Events - November, 27, 2012

George Bellows, Master Realist

With H. Barbara Weinberg, Alice Pratt Brown Curator, Department of American Paintings and Sculpture. By the time George Bellows died at age 42, he was...

Science/Tech/Health

Field Guide to Urban Wildlife: Common Animals of Cities & Suburbs How They Adapt & Thrive

In this illustrated lecture Julie Feinstein, collection manager of the Ambrose Monell Cryo Collection at the American Museum of Natural History, explores creatures we may...

Books

Gretchen Rubin: Happiness in the Home

In the spirit of her New York Times bestseller The Happiness Project, Gretchen Rubin embarked on a new project to make home a happier place....

Science/Tech/Health

A Doctor's Home Remedies For Aches & Pains - Jordan D. Metzl, MD

Learn to effectively self-diagnose and self-treat many common injuries, including sprains, strains and other chronic and acute ailments that can be debilitating for active adults....

Science/Tech/Health

The Grand Tour Of The Universe With Brian Abbott

Nearly everyone knows that Earth is the third planet from the Sun, but where is the Sun among the other stars in the Milky Way?...

Performing Arts/Film, Books

Yip Harburg: Legendary Lyricist With a Brain, a Heart, and the Nerve

Harriet Hyman Alonso (history, CCNY), author of the new book Yip Harburg: Legendary Lyricist and Human Rights Activist (Wesleyan University Press), takes her audience into the political...

History/NYC

New York Genealogical & Biographical Society Lecture Series: Trace Your Roots with DNA

Over the past decade, genetic genealogy has graduated from pioneering research to one more tool in our family history arsenal, but just as the number...

Performing Arts/Film

August Strindberg and His Turbulent Life

Swedish author and playwright August Strindberg – a brilliant and yet highly controversial personage – died a hundred years ago this year. He is considered by...

Art/Photo/Design

Hero and Villain: Lafayette's Legacies

With Laura Auricchio, professor of Art History/Humanities, The New School

Books

Victoria Roberts - After the Fall

History/NYC

Iron Curtain: The Crushing of Eastern Europe, 1944-1956

At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union found itself in control of a huge swath of territory in Eastern Europe. Stalin and...

Books

Lynne Sharon Schwartz and Binnie Kirshenbaum

Renowned authors Lynne Sharon Schwartz (Two-Part Inventions) and Binnie Kirshenbaum (The Scenic Route) will come together to read from their books and discuss their writing.

Performing Arts/Film, Books

Yip Harburg: Legendary Lyricist with a Brain, a Heart, and the Nerve

Harriet Hyman Alonso (history, CCNY), author of the new book Yip Harburg: Legendary Lyricist and Human Rights Activist (Wesleyan University Press), takes her audience into the political...

Books

Michael Lowenthal With Peter Cameron - The Paternity Test

Michael Lowenthal reads from The Paternity Test, his engaging novel about different relationships put to the test over the desires and complications of creating a...

Performing Arts/Film

Etty

Etty is a touring one-woman theatrical play based on the diaries and letters of Etty Hillesum, adapted and performed by Susan Stein. Directed by Austin...

Books

YA Author Panel

A reading and conversation about YA literature with authors David Levithan, Adele Griffin, Eliot Schrefer, Alyssa Sheinmel, and Robin Wasserman.

Books

Creative Women in China Today: Sheng Keyi

Born in Yiyang, Huan in the 1970s, Sheng Keyi is considered one of China's leading younger generation authors. Sheng's first full-length novel, Northern Girls — published in China in...

Books, Religion/Spirituality

From the YIVO Archives: The Rothschild Talmud

"From the YIVO Archives" is a new program series highlighting the treasures of the YIVO Archives. The Fall 2012 program features the Rothschild Baba Kama,...

Books

Baffler 21 Release Party with Thomas Frank and Julie Klausner

The editors of The Baffler will celebrate the release of the latest issue by hosting Ayn Rand: The Game Show, a deadly competition pit Baffler editor emeritus Thomas Frank...

Performing Arts/Film, Film

Matt Damon & Gus Van Sant

Actor-writer-producer Matt Damon — the 2012 Gotham Independent Film Award honoree and star of one of the year’s most highly anticipated films — joins director Gus Van...

Performing Arts/Film

Tuning into Tremé with Larry Blumenfeld, The Wall Street Journal -- Do You Know What It Means?

In Sidney Bechet's memoir, “Treat It Gentle,” the late, great clarinetist's real grandfather is supplanted by Omar, a fictional figure based on a folk tale,...

Books, Science/Tech/Health, Art/Photo/Design

Simon Dinnerstein & Paul Lockhart In Conversation

Artist Simon Dinnerstein and mathematician Paul Lockhart team up for a presentation and discussion about art and mathematics.

Books

Nassim Nicholas Taleb - Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder

Performing Arts/Film

A Conversation with Marion Cotillard

Academy Award-winning actress Marion Cotillard — 2012 Gotham Independent Film Award honoree and star of one of the year’s most highly anticipated films, Rust and...

Art/Photo/Design

Maria Gough - "The Para-Architectural Imagination of Gustav Klutsis"

In the early 1920s, the avant-garde artist Gustav Klutsis (Gustavs Klucis) proposed a pioneering series of para-architectural communication structures for the public diffusion of revolutionary...

Books