Events - December, 1, 2012

Walter Dean Myers

This year's National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, Walter Dean Myers "has produced an extraordinary body of work, including picture books, blues-inflected poetry, fantasy, biography...

Art/Photo/Design

Alina Szapocznikow: Sculpture Undone

A sculptor who began working during the postwar period in a classical figurative style, Alina Szapocznikow radically reconceptualized sculpture. Alina Szapocznikow: Sculpture Undone, 1955–1972 offers...

Books

Gotham: Writers in the City: A. M. Homes

Homes is the author of the novels, This Book Will Save Your Life, Music For Torching, The End of Alice, In a Country of Mothers,...

LGBTQ+, Film

United In Anger: A History of ACT UP

United In Anger: A History of ACT UP (Jim Hubbard, 2012, 93 min.). After the screening there will be a discussion honoring Day With(out) Art/World AIDS...

Performing Arts/Film, Film

Flex is Kings

This screening of clips from documentary Flex is Kings (Deidre Schoo and Michael Beach Nichols), on dance movement "flexing," will be followed by a Q&A with the...

Books, LGBTQ+

Cristy C. Road

Graphic novelist Cristy C. Road talks about her new book, Spit and Passion, about a young girl struggling with her newfound queer identity.

Art/Photo/Design

GO

Artists featured in the GO exhibition talk about their work.

Books,

Emily Jenkins

Reading and signing her new book, Lemonade in Winter: A Book About Two Kids Counting Money.

Books,

Amy Hest & Lauren Castillo

Reading and discussing their new book, The Reader (ages 4+).

Books, History/NYC

The Dawn of Innovation

In the thirty years after the Civil War, the United States blew by Great Britain to become the greatest economic power in world history. That...

Performing Arts/Film, Books

Deirdre Kelly in conversation with Misty Copeland

Longtime Globe and Mail dance critic, Deirdre Kelly’s new book offers a backstage history of the dancer, from the court of Louis XIV to the present day,...

Books

Angels of Paris: An Architectural Tour Through the History of Paris

A memorable gift for Francophiles and armchair travelers, this delightful book captures the fanciful and romantic spirit of Paris through images of the countless angels that...