Events - April, 17, 2013
Books
Etgar Keret & Gary Shteyngart
Strange situations, kooky misunderstandings, the world turned around and upside down and just the way it is. Stay tuned for some hilarity when these friends...
Art/Photo/Design
Founding Mothers: Architecture Criticism from Mariana Van Rensselaer to Esther McCoy, Ada Louise Huxtable, and Jane Jacobs
From the emergence of the architectural profession in the 1880s, there have been female critics, starting with Mariana Griswold Van Rensselaer, the first biographer of...
Books
Young and In Shakespeare - Shakespeare Week III
Through recitation and performance, the teenage finalists of the New York City English-Speaking Union National Shakespeare Competition rediscover Shakespeare's past and present. These high school...
Performing Arts/Film, Books, Art/Photo/Design
Petra Giloy Hirtz and Marin Hopper - Dennis Hopper: The Lost Album
Author Petra Giloy-Hirtz appears with Marin Hopper, daughter of legendary actor, director and artist Dennis Hopper, to discuss the stunning new book Dennis Hopper: The Lost...
Science/Tech/Health
Philippe Petit: Why Knot? - The Art of Tying
In 1974, Philippe Petit stunned the world with his performance on an illegally rigged high wire between the Twin Towers—an event chronicled in the Academy...
Art/Photo/Design
Supply / Demand II
For their three part series of panel discussions accompanied by related performances and demonstrations, Supply / Demand, E.S.P. TV collaborates with ((audience)) and Harvestworks Digital Media Lab Center...
Legal/Politics/Economics
Intelligence Squared U.S. Debates: The GOP Must Seize the Center or Die
For: David Brooks, Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times Against: TBA 2012 was a disappointing year for Republicans. The failure to win key swing states...
Books
The Christmas Kid & Other Brooklyn Stories - Pete Hamill
Join Pete Hamill for an afternoon of nostalgia as he talks about his new collection of stories about Brooklyn, the borough he grew up in,...
Religion/Spirituality, History/NYC, Film
The American Jewish Story through Cinema
Films often reflect the times during which they are created and they can provide a most incisive window into American Jewish life over the last...
History/NYC, Film
The Central Park Five
A conversation about the issues raised by The Central Park Five, the award-winning documentary about the horrific crime that occurred in Central Park in 1989,...
Art/Photo/Design
Chancing the Ridiculous, Hoping for the Sublime: Re-Examining the Work of Jay DeFeo
On the occasion of Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective, this roundtable will dispel popular myths associated with DeFeo’s life in order to illuminate her diverse oeuvre in its...
Books
Mary Higgins Clark
As part of the Center's Crime Fiction Academy, the legendary Mary Higgins Clark will offer practical writing tips to budding authors while also giving insight to...
Science/Tech/Health, Food & Drink
Brainwave: The Chef
One of New York’s few exponents of molecular gastronomy Wylie Dufresne puts his culinary creations under the microscope with the aid of a neurologist.
Books
Alexandra Aldrich - The Astor Orphan
Aldrich brilliantly tells the story of her eccentric, fractured family; her 1980s childhood of bohemian neglect in the squalid attic of Rokeby, the family’s Hudson...
Books
Percival Everett
A powerful meditation on the humiliations of old age, Percival Everett by Virgil Russell is an ingenious culmination of Everett’s recurring preoccupations. All of his metaphysical and...
Performing Arts/Film
American Sabor: From the Palladium to the Bronx, featuring Bobby Sanabria & Quarteto Aché
Grammy-nominated bandleader Bobby Sanabria leads his ensemble Quarteto Achéin presenting a musical history of Latinos in New York, from Mambo to Latin Jazz to Salsa, and much in...
Art/Photo/Design
The Tapestry of Time
With William J. H. Andrewes, museum consultant and sundial maker. Time is woven throughout the fabric of our civilization. Although its impact on our society...
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