Events - December, 13, 2012

American Symphony Orchestra - The Cage Concert

At a concert in 1949 legendary American composer John Cage heard a piece by Anton Webern that so moved him he had to leave the...

Art/Photo/Design

The Birth of a Scent: Spicebomb

Tracing the construction of the perfume Spicebomb, this fully interactive presentation by olfactory artist Carlos Benaim and curator Chandler Burr explains the process behind the...

History/NYC

Simon Winchester with Claudia Dreifus: On Skulls

Hear the story of the skull and how it has exerted an almost inexplicable power over the human imagination for thousands of years. As symbols...

Performing Arts/Film

Robert Pinsky and John Wesley Harding

John Cage's centenary is celebrated in this rare performance of Cage's 1989 How To Get Started-a collaborative experiment exploring improvisation and the origin of ideas. The...

Madeleine Albright & Richard Williamson - Responsibility to Protect: Can It Make A Difference?

A conversation with Secretary Madeleine Albright and Ambassador Richard WIlliamson, moderated by Michael Abramowitz, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. In 2005, the United States, along...

History/NYC

Building to Impress: New York Skyscrapers and the People Who Commissioned Them

With Seth Gopin.

Performing Arts/Film

On Truth (and Lies) in Greek Tragedy

Legendary theater director Anne Bogart joins Simon Critchley to discuss how truth and deception are revealed in tragedy. Bogart has ventured into the world of tragedy...

Art/Photo/Design

Practical Fractals: Chaos Theory in Architecture and Design with Paola Antonelli and Jimena Canales

While studying architecture in Milan, Paola Antonelli was inspired by Benoît Mandelbrot’s work and eventually wrote her thesis on fractal architecture. In this conversation, she and...

Performing Arts/Film, Art/Photo/Design

Parallel Lines: Visual Art, CBGB, and Downtown Nightlife

The single most important site for the American punk and New Wave movements, CBGBhelped start the careers of countless bands, including the Ramones, Blondie, Television, and...

History/NYC

An Evening with Edmund Morris: Guard of Honor and the Morality of War

Edmund Morris, the distinguished biographer and author of a new collection of literary essays, speaks about James Gould Cozzens’s great war novel Guard of Honor. Cozzens,...

Books

Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child - Two Graves

Books

Japan & the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature & the Arts

Haruo Shirane, Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University, discusses his recently published book, Japan and the Culture of...

Heritage Destruction and Violence in Iraq: Bombing Mosques and Ethno-Sectarian Violence, 2006-2007

This paper presents the first results of a three-year project funded by the Australian Research Council which aims to empirically test the assumption that a...

Art/Photo/Design

Curator-Led Tour of Playing with Fire: 50 Years of Contemporary Glass

Discover the newly opened exhibition Playing with Fire: 50 Years of Contemporary Glass with curator Jennifer Scanlan as your guide. Scanlan will illuminate the diverse glass processes...

Food & Drink

Root Vegetables With Alex Guarnaschelli

Join Alex Guarnaschelli, executive chef at Butter restaurant and The Darby, as she discusses the importance of sustainable agriculture. By creating savory vegetable samplings, Guarnaschelli will inspire you to...

Performing Arts/Film

Konrad Becker - Cultural Intelligence Operations

Featuring Austrian electronic media pioneer Konrad Becker, in conjunction with the exhibition Against The Specialist: Contemporary References to Arnold Schoenberg in Image and Sound.

Books

U.S.-Cuban Collaboration on the Restoration of Hemingway's Finca Vigia

William Dupont will discuss the ongoing restoration of Ernest Hemingway’s home in Cuba based on his experience as the leader of a U.S. team of...

Your Next Customer: Opportunities for Brands in Today's Korea

The Korean market sees $4.5 billion annually in luxury good sales, an area that has grown at least twelve percent every year since 2006. In...

Books

Celebrating Lexi Rudnitsky: An evening of Poetry

An evening of poetry in celebration and memory of Lexi Rudnitsky (1972-2005), the wonderful poet, teacher, and activist, on the eve of her birthday. The...

Performing Arts/Film, Art/Photo/Design

Movement Research in Residence with Walter Dundervill and Maggie Bennett

How does dance, with its mutable input and unfixed traces, inform, alter, or influence the observer (and promote a re-evaluation of the gaze) in visual...

Making An Exit: From the Magnificent to the Macabre - How We Dignify the Dead

This visual presentation chronicles a series of voyages to discover how death is celebrated and commemorated in different cultures. Sarah Murray, British-born author and a...

Books

Is that a Word? by David Bukszpan

David Bukszpan discusses his lively guide to making the most out of word games. Lovers of Scrabble, Bananagrams, and Words with Friends won’t want to miss...

Performing Arts/Film

The Languages of Dance: Simon Dove and RoseLee Goldberg

Goldberg and Dove will explore ideas about notation and recording dance as reflected in the exhibition Sharon Lockhart | Noa Eshkol. The exhibition will also be...

Performing Arts/Film

Jean-Michel Pilc, Pianist

Born in 1960 in Paris, and now an American citizen, self-taught Jean-Michel Pilc has performed with numerous giants in the music field such as: Roy...