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Conference | South China Sea: Central to Asia-Pacific Peace and Security


A two-day conference on the unfolding situation in the South China Sea area and its implications for more regional peace and stability. The conference will draw on the expertise of 15 leading scholars, experts and former practitioners from academia, research institutions, and think tanks from the U.S., China, Vietnam, Philippines, Singapore, and Australia. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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9:00 am
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City Walk | Midtown Manhattan Tour


Arguably the world's most valuable, busiest and most crowded pieces of real estate, Midtown Manhattan more is what most visitors think of when they think of New York City. Home to some of the city's most iconic architecture, from Gothic to Post-Modern and from Beaux-Arts to Art Deco (lots of Art Deco). it's not difficult to understand why. But just behind the massive facades, lie facinating histories just waiting to be unveiled. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
10:00 am
Free

Tour | Cathedral Tour


Explore the Cathedral's newly cleaned and restored Nave. Learn about the art, architecture and history more of this great sacred space from 1892 to the present. Tour times: 11am & 1pm. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:00 am
$6

Tour | Federal Reserve Bank Tour


Learn about central banking functions that Federal Reserve System performs and see Bank's vault of international more 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. Congressman Ron Paul considers the Federal Reserve "both corrupt and unconstitutional" Tour times: 11:15 a.m., 12:00 p.m., 12:45 p.m., 1:30 p.m., 2:15 p.m., and 3:00 p.m. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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11:15 am
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Lecture | Aaron Skabelund talks about his book Empire of Dogs: Canines, Japan, and the Making of the Modern Imperial World


A brown bag lecture with Aaron Skabelund, Assistant Professor of History, Brigham Young University, moderated more by Kim Brandt, Associate Professor. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Lecture | Kremlin Cabaret: The Imperial South, the Soviet North, and Transnational Dynamics in Soviet Culture


A talk by Mayhill C. Fowler (University of Toronto).
   New York City, NY; NYC
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12:00 pm
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Park Walk | West Side Stories Tour


Walk through a scenic area on the western edge of the Park, much of which is off the beaten track for more most visitors. See rolling meadows, lake views, bridges of different styles, and a garden with flowers and plants mentioned by Shakespeare. less
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12:30 pm
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Concert | Contemporary American Art Song/Joy in Singing


With lute and Psalter, gypsy jazz, Zimbabwean beats, a plethora of standard chamber music repertory, more and world premieres with working titles, Concerts at One will satisfy the savvy and the inexperienced concertgoer as Trinity continues to expand the musical palettes of New Yorkers and visitors alike. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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1:00 pm
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Other | Scrabble Mania


All levels of play welcome. Please bring with you...your Scrabble set (be sure it has all 100 tiles!), more a Scrabble dictionary and, of course, a love of the game! less
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1:00 pm
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Lecture | Mary Cassatt, Women's Suffrage, and Chicago's 1893 World's Columbian Exposition


A lecture by Sally Webster. Mary Cassatt, who is best known for her enduring images of mother and more children, is never thought of as a Bloomer girl or a free-love advocate. Yet in her 1893 mural Modern Woman she illustrated the most progressive and radical program of women's emancipation yet advanced. This program was first articulated in the 1848 "Declaration of Sentiments" drawn up by women participants at the first convention of women's rights in Seneca Falls, New York. The organizer was Elizabeth Cady Stanton whose writings and speeches for the next half century changed the lives of thousands of women who sought professional training and the ability to lead independent lives. Stanton's accomplishments and that of other leading women's rights advocates were reflected in the art and displays placed in the Woman's Building at Chicago's 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. Among the most important was Cassatt's mural located in the south tympanum of the building's Gallery of Honor. Appropriately titled Modern Woman, Cassatt's mural was a contemporary allegory which she related in three panels: "Young Girls Pursuing Fame," "Young Women Plucking the Fruits of Knowledge or Science," and "The Arts, Music, Dancing." less
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1:15 pm
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Concert | STOP-IN Organ Series: Kathy Handford


Every Thursday, the new series “STOP-IN” presents a concert organist in recital on the acclaimed more Paul Fritts, Opus 16 organ. Exploring the wealth of music composed for the organ, each artist brings their own interpretation and personality to the bench, making no two recitals alike. This 30-40 minute midday recital is the perfect break in the week. less
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1:15 pm
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City Walk | SoHo, Little Italy & Chinatown Tour


You've seen the iconic skyscrapers, attended a Broadway show, visited Lady Liberty and relaxed in Central more Park. Looking for a little more of the Big Apple? Maybe it's time to visit some of Manhattan's oldest and most enchanting historic districts. Take a relaxing stroll through SoHo, Little Italy and Chinatown. less
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2:00 pm
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Gallery Talk | Artist Talk: Maddy Rosenberg


Maddy Rosenberg is an artist who works in several media: oil painting, artist’s books, printmaking, more drawing, toy theater, and installation. Her work is widely collected and she has exhibited at venues throughout the U.S. and Europe, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Fogg Museum, the Tate Gallery, and the Victoria and Albert Museum. less
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2:30 pm
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Workshop | Digital Photo Editing Workshop


Hands on using wireless laptops. Learn how to download photos from your digital camera to a computer more and edit them with Google Picasa. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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2:30 pm
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Tour | US Customs House Building Tour


A Museum Ambassador provides a 45-minute in-depth look at the unique architecture and design of the Alexander more Hamilton Customs House. less
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3:00 pm
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Master Class | Soprano Master Class


A Master Class with Martina Arroyo & Jorge Parodi. One of the leading Spinto Sopranos from the world’s more greatest opera stages such as The Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, and La Scala, Ms. Arroyo joins Opera Hispánica Artistic Director and faculty member Jorge Parodi for a Master Class with young singers and pianists. The two teachers will coach students on Spanish and Latin American opera and vocal works. less
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4:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Group Show: Harlem Memorabilia: Reflections in Fiber


Features a stunning collection of quilts and hand-made books created by a community of urban artists more guided by noted Harlem artist and quilt maker Dindga McCannon. Featured artists include: Angela Loftin-Blake, Phyllis Bowdwin, Jackie Burgess, Shirley Burton Cox, Lisa Curran, Valerie Deas, Shimoda, Izola Emanuel, Laura Gadson, Nancy Ivy, Shani Jamila, Arlene "Kweli" Jones, Nora Lee, Barbara Mims, Tanya Montgut, Rita Strickland, Olga Torrey and DINDGA McCANNON. less
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5:00 pm
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Opening Reception | 3D Design Student Exhibition


An exhibition of work by students in the BFA Advertising and Design Department, curated by 3D Design more Chair Kevin O’Callaghan. less
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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | All About Water, a Five-Artist Show


Five artists, inspired by water, have created works that highlight the multifaceted character of one more of the essential components of life. Its character, purpose and powers are felt everyday - directly and indirectly in our lives. We associate water with the best of nature and the worst. It’s elusive, perplexing, healing, and yet at other times most destructive. This exhibition illustrates many interpretations and perceptions of this intrinsically beautiful, sublime, essential and sometimes threatening part of nature. less
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Gallery Talk | Artist Talk: Helen Hiebert


Internationally recognized paper and book artist Helen Hiebert gives an informal presentation about her more work, followed by a reception. Hiebert’s limited edition artists’ books will be on view, as well as her newest publication Playing With Paper, and her two films The Papermaker’s Studio Guide and Water Paper Time. Autographed copies of the books and films will be available for purchase. less
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6:00 pm
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Concert | Buffy Sainte-Marie, Oscar-Winning Singer-Songwriter


Buffy Sainte-Marie won an Oscar for the song "Up Where We Belong," which is also the name of the museum's more popular music exhibition. The artist is featured in concert, which highlights old hits and new compositions focused on "the art of the protest song." less
   New York City, NY; NYC
6:00 pm
Free

Discussion | Music Under the Medici in Renaissance Italy


With: Jane Tylus, NYU; Patrick Macey, Eastman School of Music; Giusepe Gerbino, Columbia University; more and voice students from the Eastman School of Music. less
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Lecture | New York City of Trees


Offered in conjunction with Benjamin Swett's exhibit New York City of Trees, this lecture is by the ecologist more and naturalist Eric Sanderson, aothor of Lives of Trees in New York City: Retrospective and Prospective Views from the Wildlife Conservation Society's Welikia Project. less
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Opening Reception | Painting: Peter Maslow's Gowanus, Vienna


Peter Maslow's recent paintings reveal his experiences within a multitude of urban environments and various more frames of time. He has traveled extensively across Central and Eastern Europe, photographing, sketching, absorbing and processing. less
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6:00 pm
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Poetry Reading | Poets Matthew Dickman and Michael Klein read their work


Please join Matthew Dickman and Michael Klein as they celebrate their new books with a reading, signing, more and party. Introductions to the readings provided by Marie Howe and Jean Valentine. Matthew Dickman's latest book of poetry is Mayakovsky's Revolver. His first book of poetry, All-American Poem, won the 2009 Honickman First Book Prize in Poetry and the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. Michael Klein's newest poetry book is The Talking Day. He is the author of two previous books of poetry, including 1990, which received a Lambda Literary Award. less
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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Staccato Incandescence: The Story of Mambo


Robert Farris Thompson, Professor of the History of Art at Yale University, will focus his lecture on more mambo, which shows a fusion of a variety of dance styles from Lindy, to ballet, to bomba, to Afro-Cuban dance. less
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Lecture | Four Decades in Bioethics: Where We Have Been and Where We Are Going


Speaker Dan Brock is a professor of Medical Ethics in the Department of Global Health and Social Medicine. more Prior to his arrival at Harvard, Professor Brock was Senior Scientist and a member of the Department of Clinical Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health. less
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6:15 pm
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Lecture | From Catastrophe to Healing: Commemorating Soviet Losses in the Battle of Moscow, 1941-1942


A talk by William C. Brumfield.
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Gallery Talk | Art critc Kim Levin discusses her career


Kim Levin, New York art critic and international curator, author and editor will share her experiences more and adventures as a regular contributor to the Village Voice for 23 years and as president of IACA (International Association of Art Critics) for 6 years. She is author of Beyond Modernism and currently contributing to Art News. In addition, Kim will suggest effective ways for exhibiting artists to communicate with art critics. less
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Opening Reception | Artist's Book Launch: Dana Levy's belonging/s


The launch of Dana Levy’s new artist’s book World Order, which was produced for her 2012 solo show more at The Center for Contemporary Arts Tel Aviv in affiliation with Braverman Gallery and Sternthal Books. less
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Discussion | Bronx! Fashion! Revolution!


A panel discussion focusing on the project Bronx! Fashion! Revolution!, a community-based art project more by Austrian artist Walter Steinacher realized at Casita Maria Center for Arts & Education in the South Bronx with support from Residency Unlimited. Students in Casita Maria's after school program will revamp their old clothes and, through the process, question their relationship with brands and their participation in an alienating consumerist culture. Sarah Calderon, Casita Maria's Executive Director, and Maud Jacquin, RU's associate curator, will also take part in the discussion. less
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Slide Lecture | Lost Riverside Drive: A History in Postcard Images


A slide lecture and book signing by Michael Susi, author of the Postcard History Series “The Upper more West Side” and “Columbia University and Morningside Heights”. less
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6:30 pm
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Forum | MFA Alumni Publishing Panel


With Jackie Clark (class of 2008) Coldfront & LIT Magazine; Sharmi Cohen (class of 2009) Telephone Books; Justin more Marks (class of 2004) Birds LLC; Alina Gregorian (class of 2009) Bridge, and Dan Magers (class of 2005) Sink Review. Moderated by Alina Gregorian and introduced by Helen Schulman, fiction coordinator, Creative Writing. less
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Gallery Talk | Museum Docent Tour


The docent-led tours meet in the lobby.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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6:30 pm
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Discussion | Mystery in Uniform: Crime Stories and the Military


With Lawrence Light, moderator, and panelists Albert Ashforth, Julia Pomeroy and Angela Zeman from Mystery more Writers of America – The New York Chapter. Wartime may create own special kind of crime, but a criminal in uniform is still a crook and vets return home heavily burdened by what they have done… and what has been done to them. Join a timely discussion about mystery novels with military themes. less
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Concert | An Evening of Pianola: Music on Player Piano


This program will include the live world premiere of Skowhegan Birch #1 (from the Tree Talk series) 2012, more by artist Maria Elena Gonzalez, executed on a player piano by the renowned interpreter Randolph Herr. This work was created by Gonzalez from the bark of a fallen birch tree she found in the summer artist colony in Skowhegan, Maine. Gonzalez had the striations in the bark scanned and they were then digitally cut onto scrolls for piano rolls. The result is literally a sound created directly from a tree. Randolph Herr will explain and play this work on player piano, along with other selections. less
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7:00 pm
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Other | Ask Roulette


Ask Roulette is an unscripted conversation in which participants ask and answer questions of each other more in front of a live audience. Special guests TBA. less
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Performance | Night Shift Theater presents Danny and the Deep Blue Sea by Oscar- and Tony-Winner John Patrick Shanley


A powerhouse one-act play set in the Bronx, where a man and a woman emerge from their dark pasts into more an empathetic embrace. The Night Shift produces intimate, no-frills, working-class theater productions that aim to examine other peoples' lives and find solace in the communion of the theatrical event. less
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Author Reading | Oliver Horovitz reads from his book An American Caddie in St. Andrews: Growing Up, Girls, and Looping on the Old Course


In his coming-of-age memoir, Oliver Horovitz provides an insider's look at the charming but insular life more of golfers in an old world golf course and the discoveries he made along his path to adulthood. less
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Poetry Reading | Poet Tina Chang in Conversation


Tina Chang reads and discusses her work; her latest collection is “Of Gods and Strangers." In conversation more with Alice Quinn. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Book Signing | Rocker Richard Hell signs copies of his book I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp


The sharp, lyrical, and no-holds-barred autobiography of the iconoclastic writer and musician Richard more Hell, charting the childhood, coming of age, and misadventures of an artist in an indelible era of rock and roll less
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Theater | Student Production: A Modern Feeling by Jason Kim


Part of NEW VOICES Playwrights Festival. Five original plays in repertory, highlight Drama’s graduating more playwrights, directors, and actors of 2013. less
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Concert | The Annual Irish Heritage Concert


Featuring: St. Patrick's Cathedral Choir, Dr. Jennifer Pascual, Conductor; Mick Moloney and Friends; more Washington Square Harp; and Shamrock Orchestra. An evening of traditional and contemporary Irish Music.Celebrate Irish Heritage at a time and place where everyone is Irish. less
   New York City, NY; NYC
7:00 pm
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Concert | Aurical, Indie Rockers


Founded by bicoastal musicians Rachel Rossos and Michael Gallant, Aurical is the sort of indie rock band more even your grandmother would love: honest, polite, well-groomed, and capable of telling a damn good story. less
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7:30 pm
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Talk | Sport and Meditation


Discover the inner dimension of sport and learn the yogic secrets of top athletes. Join Guinness World more Record holder and ultra long distance running champion Dipali Cunningham for a remarkable evening. Australian Dipali Cunningham has been running competitively for the last 30 years, and has completed over 100 marathons and 31 multi-day races including two 1,000 mile races. She currently holds the World Record for the women’s open six-day road race, as well as six Australian National Records. “Guinness Record Breaker of the Decade” Ashrita Furman shares inspiration and insight into how he has set over 444 records by applying meditation techniques and the philosophy of self-transcendence promoted by his spiritual teacher, Sri Chinmoy. less
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Concert | Faculty Piano Recital


With Hugo Goldenzweig.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Lecture | Kafka's Messianic Animals


A talk by Judith Butler, Maxine Elliot Professor of Rhetoric and Comparative Literature, UC Berkeley.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | NYU New Music Ensemble Soloists


Electronic and Acoustic Works
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Concert | Student Violin Recital


Featuring Chiung-Hua Tsai.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Theater | The Fifth Dentist


What do you do when your father owns a strip club, and your mother works there? BECOME A DENTIST! Mike more King's One-Man-Show "The Fifth Dentist" is a hilarious true story by America's funniest dentist, cutting-edge comedy from one of New York's brightest comics...has been seen on Comedy Central and has opened for Ray Romano! See this work-in-progress before it's off-Broadway production. "Exceptional story!" - Eric Hansen, Producer of the Montel Williams and Whoopi Goldberg show. less
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