"You are famous. You wanted to be. Being famous means having someone like me." - Sebastian Zöllner Germany just before the turn of the millenium. Sebastian Zöllner (Daniel Brühl), art journalist and master of overconfidence, plans his big coup: a tell-all book about the legendary but nearly forgotten painter Manel Kaminski (Jesper Christensen), student of Matisse and friend of Picasso,…
Please join us for the 9th annual Chekhov Variety Show, NYC’s longest-running annual celebration of Anton Chekhov’s birthday. Click here to buy tickets. “Heroes are as necessary as the sun.” —Anton Chekhov This year’s event celebrates artist-heroes like Chekhov (one of history’s most effective prison reform advocates) and features a performance by free expression activist Mai Khoi, known as Vietnam’s Lady Gaga, Bjork…
La Mama Theater and the Polish Cultural Institute New York in association with Adam Mickiewicz Institute and Martin E. Segal Theater Center present La Mama Theater Ellen Stewart Theater (The Annex) 66 East 4th Street (at Bowery & 2nd Ave) New York, NY 10003 Admission: FREE Why am I precisely this being and not some other? In this place in…
In Scena! Italian Theater Festival NY A night dedicated to the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, featuring a special presentation and performance of the three finalist 10-minute plays from Kairos Italy Theater's competition (April 15, Casa Italiana). In ENGLISH. From the Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo.
Deutsches Haus at NYU, in partnership with the Consulate General of Switzerland New York and SALA (Swiss American Lawyers Association), presents a screening of the Swiss documentary Emilie Kempin-Spyri. Rahel Grunder, the film's director, will be present and speak about her film and the life of Emilie Kempin-Spyri. About the film: Emilie Kempin-Spyri. Written and directed by Rahel Grunder. Switzerland, 2015, 52. min, in German with…
SOLOMIYA IVAKHIV, violin • CAROL RODLAND, viola YVES DHARAMRAJ, cello • GILBERT KALISH, piano FAURÉ: Piano Quartet No. 2 in G Minor, Op. 45; JANÁČEK: Violin Sonata; BOHDAN KRYVOPUST: Duma for String Trio (2018).* *World Premiere. Commissioned by the Ukrainian Institute of America in celebration of the 30th anniversary of MATI. Admission $25; Students & Seniors $10; UIA Members free.…
A Solo Exhibition at Casa Italiana and Magazzino Italian Art Foundation Renato Leotta April 30 - June 12, 2019 Mondays-Fridays 10-6 Magazzino Italian Art Foundation (2700 U.S. 9, Cold Spring, NY) NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò (24 West 12th Street, New York, NY) Curated by Vittorio Calabrese, Director, Magazzino Italian Art Foundation Magazzino Italian Art Foundation and Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò at…
and the Comic Finale What Makes It Italian? Discovering National Character in Music is a music listening and discussion group that meets at Casa Italiana and is open to everyone. Participation is free. The group is led by Gina Crusco, who guides listening at Bard LLI and Riverdale Y, and who has been music instructor at The New School and director…
Maria Anto, Magda Moskwa, and Ewa Juszkiewicz Through the presentation of works by Maria Anto (1936-2007), Magda Moskwa (1967) and Ewa Juszkiewicz (1984) at Frieze Art Fair 2019, local_30 gallery from Warsaw aims to highlight Surrealist motifs in the work of these artists, and refute the claim about the absence of Surrealism in Polish art. Maria Anto’s work represents the…
Please join the European Institute and the Harriman Institute for a talk made possible by the support of the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union. Click here to register. Susann Worschech Assistant Professor, European University Viadrina Frankfurt (Oder) Tsveta Petrova Lecturer in the Discipline of Political Science, Columbia University Is populism a symptom of democratic crises? What is its relationship…