The New Yorker Festival: Nan Goldin Talks with Adam Gopnik

Nan Goldin is a photographer known for her intimate, transgressive work, which focusses on her friends and family. An exhibition of the slide show “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency,” Goldin’s 1985 autobiographical documentation of nineteen-eighties New York City, opened in July at the Museum of Modern Art, and will run through February. “Dark Rooms,” Hilton Als’s piece about Goldin, ran in the July 4, 2016, issue of the magazine. She lives and works between Berlin and New York.

Adam Gopnik has been writing for The New Yorker since 1986. His books include the essay collections “Paris to the Moon,” “Through the Children’s Gate,” and “Winter: Five Windows on the Season”; the children’s novels “The King in the Window” and “The Steps Across the Water”; and a book about cooking and eating, “The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food.” He has received three National Magazine Awards and the George Polk Award for magazine writing.











When: Sat., Oct. 8, 2016 at 10:00 pm
Where: SVA Theatre
333 W. 23rd St.
212-592-2980
Price: $45
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Nan Goldin is a photographer known for her intimate, transgressive work, which focusses on her friends and family. An exhibition of the slide show “The Ballad of Sexual Dependency,” Goldin’s 1985 autobiographical documentation of nineteen-eighties New York City, opened in July at the Museum of Modern Art, and will run through February. “Dark Rooms,” Hilton Als’s piece about Goldin, ran in the July 4, 2016, issue of the magazine. She lives and works between Berlin and New York.

Adam Gopnik has been writing for The New Yorker since 1986. His books include the essay collections “Paris to the Moon,” “Through the Children’s Gate,” and “Winter: Five Windows on the Season”; the children’s novels “The King in the Window” and “The Steps Across the Water”; and a book about cooking and eating, “The Table Comes First: Family, France, and the Meaning of Food.” He has received three National Magazine Awards and the George Polk Award for magazine writing.

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