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AMNH Presents: Past Earthquakes, Present Hazard
American Museum of Natural History 175-208 79th Street, Central Park WestHow do scientists understand earthquakes that occurred before the invention of modern seismometers? Join geophysicist Susan Hough as she describes the science around understanding past tremors and what they can teach us about present-day earthquake hazards.
The Making of a Masterpiece: Gustave Courbet, Woman with a Parrot, 1866
The Met 1000 5th Avenue, New YorkIn a continuation of this hit series, each talk focuses on a single, iconic painting in The Met collection, framing it in the context of the artist's work and its contemporary resonance and legacy. This season, Kathryn Calley Galitz, author of The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Masterpiece Paintings, looks at work by Courbet, Monet, Cézanne, […]
The Seine: The River That Made Paris
92 Y 1395 Lexington Ave, New YorkVoyage down the Seine with journalist Elaine Sciolino as she explores the history of the beloved Parisian river and the lives it shapes. In the spring of 1978, as a young journalist in Paris, Elaine Sciolino was seduced by a river. In The Seine, she tells the story of that river through its rich history and […]