From city streets to concert halls, from food and wine to fine design, you’ll find creative inspiration and education everywhere you look this week.

Chelsea

Write of Passage: American Graffiti
This six-week program explores the impact of American graffiti art on global culture, incorporating an art exhibition which serves as the centerpiece to the educational program. The exhibition will celebrate graffiti’s origins and influences, including rare canvasses, vintage apparel and over 100 original graffiti artifacts. Among the artists with works in the exhibition are Daze, Futura and Haze, who will show rare early sketches, as well as many more celebrated contributors.
October 19 - November 23; Saturdays, 1-5 PM
Red Bull Studios, 218 West 18th Street
Free and open to the public

East Midtown

The Creative Pulse: A Conversation with Philip Glass
Legendary composer Philip Glass will speak about his music and how the process of collaboration with exceptionally creative minds (including Robert Wilson, Allen Ginsberg and Ravi Shankar) has shaped his career. Claire Chase, flutist and artistic director of the International Contemporary Ensemble, will also perform a piece for flute by Glass.
October 15, 6:30 PM
The Graduate Center, room 1201: Elebash Recital Hall, 365 Fifth Avenue
Free; reservations required

West Midtown

Cooper-Hewitt Teen Design Fair
Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum invites local high school students to engage in career and college readiness through one minute mentoring sessions with design professionals at top of their field, including this year’s National Design Award winners. Students will also hear from television’s most famous design mentor, Tim Gunn.
October 15, 4-6 PM
Parsons The New School for Design: David M. Schwartz Fashion Education Center, 560 7th Avenue between 40th and 41st Streets
Free; reservation required

Savages at Terminal 5
This year’s indie darlings are an all-female band with a scrappy, simple guitar-driven post-punk sound that has been compared to ‘70s Brit-punks like Public Image Ltd. as well as provocative favorites like Siouxsie and the Banshees and PJ Harvey.
October 16, 8 PM
Terminal 5, 610 West 56th Street
TIckets: $25

Fort Greene

Nine Inch Nails with Godspeed You! Black Emperor at Barclays Center
The tour everyone’s talking about this year. With a new album and a new label, industrial-rock godfather Trent Reznor has lost none of his edge and continues to mesmerize.
October 14, 8:00 PM
Barclays Center, 620 Atlantic Avenue
Tickets: $113 and up

SoHo/NoHo

Chris Burden: Extreme Measures
Over the past four decades, Chris Burden has created a unique and powerful body of work that has redefined the way we understand both performance and sculpture. Startling at the time, his early works remain some of the most extreme and influential performances of the era. This expansive presentation of his work marks the first New York survey of the artist and his first major exhibition in the US in over 25 years.
Through January 12, 2014; see site for museum hours
235 Bowery
Admission: $16

City-wide

NYC Wine and Food Festival
The Food Network New York City Wine & Food Festival presented by Food & Wine magazine is gearing up to once again pay homage to one of the greatest dining cities in the world while fighting to end hunger, bringing together legendary culinary icons–including Times Talks with David Chang, Mario Batali, Michael Symon and Emeril Lagasse–from around the globe and America’s most beloved television chefs.
October 17-20; See site for events, venues and schedules.