Fox and His Friends at Speed Cinema
2026-06-26 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Kentucky/Louisville)
Essential Cinema
Fox and His Friends
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Friday, June 26, 6 pm | BUY TICKETS
$12 | $8 Speed members
“This melodramatic fable of emotional extremes is sharp and precise.” —Richard Brody, The New Yorker
A lottery win leads not to financial and emotional freedom but to social captivity, in this wildly cynical classic about love and exploitation by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Casting himself against type, the director plays a suggestible working-class innocent who lets himself be taken advantage of by his bourgeois new boyfriend and his circle of materialistic friends, leading to the kind of resonant misery that only Fassbinder could create.
Fox and His Friends is unsparing social commentary, an amusingly pitiless and groundbreaking if controversial depiction of a gay community in 1970s West Germany. 1975, Germany, DCP, in German with English subtitles, 124 minutes. Recommended for 17+.

Speed Chat Spot
2026-06-27 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-06-28 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-06-28 15:00 - 16:00, 2026-07-04 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-07-05 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-07-05 15:00 - 16:00, 2026-07-11 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-07-12 13:00 - 14:00
Check out Speed Chat Spots. During this time frame a friendly docent will be available to chat about our collection, for specific Chat Spot locations check in with Guest Services in the Front Lobby upon arrival.

Collection Highlights Drop-In Tour
2026-06-27 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-06-28 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-07-02 11:00 - 12:00, 2026-07-03 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-07-09 11:00 - 12:00, 2026-07-10 13:00 - 14:00
Explore the Speed and engage in conversations during this one-hour Docent-guided tour focused on the highlights of our collection. Free with admission.
For more information, visit our tours page.

Abstract Expressionists: The Women exhibition tour
2026-06-27 14:00 - 15:00, 2026-06-28 12:15 - 13:15, 2026-06-28 14:00 - 15:00, 2026-07-05 12:15 - 13:15, 2026-07-05 14:00 - 15:00, 2026-07-11 14:00 - 15:00, 2026-07-12 12:15 - 13:15 | Speed Art Museum, 2035 South 3rd Street, Louisville, KY, 40208, United States
Join a Docent and deep dive into the stories and works of Abstract Expressionists: The Women. You must have a special exhibition ticket to join in on this tour.
Artwork credit:
Pat Passlof
Stove, 1959
Oil on linen, 77 x 69 in.
© The Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof
Foundation. Courtesy of Eric Firestone Gallery, the Levett Collection, and FAMM. Photo: Fraser Marr.

Fox and His Friends at Speed Cinema
2026-06-27 15:00 - 16:30
Essential Cinema
Fox and His Friends
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Saturday, June 27, 3 pm | BUY TICKETS
$12 | $8 Speed members
“This melodramatic fable of emotional extremes is sharp and precise.” —Richard Brody, The New Yorker
A lottery win leads not to financial and emotional freedom but to social captivity, in this wildly cynical classic about love and exploitation by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Casting himself against type, the director plays a suggestible working-class innocent who lets himself be taken advantage of by his bourgeois new boyfriend and his circle of materialistic friends, leading to the kind of resonant misery that only Fassbinder could create.
Fox and His Friends is unsparing social commentary, an amusingly pitiless and groundbreaking if controversial depiction of a gay community in 1970s West Germany. 1975, Germany, DCP, in German with English subtitles, 124 minutes. Recommended for 17+.

Querelle at Speed Cinema
2026-06-27 18:00 - 19:30
Essential Cinema
Querelle
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Saturday, June 27, 6 pm | BUY TICKETS
$12 | $8 Speed members
“A work of bold artistic self-renewal.” —Richard Brody, The New Yorker
Director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s final film is a deliriously stylized tale of hothouse lust and simmering violence. Set amid an expressionistic soundstage vision of a French sea port, this daring adaptation of a novel by Jean Genet recounts the tragedy of a handsome sailor (Brad Davis) as he is drawn into a vortex of sibling rivalry, murder, and explosive sexuality.
Completed just before Fassbinder’s sudden death at age thirty-seven, Querelle finds the director pushing his embrace of artifice and taboo-shattering depiction of queer desire to new extremes. 1982, Germany, DCP, 108 minutes. Recommended for 17+.

Querelle at Speed Cinema
2026-06-28 12:30 - 14:00
Essential Cinema
Querelle
Directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Sunday, June 28, 12:30 pm | BUY TICKETS
$12 | $8 Speed members
“A work of bold artistic self-renewal.” —Richard Brody, The New Yorker
Director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s final film is a deliriously stylized tale of hothouse lust and simmering violence. Set amid an expressionistic soundstage vision of a French sea port, this daring adaptation of a novel by Jean Genet recounts the tragedy of a handsome sailor (Brad Davis) as he is drawn into a vortex of sibling rivalry, murder, and explosive sexuality.
Completed just before Fassbinder’s sudden death at age thirty-seven, Querelle finds the director pushing his embrace of artifice and taboo-shattering depiction of queer desire to new extremes. 1982, Germany, DCP, 108 minutes. Recommended for 17+.

Speed Slow Down: Rest + Restore
2026-06-28 13:00 - 15:00
Speed Slow Down: Rest + Restore
REGISTER
A monthly Sunday for reflection and calm. Please register if you are joining the yoga session. The slow looking and guided meditations are free for attendees.
Speed Slow Down offers a peaceful Sunday program focused on mindfulness, gentle movement, and restorative experiences. Participants can enjoy guided slow-looking, meditation, yoga, or sound-based activities in a calm, low-stimulation museum setting. The program is designed to provide quiet, restorative space for adults, families, and multigenerational visitors.
Programming
Yoga with Amanda
Join certified yoga teacher, Amanda Herrera for a vinyasa yoga class in the museum Atrium. We invite you to experience rest and ease against the backdrop of historical and contemporary art. Bring your yoga mat, comfortable clothing, and any props you may need. This session is ticketed and requires pre-registration.
Guided meditation with Shadia
Slow looking in a Gallery. Gallery TBD

Stories from the Balcony at Speed Cinema
2026-06-28 15:00 - 16:00
Community Preview
Stories from the Balcony
Directed by Joanna Hay
Sunday, June 28, 3 pm CINEMA +
Free, first come, first served
Twenty years in the making, Stories from the Balcony is a documentary film about growing up going to the movies at the Grand Theatre in Frankfort, Kentucky during the era of Jim Crow segregation. It is the story of community, love, and belonging, despite the discrimination and degradation faced by the town’s Black community, who were relegated to the balcony.
The film features George C. Wolfe, Sheila Mason Burton, Mike Fields, Bobby Jones, Vinson Parsons, Bill Crumbaugh, Benny Mapp, Camelia Tinsley, and many others. Katima Smith-Willis’s voice brings a youthful perspective to the story while Mary Jackson serves as narrator. 2026, U.S., DCP, 46 minutes. Recommended for 13+
CINEMA + with a post-screening discussion with the film’s producer and director Joanna Hay and three of the documentary’s subjects: Bobby Jones, Sheila Mason-Burton, and Katima Smith-Willis.

Speed Social: Connect + Sketch
2026-07-02 17:00 - 19:00
Speed Social: Connect + Sketch
A monthly evening gathering for adults to unwind and create
Cost: $18/non-member, $15/member

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Speed Social is a relaxed evening program for adults to connect, sketch, and socialize. Guests can enjoy music, drinks, and an informal drawing session. No instruction is required—just time to relax, be creative, and enjoy art in a social, welcoming atmosphere. Held after museum hours. Gallery admission is not included.
July Programming
TBA

Museum Closed
2026-07-04
The Speed will be closed to the public today for the celebration of July 4th. We will be back open for visitors tomorrow, July 5.
PLAN YOUR VISIT

Speed Family: Film + Fun
2026-07-11 10:00 - 14:00
Speed Family: Film + Fun
Film and programming information TBA
$18/non-member adult, $8 non-member child
$15 Speed member adult, $5 Speed member child
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