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Lectures Tagged arts & culture

July 17th, 2008 :: Runtime: 1:44:11
The Museum of Modern Art’s exhibition, Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling, surveys the past, present and future of the prefabricated home. This panel focuses on two quintessential prefab hubs, Japan and the Nordic countries. Ken Tadashi ...
July 16th, 2008 :: Runtime: 1:09:26
Frank O'Hara worked at The Museum of Modern Art on and off for fifteen years—first selling postcards, then curating exhibitions and writing catalogue copy—all the while composing poems during his lunch hour. Join poets Lee Ann Brown, ...
June 12th, 2008 :: Runtime: 1:42:41
Ed Fella worked as a commercial graphic designer for thirty years in Detroit, and is famed for his contribution to contemporary typography. Post Typography, consisting of Nolen Strals and Bruce Willen, was founded in 2001 as “an avant ...
May 8th, 2008 :: Runtime: 1:13:39
The 19th century had a love affair with the Arabic Middle East. For some it was all about an exoticism which we today might think of as romantic, ornamental, even "superficial," much like the craze for chinoiserie in the 1700s. ...
May 4th, 2008 :: Runtime: 0:12:03
Operatic bass Hao Jiang Tian reminisces about and performs the songs that highlight his tumultuous journey from the Cultural Revolution to the Metropolitan Opera. Tian is the first Chinese-born opera singer to achieve fame and a lasting success on ...
May 2nd, 2008 :: Runtime: 1:40:00
Is poetry inevitably political? Can language provoke peace? Spearheaded by Anne Waldman, a founder and current Director of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa Institute, and hosted by Bob Holman, Club founder and proprietor, the ...
May 1st, 2008 :: Runtime: 0:47:00
Screenwriter, director and producer Harmony Korine (Gummo, Julien Donkey-Boy), was originally spotted for his writing of Kids. Join him as he discusses Mister Lonely, his third feature film, with Scott Macaulay, editor of Filmmaker magazine. ...
April 29th, 2008 :: Runtime: 0:56:00
Successful model and actress Isabella Rossellini (Blue Velvet, Big Night, Fearless) wrote My Dad Is 100 Years Old and makes her directorial debut in the experimental Green Porno, a series of short films she also conceived, wrote, ...
April 18th, 2008 :: Runtime: 1:16:19
In a period of radical expansion of public interest and market forces, what is the state of contemporary art’s production, presentation, and acquisition? What roles do narcissism and trophy-gathering play? Is the current boom another chapter in an older, modernist ...
April 15th, 2008 :: Runtime: 0:47:00
Richard Price — writer for HBO’s The Wire and the author of The Wanderers, The Color of Money, and Clockers — turns to the subject of crime in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in his new novel ...
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