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Adam Cohen at Speculations (“The future is ___________”)
PS1 - 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City
2pm, $10
Eileen Myles and Rebecca Wolff
KGB Bar - 85 East 4 Street
7pm, $0
Eileen Myles was born in Boston and moved to New York in 1974 to be a poet. Snowflake/different streets (poems, 2012) is the latest of her 18 books. Inferno (a poet’s novel) came out in 2010. For The Importance of Being Iceland/travel essays in art she received a Warhol/Creative Capital grant
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Saturday, 25 May
David Rieff at Speculations (“The future is ___________”)
PS1 - 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City
3pm, $10/Rsvp
Journalist David Rieff, author of books on immigration, international conflict, and humanitarianism, will detail the proposed solutions to the world food crisis, and the serious difficulties with each.
Triple Canopy is pleased to announce Speculations (“The future is ______”), fifty days of lectures, discussions, and debates about the future, as part of
EXPO 1: New York at MoMA PS1
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Sunday, 26 May
Rivka Galchen and Norman Rush at Speculations (“The future is ___________”)
PS1 - 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City
3pm, $10/Rsvp
Rivka Galchen’s first novel, Atmospheric Disturbances, was awarded the William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. Norman Rush is the author of three novels, including Mating, which won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1991. They will discuss commonalities between literature, OCD, fortunetelling, lucid dreaming, and weather reports.
Triple Canopy is pleased to announce Speculations (“The future is ______”), fifty days of lectures, discussions, and debates about the future, as part of
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Monday, 27 May
A Conversation with James Murphy
New York University, Skirball Center - 566 LaGuardia Place
7 - 9:30pm, $5
Wednesday, 29 May
Superstorm Sandy: Are We Ready for the Next One?
The Graduate Center - 365 Fifth Avenue, Elebash Recital Hall (Room 1201)
9am - 1pm, $0
Loren Glass on Grove Press and the Evergreen Review
St. Mark's Bookshop - 31 Third Avenue
7pm, $0
Whitney ISP Critical Studies Symposium: Critical Perspectives on Visual Culture
Whitney Museum, Film and Video Galleries - 945 Madison Avenue, Floor Two
7 - 11:30pm, $0
The 2013 Critical Studies Symposium, Critical Perspectives on Visual Culture, is an evening-long program, in which each of the six participants from the
Whitney Independent Study Critical Studies Program present a short paper on their current research. Two discussants respond to these papers.
Session I: 7–9 pm
Rizvana BradleyThe Aesthetics of Fabrication and Reproduction in the Art of Thornton Dial
Angelique SzymanekImpossible Witnessing and Public Fantasy in the Work of Ana Mendieta
Charlotte IckesIsaac Julien’s Baltimore and the Spectacle of the Other ’70s
Discussant: Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Professor of History of Art, Director, Graduate Studies for Film and Visual Studies, Harvard University
Session II: 9:30–11:30 pm
Alison DeanThe Mediation of Immediacy in the Work of Rineke Dijkstra and Nan Goldin
Aline GuillermetThis is not a face: The return to portraiture in the 1960s
Geoffrey WildangerA Function for the Studio?
Discussant: Alex Alberro, Virginia Bloedel Wright Professor of Art History, Columbia University
Admission is free
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Film Lit: "Three Days of the Condor"
Jeremy Scahill and Betsy Reed
IFC Center - 323 Sixth Avenue
8pm, $13.50
Film Lit, a new series that invites noted authors to present and discuss a movie in conversation with their own work, launches with a special screening of THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR (1975, Sydney Pollack) presented by Jeremy Scahill on Wednesday, May 29 at 8:00pm at IFC Center. Organized by Jessica Loudis of Bookforum and Gabriel Winslow-Yost of The New York Review of Books, “Film Lit” invites a writer to present a personal selection of a movie whose theme or style echoes with the writer’s own work, followed by an in-depth conversation. Future “Film Lit” programs will be announced for the summer and fall.
On May 29 at 8:00pm, journalist Jeremy Scahill (Dirty Wars) presents Sydney Pollack’s THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR, a conspiracy thriller starring Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway in the tale of CIA agent investigating his colleagues’ murder
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Thursday, 30 May
Elliott Holt and Michael Cunningham
The Center for Fiction - 17 East 47 Street
7pm, $0/Rsvp
When Women Were Birds: Terry Tempest Williams with Linda Asher
192 Books - 192 10th Avenue at 21 Street
7pm, $0
Dirty Looks: "The Divine David Presents"
White Columns, 320 West 13th Street (Enter on Horatio Street Between Hudson and 8th Ave.)
8:30pm, $0
Friday, 31 May
Ellen Ullman at Speculations (“The future is ___________”)
PS1 - 22-25 Jackson Avenue, Long Island City
2pm, $10 museum admission; $5 with student ID
Don’t Stop: The Language of the Early 1990s
New Museum - 235 Bowery
7pm, $8
“Don’t Stop” is a one-night event about the language of the early 1990s.
This series of readings and performances by writers and artists will explore writing in the US from 1992–96, just before the 1996 publication of David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest, that brilliant and dystopian summation of a technophilic, drugged North America, in which time itself receives corporate sponsorship. The 1992 election and early Clinton years clearly mark a shift in mood; the ’80s were over, but what exactly did this mean? As the US approached the day in 1996 on which Bill Clinton would proclaim that “even my cat has its own [web] page,” how were audiences for cultural content being formed and informed, by which technologies and which actors?
Participants in “Don’t Stop” select a text, published during the years 1992–96, from which they read or to which they respond with a short text of their own devising. Television and film scripts, song lyrics, found text, and tabloid prose exist alongside classic ’90s novels and poetry
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Jeremy Scahill on Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield
New School, Kaplan Hall - 66 West 12 Street, Tishman Auditorium
7pm, $0
Nation Books and The New School present Nation Books author and Puffin Foundation Writing Fellow Jeremy Scahill in conversation with Spencer Ackerman, a national security reporter and blogger for Wired magazine.
In Scahill's newest book, Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield (Nation Books, April 2013), he takes us inside America's new covert wars. The foot soldiers in these battles operate globally and inside the United States with orders from the White House to do whatever is necessary to hunt down, capture, or kill individuals designated by the president as enemies. Drawn from the ranks of the Navy SEALs, Delta Force, former Blackwater and other private security contractors, the CIA's Special Activities Division, and the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC), these elite soldiers operate worldwide, with thousands of secret commandos working in more than one hundred countries
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Karen Green: "Bough Down"
192 Books - 192 10th Avenue at 21 Street
7pm, $0
On the Necessity of Art's Exit from Contemporary Art
A History of Negations (Part 3)
Artists Space, Books and Talks - 55 Walker Street
7pm, $5
Suhail Malik: A History of Negations
Artists Space, Books and Talks - 55 Walker Street
7pm, $5
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