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New York attracts world's best minds to its shores: they come here to interact with each other at conferences and seminars, and while they are here they are often invited to give a talk, a lecture, to be a part of a public discussion. We at Club Free Time give you an opportunity to be a part of it: to watch how those best minds in the world work! Don't miss the opportunities that only New York City (NYC) provides!

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In New York City, you can talk with and listen to the best minds in the world without spending a dime! Just take a look at free talks, lectures, discussion, seminars, conferences listed on this page below!

        

Talk | Cancel Culture & Russia-Ukraine War (In Person AND Online!)


A lecture by Principal Research Fellow at the Institute of Political and Ethnic Studies in Kyiv, Mykola Riabchuk. Moderated by Mark Andryczyk. The 2022 unprovoked Russian aggression against Ukraine evoked nearly universal international condemnation but got much less unanimous response in more practical terms of political, economic and other sanctions. Many countries, especially in the so called "Global South" refused to introduce any measures against the aggressor state for various reasons and under different pretexts. Culture appeared to be the most controversial field, where even the Western democracies, rather unanimous in their response to the Russian assault, failed to achieve any consensus on suitable measures and policies vis-a-vis the rogue state. While virtually nobody questions the need of sanctions against the specific persons and institutions that support the war, the wholesale rejection of Russian culture and cancelling of its iconic figures is often vehemently denied. The talk delves into the essence of these debates, trying to represent different rationales and opposite arguments but also to answer a more fundamental question: to what degree and in which way a seemingly innocent, apolitical cultural 'soft power' contributes to the militant 'hard power' of the aggressor state during the war.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Tue, Oct 21
12:15 pm
Free
Talks, October 21, 2025, 10/21/2025, Cancel Culture & Russia-Ukraine War (In Person AND Online!)

Book Club | Discuss Geek Love by Katherine Dunn


Participate with fellow readers for lively discussion and thoughtful socializing! Geek Love by Katherine Dunn The novel is the story of a traveling carnival run by Aloysius "Al" Binewski and his wife "Crystal" Lil, and their children, seen through the eyes of their daughter Olympia ("Oly"), who writes the family history for her daughter Miranda. When the business begins to fail, the couple devise an idea to breed their own freak show, using various drugs and radioactive material to alter the genes of their children.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Oct 21
1:00 pm
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Book Clubs, October 21, 2025, 10/21/2025, Discuss&nbsp;Geek Love&nbsp;by Katherine Dunn

Book Club | Nobel Prize-Winning Author Han Kang's The Vegetarian Conversation


Discuss Han Kang's bestselling novel, The Vegetarian, with other readers! Before the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary, controlled life. But the dreams--invasive images of blood and brutality--torture her, driving Yeong-hye to purge her mind and renounce eating meat altogether. It's a small act of independence, but it interrupts her marriage and sets into motion an increasingly grotesque chain of events at home. As her husband, her brother-in-law and sister each fight to reassert their control, Yeong-hye obsessively defends the choice that's become sacred to her. Soon their attempts turn desperate, subjecting first her mind, and then her body, to ever more intrusive and perverse violations, sending Yeong-hye spiraling into a dangerous, bizarre estrangement, not only from those closest to her, but also from herself. Celebrated by critics around the world, The Vegetarian is a darkly allegorical, Kafka-esque tale of power, obsession, and one woman's struggle to break free from the violence both without and within her.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Oct 21
4:00 pm
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Book Clubs, October 21, 2025, 10/21/2025, Nobel Prize-Winning Author Han Kang's The Vegetarian Conversation

Book Club | Discuss The Housemaid with Fellow Readers


Read at your own pace, then attend a lively, moderator-led discussion with fellow readers. Whether you're a dedicated bibliophile or just looking to connect with others, this is a great way to share your love of reading. The Housemaid by Freida McFadden is a gripping psychological thriller about Millie, a woman with a troubled past who takes a live-in housekeeping job for a wealthy family. What seems like a dream opportunity quickly turns sinister as she uncovers disturbing secrets hidden behind the mansion’s polished exterior. With chilling twists and mounting suspense, Millie must fight to survive as the truth unravels. Space is available on a first-come-first-serve basis while space is available.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Oct 21
6:00 pm
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Book Clubs, October 21, 2025, 10/21/2025, Discuss The Housemaid with Fellow Readers

Lecture | Expert Egyptologist on His Archeology Work in Rameses II Temple


In this lecture, famed Egyptologist Sameh Iskander discusses his recent archeological work at the ancient pilgrimage city of Abydos, which revealed important discoveries about the Ramesses II temple site and Abydos landscape in general. He unearthed remains of two late Sixth Dynasty houses situated within a massive mud brick enclosure wall dated around the same period (ca. 2332-2181 B.C.). This discovery provides valuable clues to our vision of the ancient landscape of Abydos and raises intriguing questions concerning the early town of Abydos located on the edge of the flood plain. He also cleared the entire precinct of Ramesses II’s temple outside its stone monument for the first time since its location was first hinted at by Napoleon’s French Expedition during the early nineteenth century. Findings revealed that the temple precinct was occupied almost continuously from the thirteenth century BC – when it was constructed – until the eighth century AD. This is an extensive occupation timeline which gives us an intriguing picture of the historical phases of this important ancient Egyptian monument and eventually its fate.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Oct 21
6:00 pm
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Lectures, October 21, 2025, 10/21/2025, Expert Egyptologist&nbsp;on His Archeology Work in Rameses II Temple

Talk | Interactive Discussion on Rembrandt’s Portraits (Online!) 


Join fellow art enthusiasts for a conversation exploring Rembrandt’s Nicolaes Ruts and Self-Portrait (1658). Led by educators, this participatory program invites close looking and discussion in real time. 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Oct 21
6:00 pm
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Talks, October 21, 2025, 10/21/2025, Interactive Discussion on Rembrandt&rsquo;s Portraits (Online!)&nbsp;

Discussion | Established Artists Mary Miss & Byrony Roberts Talk about Their Work (In Person AND Online!)


Mary Miss reshaped boundaries between sculpture, architecture, landscape design, and installation art. She envisions art addressing contemporary issues in the public sphere. Her work featured at the Guggenheim Museum in 2010, the Sculpture Center in 2008, and the Des Moines Art Center in 1996. Miss holds multiple awards, including a Guggenheim fellowship, Urban Land Institute's Global Award for Excellence, and the 2017 Bedrock of New York City Award. Bryony Roberts is an artist, designer, and educator who leads the practice Bryony Roberts Studio. She designs public art and urban design projects that activate public spaces around the world. She has created immersive and participatory environments at international sites such as Lincoln Center, the Federal Plaza in Chicago, and the Piazza del Campidoglio in Rome. She co-founded the collectives Feminist Spatial Practices and WIP Collaborative. The lecture will be followed by a conversation with Bryony Roberts and a Q&A discussion moderated by Kayla Montes de Oca.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Tue, Oct 21
6:30 pm
Free
Discussions, October 21, 2025, 10/21/2025, Established Artists Mary Miss & Byrony Roberts Talk about Their Work (In Person AND Online!)

Lecture | Learn about the Craft of Photography with Acclaimed Conceptual Photographer


This event is a talk with North Carolina-based conceptual photographer Eric Pickersgill, whose work explores the emotional and social effects of digital technology on human connection. Best known for his internationally acclaimed series Removed, Pickersgill uses a 4x5 view camera to create staged, black-and-white portraits of people frozen mid-gesture after their devices have been physically removed. His work has been exhibited at international museums, galleries, and art fairs, and is held in established art collections worldwide. He's been featured by CNN, The Atlantic, Wired, and the BBC.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Oct 21
7:00 pm
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Lectures, October 21, 2025, 10/21/2025, Learn about the Craft of Photography with Acclaimed Conceptual Photographer

Lecture | The Unseen Influence of Technology on Human Behavior


Discover how our relationship with devices influences the way we perceive, interact with, and recall information. This lecture series examines the role of photography in revealing and resisting digital dependence.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Tue, Oct 21
7:00 pm
Free
Lectures, October 21, 2025, 10/21/2025, The Unseen Influence of Technology on Human Behavior

Gallery Talk | Learn How a Historic Mansion Turned into a Museum


Join a museum educator for a brief gallery talk tracing how a Gilded Age mansion was transformed into a world-class art museum.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Oct 22
3:30 pm
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Gallery Talks, October 22, 2025, 10/22/2025, Learn How a Historic Mansion Turned into a Museum

Gallery Talk | Learn How a Historic Mansion Turned into a Museum


Join a museum educator for a brief gallery talk tracing how a Gilded Age mansion was transformed into a world-class art museum.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Oct 22
4:30 pm
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Gallery Talks, October 22, 2025, 10/22/2025, Learn How a Historic Mansion Turned into a Museum

Lecture | Expert Discusses Matisse's "Late Style"


This event is a talk by Antoine Compagnon about Matisse’s last years, 1941-1954, in which he explores the artist’s “late style” and “senile sublime,” discernible in the drawings, the chapel in Venice, and the visionary cut-outs.  Antoine Compagnon is the Blanche W. Knopf Professor of French and Comparative Literature at Columbia and Professor Emeritus at the Collège de France, where he held the chair in Modern and Contemporary French literature: history, criticism, theory from 2005 to 2020. He is the author of 15 books of literary history and criticism and countless articles and essays, with a particular focus on Montaigne and Proust, as well as Baudelaire, Roland Barthes, Bernard Faÿ, and Charles Péguy, among other writers. 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Oct 22
6:00 pm
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Lectures, October 22, 2025, 10/22/2025, Expert Discusses Matisse's "Late Style"

Discussion | Hidden Histories of Jewish Resistance in Rural Poland


Discover the untold story of the Będzin Ghetto Fighters House, a powerful center of Jewish resistance during the Holocaust. Researchers Karolina and Piotr shed light on the remarkable youth who defied deportation and fought back through armed resistance, underground networks, and acts of courage that reshaped their community’s fate. Their work brings renewed attention to rural sites of Jewish defiance, expanding the historical narrative beyond the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Through their efforts, the Będzin Ghetto Fighters House has become both a living memorial and a thriving educational center, connecting past struggles with present-day conversations about resilience, remembrance, and the fight against antisemitism.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Oct 22
6:00 pm
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Discussions, October 22, 2025, 10/22/2025, Hidden Histories of Jewish Resistance in Rural Poland

Discussion | Leanr about the End of WWII with Experts


A conversation about World War II featuring Benjamin Hett, Hunter Professor of History, Craig Symonds, Professor Emeritus at the U.S. Naval Academy, and others.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Oct 22
6:00 pm
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Discussions, October 22, 2025, 10/22/2025, Leanr about the End of WWII with Experts

Talk | Learn More about NYC's Bowery History (with Live Ragtime Music)


Author David Mulkins (with music by ragtime pianist Ramona Baker) offers a lively Illustrated talk about nearly 400 years on this storied “cradle of American popular culture.” The Bowery was a Native American footpath, Dutch farm road, site of the first free Black homesteads, and site of Lincoln’s epochal anti-slavery speech. The city’s first entertainment district, it has seminal links to tap dance, vaudeville, Yiddish theater, Stephen Foster, Irving Berlin, baseball, Houdini, and modern tattooing. The stomping ground for sailors, shopgirls, sporting men, gangs, grifters, and the immigrant Irish, Italians, Chinese, Jews, and Germans, it later became America’s iconic skid row, but rebounded in the late 20th century, impacting Abstract Expressionism, Beat literature, free jazz, and punk rock.   
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Oct 22
6:00 pm
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Talks, October 22, 2025, 10/22/2025, Learn More about NYC's Bowery History (with Live Ragtime Music)

Gallery Talk | Nuyorican Photography Explored through Poetry


Celebrate the work and legacy of photographer Frank Espada with his son & Poet Martin Espada alongside a multi-generational cohort of acclaimed Nuyorican photographers including Máximo Colon, David Rodriguez, and Erika P. Rodriguez! Nuyorican photographers have long sought to document and preserve Puerto Rican history in the city and beyond. Their talents have gifted us some of the most inspiring, heartbreaking, and indelible images of the 21st century. Bringing together the visual and the poetic, this event honors the legacy of Frank Espada and the practice, vision, ethics, and futures of Nuyorican social documentary photography. Afterwards, explore the exhibition, Diasporic Collage: Puerto Rico and the Survival of a People, on view.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Oct 22
6:00 pm
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Gallery Talks, October 22, 2025, 10/22/2025, Nuyorican Photography Explored through Poetry

Book Discussion | Stories and Portraits of Downtown Culture


An evening celebrating two new books that explore the creative and historical life of downtown Manhattan. Michael Gentile's There's That Too combines stories, paintings, and photographs capturing Baltimore and the downtown scene. At the same time, Clayton Patterson's Offbeats: Lower East Side Portraits profiles the neighborhood's artists, visionaries, and misfits. 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Oct 22
6:00 pm
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Book Discussions, October 22, 2025, 10/22/2025, Stories and Portraits of Downtown Culture

Book Discussion | Award-Winning Journalist Talks about Her "Startling" Book, Empire of AI (In Person AND Online!)


In Empire of AI (“startling and intensely researched” — Vulture) award-winning journalist Karen Hao lifts the veil on the industry defining our era. She speaks about her provocative new book with John Borthwick, a leader in the New York startup technology business for over three decades, who is founder and CEO of beta works. With access to the world of Sam Altman’s OpenAI from the beginning, Hao how had an insider’s view of the development of this world-changing technology, the breakthrough of Chat GPT, and the company’s path from idealism to a pursuit of power consuming vast information and resources. Hao has written for The Atlantic and The Wall Street Journal and was senior editor of the MIT Technology Review.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Oct 22
6:30 pm
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Book Discussions, October 22, 2025, 10/22/2025, Award-Winning Journalist Talks about Her "Startling" Book,&nbsp;Empire of AI&nbsp;(In Person AND Online!)

Discussion | Cheryl McKissack Daniel (of McKissack & McKissack) Speaks with Charlamagne Tha God about Her Family's 200-Year History


Cheryl McKissack Daniel—fifth-generation leader of the nation’s oldest Black-owned design and construction services firm, McKissack & McKissack—sits down with multimedia mogul Lenard “Charlamagne Tha God” McKelvey to discuss her family's extraordinary 200-year history, as captured in her new book The Black Family Who Built America: The McKissacks, Two Centuries of Daring Pioneers.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Oct 22
6:30 pm
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Discussions, October 22, 2025, 10/22/2025, Cheryl McKissack Daniel (of&nbsp;McKissack & McKissack) Speaks with&nbsp;Charlamagne Tha God about Her Family's 200-Year History

Discussion | Artist & Entertainer Saul Williams Explores Black Art Experimentation & Political Engagement


Poet, musician, filmmaker, actor, and intellectual Saul Williams discusses the relationships between aesthetic forms and political education in conversation with Dr. Shana Redmond, Director of the Center for the Study of Social Difference. Reflecting on practices of Black experimentation--in language, music, and film--this dialogue explores the various sites of enclosure and foreclosure, from the nation state to the university, that bear upon the present and what practices are necessary to enact more just futures.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Oct 22
7:00 pm
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Discussions, October 22, 2025, 10/22/2025, Artist & Entertainer Saul Williams Explores Black Art Experimentation & Political Engagement

Book Discussion | Investigation of a Natural History Heist: The Feather Thief (Online!) 


Join a participatory discussion of The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century by Kirk Wallace Johnson. Explore the 2009 theft of 299 bird specimens from Britain’s Natural History Museum and the history, obsession, and investigation behind it. 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Thu, Oct 23
4:00 pm
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Book Discussions, October 23, 2025, 10/23/2025, Investigation of a Natural History Heist: The Feather Thief&nbsp;(Online!)&nbsp;

Book Discussion | The Art of Parisian Chic: Fashion, Identity & Modern Women


Explore how women in Impressionist Paris utilized fashion and cultural archetypes to craft their public identities. Author Justine De Young discusses her new book, The Art of Parisian Chic, in conversation with fashion historian Hilary Davidson, exploring the image of the Parisienne, the shopgirl, and the role of style in navigating life in the Second Empire and Belle Epoque. A book signing follows.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Thu, Oct 23
5:30 pm
Free
Book Discussions, October 23, 2025, 10/23/2025, The Art of Parisian Chic: Fashion, Identity & Modern Women

Book Discussion | Art Deco Essay Collection Conversation on Silversmith Wiwen Nilsson's Work


This events celebrates the first English-language monograph on the Art Deco and mid-century Swedish silversmith Wiwen Nilsson, featuring thematic essays focusing on his silverware products—his sculptural oeuvre, his jewelry production, and his participation in Swedish and international exhibitions. His grandson Martin Wiwen-Nilsson will be in conversation with award-winning design critic and author Alice Rawsthorn.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Thu, Oct 23
6:00 pm
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Book Discussions, October 23, 2025, 10/23/2025, Art Deco Essay Collection Conversation on Silversmith&nbsp;Wiwen Nilsson's Work

Talk | Hear from a Legendary Chroreographer about Her Work


Dancer, writer, performance-maker, and Yale professor Emily Coates spent two years mapping far-flung artifacts related to George Balanchine found in archives. This research became part of her Works & Process commission, Tell Me Where It Comes From, scheduled to premiere in New York this November. A former dancer with New York City Ballet, Coates searched in holdings at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Harvard's Houghton Library, Yale's Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, the Archives at Jacob's Pillow, among others. In this artist talk, Coates shares the idiosyncratic trail of ephemera and people she encountered along her journey to move closer to the source of his work, from a great remove, through archival shards. Special guests joining her include Adam Lenz, Public Engagement and Programs Manager at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art. Enjoy this unique opportunity to see what goes into creating a new work about the afterlife of a legendary choreographer.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Thu, Oct 23
6:00 pm
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Talks, October 23, 2025, 10/23/2025, Hear from a Legendary Chroreographer about Her Work

Gallery Talk | Memory & Migration in Art Talk with Artists & Curator


This conversation, moderated by Natalia Viera Salgado (Puerto Rican curator and curatorial consultant based in New York City, founder of :Pública Espacio Cultural, an independent art space), Associate Curator, brings together the practices of artists Lizania Cruz (Dominican participatory artist and designer interested in how migration affects ways of being & belonging), Guadalupe Maravilla (artist & activist), and Ronny Quevedo (multidisciplinary artist who works with Indigenous ideas & culture) to explore the politics of migration, belonging, and memory across the Americas. Through participatory projects, healing rituals, and reimagined cartographies, these artists engage with personal and collective histories shaped by colonial legacies and diasporic experience. By reflecting on the intersections of art, and lived experience, the talk invites audiences to think critically about how memory is preserved, contested, and reconfigured in relation to the ongoing realities of migration. This program is organized in conjunction with the exhibition Whose America?, on view October 16, 2025 - January 10, 2026.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Thu, Oct 23
6:00 pm
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Gallery Talks, October 23, 2025, 10/23/2025, Memory & Migration in Art Talk with Artists & Curator

Book Club | Luddite Dook Discussion: Superbloom


Stop scrolling and put down your phone… this offline book club is a space for in-person conversation about the role technology plays in our world. Each month highlights a different book on the topic of technology’s impact individual lives as well as society as a whole, followed by an open discussion to share recent experiences and observations. Superbloom: How Technologies of Connection Tear Us Apart by Nicholas Carr (2025) "Challenges some of our most cherished beliefs about self-expression, free speech, and media democratization in modern communication."
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Thu, Oct 23
6:30 pm
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Book Clubs, October 23, 2025, 10/23/2025, Luddite Dook Discussion:&nbsp;Superbloom

Gallery Talk | Artist & Childhood Educator Discuss Groundbreaking Work of Psychologist Rhoda Kellogg


Brian Belott and Jennifer DiGioia discuss psychologist and early-childhood educator Rhoda Kellogg. Rhoda Kellogg (1898-1987) was the director of the Phoebe A. Hearst Preschool Learning Center (which was a part of the Golden Gate Kindergarten Association, in San Francisco) for nearly three decades. Over the course of her lifetime, Kellogg amassed a collection of more than two million drawings by children. Kellogg gained global recognition for her groundbreaking studies in children’s art. In her books, What Children Scribble and Why (1955), The Psychology of Children’s Art (1967), and Analyzing Children’s Art (1969), Kellogg explained and documented her theories. She showed that children from all cultures follow a similar graphic evolution in their drawings, starting from scribbles and progressing through certain basic forms. She also believed that children’s art could offer insights into their mental development and educational progress. These theories laid the foundation for the educational program still used at the Hearst Preschool Learning Center today. Brian Belott is an artist, curator, performer, and publisher based in Brooklyn, NY. He is the lead archivist of the Rhoda Kellogg International Child Art Collection and a lifelong collector of child art. Jennifer DiGioia is in her 30th year as an early childhood educator and advocate. She taught at Phoebe A. Hearst Preschool Learning Center, founded by Rhoda Kellogg, for over a decade.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Thu, Oct 23
7:00 pm
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Gallery Talks, October 23, 2025, 10/23/2025, Artist & Childhood Educator Discuss Groundbreaking Work of Psychologist Rhoda Kellogg

Discussion | Urgent Sports Debate


   New York City, NY; NYC
Thu, Oct 23
8:00 pm
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Discussions, October 23, 2025, 10/23/2025, Urgent Sports Debate

Talk | Learn about Bowery, NYC's Oldest Street


For this event, join author David Mulkins for a review of The Bowery, a just-released pictorial history of New York City's oldest street. "The Bowery is more than a neighborhood guide. It’s a preservation effort in paperback form: a defense of memory, place, and the ragged dignity of lives lived outside the spotlight. Mulkins doesn’t sanitize the Bowery’s history, and he doesn’t let us look away. Instead, he invites us to see. A community garden where a vacant lot once rotted. A neighborhood built not just on bricks and bones, but on stories." -Michael Quinn, The Village Star-Revue
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Fri, Oct 24
6:00 pm
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Talks, October 24, 2025, 10/24/2025, Learn about Bowery, NYC's Oldest Street

Gallery Talk | Learn How a Historic Mansion Turned into a Museum


Join a museum educator for a brief gallery talk tracing how a Gilded Age mansion was transformed into a world-class art museum.
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Fri, Oct 24
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Gallery Talks, October 24, 2025, 10/24/2025, Learn How a Historic Mansion Turned into a Museum

Talk | Ukrainian Writers Discuss Occupation & Cultural Survival


Since 2014, parts of Ukraine--including Crimea and Donetsk--have lived under Russian occupation, with the 2022 full-scale invasion expanding that violence to cities like Nova Kakhovka. In this urgent and deeply personal conversation, three Ukrainian voices explore what it means to live with, remember, and resist occupation. Chef and author Olia Hercules, born in now-occupied Nova Kakhovka, shares how food becomes a language of memory and identity in Strong Roots, her first memoir. Novelist Volodymyr Rafeyenko, originally from Donetsk, reflects on exile, absurdity, and survival in Length of Days and Signals of Being. Scholar and translator Natalia Shpylova-Saeed introduces a powerful new anthology of Crimean poetry and prose, preserving voices from a region silenced since 2014. Together, they trace how storytelling--across genres--becomes an act of cultural defiance. The conversation will be moderated by professor and writer Sophie Pinkham.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Fri, Oct 24
6:00 pm
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Talks, October 24, 2025, 10/24/2025, Ukrainian Writers Discuss Occupation & Cultural Survival

Gallery Talk | What’s in Your Album? Artists Explore Fragility


Artists Junghyun Kim, Juyon Lee, and Kai Oh share insights into their newly commissioned works, revealing how private photos and personal moments shaped their creative process. The conversation touches on themes of digital intervention, human mortality, and the ways fragility can be expressed through art.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Fri, Oct 24
6:00 pm
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Gallery Talks, October 24, 2025, 10/24/2025, What&rsquo;s in Your Album? Artists Explore Fragility

Talk | Explore the World of TV & Film


Enjoy an evening with panelists from The Hollywood Radio TV Association and New York Women in Film & Television. This panel, led by creatives, industry leaders, and media professionals, and curated by industry professionals, offers a behind-the-scenes look at the world of film and television— exploring how the business has evolved over time and where it’s headed next.
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Fri, Oct 24
7:00 pm
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Talks, October 24, 2025, 10/24/2025, Explore the World of TV & Film

Discussion | Pulitzer-Winning Author Jennifer Egan on Homelessness in NYC


Pulitzer-Prize-winning writer Jennifer Egan and Will Watts, Deputy Director for Advocacy at Coalition for the Homeless, join Strada, Artist in Residence at the Department of Homeless Services, for a conversation on the state of homelessness in New York City. The discussion will explore the city’s unique legal commitment to guaranteeing a right to shelter, the need for supportive housing, and the lived experiences of unhoused individuals, highlighting how these struggles intersect with broader questions of who has the right to the city.
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Sat, Oct 25
4:00 pm
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Discussions, October 25, 2025, 10/25/2025, Pulitzer-Winning Author Jennifer Egan on Homelessness in NYC

Discussion | Theatre Experts Talk about Iconic Theatre Critic Linda Armstrong


For 40 years, Linda Armstrong has been a theater critic with the New York Amsterdam News covering Broadway, Off-Broadway, Off-Off Broadway, and a great deal of Black Theater. Throughout her four decades she has always focused on spotlighting the talents of Black artists, playwrights, director, producers Now, members of the theater community come together to share what Linda Armstrong has meant to Black theater and to them. The panel includes Woodie King, Jr., founder of New Federal Theatre, Jackie Jeffries, president of AUDELCO, which celebrates Black theater Excellence, playwright David Lamb, playwright Keenan Scott II, Rome Neal, actor Brian Stokes Mitchell, and theater critic for the New York Times, Brittani Samuel.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Oct 27
6:00 pm
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Discussions, October 27, 2025, 10/27/2025, Theatre Experts Talk about Iconic Theatre Critic Linda Armstrong

Talk | Dura Europos and the Birth of Jewish Art (Online!)


Explore the origins of Jewish visual culture with artist and writer Richard McBee, tracing the significance of the 245 CE Dura Europos synagogue mural and the mysteries it holds. McBee, a leading figure in contemporary Jewish art, shares insights on biblical and historical themes that shaped Jewish artistic expression, offering a fresh perspective on the birth and evolution of Jewish visual storytelling.
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Mon, Oct 27
7:00 pm
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Talks, October 27, 2025, 10/27/2025, Dura Europos and the Birth of Jewish Art (Online!)

Talk | Stories Behind the Portraits of Famous Photographer Yousuf Karsh


Discover the life and artistry of legendary photographer Yousuf Karsh in this special talk with Julie Grahame, senior representative of his estate. Drawing on over 20 years of experience with the Karsh archive, Grahame shares vivid stories of his creative process and the making of iconic portraits, including the unforgettable 1941 image of Winston Churchill.
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Tue, Oct 28
12:00 pm
Free
Talks, October 28, 2025, 10/28/2025, Stories Behind the Portraits of Famous Photographer Yousuf Karsh

Talk | Reckoning with Russia's Status on the World Stage


Attend a talk by law professor Paul Stephan. Moderated by Elise Giuliano. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 provoked fury and broad condemnation. Yet Russia has not been repulsed, even if it has not achieved its objectives, and the economic sanctions imposed by the West produced mostly short-term pain. The ambiguity of the Trump administration’s position on the war certainly has not helped. Russia has done terrible, perhaps irreversible harm to its position as a regional power. It will face a geopolitical and geoeconomic reckoning, although it may take five to ten years for the real costs to be manifest. This talk will give an account of this reckoning as well as reflecting more generally on the efficacy of international law and the liberal international order as a means of disciplining powerful states.
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Tue, Oct 28
12:10 pm
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Talks, October 28, 2025, 10/28/2025, Reckoning with Russia's Status on the World Stage

Book Club | Discuss The Midnight by Lucy Foley


You are invited to join in the discussion on The Midnight by Lucy Foley. To miss this would be a crime. The Midnight follows the opening night of the Manor, and no expense, small or large, has been spared. The infinity pool sparkles; crystal pouches for guests’ healing have been placed in the Seaside Cottages and Woodland Hutches; the “Manor Mule” cocktail is being poured with a heavy hand. Everyone is wearing linen. But under the burning midsummer sun, darkness stirs. Old friends and enemies circulate among the guests. Just outside the Manor’s immaculately kept grounds, an ancient forest bristles with secrets. And the Sunday morning of opening weekend, the local police are called. Something’s not right with the guests. There’s been a fire. A body’s been discovered.
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Tue, Oct 28
6:00 pm
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Book Clubs, October 28, 2025, 10/28/2025, Discuss&nbsp;The Midnight&nbsp;by Lucy Foley

Discussion | Dynamic Paintings Exploring Identity and Medium


Experience an intimate conversation about a celebrated body of contemporary paintings that explore identity, memory, and artistic experimentation. The discussion delves into the works on view in the exhibition Lorna Simpson: Source Notes, highlighting the artist’s bold approach to painting within her multifaceted practice.
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Tue, Oct 28
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Discussions, October 28, 2025, 10/28/2025, Dynamic Paintings Exploring Identity and Medium

Lecture | Swedish UN Ambassador Explores How Trade Shapes Swedish Identity 


Ambassador Andreas von Uexküll, Sweden’s Deputy Representative to the United Nations, explores how trade has shaped integration, prosperity, and identity in Sweden and across the Baltic Sea region. From Viking voyages to Hanseatic dominance, commerce has long connected cultures around the Baltic and beyond. During Sweden’s Age of Great Power (Stormaktstiden), trade routes became strategic assets though efforts to control them often failed. Global transactions later fueled the Industrial Revolution and continues to influence politics. From ancient customs to modern cooperation, trade remains a defining force in the region’s history – and its future.
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Tue, Oct 28
6:30 pm
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Lectures, October 28, 2025, 10/28/2025, Swedish UN Ambassador Explores How Trade Shapes Swedish Identity&nbsp;

Talk | A Scholar and a Comedian Discuss Wealth, Taxes, and Inequality (In Person AND Online!) 


Join comedian Gary Gulman and legal scholar Ray D. Madoff for a revealing conversation on how the U.S. tax system privileges the wealthy. Drawing from Madoff’s book The Second Estate, the discussion exposes how tax laws have helped create two Americas, one that shoulders the nation’s costs and another that effectively opts out. Together, they unpack the humor, history, and high stakes behind wealth and taxation in America.
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Tue, Oct 28
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Talks, October 28, 2025, 10/28/2025, A Scholar and a Comedian Discuss Wealth, Taxes, and Inequality (In Person AND Online!)&nbsp;

Talk | The Creative Process: Firsthand Insight into Dance Choreography


New York City-based dancer-choreographer and founder of Time Lapse Dance invites us in conversation with Executive Director of the Yard, Stephanie Pacheo. Expect highlights on behind-the-scenes looks at creative processes involved in chorographing, residency highlights and eye-popping visuals. The duo will touch on on specific challenges in creative processes when producing art which focuses on larger institutional challenges and climate change. Conclusively, ask any questions at the end of the discussion during Q & A. 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Oct 28
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Talks, October 28, 2025, 10/28/2025, The Creative Process: Firsthand Insight into Dance Choreography

Book Discussion | Discussion on the Life of A’Lelia Walker: Joy Goddess (Online!) 


Celebrate the publication of Joy Goddess: A’Lelia Walker and the Harlem Renaissance with author A’Lelia Bundles, the first major biography of her great-grandmother, a pioneering businesswoman and arts patron. Bundles will be joined by Joy Bivins for a conversation followed by audience Q&A. 
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Wed, Oct 29
12:00 pm
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Book Discussions, October 29, 2025, 10/29/2025, Discussion on the Life of A&rsquo;Lelia Walker: Joy Goddess&nbsp;(Online!)&nbsp;

Gallery Talk | Learn How a Historic Mansion Turned into a Museum


Join a museum educator for a brief gallery talk tracing how a Gilded Age mansion was transformed into a world-class art museum.
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Wed, Oct 29
3:30 pm
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Gallery Talks, October 29, 2025, 10/29/2025, Learn How a Historic Mansion Turned into a Museum

Gallery Talk | Exploring Heroism and Struggle in Hercules and the Hydra


A museum educator leads a brief gallery talk highlighting the mythological narrative of heroism, the depiction of the heroic struggle against the multi-headed beast, and the artwork’s artistic techniques and symbolism. 
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Wed, Oct 29
4:30 pm
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Gallery Talks, October 29, 2025, 10/29/2025, Exploring Heroism and Struggle in Hercules and the Hydra

Gallery Talk | Award-Winning Multidisciplinary Artist Speaks within Exhibition


Attend Wakeupworld Salon: Malene Barnett, organized in the spirit of the Harlem Renaissance's famed salons that brought together communities of artists and intellectuals to foster creativity. Organizers will keep the galleries open until 8pm, inviting you to view and gain inspiration from the exhibition, hear from award-winning multidisciplinary artist Malene Barnett (6PM) in an intimate conversation atop of the famed Houston Conwill cosmogram Rivers, and be in community with those in attendance over light refreshments. Malene Djenaba Barnett is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist, textile surface designer, and community builder. In her work, Malene explores both her Caribbean heritage and surface pattern design found in African and diasporic architecture, textiles and objects. From art and design to research, writing and public speaking, Malene works to empower and unite Black artists and designers through community building. In 2024, Malene released her first book, Crafted Kinship: Inside the Creative Practice of Contemporary Black Caribbean Makers, which includes interviews with over 60 artists of Caribbean heritage, taking readers on an important journey through the world of Black Caribbean creativity. Malene is also the founder of the Black Artists + Designers Guild, a collective of independent Black makers. Space is limited!
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Wed, Oct 29
5:00 pm
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Gallery Talks, October 29, 2025, 10/29/2025, Award-Winning Multidisciplinary Artist Speaks within Exhibition

Book Discussion | Quiet Reading Meet Up


Bring a book or check one out of the library to read to yourself for one hour. After that, spend an hour socializing with those around you!
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Wed, Oct 29
6:00 pm
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Book Discussions, October 29, 2025, 10/29/2025, Quiet Reading Meet Up

Talk | The Darkness of Grimm Fairytales & How To Share Them with Children


The old German fairy tales are weird, and scary, and bloody. They feature murder and threats of incest and child abuse. So should we share them with kids today? Or are they a relic of a time that is (thankfully) long gone? And if we share them with kids today, how should we do that? Is there something useful in these weird, bloody, grim old tales? Adam Gidwitz, the author of A Tale Dark & Grimm and its companions, producer of the animated Netflix adaptation, and creator of the award-winning podcast Grimm, Grimmer, Grimmest, discusses the best--and the grimmest!--elements of the old German fairy tales, especially those by the Brothers Grimm and Franz Xaver von Schonwerth, and he'll discuss the ethics, and his method, of adapting these tales for kids. *Followed by a light reception
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Wed, Oct 29
6:00 pm
Free
Talks, October 29, 2025, 10/29/2025, The Darkness of Grimm Fairytales & How To Share Them with Children

Talk | Times Square & MTV-Featured Tech & UX Designer Explores His Craft


Enjoy a talk with Robert Fabricant, a systems designer who has worked at the forefront of technology and user experience design for more than 25 years. His work has spanned everything from interactive environments and virtual worlds, to medical devices, in car navigation systems, smart infrastructure, fintech, medical devices and consumer apps for organizations as varied as MTV, Daimler Chrysler, General Electricm and UNICEF. Robert designed his first mobile and tablet apps more than a decade before the release of the iPhone and iPad. His work has appeared on billboards in Times Square and feature phones throughout East Africa.
   New York City, NY; NYC
Wed, Oct 29
6:00 pm
Free
Talks, October 29, 2025, 10/29/2025, Times Square & MTV-Featured Tech & UX Designer Explores His Craft

Discussion | Artist Thaddeus Mosley & Curator Talk about Mosley's New Sculpture Exhibition


Artist Thaddeus Mosley and Public Art Fund Assistant Curator Jenée Daria Strand are in conversation about Touching the Earth, Mosley’s first public art exhibition in New York City, on view at City Hall Park through November. The exhibition features eight bronzes recently cast from wood sculptures Mosley created between 1996 and 2021. In this conversation, Mosley will reflect on the conceptual framework behind Touching the Earth, his improvisational studio practice, and the ways his lifelong engagement with form and material has shaped one of the most significant bodies of work in contemporary sculpture. 
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6:30 pm
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Discussions, October 29, 2025, 10/29/2025, Artist&nbsp;Thaddeus Mosley & Curator Talk about Mosley's New Sculpture Exhibition

Discussion | Experts Talk about AI Accountability & Public Interest


Data & Society Executive Director Janet Haven hosts a critical discussion about AI accountability and the public interest, featuring professor Charlton McIlwain, journalist Julia Angwin, and civic technologist Catherine Bracy.
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Wed, Oct 29
6:30 pm
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Discussions, October 29, 2025, 10/29/2025, Experts Talk about AI Accountability & Public Interest

Talk | Explore WWII through Soviet Journalist's Accounts


Attend an event with Russian translator Robert Chandler. Moderated by Mark Lipovetsky. Vasily Grossman covered all the major battles of the Eastern Front for the Red Star, the official newspaper of The Red Army, during the Second World War. His brutally vivid reports were read by millions of soldiers and civilians alike. And, as the war draws to a close, he was one of the first to expose the horrors of the Treblinka death camp. In recent years, versions of his articles that had not been distorted by censors have been unearthed. Robert Chandler, who has translated Grossman’s epic novels of the war and its aftermath, will demonstrate what an extraordinary amount Grossman witnessed during only a few years.
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Thu, Oct 30
12:00 pm
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Talks, October 30, 2025, 10/30/2025, Explore WWII through&nbsp;Soviet Journalist's Accounts

Book Club | Classic Book Conversation: Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann


Discuss Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann, which chronicles the decline of a wealthy north German merchant family over the course of four generations
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Thu, Oct 30
4:30 pm
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Book Clubs, October 30, 2025, 10/30/2025, Classic Book Conversation: Buddenbrooks by Thomas Mann

Gallery Talk | Conversation on Art, Repair, and Postcolonial Identity


In advance of an upcoming exhibition opening, artist Kader Attia joins Mohamed Amer Meziane for a public discussion on art, repair, and postcolonial identity.
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Thu, Oct 30
5:00 pm
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Gallery Talks, October 30, 2025, 10/30/2025, Conversation on Art, Repair, and Postcolonial Identity

Gallery Talk | Exploring Personal Identity through the Art of Roberto Juarez


Enjoy a conversation with artist and National Academician Roberto Juarez NA and NYU Professor of Art History Edward J. Sullivan as they explore questions of personal identity in Juarez's work. In keeping with the theme of the exhibition Whose America?, Juarez and Sullivan will explore how reminiscences of time and place become components of a painter's visual imagination and enter into the optical consciousness of artists like Juarez who think, dream and paint within the parameters of multiple cultural boundaries including queer self-identification and Latinx-American belonging. This program is organized in conjunction with the exhibition Whose America?, on view October 16, 2025 - January 10, 2026.
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Thu, Oct 30
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Gallery Talks, October 30, 2025, 10/30/2025, Exploring Personal Identity through the Art of Roberto Juarez

Talk | World Bank Economist Discusses "Lost Century" of Growth in Latin America


The World Bank's chief economist for Latin America and the Caribbean, William Maloney, will discuss the "lost century" of growth outlined in his recent book—and the path forward. Maloney's book, Reclaiming the Lost Century of Growth: Building Learning Economies in Latin America and the Caribbean, provides a broad yet nuanced perspective on the region's economies. Maloney will also look ahead to the long-term challenges and opportunities for the region, including productivity, education, and global relationships.
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Thu, Oct 30
6:30 pm
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Talks, October 30, 2025, 10/30/2025, World Bank Economist Discusses "Lost Century" of Growth in Latin America

Discussion | Human Rights Advocacy in Eurasia Seminar with Experts (In Person AND Online!)


Enjoy a panel discussion with political scientist Alexander Cooley, Human Rights Watch's Deputy Director of the Europe and Central Asia Division Rachel Denber, and Columbia Professor of International Relations Jack Snyder. In their advocacy and research work, human rights organizations understandably focus on making impact, broadly conceived, and articulating a "theory of change” to show how we get to that impact. Yet, in the increasingly closed political spaces of Eurasia where authoritarians now operate with a well-worn and hardened set of practices to stigmatize, counteract and monitor advocacy campaigns, it is not clear just how "impact" can be achieved. In this hybrid seminar, Rachel Denber and other expert practitioners will reflect upon how the shrinking space for human rights advocacy challenges us to rethink the definition of "impact," the renewed importance of research and documentation, and what types of interventions are possible from outside of countries where research and advocacy organizations have been banned and/or exiled.
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Fri, Oct 31
12:00 pm
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Discussions, October 31, 2025, 10/31/2025, Human Rights Advocacy in Eurasia Seminar with Experts (In Person AND Online!)

Discussion | Peruvian Artists Talk about Their Practices & Processes (+ Reception)


Peruvian artists Fernando Bryce and Nicole Franchy will share insights into their work in conversation with Aimé Iglesias Lukin, director and chief curator at Art at Americas Society. The artists will reflect on their practices and creative processes during this in-depth conversation. A reception will follow to close the evening.
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Sat, Nov 1
3:00 pm
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Discussions, November 01, 2025, 11/01/2025, Peruvian Artists&nbsp;Talk about Their&nbsp;Practices & Processes (+ Reception)

Discussion | Panel of Scholars in Exile Speak on Their Experiences


"The Impact of Exile" panel talk will feature five New University in Exile Consortium Scholars. Each speaker will share their experience of working and living as a scholar in exile.
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Mon, Nov 3
5:30 pm
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Discussions, November 03, 2025, 11/03/2025, Panel of Scholars in Exile Speak on Their Experiences

Book Discussion | Understanding the Future of Capitalism with Two Economics Professors/Authors


A conversation about the future of capitalism with Professors Cédric Durand and Michael A. McCarthy, two leading scholars of contemporary Capitalism, moderated by Julia Ott, Associate Professor of History and Director of Programs, Heilbroner Center. Durand will present his book, How Silicon Valley Unleashed Techno-Feudalism: The Making of the Digital Economy, an account of the forms of control and exploitation exerted by tech monopolies. And McCarthy will present his book, The Master's Tools: How Finance Wrecked Democracy (and a Radical Plan to Rebuild It), showing the ways financial capitalism has deepened inequality and offering democratic alternatives for economic organization. 
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Tue, Nov 4
4:00 pm
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Book Discussions, November 04, 2025, 11/04/2025, Understanding the Future of Capitalism with Two Economics Professors/Authors

Lecture | Award-Winning Artist Talks on Her "Psychologically Charged" Paintings


Fall 2025 Alex Katz Chair in Painting Vera Iliatova gives an artist talk about her work: psychologically charged images that often depict women at instances of impending melodramas either with each other or within themselves, creating an atmosphere of uncertainty in the painterly mise-en-scène they are populating. As she moves through memory and time, Iliatova’s self-portraiture method anchors the dreamlike imagery of her paintings. She describes the vicissitudes of her younger self as “ciphers, stand-ins, imposters, and actresses.” The hybrid environments they inhabit mirror the changes in modern spaces; whether postindustrial cities, cryptic boarding schools, or suburban landscapes. Iliatova’s employment of naturism and emotive color schemes aid in an oscillation between the observational and, in the artist’s words “an anxious frenzied fête galante.” She intertwines elements of hyperrealism with fantastical narratives, weaving a tapestry that delves into the depths of memory, identity, and the subconscious.
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Tue, Nov 4
5:30 pm
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Lectures, November 04, 2025, 11/04/2025, Award-Winning Artist Talks&nbsp;on&nbsp;Her&nbsp;"Psychologically Charged" Paintings

Lecture | Tracing Stories Through Still Life


Step into the world of historical storytelling through objects and images. This session uncovers how photography can reconstruct forgotten lives and reimagine the past with poetic detail.
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Tue, Nov 4
7:00 pm
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Lectures, November 04, 2025, 11/04/2025, Tracing Stories Through Still Life

Lecture | Visual Biographer & Photographer Discusses Her Craft


Enjoy a talk with photographer and SVA faculty member Stacy Renee Morrison. Morrison often forgets what century it is, as she spends her time in the present creating visual biographies for women from the past. Morrison has exhibited her photographs nationally and internationally, including New York City, Rhode Island, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Toronto, Italy, Argentina, and Korea. Her photographs have been published in The Creative Independent, Harper's Magazine, Dear Dave, Feature Shoot, and Photography Quarterly. She was awarded grants from NYFA and the Rhode Island Council of the Humanities. Morrison is currently working on an illustrated narrative non-fiction book about her 19th-century muse, named Sylvia, and has also launched a clothing line named for her, made of hand-screen-printed vintage clothing and accessories.
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Tue, Nov 4
7:00 pm
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Lectures, November 04, 2025, 11/04/2025, Visual Biographer & Photographer Discusses Her Craft

Gallery Talk | Learn How a Historic Mansion Turned into a Museum


Join a museum educator for a brief gallery talk tracing how a Gilded Age mansion was transformed into a world-class art museum.
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Wed, Nov 5
3:30 pm
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Gallery Talks, November 05, 2025, 11/05/2025, Learn How a Historic Mansion Turned into a Museum

Gallery Talk | Exploring Goya’s The Forge: Strength and Humanity in Motion


Join a museum educator for a focused talk on Francisco Goya’s The Forge, a powerful depiction of three blacksmiths at work. Painted late in Goya’s career, the scene captures both the physical intensity of labor and the artist’s deep empathy for the working class. This brief gallery talk offers insight into Goya’s expressive technique and his shift toward realism and social commentary. 
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Wed, Nov 5
4:30 pm
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Gallery Talks, November 05, 2025, 11/05/2025, Exploring Goya&rsquo;s The Forge: Strength and Humanity in Motion

Talk | Guggenheim-Featured Artist Discusses His Craft


Lyle Ashton Harris has cultivated a diverse artistic practice, ranging from photography and collage to video installation and performance art, examining the impact of race, gender, and desire on the contemporary social and cultural dynamic globally through intersections of the personal and the political. Harris has been widely exhibited internationally, and a solo exhibition spanning three decades of his work was most recently presented at the Queens Museum in New York in 2024. His work is included in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Tate Modern among many other public and private collections.
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Wed, Nov 5
7:00 pm
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Talks, November 05, 2025, 11/05/2025, Guggenheim-Featured Artist Discusses His Craft

Talk | What Bats Reveal About Biodiversity Loss


Biodiversity is declining at an unprecedented rate. In this talk, Angelo Soto-Centeno examines the drivers of species loss, including habitat fragmentation, climate change, and human impact, through the lens of his research on bats. Using genomic, fossil, and distribution model data, Soto-Centeno demonstrates how bats act as indicators of ecosystem change and reveal insights into species resilience. For ages 21+ only.
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Wed, Nov 5
7:00 pm
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Talks, November 05, 2025, 11/05/2025, What Bats Reveal About Biodiversity Loss

Talk | Strategies for Workforce Development in Public Spaces (Online!)


Explore community-centered approaches to workforce development in the design and construction of public spaces. This virtual launch features a panel discussion with practitioners and program alums who will share insights from multi-city pilot programs, followed by best practices for creating living-wage careers, youth employment initiatives, and scalable workforce models.
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Thu, Nov 6
2:30 pm
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Talks, November 06, 2025, 11/06/2025, Strategies for Workforce Development in Public Spaces (Online!)

Book Discussion | Fashion, Fascism, and Italy's Global Influence


Eugenia Paulicelli presents her book Fashion under Fascism: Beyond the Black Shirt in conversation with Valerie Steele. Explore how 1930s Italian dress shaped politics and continues to influence fashion worldwide. A book signing follows.
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Thu, Nov 6
5:30 pm
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Book Discussions, November 06, 2025, 11/06/2025, Fashion, Fascism, and Italy's Global Influence

Talk | Hear from a Sculptor about Her Recent Public Project in NYC


Artist Torkwase Dyson and scholar Daphne A. Brooks discuss Akua, the artist’s first public project in New York City, and the sound research that bridges their respective crafts. Together, they will discuss Dyson’s architectural pavilion, on view in Brooklyn Bridge Park, as a porous encounter between sound, place, and history. The speakers will connect Brooks’s academic chronicling of Black female musicians to the seismic sonic landscapes found in Dyson’s compositions for Akua.  Seating is first come, first served, so please arrive early. Your registration does not guarantee a seat. Doors will close at 6:45pm. 
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Thu, Nov 6
6:30 pm
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Talks, November 06, 2025, 11/06/2025, Hear from a Sculptor about Her Recent Public Project in NYC

Talk | Photographer Stephen Wilkes Explores His Personal Artistic Journey


Speaker Stephen Wilkes is a photographer, filmmaker, and National Geographic Explorer acclaimed for his ground-breaking work that bridges documentary storytelling and fine art. Since founding his New York City studio in 1983, Wilkes has built a distinguished career spanning editorial, commercial, and fine art photography, earning recognition as one of America's foremost visual artists.This talk traces a personal journey through his five decades as a photographer. Throughout each period, a unifying thread endures: a profound fascination with the passage of time and the nature of memory. Wilkes seeks to illuminate how we perceive and experience a place. Each body of work captures personal narratives while bearing witness to history, revealing the emotional essence of lived experience.
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Thu, Nov 6
7:00 pm
Free
Talks, November 06, 2025, 11/06/2025, Photographer Stephen Wilkes Explores His Personal Artistic Journey

Gallery Talk | Learn about the Art of F. Edwin Church


Enjoy an illustrated talk about the life and art of F. Edwin Church (1876–1975), presented by Janice L. Wiley, director of the F. Edwin Church Catalogue Raisonné Project. Despite sharing a name with the famous American landscape painter, Church became a celebrated artist in his own right. He chose to sign his paintings “F. Edwin Church” to distinguish himself professionally as he endeavored to create his own artistic identity. Rooted in the traditions of Impressionism and Japonisme, Church’s work nevertheless reflects modern life in the 20th century. Critics praised his opulent portraits of women in contemporary fashions blended with elements of Japanese art and design. He also found inspiration in the world around him, filling his canvases with vibrant flowers, birds, and urban and natural landscapes he encountered abroad and on Long Island.
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Fri, Nov 7
6:00 pm
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Gallery Talks, November 07, 2025, 11/07/2025, Learn about the Art of F. Edwin Church

Book Discussion | Artist Career Roundtable on Process-Based Practices


This event is an artist career roundtable discussion held in conjunction with the group exhibition “Wavelengths," which takes particular interest in process-based practices and pursuing joy amidst adversity. Featuring exhibiting artists: Gabrielle Benak  Alex Cassetti  Vanessa Powers Carra Seals
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Tue, Nov 11
6:00 pm
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Book Discussions, November 11, 2025, 11/11/2025, Artist Career Roundtable on Process-Based Practices

Talk | Conceptual Artist Discusses Her Hybrid Video Works


This event features a presentation by conceptual artist Jillian McDonald, whose hybrid video works combine live action and generative AI to imagine uncanny worlds shaped by eco-horror and speculative fiction. Jillian will be in conversation with School of Visual Arts faculty member Natasha Chuk about the aesthetics and expressive power of the moving image in an era where cinema, AI, and ecological imagination converge. A Q&A with the audience will follow.
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Tue, Nov 11
6:30 pm
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Talks, November 11, 2025, 11/11/2025, Conceptual Artist Discusses Her Hybrid Video Works

Discussion | Experts Talk about Immigration & Presidential Power


Attend a discussion with Mira Siegelberg (Zolberg Institute), Adam Cox (NYU Law), and Noah Rosenblum (NYU Law) on the history and legal basis of presidential power over immigration regulation and enforcement.
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Wed, Nov 12
10:00 am
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Discussions, November 12, 2025, 11/12/2025, Experts Talk about Immigration & Presidential Power

Gallery Talk | Learn How a Historic Mansion Turned into a Museum


Join a museum educator for a brief gallery talk tracing how a Gilded Age mansion was transformed into a world-class art museum.
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Wed, Nov 12
3:30 pm
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Gallery Talks, November 12, 2025, 11/12/2025, Learn How a Historic Mansion Turned into a Museum

Book Discussion | Discuss Gwendolyn Brooks' Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poem, "The Anniad"


For this poetry discussion meeting, the group will discuss Gwendolyn Brooks’ Pulitzer Prize winning 1949 poem, "The Anniad." This long form poem was originally published within Brooks’ second poetry collection, Annie Allen.    “The Anniad” plays with the form of the ancient epic, transposing it to working-class Black Chicago. By subverting the traits of the heroes of ancient epic, Brooks stakes a claim that the form can apply to Black women’s lives. Brooks was the first African American to win the Pulitzer prize, and she also held the title of U.S. Poet Laureate. You can also find a PDF copy at the link provided. Please bring a printed copy to the discussion; the group will be doing close readings and analysis of the poem.
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Wed, Nov 12
4:30 pm
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Book Discussions, November 12, 2025, 11/12/2025, Discuss Gwendolyn Brooks' Pulitzer Prize-Winning Poem, "The Anniad"

Gallery Talk | The Art of Elegance: A Closer Look at Sèvres Porcelain


Join a museum educator for a brief talk exploring the artistry and craftsmanship of this celebrated work. Its refined forms, vivid colors, and intricate gilding, Sèvres porcelain reflects the sophistication of 18th-century French design and royal patronage. This focused gallery talk highlights the historical and artistic significance of a single masterpiece from the collection. 
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Wed, Nov 12
4:30 pm
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Gallery Talks, November 12, 2025, 11/12/2025, The Art of Elegance: A Closer Look at S&egrave;vres Porcelain

Lecture | Understanding Humanity during the RIse of AI


Drawing on preliminary fieldwork in AI ethics spaces in Europe and the U.S., alongside speculative AI designs that challenge dominant norms, this talk explores the potential of redescribing the human as a foundation for confronting the exclusion of marginalized worldviews from modernity. The question of what it means to be human is at the center of public discourse surrounding our interactions with so-called artificial intelligence, presenting a critical opportunity for feminist and anti-racist anthropology. This talk engages with the current moment of meaning-making in the face of emerging technologies to revisit postcolonial, decolonial, and Black studies critiques of the human and of post-Enlightenment reason. These fields have long worked to recover submerged, silenced, or otherwise erased histories of the colonized, offering alternative accounts of who counts as a subject and what forms of life are possible. 
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6:00 pm
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Lectures, November 12, 2025, 11/12/2025, Understanding Humanity during the RIse of AI

Lecture | Expert Explores Belle Glade Archaeological Culture of South Florida


Returning lecturer and Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Professor Jerald T. Milanich discusses the extraordinary Belle Glade Archaeological Culture of South Florida, which began approximately 1000 BCE. In the 1960s, Florida Atlantic University archaeologist William Sears excavated Fort Center—named for a 19th century U.S. military outpost on the west side of Lake Okeechobee. Recently, archaeologists have utilized LiDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) to locate and interpret the many mounds, embankments, canals, and other earthworks of the Belle Glade region.
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Lectures, November 12, 2025, 11/12/2025, Expert Explores&nbsp;Belle Glade Archaeological Culture of South Florida

Talk | Interdisciplinary Artist Duo Discuss Their Craft


Malik Gaines and Alexandro Segade are interdisciplinary artists whose collaborations span performance, video, music, theatre, installation, and writing. Gaines and Segade co-founded the performance art collective My Barbarian in 2000 with performer Jade Gordon. Exhibiting internationally for over two decades, My Barbarian’s multi-media survey, curated by Adrienne Edwards, was presented at the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. My Barbarian has received awards from the Foundation For Contemporary Art, United States Artists and Creative Capital. Gaines and Segade have individually published numerous articles and essays on contemporary art in magazines and catalogs. Gaines’s book, Black Performance on the Outskirts of the Left: A History of the Impossible, illustrates the black political ideas that radicalized the artistic endeavors of musicians, playwrights, and actors beginning in the 1960s. Segade is the artist and writer of the graphic novel, The Context, a queer parable of belonging; and recently presented his short film, Anoche, at the 15th Havana Biennial in Cuba.
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Talks, November 12, 2025, 11/12/2025, Interdisciplinary Artist Duo Discuss Their Craft

Lecture | Learn about Electronics in Classical Music: Interactive Lesson


Enjoy the inaugural lecture of a brand-new Chamber Music Lecture Series, being offered by our faculty member Dr. Levy Lorenzo. Over the past century, repertoire and performance practice in classical music have evolved alongside the development of modern technology. This performance-lecture focuses on electronics in classical music, tracing their impact from early analog experiments to today’s digital sound manipulation techniques. Drawn from Dr. Lorenzo’s internationally recognized work as a percussionist, sound designer, electronic musician, and instrument inventor, he will perform custom-built instruments and present works for acoustic instruments and electronics that highlight live performance in conversation with computers. The presentation will also feature interactive pieces with electronics, illustrating how classical chamber instruments can engage dynamically with digital systems. 
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Thu, Nov 13
3:00 pm
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Lectures, November 13, 2025, 11/13/2025, Learn about Electronics in Classical Music: Interactive Lesson

Discussion | Experts Talk about Freedom of the Press & Censorship 


Attend a panel discussion that features scholars and writers offering perspectives on news media and investigative journalism as a global authoritarian turn erodes norms of press freedom. The varied playbook of intimidation includes the use of laws on libel to sanction commercial print media outlets, withdrawal of funding, surveillance and physical attacks on journalists, and the criminalization of dissent under vague national security and defamation laws. Panelists will discuss how regimes of India, China, the United States, and the UK have tried to restrict if not control what journalists and writers produce, as well as coping strategies that deployed in response.
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Discussions, November 13, 2025, 11/13/2025, Experts Talk about Freedom of the Press & Censorship&nbsp;

Talk | Learn about Recent German Right-Wing Fiction with Experts


As a genre, the novel seems ill-suited to the whims of the 21st century. What once made writers praise the novel as quintessentially modern—its discursive capaciousness, its ability to incorporate other genres within itself—appears less impressive in the digital age, where new forms are constantly being produced and character-limits reign king. As many a cultural critic has lamented, no one has the attention span to finish a novel anymore. Even if we set aside our current obsession with AI and social media, the novel still seems constitutionally ill-suited to political messaging. The very act of reading a novel stagnates political action: reading takes time, of course, but also demands isolation and a retreat from collective life. And yet, even today, writers are still turning to the novel as a tool for political persuasion. What do these novels understand themselves to be doing? How do they work? By investigating recent political novels in German, especially from the far right, this talk argues that the contemporary political novel is preoccupied with the question of its own efficacy. With Sophie Salvo, Assistant Professor in Germanic Studies and the College at the University of Chicago
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Discussion | Music Jam & Conversation Blending Art, Music, & Technology


Enjoy a musical jam and conversation between Jaron Lanier, often referred to as the "father of virtual reality"; multiple GRAMMY Award winner Will Calhoun; theoretical physicist Stephon Alexander; composer, musician, and writer Melvin Gibbs; multi-instrumentalist, educator, composer, and electro-acoustic adventurer LaFrae Sci; and moderated by the one and only Nona Hendryx. There are two ways to access this event: 1. General Admission, first-come first-served. Just show up! 2. Fast Track opening the Monday before the event at noon
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Thu, Nov 13
7:30 pm
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Discussions, November 13, 2025, 11/13/2025, Music Jam & Conversation&nbsp;Blending Art, Music, & Technology

Forum | Experts Discuss Economic Security in New York City


Attend a half-day forum with leaders from government, academia, and advocacy engaged in dynamic discussion regarding New York City's rising costs. Featured speakers include:  Jennifer Jones Austin, Co-Chair of the National True Cost of Living Coalition and CEO of FPWA Darrick Hamilton, Founding Director of the Institute on Race, Power and Political Economy at The New School  Brad Lander, New York City Comptroller  Lauren Melodia, Director of Economic and Fiscal Policy at the Center for New York City Affairs at The New School  Joyce McMillan, Founder and Executive Director of Just Making A Change for Families 
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Fri, Nov 14
9:30 am
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Forums, November 14, 2025, 11/14/2025, Experts Discuss Economic Security in New York City

Book Discussion | Author Talks about Sounds, Movement, & Migration through His book, Black Sounds of Switzerland


The Zolberg Institute and the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York will host a discussion with Jessie Cox (Harvard University), author of Black Sounds of Switzerland, moderated by Mia White (New School). Jessie Cox is a composer, drummer, and scholar who works on critical theory, Black studies, and music. His talk will explore questions of sound, movement, and migration. His recent book, Sounds of Black Switzerland, affirms the value of Black life through sound and explores the Blackness in relation to citizenship, immigration laws, gender, kinship, and belonging.
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Fri, Nov 14
4:30 pm
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Book Discussions, November 14, 2025, 11/14/2025, Author Talks about Sounds, Movement, & Migration through His book,&nbsp;Black Sounds of Switzerland

Gallery Talk | Art in Focus: Slow Observance and Conversation


Take a moment to slow down and connect with a single work of art through guided observation and group discussion. No background in art is needed--just curiosity and openness. This relaxed, welcoming program invites all adult learners to engage deeply with one piece at a time. Note: Space is limited; first-come, first-served. Stickers are distributed 15 minutes before the program starts.
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Fri, Nov 14
6:30 pm
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Gallery Talks, November 14, 2025, 11/14/2025, Art in Focus: Slow Observance and Conversation

Gallery Talk | Learn about Artist Lotty Rosenfeld's Work with Curators


Curators Natalia Brizuela and Julia Bryan-Wilson offer new insights about artist Lotty Rosenfeld drawn from their extensive archival research for the development of the exhibition Lotty Rosenfeld: Disobedient Spaces. Their conversation will highlight key works on view and consider Rosenfeld's enduring artistic influence in Chile and beyond. Lotty Rosenfeld: Disobedient Spaces is the first solo retrospective of Rosenfeld's practice in the U.S. and illuminates her many contributions to critical dialogues about public space, from large-scale video projections to her iconic street intervention One Mile of Crosses on the Pavement (1979), in which she crossed the white directional lines of roads.
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Sat, Nov 15
1:00 pm
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Gallery Talks, November 15, 2025, 11/15/2025, Learn about Artist Lotty Rosenfeld's Work with Curators

Talk | Learn the History of the New York Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument


Akela Reason, art historian and professor of history at the University of Georgia, will discuss the complex history of the New York Soldiers’ and Sailors’ Monument in Riverside Park. Her talk derives from her recent book, Politics and Memory: Civil War Monuments in Gilded Age New York. The book illuminates the historical context of Civil War soldiers’ monuments in New York City, exploring the fascinating intersection of art, politics, and memory within these works, while also highlighting the ever-changing ways different constituencies have engaged with them in symbolic and physical terms.
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Sat, Nov 15
2:00 pm
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Talks, November 15, 2025, 11/15/2025, Learn the&nbsp;History of the New York Soldiers&rsquo; and Sailors&rsquo; Monument

Discussion | Death Cafe Discussion Group


An informal, group-directed discussion of death with no agenda, objectives or themes. The purpose of Death Cafe is "to increase awareness of death with a view to helping people make the most of their (finite) lives." This is a discussion group rather than a grief support or counseling session.
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Sat, Nov 15
3:30 pm
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Discussions, November 15, 2025, 11/15/2025, Death Cafe Discussion Group

Gallery Talk | Fashion and the Unconscious: Nearly 100 Striking Garments Created by McQueen, Kawakubo, Westwood & More


This groundbreaking exhibition explores the cultural history of fashion through the lens of psychoanalysis. Nearly 100 striking garments by designers such as Alexander McQueen, Rei Kawakubo, Vivienne Westwood, and Rick Owens are reinterpreted through themes of the body, sexuality, and the unconscious. This five-year research project delves into how desire is stitched into the fabric of what we wear.
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Mon, Nov 17
5:30 pm
Free
Gallery Talks, November 17, 2025, 11/17/2025, Fashion and the Unconscious: Nearly 100 Striking Garments Created by McQueen, Kawakubo, Westwood & More

Lecture | Understanding the Food Painted in Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper


Enjoy a gastro-philosophical and socio-political angle of looking at The Last Supper. In 1494-98, Leonardo da Vinci painted what is arguably the most famous painting of all times, The Last Supper. And he graces the Lord’s Table—inevitably a Jewish meal—with dishes of eels, a Renaissance delicacy but clearly a non-kosher food. Why? Italian essayist, editor, translator and award-winning poet Luigi Ballerini explores the context of real food beginning to be painted in Last Suppers in the second half of the 15th century, as a result of the liceity of pleasure, resurrected by Florentine Humanists’ reading of Classical Texts (primarily Lucretius and Aristotle), which, in ever larger quantities and surprising varieties, remains a staple of that painterly subject throughout the 16th century. And a hypothesis is formulated about da Vinci’s painting that transcends the painter’s minimalistic gastronomic interests, as well as his incessant scientific curiosity.
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Mon, Nov 17
6:30 pm
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Lectures, November 17, 2025, 11/17/2025, Understanding the Food Painted in&nbsp;Leonardo da Vinci's The Last Supper

Book Club | Discuss James by Percival Everett


Participate with fellow readers for lively discussion and thoughtful socializing.
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Tue, Nov 18
1:00 pm
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Book Clubs, November 18, 2025, 11/18/2025, Discuss&nbsp;James by Percival Everett

Book Club | Discuss A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles


In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel’s doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery. Brimming with humor, a glittering cast of characters, and one beautifully rendered scene after another, this singular novel casts a spell as it relates the count’s endeavor to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a man of purpose
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Tue, Nov 18
4:00 pm
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Book Clubs, November 18, 2025, 11/18/2025, Discuss A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles

Book Club | Discuss Bestselling Author's Horror Novel, THe Buffalo Hunter Hunter


Enjoy a book discussion of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones, the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians.  Often hailed as the Indigenous Stephen King, famed horror writer Stephen Graham Jones' chilling historical horror novel launches into a tailspin as a diary written in 1912 by a Lutheran pastor is discovered inside a wall. What unfolds is a story of murder, monsters, and revenge that begins when 217 Blackfeet are found dead in the snow. Told through diary entries and transcribed interviews by a Blackfeet man named Good Stab, it follows the life of a vampire who haunted the fields of the Blackfeet reservation looking for justice.
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Tue, Nov 18
4:30 pm
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Book Clubs, November 18, 2025, 11/18/2025, Discuss Bestselling Author's Horror Novel,&nbsp;THe Buffalo Hunter Hunter

Discussion | Exploring Psychoanalysis in Music and Fashion


Moderator Jasmine Edwards leads a conversation with art therapist Ayde Rayas and violinist Njioma Chinyere Grevious, whose performance draws inspiration from Dress, Dreams, and Desire: Fashion and Psychoanalysis. This interdisciplinary event looks at psychoanalysis’s influence on contemporary music and culture.
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Tue, Nov 18
5:30 pm
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Discussions, November 18, 2025, 11/18/2025, Exploring Psychoanalysis in Music and Fashion

Talk | Documentary & Portrait Photographer Discusses Her Craft


Enjoy a talk with documentary and portrait photographer Nicky Quamina-Woo, a Black and Native Hawaiian visual storyteller who divides her time between the African continent, Southeast Asia, and New York City. Woo has traveled to and lived in more than 22 countries within the Global South, mainly focusing on stories related to healthcare, social justice, and anything connected to the long shadows of trauma that often fall across marginalized communities. Her projects center on the complex realities that are precipitated by Western colonization, exploring how cultures survive in the wake of systemic rupture. 
   New York City, NY; NYC
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Tue, Nov 18
7:00 pm
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Talks, November 18, 2025, 11/18/2025, Documentary & Portrait Photographer Discusses Her Craft

Lecture | Portraits That Speak Truth


What makes an image feel alive? This lecture series delves into the art of portraiture as a tool for empathy, exploring how photographers build trust and reveal humanity through the lens.
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Tue, Nov 18
7:00 pm
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Lectures, November 18, 2025, 11/18/2025, Portraits That Speak Truth

Gallery Talk | Learn How a Historic Mansion Turned into a Museum


Join a museum educator for a brief gallery talk tracing how a Gilded Age mansion was transformed into a world-class art museum.
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Wed, Nov 19
3:30 pm
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Gallery Talks, November 19, 2025, 11/19/2025, Learn How a Historic Mansion Turned into a Museum

Book Club | Discuss Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad


For this book club meeting, the group will discuss Joseph Conrad's 1899 book, Heart of Darkness.  The story tells of Charles Marlow, an Englishman who took a foreign assignment from a Belgian trading company as a ferry-boat captain in Africa. Heart of Darkness exposes the myth behind colonization while exploring the three levels of darkness that the protagonist, Marlow, encounters--the darkness of the Congo wilderness, the darkness of the European's cruel treatment of the natives, and the unfathomable darkness within every human being for committing heinous acts of evil.
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Wed, Nov 19
4:30 pm
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Book Clubs, November 19, 2025, 11/19/2025, Discuss&nbsp;Heart of Darkness by&nbsp;Joseph Conrad

Gallery Talk | Romance and Rococo: Fragonard’s The Progress of Love


Join a museum educator for a focused gallery talk on a celebrated series capturing the playful elegance and emotional intensity of 18th-century French courtship. Through lush color and dynamic composition, Fragonard weaves a visual narrative of passion and refinement that epitomizes the Rococo spirit. 
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Wed, Nov 19
4:30 pm
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Gallery Talks, November 19, 2025, 11/19/2025, Romance and Rococo: Fragonard&rsquo;s The Progress of Love

Talk | Multidisciplinary Artist Discusses His Craft & How He Plays with Narrative & Truth


Vishal Jugdeo is a multidisciplinary artist. His work across video, installation, performance, sculpture and text experiments with narrative, blurring fiction and truth. His recent films emerge from amassments of intimately gathered video and sound, which chart the ebbs and flows of his friendships with interlocutors. In doing so, the works track broader political histories as they unfold often through a lens that is both queer and diasporic. He is engaged in long-term research projects in Guyana, India, and in Los Angeles, where he lives and works. Recent screenings and exhibitions have occurred at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CCA Berlin, Cinema Akil, Dubai, and Commonwealth and Council Gallery in LA. Jugdeo is a 2015 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and a 2025 Creative Capital recipient. 
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Wed, Nov 19
7:00 pm
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Talks, November 19, 2025, 11/19/2025, Multidisciplinary Artist Discusses His Craft & How He Plays with Narrative & Truth

Book Discussion | Power, Politics, and the Making of Modern Conservatism


Journalist and biographer Sam Tanenhaus discusses his deeply researched new book on William F. Buckley, the influential founder of National Review, whose ideas helped define American conservatism. Drawing from exclusive access to private papers, Tanenhaus reveals both Buckley’s public brilliance and his hidden involvement in covert political operations. In conversation with New York Times critic and author Dwight Garner (The Upstairs Delicatessen), this talk offers a fascinating look at power, ideology, and the forces that shaped a movement. Note: RSVP does not guarantee entry; coat check is limited.
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Wed, Nov 19
8:00 pm
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Book Discussions, November 19, 2025, 11/19/2025, Power, Politics, and the Making of Modern Conservatism

Book Club | Discuss Anite Brookner's Making Things Better


At this discussion, the group will analyze and talk about Making Things Better by Anita Brookner. Facing life alone at an advanced age, Julius Herz cannot shake the sense that he should be elsewhere, doing other things. Walking through bustling streets that seem increasingly alien to him, he’s confronted by life’s pressing questions with an urgency he has never known before: what do we owe the people in our lives? How should we fill our days? Feeling fortified despite the growing ache in his heart, Herz finds himself also blessed with a stirring sense of exhilaration. After a lifetime of deferring to others’ stronger wills, he faces a future of possibility, the only constraint the deeply ingrained habits of his mind.
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Thu, Nov 20
4:30 pm
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Book Clubs, November 20, 2025, 11/20/2025, Discuss Anite Brookner's&nbsp;Making Things Better

Discussion | Understanding the Future of Labor with AI


D&S Labor Futures Program Director Aiha Nguyen leads a panel of esteemed researchers in conversation about the value of human labor in increasingly automated workplaces. As management and organizational leaders adopt AI across workplaces, the use of these systems raises questions about how companies are reshaping the quality of work, job security, and the value of human labor. How are workers’ lives impacted when AI is used to monitor performance, surveil output, or make intrusive management decisions? Will AI disrupt industries and business models? How can we make sure technology supports workers, rather than undermining them?
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Thu, Nov 20
6:00 pm
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Discussions, November 20, 2025, 11/20/2025, Understanding the Future of Labor with AI

Lecture | The San Remo, the Beresford, and Beyond: Emery Roth and the Making of Manhattan Elegance


Architectural historian and author Andrew Alpern explores the remarkable career of Emery Roth, the architect behind some of New York City’s most iconic apartment buildings, including the San Remo, the Beresford, and the Ritz Tower. Spanning from Beaux-Arts grandeur to Art Deco elegance, Roth’s work helped define urban luxury living in the early 20th century. This illustrated talk highlights both his celebrated landmarks and lesser-known projects, demolished or unrealized, that continue to shape the city’s architectural identity. Note: RSVP does not guarantee entry; coat check is limited.
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Thu, Nov 20
7:30 pm
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Lectures, November 20, 2025, 11/20/2025, The San Remo, the Beresford, and Beyond: Emery Roth and the Making of Manhattan Elegance

Lecture | The Art of Tailoring: Inside the World of Paul Stuart


Participate in an evening celebrating the evolution, style, and craftsmanship of Paul Stuart. Known for its fusion of Savile Row precision, Old Hollywood glamour, and classic New York sophistication, this brand has defined timeless American elegance for generations. With over three decades in menswear, including a decade at Ralph Lauren, the Creative Director will share insights into the creative process behind Paul Stuart's tailored clothing, sportswear, footwear, and the Phineas Cole collection. Paul Stuart style is encouraged. Note: RSVP does not guarantee entry; coat check is limited.
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Fri, Nov 21
7:00 pm
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Lectures, November 21, 2025, 11/21/2025, The Art of Tailoring: Inside the World of Paul Stuart

Book Discussion | Japanese Literary Translator Talks about Her Career & Craft


Enjoy a special creator event featuring Yuki Tejima, the literary translator of Totto-chan, the Little Girl at the Window: The Sequel — the long-awaited follow-up to Japan's wildly successful bestseller Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the Window. She will be in attendance to talk to educators & librarians about the process of translating, as well as her acclaimed career.
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Sat, Nov 22
11:30 am
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Book Discussions, November 22, 2025, 11/22/2025, Japanese Literary Translator Talks about Her Career & Craft

Talk | A Former UN Diplomat on Sri Lanka and the Southern Maritime Silk Route (Online!)


Dr. Palitha Kohona, a former Sri Lankan Permanent Representative to the United Nations and Ambassador to China, examines Sri Lanka’s pivotal role in the Chinese Silk Road. Positioned at the southern tip of India, where monsoon winds and ocean currents converge, Sri Lanka has long attracted sailors from both friendly and marauding naval powers. Archaeological evidence suggests that hundreds, possibly thousands, of Chinese ships visited the island, making it a central hub in the Southern Maritime Silk Route and a key link in regional trade networks.
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Tue, Nov 25
12:00 pm
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Talks, November 25, 2025, 11/25/2025, A Former UN Diplomat on Sri Lanka and the Southern Maritime Silk Route (Online!)

Gallery Talk | Learn How a Historic Mansion Turned into a Museum


Join a museum educator for a brief gallery talk tracing how a Gilded Age mansion was transformed into a world-class art museum.
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Wed, Nov 26
3:30 pm
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Gallery Talks, November 26, 2025, 11/26/2025, Learn How a Historic Mansion Turned into a Museum

Lecture | Bold Visions in Color and Commerce


Dive into a world of striking imagery where creativity meets commerce. This talk highlights how visual artists turn advertising into art through inventive use of color, form, and emotion.
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Tue, Dec 2
7:00 pm
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Lectures, December 02, 2025, 12/02/2025, Bold Visions in Color and Commerce

Gallery Talk | Art in Focus: Slow Observance and Conversation


Take a moment to slow down and connect with a single work of art through guided observation and group discussion. No background in art is needed--just curiosity and openness. This relaxed, welcoming program invites all adult learners to engage deeply with one piece at a time. Note: Space is limited; first-come, first-served. Stickers are distributed 15 minutes before the program starts.
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Fri, Dec 12
6:30 pm
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Gallery Talks, December 12, 2025, 12/12/2025, Art in Focus: Slow Observance and Conversation
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