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Are you looking for free things to do in New York City (NYC) on December 11, 2019?

39 free events take place on Wednesday, December 11 in New York City. Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides! Exciting, high quality, unique and off the beaten path free events and free things to do take place in New York today, tonight, tomorrow and each day of the year, any time of the day: whether it's a weekday or a weekend, day or night, morning or evening or afternoon, December or July, April or November! These events will take your breath away!

New York City (NYC) never ceases to amaze you with quantity and quality of its free culture and free entertainment. Check out December 11 and see for yourself. Summer or Winter, Spring or Fall! Just click on any day of the calendar above and you'll find most inspiring and entertaining free events to go to and free things to do on each day of December . Don't miss the opportunities that only New York provides!

Some events take place all year long: same day of the week, same time there are there for you to take advantage of. One of the oldest free weekly events in Manhattan is Dixieland Jazz with the Gotham Jazzmen, which happen at noon every Tuesday. Another example of an event that you can attend all year round on weekdays is Federal Reserve Bank Tour, which takes place every week day at 1 pm (but advanced reservations are required). You can take at least 13 free tours every day of the year, except the New Year Day, July 4th, and the Christmas Day. If you are classical music afficionado, you can spend whole day in New York going from one free classical concert to another. If you love theater, then New York gives you an option to attend plays and musicals free of charge, or at deep discount. You just need to have information about it. And we are here to make that information available to you.
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39 free things to do in New York City (NYC) on Wednesday, December 11, 2019

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free events nyc Midday Jazz: Yuletide Celebration Part 1
free events nyc Works By Beethoven Strauss and Britten
free events nyc The Gift (2000): Supernatural Thriller With Cate Blanchett, Keanu Reeves and Hilary Swank
free events nyc Designing an Inclusive City with Renowned Architect Renzo Piano
free events nyc Stars United's Red Hot Holidays: Figure Skating and More
free events nyc Christmas and Holiday Lights Tour
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Workshop | Boot Camp


The Rise NYC, a community-driven pop-up fitness group, hosts a Boot Camp. Rotations through exercises like crunches, planks, push-ups, burpees, and mountain climbers ensure a mixture of cardio and strength training that will keep you coming back, and seeing results. No equipment necessary; smiles and high fives encouraged. Rain or shine. Every Wednesday.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 am
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Symposium | Reinventing Privacy


The premise of “notice and consent” is flawed. We need a new paradigm to address privacy of data. How can we provide guarantees of privacy while preserving technological innovation? How can data be accessed and shared by every contributor in a democratic way without being controlled by a small number of players? Data collection, use limitation, accountability and consent are key pillars we will focus on in this workshop convening experts in the fields of computer science, law and policy.
   New York City, NY; NYC
9:00 am
Free

Tour | 13 Tours, All City Neighborhoods, Any Time Of The Day, Choose One Tour Or Many


These free tours take place at various times during the day, all day long. You can make reservations for as many tours as your schedule allows. SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights + DUMBO 3 Hour Lower Manhattan Harlem Chelsea and the High Line 6 Hour Downtown Combined Greenwich Village Central Park Lower Manhattan Midtown Manhattan Grand Central Terminal Graffiti and Street Art Tours World Trade Center
   New York City, NY; NYC
10:00 am
Free

Gallery Talk | Paris, Capital of Fashion: Exhibition Tour


Paris, Capital of Fashion explores how and why Paris became the international capital of fashion. Although globalization has transformed fashion, Paris arguably remains the most glamorous and competitive of then world’s fashion capitals. The exhibition features about 100 objects dating the eighteenth century to the present. Tour begins in the museum lobby.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
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Film | A Foreign Affair (1948): Two Time Oscar Nominated Romantic Comedy By Billy Wilder


In occupied Berlin, an army captain is torn between an ex-Nazi cafe singer and the U.S. congresswoman investigating her. 116 min. Director: Billy Wilder. Starring Jean Arthur, Marlene Dietrich, John Lund. A Foreign Affair was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Black-and-White Cinematography and the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay.
   New York City, NY; NYC
11:15 am
Free

Film | Interstellar (2014) With Matthew McConaughey: Oscar Winning Epic Science Fiction By Christopher Nolan


A team of explorers travel through a wormhole in space in an attempt to ensure humanity's survival. 170 min. Director: Christopher Nolan. Starring Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, Jessica Chastain. Interstellar won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects, and was nominated for Best Original Score, Best Sound Mixing, Best Sound Editing and Best Production Design.
   New York City, NY; NYC
11:15 am
Free

Tour | City Hall Tour For Individuals


The tour of City Hall includes a discussion of the building's history, art, architecture, and civic function. The building is the oldest city hall in the United States that still houses its original governmental functions, such as the office of the Mayor of New York. Constructed from 1803 to 1812, New York City Hall is a National Historic Landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Classical Music | Bach at Noon


The organ works of J.S. Bach (1685-1750) offered in 30-minute meditations. Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period. He is known for instrumental compositions such as the Brandenburg Concertos and the Goldberg Variations as well as for vocal music such as the St. Matthew Passion and the Mass in B minor. Since the 19th-century Bach has been generally regarded as one of the greatest composers of all time. "The term 'baroque' has been widely used since the 19th century to describe the period in Western European art music from about 1600 to 1750... Many famous composers from the first part of the baroque period came from Italy and have a link with Venice, including Claudio Monteverdi and Antonio Vivaldi. Monteverdi was born in Cremona, but moved to Venice where he was 'maestro di capella' at the San Marco basilica. Vivaldi was born in Venice and was one of the greatest baroque composers. It is thanks to these strong musical traditions of Venice that we have today's music. Without Venetian church music and Monteverdi's advances with polyphony, the great traditions of choral music in England, France, and Germany would never have developed. Without the operas written by Monteverdi, Cavalli and Vivaldi, not only would the later styles of opera never have been invented. There would be no basis for the American Musical or the German and Viennese Operetta, the Spanish Zarzuela, and even rock, pop, and contemporary music as we know it." The Venice Insider Bach at Noon concerts take place every Tuesdays through Fridays, from September 10, 2019 to May 20, 2020.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:20 pm
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Workshop | Battery Park City Adult Chorus


Directed by Church Street School for Music and Art, the BPC Chorus is open to all adults who love to sing. Learn a mix of contemporary and classic songs, and perform at community events throughout the year. Wednesdays, September 6-December 11, 2019
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Tour | Federal Reserve Bank Tour


Learn about central banking functions that Federal Reserve System performs and see Bank's vault of international monetary gold on bedrock of Manhattan Island, five stories below street level. Learn why Federal Reserve has "Federal" in its name, while it's a private bank, not Federal at all. Tour times: 1:00pm, 2:00pm. This tour takes place Mondays through Fridays, except bank holidays.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Workshop | Lunchtime Meditation


Take a mid-day pause to refresh your mind and re-establish your center in the midst of bustling city life. Meditation is a powerful tool to eliminate stress, to heal the body, mind, and brain, and to enhance your personal well-being and positive relationship with the world.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
$10 suggested donation

Jazz | Midday Jazz: Yuletide Celebration Part 1


Performers Ben Cassara, Roz Corral, Alex Leonard, Josephine Sanges, Sandy Stewart, Ronny Whyte, Saadi Zain and Ray Marchica. Yule or Yuletide ("Yule time" or "Yule season") is a festival historically observed by the Germanic peoples. Scholars have connected the original celebrations of Yule to the Wild Hunt, the god Odin, and the pagan Anglo-Saxon Modraniht.
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
$10.00 suggested donation

Classical Music | Works By Beethoven Strauss and Britten


Kyle Ritenauer, conductor; Sasha Scolnik-Brower, conductor; Molly Turner, conductor. Beethoven Leonore Overture No. 3 Britten Four Sea Interludes Strauss Till Eulenspiegel's Merry Pranks
   New York City, NY; NYC
1:00 pm
Free

Lecture |
Brazil 2020: Politics and Economics


Dr. Nelson Barbosa will discuss Brazil’s current political and economic challenges, a discussion that becomes relevant in a time where political changes and demands for equality and transparency have sparked across Latin America. Barbosa is a Professor at the São Paulo School of Economics and the University of Brasilia.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Film | The Gift (2000): Supernatural Thriller With Cate Blanchett, Keanu Reeves and Hilary Swank


A woman with extrasensory perception is asked to help find a young woman who has disappeared. 111 min. Director: Sam Raimi. Starring Cate Blanchett, Hilary Swank, Keanu Reeves.
   New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
Free

Jazz | Renowned Jazz Guitarist and His Trio


Bill Wurtzel, a renowned jazz guitarist, has performed worldwide with many jazz greats. His style in his own words: "I love mainstream jazz and the American songbook. Albums I've played on range from gospel, mainstream and soul jazz to Christmas songs in Latin."
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:00 pm
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Lecture | Towards Nazism: On the Invention of Plato's Political Philosophy


Like in Raphael's School of Athens, Plato has been celebrated for centuries as the champion of the contemplative life. Such a description of Plato will be probably striking for most of the contemporary readers of the dialogues, used to a very different Plato, at least from Popper onwards. For many, nowadays, Plato is first of all a political philosopher. The contrast couldn't be sharper. The goal of the paper is to reconstruct the origins of the political interpretation: endorsed by the Nazis, made famous by Popper, it was first developed by some important Hellenists in Germany (such as Wilamowitz and Jaeger), in the first thirty years of the 20th century and quickly became dominant also outside the universities - the most interesting example being the so-called George Kreis, and most notably K. Hildebrandt's attempt to harmonise Plato and Nietzsche. What happens when you reconcile Plato and Nietzsche? For sure this is not a marginal story, for philosophers and not only for them.
   New York City, NY; NYC
2:00 pm
Free

Lecture | Old Books, Rare Books: Learning About the Value of Your Books


Learn what you need to know before buying or selling an old book. In this class, you will examine an old book, look to see who else owns a copy, and review the sale records and current booksellers' catalogs to learn about its value. Along the way attendees will learn about the tools and resources that the antiquarian community uses to value a book.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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3:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Extra Virgin: Group Show


BFA Degree Show: Isaac Dunne, Susan Flores, Sarah McKendry, Peter Kihoon Park and Szewing Shum
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Lecture | Inequality in Brazil


Professor Marcelo Medeiros’ talk discusses the trends of income inequality in Brazil from 1926 to nowadays based on recent studies, new historical data and the results of the latest household surveys and tax records.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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4:00 pm
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Book Signing | Coincidences: New York by Chance


Photographer Jonathan Higbee will be in conversation with photographer Harvey Stein about his new book Coincidences: New York by Chance.  
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Career Management For Introverts


Do you feel you shouldn’t have to sell yourself?  Are you uncomfortable around people who are talking about their accomplishments?  Do you find yourself looking for ways to get out of conversations rather than into them?  Perhaps instead you find yourself coming up with the answer while the person you are listening to goes on and on or maybe you like to take time to consider your answers.  If you have had any of these experiences, you may be interested in this talk.  Career coach Win Sheffield covers different techniques including: Recognizing how to use our strengths to impress your listener in more quiet ways Using story to approach difficult topics, avoiding awkwardness Structured ways to approach and prepare for conversations Career management methods that minimize conversation Career coach Win Sheffield made his own transition into career coaching after a career in strategy development and implementation at Citibank, J.P. Morgan and Pricewaterhouse Coopers. In addition to an MBA from Boston University and an undergraduate degree from Kenyon College, Win is certified as a career coach through the Five O’Clock Club.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Workshop | Meetup For Artists


Open meetings for artists who feel that their lives have been affected by art making, the art world, and the troubles of maintaining a creative life and career. The meetings offer the group a space to consider and reflect on challenges that they encounter as artists. Each meeting will begin with a brief topic or prompt, or a creative exercise for consideration. Guest artist speakers will join each meeting and offer testimonials of transformation. Artists will be able to share, address the prompt, offer gratitude, or vocalize an issue that they are going through. The next meetup will be on December 17, 6:00 pm, (The Holiday Focus Special).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Neighborhood Reporting in New York City Today


What is the importance of neighborhood reporting today? How have local publications adapted to the shifts of news media? What are the challenges and triumphs of hyperlocal, community-based reporting? Join reporters and editors embedded in local news throughout New York City to discuss the importance of neighborhood reporting, the evolution of local newspaper publications- from kiosk to online- and the future of community-driven journalism. Discussion will be moderated by Sarah Bartlett, Dean of the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | American Truth: Contemporary America Through the Lens


A multi-centric survey of contemporary America through the lens-based work of a group of 20 artists. Exhibiting artists present objects and images that reflect a multitude of American experiences. With a focus on the moments that are often missed, ignored, polemicized, made invisible, or even erased by the mainstream media, this exhibition explores our collective understanding of others and ourselves as people living in America. A panel discussion of the work will include artists Kathy Shorr, Melvin Harper, Brian Finke and Hector René Membreno-Canales.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Screening | Stage: Screening of Dance Performance


In this 2017 production, the interdisciplinary team a canary torsi explored the potential for choreographic and stage machinations to subvert hierarchical modes of seeing. A visual and aural fantasia, Stage was an excavation of spectacle. Choreographer Yanira Castro will be joined by Kathy Couch, a longtime collaborator and lighting and stage designer, for this screening and conversation.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Film | Voices from Chernobyl (2016): Tragedy and Aftermath


Svetlana Alexievich earned the Nobel Prize in Literature for her book Voices from Chernobyl, an oral history of the tragic power plant explosion and its aftermath. This film is based on Alexievich's book. Director: Pol Cruchten 82 min.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Talk | Designing an Inclusive City with Renowned Architect Renzo Piano


Renzo Piano, the Pritzker Prize-winning architect behind the first new buildings on Columbia's Manhattanville campus, will reflect on the role of architecture in creating more inclusive cities. Speaking at the Forum, one of his three Manhattanville buildings, he will discuss how architecture can create more open, permeable neighborhoods, provide arenas for cross-cutting exchanges and opportunities, and enrich civic life. Offering contemplations on democracy and participation alongside examples of his work, Piano will discuss how architecture can address particular needs, while also pointing toward models of thinking and doing that are more generalizable and dynamic.
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:30 pm
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Gallery Talk | Truth & Reconciliation


In American Truth, exhibiting artists present objects and images that reflect a multitude of American experiences. With a focus on the moments that are often missed, ignored, polemicized, made invisible, or even erased by the mainstream media, this exhibition explores our collective understanding of others and ourselves as people living in America.  A panel discussion of the work, Truth & Reconciliation, will include artists Kathy Shorr, Melvin Harper, Brian Finke and Hector René Membreno-Canales.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Author Reading | Africaville: Communities Faded from History


Jeffrey Colvin introduces his debut novel. In telling this story, Colvin hopes to highlight the many lost free black communities throughout North America that have faded from history books and memory. With lyrical prose and robust storytelling, this arresting debut introduces an exciting and daring new literary voice.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | Being Brown: Sonia Sotomayor and the Latino Question


Being Brown: Sonia Sotomayor and the Latino Question tells the story of the country’s first Latinx Supreme Court Associate Justice’s rise to the pinnacle of American public life at a moment of profound demographic and political transformation. Author Lázaro Lima provides the historical vocabulary for understanding why the Latinx body politic is central to the country’s future and why Sonia Sotomayor’s biography provides an important window into understanding America at this historical juncture.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Play | Orlando: Virginia Woolf's Timeless Classic


How many lifetimes does it take to find love? Destined to never age, Orlando’s fantastical journey crosses continents, centuries, and genders to find true happiness. Beginning during the reign of Elizabeth I, we follow Orlando over the course of more than 300 years in this stage adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s timeless masterpiece. A student production. Written by Sarah Ruhl.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Author Reading | The Lives of Artists: Collected Profiles


A special book signing and conversation between Calvin Tomkins and Massimiliano Gioni in celebration of the publication of The Lives of Artists: Collected Profiles, the definitive collection of artist profiles by legendary journalist and The New Yorker writer Calvin Tomkins, from the 1960s to today.  
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Gallery Talk | Artist Talk: Performance of Protest


A conversation between Suzy Lake and Laurie Simmons in conjunction with Lake’s first solo exhibition in New York. Performance of Protest follows Lake’s five-decade spanning career, capturing her continued investigation of her own image as a means to probe and resist constructions of gender, identity and beauty. Beginning in the late 1960’s, Lake has been creating self-portraits that contextualize femininity as a social construction.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Gallery Talk | Artist Talk: The Boundaries Between High Art and Handicraft


Polly Apfelbaum is best known for her “fallen paintings”: large, colorful, floor-bound works composed of hundreds of petals of brilliantly dyed fabric. She has exhibited steadily since her first one-person exhibition in New York in 1986, exploring the boundaries between high art and handicraft, in particular the varieties of quilting and weaving that modern art dismissed as decorative, as craft, or as women’s work. Her most recent works, woven rugs and printed wallpapers, move color and pattern across the floor and onto the wall. They evoke both a history of modern color painting and mid-century interior design, and the handmade work of older craft traditions.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Tour | Christmas and Holiday Lights Tour


See the holiday lights of midtown. Duration: Approximately 2 hours. Remember to bring your Metrocard.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Workshop | Collage Portraits Class


Dynamic painter, sculptor, and collagist Antony Zito leads a workshop. Zito brings his tour-de-force skills—combining painting, collage, and found objects—and invites participants to use a favorite image of themselves, family members, or pets as inspiration for an evening of collage-portrait making. Magazines will be the primary source material for the collages. All materials are provided. No previous experience in collage or painting is necessary for this workshop.  
   New York City, NY; NYC
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7:00 pm
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Festival | Stars United's Red Hot Holidays: Figure Skating and More


Created and produced by United States Olympians Melissa Gregory and Denis Petukhov, Stars United "Red Hot Holidays" is an innovative and multi-disciplinary concert experience. Figure skating, iconic dancers, singers, acrobats, visual effects, and haute couture fashion are tied together in this unique experience that's part ice show and part rock/pop concert. 2019 Featured Stars: Olympian Isadora Williams, United States Champions Ashley Cain and Timothy LeDuc, World and Olympic choreographer Rohene Ward, Iconic dancer Princess Lockeroo, 5x Billboard #1 EDM artist Jason Walker.
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Lecture | The Opposite of Elegance. Walter Benjamin's Fashion Theory and the Practice and Criticism of 1930s Paris Couture


Lecturer Philipp Ekardt states: "It is a little known fact that German-Jewish philosopher Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) must have attended fashion shows during his Parisian exile, and that Benjamin's most important contribution on the question of fashion - a convolute of fragments dedicated to the subject in his unfinished 'Arcades Project' (1928-1940) - is actually framed and interlaced by a number of implicit and explicit connections to the fashion of Benjamin's time, namely, the practice and criticism of 1930s Paris couture."
   New York City, NY; NYC
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