Events - October, 17, 2012

Art/Photo/Design

Fraternité: French Artists from Revolution to Romanticism

The Revolution of 1789 transformed French art. Neoclassicism, embodied in the paintings of Jacques-Louis David, became the style of the day. This series explores the...
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Art/Photo/Design

The Cone Sisters of Baltimore

The Cone sisters of Baltimore spent their lives in happy spinsterhood, travelling the world together. Their friends included Gertrude Stein, Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and...
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Art/Photo/Design

Washington Crossing the Delaware: Art in the Service of Politics

Emanuel Leutze's representation of a critical episode in the American Revolution has been associated with other key historical moments. For example, when it was painted...
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Books

Stettenheim Literary Circle: "Salvage the Bones" by Jesmyn Ward

A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch’s father is growing concerned. A hard...
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Performing Arts/Film

The Life and Times of Giuseppe Verdi

All lectures include video and music, and are given by Cavaliere Ufficiale Aldo Mancusi, President and Curator of the Enrico Caruso Museum. YOU MUST MAKE A...
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Books

Artist Career Developement - Breakthrough

All of us struggle at one time or another with creative block. Inevitably striking at the worst moment, it can leave us feeling completely paralyzed....
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Books

A Evening with David Mitchell

In a rare New York appearance, the wildly imaginative author of Cloud Atlas (to be released this fall as a film, starring Tom Hanks) and The Thousand Autumns...
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Science/Tech/Health,

Helping Schools Transform Their Bully Societies into Compass

Jessie Klein, author of "The Bully Society: School Shootings and the Crisis of Bullying in America’s Schools" and Assistant Professor of Sociology/Criminal Justice at Adelphi...
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Panel Discussion on the Political Future of Iran

Please note: This event takes place at the Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Ave. Distinguished Professor of Iranian and Middle Eastern history and politics, Ervand Abrahamian (Baruch College...
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Performing Arts/Film

Broadway Musicals: From the Pages of the New York Times

Over the last century, The New York Times’s six leading critics have offered the most authoritative and influential commentary on the Broadway musical. Using those reviews,...
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Books

Chris Elliott

The comedian (Late Night With David Letterman, Get a Life) talks about his new book, Guy Under the Sheets: An Unauthorized Autobiography.
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Art/Photo/Design

Constructing a Global Interior: The Imagery of Collections and Collecting in Seventeenth-Century Flemish Art

With Christine Göttler, Art History, University of Bern, Switzerland. Visit official site for registration.
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Art/Photo/Design

"Leonardo's Mary Magdalene: An Ideal of Painting and the Power of Love," by Luke Syson, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Leonardo da Vinci’s fragmentary sheet depicting Mary Magdalene—which will be included in the special exhibition Mantegna to Matisse—is among the artist’s most beautiful and least studied...
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Books

Paul Auster & Irène Jacob

Friends and collaborators, Paul Auster, the prolific and award-winning author, and Irène Jacob, winner of the Best Actress Award at Cannes, present a special literary...
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Art/Photo/Design

Cass Bird

Moderated by Phillip S. Block, the weekly Photographers Lecture Series brings together ten distinguished photographers and artists from all aspects of the field to present...
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, History/NYC

The Political Future of Iran

Faculty, commentators, journalists and students with first-hand experience on Iran will present. Our guests will share their expertise to further the understanding of current events...
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Performing Arts/Film

The Model Alliance - Sara Ziff and Susan Scafidi

Model Sara Ziff and legal scholar Susan Scafidi discuss The Model Alliance, a nonprofit advocacy group for American fashion models founded by Ziff in 2011....
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Books, History/NYC

The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King

Author Rich Cohen (Tough Jews) in conversation with David Lipsky, contributing editor, Rolling Stone. Cohen’s page-turner traces the story of Samuel Zemurray as he goes from...
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Food & Drink

Edible Selby

Join photographer Todd Selby and Mission Chinese’s Danny Bowien, Tartine Bakery’s Chad Robertson, and Blue Bottle Coffee’s Caitlin and James Freeman for a conversation on...
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Art/Photo/Design, History/NYC

Voces: Framing Narratives

Join visual artists, historians, and community activists in a conversation that looks and listens to the images and voices of Puerto Rican communities in 1970s...
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History/NYC

Investigating "Manhattan's Most Haunted House"

Dan Sturges returns for the latest installment in his popular lecture series. After a brief primer on the history of parapsychology (with a focus on...
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Religion/Spirituality, History/NYC

Golden Menorah of the Arch of Titus Revealed

After the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in 70 CE, the golden Menorah and other holy objects were taken to Rome as booty of the...
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Performing Arts/Film, Books

We Killed: The Rise of Women in American Comedy by Yael Kohen

Yael Kohen celebrates her oral history that traces the history of women in comedy—from Phyllis Diller to Tina Fey—with help from a panel of comedians...
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Performing Arts/Film

Peter and the Starcatcher - The Design Superfecta

Playwright Rick Elice, director Roger Rees, and designers Donyale Werle (sets) and Paloma Young (costumes) discuss the creative process that led to their history-making design sweep of the 2012 Tony Awards. Each...
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Legal/Politics/Economics

Protection of Urban Areas

Dr. Adam Hutter will offer a review of ongoing DHS research in progress at the NUSTL, and discuss the laboratory's unique role as the interface...
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Performing Arts/Film, Books

Grace on Broadway: Elizabeth Gilbert

International best-selling author Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat Pray Love) will participate in a post-show conversation about the play as it relates to issues of faith directly following the...
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