Marino Marini and Henry Moore: An Italian Friendship
CIMA - Center for Italian Modern Art 421 Broome Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY, United StatesThis talk will explore the friendship between two of the most celebrated sculptors of the 20th century, Henry Moore and Marino Marini. Having met through the New York art dealer Curt Valentin, throughout the 1960s and 1970s they often spent time together on the coast of Tuscany in Italy, where Marini lived and Moore had […]
Biohack the World: Dr. David Perlmutter Brain Wash Book Talk
The Assemblage (John St) 17 John Street, Manhattan, NY, United StatesDr. David Perlmutter, the #1 New York Times and international bestselling author of Grain Brain, joins Austin Perlmutter, MD to expose how our health, our relationships, and even our thinking have been damaged by modern culture, and offers a practical plan for healing. Join us for this impromptu installment of Biohack the World as we […]
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 […]