David Droese, AIA and Lance Raney are in conversation with architecture and design writer Ian Volner to celebrate the launch of their new monograph Droese Raney x Design.
Marta Bernstein will take you back in time to the Nineteenth Century through its overly-decorated, quirky, and extremely lively typefaces. Can we still learn anything from the past? Do we really need to preserve all that old paper artifacts? Public libraries, dusty archives, and long forgotten books: what feeds creativity is often waiting in disguise. …
Valentines, galentines, hot girls, black cat baddies plus their golden retriever bfs, here-for-good-time-not-a-long-time babes, close out the romance season the right way: at our Valentine's Drag Showhosted by our resident queen Kendall Knight! Festivities will feature trivia, a raffle and more! Win your valentine - or your goddamn self <3 - special Strand goodies by …
Acclaimed interior designer to the Hollywood A-list Kathryn M. Ireland celebrates thirty years of decorating in conversation with Kate Betts. PLEASE NOTE: RSVPs are encouraged but not required. Seating is limited and will be first come, first served. Doors open at 5:30 pm.
Does autospacing make your tummy hurt? Does Papyrus make your eyes roll? Once exposed to the art of typography, many individuals never recover. Ellen Lupton will share stories about people who learned to live with type and lead productive, possibly happy lives. Meet Type Mom (Ellen’s beloved alter ego), and learn about Thinking with Type, …
Synopsis: Martial artist-in-training Ria Khan believes she must save her older sister Lena from her impending marriage. After enlisting the help of her friends, Ria attempts to pull off the most ambitious of all wedding heists in the name of independence and sisterhood. Free outdoor screening every Wednesday at 8pm! Book your viewing party through …
A gripping investigation into the mysterious assassination of a journalist in India, revealing the courage and vulnerability of those who are fighting the decline of democracy around the world. Author and journalist Rollo Romig will be joined by writer and academic Suchitra Vijayan for a reading, conversation, reception, and signing to celebrate the publication of …
What do you do when you’re too gay for Pakistan, too Pakistani to be gay in America, and you’re ashamed of your body everywhere? How can you find happiness despite years of humiliation, physical danger, and a legion of Brooklyn hipsters who know you only as a queer from Whereveristan? How do you summon the …
Author/professor Aruni Kashyap will read from his new novel, The Way You Want to Be Loved (Gaudy Boy, 2024). At a New Delhi conference, an Assamese writer is interrogated on why he writes about magical folktales instead of the insurgencies. A mother splashes around in the village lake to mask the lovemaking sounds of her …
To center work that deliberates over our place in broken institutions, grapples with precarious political conditions, and narrativizes ongoing conflict with urgency, Radix presents a reading and discussion on literature as a political response. How does one write in the moment of upheaval and put into words the cost to life and land with both …
Amitava Kumar questions what ordinary existence is in his novel My Beloved Life, which tells the story of India’s history over the last 85 years through the lens of a modest father. In Temim Fruchter’s City of Laughter, Shiva, a queer Jewish mythology student, retraces four generations of her family’s secrets in Poland to try …
Prof. Manu Bhagavan will present his biography, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (Penguin, 2023), based on eight years of research and using material in five languages from seven countries and over forty archives. Pandit ‘the most remarkable woman’ Eleanor Roosevelt had ever met, was a pioneering politician and diplomat celebrated internationally for her brilliance, charm and glamour. …
A screening of Ang Lee's 2012 film "Life of Pi," based on Yann Martel’s novel about a boy lost at sea. The event is part of the "Water and Oil: The Movies of Ang Lee" retrospective and will be followed by a Q&A with director Ang Lee.
A class led by Bharatanatyam experts and practitioners Aparna, Ranee, and Ashwini Ramaswamy, founders of the Ragamala Dance Company. The session introduces participants to Alarmél Valli’s lineage of Bharatanatyam, focusing on its percussive, poetic, and expressive vocabularies. The Ramaswamys will discuss the concept of lineage and its influence on their creative aesthetic.
