Events - September, 27, 2012

One Minister, Two Sleazebags and the Ku Klux Klan in North Dakota in the 1920s

With Gretchen Dykstra.

Bettye LaVette

The soul singer discusses her book, Woman Like Me.

The Age of Austerity: How Scarcity Will Remake American Politics

One of our most prescient political observers, Thomas B. Edsall, a correspondent for The New Republic and The National Journal, provides a sobering account of...

Books

Cave Canem at The New School Presents: Natasha Trethaway and Metta Sama

Cave Canem, the premier venue for African-American poetry, presents an ongoing series of readings and discussions with their authors. Natasha Trethaway is the 2012 U.S. Poet...

History/NYC

Resistance in Austria During WWII

Austrian scholar Brigitte Bailer, the academic director of the Documentation Centre of Austrian Resistance, will give a lecture on the resistance movements in Austria during the Second...

Art/Photo/Design

What's Wrong with Technological Art?

In 1969, Robert Smithson wrote to György Kepes, “Technology promises a new kind of art, yet its very program excludes the artist from his own...

Legal/Politics/Economics

Bob Woodward with John Heilemann: On President Obama

Legendary reporter Bob Woodward’s break-through Watergate reporting altered US history forever. Forty years later, Woodward is still at it and comes to 92Y to reveal...

History/NYC

Road to Valor: WWII Italy, the Nazis, and the Cyclist Who Inspired a Nation

Hear the riveting, never-before-told true story about the Italian cycling legend Gino Bartali and his largely unknown role saving more than 800 Jews during the...

Art/Photo/Design

Symposium: Beyond Representation: an Interdisciplinary Approach to the Nature of Things

The past two decades have been marked by a renewed concern with the agency, presence, and ontological status of crafted things, witnessed in a shift...

Books

Monte Burke - Fourth and Goal: One Man's Quest to Recapture His Dream

Art/Photo/Design

On Truth (and Lies) in Art

Part of 30th Next Wave Festival. Co-Presented with the Onassis Cultural Center NY With Pierre Huyghe and Liam Gillick What is the truth? Simon Critchley, one of...

Books

Adam Gidwitz - In a Glass Grimmly

Books

Time, Technology, and the Shapes of Letters

Type designer and private press printer Russell Maret discusses his recent attempts to apply digital drafting technology to Industrial-era manufacturing processes to create new, historically...

Science/Tech/Health,

Raising Healthy Children (in an Urban Environment)

The rate of childhood diseases – such as autism, allergies, asthma, ADHD, learning disabilities, childhood cancer, diabetes, and obesity – is increasing. Scientific research suggests...

Performing Arts/Film, Art/Photo/Design

"Pictures at an Exhibition": Multimedia Performance Based on Vasily Kandinsky Artwork by Pianist Mikhail Rudy

Celebrated Russian pianist and recording artist Mikhail Rudy presents the New York premiere of a multimedia performance of Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition (1874), with animated...

Books, Science/Tech/Health

Down in the Hole: the unWired World of H.B. Ogden

Highly anticipated since its initial online appearance and immediate viral proliferation, first-time authors and ersatz Victorian scholars Joy DeLyria and Sean Michael Robinson have painstakingly...

History/NYC

Caring for Your Antiques - from Maintenance to Restoration

Join Roderick P. Thompson, president and principal restorer at Santo Spirito Restoration in Brooklyn, NY, and an instructor in Appraisal Studies at NYU, as he...

Religion/Spirituality, Art/Photo/Design

Nothing and Everything

Filmmaker, writer, and editor of the Brooklyn Rail, Ellen Pearlman, author of Nothing and Everything - The Influence of Buddhism on the American Avant Garde reads selected...

Performing Arts/Film

George Gee, Bandleader

While he was a Freshman at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, George Gee launched his Make-Believe Ballroom program (named after the vintage Martin Block show) on...

Books, History/NYC

Prof. Alvin Jackson - The Two Unions: Ireland, Scotland, and the Survival of the United Kingdom, 1707-2007

Much has been written about the decline of the United Kingdom. The Two Unions: Ireland, Scotland, and the Survival of the United Kingdom, 1707-2007 looks instead at...

Books

Jay Caspian Kang & Eddie Huang

Jay Caspian Kang presents his debut novel, The Dead Do Not Improve, a detective story set in present-day San Francisco. Eddie Huang, chef and owner of...

Performing Arts/Film

An Evening with Michael Shannon and director Dexter Bullard

Academy Award nominee Michael Shannon (Revolutionary Road) and Drama League Directors Project alum Dexter Bullard (Bug) discuss their brand-new Broadway play, Grace by Craig Wright (Mistakes Were Made) that also stars Paul...

Film

The Invisible War

Screening and discussion with Kirby Dick, Academy Award-nominated filmmaker and director of The Invisible War, Trina McDonald and Kori Cioca, two subjects of the documentary...

Legal/Politics/Economics

Frank Bruni

From sweeping across the Iraqi desert with the U.S. Armed Forces to reviewing cuisine at the best restaurants in the world, New York Times columnist Frank...

Books,

Teen Talk with Jenna Bush Hager

Join Jenna Bush Hager, TODAY correspondent and daughter of President George W. Bush, for a reading and special discussion of her young-adult book, Ana’s Story: A Journey of Hope,...

Legal/Politics/Economics

Richard D. Wolff - Democracy at Work

Discussion and book signing. Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst where he taught economics from 1973 to 2008. He...

Books

Alyson Waters

In her new translation of Prehistoric Times, award-winning translator and professor Alyson Waters has given us the distinctive thus far largely unknown voice of Eric Chevillard....

Film

The Do-Deca-Pentathlon

With Jay Duplass, Mark Kelly, and Steve Zissis in person. Written and directed by Jay and Mark Duplass. 2012, 76 mins. Digital projection. Courtesy of...

Legal/Politics/Economics

Great Debates: Why They Matter & What Is at Stake

Political debates are unscripted television at its best. This evening will explore the risks and rewards for candidates as well as issues the networks and...

Books

192 Celebrates Futurepoem's 10th Anniversary

Futurepoem books is an award-winning New York City small press that publishes innovative poetry, prose and cross-genre literature. To celebrate its 10th anniversary, this event...

Legal/Politics/Economics

D.W. Gibson Talks to Chris Hayes About Not Working

Don’t miss this compelling evening with writer and documentary filmmaker D.W. Gibson, as he discusses his book and documentary entitled Not Working: People Talk About Losing...

Books

Sheila Kohler and Maaza Mengiste

Authors Sheila Kohler (The Bay of Foxes) and Maaza Mengiste (Beneath the Lion's Gaze) will read from and discuss their books.

Susannah Drake

Green infrastructure holds tremendous promise for the future of cities. With our national highway infrastructure reaching the end of its projected lifespan there is an...