Events - January, 25, 2013

American Symphony Orchestra - What Makes a Masterpiece

To mark his 20th year with the American Symphony Orchestra, Music Director Leon Botstein offers a signature program questioning why some works are regarded as...

Performing Arts/Film, Science/Tech/Health

Movement Talks: The Art of Dance Therapy - Future Directions

As the profession evolves, the dance/movement therapy community uncovers new populations that can benefit from dance as a tool to go deeper into the sources...

History/NYC, Film

WWII & NYC Film Series - I Was a Male War Bride (1949)

New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik presents one of his favorite films, a zany comedy set in postwar Germany about a French officer who soon discovers that...

Art/Photo/Design

Meghan Boody

Meghan Boody creates vivid images and scenes that are led by a central narrative with whimsical and often disturbing imagery. She most often works in digitally...

Performing Arts/Film

Chaplin: A Conversation with the Cast and Creative Team

Join the director and choreographer, lyricist and composer, playwright and star of Broadway’s Chaplin the Musical for a conversation on Charlie Chaplin and the making...

Books

America Isis: The Life and Art of Sylvia Plath

Professor Carl Rollyson’s new biography of Sylvia Plath is the first to draw from the recently opened Ted Hughes archive in the British Library—which includes...

Books, Religion/Spirituality, Food & Drink

Friday Night Dinner With Shalom Auslander

Special guest Shalom Auslander discusses his newest book, Hope: A Tragedy, the tale of how Solomon Kugel’s attempt to start over in a small-town only...

Legal/Politics/Economics, Books

Brooklyn for Peace: The Passion of Bradley Manning

Presented by Brooklyn for Peace, lawyer and journalist Chase Madar will read from his book, The Passion of Bradley Manning, a polemical defense of Wikileaks' alleged...