Danilo Kish/kis
Alex Hemon offered this name as his inspiration:
A TOMB FOR BORIS DAVIDOVICH. By Danilo Kis. Translated by Duska Mikic-Mitchell (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. 135 pp.
“A tomb for Boris Davidovich,” by Yugoslavian Danilo Kis (pronounced Kish), author of the widely acclaimed “Garden, Ashes” is a collection of seven short stories, each with the cohesive and recurring theme of senseless suffering for the sake of ideologies.
Juilliard Faculty Recital: Persichetti, Ranjbaran, White
A free Juilliard Faculty Recital with works by the late Vincent Persichetti, Behzad Ranjbaran and Michael White, and the piano trio “Search.” The concert will take place in Morse Hall at Juilliard on Thursday December 4 at 8:00 PM. Juilliard’s address is 60 Lincoln Center Plaza. The new entrance is on 65th street, between Broadway and Amsterdam.
Dance your Ph.D.?
Check this out!
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=97356050
We are meeting at 611 at 10:30 and at the Whitney Musuem at 11:30
Check this link for the cutting edge art forms in the New York Art world
A chance to view Private collections of Oceanic Art
Dear Class,
Those of you who are interested in the commercial value of art and the auction house, please join me first for a short tour of the exhibit of the Rosenthal collection of African and Oceanic Art at Sotheby and then come to the auction itself.
The artifacts are on display from 12:00 PM to 5:00 PM at the gallery today, tomorrow and Thursday, and the auction takes place Friday at 2:00PM. I will be happy to take a few of you with me after class or a little later on Thursday. The objects will not be on display the day of the Auction.
http://www.sothebys.com/images/home/flash/rosenthal2008/index.html
Liz Wolff performance
Liz Wolff will preform on the 18th in the Green salon as part of environmental discussion forum.
Check it out.
http://www.global-changefoundation.com/content/green-salon
“To please, educate and enlighten”
Tuesday November 18, 2008
5:00–7:30 PM
Program Begins at 5:30
Klavierhaus, 211 West 58th Street, New York City
Learn more about The Green Salon
Eco-Art: Join us for the second gathering of The Green Salon. Artists, environmentalists and supporters are invited to participate in formal and informal conversation on green issues, energy, the environment and global warming. This early evening gathering enhances that slice of time between work and dinner.
* Elizabeth Wolff, Concert Pianist.
* John Nettleton, Senior Lecturer and Executive Director of Cornell Urban Scholars Program, City & Regional Planning. John share his insights on Advanced Biofuels.
* Peter Fusaro, energy, environment, carbon expert, and author of NY Times best seller What Went Wrong at Enron will host and moderate.
To register for this seminar, visit the event page now.
This Thursday Nov.6th -10:30
We are meeting on 65th and Amsterdam Ave. at the Lincoln Center Media library entrance to watch a screening of Musical theater. Bring your pass. Tanisha Johns will escort us to the media room. We must pass through security, so come a little early.
see you there
This Thursday
We are meeting at the Metropolitan classroom space downstairs at 10:30. If you have a camera bring it along with your one-pass.
reading on reserve
For your group projects, the e-reserve articles and books can be a great resource. Do not forget to look through and listen or read some of them.
Thank you for pointing out the missing text. I have asked the library and they have put it up. We also have 3 copies of Amitav Ghosh “Shadow lines” in the library and one on reserve. I have posted a section of the last chapter for our discussion when the time comes. For those of you who could use some music background check out the William Felming article, and also the Foucault on Modern music.
Kenn Duncan’s Fabulous Photography of the 1970s!
Now on exhibit at the NYPL for the Performing Arts:
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Cultural Map
"The Original Topography of Manhattan Island from the Battery to 155th Street" From Report on the Social Statistics of Cities, Compiled by George E. Waring, Jr., United States. Census Office, Part I, 1886. (Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection, University of Texas-Austin)
