Events - March, 6, 2013
Books
Portrait of a Lady by Henry James, with Jennifer Egan, Siri Hustvedt and Margot Livesey
Novelists Egan (Pulitzer Prize winner for A Visit from the Goon Squad), Hustvedt (The Summer Without Men) and Livesey (The Flight of Gemma Hardy) - the trio that brought Middlemarch and Anna Karenina to life at...
Art/Photo/Design
Italy's Extraordinary Art: From the Pantheon to St. Peter's
Dr. Janetta Rebold Benton is back by popular demand for her second season of lectures at the Schimmel after 30 years at the Metropolitan Museum...
Art/Photo/Design
Italy's Extraordinary Art: From the Pantheon to St. Peter's
Dr. Janetta Rebold Benton is back by popular demand for her second season of lectures at the Schimmel after 30 years at the Metropolitan Museum...
Art/Photo/Design
Inventing Abstraction, 1912-25
This exhibition brings together many of the most influential works in abstraction’s early history. It covers a wide range of artistic production, including paintings, drawings,...
Art/Photo/Design
Textile Variations
With Matilda McQuaid, Deputy Curatorial Director/Head of Textiles, Copper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institute.
Books, Food & Drink
Russ and Daughters: The House that Herring Built - Book Launch and Tasting
Delve into the delightful, mouthwatering story of an immigrant family’s journey from a pushcart in 1907 to “New York’s most hallowed shrine to the miracle...
Art/Photo/Design
Ed Ruscha
Ed Ruscha's work has profoundly influenced countless modern artists, but his artist books - such as Twentysix Gasoline Stations, Every Building on the Sunset Strip, Thirtyfour...
Legal/Politics/Economics,
After the Elections: The Way Forward for America and Israel - A Town Hall Event
With a re-elected President Obama and Benjamin Netanyahu in Israel, what is the way forward? Join Time Magazine’s Joe Klein and Israel’s founding editor of...
Art/Photo/Design
The Artful Recluse: Painting, Poetry, and Politics in Seventeenth-Century China
This is the first exhibition to explore the theme of reclusion in Chinese painting and calligraphy within the broader context of political and social changes...
Books, History/NYC
Shahnameh: The Epic of the Persian Kings
Shahnameh: The Epic of the Persian Kings is a new illustrated edition of the classic work by the great 11th century Persian poet Ferdowsi. This new...
Science/Tech/Health
SciCafe: Green-Blooded Lizards and Malaria Genetics
On the island of New Guinea there are unusual lizards with bright green blood. Could these reptiles offer clues to better understand diseases in humans...
Books
Stuart Nadler - Wise Men: A Nove
A beautifully told multigenerational story about love and regret, Wise Men confirms that Stuart Nadler is one of the most exciting young writers at work...
Art/Photo/Design
Bennett Simpson: Why Contemporary Art Gives Me the Blues
In conjunction with his Blues for Smoke exhibition, curator Bennett Simpson, from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, discusses the vitality and innovation at the...
Legal/Politics/Economics,
Six Weeks to Adapt to America
NY Times journalist Kirk Semple leads a panel discussion on the Refugee Youth Summer Academy, a New York City summer program created in 1999 by the International Rescue Committee to...
Books, Science/Tech/Health
Brainwave: Fran Lebowitz
Humorist Fran Lebowitz discusses the illusion of language with experimental psychologist Steven Pinker.
Art/Photo/Design
In Dialogue: Daniel Boyarin and Chris Mann
Professor of Talmudic Culture at the University of California at Berkeley, Daniel Boyarin works at the nexus of tradition and novelty. Chris Mann works in...
Science/Tech/Health, Film
Math Encounters: PIXAR's Lead Researcher Tony DeRose on Math in the Movies
Afternoon Presentation 4:30 p.m. Refreshments, 5 p.m. Evening Presentation 7:00pm Refreshments 6:30pm at MoMath, 11 E.26th St. Founded as the computer effects division of George...
Art/Photo/Design
Leonardo da Vinci: Singular and Plural
Leonardo worked on a surprisingly small number of works — the Mona Lisa among them — refining and altering them over years. This method created a production bottleneck...
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