Director: Simon Lereng Wilmont, 2017, 90 min, Denmark/Sweden/Finland. "The Distant Barking of Dogs" is set in Eastern Ukraine on the frontline of the war. The film follows the life of 10-year-old Ukrainian boy Oleg throughout a year, witnessing the gradual erosion of his innocence beneath the pressures of war. Oleg lives with his beloved grandmother, Alexandra, in the small village…
What Independent Means Means 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…
Prof. Alessandro Barchiesi, NYU A lecture by Alessandro Barchiesi, Professor of Classics, NYU In his lecture, Professor Barchiesi will discuss various reactions and appropriations of the Aeneid in Italian culture, with an eye on the recurring problem of Italian national identity. Alessandro Barchiesi is a scholar of Roman literature and its modern reception. His new book project, The War for…
Goethe-Institut Curatorial Residencies Ludlow 38 is pleased to present Against Attachment, the first institutional solo exhibition of the New York- and Zurich-based artist Ser Serpas in the United States. This installation stages a scene from the artist’s windowless apartment studio in New York, where Serpas lived, studied, and worked during her last year at Columbia University. The four newly commissioned sculptures…
Meeting Massimiliano Verde "Neapolitan: more than a sentiment!" A language of art, culture, song, philosophy, genuine food and... "sapé campà!" Dr. Massimiliano Verde, president of the Neapolitan Academy will talk - in conversation with journalist Angela Vitaliano (Grazia) - about his work to promote this heritage that is also very present in the United States and will explain why this treasure…
Author Rick Moody will discuss his own work as well as Roland Barthes’ essay A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments, an unconventional blend of literature and philosophy on the theme of love. Moderated by Adam Hocker, bookseller at Albertine. Rick Moody is the author of six novels and several non-fiction collections and books, including his most recent work Hotels of North America. His second memoir The Long…
Emmanuel Gras, 2018, 96 min. To RSVP, please click here. Makala is an extraordinarily revealing and surprisingly gorgeous look at everyday life for a charcoal salesman in the Democratic Republic of Congo. French documentary filmmaker Emmanuel Gras follows 28-year-old Kabwita Kasongo through the entire process of making and selling charcoal: finding and cutting down a tree in the vast plains near his village…
Fall 2019 and Spring 2020 Dušan Borić Nomis Foundation Fellow University of Cambridge (U.K.) On the move: prehistoric mobility and the spread of agriculture in Eurasia Alessia Mastrodonato Alexander Bodini Research Fellow in Developmental and Adolescent Psychiatry Columbia University: Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene, Inc., New York State Psychiatric Institute (NYSPI; U.S.A.) Identifying the neural correlates of fear generalization during…
"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…