Events - December, 4, 2012
Art/Photo/Design
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...
Books, Art/Photo/Design
Masterpieces of Orientalist Art: The Shafik Gabr Collection
The launch of a sumptuous volume showcasing Shafik Gabr’s unsurpassed collection of Orientalist art, including masterpieces by many of the major nineteenth and twentieth century Orientalists.
Performing Arts/Film
The Strange Career of Porgy and Bess: Race, Culture, and America 's Most Famous Opera
Created by George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward and sung by generations of black performers, Porgy and Bess has been both embraced and reviled since its...
Books
Book Talk with Marcy Whitebook, PhD
Please note: This event takes place at the Center for Worker Education, 25 Broadway, 7th floor. Marcy Whitebook is the founder and director of the Center for...
Food & Drink
Meal Multitasking - Bonnie Taub-Dix, MA, RD, CDN
Learn how certain super foods and power-packed snacks can multitask for your body by efficiently and economically boosting energy and heart health, strengthening bones, and...
History/NYC, Film
One World, Big Screen: Hollywood and WWII
WWII coincided with cinema’s golden age, and movies were created at a time when all sides in the war were coming to realize the great...
History/NYC
New York Genealogical & Biographical Society Lecture Series: Other Places Your Ancestors Might Be Hiding: "Non-Genealogy" Databases and Internet Resources to Explore
Through their rich offerings of online census records, passenger lists, naturalization records, and other sources, websites dedicated to genealogical research have led to an increased...
History/NYC
Tradition, Innovation, and Tradition Again in Hunting Practices in the Mediterranean Region, 10th-14th Centuries
With Heather Ecker, Head of Curatorial Affairs, The Aga Khan Museum.
History/NYC
Three Days at Gettysburg, Part II
In the second program in this two-part series, three distinguished Civil War historians continue to explore the Battle of Gettysburg, the Civil War battle that...
Accountability and Reconciliation in Asia
In Cambodia, the Khmer Rouge finally surrendered in 1999, ending decades of internal violence and conflict. The Nepalese civil war spanned a decade from 1996...
Science/Tech/Health
Mary Beth Dawson on Women and Science
Mary Beth Dawson is a professor of Biological Sciences at CUNY Kingsborough. Dr. Dawson received her BS in Chemistry at CUNY Brooklyn College and her Ph.D....
Books, History/NYC
Martin Duberman - Howard Zinn: A Life on the Left
Historian, playwright, and gay-rights activist Martin Duberman talks about his new book, discussing the anti-war and civil rights activist whose book A People's History of...
Books, History/NYC
John Connelly
From Enemy to Brother illuminates the baffling silence of the Catholic Church during the Holocaust, showing how the ancient teaching of deicide—according to which the Jews...
Books
The Salon: Literary Women
The Salon presents Literary Women, Guest Curated by She Writes & Hedgebrook Writers Retreat. Moderated by Amy Wheeler, with Lisa Dierbeck, Holly Morris, Rahna Reiko Rizzuto, and Martha Southgate.
Legal/Politics/Economics, Books
While America Sleeps: A Book Discussion with Russ Feingold
More than ten years after one of the greatest wake-up calls in human history, our nation seems to have again grown complacent about the issues...
Books
Detroit City Is the Place to Be
Detroit native and Rolling Stone contributor Mark Binelli celebrates the launch of Detroit City is the Place to Be, a journey through America's greatest urban failure that proves that Detroit...
Books
The Christmas Kid and Other Brooklyn Stories
Local favorite Pete Hamill visits to read and sign The Christmas Kid and Other Brooklyn Stories. A fitting kickoff; as a kid, Pete Hamill, who grew up in South...
Books
Beyond Geography
Every story takes places somewhere. But how do authors decide where to set their characters in motion? How does setting influence character, mood, and action?...
Books
New Yorker Cartoonists Victoria Roberts and Arnie Levin in Conversation
You’ve seen Victoria Roberts’ hilarious cartoons in The New Yorker for nearly twenty-five years, and you’ve probably seen her illustrations in The New York Times or The Wall Street Street...
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