Events

Each semester, weekly visiting artist lectures host noted artists, curators, critics, and historians to share their perspectives, expertise, and current work, and to give insight into contemporary issues facing artists and designers.

by Noami Iizuka, directed by Michi Barall

This workshop style production reimagines Homer’s The Odyssey as a modern-day story about a young refugee named Anon searching for his mother in the United States, blending magical realism with themes of displacement, identity, and the immigrant experience. 

Stephen Greenblatt (Ph.D. Yale) is Cogan University Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University. Also General Editor of The Norton Shakespeare, he is the author of eleven books, including The Swerve: How the World Became Modern; Shakespeare’s Freedom; Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare; Hamlet in Purgatory; Practicing New Historicism; Marvelous Possessions: The Wonder of the New World;and Learning to Curse: Essays in Early Modern Culture. He has edited seven collections of criticism, including Cultural Mobility: A Manifesto, and is a founding coeditor of the journal Representations. His honors include the MLA’s James Russell Lowell Prize for Shakespearean Negotiations: The Circulation of Social Energy in Renaissance England, the Distinguished Humanist Award from the Mellon Foundation, the Wilbur Cross Medal from the Yale University Graduate School, the William Shakespeare Award for Classical Theatre, the Erasmus Institute Prize, two Guggenheim Fellowships, and the Distinguished Teaching Award from the University of California, Berkeley. He was president of the Modern Language Association of America and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

A day of recitals, workshops and masterclasses for trumpet players.

This year’s centerpiece film at the New York Indian Film Festival, Flowers of Acacia profiles the remarkable lives of orchestra dancers who perform at weddings in the Punjab.

Join Museum Director Tracy Fitzpatrick on a tour of the exhibition, The Declaration Distributed: Westchester County’s Holt Broadside of 1776.