Events - June, 12, 2013

Complicated Families

We all have one and the grass is always greener. This night closes out the Selected Shorts season with some of our favorite classic and...

History/NYC

The Tinkerers: The Amateurs, DIYers, and Inventors Who Make America Great

This illustrated lecture is a tribute to America's innovators and traces the nation's history through its feats of engineering, citing the achievements of various individuals...

Art/Photo/Design

Degas and the Crisis of Modern Draftsmanship

With Richard Kendall, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute. Edgar Degas’s approach to drawing changed profoundly—some would say disastrously—over his long career. Initially emulating Renaissance...

Performing Arts/Film

Martha Stewart

Bravo’s Andy Cohen is joined by the woman who revolutionized the way America thinks about cooking, entertaining, home design and more. Today, at 70, Stewart...

Books

Marc Maron - Attempting Normal

Books

Earl Monroe

Signing and discussing his new book, Earl The Pearl: My Story.

Books, Science/Tech/Health

Carl Hart

Discussing High Price: A Neuroscientist's Journey of Self-Discovery That Challenges Everything You Know About Drugs and Society.

Books

B.A. Shapiro

Author of the book The Art Forger.

Art/Photo/Design

Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt

New York artist Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt and Roger S. Wieck, Curator of Illuminating Faith: The Eucharist in Medieval Life and Art, will discuss the depiction of transubstantiation in...