and Eleventh avenues, 212-414-0370, free.

DANCE

AN ELVIS WEDDING An all-female contemporary ballet company, the Laura Ward/Octavia Cup Dance Theatre dances “Whistle Me Higher: Imaginary Dances From Bingo Palace.” The piece is choreographed by Ms. Ward and celebrates aspects of nature, religion, and addiction. The narrative is meant to be a meditation on realizing the American Dream in Las Vegas and dry, hot Death Valley. The multifaceted dance uses music, spoken word, and theatrical elements to tell the story. Tonight through Saturday, 8 p.m., Sunday, 3 p.m., Theater for the New City, 155 First Ave. at 10th Street, 212-352-3101, $20 general, $15 students and seniors.

MUSIC

SOUL CHILD Singer Ayo performs songs from her soul-reggae-folk album “Joyful,” as part of the World Nomads series presented by the French Institute Alliance Française. The release has sold 2 million copies in France; the singer makes her home in Paris when she is not at her residences in Lagos, Nigeria, and New York City. Ayo’s music reflects her German and African heritage, sampling such influences as Pink Floyd and the godfather of afrobeat, Nigerian multi-instrumentalist Fela Kuti. Tonight, 8 p.m., French Institute Alliance Française, Florence Gould Hall, 55 E. 59th St., between Madison and Park avenues, 212-307-4100, $25.

MUSIC & ART

STOP, LOOK, AND LISTEN The annual Look & Listen Festival offers a fresh context in which to experience new and reinterpreted music and art. This year’s installment unfolds over three days at three locations; all concerts begin at 8 p.m. An eclectic musical roster includes the Brooklyn-based ensemble So Percussion; a rock-chamber music hybrid band, 2 Foot Yard; and a founder of the innovative chamber group Bang on a Can All- Stars, Mark Stewart, who performs a new composition. During the “look” portion of the series, paintings and sculptures by Joseph La Piana are on view at Robert Miller Gallery, while Marilyn Gelfman’s mixed-media clock sculptures are at OK Harris. The festival’s emcees are John Schaefer, a host of the popular WNYC show “Soundcheck,” and Sarah Fishko, who broadcasts “The Fishko Files” on the same station. Tonight and tomorrow, 8 p.m., Robert Miller Gallery, 524 W. 26th St., between Tenth and Eleventh avenues, Saturday, 8 p.m., OK Harris, 383 W. Broadway, between Spring and Broome streets, 718-622-3005, $10. For more information, go to lookandlisten.org.

TALKS

WORD’S WORTH A conversation with author Ian McEwan and a Harvard scholar, Steven Pinker, is presented as part of the PEN World Voices Festival. A Booker Prize-winning novelist, Mr. McEwan most recently published “On Chesil Beach,” about a newly married couple in the early 1960s wrestling with their virginity. His “Atonement” was adapted for film with actors Keira Knightley and James McAvoy in lead roles. Mr. Pinker has written various books on the psychology of language, among them the best-selling “The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature.” Messrs. McEwan and Pinker discuss the relationship between language and thinking. Saturday, 2 p.m., Morgan Library & Museum, 225 Madison Ave. at 36th Street, 212-868-4444, $15.

PAINTINGS

MUDDY WATERS New Orleans is magnified in Allison Stewart’s exhibit “Inside.” Ms. Stewart, a longtime resident of the Crescent City, creates paintings through the lens of biology, a style that is evident in her abstract, expressionistic scenes of swampy landscapes bogged down by withered flowers and pallid vegetation. The images are meant to offer commentary on the sluggish rebuilding process in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina; the bright colors used in the seven paintings are reminiscent of more joyful times there. “Floaters” (2008), a detail of which is above, is among the pieces on view. Through Thursday, May 22, Tuesday– Saturday, 10 a.m.–6 p.m., Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, 529 W. 20th St., room 6W, between Tenth Avenue and the West Side Highway, 212-366-5368, free.

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