Events - January, 24, 2013

Delineating Mystery: James Siena and Joan Waltemath in Conversation with Brett Littman

Mathematician Benoît Mandelbrot (1924–2010) believed in the importance of drawing as a necessary tool for translating computer images into easily understandable concepts. This process also ...

History/NYC

Antislavery: Colonial Beginnings to Emancipation

Long before Abraham Lincoln penned the Emancipation Proclamation, opponents of slavery employed every available literary form — from essays and plays to sermons and hymns...

Legal/Politics/Economics,

Measure for Measure: What's Fair?

Small farmers in Panama and Colombia raise many crops for home consumption, including rice, maize, potatoes, beans and greens. To accomplish this work, they often...

Books

Rebecca Dana - Jujitsu Rabbi and the Godless Blonde

Food & Drink, History/NYC

From Hardtack to Sugar Wafers: How the Civil War Created the Industry for Dainty Biscuits

Cracker bakeries, sugar refineries, candy makers – New York had them all in 1861 when the Civil War began. Once the huge build up of troops...

Performing Arts/Film, Film

New York Magazine Presents: Pre-Oscar Film Critics Roundtable

Preview this year’s Oscar race and hear an enlightening discussion of the state of the movies today. New York Magazine’s chief film critic David Edelstein...

Art/Photo/Design

Bjarke Ingels with Paul Goldberger

The recipient of many awards, including the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale, Danish architect Bjarke Ingels’ first New York building is planned for West...

Books

The Museum of Emotions: A Night with Bill Hayward & The Coffin Factory

Join us for an experience in The Museum of Emotions as we bring scenes from Bill Hayward's film asphalt, muscle and bone to life. Laura...

Books, Religion/Spirituality

Bruce Ruben: Max Lilienthal and the Making of the American Rabbinate

In his new biography of the German-born rabbi who shaped Reform Judaism in 19th-century Cincinnati, Cantor Bruce L. Ruben (Hebrew Union College) investigates the central...

Art/Photo/Design

New Wave Finland: Contemporary Photography from the Helsinki School

The American-Scandinavian Foundation (ASF) and Gallery TAIK present New Wave Finland: Contemporary Photography from the Helsinki School, an exhibition featuring the work of young photographers and video...

History/NYC

New York Neon

Explore the brilliant glow of that iconic element of New York’s cityscape: the neon sign. Enjoy a visual tour of the surviving early- and mid-20th-century...

Books

An Evening with Counterpoint Press

In 2007 three notable independent presses -- Counterpoint, Shoemaker & Hoard, and Soft Skull Press – combined to become Counterpoint LLC, publishing “fresh, cutting-edge literary voices.”...

Art/Photo/Design

Anthology by Clifford Owens

Performance artist Clifford Owens presents his first publication -- a compendium of African-American performance art in the form of written performance scores solicited from his...

Art/Photo/Design

Winter Symposium: William Matthew Prior

William Matthew Prior (1806–1873) “democratized” portraiture by devising a sliding-scale fee structure that made such visual documents available to a broad cross-section of American society....

Legal/Politics/Economics,

The Middle East: Trauma, Truths, & Twitter

Authors Rory O’Connor (Friends, Followers and the Future) and Dr. Rahimeh Andalibian (The Rose Hotel) examine the influence of social media on common myths and misconceptions about the Middle...