Events - November, 28, 2012

The Life and Times of Rudolph Valentino

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...

Art/Photo/Design

Architectural Explorations in Books - Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki, David J. Lewis

Since the release of their best-selling Opportunistic Architecture in 2007, New York City based architecture firm Lewis.Tsurumaki.Lewis has picked up a National Design Award from the Cooper-Hewitt National Design...

Books

Selected Shorts: Comedy!

Alec Baldwin leads a lineup of stars performing hilarious and wacky fictions, just in time to cheer you up after the Thanksgiving doldrums.

Religion/Spirituality

What is Jewish Culture? - Amos Oz, Daniel Libeskind, James E. Young, Deborah Dash Moore and Fania Oz-Salzberger

Central to our understanding of Jewish culture and civilization is a grasp of its many expressive forms—religious and secular, high and low, elite and popular—in...

Books, History/NYC

Great Expectations: The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens

With Robert Gottlieb. Charles Dickens, famous for the indelible child characters he created, from Little Nell to Oliver Twist, was himself the father of 10....

Science/Tech/Health, History/NYC

Experts Speak: Breaking The Enigma Code - Sharon Bertsch McGrayne

In 1939, German U-boats used orders encoded by the legendary Enigma machine to attack unarmed merchant marine ships brining supplies from the Americas to Great...

Art/Photo/Design

"Turner and the Love of Art," by David H. Solkin, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London

J.M.W. Turner often has been characterized as one of the most competitive figures in the history of European art, as someone who regarded the greatest...

History/NYC

The Statue of Liberty: A Transatlantic Story

This illustrated lecture tells the little-known stories of the statue’s improbable beginnings, transatlantic connections, and the changing meanings it has held for each successive American generation....

Art/Photo/Design

Gail Albert Halaban

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...

Books

Back to Blood: Tom Wolfe

Based on the same style of detailed, on-scene, high-energy reporting that powered Tom Wolfe’s previous best-selling novels, Bonfire of the Vanities and A Man in Full, Back to Blood is...

History/NYC

In Order to Form a More Perfect Likeness: Frederick Douglass, Photography and the Image of the Nation

With Laura Wexler, professor of American Studies/Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Yale University.

Books

Oliver Sacks - Hallucinations

Legal/Politics/Economics

Future of New York City: The Agenda for the Next Mayor

Join Crain’s New York Business and Partnership for New York City for the Future of New York City Conference and take part in a discussion about the...

Art/Photo/Design

Clive Aslet: An Era of Elegance, the Edwardian Country House from 1890 to 1939

The Royal Oak Society and NYSID are co-presenting a lecture by award-winning writer and journalist Clive Aslet. He will be speaking about his latest book, An...

History/NYC

Joseph P. Kennedy and World War II

Joseph Patrick Kennedy was the patriarch of America’s greatest political dynasty. An indomitable and elusive figure, his dreams of advancement for his nine children were...

Art/Photo/Design

Gallery Talk: Wade Guyton and Scott Rothkopf on Wade Guyton OS

Over the past decade, New York–based artist Wade Guyton has pioneered a groundbreaking body of work that explores our changing relationships to images and artworks through the...

Religion/Spirituality

Buddhist and Psychedelic Perspectives on Love

Is love happiness? There are myriad forms of love: we make love, we love our families, we love animals, and some of us love God(s). ...

Books, History/NYC

Kevin Phillips - 1775: A Good Year for Revolution

Books

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The author of The Black Swan follows up his bestseller with a look at how stress and tension lead to healthy societies. Ticket information available...

Art/Photo/Design

R.H. Quaytman

R. H. Quaytman’s paintings draw on the abstract, the photographic, and the site-specific to evoke a new grammar for painting. Quaytman organizes her paintings on...

Books,

Soldiers, Spies, and Statesmen: Egypt's Road to Revolt by Hazem Kandil

Revolutions are difficult to understand and almost impossible to predict. Egypt’s 2011 revolt was no exception. The military’s abandonment of Mubarak—a turning point for the...

Legal/Politics/Economics

Reporting Financial Performance: The Key to Resolving Many Vexatious Standard Setting Issues?

Join the Stan Ross Department of Accountancy as they welcome Thomas J. Linsmeier, Member, Financial Accounting Standards Board to Baruch College for the Emanuel Saxe...

Being Twentysomething

A conversation about what it's like (or what it was like) to be at the time of life when you finally have to start making...

Food & Drink

Kimchi and Wine: Where Fermentation Roads Meet

Lauryn Chun, founder of Mother-in-Law’s Kimchi, launches her new book, The Kimchi Cookbook: 60 Traditional and Modern Ways to Make and Eat Kimchi. A superb introduction...

Books

Portrait of a New Angola

The U.S. launch of this photographic celebration of the little-known African country. This volume introduces readers to the landscapes, people, and spirit that make Angola unique and...