Selected by Dominique Nabokov
Ongoing
Louvre-Lens: A New Branch of the Louvre
Louvre-Lens, Lens
The Louvre has opened its first satellite branch in Lens, a former mining town in the Nord-pas-de-Calais region of France.
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February 2, 2013, 1:30 pm
Richard Greeman on Victor Serge’s Russian Heritage
Brecht Forum, New York
This inaugural lecture is designed as an introduction to the reading of Serge’s Memoirs of a Revolutionary, the complete English translation of which has just been published by NYRB.
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February 4, 2013, 2 pm – 6 pm
A Rally for Gun Control
City Hall, New York
A student-run rally at City Hall to advocate for gun control. We hope for significant participation by students from many local New York schools, and we welcome anyone – student or adult – who wishes to join.
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February 5, 2013, 7:30 pm
Celebrating 50 Years of ‘The New York Review’
The Town Hall, New York
Spend an evening with contributors John Banville, Mary Beard, Michael Chabon, Mark Danner, Joan Didion, Daniel Mendelsohn, Darryl Pinckney, along with editor Robert B. Silvers.
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February 6, 2013, 6:30 pm
Yasmine El Rashidi and Michael Walzer discuss the Arab Spring at CUNY
The Graduate Center, New York
Join two eminent writers and experts on the Middle East, Yasmine el Rashidi and Michael Walzer, as they seek to illuminate these vexed political circumstances with an eye toward what the future portends.
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February 9, 2013, 1:30 pm
Richard Greeman on Victor Serge and the Novel of the Revolution
Brecht Forum, New York
This second lecture is designed as a general introduction to the reading of Serge’s seven surviving novels.
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Selected by J. Hoberman
December 6, 2012 – February 10, 2013
Art Theater Guild and Japanese Underground Cinema, 1960-1986
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Every year or so there’s a retrospective so comprehensive and rich with little-seen work as to jeopardize one’s day job.
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Selected by Yasmine El Rashidi
Ongoing
‘Argo’
Angelika Film Center, New York
Not quite flattering to the Iranian regime, Argo has received much attention in the Middle East.
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