at The Catholic Center at NYU (238 Thompson St.) Three years ago, our founder Baroness Zerilli passed away. Every day here at Casa, the institution she nurtured with love, wisdom, and boundless energy, we feel the profound sadness of her loss. However, we continue to feel the joy and honor of being the custodians of Casa's mission, as she had…
Design historian Maureen Footer and fashion expert, TV producer, and award-winning author Marie-France Pochna will be discussing Footer’s latest book, Dior and His Decorators: Victor Grandpierre, Georges Geffroy, and the New Look (Vendome Press), the first in-depth account of the two Parisian interior designers associated with Christian Dior. Eloquently written and beautifully illustrated, it recounts the evolution of Dior’s aesthetic as a fashion…
Renowned author, James Carroll, presents, "The Jews, the Irish, and a Challenge to Catholic Anti-Semitism: A Boston Story". The sister of Cardinal Richard Cushing, Archbishop of Boston, was married (outside the Church) to a Jewish fellow named Dick Pearlstein. It was the 1950’s. On the Boston Common, Pearlstein heard the anti-Semitic preaching of Father Leonard Feeney, an ultra-conservative Jesuit. Pearlstein’s…
In conjunction with the exhibition NeoRealismo Martina Caruso, Assistant Director for Art, Architecture and the Creative Industries at the British School at Rome, will discuss her recent book, Italian Humanist Photography from Fascism to the Cold War (Bloomsbury, 2016), with David Forgacs, Contemporary Italian Studies, NYU, and Maria Antonella Pelizzari, History of Photography, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY. Co-sponsored with Grey Art…
Opening reception: Friday, November 16 from 6:00 – 8:00 PM The Ukrainian Institute of America, 2 East 79th Street, New York, NY 10075. Art at the Institute is delighted to present “Miscellanea,” an exhibition of color etchings by the Lviv-based Ukrainian artist Roman Romanyshyn. An opening reception for the artist will be held on Friday, November 16 from 6:00 to…
A film by Theresa Traore Dahlberg (2016, 80 min.). Screening followed by Q&A with director Theresa Traore Dahlberg, Abosede George, and Nora Phliippe To RSVP, please click here. To view the trailer, click here. Part of the film series "Blackness in French and Francophone Film" organized by the Columbia Maison Française and co-sponsored by the School of the Arts. A group of…
art exhibition opening | Freedom & Movement Festival Opening of the exhibition "Do Not Litter, Do Not Feed Birds and Do not push the Help Button (Yet)" showcasing Kristof Kintera's interpratation of NYC’s layers, relating Manhattan to an ant colony, decoding and transmuting his understandings into wall drawings. His movie called Hands Tools of Brain is about mass conversion into…
panel discussion | Freedom & Movement Festival This panel discussion will explore the role of audio drama in documenting and dissecting political events, the experience of bringing history to life through sound, and the challenges and pleasures of reaching new audiences. Moderator Sarah Montague, producer of PRI’s Selected Shorts and a frequent guest director with Play for Voices, will speak…
Journalist and photographer Frank Van Riper will discuss his latest book, Recovered Memory: New York and Paris 1960-1980 (just out in the U.S. with Daylight Books). Van Riper’s striking black and white photographs, spanning twenty years, coupled with his eloquent texts, capture the 20th-century romance and grit of New York more than half a century ago, and Paris, some forty years ago.…
Music of Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco (1895 - 1968) Pianist David Witten has been described as a pianist "with that rare, elusive quality that charms and fascinates the listener." (Redondel, Milan, Italy) Witten's international career has included numerous concert tours in Ireland, Finland, Russia, Ukraine, Europe, Mexico, South America, and China. As the recipient of a 1990 Fulbright Scholar award, Witten spent…