This event will recur Every Day until Mar. 23, 2018 Deutsches Haus at NYU and the NYU Department of German present "How (Not) to Make a Scene (With Words)." A full conference schedule is available here. Henry James’s A Small Boy and Others features a primal scene (Urszene) of making a scene: his aunt tells his cousin Marie, who does not want to go to bed,…
Reception for the artist: Friday, March 23 from 6:00–8:00 PM Please RSVP to attend. Art at the Institute is pleased to present Silence, an exhibition of paintings by Ukrainian artist Oleksiy Lytvynenko. Curated by Walter Hoydysh, PhD, director of Art at the Institute, this is the artist’s first solo exhibition with The Ukrainian Institute of America. Mr. Lytvyneko will be present at the…
This screening is part of the Center for Applied Liberal Arts' Spring 2018 Film Series From the Other Side: Foreign War Films. Click here for the complete calendar of screenings. La tigre e la neve (The Tiger and the Snow) (Italy, 2005, 116 min.) In ITALIAN with ENGLISH subtitles Written, directed and starring Roberto Benigni With Nicoletta Braschi, Jean Reno, Tom Waits Traditionally, war films tell only one…
Festival Neue Literatur brings New York audiences new writing from Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and the United States, as the first and only festival to spotlight German-language and American fiction. The 2018 festival invites our authors to tackle questions of identity and belonging in a fracturing Europe and beyond, using race, religion, immigration, status, politics, and even football hooliganism as lenses to…
Welcoming remarks: Consul General of Italy, Francesco Genuardi Alessandra Stanley, journalist, and former New York Times bureau chief in Rome and Moscow, Mario Calvo-Platero, writer and columnist for La Stampa, in conversation with the author, Alain Elkann and Giorgio Barba Navaretti on history, memory, and family. Italian novelist, essayist, and journalist Alain Elkann follows the flight from fascist Italy of an…
Sephardic music from the 16th to the 20th centuries, by Alonso Mudarra, Wolf Simoni, Alberto Hemsi, Roberto Pla, Zhul Levy, and Paul Ben-Haim, performed by Heather Buck, soprano; Janice Meyerson, mezzo soprano; Valeriya Sholokhova, cello; Lorne Richstone, piano; with commentary by Dr. Raymond Scheindlin. Ticket Info: $18 general; $12 ASJM/AJHS/ASF/CJH members; $9 seniors, students at www.smarttix.com or 212-868-4444 Tickets: Available online
Moravian folk artists from Breclav (Czech Republic), "malerecky" Marie Svigrova and Dagmar Benesova (a founder of Folk Academy), will discuss and present the art of traditional Easter egg decorating design and techniques. Please note that THIS IS NOT a classical workshop! But, we encourage you to bring your own supplies, paper, and markers to take notes. The artists will stop…
America is a land of opportunity or is it? Join writer Kirstin Valdez Quade, poet Lawrence Joseph and author and publisher John Freeman as they discuss Tales of two Americas: Stories of Inequalities in A Divided Nation. This collection of short stories, poems, autobiographical texts offers us a framework to look at inequalities in the US in different terms, from different…
FRÉDÉRIC BEIGBEDER Writer, literary critic, television presenter; author of Windows on the World (Prix Interallié); L’Égoiste Romantique; Au Secours pardon; Un Roman français (Prix Renaudot); Oona & Salinger in conversation with OLIVIER BARROT Writer, journalist, television producer and host, Un Livre un jour (France 3 and TV5); author of L’Ami posthume; Le Fils perdu; La Revue Blanche; Un Livre un jour, un livre toujours; Mitteleuropa; United States In French Books available for sale Florence Gould…
Trump's recent decision to reduce Bears Ears—and continuing threats to the integrity of Chaco—represent a further assault on indigenous heritage and history in the United States. This symposium is intended to set out and to protest the scale of the potential for damage to these precious sites. Invited speakers include: Angelo Baca, Amalia Cordova, Sandy Grande, Carrie Heitman, Elizabeth Hutchinson, Honor…