NYC is full of smart things to do this November, with talks, walks, and rare concert appearances. We're especially looking forward to presentations on the history of money, the craftsmen who built the Empire State Building, and a Paul Winter Thanksgiving concert.
Saturday, November 1. Explore nuclear protest, ecology, East-West tensions, and WWII’s legacy with Steve Ryfle, co-author of Godzilla: The First 70 Years: The Official Illustrated History of the Japanese Productions. Japan Society.
Sunday, November 2. Head up to the Heights for an Anthony W. Robins (New York Art Deco: A Guide to Gotham’s Jazz Age Architecture) Municipal Arts Society walking tour of a lesser known collection of Deco architecture.
Monday, November 3. Dismantle your understanding of the barriers that run through collective life in the U.S. with Hopkins anthropology professor Dr. Anand Pandian and Something Between Us: The Everyday Walls of American Life, and How to Take Them Down. New York Academy of Sciences.
Tuesday, November 4. Unpack capitalism at a conversation between two economics scholars, Cédric Durand—How Silicon Valley Unleashed Techno-Feudalism: The Making of the Digital Economy—and Michael A. McCarthy—The Master’s Tools: How Finance Wrecked Democracy (and a Radical Plan to Rebuild It). The New School.
Wednesday, November 5. Come together at the Sheen Center for Thought & Culture for a night in celebration of interfaith dialogue, complete with a panel discussion and musical interludes from Sufi musicians and a Jewish cantor.
Mrs. John Barker Church (Angelica Schuyler), son Philip, and servant, by John Trumbull (detail).
Thursday, November 6. Reconsider America’s Founding Era through the lives of two formidable women; Amanda Vaill presents her new Pride and Pleasure: The Schuyler Sisters in an Age of Revolution. The New York Society Library.
L'Art Italien, 1935. Umberto Brunelleschi.
Friday, November 7. Take advantage of a Free Friday at Poster House, with a happy hour, a screening of Fellini's Amarcord, and a docent tour of current exhibition The Future Was Then: The Changing Face of Fascist Italy.
Saturday, November 8. Lend an ear to vocalists and composers Mahsa and Marjan Vahdat at an afternoon workshop, sharing their journey as women singers from Iran, where the solo female voice has been banned since the 1979 revolution. (They return on Sunday the 9th for a concert.) Asia Society and Museum.
Sunday, November 9. Mark 87 years since the Night of Broken Glass with the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and a Kristallnacht Commemoration concert and poetry reading.
Monday, November 10. Pull up a seat for a staged reading of Thornton Wilder's The Long Christmas Dinner with luminaries including playwrights James Ijames and Sarah Ruhl. Symphony Space.
Tuesday, November 11. Uncover the identities of the builders of the world's most famous skyscraper with Glenn Kurtz and his new Men at Work: The Empire State Building and the Untold Story of the Craftsmen Who Built It. Book Culture.
Wednesday, November 12. Discover the unknown lives that helped build a borough with Prithi Kanakamedala and her recent publication Brooklynites: The Remarkable Story of the Free Black Communities that Shaped a Borough. Museum of the City of New York.
Thursday, November 13. Re-examine the lives of Enlightenment philosophers with Columbia University professor Joanna Stalnaker, presenting The Rest Is Silence: Enlightenment Philosophers Facing Death.
Friday, November 14. Fly away to an Open House New York tour of JFK, as the Port Authority shows off major redevelopments at a facility that sees 1,300 flights a day.
Saturday, November 15. It's hats off to a history of the fedora, among the trio of lectures you'll find at Caveat at the next Nerd Nite.
Sunday, November 16. Erase the centuries with a Salon/Sanctuary Concerts pre-Romantic performance, Paradise Toss’d: Heavenly Queens, Earthly Crowns, and the Smoldering Embers of Rule, at St. Mark's Church-in-the-Bowery.
Monday, November 17. Spend the evening with the Irish Arts Center and David McWilliams, who launches his new The History of Money: A Story of Humanity.
Tuesday, November 18. Reflect on a quarter century of stagnation in the arts with W. David Marx as he launches Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century. St. Joseph’s University.
Wednesday, November 19. Consider what it means to be a civic space with the Metropolitan Museum of Art and a panel of architects looking at the crucial role of museums in bringing people, ideas, and objects together.
Thursday, November 20. Trace the relation between hard times and authoritarianism with economist Clara Mattei, who discusses her book Capital Order: How Economists Invented Austerity and Paved the Way to Fascism at Centro Primo Levi, Bookhouse.
Friday, November 21. Drill down on associative understanding and machine learning at a cognitive science presentation at Graduate Center, CUNY.
Saturday, November 22. Embrace wellness at the Brooklyn Museum with a morning of yoga and meditation inspired by current exhibition Monet and Venice (gallery access is included with your ticket).
Sunday, November 23. Visit Harlan County, USA and a screening of a 1970s union struggle with filmmaker Barbara Kopple, who won an Oscar for this 1976 documentary. Museum of the Moving Image.
Monday, November 24. Preview the New York of today with a look at the city in the '80s. Jonathan Mahler talks about his new The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the Birth of the Modern City: 1986–1990. Center for Brooklyn History.
Tuesday, November 25. Broaden your understanding of the Revolutionary War with a New York Historical conversation on the lesser-known role of Spain in the conflict.
Wednesday, November 26. Catch a MoMA screening of Charles Burnett's 1977 Killer of Sheep, in a double feature with 1964's Nothing But a Man, in the context of current film series Carte Blanche: Arthur Jafa, curated by the Mississippi-born filmmaker.
Thursday, November 27. Pay a Thanksgiving Day visit to the National Museum of the American Indian and the treasures in the exhibition Infinity of Nations: Art and History in the Collections of the National Museum of the American Indian.
Friday, November 28. Enjoy a Free Friday Nights visit to the Whitney and explore current exhibitions like the sweeping survey Sixties Surreal.
Saturday, November 29. Celebrate the harvest season and The Paul Winter Consort's first-ever Thanksgiving celebration at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, presenting the concert premiere of Winter's new album Horn of Plenty.
Sunday, November 30. Find a rare opportunity to experience Persian classical musician Kayhan Kalhor, master of the kamancheh (spiked fiddle), live in concert at The Town Hall.
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