Exhibition Opening: MARANGO, Works by Alessandro Piangiamore

Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (NYU) 24 West 12th Street, New York City

The first New York exhibition of Sicilian artist Alessandro Piangiamore, in collaboration with Magazzino Italian Art and Magazzino Arte Moderna (Rome). Curated by Vittorio Calabrese. On view through June 14 Mon-Fri 10-5 The exhibition features pieces from Piangiamore's 'Ieri Ikebana,' 'La cera di Roma,' 'Belvedere,' and 'Primavera Piangiamore' series, as well as a new site-specific work from the artist's 'Tutto il vento che c'è' (All The…

Film: Raoul Peck: The Young Karl Marx

Goethe-Institut New York 30 Irving Place, New York City

Co-presented with the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research and the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung 1844. Karl Marx is 26 years old and exiled in Paris with his wife Jenny. He is in debt and plagued by existential anxieties. When he first meets the slightly younger factory owner’s son Friedrich Engels, he dismisses him as a dandy. But Engels, who has just…

Nathalie Sarraute discovering America

Albertine 972 5th Avenue, New York

On February 1, 1964, Nathalie Sarraute, a major contemporary author known for her works of intimate interiority, landed in New York to start a conference tour of the most prestigious universities and cultural centers in the United States–a visit sponsored by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy. In a series of twenty-four letters written in an elliptical style to…

May 68 in Theory – Patrice Maniglier

La Maison Française (NYU) 16 Washington Mews, New York City

A true event cannot merely be the object of already given theories: it challenges them and interrogates the very sense it makes to practice theory in general. This is eminently true of May 68 in France: it has been an event for “Theory.” However, its theoretical implications have been too often obfuscated by hasty interpretations that projected on it some vague Zeitgeist aptly coined…

Havel Conversations Live: Gail Papp & Carol Rocamora

Bohemian National Hall 321 E 73rd St., New York

Gail Merrifield Papp of the New York's famed Public Theater, and Carol Rocamora, author of Acts of Courage: Vaclav Havel's Life in the Theater in conversation with Niemann Fellow journalist Lenka Kabrhelova. Interviewees will share their views on topics such as Havel’s influence, human rights around the world, and the responsibilities that go hand in hand with expanding social media…