Events - February, 26, 2013

The Role Of Complementary Therapies in Cancer Treatment & Survival - Barrie R. Cassileth, MS, PhD

Learn how to navigate the often confusing maze of complementary and alternative cancer therapies—their risks, benefits and the specific problems they can address. Gain an...

, History/NYC

The Jews of Afghanistan: History, Culture, and Muslim-Jewish Relations

Explore Afghanistan’s centuries-old Jewish community from their religious and social lives to Muslim-Jewish relations. Spanning from the community’s origins, which many Afghan Jews believe to...

Science/Tech/Health

Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital

The internist, administrator, teacher, writer and social commentator Eric Manheimer, M.D. -- the medical director at Bellevue from 1997-2012, clinical professor at the New York...

Legal/Politics/Economics,

CAMERA Annual Event

Founded in 1982, the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) is a media-monitoring, research and membership organization devoted to promoting accurate...

Science/Tech/Health

Edges of Space

The Voyager spacecraft recently encountered the “edge” of the solar system, beginning its journey through interstellar space. The Sun and Earth exist in the galactic...

Art/Photo/Design

Rewriting History: Cy Twombly's Discursive Drawings

Nicholas Cullinan, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Thaw Senior Fellow, Drawing Institute, will consider the complicated relationship between title,...

Books,

Barbara Reich - Secrets of an Organized Mom

Frequent contributor to The Today Show, Barbara Reich presents her method for streamlining and organizing everything from cluttered play-rooms to a hectic social calendar with...

Performing Arts/Film, Books

George Saunders & Dick Cavett

George Saunders, whose latest collection Tenth of December was heralded as "the best book you'll read this year" by The New York Times, joins legendary talk show host...

Legal/Politics/Economics,

Political Earthquake in the Middle East

The Arab Spring was expected to usher in an age of democracy in the Middle East - yet instability, conflict with Israel, lack of peace...

Art/Photo/Design

Conversations with Contemporary Artists: Mohammed Kazem and Reem Fadda

Reem Fadda, Associate Curator, Middle Eastern Art, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi Project, and recently appointed curator for the United Arab Emirates Pavilion at the 55th Venice...

Performing Arts/Film

David Byrne & Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson

David Byrne (author, Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, cofounder of Talking Heads) and Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson (drummer, DJ, culinary entrepreneur, member of The Roots)...

Art/Photo/Design

Patronage and Power: Selections from the Asia Society Museum Collection

This exhibition explores the role of patrons as influential figures in the production of masterpieces of Asian art. The examples of sculpture and bronzes from...

Art/Photo/Design

Tim Lee: In Focus

AsiaSocietyMuseum has invited conceptual artist Tim Lee to create new work as part of its ongoing In Focus series. The artist has created Blowin’ in...

Books

Michael Kupperman

Celebrating the second all-comics collection of surreal slapstick and crazy non sequitur goofiness, all from the pages of his beloved comic book series Tales Designed...