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Saturday, 01 June 2013
Love and Let Die: Ballooning Longevity, Quality of Life,
and the Coming Generational Smash-up
New York University, Cantor Film Center - 36 East 8 Street
11am - 9pm, $0
Mary “Missy” Cummings, Thomas Keenan and Chris Csikszentmihalyi at Speculations (“The future is ___________”)
PS1 - 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City
3pm, $10
Sunday, 02 June 2013
Taryn Simon at Speculations (“The future is ___________”)
PS1 - 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City
1pm, $10
Monday, 03 June 2013
Hayek’s Triumph, Nietzsche’s Example, the Market’s Morals
Melville House - 145 Plymouth Street, Brooklyn
7pm, $0
Poetry in Theater: Panel Discussion
Yusef Komunyakaa, Ariana Reines, Kenneth Goldsmith, Bob Holman, others
The Graduate Center - 365 Fifth Avenue, Elebash Recital Hall (Room 1201)
7:30 - 8:30pm, $0
Tuesday, 04 June 2013
Barney Frank on Military Spending
New School, Kaplan Hall - 66 West 12 Street, Tishman Auditorium
6 - 7:30pm, $0
Joe "The Fox Mole" Muto on "An Atheist in the Foxhole"
BookCourt - 163 Court Street, Brooklyn
7pm, $0
Cotton Tenants: With John Summers, Adam Haslett, and Daniel Thomas Davis
McNally Jackson - 52 Prince Street
7pm, $0
Rap’s Greatest Battle: 2pac and Biggie, 15 Years Later
Housing Works Bookstore - 126 Crosby Street
7pm, $0
Writing Conflict: Masha Hamilton with Maud Newton
Community Bookstore - 143 Seventh Avenue, Brooklyn
7pm, $0
Wednesday, 05 June 2013
The Future of the Left: Conversation on Socialist Unity
CWA Local 1180 - 6 Harrison Street
6pm, $0
Katherine Angel with Kate Zambreno
Community Bookstore - 143 Seventh Avenue Brooklyn
7pm, $0
Curtis White: The Science Delusion
Melville House - 145 Plymouth Street, Brooklyn
7pm, $0
Elfriede Jelinek's "Her Not All Her"
Hari Kunzru, Katie Kitamura, and Damion Searls
McNally Jackson - 52 Prince Street
7pm, $0
Thursday, 06 June 2013
Teaching Civil Rights Movements through Time
New York Public Library, Schwarzman Building - Fifth Avenue at 42 Street, South Court Auditorium
1:15 - 2:30pm, $0
Naeem Mohaiemen: Piety and Leftism in Muslim-majority Countries
PS1 - 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City
2 - 5pm, $10
Full Dollar-Ecuador: Contemporary Art and Phantasmagoric Partnerships
ICI Curatorial Hub - 401 Broadway, Suite 1620
6:30pm, $0
Unconcealed: The International Network of Conceptual Artists 1967-77
Dealers, Exhibitions, and Public Collections
Artists Space, Books and Talks - 55 Walker Street
7pm, $5
The New Africa: Underdevelopment or Liberation?
Brecht Forum - 451 West Street
7:30pm, $6
Friday, 07 June 2013
Katie Kitamura at Speculations (“The future is ___________”)
PS1 - 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City
2pm, $10
Immanuel Wallerstein at Left Forum
Jenny Greeman and Richard Greeman
Pace University, Schimmel Auditorium - 1 Pace Plaza
5pm, $varies
US Imperialism in the Age of Obama (Left Forum)
Pace University, - 1 Pace Plaza, Room W618
5pm, $varies
Lynda Morris: The Battle for Picasso's Mind
Artists Space, Books and Talks - 55 Walker Street
7pm, $0
Saturday, 08 June 2013
Noam Chomsky at Left Forum: Mobilizing for Ecological/Economic Transformation
Pace University, Schimmel Auditorium - 1 Pace Plaza
2pm, $varies
The Resurgence of Serge: Hillel Ticktin, Susan Weissman, Claudio Albertani, Jean-Guy Rens (Left Forum)
Pace University - 1 Pace Plaza, Room W604
3:40pm, $varies
The Renewal of Radical Thought and the Question of Communism
McKenzie Wark, Bruno Bosteels, Jodi Dean, Razmig Keucheyan (Left Forum)
Pace University - 1 Pace Plaza, Room W520
5:30pm, $varies
Monday, 10 June 2013
John Crowley at Speculations (“The future is ___________”)
PS1 - 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City
2pm, $10
Iraq: Remembering a Forgotten War
New America - 199 Lafayette Street, Suite 3B
6:30 - 8:15pm, $0
George Packer and Dexter Filkins
Greenlight Books - 686 Fulton Street, Brooklyn
7:30pm, $0
Sofia Coppola: The Bling Ring
Film Society Lincoln Center - 70 Lincoln Square
7:30 - 8:30pm, $0
Wednesday, 12 June 2013
Book Launch: Mnemosyne Atlas
ICI Curatorial Hub - 401 Broadway, Suite 1620
6:30pm, $0
Marc Maron: Attempting Normal
Barnes and Noble, Union Square - 33 East 17 Street
7pm, $0
Children's Concepts About Death and Dying
New York Psychoanalytic Society and Institute - 247 East 82 Street, Young Auditorium
8 - 9:15pm, $0
Thursday, 13 June 2013
Brazil's Marquise de Sade:
On Translating Hilda Hilst's "Cartas de um Sedutor"
New York Public Library, Schwarzman Building - Fifth Avenue at 42 Street, South Court Auditorium
1:15 - 2:30pm, $0
Benjamin Kunkel at Speculations (“The future is ___________”)
PS1 - 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City
2pm, $10
Studio Conversations: Caroline Woolard and Pablo Helguera
The Possibilities and Problems of Staff/Artist Collaboration
Museum of Modern Art, Education Building - 11 West 53 Street
3pm, $0
The Brooklyn Rail Fiction Anthology 2 Reading
Shelley Jackson, Donald Nicholson Smith: Pessoa's The Mariner
Spoonbill & Sugartown - 218 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn
7:30pm, $0
Friday, 14 June 2013
On the Necessity of Art's Exit from Contemporary Art
Institution: David Joselit and Tirdad Zolghadr
Artists Space, Books and Talks - 55 Walker Street
7pm, $5
Saturday, 15 June 2013
Brooklyn Rail Fiction Anthology 2 Reading
Lewis Warsh, Dawn Raffel: Pessoa's The Mariner
Unnameable Books - 600 Vanderbilt Avenue, Brooklyn
7:30pm, $0
Sunday, 16 June 2013
Peter Frase and Ashwin Parameswaran at Speculations (“The future is ___________”)
PS1 - 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City
3pm, $10
Ben Lytal: A Map of Tulsa
BookCourt - 163 Court Street, Brooklyn
4pm, $0
Monday, 17 June 2013
Yates McKee at Speculations (“The future is ___________”)
PS1 - 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City
2 - 5pm, $10
A Country of Cities: A Manifesto for an Urban America
Vishaan Chakrabarti with Thom Mayne
Scholastic Auditorium - 557 Broadway
7pm, $25
Tuesday, 18 June 2013
Ashley Hunt: Corrections
Introduction By Nathan Schneider and Daniel Karpowitz
The Kitchen - 512 West 19 Street
6pm, $0
Reading about Writing about Looking
Kunsthalle Galapagos - 16 Main Street, Brooklyn
8pm, $0
Wednesday, 19 June 2013
Broadly Speaking: Moving the Debate on Working Parenthood Forward
New America - 199 Lafayette Street, Suite 3B
6:30 - 8:15pm, $0
Curator's Perspective: Alexie Glass-Kantor
Tyler Rollins Fine Art - 529 West 20 Street, Suite 10W
7pm, $0
Making the Grade: Restaurants in New York City
Colors Restaurant - 417 Lafayette
7pm, $0
Thursday, 20 June 2013
John Donne, Re-done
Timothy Donnelly, Phillis Levin, Helen Cespedes, Heather Dubrow
New York Public Library, Schwarzman Building - Fifth Avenue at 42 Street, South Court Auditorium
1:15pm, $0
Terry Smith and Calum Storrie
Drawing Center - 35 Wooster Street
6:30pm, $0
Significant Others Screening & Panel Discussion
Esther Kaplan, Cynthia Carr, Rayya Elias, Jack Waters
Participant Inc - 253 East Houston Street
7pm, $0
Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Reimagining Lincoln Center and the High Line
Van Alen Books - 30 West 22 Street, Ground Floor
7pm, $0
Signed, Sealed and Delivered: Labor Struggle in the Post Office
Film Screening and Discussion
Interference Archive - 131 8 Street, Brooklyn
7:30pm, $0
Saturday, 22 June 2013
Voices in Experimental Electronics: Joseph Hammer, Jutta Koether, Heatsick
Goethe-Institut, Wyoming Building - 5 East 3rd Street
1 - 7pm, $0
Sunday, 23 June 2013
Real and Critical: Bridging Narrative Nonfiction and Cultural Criticism
Michelle Orange, Jacob Silverman, and others
Community Bookstore - 143 Seventh Avenue Brooklyn
5pm, $0
Tuesday, 25 June 2013
Outer Space and Inner Time (Screening)
Electronic Arts Intermix - 535 West 22 Street, Floor 5
6:30pm, $0
Wednesday, 26 June 2013
The Museum, the Critics, and the Self-Taught
G. Roger Denson, Brett Littman, Jerry Saltz, Karen Wilkin, Valérie Rousseau
American Folk Art Museum - 2 Lincoln Square
5 - 6:30pm, $10
Jem Cohen: Museum Hours
Film Society of Lincoln Center -
6 - 7pm, $0
Sheila Heti and Kenneth Goldsmith
Greenlight Books - 686 Fulton Street, Brooklyn
7:30pm, $0
Thursday, 27 June 2013
Jace Clayton (DJ /rupture) at Speculations (“The future is ___________”)
PS1 - 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City
2pm, $10
Tamar Ettun: A Nomadic Body?
ICI Curatorial Hub - 401 Broadway, Suite 1620
6:27pm, $0
Tao Lin and Christian Lorentzen
McNally Jackson - 52 Prince Street
7pm, $0
LaToya Ruby Frazier: A Haunted Capital
Laura Wexler, Lesley Martin, Hershini Bhana Young
Brooklyn Museum - 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn
7pm, $12
Death is Elsewhere:
Alexander Dumbadze on Bas Jan Ader
BookCourt - 163 Court Street, Brooklyn
7pm, $0
Greek American Radicals: The Untold Story
Dan Georgakas, Kostis Karpozilos, Eric Poulos
Brecht Forum - 451 West Street
7:30pm, $6
Friday, 28 June 2013
BLUELIST: Sam Ashford, Peter Fend
65 Saint Felix Street, Brooklyn
7:30pm, $0
Sunday, 30 June 2013
Jacob Appelbaum, Trevor Paglen and Laura Poitras at Speculations (“The future is ___________”)
PS1 - 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City
1pm, $10