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Sex, Gender, and the Avant-Garde
Brooklyn Institute for Social Research @ 68 Jay St, Brooklyn, NY
The early 20th century avant-gardes—from Futurism to Dada, Constructivism to Surrealism—hailed and aimed to generate, via new aesthetic experience, new forms of social and political consciousness. Gender norms and sexual hierarchies, as relics of a past imaginary no longer apropos of the present, came under fire by an eclectic, international generation of artists. Hannah Höch dissected and montaged the aspirational image of the era’s vaunted...
Satchmo in the Studio
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
On International Jazz Day 2018, The Louis Armstrong House Museum and the Museum of the City of New York are teaming up for the first public screening of the only known film of Louis Armstrong in the studio, recording his 1959 album, Satchmo Plays King Oliver. The acquisition of the film made headlines in 2015 but it has never been shown publicly until now. Armstrong scholar Ricky Riccardi will provide commentary on the film...
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Intimate Subjects: Thomas Holton and the Lams
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
In this intimate, behind-the-scenes look at our upcoming exhibition, Interior Lives: Contemporary Photographs of Chinese New Yorkers, documentary photographer Thomas Holton sits down with several members of the Lam family, including Steven and Cindy Lam, both subjects featured in his series of photographs, "The Lams of Ludlow Street." Holton and the Lams will discuss their unique 15-year working relationship as photographer and subject in...
$15
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Unexpected Pairings: Gin Fizz à La Mode
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
The original recipe for the gin fizz cocktail, first invented in New Orleans in 1888, was practically a milkshake. It called for powdered sugar, heavy cream, and an egg white to be shaken for an arm-busting 12 minutes together with gin, lime juice, and orange flower water to create a creamy cocktail with just a little fizz. Now, more than a century later, Harlem’s only family-owned ice cream parlor, Sugar Hill Creamery, is reinventing...
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New York in 27 Buildings
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
Can the bricks, glass, wood, and mortar of our city's most emblematic buildings reveal how and why New York City has become the modern global metropolis we know today? To celebrate the launch of his latest book, A History of New York in 27 Buildings: The 400-Year Untold Story of an American Metropolis, former New York Times urban affairs correspondent Sam Roberts sits down for a conversation with Curbed architecture critic Alexandra Lange. They'll...
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New York at Its Core: The Archaeology
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
Manhattan’s dramatic growth over the centuries is often pictured as a process of expansion, either northwards (up the island) or upwards (with ever taller skyscrapers). But since the 17th century, the island has also been expanding outwards into the East and Hudson Rivers through landfill. Garbage and rubble have long been used to create hundreds of acres of new, artificial land along Manhattan’s coastline. Once overlooked, this landfill...
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Meet the Curators: Sean Corcoran
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
Meet the Curators: Sean Corcoran, Curator of Prints and Photographs As part of the new “Meet the Curators” tour series, join Sean Corcoran, Curator of Prints and Photographs, as he guides you through Interior Lives: Contemporary Photographs of Chinese New Yorkers. As you stroll through the gallery, Corcoran will discuss the three featured photographers—Thomas Holton, Annie Ling, and An Rong Xu—and how the exhibition provides a window...
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Remembering the Dead
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
Today, in a city dotted with monuments to war dead and shrines to those lost in terrorist attacks, it is rare to find memorials to those who died from infectious disease or artworks commemorating those living with disease. Artist and activist Avram Finkelstein and essayist Garnette Cadogan join moderator David Favaloro for a conversation about the experiences of those affected by infectious disease, the role of stigma in social and institutional...
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Law & Disorder
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
Defense attorney Ronald Kuby and former prisoner, now paralegal Shabaka Shakur discuss Shakur’s wrongful murder conviction and 27-year imprisonment – and interrogate a flawed justice system. Only in New York is a new conversation series in which New York Times journalist Sarah Maslin Nir brings together two New Yorkers from different worlds to explore key questions about the city’s identity, culture,...
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Black Is Beautiful: Fashion and Consciousness
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
Documentary photographer Kwame Brathwaite and his son Kwame S. Brathwaite join historian Tanisha Ford to reflect on the impact of Brathwaite Sr.’s pioneering “Black Is Beautiful” photographs. Beginning in the late 1950s and early ‘60s, Brathwaite helped to popularize an Afro-centric vision of female beauty featuring unstraightened hair and dark skin, then considered exotic in mainstream American...
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The Subway
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
New York City’s sprawling subway system has rolled into the 21st century in fits and starts. While long-awaited gleaming new stations recently opened along Second Avenue, the more than 100-year-old system is straining under the demands of booming ridership. Series host Sarah Maslin Nir sits down with Joseph Lhota, Chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, to delve into what can be done to ensure the future...
$25
Writing the City
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
The literary city inspires ideas as different as New Yorkers themselves. Authors share how their work has been challenged and informed by the unique experience of writing in New York City. Speakers to be announced, check back for details and join our email list for updates. Reception to follow with beer courtesy of Harlem Blue.
$25
From Photography to Film Noir: Stanley Kubrick
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
Complete Course Title: From Photography to Film Noir: Stanley Kubrick’s Early Career When young Kubrick first transitioned from photography to cinema, he tried his hand at film noir. New York magazine film critic Emily Yoshida and co-curators of our upcoming exhibition Stanley Kubrick: Through a Different Lens, Donald Albrecht and Sean Corcoran, examine two of his earliest works, Day of...
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New York’s Big Comeback
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
After the September 11th terrorist attacks, New York City was left with an uncertain future. In the wake of the tragedy, Daniel Doctoroff, deputy mayor at the time, was charged with navigating the city’s entrenched financial and political interests to spearhead its economic resurgence. Join Doctoroff, now founder and CEO of the Alphabet company Sidewalk Labs, and esteemed New York Times reporter Charles Bagli for...
$20
Under the Influence of the Maysles Brothers
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
It has become the stuff of retro consumerism but in the mid-'60s New York City was the cultural capital of the United States -- and David and Albert Maysles were among its chief chroniclers. Featuring shorts including a radical Yoko Ono performance at Carnegie Hall, a portrait of an ascendant IBM, a drop-in visit with Truman Capote at his Long Island retreat, and an indelible encounter with Marlon Brando in a Midtown hotel room. ...
$15
Alternate Visions: Bold Proposals for Housing
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
Full Course Name: Alternate Visions: Bold Proposals for Housing New Yorkers New York City is in the midst of an affordability crisis which poses an existential threat to the city’s characteristic vitality and diversity. Even during a time of rapid development in the affordable housing sector, many New Yorkers are being priced out the city and many more are struggling to pay the rent. Are existing plans to address the issue adequate, or is it time...
$25
Rooted in Place: Stories of Home in the City
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
In a city driven by the real estate market, where every inch of space is a commodity, it can be easy to overlook the personal, felt experience of having a home – and the daily struggles for those whose concept of home is threatened or elusive. Explore the emotional and psychological dimensions of personal space, home-making, and connections to place in a non-stop city like New York with evening of stories, featuring: Eric Bunge, co-founding...
$25
Meet the Curators: Kubi Ackerman
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
Full Course Name: Meet the Curators: Kubi Ackerman, Director, Future City Lab As part of the new “Meet the Curators” tour series, join Kubi Ackerman, Director, Future City Lab, as he guides you through Future City Lab, the third gallery of New York at Its Core. In celebration of Earth Day on April 22, 2019, visit the Future City Lab to consider major issues confronting our city—Living with Nature, Making a Living, Living Together, Housing...
$40
Only in New York: City of Workers
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
New York Times reporter Sarah Maslin Nir, who wrote a Pulitzer-nominated expose on nail salon workers, sits down with Bhairavi Desai of the New York Taxi Workers Alliance and Allison Julien of the National Domestic Workers Alliance for a conversation about recent gains (and setbacks) in the movement for labor protections for the millions of workers who make this city run.
$20
1001 Nights: Introducing Brooklyn Brewery’s Latest Beer
Museum of the City of New York - Public @ 1220 5th Ave , New York, NY
Believe it or not, spices are still grown much the same way they have been for thousands of years – almost entirely on small farms, picked by hand, and dried in the sun. For millennia, the far-flungsources of the lucrative spice trade were kept a carefully guarded secret and, even to this day, a complex supply chain has distanced consumers from spice makers. Former NYC line cook Ethan Frisch is working to change all that. Co-founder...
$20
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