Monday September 9, 2019
Manhattan
6-8:30pm $25: Notre Dame: Iconic Cathedral; Disastrous Fire; Uncertain Future. IFAR has enlisted several noted specialists in stone conservation and medieval art and architecture to discuss the Notre Dame cathedral fire. A program highlight will be the showing of extraordinary laser scans made of Notre Dame by the late Professor Andrew Tallon in 2015, which are being made available to the French government. More info. [ART]
6-8pm Free: Opening Reception of Modernisms: Iranian, Turkish, and Indian Highlights from NYU’s Abby Weed Grey Collection. Join NYU’s Grey Art Gallery for the opening reception of Modernisms, an exhibit that explores art from the 1960s and early ’70s from Iran, Turkey, and India via selections from the unparalleled Abby Weed Grey Collection of Modern Asian and Middle Eastern Art at New York University. More info. [ART]
7-8:30pm $25: Reading Politics with the New Republic: The Rigged Game. America was built on the idea that those who work hard can achieve great success. But what happens to the people who don’t win in this new economy? Is the new elite fueling inequality, widening the gap between rich and poor, locking a new class system into place – and getting burned out itself in the process? This event at Symphony Space tackles these questions with authors Daniel Markovits, Barbara Ehrenreich, civil rights advocate Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, and social commentator Fran Lebowitz. Moderated by The New Republic contributor, Sarah Leonard. More info. [ECONOMICS]
Brooklyn
6:30-8pm $15: Sustainable Food and Blissful Eating with Debi Mazar & Gabriele Corcos. Brooklyn’s foodie power couple, actress Debi Mazar of Younger and Entourage and chef Gabriele Corcos, share a passion for cooking and a vision for a more environmentally conscious food culture. Join Debi and Gabriele for a delectable evening of conversation as they chew on edible topics of all kinds, particularly their commitment to the food sustainability movement, with food journalist Laurie Woolever, former lieutenant to Anthony Bourdain and host of the irreverent podcast, Carbface. More info. [FOOD]
Tuesday September 10, 2019
Manhattan
6-7pm Free: A Conversation with Classical Radio Voice Robert Sherman. The National Arts Club presents a conversation with Robert Sherman, the most recognized radio voice in classical music. Sherman continues to host WQXR’s “Young Artists Showcase” and sponsors the Nadia Reisenberg Young Artist Piano Series in Ossining. He will converse with NAC member Rhoda Elison Hirsch, followed by an extended time period for audience questions. More info. [MUSIC]
6:30-8:30pm Free: Fireside Chat with Kate Kirkpatrick on Becoming Beauvoir. Join philosopher Jamie Lombardi for a fireside chat with Kate Kirkpatrick to discuss her new book, Becoming Beauvoir. This is a joint event with the New York Society for Ethical Culture. More info. [BOOKS]
6:30-8pm $15: Richard Panek, The Trouble with Gravity: Solving the Mystery Beneath Our Feet. Join award-winning author Richard Panek at the New York Society Library for a discussion about his new book, The Trouble with Gravity, part scientific detective story, part metaphysical romp. More info. [BOOKS]
7pm Free: Brad Gooch and Maryam Mortaz | Rumi: Unseen Poems. Join 192 Books to celebrate the release of a collection of never-before-translated poems by the widely beloved medieval Persian poet Rumi. Brad Gooch and Maryam Mortaz will read from the collection in both the original Persian and in their new English translations, and then take questions from the audience. More info. [POETRY]
7-9:30pm $15: Moonlight & Movies: On the Waterfront with Jennifer Egan. Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Jennifer Egan introduces this outdoor screening of Elia Kazan’s classic 1954 drama On the Waterfront, which stars Marlon Brando as a boxer-turned-dockworker. Both On the Waterfront and Egan’s latest novel, historical noir-thriller Manhattan Beach, trace the crime-ridden underworld of New York and Hoboken’s shipyards in the 1940s. See how the two stories intertwine in their shared portrayal of the city’s shoreline and penetrating investigations of human nature. More info. [FILM]
8pm $25: Secret Science Club North: Something Deeply Hidden with Physicist Sean Carroll. The quantum world is strange. Now theoretical physicist Sean Carroll is here to tell you it’s not just strange, but gob-smackingly wondrous. Jumping off from his brilliant new book Something Deeply Hidden, Sean Carroll explores the current theories that describe the quantum realm. Taking them to their limits leads to mind-bending questions that could utterly transform how we think about space, time, and the Universe. More info. [SCIENCE]
Brooklyn
6:30-8pm Free: Death Cafe at Green-Wood Cemetery. Green-Wood is proud to host monthly gatherings of the Death Café here in our beautiful, modern chapel. Amy Cunningham, death educator and creator of the Brooklyn-based blog TheInspiredFuneral.com, invites participants to share their thoughts and feelings on death. It’s an opportunity for safe and open exchanges, without an agenda. Tea and light snacks are provided. More info. [PHILOSOPHY]
7pm Free: When Plants Dream: Daniel Pinchbeck and Sophia Rokhlin. In When Plants Dream, Daniel Pinchbeck and Sophia Rokhlin explore the economic, social, political, cultural and environmental impact that ayahuasca is having on society. When Plants Dream is the first book of its kind to look at the science and expanding culture of ayahuasca, from its historical use to its appropriation by the West and the impact it is having on cultures beyond the Amazon. More info. [BOOKS]
Wednesday September 11, 2019
Manhattan
8:15-8:46am Free: 9/11 Table of Silence Project. Artistic Director Jacqulyn Buglisi and Buglisi Dance Theatre are honored to return to Lincoln Center Josie Robertson Fountain Plaza for the 10th annual presentation of the breathtaking 9/11 Table of Silence Project, a free public performance tribute to 9/11 and prayer for peace and healing. Starting time is 8:15 am, and the ceremony ends precisely at 8:46 am, the time the first plane hit the North Tower. More info. [CULTURE]
5pm Free: Stringy Predictions for Our Universe. Solutions to string theory involve spaces with special mathematical properties. The study of these spaces has led to a ‘landscape’ of potentially consistent universes. The work has also led to the unexpected result that some consistent-looking universes cannot possibly exist and belong to the ’swampland.’ In this talk, Professor Cumrun Vafa reviews some of the predictions to which this picture leads, both for the fundamental constituents of our universe as well as the ultimate fate of the cosmos. More info. [SCIENCE]
6-7pm Free: Dress as Image in Italian Renaissance Painting by Jane Bridgeman. This lecture by Jane Bridgeman (Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London) offers some surprising insights about how portrayals of dress in sixteenth-century painting signified status. The construction of garments and the choice of attire as recorded in works of art will be related to the roles of women at different stages of their lives. Male dress worn for official, unofficial, and professional activities will also be discussed. More info. [ART]
6:15-8:45pm Free: Professor Amy Allen and Bernard E. Harcourt discuss “Critical Reading: Theory and Praxis.” Professor Amy Allen and Bernard E. Harcourt will discuss four philosophy texts: Michel Foucault’s Nietzsche, Genealogy, History, Paul Veyne’s Foucault Revolutionizes History, Amy Allen’s Psychoanalysis and Ethnology Revisited and Bernard E. Harcourt’s The Illusion of Influence: On Foucault, Nietzsche, and a Fundamental Misunderstanding. More info. [PHILOSOPHY]
7-8:30pm $28: The Power of a Single Cell: The Deep History of Ourselves | Joseph Ledoux + Jeffrey Sachs. Renowned neuroscientist Joseph LeDoux, author of The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains, returns to the Rubin to argue that the key to understanding all human behavior lies in viewing evolution through the prism of our really earliest selves: the first living organisms. LeDoux invites Dr. Jeffrey Sachs to explore how the development of nervous systems powered human consciousness, which made our greatest and most horrendous achievements as a species possible. More info. [SCIENCE]
Brooklyn
7-10pm Free: Scientific Controversies No. 20: Minds and Machines. Join Prof. Janna Levin, Prof. Gary Marcus, and Dr. Cathy O’Neil as they ponder if machines will acquire minds and if our minds are machines. After the conversation, there will be a book signing of Gary Marcus’ Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust and Cathy O’Neil’s Weapons of Math Destruction, and for stargazing with the Amateur Astronomers Association of NY in the Pioneer Works garden. More info. [SCIENCE]
7:30pm $15: Fighting the Future: Ethics and Algorithms. At different stages of the criminal justice system, from policing, bail hearings, and sentencing, computerized algorithms are replacing human decision-making in determining where to police, who to arrest, who goes to jail, and who goes free. This Olio, led by Barry Lam, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Vassar College, will introduce people to how these algorithms work, the under-appreciated moral problems with their implementation, and how the future of criminal justice depends on decisions we make now about the risks we are willing to tolerate for public safety. More info. [PHILOSOPHY]
Thursday September 12, 2019
Manhattan
6-8pm Free: Defending Our Republic: A Conversation with Burt Neuborne. In his new book, When at Times the Mob Is Swayed, noted civil liberties lawyer Burt Neuborne examines the structure of our constitutional system and its ability to withstand authoritarianism. In partnership with NYU School of Law, we will explore the questions and challenges of this moment. How durable is the Constitution’s separation of powers? Can our institutions withstand the threats of Trump’s federal regime? More info. [ECONOMICS]
6:30-8:30pm $25: Ballparks and Our Changing City with Paul Goldberger and Kevin Baker. What can New York’s ballparks – from the gone-but-not-forgotten Ebbets Field to today’s reimagined Yankee Stadium and Citi Field – tell us about the evolution of our city? Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic Paul Goldberger, author of the new book Ballpark: Baseball in the American City, sits down with author Kevin Baker to discuss the connection between the physical transformation of New York’s ballparks and America’s changing attitudes toward cities and shared civic space, past and present. More info. [HISTORY]
6:30pm $15: Malkin Lecture Series: The Formative Years of the Funnies. This talk will focus on the pre-WWII period of comics history starting with the first printed cartoons in Europe and America, the major innovators, and the ground-breaking trends that developed in its earliest decades. Cartoonist and historian Brian Walker will also connect the comics in the Seventh Regiment Gazette published from this Armory in the wider context of the rise of comics nationwide and in New York in particular. More info. [HISTORY]
6:30-8:30pm Free: Book Talk with Ben Talton and Ta-Nehisi Coates. Join the Center for the Study of Africa and the African Diaspora at a special event to celebrate the publication of the new book, In This Land of Plenty: Mickey Leland and Africa in American Politics. The talk will be joined by writer Ta-Nehisi Coates to discuss Mickey Leland’s political legacy, African affairs, and the current state of black American politics. More info. [CULTURE]
7-8:30pm Free: KnowScience: The Science of Vaccines with Dr. Francesco Cambuli. In this talk, Dr. Francesco Cambuli will present the basic facts about vaccines, and he will discuss these and many other questions. Communities need vaccines, and vaccines need communities. More info. [SCIENCE]
Brooklyn
7-10pm Free: Art History Happy Hour: Future Fashion (Pierre Cardin). Join the Brooklyn Museum for an evening of entertaining and informative lectures in honor of our special exhibition Pierre Cardin: Future Fashion. Drawing on Cardin’s legacy as an innovator, scholars and experts reflect on the history of fashion and imagine its future. In these short talks, Kimberly Jenkins examines fashion, race, innovation, and Pierre Cardin; Alexis Romano explores postwar French ready-to-wear style; and Uzo Ejikeme and Stoney Michelli of Stuzo Clothing discuss their work designing gender-free fashion for the future. More info. [ART]
7pm Free: McNally Jackson Presents: Gotti’s Boys. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Anthony M. DeStefano takes you inside Gotti’s inner circle to reveal the dark hearts and violent deeds of the most remorseless and cold-blooded characters in organized crime. Men so vicious even the other Mafia families were terrified of them. More info. [BOOKS]
Friday September 13, 2019
Manhattan
11am-1pm $30: SoHo Art World: After the Chelsea Exodus. Join tour guide Sylvia Laudien-Meo on a walk through the beautiful late 19th century cast iron architecture we will find some of DIA’s spaces, like the Earth Room, galleries like the most influential Drawing Center, Jeffrey Deitch, Staley Wise Gallery, the Judd Foundation and the Center for Italian Modern Art. We will discuss the neighborhood’s history and architecture and visit some of the most interesting exhibitions of the season, as well as some top designed stores. More info. [ART]
4-6pm Free: Restoring Notre-Dame: A Look at the Digital Scans That Could Help. Starting in 2010, the late architectural historian Andrew Tallon used 3-D laser scanning technology and high-resolution panoramic photography to create a near-complete digital record, inside and out, of Notre-Dame of Paris, one of the world’s most celebrated structures. Professor Cook presents an overview of Tallon’s achievement and discusses its contribution to the rebuilding of this beloved cathedral in the wake of the tragic fire of April 2019. More info. [ART]
630pm $35: Japanese Craft Beer: Lecture & Tasting. For this talk and tasting, beer expert Anne Becerra, NYC’s first female Certified Cicerone and beverage director at Treadwell Park, explores current trends in craft beer in the United States and around the world, and how Japanese craft beer fits into a growing U.S. market. Tasting reception will feature more than 20 kinds of unique regional beers from Japan. Moderated by Timothy Sullivan, certified Sake Samurai and founder of UrbanSake.com. More info. [FOOD]
Brooklyn
7pm $15: The Art of Dying, The Act of Grieving. This Olio event, led by BMCC-CUNYC Assistant Professor Jamie Warren, will look at the lost art of dying, the absence of clear social expectations for the grieving, and try to understand how and why we let death disappear from life. More info. [PHILOSOPHY]
Saturday September 14, 2019
Manhattan
9am Free (with Museum Admission): Spy Week at Fraunces Tavern Museum. Join the Fraunces Tavern Museum from September 14-21 for their fourth annual Spy Week; a week-long celebration of America’s Revolutionary War spies! Learn the secrets of America’s first spy ring, hear stories of famed spies such as Benjamin Tallmadge and Nathan Hale, and discover the truth about some of the War’s unsung heroes who were instrumental in the efforts of Revolutionary espionage. More info. [HISTORY]
11am-2pm $35: Walking Tour: Historic Harlem, From the 1600s to Its Renaissance and Beyond. Join Deborah Zelcer for a very Picturesque Prowl through historic Harlem, once a bucolic estate setting for gracious mansions, later a hub for European immigrants, and then the destination of southern Blacks fleeing Jim Crow and migrating to the North in pursuit of jobs and rights. More info. [TOUR]
5-7pm $30: Walking Tour: Edgar Allan Poe in Greenwich Village. Join the Merchant’s House Museum on a two-hour literary and historical walking tour that traces a path into Edgar Allan Poe’s life in Greenwich Village in the 1840s, where the author lived and worked at the height of his fame — before plunging irrevocably into the final, abysmal chapter of his short life. More info. [TOUR]
Queens
12-2pm $20: Midcentury Stereopanorama with Eric Drysdale: Look and see the 1950s in 3-D! For the last 20 years, writer and comedian Eric Drysdale has been collecting photographs from the 1950s taken by amateurs with the Stereo Realist 3-dimensional camera system. Think of it as an IMAX View-Master. Eric has narrowed his collection of tens of thousands of these amazing images to about 150 of the best, and you’ll see them the way they were meant to be seen – in fully-restored high-quality vintage stereoscopic viewers. More info. [GEEK]
2-4pm $30: 1939 and 1964 World’s Fairs Tour. Join Lloyd Trufelman for a walk throughout Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in Queens, site of the 1939 and 1964 New York World’s Fairs. Following the map plan of both original fairgrounds, the tour will include such sights as the Queens Museum (formerly NYC Pavilion), Philip Johnson’s NY State Pavilion, the Unisphere (exact site of the Trylon and Perisphere), Port Authority Heliport, the Westinghouse Time Capsule, and the Hall of Science. More info. [TOUR]
Sunday September 15, 2019
Manhattan
2-4pm $30: Wall Street Modern: The New Look of an Old Neighborhood. This tour will examine highlights of Modern architecture and public art in the Financial District created from the 1960s through the 1980s. More info. [TOUR]
2:30pm $15: A Dramatic Reading of Selections from Gwe, Young Man of New Guinea. Join the Aesthetic Realism Foundation for a dramatic reading of selections from Gwe, Young Man of New Guinea, a novel against racism by Arnold Perey, PhD anthropologist, and aesthetic realism consultant. More info. [BOOKS]
Bronx
1:30-3pm: Free: Opening Reception of Leonard Freed: Israel Magazine 1967–1968. Derfner Judaica Museum + The Art Collection at Hebrew Home at Riverdale is pleased to announce its latest exhibition, Leonard Freed: Israel Magazine 1967–1968, on view at the Derfner Judaica Museum from September 15, 2019–January 5, 2020. A reception and curator’s talk will take place on September 15th from 1:30 to 3pm. More info. [ART]