Events - November, 18, 2012

Eat, Drink & Think Like...The Vanderbilts

With T.J. Stiles and Marlene Heck. Leading historians and culinary experts take you back in time to the lives and tastes of the world’s mosr...

Performing Arts/Film

A Night to Celebrate Woody Guthrie and "Woody's Children"

2012 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of Woody Guthrie, and all of the folk musicians who were inspired by his music are known...

Performing Arts/Film

On Chekhov

Part of 30th Next Wave Festival In conjunction with Donka: A Letter to Chekhov With Ellen Litman, Irina Reyn, and Lara Vapnyar Moderated by Anya Ulinich Author...

, Film

Film and Discussion: Chinee Girl

Women of Chinese descent in Trinidad occupy a space that is simultaneously visible and invisible. This documentary focuses on fifteen female subjects occupying various social...

Performing Arts/Film, Art/Photo/Design

My Chekhov, Not Yours: Annie Baker, Kristen Kosmas, Annie-B Parson & Paul Lazar, and Tina Satter

New York City is alive with radical theatrical interpretations of the writings of Anton Chekhov. The nineteenth-century Russian physician, dramatist, and author is venerated in...

Books, Food & Drink

Cooking from the Heart: A Jewish Journey Through Food

A meaningful present for the holidays, this volume celebrates the heartwarming heirloom recipes and stories from around the world from places as diverse as the...

Books, Art/Photo/Design

POWERHOUSE SUNDAYS: Chantal Heijnen

Writer and educator Susan Hartman curates and hosts a monthly series featuring eminent writers and photographers at the powerHouse Arena in Dumbo, Brooklyn. Dutch photographer...

Books, Art/Photo/Design

Staten Island OutLOUD presents Dickey Chapelle: She Photographed Vietnam

Staten Island OutLOUD continues its series on the Vietnam experience with readings & conversation on Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, together with an exploration of the life and...

Art/Photo/Design

R.E.H. Gordon presents Center for Experimental Lectures, with Edie Fake, Jamillah James and Alexis Blair Penney

Center for Experimental Lectures is an ongoing project series in which artists, theorists, and other cultural producers experiment with the format of the public lecture....

Art/Photo/Design

Matt Connors in Conversation with MoMA PS1 Curator, Peter Eleey

On the occasion of the publication of A Bell is a Cup coinciding with Matt Connors’ exhibition at MoMA PS1, the artist holds a conversation with Curator Peter...

Performing Arts/Film

The Album Release of The Mystery of Heaven - Jim Jarmusch and Jozef Van Wissem

Following their first collaboration Concerning the Entrance into Eternity, released earlier this year, filmmaker-turned-guitar shredder Jim Jarmusch and Dutch lutist Jozef Van Wissem are releasing their...

Books

An Evening With The Feminist Press

In 1991, Anita Hill famously testified that Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas had sexually harassed her. Is the country any better off twenty years later?...

Art/Photo/Design