Events - October, 24, 2012

Legal/Politics/Economics, Performing Arts/Film

Andy Borowitz: Countdown to 2012

Join award-winning comedian and New York Times bestselling author Andy Borowitz for a look at the election with an A-list panel of comedians, journalists and...

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...

Books

Joe McKendry, Lynne Sagalyn, Tim Tompkins - One Times Square - Architectural Explorations in Books

Author/Illustrator Joe McKendry discusses the techniques used in creating the historically accurate paintings from his latest book One Times Square: A Century of Change at the...

Science/Tech/Health

Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection

With A.J. Jacobs, the author of the New York Times bestsellers The Know-It-All, The Year of Living Biblically, and The Guinea Pig Diaries. The senior...

Legal/Politics/Economics

Gino Francesconi on "Andrew Carnegie and Carnegie Hall"

Gino Francesconi, Director of Archives and Rose Museum at Carnegie Hall, will discuss industrialist and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie's founding of Carnegie Hall at this Lunch...

Art/Photo/Design

Silks from West and East: A Study on the Textiles from TAM170, Astana, Turfan, Xinjiang

With Zhao Feng, Executive Director, China National Silk Museum, Hangzhou. Visit official site for registration.

Books, Food & Drink

Thomas Keller - Bouchon Bakery

Thomas Keller, world-renowned chef and owner of Per Se and The French Laundry, discusses the recipes of his Bouchon Bakery with co-author Sebastien Rouxel and...

Books

Thalia Kids' Book Club: Lemony Snicket - Who Could That Be at This Hour?

The mysterious author of A Series of Unfortunate Events talks about his brand new series All the Wrong Questions, which hits stores everywhere on October 23. Ages 8...

Heritage Ball Honoree Program with Friends of the High Line

Joshua David and Robert Hammond, Co-Founders, Friends of the High Line are 2012 Heritage Ball honorees. Mr. David, Co-Founder of Friends of the High Line, has lived in Chelsea since...

Art/Photo/Design

Dard Hunter: The Graphic Works

Based on Lawrence Kreisman’s new book on this subject, the talk will explore the growth of Dard Hunter as a graphic artist during the Arts...

Books, History/NYC

Banzai Babe Ruth: Baseball, Espionage & Assassination during the 1934 Tour of Japan

As the United States and Japan edged closer to war, politicians in both countries hoped to bring the two countries closer together through a shared...

Books, Food & Drink

Frederick Kaufman - Bet the Farm: How Food Stopped Being Food

Art/Photo/Design

Toxic Beauty: The Art of Frank Moore Gallery Talk

With David W. Kiehl, Curator of Prints, Whitney Museum of American Art.

Art/Photo/Design

Jitka Hanzlova

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...

Art/Photo/Design

Alone in the Studio: Women Artists' Self Portraits

Confronted with a mirror and a blank canvas, women painters faced difficult decisions about how to present themselves to the world. Should they make themselves...

Books

Don DeLillo in conversation with Jonathan Franzen

For a generation of younger novelists, Don DeLillo has been the defining voice, the writer whose sentences have inspired and influenced their own. On the...

Books

Lowell Hawthorne

Lowell Hawthorne discusses The Baker's Son: My Life in Business with Jessica Moore of MoCADA.

Books

The Hunt for the Female Narrative

Featuring Professor Lillian Slugocki, Department of English. Sponsored by the Women's Studies Program.

Books

DT Max and Gerry Howard on DFW

Join DT Max (Every Love Story Is a Ghost Story) and Gerry Howard, Doubleday editor-at-large, for a discussion on the life and work of David...

Art/Photo/Design

Photographers Charles Harbutt & Alex Webb Discuss Departures and Arrivals

Charles Harbutt, a two time president of Magnum whose work has been exhibited at a multitude of places including the Museum of Modern Art, the...

History/NYC

My American Revolution: Crossing the Delaware and I-78

Robert Sullivan investigates the invaluable roles played by New York and New Jersey during the Revolution.Writer Peter Quinn engages Sullivan in conversation, recounting the author's quixotic quest...

Books

Daniel Mendelsohn

The New York Review of Books cultural critic comes to powerHouse for an evening to discuss his collection of essays on classical and popular culture, Waiting for...

Books,

India: In My Eyes

Barbara Macklowe unveils this superb collection of photographs that transport us to off-the-beaten path corners of India.

Performing Arts/Film

Michael C. Hall + Kevin Dutton

In this groundbreaking adventure into the world of psychopaths, The Wisdom of Psychopaths: What Saints, Spies, and Serial Killers Can Teach Us About Success, the renowned psychologist Kevin...

Towards a Linguistic Spring: A Talk with Mahmoud Al-Batal

Mahmoud Al-Batal is associate professor of Arabic in the Department of Middle Eastern Studies and director of the Center for Arabic Study Abroad (CASA) at the...

Legal/Politics/Economics, History/NYC

Poverty, Punishment, and Resistance

This election year, events and developments as varied as the Trayvon Martin shooting, the rebirth of the "birther controversy," and the return of what one...

Art/Photo/Design

Modeling the Past

With generous funding from an anonymous donor and the National Science Foundation, and in close cooperation with the Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici del Lazio,...

Books

Daniel Smith - Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety

Under "normal" scrutiny, Daniel Smith's behavior would elicit tragic overtones or analytical neutrality, in the case of Smith's Monkey Mind, panic attacks are described with...

Art/Photo/Design

Foiled: Tinsel Painting in America

With Lee Kogan, curator emerita, American Folk Art Museum. This series of talks examines art and artists represented in the exhibitions Foiled: Tinsel Painting in America and Ooh, Shiny! from multiple...

History/NYC

Staten Island Traffic Report: The Moses Legacy and Beyond

The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge is one of Robert Moses's towering achievements, but many of the projects he designed for Staten Island were never realized. Citizen activists...

Legal/Politics/Economics, Books