Culture
The Politics of Preservation
MoMA PS1 22-25 Jackson Ave, Long Island City, NY, United StatesMoMA PS1 presents an afternoon of programming that examines the destruction of Iraqi heritage by the allied forces during the Gulf wars. Scholarship and mainstream attention surrounding the destruction and preservation of cultural heritage in Iraq have tended to focus largely on antiquity. This critical conversation expands this scope to not only address archeological sites […]
Roz Chast and Patricia Marx Present: You Can Only Yell at Me for One Thing at a Time
Greenlight Bookstore 686 Fulton St., Brooklyn, NY, United StatesNYC Book Launch: Roz Chast and Patricia Marx present You Can Only Yell at Me for One Thing at a Time: Rules for Couples From the authors of Why Don’t You Write My Eulogy Now So I Can Correct It comes the perfect Valentine’s or anniversary gift: an illustrated collection of love and relationship advice (containing such nuggets […]
The Art of Real New York: Through the Eyes of NYC’s Most Rebellious Artists
Church of Sweden 5 East 48th Street, New York, NY, United StatesIf you were a mainstream artist or photographer living in New York within the last 200 years, chances are you wanted to showcase the best the city had to offer — the elite, the beautiful gardens, the fabulous hustle and bustle. But within each generation of creatives, a handful of artists rebelled, and insisted on […]
Gentrification 2.0: The Good, the Bad, and the Blurry
Brooklyn Historical Society 128 Pierrepont St, Brooklyn, NY, United StatesFrom Sunset Park to East New York, barely a neighborhood in Brooklyn isn’t ensconced in its own version of the gentrification debate. Beyond the posturing and the rhetoric is a nuanced history and present day reality that’s neither all good, nor all bad. Join Matthew Schuerman, author of Newcomers: Gentrification and Its Discontents; Kay Hymowitz, Fellow at the […]
Book Launch for Seven Sisters and a Brother—Untold Truths Behind Black Student Activism in the 1960s
92 Y 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY, United StatesUntold Truths Behind Black Student Activism in the 1960s: Marilyn Allman Maye, Harold S. Buchanan, Jannette O. Domingo and Marilyn Holifield with Brent Staples Henry Louis Gates, Jr. has called Seven Sisters and a Brother “compelling portraits of the lives of the young people who risked their futures to make a difference.” Four of the eight authors […]