We are a group of people who publicize lectures and related cultural events in and around New York City. These events are often free and open to the public.
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Thursday, 17 May
A Paris Review Interview: James Fenton and Robyn Creswell
New York Public Library, Schwarzman Building - Fifth Avenue at 42 Street, South Court Auditorium
7 - 9pm, $0/Rsvp
Manuel Castells: The Global Financial Crisis from 2008-2012
and Alternative Economic Cultures
New School, Johnson Design Center - 66 Fifth Ave, Kellen Auditorium
7pm, $0
The Brooklyn Rail at the Center for Fiction
Harry Morales, Donald Nicholson-Smith, and Pamela Ryder
The Center for Fiction - 17 East 47th Street
7pm, $0/Rsvp
Writers Speakeasy with Darcey Steinke and Shelley Jackson;
Paul La Farge and Emily Barton; Stacey D'Erasmo
ApexArt - 291 Church Street
7pm, $0
Friday, 18 May
Race d’Ep! A film by Guy Hocquenghem and Lionel Soukaz
Screening and Conversation
Artists Space, Books and Talks - 55 Walker Street
7pm, $5
Hidden Agendas: An evening with Bidoun
Triple Canopy - 155 Freeman Street, Brooklyn
7pm, $5 suggested
Saturday, 19 May
Dancing in a Pool of Gray Grits
Bruce Baird on Tatsumi Hijikata and Butoh
Artists Space, Books and Talks - 55 Walker Street
3pm, $5
Sunday, 20 May
Goin’ Home, Goin’ Home: Mike Kelley’s Mobile Homestead
John C. Welchman and Scott Benzel
Whitney Museum - 945 Madison Avenue, Floor Two
3pm, $18
Susan Howe on her Emily Dickinsons
The Artist's Institute - 163 Eldridge Street
4pm, $0
Ben Lerner, Dylan Hicks, and Brian Evenson
An Evening with Coffeehouse Press Writers
KGB Bar - 85 East 4th Street
7 - 9pm, $0
Monday, 21 May
Cindy Sherman: From 1975 To Now
New School, Kaplan Hall - 66 West 12th Street, Tishman Auditorium
6:30pm, $0
Uyen Hua, Lauren Levin & Cathy Park Hong
St. Mark's Church - 131 East 10 Street
8pm, $0
Tuesday, 22 May
Writing Russia Emerging Writers:
Truth and Transformation in Russia
New York Public Library, Schwarzman Building - Fifth Avenue at 42 Street, Berger Forum
5:30pm, $0
Rosecrans Baldwin and Paul Ford
True Story Nonfiction Series at KGB Bar
KGB Bar - 85 East 4th Street
7 - 9pm, $0
Wednesday, 23 May
Whitney Critical Studies Symposium
Critical Perspectives on Visual Culture
Whitney Museum, Film and Video Galleries - 945 Madison Avenue, Floor Two
6 - 10:30pm, $0
Cancelled: Alternative Manifestations and Productive Failures
Work by Amy Harrison, David Horvitz, David Wojnarowicz
Center for Book Arts - 28 West 27th Street, 3rd Floor
6:30pm, $10 suggested
Thursday, 24 May
Elaine Equi and Jerome Sala
Readings in Contemporary Poetry at Dia:Chelsea
Dia: Chelsea - 535 West 22 Street, Floor 5
6:30pm, $0
Return of the Great Russian Novel
The New Russian Realism with Liesl Schillinger
Housing Works Bookstore - 126 Crosby Street
7pm, $0
Russell Simmons and Dylan Ratigan
On Income Inequality
92nd Street Y - Lexington Avenue at 92 Street, Buttenwieser Hall
8:15pm, $29/Rsvp
Friday, 25 May
Heather Hart and Bayeté Ross Smith in Conversation
Brooklyn Museum, Cantor Gallery - 200 Eastern Parkway, Floor 5, Brooklyn,
2pm, $0
Tuesday, 29 May
True Story: n+1 Launch
KGB Bar - 85 East 4th Street
7 - 9pm, $0