Events - March, 6, 2013

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...

Books

Jenny Lawson - Let's Pretend This Never Happened: (A Mostly True Memoir)

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...