A Conversation with Sherrill Milnes The second Adventure in Italian Opera with Fred Plotkin of this season features renowned American baritone Sherrill Milnes, whose commanding stage presence and majestic voice starred over 650 times at the Met placing him in the all time operatic Hall of Fame. In ENGLISH. From the Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo.
Join us for a book talk celebrating the publication of Gary Shteyngart's new novel Lake Success. Shteyngart will be in conversation with Suketu Mehta, NYU Professor of Journalism. Narcissistic, hilariously self-deluded, and divorced from the real world as most of us know it, hedge-fund manager Barry Cohen oversees $2.4 billion in assets. Deeply stressed by an SEC investigation and by…
A biopic that offers an intimate insight into the family life of Antonin Dvorak who wrote his Cello Concerto while in New York City. The third movement was a tribute to his sister-in-law, Josefína, who had written him a letter saying she was seriously ill. Director: Jaroslav Brabec, 2015, 102 min, Czech Republic. In Czech with English subtitles. Free and…
To celebrate the first complete English translation of Uwe Johnson’s magnum opus Anniversaries (New York Review Books, 2018) translator Damion Searlsjoins critics Renata Adler and Liesl Schillinger for a reading and discussion of this German postwar classic, examining both its significance a unique literary document of New York in the 1960s, and its continued resonance 50 years later in a world of increasing inequality, authoritarianism, and violence.…
A child of the Great Depression, Elaine Mokhtefi left the United States in the early 1950s. She was on the run from McCarthyism and from the provincialism she'd encountered as a student in segregated Georgia. After time in Paris, she moved to Algiers which, following independence in 1962, has become a beacon and safe haven for radicals all around the…
The 10th annual PoetryFest celebrates Ireland and America's great literary connection by showcasing some of the best poets working today. Presented with and at the Irish Arts Center. Curated by Nick Laird. Thursday, November 1 7pm: The Tom Quinlan Lecture in Poetry with Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry Prize-winner Richard Osmond. Click here for more information and registration. Friday, November 2 Favorite Poems Tickets…
Organized by Denis Hollier and Zakir Paul In Fall 2018, Fordham University Press will publish Maurice Blanchot: A Critical Biography, a translation of Christophe Bident’s groundbreaking life of the writer and critic, as well as Death Now, the final volume of of Blanchot’s Chronicles of Intellectual Life, written from 1941-1944. Finally, Minuit has recently published Jean-François Hamel's, Nous sommes tous la pègre (Les années 68 de Blanchot), an…
Jonas Carpignano (2015) This screening is part of the NYU SPS Center for Applied Liberal Arts Fall 2018 Film Series The Immigrant Experience: Visions of Diaspora on Film in America and Abroad. As immigration ignites new conversations in the U.S., it continues to be a divisive issue across the globe. This film series explores the experiences of people who leave…
The Polish Cultural Institute New York teams up with Brooklyn purveyors of Old World Jewish Foods, The Gefilteria, and celebrated Polish Chef, Malika, for dinner events As part of its centenary celebration of the regaining of Polish Independence, the Polish Cultural Institute (PCI) New York presents “Roots & Radishes”, a two-night pop-up dining series in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, on November 2…
In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the proclamation of the independence of the Western Ukrainian Republic and its unification with the Ukrainian National Republic, the Shevchenko Scientific Society in America, the Ukrainian Academy of Arts and Sciences in the U.S. and the Ukrainian Institute of America are sponsoring a conference in New York City. The conference will feature three…