Mary Gaitskill is the author of three novels, three books of short stories, and an essay collection. Her honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a PEN/Faulkner Award nomination for Because They Wanted To. Veronica was a National Book Award nominee, as well as a National Book Critics Circle finalist. In 2002 she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, and that same […]
Join us for un Cafecito con… Dr. Taína Caragol, Curator of Painting and Sculpture and Latino Art and History, and Historian Dr. Kate Clarke Lemay, both of the the National Portrait Gallery, to discuss their exhibition, 1898: U.S. Imperial Visions and Revisions, currently on display until February 25, 2023. This conversation will be moderated by CENTRO Research Associate, […]
India and the United States will each next year hold what could be the most significant election in generations. This event aims to facilitate an in-depth conversation about what’s at stake. The program features prominent panelists: Ali Velshi, Naresh Fernandes, Mitra Kalita, and Suketu Mehta. The panel will be moderated by Hunter professor Manu Bhagavan. Panelist Bios: Naresh Fernandes is the Editor […]
Roosevelt House is pleased to present a discussion of the new book The Times: How the Newspaper of Record Survived Scandal, Scorn, and the Transformation of Journalism by veteran Times reporter Adam Nagourney. In this sweeping and immersive chronicle of the last four, sometimes turbulent decades of “the paper of record,” Nagourney takes readers behind the scenes as the Times navigates world-changing events, […]
Join Quintín Rivera Toro and José Ortiz Pagán as they explores their pieces on display as part of the exhibition, Ida y vuelta: Experiencias de la migración en el arte puertorriqueño contemporáneo at the Hunter College East Harlem Gallery. Rivera Toro's The Grass was Greener (2017) and Untitled, from the series Ahi vamos (2007) and Ortiz Pagán's […]
Join CENTRO in East Harlem for Meriendita, a story hour dedicated to children's books! This month's Meriendita features The Coquíes Still Sing/ Los coquíes aún cantan by Karina Gonzalez, a Pura Belpré Honor Book for Children's Text and for Children's Illustration and was chosen as the Read Across America book of the month for September! […]
In the mid-1960s, the Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica began embracing joyously transgressive modes of performance, film, and installation to champion marginalized persons and their culture. Made in collaboration with the Brazilian filmmaker Neville D’Almeida while Oiticica was self-exiled to New York during the 1970s, the original installation series of five Bloco-Experiências in Cosmococa–Programa in Progress […]
More than 120 studios will be open showcasing the work of MFA & BFA students. There will be a fundraising exhibition on the 2nd Floor with works for sale and proceeds benefitting our student organization, along with special project spaces curated by Hunter College MA and MFA students throughout the building. No pets allowed unless […]
Please join us for a conversation with author Amy Yee as we mark the release of Far From the Rooftop of the World: Travels Among Tibetan Refugees on Four Continents with a foreword by […]
Mary Szybist is most recently the author of Incarnadine, winner of the 2013 National Book Award for Poetry. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the Witter Bynner Foundation in conjunction with the Library of Congress, and the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center. Her work […]
