General: $10 ($7 for seniors) The recent uptick in antisemitic, anti-immigrant, and racist rhetoric have created a burst of new interest in the acclaimed documentary, From Swastika to Jim Crow. Based on the book by Gabrielle Simon Edgcomb, the film tells the little-known story of two very different cultures, sharing a common burden of oppression. In the 1930s, German universities were…
Ignat Solzhenitsyn, piano, Korbinian Altenberger, violin, Na-Young Baek, cello. Illustrated talk by Ignat Solzhenitsyn. The most significant of Beethoven’s noble patrons during his years in Vienna was Archduke Rudolph of Austria, youngest brother of the Emperor Franz. Beethoven began teaching Rudolph piano in around 1803–04, and the archduke later became his sole composition student. He was also the only one…
Join Laurence Benaïm for a discussion on her book, Yves Saint Laurent: A Biography, the first major English-language biography of the artist since his death in 2008, featuring exclusive interviews of those who knew him best. Yves Saint Laurent’s impact on fashion is legendary, yet he remains an enigmatic and compelling figure. Tracing the development of Saint Laurent’s visionary work through his…
Exhibiting Art in Collapsing Democracies A lecture by Raffaele Bedarida, Cooper Union The recent exhibition, Post Zang Tumb Tuum, organized in 2018 by Germano Celant at Fondazione Prada in Milan, elicited admiring reviews. Only a handful of critics noted, however, that the exhibition performed a kind of cultural seduction reminiscent of the Fascist regime itself. Post Zang Tumb Tuum is the third major…
DAZZLING DUO In Memory of Mary Pressey ANTONIO POMPA-BALDI AND EMANUELA FRISCIONI, pianosGLIÈRE: Selection from “12 Morceaux” for piano 4-hands; GUASTAVINO: “Tres Romances”; POULENC: Sonata for Two Pianos, FP 156; ARENSKY: Suite for Two Pianos No. 1, Op. 15; RACHMANINOFF: Suite for Two Pianos, No. 1, Op. 5. Mary Elyse Pressey, born in 1923, Manitoba – died in 2018, New…
Susan Pedersen, Columbia: “Love and Politics in the Balfour Family.” This is part of the European History & Politics Workshop, supported by the European Institute at Columbia University. The workshop will meet on select Mondays over the course of the academic year at Columbia University (Philosophy 302) from 12:00pm-1:30pm. Participants will discuss pre-circulated work-in-progress over a light lunch. Please note…
The Brooklyn Rail and Albertine Books team up and explore the underworld in an evening celebrating the newly released Vice, Crime, and Poverty by Dominique Kalifa and Eugene Sue’s Les Mystères de Paris new serialized translation. Beggars, outcasts, urchins, waifs, prostitutes, criminals, convicts, madmen, fallen women, lunatics, degenerates—part reality, part fantasy, these are the grotesque faces that populate the underworld, the dark inverse of…
To RSVP, please click here. Winner of the 2013 Prix Mauvais genres, Les Bas Fonds examines the underworld of 19th and 20th century France. The underworld, a zone outside of the law, populated by beggars, prostitutes, criminals and convicts and where every form of social ill seems to coexist, regularly haunts our imagination. From Batman’s Gotham to Eugène Sue’s Paris, Kalifa explores how journalism, literature,…
From the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at NYU
A Conversation with Leah Crocetto The seventh and final Adventure in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin of this season features American soprano Leah Crocetto, one of the top young stars in the current generation of opera singers. She has sung leading roles at the Met, Washington, Seattle and Frankfurt, excelling in the core repertory of Verdi and Puccini. In ENGLISH. From the…