Events - December, 3, 2012

Private Gallery Tour - Dialogues with Warhol

With Marla Prather, curator, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art Although it has often been claimed that Warhol is the most influential artist of the...

History/NYC

When We Were Free To Be: Looking Back at a Children's Classic and the Difference It Made

Free to Be . . . You and Me-the groundbreaking children’s record, book, and television special that debuted - in 1972-captured the spirit of the...

Legal/Politics/Economics

Abby Joseph Cohen: After the Election - The Outlook for 2013

Abby Joseph Cohen is president of the Global Markets Institute and senior investment strategist at Goldman Sachs. Moderated by Claire B. Benenson and Madeline I....

History/NYC

Taliesin Diary: A Year with Frank Lloyd Wright

With Sarah A. Leavitt. In 1942, Priscilla J. Henken and her husband lived and apprenticed at Frank Lloyd Wright’s communal farm and architectural fellowship, Taliesin,...

Art/Photo/Design

Dancing Around the Bride: Cage, Cunningham, Duchamp, Johns and Rauschenberg

With Carlos Basualdo and Erica Battle. Explore the interwoven lives, radical art and shared experimental spirit of Marcel Duchamp and four of America’s most important...

Books, Art/Photo/Design

A Writers' Celebration of Romare Bearden

With Elizabeth Alexander, Stanley Crouch, Kwame Dawes, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Sarah Lewis, John Edgar Wideman, and other. Playwright August Wilson praised Romare Bearden for...

Performing Arts/Film

Russell Maliphant: The Rodin Project

For one night only and prior to its Joyce Theater premiere, go behind the scenes with choreographer Russell Maliphant, who will share insights, film extracts,...

Books, History/NYC

Song of the Vikings: Snorri and the Making of Norse Myths

Join award-winning author and 1988 ASF Icelandic Literature Fellow Nancy Marie Brown in the 3rd Floor Galleries of Scandinavia House for a book talk about her...

Performing Arts/Film

Extraordinary Lives: Steve Earle in Conversation with Bill Kelly

Musician, author, actor, and political activist Steve Earle began his career as a protégé of legendary songwriters Townes Van Zandt and Guy Clark. He became...

Legal/Politics/Economics

Sorting Out the Election

With Professor of Journalism and New York Times Columnist Thomas Edsall. This event will be held at PicNic Cafe (2665 Broadway btw. 101st & 102nd...

Books

Adam Gopnik & Bob Mankoff - The Big New Yorker Book of Dogs

Books, Science/Tech/Health

Margaret Cuomo - World Without Cancer: The Making of a New Cure and the Real Promise of Prevention

Dr. Margaret Cuomo, radiologist and physician in diagnostic radiology at North Shore University Hospital and daughter of former Governor Mario Cuomo, levels a blistering critique...

Legal/Politics/Economics, Performing Arts/Film

Thought Is Free: An Evening of Protest and Solidarity

High-profile champions of free expression will read the work of imprisoned artists speaking truth to power. Legendary journalist Carl Bernstein will read a story by Eskinder Nega, the...

Books

No Time to Lose: A Tribute to Jura Soyfer

Close to what would have been Jura Soyfer’s 100th birthday, the Austrian Cultural Forum is presents an evening dedicated to the great Austrian poet, playwright, songwriter, critic, essayist,...

Legal/Politics/Economics

From Behind the Blue Wall of Silence

A publlic forum featuring current and former NYPL officers sepaking about their experiences on the job and presenting their critique of current NYPD policies and...

Performing Arts/Film

What Rhymes with America

Award-winning playwright Melissa James Gibson discusses the production of her new poignant, funny play What Rhymes With America, with director Daniel Aukin and one of its...

CPS: Future of Higher Education panel

A discussion on how private institutions that are highly tuition-dependent can effectively respond to the enormous economic challenges they are confronting without compromising the quality...