Art
Why Skill Matters: From Bronze Age Metalworking to the Future of Crafts
Columbia University Fayerweather Hall 1180 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesWhat do we consider valuable knowledge, and why? In this presentation, Professor Maikel H. G. Kuijpers intends to explore the connections between craft, science, and technology through the notion of skill. Maikel H. G. Kuijpers is Assistant Professor of European prehistory at Leiden University. He holds a Ph.D. in archaeology and anthropology from Cambridge University. Specializing in […]
Festival Albertine: How Do We Get People to Care
Albertine Books 972 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesArtists and activists will be called upon to discuss how to change people’s minds and amplify the call to action. Literature, music, drama—these are key resources for societies trying to come to grips with new realities. In recent years we’ve seen them begin to grapple with climate change, but that engagement must now grow. The […]
The Making of a Masterpiece: Gustave Courbet, Woman with a Parrot, 1866
The Met 1000 5th Avenue, New York, NY, United StatesIn a continuation of this hit series, each talk focuses on a single, iconic painting in The Met collection, framing it in the context of the artist's work and its contemporary resonance and legacy. This season, Kathryn Calley Galitz, author of The Metropolitan Museum of Art: Masterpiece Paintings, looks at work by Courbet, Monet, Cézanne, […]
Salon du Chocolat
Jacob Javits Center 655 West 34th Street, New York, NY, United StatesThe Salon du Chocolat is a unique global pageantry of chocolatiers, artisans, pastry chefs, experts, and businesses throughout the world who have one thing in common: their passion for all things chocolate. They will entertain and beguile with a cornucopia of delectable products, and exhibit their craft, culture, and knowledge in an expertly curated, experiential […]
Leonardo da Vinci Rediscovered: Carmen Bambach in Conversation with Walter Isaacson
92 Y 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY, United StatesFive hundred years since the death of one of the all-time greatest creative geniuses, we’re still making new discoveries about Leonardo da Vinci. Join Metropolitan Museum curator Carmen Bambach, considered one of the world’s leading experts on Leonardo, as she discusses her landmark new book on the artist. This four-volume work (which took 24 years […]