Events - October, 2, 2012

Andy Warhol and Reality TV

Andy Warhol once said, "I'm really jealous of everybody who's got their own show on television. I want a show of my own." Warhol eventually...

Science/Tech/Health

Andrew Blum - Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet

In this illustrated lecture the correspondent at Wired and contributing editor at Metropolis takes the audience on a narrative tour behind the scenes of our everyday...

Books

Jasper Fforde

Author of Woman Who Died a Lot: A Thursday Next Novel.

Book Talk with Peter Lippman

Please note: This event takes place at the Center for Worker Education, 25 Broadway, 7th floor. For well over 15 years, Peter C. Lippman has dedicated his...

Books

Lois Lowry - Son

Discussing her new book, Son.

Legal/Politics/Economics

Thomas Friedman - That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World it Invented and How We Can Come Back

Thomas Friedman, one of our most influential columnists, analyzes current challenges we face—globalization, the revolution in information technology, the nation’s chronic deficits and its pattern...

History/NYC

American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama

Rachel L. Swarns talks about tracing the first lady's forbears back to the 18th century, the tantalizing hints of Jewish and Native American links in...

Art/Photo/Design

"Hitched to Everything Else in the Universe": Environmentalism and Frank Moore's Art

Please note: This event takes place at Humanities Initiative, 20 Cooper Square, Fifth Floor. Panel discussion with Noël Carrol, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Graduate Center, CUNY;...

Art/Photo/Design

The Portrait in Contemporary Photography

Carol Armstrong (Yale University) examines the place of portraiture in contemporary photography on a global stage. Looking at changing concepts of personhood against the historical...

Art/Photo/Design

White Canvas and Silent Music: Definitions and Models for the Study of Comparative Arts with Daniel Albright

What is the relationship between whiteness and silence? What is the relationship between nonsense and non-representationality? Eminent scholar Daniel Albright (Untwisting the Serpent: Music, Literature,...

Legal/Politics/Economics, Books

Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein

Come and listen to two of America’s top political scholars candidly discuss the state of affairs in American government. Ornstein and Mann will talk about...

History/NYC

New York Genealogical & Biographical Society Lecture Series: Finding Genealogical Treasure in the New York State Archives

From its earliest years, government in New York has involved itself in the lives of its residents. Whether through vital statistics, education, incarceration, military service,...

Art/Photo/Design

Ángel Franco Artist Lecture

At this lecture, Franco will be sharing his personal event work, including some Holga images and tintypes.

Legal/Politics/Economics

The Financial Regulatory Tide: In or Out?

The push and pull of regulating banks is a recurring, complex theme in the economic history of the city, influenced by crises, politics, social values...

Science/Tech/Health,

Barriers to Health Care for Mental Illness in Poor Countries

Mental health in low income countries has received little attention in development assistance and research over the years. Mental illness affects all levels of society (individual,...

Film

Films at the Schomburg: Lemon

The film follows Lemon Andersen, a three-time felon and a one-time Tony Award-winning poet from Russell Simmons’s Def Poetry Jam, in his efforts to stage...

Books

Sugar Gone Wild: Cheryl Strayed in Conversation with Paul Holdengräber

Sugar—the once-anonymous online columnist at The Rumpus, now revealed as Cheryl Strayed, author of the best selling memoir Wild—is the person thousands turn to for advice....

Performing Arts/Film

Jack Black in Conversation with Peter Travers

A proven box-office draw with hits such as the Kung Fu Panda films, School of Rock and High Fidelity, Black is also a celebrated musician as the lead singer of the...

Legal/Politics/Economics, Performing Arts/Film, Books

Stephen Colbert - America Again: Re-Becoming the Greatness We Never Weren't

The host of Comedy Central's The Colbert Report celebrates the release of his new book.

Books

A.M. Homes - May We Be Forgiven

Legal/Politics/Economics

Rita Hauser in Conversation with Jonathan Fanton

A conversation with Rita E. Hauser, President, The Hauser Foundation and Jonathan Fanton, FDR Visiting Fellow and Interim Director, Roosevelt House.

Books, LGBTQ+

The Pat Parker/Vito Russo Library Book Discussion

Lambda Literary 2009 winner for debut gay fiction. Satyal's lovely first novel charts an Indian-American boy's transformation from mere mortal to Krishnaji, the blue-skinned Hindu...

Books

Adrian Tomine

Join McNally Jackson and Drawn & Quarterly for the Manhattan launch for New York Drawings with cartoonist Adrian Tomine.

Art/Photo/Design

Geoffrey Bradfield: A 21st Century Palace

Celebrated interior design Geoffrey Bradfield – who is known for creating daring, luxurious residences and offices for an international clientele – will discuss his new...

Books

James Meek - The Heart Broke In

Bec and Ritchie's father was shot dead in an act of self-sacrifice when they were children. A generation later Ritchie, a producer of reality TV...

Legal/Politics/Economics

Lenore Skenazy on Raising Kids Without Fear & Hysteria

Lenore Skenazy is an author and journalist and graduate of Yale University. She is currently a columnist for a nationally syndicated column that appears in more...

Books

The Rise of David Levinsky

Vivian Gornick talks with Phillip Lopate and Lynne Sharon Schwartz about the intensely naturalistic novel. It is David Levinsky's psychological isolation--to which Cahan brings remarkable insight--that makes the novel...

Performing Arts/Film

Jazz Around the World - Asia

As early as the 1920’s jazz was traveling the world, influencing and being influenced by musical traditions on every continent. Join us as we explore...