Slide Lecture | A History of Forgery

With Nick Wilding. We are accustomed to reading about art forgeries, counterfeit antiquities, pirated pharmaceuticals, even fake racing bikes. Until recently most people assumed that it was not possible to forge rare books, and that any such attempts would be easily detected. Using the Library’s unrivaled collection of forgeries and facsimiles, investigate the surprisingly long and complicated history of techniques and technologies deployed in forging.

Midtown, New York, NY

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9:30 am
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City Walk | Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn Heights and Dumbo Tour

This is a 3-hour tour that begins with a walk over the Brooklyn Bridge, an icon of New York City for over 125 years, with spectacular views of Manhattan and Brooklyn. The tour then moves on to a stroll of Brooklyn Heights, America’s and New York City’s first suburb. The tour then explores the neighborhood DUMBO before ending at the Fulton Ferry landing. This tour takes place every day at 10am.

Lower Manhattan,

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10:00 am
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Workshop | MS Excel 2010 for Beginners Workshop

Learn the basics of working with spreadsheets using Microsoft Excel 2010. Topics include entering data and formulas, moving and copying data, formatting & print previewing worksheets.

Midtown,

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10:30 am
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**Film | Vincente Minnelli's Gigi (1958): Winner of 9 Academy Awards**

Stars: Leslie Caron, Maurice Chevalier, Louis Jourdan. Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship, but it may not stay platonic for long. 116 min.

Hell's Kitchen, New York, NY

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11:00 am
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Workshop | Learn Juggling in the Park

Test your coordination and dexterity with free juggling lessons in the park. All skill levels are welcome to join in the fun. Equipment is provided. Lessons are weather permitting. This workshop occurs Mondays through Fridays.

Midtown,

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12:00 pm
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Concert | Bach at Noon

The keyboard works of Bach offered in 30-minute meditations by Patrick Allen, organist and master of choristers, and Phillip Lamb, organ scholar. Bach at Noon concerts takes place Tuesdays through Fridays, from September 15, 2015 to May 26, 2016.

Lower Manhattan,

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12:20 pm
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Tour | Federal Reserve Bank Tour

Learn about central banking functions that Federal Reserve System performs and see Bank's vault of international monetary gold on bedrock of Manhattan Island, five stories below street level. Learn why Federal Reserve has "Federal" in its name, while it's a private bank, not Federal at all. Tour times: 1:00pm, 2:00pm. This tour takes place Mondays through Fridays, except bank holidays.

Lower Manhattan,

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1:00 pm
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Workshop | Lunchtime Meditation

Take a mid-day pause to refresh your mind and re-establish your center in the midst of bustling city life. Meditation is a powerful tool to eliminate stress, to heal the body, mind, and brain, and to enhance your personal well-being and positive relationship with the world. This workshop takes place Tuesdays and Thursdays from March 1 to March 31.

Midtown,

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1:00 pm
$10 suggested donation

Concert | Revolutionaries: The Late Works of Beethoven and Ginastera

Program: Alberto Ginastera Sonata, for violoncello and piano, Op. 49 Ludwig van Beethoven Twelve Variations on Handel's "See, the Conqu'ring Hero comes," WoO 45 Richard Wilson Motivations for cello and piano With: Jeffrey Zeigler, cello; Pedja Muzijevic, piano

Lower Manhattan, New York, NY

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1:00 pm
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Concert | The Piper in the Parlor: Scottish and Irish Music

The music of Scotland and Ireland was highly fashionable in Britain at the turn of the 18th-19th centuries. Publications such as the Scots Musical Museum (1787-1792), The Hibernian Muse (c.1770), and O'Farrell's Pocket Companion for the Irish or Union Pipes (1804-1810) helped bring this music, and the instruments upon which it was played, to an aristocratic audience of both listeners and amateur musicians. Performers:  Christa Patton, harp, Scottish smallpipes, and flute; Peter Walker, uilleann pipes, highland bagpipe, and voice.

Midtown East, New York, NY

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1:15 pm
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**Film | Clifford Odets' None But the Lonely Heart (1944): Ethel Barrymore's Oscar**

Stars: Cary Grant, Ethel Barrymore, Barry Fitzgerald. When an itinerant reluctantly returns home to help his sickly mother run her shop, they are both tempted to turn to crime to help make ends meet. 113 min.

Carnegie Hill, New York, NY

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2:00 pm
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**Film | John Ford's Oscar Nominee Mogambo (1953): Love on the Savannah**

Stars: Clark Gable, Grace Kelly, Ava Gardner. Victor Marswell runs a big game trapping company in Kenya. Eloise Kelly is ditched there, and an immediate attraction happens between them. Then Mr. and Mrs. Nordley show up for their gorilla documenting safari. Mrs. Nordley is not infatuated with her husband any more, and takes a liking to Marswell. 115 minutes

Midtown,

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2:00 pm
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Lecture | Making Your Resume Work For You

Our resumes are given the impossible task of conveying our entire experience and our total value. In many circumstances it is the only way people know us. Let your resume speak in ways that serve you, to convey what it needs to and to sell you. Career coach, Win Sheffield will focus on the essentials of the resume, so you can get on with your career.

Upper Manhattan, New York, NY

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2:00 pm
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**Film | Tomas Alfredson's Oscar Nominee Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011): Spy Returns to the Cold**

Stars: Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy. In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet agent within MI6. 127 min.

Lower Manhattan, New York, NY

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2:00 pm
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Workshop | Windows 7 Basics Workshop

Learn the basics of navigating a PC with Windows 7.

Midtown,

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2:30 pm
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Author Reading | Zachary D. Kaufman discusses his book United States Law and Policy on Transitional Justice: Principles, Politics, and Pragmatics

Zachary D. Kaufman explores the U.S. government’s support for, or opposition to, certain transitional justice institutions. By first presenting an overview of possible responses to atrocities (such as war crimes tribunals) and then analyzing six historical case studies, Dr. Kaufman evaluates why and how the United States has pursued particular transitional justice options since World War II.

Lower Manhattan, New York, NY

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3:30 pm
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**Film | Nancy Meyers' The Intern (2015): Office Comedy**

Stars: Robert De Niro, Anne Hathaway, Rene Russo. 70-year-old widower Ben Whittaker has discovered that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin. 121 minutes

Midtown,

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4:00 pm
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**Film | Jack Winch's Stilts and Spokes (2014): Documentary on Disabled Comic**

After falling off a boulder while climbing and breaking his neck, Jay Cramer rebounds from injury to win the Los Angeles Funniest Comic competition. While in rehab, he meets and falls in love with Katy Sullivan, a world-class double above-the-knee amputee sprinter. 91 mins.

Upper East Side, New York, NY

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4:30 pm
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Book Discussion | Morningside Heights Book Discussion Group

They will be discussing SEE NOW THEN by Jamaica Kincaid.

Upper Manhattan, New York, NY

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5:30 pm
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Discussion | The Art of Justice 2: Articulating an Ethos and Aesthetic of the Movement

An interactive presentation and conversation on race, arts funding, and the survival of community-based arts organizations.

East Village, New York, NY

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5:30 pm
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Discussion | The Signs of the New Times: Regional Integration in Latin America and the Caribbean

Join us for a panel discussion and book presentation on the Latin American and Caribbean integration efforts from Simon Bolivar to the present with special guest Lic. Miguel Mejia, Minister for Regional Integration Policies, Dominican Republic.

East Harlem, New York, NY

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5:30 pm
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Discussion | 21st-Century Denim

Join Kara Nicholas, archivist at the legendary Cone Mills, denim industry veteran Andrew Olah, Professor Jeffrey Silberman, and Emma McClendon, curator of the exhibition Denim: Fashion’s Frontier, for a panel discussion on the current state of the denim industry and where it is heading in the 21st century.

Midtown, New York, NY

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6:00 pm
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**Opening Reception | Asian Perspectives: Contemporary Photography**

Featuring: Tseng Kwong Chi, Masahisa Fukase, Yuji Hamada, Fan Ho, Min Byung Hun, Yoko Ikeda, Yasuhiro Ishimoto, Miyako Ishiuchi, Yoshihiko Ito, Kary Ka-che Kwok, Reagan Louie, Dodo Jin Ming, Yasumasa Morimura, Jun Morinaga, Daido Moriyama, Toshio Shibata, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Kazuo Sumida, Shomei Tomatsu, Magdalen Wong, Xinhuan News Agency

Midtown, New York, NY

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6:00 pm
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Lecture | Carpathologia Cosmophilica: Ukrainian Author Yuri Andrukhovych Discusses the Newest Translations of His Books

Yuri Andrukhovych was born in 1960 in Ivano-Frankivsk, Ukraine. In 1985, together with Viktor Neborak and Oleksandr Irvanets, he founded the popular literary performance group "Bu-Ba-Bu" (Burlesque-Bluster-Buffoonery). He has published four poetry books — Sky and Squares (1985), Downtown (1989), Exotic Birds and Plants (1991, new editions 1997 and 2002) and The Songs for A Dead Rooster (2004).

Upper Manhattan, New York, NY

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6:00 pm
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Concert | Cello in the Evening: Bach, Beethoven, Rachmaninoff

Bach, Beethoven and Rachmaninoff - today, their music is among the most loved of their respective eras: Baroque, Classical and Romantic. All three were performers of the keyboard at the highest level. Cellist Enrique Orengo and pianist Sayuri Iida present an exciting tour through music history.

Lincoln Square,

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6:00 pm
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**Opening Reception | Hedda Sterne's Machines 1947-1951: Paintings**

An exhibition of mid-century paintings and works on paper by this preeminent figure of the American postwar period. Hedda Sterne began her “Machines” series in 1947 after encountering farming machinery on a trip to Vermont. The result: Anthropographs, abstracted machines with a humanlike nature. Sterne, a recent emigre from Romania, was deeply affected by the cultural and aesthetic shift she discovered in the United States.

Upper East Side, New York, NY

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6:00 pm
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Talk | Life After The New Yorker

Elisabeth Biondi, former Visuals Editor for The New Yorker, will talk.

Lower Manhattan, New York, NY

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6:00 pm
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Opening Reception | Paintings: James Austin Murray's Super Massive Black Hole

As the light shifts in the gallery, one begins to notice that James Austin Murray's compositions visually shift from concave to convex. It is odd to speak three dimensionally about a two dimensional surface, but Murray is the only artist we have ever shown where the viewer is transfixed by the surface of the painting, following the brushstroke across the canvas, only to approach the piece and look at the piece from its side as their brain is not convinced as to what their eyes see.

Midtown, New York, NY

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6:00 pm
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**Opening Reception | Suzanne McClelland's Articulate Muscle 1976: New Works in Handmade Paper and a Video**

Suzanne McClelland is drawn to language and semiotics. Since the early 1990s her paintings, drawings, videos and installations have utilized fragments of text and data drawn from a wide variety of political and cultural sources.

Hell's Kitchen, New York, NY

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6:00 pm
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Lecture | The Rest of the Story of the Suffrage Movement

History becomes as fresh as today’s headlines when veteran women’s studies professor and author Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner takes the stage or podium. The historic struggle of activists to create a just and free society resonates anew, enlightening and inspiring audiences of all ages to carry on the work.

Lower Manhattan, New York, NY

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6:00 pm
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Discussion | Whose Body, What Choice: Egg Provision, Gestational Surrogacy, and Extending Parenthood

As the scope of reproductive technologies expands, individuals with specific reproductive desires are capitalizing on new ways to create families, policymakers are scrambling to regulate practices locally and internationally, and researchers are making use of the “leftover” bioresources to support biomedical research. Join a panel of scholars to discuss the societal and legal dimensions of reproductive and stem cell technologies that involve and invoke bodies, labor, and care.

Lower Manhattan, New York, NY

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6:00 pm
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Workshop | Chinese Calligraphy Class

Learn how to use a brush pen to write Chinese calligraphy with an experience instructor. No Chinese language knowledge required. Library will provide supplies. This class repeats Thursday evenings in March and April.

Midtown,

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6:30 pm
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Performance | Conceptual Artist Aaron Taylor Kuffner in Performance

Join conceptual artist Aaron Taylor Kuffner for a one-night live performance with his gamelatron (sonic kinetic sculpture with Indonesian gamelan instruments), which is featured in the Louise Despont: Energy Scaffolds and Information Architecture installation.

Lower Manhattan, New York, NY

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6:30 pm
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**Film | French Documentary: Nora Phillippe's Job Center Please Hang On (2014)**

Unemployment stands above 10% in France today, and is even higher for people who are young (25%), or unqualified, and for those living in the banlieues outside Paris and other big cities. This documentary observes the inner workings of an employment agency in Seine-Saint-Denis, a working class Parisian suburb, told from the perspective of 40 agents who try to find work for 4000 unemployed men and women. 78 min. Followed by Q+A with director Nora Philippe.

Upper Manhattan, New York, NY

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6:30 pm
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Lecture | Making News: The Sonzogno Affair and the Cultural Politics of Citizenship in Liberal Italy

A lecture by Silvia Valisa, Florida State University. In 1875, a high profile crime brought together Italian newspaper journalism, legal courts, prominent political figures and a rising family of publishers in unexpected ways. On the evening of February 6, during the Roman Carnival, Raffaele Sonzogno, the director of the daily La capitale, was brutally assassinated at the newspaper’s headquarters.

Lower Manhattan, New York, NY

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6:30 pm
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Slide Lecture | Nicole A. Taylor discusses her book The Up South Cookbook: Chasing Dixie in a Brooklyn Kitchen

This illustrated lecture showcases the Georgia native's classic Southern personal favorite recipes, informed and updated by newly discovered ingredients and different cultures.

Midtown,

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6:30 pm
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Poetry Reading | Columbia University Writing Program Poets

Poets Samuel Adamon, Harmony Holiday, Filip Marinovich, and Camille Rankins will read from their works.

Upper West Side, New York, NY

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