Events - May, 9, 2013
Books
Stephen Adly Guirgis and Lynn Nottage
Stephen Adly Guirgis’s most recent play, The Motherf**ker with the Hat, opened on Broadway in 2011. His “characters emerge full-blooded, sparkling with mysterious contradiction,” wrote John...
Legal/Politics/Economics
Elie Wiesel: Open Heart
With his life in danger, again, following open heart surgery Elie Wiesel remembers.
Books, Film
Le Conversazioni: Films of My Life - Marina Abramović
Award-winning architect Daniel Libeskind and acclaimed artist Marina Abramovíc kick off this year’s Le Conversazioni festival, which celebrates the relationship between film and the disciplines...
Art/Photo/Design
Conversations in American Menswear: Tim Coppens
In just a few short seasons Tim Coppens, a graduate of the highly acclaimed Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, has made an impression...
Salman Kahn and Carlos Slim - The One World Schoolhouse
Salman Khan, founder of Khan Academy, believes that his interactive videos, used by millions of students, parents, and teachers across the world, can revolutionize education....
Science/Tech/Health
Nature's Compass
Authors James Gould and Carol Gould discuss, and sign, their latest book, Nature’s Compass. Learn amazing ways animals navigate around their worlds and explore the many factors challenging animal navigation in today’s...
Art/Photo/Design
Walead Beshty and Dana Miller on Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective
Walead Beshty uses the material conditions of photography to explore the gap between the physical world and the image world, between presence and absence, and...
Books
Discussion of Albert Camus' Algerian Chronicles
Harvard University Press will release the first English translation of The Algerian Chroniclesthis May. First published in 1958, it's a fascinating collection of Camus' writings on...
Books
Tumblr presents Adulting: A Book Launch with Kelly Williams Brown and More
Celebrate the new book Adulting: How to Become a Grown-up in 468 Easy(ish) Steps with Tumblr, Grand Central Publishing, free drinks, and stories of being not-quite-grown-up from...
Art/Photo/Design, Food & Drink
Connecting Cultures with Chef Dale Talde
Highlighting the long-term installation Connecting Cultures, Chef Dale Talde and a surprise guest discuss the many ways that food, like art, creates connections between cultures and plays...
Books
Sjón - Introduced by Björk & Moderated by Hari Kunzru
Sjón, the great Icelandic novelist championed by the likes of Junot Díaz, David Mitchell, and A.S. Byatt, discusses the U.S. release of his three books—The...
Performing Arts/Film, Books
Juke Box Hero: My Five Decades in Rock 'n' Roll
Lou Gramm, the lead singer and songwriter (Double Vision, Urgent, Cold as Ice) for the '70s and '80s rock standard-bearers Foreigner, joins co-author Scott Pitoniak...
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