Events - June, 21, 2012

Allen Grubman with Norman Pearlstine

Allen Grubman is a senior partner of Grubman, Indursky, Shire & Meiselas P.C., the largest entertainment law firm in the US with clients ranging from Elton...

Art/Photo/Design

"Art and Nature: Johann Christian Neuber at the Saxon Court," led by Ian Wardropper, Director, and Charlotte Vignon, Associate Curator of Decorative Arts, The Frick Collection, with George E. Harlow, Curator, American Museum of Natural History

The Saxon goldsmith Johann Christian Neuber specialized in creatingsmall gold boxes and watchcases decorated with semiprecious stones, works of art that reflect the eighteenth-century European...

Film

Martin Scorsese presents: The Age of Innocence

With Martin Scorsese in person. With Daniel Day-Lewis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Winona Ryder. For the Museum's series See It Big!, celebrating the presentation of great movies on...

LGBTQ+, Art/Photo/Design

Against Equality: Don't Ask to Fight Their Wars

New York launch of Against Equality's second anthology, Don't Ask to Fight Their Wars, featuring a reception and discussion with editor and Against Equality co-founder...

Legal/Politics/Economics

As Texas Goes…

Not until she visited Texas, that proud state of big oil and bigger ambitions, did Gail Collins realize that she had missed the place that...

Performing Arts/Film

Designers in Discussion

Made in New York is an exploration of contemporary design and production in New York City today. An homage to the productive industries that once...

Performing Arts/Film, Film

Dressing America: Tales from the Garment Center with Phyllis Dillon

This documentary tells the story of an industry that was created through the rough and tumble efforts of an assortment of Jewish characters.

Books

Joshua Henkin - The World Without You

Joshua Henkin, author of Matrimony, explores the family dynamic with wit and poignancy in his latest novel.

Performing Arts/Film

Old Jews Telling Jokes

Hosted by Peter Gethers and Daniel Okrent, actors Bill Army, Marilyn Sokol, Todd Susman, Audrey Lynn Weston and Lenny Wolpe perform excerpts from the off-Broadway...

Books

Cathi Hanauer - Gone

Cathi Hanauer (My Sister's Bones and Sweet Ruin) reads from and signs her latest book, a keen examination about change and redefinition.

Film

A Bitter Taste of Freedom (2011)

Screening followed by Q&A with the director, Marina Goldovskaya.

Books, History/NYC

Fraternity by Diane Brady with Stan Grayson, Ted Wells and Eddie Jenkins

In 1968, a visionary priest recruited 20 black men to the College of Holy Cross and changed their lives and the course of history. In...

Art/Photo/Design

The Metropolitan Museum in the Progressive Era - Jeffrey Trask

In the early 20th century, a new generation of New York cultural leaders revolutionized ideas about art institutions by bringing them out of the realm...

Books

Conjunctions Spring Issue Release

Celebrate the Spring 2012 and upcoming Fall 2012 issues of Conjunctions, Bard College’s literary Journal, with readings by Christopher Sorrentino, Martine Bellen, Peter Gizzi, and...

Books

The Misadventures of Anti-Heroes

A lonely spinster marries a ghost. A live-at-home son writes dispatches from his basement. A laid-off techie tries his hand at doctoring day laborers without...

Books

David Yoo in conversation with Dave Cullen

Author David Yoo will present his memoir The Choke Artist, capturing the fears, insecurities, and vicious cycles of the anxiety sufferer with insight and a large...