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The Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra Presents Banished Genius: Émigré Composers in America – 05/19/2013Karen Avrich – 05/19/2013
Whales – 05/19/2013
Lucia Pulido & Ruben Samama - Live in Concert – 05/18/2013
Carousel: Screening and Discussion – 05/18/2013
John Singer Sargent's Watercolors - Sargent, the Sensualist – 05/18/2013
From Borgo San Sepolcro to the East Coast – 05/18/2013
Discover Improvisation Through Collage, Music Making and Acting – 05/18/2013
Chinatown: A Walk through History – 05/18/2013
Upper East Side Gallery Tour – 05/18/2013
The Sacred Bleeding Host of Dijon With Curator Roger S. Wieck – 05/17/2013
Nate Lowman: Homage to Jay DeFeo – 05/17/2013
From Sustaining Democracy to the State of the Civic: 20 Years of the Vera List Center for Art & Politics – 05/17/2013
Dean Kamen: Why We Need More Scientists – 05/16/2013
One Voice with Jason Alexander – 05/16/2013
Hazardous Drinking and the Irish: Break the Silence! Face the Shame! Forget the Blame! And Win the Game! – 05/16/2013
Eric Orton in Conversation With Christopher McDougall – 05/16/2013
Paley Center & the Peabodys: Finding Excellence in Media – 05/16/2013
Japan Society's Annual Sake Tasting and Lecture – 05/16/2013
Jim Gaffigan – 05/16/2013
Japanese Sake: Behind the Scenes at Hakkaisan Sake Brewery – 05/16/2013
Marc Tyler Nobleman - Batman's Biggest Secret! – 05/15/2013
Primer – 05/15/2013
An Evening with Jane Gardam – 05/15/2013
Mel Brooks: Make a Noise – 05/15/2013
Will & Whit Launch Party – 05/15/2013
To Repair the World: Paul Farmer Speaks to the Next Generation – 05/15/2013
Saru Jayaraman - Behind the Kitchen Door – 05/15/2013
Paul Farmer – 05/15/2013
James Salter: All That Is – 05/15/2013
Gail Godwin - Flora: A Novel – 05/15/2013
A Conversation with Matthew Barney – 05/15/2013
Plain or Fancy, Restraint and Exuberance: A Conversation about Taste – 05/15/2013
Tulips Beyond Holland: Inspirations from Flowers in Islamic Art – 05/15/2013
Paul Farmer – 05/14/2013
What Makes an Editor Keep Reading? – 05/14/2013
That's That: A Memoir – 05/14/2013
T.J. English – 05/14/2013
Risk Takers: National Geographic and the New Age of Exploration – 05/14/2013
Lung Cancer & New York City Kitchens: Why Increased Radon Levels in Natural Gas Could Be a Public Health Disaster – 05/14/2013
Frances Ha with Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach, and Mickey Sumner – 05/14/2013
Daniel Vaughn - Prophets of Smoked Meat – 05/14/2013
Cronkite's War: His World War II Letters Home – 05/14/2013
Commerce + Curation: Present – 05/14/2013
The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy – 05/14/2013
Jimmy Connors – 05/14/2013
Tablet Talk: Start-Up Nation – 05/13/2013
Sidney Poitier – 05/13/2013
Alan Dershowitz and Larry Ruttman – 05/13/2013
The Santa Fe Opera - The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein with Susan Graham – 05/13/2013
What is the Queer Novel? – 05/13/2013
Robert Alter: In Conversation – 05/13/2013
Mika Brzezinski - Obsessed: The Fight Against America's (and My Own) Food Addiction – 05/13/2013
Lisa Lillien – 05/13/2013
Missing Pieces of the Holocaust: A History on Screen – 05/12/2013
Listen to Your Mother – 05/12/2013
Mother's Day Program: Say Cheese – 05/12/2013
Fixing Our Broken Money System – 05/12/2013
Arcane Collective - Cold Dream Colour – 05/11/2013 - 05/12/2013
Carroll Dunham – 05/11/2013
Munch and Warhol: Contemporary Reflections – 05/11/2013
Multiplication, Addition, Subtraction: Warhol, Munch, and the Multiplied Print – 05/11/2013
David Sedaris Book Launch – 05/11/2013
Discover Improvisation Through Collage, Music Making and Acting – 05/11/2013
"Masculinity and Art" LGBT Gallery Tour – 05/11/2013
Jack Gantos – 05/11/2013
CCNY Collects: Keith Haring, Romare Bearden, and Edward Curtis – 05/11/2013
Wall to Wall Harlem Resonance – 05/11/2013
W. S. Merwin – 05/10/2013
David Sedaris – 05/10/2013
Talk: Divided Nations by Ian Goldin – 05/10/2013
Stephen Adly Guirgis and Lynn Nottage – 05/09/2013
Elie Wiesel: Open Heart – 05/09/2013
Conversations in American Menswear: Tim Coppens – 05/09/2013
Walead Beshty and Dana Miller on Jay DeFeo: A Retrospective – 05/09/2013
Tumblr presents Adulting: A Book Launch with Kelly Williams Brown and More – 05/09/2013
Sjón - Introduced by Björk & Moderated by Hari Kunzru – 05/09/2013
Salman Kahn and Carlos Slim - The One World Schoolhouse – 05/09/2013
Le Conversazioni: Films of My Life - Marina Abramović – 05/09/2013
Juke Box Hero: My Five Decades in Rock 'n' Roll – 05/09/2013
Discussion of Albert Camus' Algerian Chronicles – 05/09/2013
Connecting Cultures with Chef Dale Talde – 05/09/2013
WHY FOREIGN POLICY BEGINS AT HOME, a talk by Richard N. Haass, President of the Council on Foreign Relations – 05/09/2013
Nature's Compass – 05/09/2013
Curiosity's Mission at Gale Crater, Mars with NASA's John Grotzinger – 05/08/2013
Supply / Demand III – 05/08/2013
SHARP: A Discussion of Women and Criticism – 05/08/2013
Lily Tuck – 05/08/2013
Lady at the O.K. Corral: The True Story of Josephine Marcus Earp – 05/08/2013
Daniel Dennett and Jim Holt – 05/08/2013
Intelligence Squared U.S. Debates: The FDA’s Caution is Hazardous to Our Health – 05/08/2013
Ugo Rondinone – 05/08/2013
Maintaining the Rise of the Global South – 05/08/2013
Grand Central's Engineer: William J. Wilgus and the Planning of Modern Manhattan – 05/08/2013
Andre Aciman – 05/08/2013
Willie Cole, Sebastian Errazuriz, Sarah Oppenheimer, Lowery Stokes Sims, Ursula von Rydingsvard - Against the Grain – 05/08/2013
Nina Blackwood – 05/08/2013
Mom+Social: A Global Movement of Mothers – 05/08/2013
Israeli Media and the Yemenite Babies Affair – 05/07/2013
Fashion Icons with Fern Mallis: Suzy Menkes – 05/07/2013
Nathaniel Philbrick - Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution – 05/07/2013
Mycophilia: Revelations from the Weird World of Mushrooms – 05/07/2013
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni - Oleander Girl – 05/07/2013
George Lopez – 05/07/2013
Discovery/Boston Review Poetry Contest Winners' Reading – 05/06/2013
Why We Eat What We Eat: Drew Ramsey & Amy Bentley – 05/06/2013
Letty Cottin Pogrebin in Conversation with Phil Donahue – 05/05/2013
Global Judaism in Focus: Central Asia's Bukharan Jews – 05/05/2013
Sababa Concert! – 05/05/2013
Isabella Rossellini – 05/05/2013
Anthropology Unmasked – 05/05/2013
Defiant Brides Author Talk & Book Signing – 05/05/2013
Janet Wallach – 05/04/2013
Mia Couto in Conversation with Anderson Tepper – 05/04/2013
Monkey Business: Japan/America: Writers' Dialogue – 05/04/2013
Discover Improvisation Through Collage, Music Making and Acting – 05/04/2013
Chelsea Art Gallery Tour – 05/04/2013
Morgan, McKim, Mowbray, and the American Renaissance – 05/04/2013
Lyrics & Lyricists - The Song Is You: Jerome Kern Coast to Coast – 05/04/2013 - 05/06/2013
Playwrights Horizons - Far From Heaven with Kelli O’Hara – 05/03/2013
Mark Bittman - VB6: Eat Vegan Before 6:00 p.m. to Lose Weight and Restore Your Health ... for Good – 05/03/2013
Freedom & Moral Courage: Ai WeiWei & Salman Rushdie – 05/03/2013
PEN World Voices Festival: Edna O'Brien – 05/03/2013
Asia Society Celebrates Asian Pacific American Heritage Month – 05/03/2013
World Politics with Ralph Buultjens - Hot Spot: Korea – 05/02/2013
Glen Ligon with Kathy Halbreich – 05/02/2013
Sorcerer with William Friedkin – 05/02/2013
Yeats's Graves: Last Poems, Death, and Afterwords – 05/02/2013
Sally Kellerman – 05/02/2013
Lauren Graham & Anna Quindlen – 05/02/2013
Ken Kalfus with Keith Gessen – 05/02/2013
Joe Hill - NOS4A2 – 05/02/2013
Claire Messud: The Woman Upstairs – 05/02/2013
Christopher Hacker – 05/02/2013
American Symphony Orchestra - Hungary Torn – 05/02/2013
The Lenox Library: A Treasure House for Gilded-Age New York – 05/02/2013
Inspired by Landscape: The Women of the Hudson River School – 05/02/2013
Cynicism: Does It Make a Man Stronger or Weaken Him? – 05/02/2013
Sherri Shepherd - Plan D: How to Lose Weight and Beat Diabetes (Even If You Don't Have It) – 05/02/2013
Contemporary Art Forum: Art at Large: Artmaking in the Long View – 05/02/2013
Andy Borowitz: The Borowitz Report – 05/01/2013
Revolution! – 05/01/2013
The Master Builder – 05/01/2013
Lorenzo Carcaterra – 05/01/2013
Eve Ensler - In the Body of the World – 05/01/2013
Claire Messud - The Woman Upstairs – 05/01/2013
War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865 – 05/01/2013
Saving Old Rangoon – 05/01/2013
Rory Freedman - Beg: A Radical New Way of Regarding Animals – 05/01/2013
Piero’s Landscapes – 05/01/2013
Challenges of African Americans in WWII – 05/01/2013
IDEAS CITY Conference – 05/01/2013 - 05/02/2013
IDEAS CITY 2013 - Second Biennial Festival about the Urban Future – 05/01/2013 - 05/04/2013
Roger Waters – 04/30/2013
Matthew Specktor – 04/30/2013
Junot Díaz – 04/30/2013
The Legend of Apsara Mera – 04/30/2013
Hubble and Friends: NASA's Great Space Observations with Emily Rice – 04/30/2013
Harvey Kurtzman: A Night with the Filmmakers – 04/30/2013
Baysunghur’s Garden Party and Other Tales: Conceptualizing Artistic and Cultural Production in Early Timurid Herat – 04/30/2013
Daniel Libeskind: The Art of Memory – 04/30/2013
Barbara Ehrenreich – 04/29/2013
Richard Ford and James Salter – 04/29/2013
Shame and Love, Secrets and Families – 04/29/2013
Maddie on Things – 04/29/2013
Jerry Stiller & Fred Stoller – 04/29/2013
Google's Eric Schmidt & Jared Cohen – 04/29/2013
The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace – 04/29/2013
Why We Eat What We Eat: Stuart Firestein & Priscilla Ferguson – 04/29/2013
Mapping Manhattan: A Love (And Sometimes a Hate) Story – 04/29/2013
Season of Cambodia - Khmeropédies III: Source/Primate by Emmanuéle Phuon – 04/28/2013 - 04/29/2013
In the News with Jeff Greenfield - David Axelrod – 04/28/2013
David Brenner with Bill Boggs – 04/28/2013
Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma – 04/28/2013
Tribeca Talks After the Movie: Inequality for All – 04/28/2013
How Can You Be True to Yourself? – 04/28/2013
Tribeca Talks After the Movie: Out of Print – 04/28/2013
Jews in the Civil War - Dr. Jonathan Sarna – 04/28/2013
A Magic Carpet Ride: Celebrating The Jews of Yemen – 04/28/2013
Tribeca Talks After the Movie: Beyond: Two Souls – 04/27/2013
Upstairs/Downstairs Tour with Fanny and Flora – 04/27/2013
Tribeca Talks After the Movie: And The Band Played On – 04/27/2013
Clint Eastwood with Darren Aronofsky – 04/27/2013
The First Four Years – 04/27/2013
John Singer Sargent's Watercolors - Painting Sunlight – 04/27/2013
Author Luncheon with Fuminori Nakamura – 04/27/2013
mocamix for minis – 04/27/2013
Soho Gallery Tour – 04/27/2013
An Evening with Dick Van Dyke – 04/26/2013
Robert Polito - 12th Street Magazine – 04/26/2013
Brainwave: The Architect – 04/26/2013
Ancient Near Eastern Seals & Tablets – 04/26/2013
Fashion Fast Forward: Japanese Art Goes POP – 04/26/2013
The Lit Show: Heidi Julavits, Ben Greeman, Sam Lipsyte, & Mason Currey in Conversation with Joe Fassler – 04/26/2013
Brünnhilde’s Lament—The Mourning Play of the Gods: Reading Wagner’s Musical Dramas with Benjamin’s Theory on Music – 04/26/2013
Ira Katznelson on the American Racial Divide – 04/26/2013
Richard Engel in Conversation with Allen Grubman – 04/25/2013
Elie Wiesel: Jeremiah and His Lamentations – 04/25/2013
Through the Lens of the Blues Aesthetic – 04/25/2013
Thomas Dyja - The Third Coast – 04/25/2013