Jews are hounded by mobs and driven from Vienna in this 1924 expressionist film based on the satirical novel by Hugo Bettauer. The sensational film that anticipated the Holocaust and cost Bettauer his life was rediscovered in 2015. With commentary by film scholar Noah Isenberg (UT Austin) and a live score. Recently restored and featuring a new soundtrack, The City Without…
An International Symposium The Global Dante Project of New York Directors Maria Luisa Ardizzone, NYU Teodolinda Barolini, Columbia University Morning Session 9am-1pm Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, Columbia University (1161 Amsterdam Avenue) Afternoon Session 3pm-6pm NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò Presented by: NYU Department of Italian Studies NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò NYU Medieval and Renaissance Center In Collaboration with: Columbia University, Department…
In Bouzbir, Fatima Mazmouz reappropriates colonial postcards featuring young Moroccan prostitutes in Bousbir, a military district in Casablanca. Exploring how the sexual exploitation of these women was integral to French domination, Mazmouz overlays a digital mosaic of tiny images of vulvas and uteruses. The uteruses symbolize the obscene matrix of colonialism, while the vulvas reflect the articulation of the political and the intimate, at…
Please join us on Friday, April 5th for “Between the Hammer and the Anvil: Buriat-Mongols, the Soviet Union and Imperial Japan”, a presentation by Tatiana Linkhoeva, New York University. This event is part of the Colloquium Series, sponsored by the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia. The Soviet Union and Imperial Japan have been viewed as being ideologically on…
3:00 PM–5:00 PM MAISON FRANÇAISE EAST GALLERY, BUELL HALL ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: Art, Theft and Restitution A Roundtable with Ariella Azoulay, Souleymane Bachir Diagne and Brian Wallis, moderated by Marianne Hirsch and Andreas Huyssen To RSVP, please click here. The pivotal Savoy/Sarr report calls for thousands of artworks currently in French museums to be returned to the West African communities from which they…
Deutsches Haus at NYU and the Colloquium for Unpopular Culture present "Think Herzog," to mark the publication of Richard Eldrige's book Werner Herzog: Filmmaker and Philosopher. Richard Eldridge will be in conversation with fellow Herzogian David LaRocca about seeing and knowing and laughing, about flares and abysses, about indifference and the sky. "Academia stifles cinema, encircling it like a liana vine wraps round a…
Join internationally renowned cartoonists Aisha Franz and Florent Ruppert for a book signing and social at Desert Island Comics in Brooklyn. Aisha Franz will present her third graphic novel Shit is Real (Drawn & Quarterly, 2018), which was recently nominated for an LA Times Book Prize. This event is on the eve of the 2019 MoCCA Arts Festival in New York (April 6-7),…
German illustrator Aisha Franz will be a featured guest at the 2019 MoCCA Arts Festival, where she will present her third graphic novel Shit is Real (Drawn & Quarterly, 2018), a nominee for the 2019 LA Times Book Prize. The MoCCA Arts Festival is a 2-day multimedia event, Manhattan's largest independent comics, cartoon and animation festival. Networked technology has invaded every aspect of daily,…
SOLOMIYA IVAKHIV, violin SEAN WANG, violin MELISSA REARDON, viola AMIR ELDAN, cello PETER WEITZNER, double bass HENG-JIN PARK, piano SCHUBERT: Piano Quintet in A Major, D. 667 (“The Trout”); DVOŘÁK: Piano Quintet No. 2 in A Major, Op. 81, B. 155; Admission: $25, Students and Senior Citizens — $10, UIA Members — free. BUY TICKETS
As part of the Carnegie Hall Migrations Festival, Centro Primo Levi and the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts present an evening with art historian Raffaele Bedarida dedicated to the experience of Italian artist and cultural organizer Corrado Cagli. The Cantori New York directed by Mark Shapiro will perform excerpts of Vittorio Rieti’s music for the Magnifico. Free (registration required)…