Skyscraper Museum webinar. Peter Weismantle spent 31 years in the Chicago office of SOM before moving in 2008 to AS+GG as Director of Supertall Building Technology where he has been responsible for overseeing the firm’s development of supertall projects from onset to completion. Working with the project team, Weismantle develops the design of such technical […]
Health and wellness lecture presented via Zoom. RSVP at [email protected] or call (212) 312-5165.
Test your trivia IQ at home with your friends and family! Follow along on Zoom and enter your answers via Kahoot, as you compete for a variety of fun BFPL prizes with hosts The Union of Quizzers.
While working on her Pulitzer Prize-winning book The Warmth of Other Suns, about the Great Migration of African Americans out of the Jim Crow South, Isabel Wilkerson realized that the United States had an unspoken and deeply ingrained caste system. In her new book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, a #1 New York Times […]
The Deeper Lecture Series is a new talk + Q&A program on Zoom designed to acquaint Gibney’s community of artists and audiences with the most provocative, influential and inspiring minds at work in the arts, humanities and activism. Tonight, see performance artist george emilio sanchez .
Even for the experienced speaker, keeping an audience engaged and connected can be a challenge, especially while remote. In this session, we’ll read the (Zoom) room and build a toolkit to speak with influence and advocate for yourself. In this interactive workshop, Jen Jamula and Allison Goldberg of GoldJam Creative will help you improve your […]
Health and wellness lecture presented via Zoom. RSVP at [email protected] or call (212) 312-5165.
Fitness classes via Instagram released every Tuesday and Thursday, featuring Trooper Fitness, Pure Barre and Lyons Den Power Yoga.
Qi Baishi, who lived from 1864-1959, is one of the most revered Chinese painters of all time. One of his paintings sold for $144 million in 2017, breaking world records. Join us as Ben Wang, China Institute’s beloved professor of Chinese culture, shares one of his favorite Qi Baishi works—two chicks tugging on a worm—and […]
Menachem Kaiser’s new book Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure is the story of his quest to reclaim his family’s apartment building in Poland—and of the astonishing entanglement with Nazi treasure hunters that follows. Kaiser’s story begins when he takes up his Holocaust survivor grandfather’s former battle to reclaim the family’s apartment […]
Join Fraunces Tavern Museum for another virtual trivia night! Challenge your history-loving friends and test your knowledge of the American Revolution. Brush up on your revolutionary history and compete to win some great prizes. This program will be hosted on Zoom. Registration ends at 3:30pm on the day of the program.
Dr. Rivka Sachdev leads a virtual lecture to provide an overview of tremor and movement disorder and what type of the therapy that can manage the various neurological disorders. Join Zoom Meeting https://nyph.zoom.us/j/91837711011?pwd=a09NejcxZEEvMlMxYnJDaldJa29Fdz09 Meeting ID: 918 3771 1011 Passcode: 619834 One tap mobile +16465189805,,91837711011#,,,,*619834# US (New York) 8335480276,,91837711011#,,,,*619834# US Toll-free Dial by your location +1 […]
Skyscraper Museum webinar. Structural engineer Robert Sinn is a Principal in the Chicago office of Thornton Tomasetti. Before joining TT in 2007, Bob spent more than two decades at SOM, where he was responsible for such award-winning projects as the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Spain, and Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago, which when […]
The U.S. Navy SEALs who killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden in his compound in Pakistan also gathered valuable intelligence on al-Qaeda. Nelly Lahoud, a senior fellow in New America’s International Security program, who has read all of the seized documents—hundreds of thousands of pages—discusses her forthcoming book, Eighteen Minutes: Bin Laden's Abbottabad Papers, about […]