Events - October, 11, 2012

Secrets of A Super Memory: An Evening of Revelation - Eran Katz

Eran Katz, renowned memory trainer and bestselling author of Where Did Noah Park the Ark? Ancient Memory Techniques to Remembering Practically Everything, reveals fascinating ancient...

Art/Photo/Design

Gian Lorenzo Bernini: Sketching in Clay and on Paper

Gian Lorenzo Bernini, the greatest Baroque sculptor, had a lasting impact on the city of Rome through vast projects at St. Peter's, church tomb complexes,...

Food & Drink

Is Lunch for Wimps? The History of the Midday Meal

The meal most often eaten in public, lunch has a long history of establishing social status and cementing alliances. A traditional Mongolian proverb advises: “Keep...

Art/Photo/Design

Crossroads: Caribbean Diaspora in New York

This three-day symposium brings together scholars, artists, writers and community leaders to examine the arts and culture of the Caribbean diaspora in New York, as...

Art/Photo/Design

The Society Architects

Panelists will discuss the American tradition of place-making, with an emphasis on how the architecture, landscape, and interior design of Palm Beach figured in the...

Science/Tech/Health

Can Cancer Ever be Cured or Prevented?

With Clifford S. Pukel, MD., author of "Cancer and the Human Condition" and a prominent physician who specializes in hematology and oncology. This visual presentation...

, Food & Drink

Children and Food

As public debate about childhood obesity rages, the complex relationship between children and food is in danger of being obscured by sound bites. This panel...

Legal/Politics/Economics

Media and Politics: Election 2012

With the 2012 presidential campaigns in full throttle, communication experts discuss the role of the media and the ways the media influence and are influenced...

Books

Susan Kushner Resnick

Author of You Saved Me, Too: What a Holocaust Survivor Taught Me About Living, Dying, Fighting, Loving, and Swearing in Yiddish.

Art/Photo/Design

A Salon de Fleurus Salon

For two decades, Salon de Fleurus has quietly kept its doors open in New York, defying definitions while fascinating visitors. Oscillating between a museum and...

Tainos Encounter Columbus

Jorge Estevez (Taino) shares through stories and images the history and culture of the Taino people of the Caribbean.

History/NYC

The Long Night: On William L. Shirer and the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich

William L. Shirer’s first-hand reporting on the rise of the Nazis and World War II brought the devastation alive for millions of Americans. Forced to...

Books

Edwidge Danticat and Salman Rushdie

Edwidge Danticat’s recent work of non-fiction, Create Dangerously, is “a call to arms for all immigrants, all artists, all those who choose to bear witness, and...

Performing Arts/Film

Annual State of Style Summit

Kicking off Fashion Week, a dynamic community of style, retail and beauty industry notables, as well as top-level ex-ecutives, comes together with a shared goal:...

, History/NYC

When America First Met China: An Exotic History of Tea, Drugs, and Money in the Age of Sail with Eric Jay Dolin

Eric Jay Dolin provides insights into everything from pirates, the world-changing impact of the silk trade, the British-Chinese Opium War of the 1840s and the fearlessness (and...

History/NYC

Adultery and Spousal Homicide in Late Medieval Northern France

Sara McDougall will examine cases of adultery and spousal homicide brought before the Paris Parliament in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. In particular, the talk will...

Books

John Tresch in conversation with Simon Critchley

Former fellow John Tresch discusses his new book The Romantic Machine with philosopher Simon Critchley.

Performing Arts/Film, Art/Photo/Design

Lincoln Center's Posters and Prints: 50 Years of the Vera List Program

Delmar Hendricks, the first director of Lincoln Center’s Vera List Poster and Print program looks back at philanthropist Vera List and the celebrated artists commissioned...

Science/Tech/Health, Food & Drink

Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking

Taste the reinvention of cooking with Nathan Myhrvold and Maxime Bilet, co-authors of the acclaimed cookbook Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking. Learn about science-inspired techniques for preparing...

Art/Photo/Design

Ferdinand Hodler's Late Self-Portraits

With Sharon Hirsh, President, Rosemont College.

Legal/Politics/Economics

Republican Friendships: Erskine & Molly Childers and Ernie O'Malley, 1921-1924

Erskine C. Childers, great-grandson of Erskine Childers and Cormac O'Malley, son of Ernie O'Malley, present "Republican Friendships: Erskine and Molly Childers and Ernie O'Malley, 1921-1924." Erskine...

Performing Arts/Film

I Feel So Good: A Celebration of Big Bill Broonzy, featuring Billy Boy Arnold

A conversation between Billy Boy Arnold and Bob Riesman about Big Bill Broonzy and the Chicago blues world of the 1940s and 1950s, followed by...

Performing Arts/Film,

So You Think You Can Dabkeh: Women and Dabkeh: Panel Discussion and Party

This panel discussion, moderated by Riham Barghouti, features women dabkeh experts and addresses issues of gender in social and concert performance. In the dabkeh jam that...

Food & Drink

Eating Ice-Cream on the Streets of Naples: Materiality and Ephemerality in the History of Food

With Melissa Calaresu, professor of History, University of Cambridge.

Books

Sonia Taitz With Caroline Leavitt - The Watchmaker's Daughter

Sonia Taitz reads from her coming-of-age story about a daughter of Lithuanian Jewish immigrants and Holocaust survivors, and discusses her book and the memoir writing...

Books

Michael Hearst - Unusual Creatures: A Mostly Accurate Account of Earth's Strangest Animals

Food & Drink, History/NYC

Brooklyn Boozehounds: A History of Distilling in Kings County with Sarah Lohman

Whiskey Wars, Swill Milk, and Illicit Booze -- the production of alcohol has long been tied to Brooklyn's history, through commerce and controversy. In this...

Books, Food & Drink

Yvette Van Boven

Yvette Van Boven presents Home Made Winter with cooking demonstrations and treats.

Legal/Politics/Economics,

Global Korea: South Korea's Contributions to International Security

The study examines South Korea’s increased participation in peacekeeping, counter-piracy, post-conflict reconstruction, and counter-proliferation. Scott Snyder, Senior Fellow for Korea Studies and Director of the...

Legal/Politics/Economics

Biographer Janet Wallach on The Richest Woman in America: Hetty Green in the Gilded Age

No woman in the Gilded Age made as much money as Hetty Green. At the time of her death in 1916, she was worth at...

Books

Forever Green: Book Launch

Join renowned landscape designer Mario Nievera to celebrate the launch of his new book, Forever Green (Pointed Leaf Press, 2012). Nievera will present an illustrated tour of some of...

Art/Photo/Design

Stories from the New Aesthetic

The New Aesthetic is an ongoing research project by James Bridle, investigating the intersections of culture and technology, history and memory, and the physical and...

Books

A Graphic Art Trio: Chris Ware and Charles Burns Talk Shop With Chip Kidd

If you’re a fan of the graphic novel, this is your night. Chris Ware, author of Acme Novelty andJimmy Corrigan, the Smartest Kid on Earth joins writer Charles...

Art/Photo/Design

Curatorial Tour - Ooh, Shiny!

Free tour of Ooh, Shiny! with senior curator Stacy C. Hollander.

Books, Art/Photo/Design

Warhol's Orbit: Three Writers, Thirty Years

How did Andy Warhol influence the literary arts? Reflecting on the Metropolitan Museum of Art's "Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years," this conversation brings together...

Performing Arts/Film, Books