Events - May, 1, 2013

Revolution!

From Harlem in the thirties to Occupy Wall Street, taking to the streets is the subject of tonight's passionate and political fictions.

Performing Arts/Film

Actor John Turturro and director Andrei Belgrader—last at BAM with the critically acclaimed production of Samuel Beckett’s Endgame—discuss their most recent collaboration, Ibsen’s The Master Builder. From...

History/NYC

War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865

Although previously undervalued for their strategic impact because they represented only a small percentage of total forces, the Union and Confederate navies were crucial to...

Performing Arts/Film

Andy Borowitz: The Borowitz Report

He’s been called the “funniest human on Twitter” by The New York Times; “America’s satire king,” by the Daily Beast and “one of the funniest...

Art/Photo/Design

IDEAS CITY 2013 - Second Biennial Festival about the Urban Future

IDEAS CITY was founded by the New Museum as a major collaboration between dozens of downtown arts, education, and community organizations to harness the power...

Books

Eve Ensler - In the Body of the World

Books

Rory Freedman - Beg: A Radical New Way of Regarding Animals

Books

Claire Messud - The Woman Upstairs

Books

Lorenzo Carcaterra

As part of the Center's Crime Fiction Academy, acclaimed author, Lorenzo Carcaterra, will offer practical writing tips to budding authors while also giving insight to readers...

History/NYC

Challenges of African Americans in WWII

Award-winning news anchor David Ushery will lead a discussion between Tuskegee Airman Roscoe Brown, USS Mason crewmember Lorenzo DuFau and Pearl Harbor survivor Clark Simmons...

Saving Old Rangoon

Rangoon boasts one of the last intact early 20th-century urban landscapes in Asia, with hundreds of colonial-era buildings as well as an unparalleled collection of...

Art/Photo/Design

Piero's Landscapes

With Scott Nethersole, The Courtauld Institute of Art.The landscapes in Piero’s paintings, particularly his Baptism of Christ (The National Gallery, London), are often thought to...