Events - February, 6, 2013

A Night at the Abbey

Celebrate the new season of Downton Abbey with tales of drawing room drama, scullery skullduggery and romance, and roaring twenties highjinks. With special guests.

Art/Photo/Design

Tokyo 1955-1970

From the mid-1950s through the 1960s, Tokyo transformed itself from the capital of a war-torn nation into an international center for arts, culture, and commerce....

History/NYC

Mining Medieval Sources: Documents as Texts, Documents as Objects in the Cairo Geniza

With Jessica Goldberg, Medieval History, University of Pennsylvania.

Books, History/NYC

Jeanne Theoharis - The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks

Books

Graydon Carter and Jonathan Becker - 30 Years of Vanity Fair

For the first-time ever, Carter and Becker go beyond the pages of Vanity Fair and share their behind-the-scenes conversations that led to capturing of the world’s most scintillating characters...

Books

Heather McDonald - My Inappropriate Life: Some Material Not Suitable for Small Children, Nuns, or Mature Adults

Science/Tech/Health

SciCafe: Modeling the Origins of Planets, Stars, and Galaxies

Enjoy cocktails, cutting-edge science, and conversation at this popular after-hours series, which takes place on the first Wednesday of every month. At scales of thousands...

Film

Egyptian Cinema

A panel discussion on Egyptian cinema, presented in collaboration with ArteEast, an organization which works to foster a more complex understanding of the works of contemporary...

Science/Tech/Health

Ingenious Mathematics: The Story of M.C. Escher and Marjorie Rice | Math Encounters

Please note: This event takes place at Baruch College Conference Center, 55 Lexington Ave., 14th floor. Click here to register online. Have you ever wondered how...

Performing Arts/Film

Songs of America with Art Garfunkel and Charles Grodin

Few documentaries were as controversial and evocative of the late sixties as Songs of America, featuring Simon and Garfunkel on tour and in the studio. Conceived...

Kishore Mahbubani: The Great Convergence

For years former diplomat and academic Kishore Mahbubani has studied the changing relationship between Asia and the U.S. in works like ‘Can Asians Think?’ and...

Books

The Atlas Review: Issue 1 Launch Party with Poetry, Fiction, and Music

Celebrate the first issue of The Atlas Review with the contributors and music. With readings by contributors: Matthew Zingg (poet) Ken Walker (poet) Brandon Kreitler (poet; author...

Performing Arts/Film, Books

Will Oldham on Bonnie "Prince" Billy

Join the discussion about the book that Will Oldham has declared an essential guide to his life and career. Featuring a full discography, it offers the...

Art/Photo/Design

The Patricia Orden Memorial Conversation: "What can a drawing do? (Or, How to draw politically)"

The Friends of Contemporary Drawing of The Museum of Modern Art invite you to The Patricia Orden Memorial Conversation: "What can a drawing do? (Or,...

Food & Drink

Tribeca Neighbors: Atera - Matthew Lightner with Adam Sachs

Chef Matthew Lightner opened Tribeca's Atera in March 2012 after cooking at Mugaritz in Spain and Castagna in Portland, Oregon, and earning the title of...

Art/Photo/Design