Events - June, 14, 2012

Gail Collins: As Texas Goes...

New York Times columnist and best-selling author Gail Collins posits, “like it or not, where Texas goes, so does the nation ...” She discusses her...

Venus in trouble: Is Europe running out of power?

Location: Faculty Library, Vanderbilt Hall, 3rd floor, 40 Washington Square South, New York, NY 10012 At the beginning and under the impression of the Iraq...

History/NYC

Bill Ahearn on "The Brown Bess Musket in Alexander Hamilton's America"

Bill Ahearn has been a collector of American colonial era long arms for more than 40 years and has published more than a dozen essays...

Field Guide to the Street Trees and Natural World of New York City with Leslie Day and Trudy Smoke

"You don't need a fancy research vessel – just a field guide, a sturdy pair of shoes, a Metrocard, and a desire to see the...

Film

Todd Haynes in person with Far From Heaven

A magnificently mounted and beautifully performed film that both evokes and subverts the craftsmanship and artifice of Hollywood studio filmmaking, Far from Heaven is writer-director...

Art/Photo/Design

The Age of Insight: The Quest to Understand the Unconscious in Art, Mind, and Brain, from Vienna 1900 to the Present

A lecture by Eric Kandel, University Professor, Columbia University, discussing the exhibition Gustav Klimt: 150th Anniversary Celebration.

Performing Arts/Film

Pre-Concert Talk

Want to know more about the music you'll be hearing? Concert ticket holders are invited to join us one hour before concert time for an...

Art/Photo/Design

Ben Rubin: Gallery Talk

Media artist Ben Rubin's piece Terminal 8 at the South Street Seaport Museum juxtaposes the current port of New York--JFK Airport--in the historic rooms of...

Legal/Politics/Economics

Twilight of the Elites: A Conversation with Christopher Hayes and Katrina vanden Heuvel

Over the past decade, Americans watched in bafflement and rage as one institution after another—from Wall Street to Congress, the Catholic Church to corporate America,...

Books

Siri Hustvedt in Conversation with Paul Auster

Spend the evening in the Rare Books Room with acclaimed author Siri Hustvedt. Hustvedt has written five novels including The Enchantments of Lily Dahl, and...

Books, LGBTQ+

Robert Lennon - The Miles

Robert Lennon, a former president of Front Runners New York, one of the world's largest LGBT athletic clubs, discusses his debut novel about romance and...

Performing Arts/Film, Books

Peter and the Starcatcher: The Annotated Script of the Broadway Play

Author Ridley Pearson and playwright Rick Elice join the cast of Broadway's Peter and the Starcatcher for a special event marking the release of the...

Film

Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

Screening followed by discussion with gossip writers George Rush and Lindsay Powers.

Performing Arts/Film

Jeffrey Ernstoff - Cole Porter and All That Jazz

Perhaps the greatest of all composer/lyricists associated with the Golden Era of American popular song, Cole Porter continues to inspire jazz interpretations of his classics,...