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Posts tagged as “New York”

Joan Miró, Modern Art, and the Legacies of (Art) Historical Archives

This event will be in Spanish and English with captioned translations. The curators of the exhibition “Miró-ADLAN: An Archive of Modernity” will be joined by Anne Umland (MoMA) and Marko Daniel (Fundació Joan Miró) for an hour-long conversation about the position of Joan Miró within the history of modern art, his role in promoting new art in Barcelona and New…

Republication of “Banished Children of Eve”: Peter Quinn with Lenwood Sloan

Banished Children of Eve: A Novel of Civil War New York, originally published in 1995, traces that event as it gripped New York City. The cast is drawn from every strata: a likable and laconic Irish American hustler, an ambitious and larcenous Yankee stockbroker, an immigrant serving girl, a beautiful and mysterious biracial actress and her white minstrel lover as…

The Tenor of Irish-Jewish Relations in 19th-20th Century New York

Join us on March 17th at 7pm for a discussion with Dr. Hasia Diner and Dr. Jeffrey Gurock as they question the long-accepted visions of Hibernians and Hebrews at constant loggerheads and look to complicate the historical narrative with examples of common ground and cooperation.  Dr. Diner will speak to the histories of American Jews and Irish American’s entwined with each other starting in 19th century.

Stories of New York: City College Cinema and Sanctuary

This February and March, join historians, writers, filmmakers, and alumni at the Center for Jewish History for a series of discussions and films about City College, its rich Jewish history, and its transformative role in the lives of so many. Part III: Cinema and Sanctuary It was the first documentary film school in the United States and it began in…