A day of free events. The Festival celebrates artists, scholars, writers and thinkers working at the intersections of history, medicine, art and the humanities.
The program includes activities on three floors, an introduction to bibliophilic delights drawn from more than 500,000 volumes, behind-the-scenes tours of the book and paper conservation laboratory, and other historical gems, plus a rarely screened film from the National Library of Medicine’s collection starring Gene Kelly as a sailor suffering combat fatigue.
In addition, Lawrence Weschler curates a day of presentations featuring Oliver Sacks, Billy Hayes, Riva Lehrer, Jane Gauntlett, dendrites versus galaxies, belabored royal deaths, and anatomy lessons from Rembrandt to Gray.
New York City, NY; NYC