Each week, newyorker.com posts a list of readings, author and artist appearances, and other magazine-related happenings. This week’s calendar includes information about the New Yorker Nights program, the “Art and Artists: New Yorker Cartoons from the Melvin R. Seiden Collection” exhibit at the Bruce Museum, and an exhibition of Ben Katchor’s picture-stories. Also listed is the date for an appearance by Margaret Atwood.
New Yorker Nights
The New Yorker and the Columbia University Arts Initiative present a series of talks, interviews, and readings featuring New Yorker writers and editors.
Tickets for each event can be reserved one week in advance of the event date. A maximum of two tickets can be reserved for each event. Please call the Miller Theatre reservation line at 212-854-7799 or visit the Miller Theatre box office, at 116th Street and Broadway. The reservation line and box office are open from 12 noon to 6 P.M., Monday through Friday.
All events will be held at the Miller Theatre in New York, N.Y., and will begin at 7 P.M. Doors open at 6:30.
January 31 Larissa MacFarquhar in conversation with Dr. Oliver Sacks
February 21 Malcolm Gladwell
February 28 Deborah Treisman with Jonathan Lethem and A. M. Homes
March 7 Susan Morrison with New Yorker humor writers
April 11 Poetry in Wartime
April 25 Henry Louis Gates, Jr., in conversation with Simon Schama
Art and Artists: New Yorker Cartoons from the Melvin R. Seiden Collection
The exhibition features fifty original drawings for cartoons dealing with art and artists, taken from the pages of The New Yorker. The works, some in color, are on loan from Melvin R. Seiden, who has assembled one of the most extensive private collections of New Yorker cartoons in the world. Included in the show is a selection of portraits of the artists by photographer Anne Hall. The exhibition is supported by the Charles M. and Deborah Royce Exhibition Fund.
The exhibition is accompanied by a four-color catalogue, which includes essays by Bruce Museum Executive Director Peter Sutton and Bruce Museum Senior Curator of Art Nancy Hall-Duncan, as well as photographs of many of the artists.
October 1 - December 31
Greenwich, Conn.
Bruce Museum
One Museum Drive
203-869-0376
Ben Katchor
The artist’s work will be on display in “The Insomniac’s Mansion and Other Picture-Stories.”
November 7, 2005 - February 3, 2006
Providence, R.I.
Carriage House Gallery, Brown University
47 Power St.
401-863-1177
Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood’s forthcoming book, “The Tent” (Random House), will be published in January. As part of the thirtieth anniversary of the Evening Readings series, the author will read from her work and will be interviewed by Leonard Lopate.
Admission to this event is $10.
February 14, 7 p.m.
Flushing, N.Y.
Queens College
Music Building
718-997-4646
www.qc.edu/readings
