Events - February, 28, 2013

The White House Series: First Families

Forty-three men have been elected to our nation’s highest office and since the days of the Founding Fathers, their private lives—and those of their families—have...

History/NYC

Cracking the America Code: A Plan for Getting US Back on Track

This illustrated talk is a fresh take on what makes America America and Americans Americans and about how and why Americans make decisions. Marketing and...

History/NYC

Strained Relations: Israel and Its Emigrants in the 1950s

During the 1950s Israel absorbed masses of Jewish immigrants. Some newcomers, however, returned to their original countries or reemigrated to other destinations. Yehudai considers the...

Legal/Politics/Economics,

Inside the Mossad

A gripping insider’s look behind the walls of secrecy that surround the Mossad—widely recognized as the world’s best intelligence service. Michael Bar-Zohar brings to vivid...

Books

Sticks and Stones: Defeating the Culture of Bullying and Rediscovering the Power of Character and Empathy Emily Bazelon, Charles Duhigg

Art/Photo/Design

Black History Month Illustrated Talk

Self-taught artists William Edmondson, Bessie Harvey, and Clementine Hunter, whose works are in the collection of the American Folk Art Museum, are featured in the...

Menage a Trois: Seduction

The first installment of Ménage à Trois in New York City will be concerned with "Seduction." Bernard Tschumi, architect, professor and former Dean of Columbia University's Graduate...

Film

Stoker with director Park Chan-wook in person

Dir. Park Chan-wook, 2013, 98 mins. DCP courtesy of Fox Searchlight. With Mia Wasikowska, Nicole Kidman, Matthew Goode. Stoker, the eagerly awaited new film by cult-favorite...

Books

Jodi Picoult - Storyteller

New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult reads from and talks about her latest adult novel.

Performing Arts/Film

Wynton Marsalis/Suzan-Lori Parks

Wynton Marsalis (Pulitzer and Grammy-winning composer, musician, author, and Managing and Artistic Director of Jazz at Lincoln Center) and Suzan-Lori Parks (Topdog/Underdog, Porgy and Bess, Master Writer Chair of...

Books

Jason Mulgrew - 236 Pounds of Class Vice President: A Memoir of Teenage Insecurity, Obesity, and Virginity

Mulgrew tackles the glorious complications, misapprehensions, and obsessions of the teenage mind to craft yet another raunchy, honest, and relentlessly funny memoir.

Legal/Politics/Economics,

Inside the Mossad - Michael Bar-Zohar with Mandy Patinkin

A gripping insider’s look behind the walls of secrecy that surround the Mossad—widely recognized as the world’s best intelligence service. Michael Bar-Zohar brings to vivid...

Books

Rebecca Dinerstein - Lofoten

When Rebecca Dinerstein graduated from Yale in 2009, she was awarded a year-long grant to write poetry. She decided to move to an island in...

Books

Largehearted Lit: Hillary Jordan and Jessica Maria Tuccelli

This special edition of Largehearted Lit doubles as a launch party for Jessica Maria Tuccelli’s debut novel, Glow. She’ll be joined by musician Rachel Loshak and...

Art/Photo/Design

Dialogue and Discourse: Sharon Lockhart and Katy Siegel

Artist Sharon Lockhart and Dr. Katy Siegel, Professor of Art History, Hunter College and Chief Curator, Hunter College Galleries, speak about the exhibition Sharon Lockhart |...