November

• Art and Science Day at Macaulay: Sponsored by Macaulay Honors College Literati and Medical Clubs  

  Nov 22 2009 - 11:00am to 3:00pm

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  Art and Science Day at Macaulay!

  Sublimation, Freud says, creates both art and science. And yet how do these two seemingly binary opposites interplay? Can science inspire art? Can art influence science? We invite artists and scientists at Macaulay to explore and discuss these topics with our four lecturers, all of whom weave science and art in their daily lives.

  Students not only passionate about work in arts and sciences, but also excited about the dynamic tango between art and science, are welcome to join us for a what will certainly be an electrifying and thought-provoking day! Lunch will be served.

  Audience: 

  Current Macaulay Students

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December

• DaZe of Doom Film Series--"Children of Men"  

  Dec 1 2009 - 7:00pm

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  Y Tu Mamá También and Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban director Alfonso Cuarón returns to the helm to tell this futuristic tale in which society is without hope since humankind lost its ability to procreate. The year is 2027, and women can no longer give birth. The youngest inhabitant of the planet has just died at the age of 18, and all hope for humanity has been lost. As civilization descends into chaos, a dying world finds one last chance for survival in the form of a woman who has become inexplicably pregnant. Now, as warring nationalistic sects clash and British leaders try to maintain their totalitarian stronghold on the country, a disillusioned bureaucrat (Clive Owen) is brought back into the fold of activism by his guerrilla ex-wife (Julianne Moore). Reluctantly, he takes on the daunting task of escorting Kee (Claire-Hope Ashitey), the refugee who represents humankind's last hope for survival, out of harm's way and into the care of a mysterious organization known as The Human Project. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Charlie Hunnam, and Michael Caine co-star in this adaptation of author P.D. James's gripping 1992 novel. - Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide

   

  Starring: Clive Owen, Julianne Moore, Michael Caine, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Claire-Hope Ashitey

  Theatrical Release Date: 12/25/2006

  108 min.

  Audience: 

  General Public

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• Macaulay Honors College Tour  

  Dec 3 2009 - 4:00pm to 5:00pm

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  Come to Macaulay Honors College for a tour of our building and a
  question and answer session
  35 West 67 Street
  New York, NY 10023

  Audience: 

  Prospective Students

  Thu3

• Macaulay Perspectives: Summoning the Visual Imagination – Artist Peter Sacks  

  Dec 3 2009 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm

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  Please join us for a presentation by painter and poet Peter Sacks.

  Our third Macaulay Perspectives event offers a special treat—the chance to hear and see a presentation by artist Peter Sacks, whose work is currently being exhibited at the Paul Rodgers/9W Gallery in New York .

  In his essay, “What It Is Like to See a Sacks,” critic Louis Menand writes, “Peter Sacks's recent work raises important questions about cultural history, about painting, and about the place of art in contemporary life.” On December 3 at Macaulay, we will have an opportunity to hear Sacks speak on the topic, “Summoning the Visual Imagination.” The evening promises to offer insights not only into the work of Sacks, but into the processes of visual imagination generally. In Peter Sacks we are fortunate to have a “spokesman” for visual imagination whose modes of expression are remarkably multiform—he is also a teacher and the author of five books of poetry. As Menand notes, “Sacks's visual imagination has always been intertwined with writing and with the act of writing. Painting and writing are both modes of referring, ways of bearing witness, of rendering an account.”

  To view Sacks’s current exhibition :

  Paul Rodgers/9W Gallery
  529 West 20th Street, 9th Floor
  New York City 10011
  tel: 212.414.9810
  fax: 347.438.3309
  info@paulrodgers9w.com
  www.paulrodgers9w.com

  Biography of Peter Sacks

  Peter Sacks was born in 1950 in South Africa. He lived there for the first half of his life, mostly in the city of Durban, on the Indian Ocean.

  Sacks studied at Oxford, as well as in the United States, at Princeton and Yale (where he wrote, partly as his thesis, The English Elegy: Studies in the Genre from Spenser to Yeats). All through this time, which included the study of art and the history of painting – from the rock-art of Southern Africa to the frescoes of the early Renaissance, from the funerary portraiture of Egypt to the entangled figurative and abstract heritages of Modernism – Sacks also spent years of travel, often times on foot. Walks across various parts of South and North America, Africa, Europe and Asia, comprised much of his development on a formal as well as cultural level.

  In addition, the shifting confluences of poetry and painting (Sacks is also the author of five volumes of poetry) – elements of narrative, music, metaphor or symbol, as well as those of envisioning and evoking rather than depicting – arrive at visual concerns at once bodily, topographical and architectural. One senses the presence of battlegrounds or construction sites of ancient yet contemporary history. A procession of figures moves through some purgatorial region, caught between birth and catastrophe, between despair and survival. His recent paintings challenge our assumptions of what might or might not be human, whether in ourselves, or in the marks we make upon the spaces we inhabit, construct, deform or save.

  Peter Sacks divides his time between Normandy, France and Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he teaches at Harvard University.

  Light refreshments will be served.

  Audience: 

  General Public

  Current Macaulay Students

  Alumni

  Prospective Students

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