Top 10 Cultural Picks for the First Half of 2019 from Around the Apple

Here is my list of my favorite cultural happenings that were happening around the Big Apple in alphabetical order:

1.   AILEY II - An all new program

2.   Siah Armajani's Iranian/Amer. Artist - Retrospective at the Met Breuer

3.   Jean-Michel Basquiat's Artworks at the Brandt Fdtn.

4.   INK - by British playwright James Graham

5.   Juilliard Spring Dance Performances

6.   Marcus Miller Electric Miles at Jazz at Lincoln Center

7.   Socrates by playwright/actor Tim Blake Nelson at The Public

8.   The Pink Unicorn a One Woman Show with Alice Ripley

9.   What the Constitution Means to Me written and starring Heidi Shreck

19.  Whitney Biennial

Special mention to the prescient off-Broadway play AFTER about bullying and gun violence