The mass protests that shook France in May 1968 changed European politics to this day. Students demonstrated, workers went on general strike, factories and universities were occupied. At the height of its fervor, it brought the entire national economy to a halt. Fifty years later, Mitch Abidor and Todd Gitlin will delve into the oral testimonies of those young rebels…
Panorama Europe 2018, the 10th edition of the essential festival of new and vital European cinema, includes fiction and documentary works that present a portrait of contemporary Europe during a period of tremendous flux. The festival, which launched in 2009 by Czech Center New York, continues to give New Yorkers an eclectic overview of the current European film scene. In…
Reception for the artist: Friday, May 4 from 6:00 to 8:00 PM RSVP to attend. Art at the Institute concludes its 2017–18 season with an exhibition of mixed media works by American-born Ola Rondiak, titled Identity, Interrupted, in which the artist uses traditional cut-and-paste collage and painting techniques to touch on influences ranging from personal history, womanhood, ethnic and national identity, politics,…
"Berlin Alexanderplatz" cover On the occasion of the publication of Michael Hofmann's new translation of Alfred Döblin’s novel Berlin Alexanderplatz, Deutsches Haus at NYU and New York Review Books present a reading and conversation between Hofmann and Ian Buruma, the editor of The New York Review of Books. Alfred P. Doblin, the author’s grandson, will read a short part of the new translation and share some remarks at…
Co-presented with the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research Karl Marx is 200 years old. And yet, whenever Marx seems dead and buried, a new moment of economic or political crisis brings Marx’s critical understanding of capitalism back to the fore. In Marx Now, a two-day symposium co-presented by the Goethe-Institut New York and the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research, leading…
Connacht GAA Football Senior ChampionshipSun, May 6, 2018 New York vs. Leitrim 2:15 @ Gaelic Park 201 W 240th St, Bronx, NY
A unique musical experience of fusion between classical string quartet sound and jazz, rock and funk. The Prague string quartet Epoque Quartet was founded at the beginning of the year 1999. Four excellent soloists and chamber musicians with abundant stage experiences brang not only their unanimity in musical opinions and the relationship in their artistic nature together, but even their…
This event is supported by a grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York. It is part of our Russian Studies & Policy event series. As authoritarian regimes have consolidated their position in Eurasia and the Middle East, many members of the political opposition, independent media and civil society have gone into exile. But as political struggles have moved beyond borders, so…
Deutsches Haus at NYU presents an open-air concert in our courtyard to celebrate our 41st HAUS-FEST fearuting Timo Vollbrecht FLY MAGIC. Concert information Saxophonist Timo Vollbrecht returns to Deutches Haus' HAUS-FEST, this time alongside his quartet FLY MAGIC (with guitarist Keisuke Matsuno, bassist Martin Nevin, and drummer Nathan Ellman-Bell). Their new album, Faces in Places, is available on Spotify. About the musicians Timo Vollbrecht is a…
A lecture by Bruce L. Edelstein (NYU). The Carmignano Visitation, a unique masterpiece by one of sixteenth-century Italy’s greatest painters, Jacopo da Pontormo, will be seen for the first time outside of Italy in the exhibition, Pontormo: Miraculous Encounters, at The Morgan Library & Museum in New York (September 7, 2018, to January 6, 2019) and The J. Paul Getty…