This week, watch the fleet of foot and big of heart reach the finish line, and see the world through the eyes of some of its most creative inhabitants.

The ING New York City Marathon
Marathon Week is here and the world’s biggest charity marathon gets ready to roll. Come out to cheer friends, family and the legions of dedicated participants who log the miles with style. Get in the marathon mood with a special TV screening of Run for Your Life, an against-the-odds documentary that tells the story of Fred Lebow, the man who made the race the event it is today (Saturday, Sunday on THIRTEEN).
Marathon: Sunday, November 6; See schedule for events, locations and times

Performa 11: New Visual Art Performance Biennial
This three-week biennial showcases new work by more than 100 of the most exciting artists working today, in an innovative program breaking down the boundaries between visual art, music, dance, poetry, fashion, architecture, graphic design, and the culinary arts.
November 1-21; see calendar for events, locations and times

Selected Shorts: Murakami Madness!
Fans (including actors Jane Curtin and Parker Posey and others) of beloved novelist Haruki Murakami take over Symphony Space in the Upper West Side for an evening of interpretation, discussion and celebration of his newest and possibly most anticipated book, IQ84; high-profile superfans like Isaac Misrahi join the fun.
Wednesday, November 2, 7 p.m.
Peter Jay Sharp Theater at Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway at 95th Street
Tickets: $15-27

Ending Soon: Talk to Me at MoMA
This exhibition at MoMA on West 53rd Street introducess the many communicative possibilities that embody a new balance between technology and people, bringing technological breakthroughs to a comfortable, understandable human scale and showing how designers are using these new possibilities to enrich our lives. Example: this Braille Rubik’s Cube (via Creative Review), and much more.
Through November 7
MoMA, 11 West 53rd Street

A Conversation with Errol Morris
The Academy Award-winning director (Fog of War, The Thin Blue Line) goes beyond the photographer’s lens in his book, Believing is Seeing, a collection of essays that addresses shocking scenes from documentaries with Morris’s unique style of puncturing the myths that their authors attempt to create. This evening’s program will be a rare conversation between the filmmaker and Paul Holdengraber, director of LIVE from the New York Public Library located in Midtown Manhattan.
Wednesday, November 2, 7 p.m.
Celeste Bartos Forum of the New York Public Library, 42nd Street at Fifth Avenue
Tickets: $15-25

Live Music Round-Up
For lovers of contemporary classical composers, Bang on a Can All-Stars perform at Carnegie Hall; for lovers of influential late-’80s-psych-punk, Meat Puppets will be at Le Poisson Rouge; for lovers of all things Feist, there’s Feist.