Events - November, 5, 2012

The Art Of The Sale: Learning From The Masters About The Business Of Life

With Philip Delves Broughton, the bestselling author of "Ahead of the Curve: Two Years at Harvard Business School." What makes a successful salesperson? The author,...

Legal/Politics/Economics

The Timeline of Presidential Elections: How Campaigns Do (And Do Not) Matter

To what extent do campaigns matter? Will voters cast their ballots for the candidates whose platform and positions best match their own, or will the...

Books

Tom Wolfe

Set in modern-day Miami, Tom Wolfe’s new novel, Back to Blood, examines race, sex, art and immigration. He is “one of the greatest literary stylists and...

Food & Drink

On Julia Child at 100: An Appreciation

In this centennial year of Julia Child’s birth, Judith Jones (vice president and senior editor at Alfred A. Knopf and editor of Child’s Mastering the...

Science/Tech/Health

MESSENGER Update With Sean Solomon

Sean Solomonwill discuss his work as a principal investigator for the MESSENGER spacecraft, which launched in 2004 and successfully entered into orbit around Mercury at...

Art/Photo/Design

"Van Gogh's Portrait of a Peasant: One Work in Context," led by Susan Grace Galassi, The Frick Collection

Considered to be one of van Gogh’s masterpieces, Portrait of a Peasant (Patience Escalier) was made in 1888, at a critical turning point in the artist’s career....

Performing Arts/Film

Minnesota Opera: "Doubt"

Don’t miss the only New York preview of Douglas J. Cuomo’s opera Doubt, based on the Pulitzer and Tony Award–winning play by John Patrick Shanley. Excerpts...

Books

Carine Roitfeld

As former Editor-in-Chief of French Vogue, Carine Roitfeld's distinctive aesthetic has been famously summed up in one word: Irreverent. Now, after the publication of a book...

Books

Jami Attenberg, Courtney Sullivan - The Middlesteins

Art/Photo/Design

The Last Pictures: A Conversation with Trevor Paglen

This program explores the concepts and development process behind The Last Pictures, a project by artist Trevor Paglen commissioned and presented by the public art organization Creative Time that...

Art/Photo/Design

Walter Annenberg Annual Lecture: Sarah Sze

Known for large-scale sculptural installations, wall-mounted reliefs, and works on paper, Sarah Sze transforms our perception of quotidian items, such as notebook paper, plastic spoons,...

The Middle East: Bombs & Trauma, Truths, and Twitter!

Authors Rory O’Connor (Friends, Followers and the Future) and Dr. Rahimeh Andalibian (The Rose Hotel) will examine the influence of social media on common myths...

Performing Arts/Film

Jane Fonda: The Private Life of a Public Woman

A conversation with the author Patricia Bosworth and Foster Hirsch as she reveals what is behind the public image of her longtime friend Jane Fonda.

Film

Polly II - A Plan for a Revolution in Docklands

Anja Kirschner and David Panos’ first long-form narrative films stemmed from the experience of gentrification in East London, and the forms of collective direct action...

Legal/Politics/Economics, Books