Past Events

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The Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra Presents Banished Genius: Émigré Composers in America – 05/19/2013

Karen 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