92NY’s School Engagement in the Arts plays an outsized role in bringing the arts to public school students in NYC. They serve thousands of students and teachers every year with in-depth classroom visits from top teaching artists and innovative curriculum design; they program concerts and dance performances on 92NY main stages with some of the most respected artists in the world …
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We are saddened by the passing of the incomparable Ruth Westheimer – cultural trailblazer, and a treasured friend of 92NY for more than 40 years. Dr. Ruth first appeared on our stage in June 1983. “Sexually Speaking,” her live call-in radio show, had risen to the Number 1 spot in the New York market and Susan Engel, Executive Director, Recanati-Kaplan Talks, invited her to come for a talk …
Pianist Aaron Diehl, new artistic director of 92NY’s Jazz in July, is one of the most distinctive and respected artists in jazz. Championed by and touring with Wynton Marsalis early in his career, Diehl has also been pianist and music director for Cécile McLorin Salvant and collaborated with jazz legends including Benny Golson and Jimmy Heath …
Ahead of his upcoming Roundtable course on the literary history of the Upper East Side beginning Friday, July 17 — featuring inspired, insightful readings of Edith Wharton’s New York stories, John O’Hara’s BUtterfield 8, Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s, J. D. Salinger’s Nine Stories and Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters, Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the Vanities, Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch, Sarah Schulman’s The Cosmopolitans, and others …
Whenever you encounter the phrase “Do not go gentle,” or a performance of Under Milk Wood, or a reading of A Child’s Christmas in Wales, please know that their currency and America’s respect for Dylan Thomas is due, in large part, to John Malcolm Brinnin and The 92nd Street Y …
“I’ve been trying to figure out what makes me me. I understand the raw materials, at least as much as anyone who got a C+ in Biology, but then what do you have to put in the mixing bowl to end up writing like I write, playing like I play, being interested in the corners of the world that most excite me? …
On April 18, two of music’s most compelling vocal artists – mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves and baritone Justin Austin – bring the immersive concert work COTTON to our stage …
Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, and his relationship with 92NY, is the stuff of legend. In 1953, at the invitation of John Malcolm Brinnin (the Poetry Center’s director at the time), Thomas premiered his now classic Under Milk Wood, a “play for voices,” to great acclaim on our stage — only six months before his death. Brinnin’s subsequent memoir about Thomas, published two years later, was a scandal — depicting Thomas as a self-destructive alcoholic and a poetic genius in equal measure. …
What is 92NY? A category on an episode of Jeopardy! Next Friday, March 8, in the semifinals of the Tournament of Champions, the classic trivia show will put your knowledge of 92NY history to the test in a category called 150 YEARS OF THE 92ND STREET Y. …
The sweep of 150 years of history at The 92nd Street Y is nowhere embodied more fittingly – or more vibrantly – than in dance. On March 12, we present one never-before celebration on our stage and unveil another in our art gallery. We hope you’ll join us! …
As we head into our celebration of Laura Nyro next month at Lyrics & Lyricists – Soul Picnic: The Songs and Legacy of Laura Nyro (Mar 2-4), led by Broadway’s Judy Kuhn – we thought we’d share a few words from a dozen of the many luminaries who have admired her and counted her as an influence
In celebration of Black History Month, we're looking back at ten of the iconic Black artists who have presented audacious, innovative, ingenious work on our stages — some of the most definitive American art and creative thought of the last century — a tradition that continues to this day …
Ahead of his conversation with Malcolm Gladwell next Sunday, February 4, writer Mitch Albom (Tuesdays with Morrie) sat down with us to talk about his new novel, The Little Liar — and his perspective on why his books have resonated with millions of readers all over the world …
MTV’s Josh Horowitz has hosted countless interviews and screenings at 92NY with the biggest stars in the Hollywood firmament — the actors and filmmakers who define movies, TV, and comedy today — in live recordings of his hit podcast, Happy Sad Confused …
Our marquee Recanati-Kaplan Talks series continued to set the bar for conversation in America — a joyful, raucously entertaining, critically informative forum that defines our society. This week, we invite you to watch — or watch again — some of our programming team’s favorite talks of the year, for free. A small way to thank you for being part of our community again in 2023 …
Ruth Goodman, founder and director of the Israeli Dance Institute and the Parparim Ensemble of Israeli Dance and Song, has been leading 92NY’s popular Israeli Folk Dance program for over 40 years. What sustains her passion? …
“A musician of probing intellect and open-hearted vision” is how The New York Times has described pianist Conrad Tao. On December 6, that vision centers on Rachmaninoff, as Tao explores the romantic side of the iconic composer in his concert Rachmaninoff Songbook …
The songs of music icon and 25-time Grammy Award winner Stevie Wonder fill the soundtrack of our lives. As Lyrics & Lyricists gears up for IN THE KEY OF LIFE, a celebration of Wonder’s extraordinary songbook and legacy, the show’s artistic director and featured performer, Broadway’s Darius de Haas, talked with us about his deep connection to Stevie Wonder’s music, its place in the American Songbook, the song that’s particularly meaningful to him, and more …
World-renowned pianist Garrick Ohlsson is one of 92NY’s most treasured musical friends. He has performed on our stage more than a dozen times, his last solo concert in an empty Kaufmann Concert Hall on March 14, 2020 – a sudden pivot to our very first livestreamed event when the pandemic closed our doors …
Ahead of her upcoming conversation with Helen Garner, The New Yorker’s Merve Emre sat down to talk to the Unterberg Poetry Center’s new director Sarah Chihaya about the great Australian novelist — Garner’s exquisite powers of description, her growing popularity in the US, the arc of her career, and more …
Ahead of her upcoming reading with Sandra Cisneros, we talked to acclaimed poet and sound artist LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs about her strikingly personal new book, Village, the poetry of grief, her singular performance style, expecting the unexpected, and more
Revered saxophonist Joshua Redman opens the 2023/24 Tisch Music Season with music from his lyrical new album where are we. Ahead of his September 27 concert, he talked with us about the project and sharing the melodic spotlight with a vocalist for the first time, his wide musical lens, taking on The Boss, and more …
Ahead of her upcoming conversation with #1 New York Times bestselling author and surgeon Atul Gawande (Being Mortal) on September 22, we talked to Pulitzer Prize finalist Kay Redfield Jamison (An Unquiet Mind, Robert Lowell: Setting the River on Fire) about the fascinating history of psychotherapy, her changing perceptions of mental illness in America, how artists have contributed to our understanding of mental health, and her new book, Fires in the Dark. …
In the vibrant tapestry of New York City’s ’90s arts scene, a tap dance revolution was gathering artists and musicians from all over the nation, Michelle Dorrance among them. Shows like Black and Blue, Jelly’s Last Jam, Bubbling Brown Sugar and Sophisticated Ladies had ignited a renaissance of interest in tap, setting the stage for a transformative period of the art form …
“We are in the business of making sure people live their happiest, most intellectually engaged lives,” says 92NY Director of Continuing Education Melanie Macchio. “Roundtable allows that to happen at a scale we never could have dreamed of even a couple of years ago.” …
Ahead of our upcoming landmark reading in celebration of Daughters of Latin America — hosted by Rosie Perez and including contributors Jamaica Kincaid, Quiara Alegría Hudes, Esmeralda Santiago, and many more — editor Sandra Guzmán talked to us about the joyful work of curating the anthology, the relationship between language and survival, the importance of bringing marginalized voices to the center of our literary conversation, and much more …
Poetry Center Co-Director Ricardo Alberto Maldonado joined 92NY 16 years ago, and his contributions to our institution’s literary culture have been immeasurable — he’s served as a crucial force in the curation of our reading series, organized our writing workshops and literary seminars, administered the Discovery Poetry Contest, and much more …
Broadway lost an icon, the world a gifted mensch, and The 92nd Street Y a treasured friend with the recent passing of Sheldon Harnick. One of musical theater’s most celebrated lyricists, Harnick’s creations include the Pulitzer Prizewinning Fiorello!, She Loves Me, and his groundbreaking nine-time Tony Award-winning Fiddler on the Roof – Broadway’s original longest-running show and one of the world’s most performed and enduring musicals …
Ahead of her upcoming reading of Gwendolyn Brooks’ Maud Martha, we talked to acclaimed actress Roslyn Ruff about her connection to the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet’s sole novel, how she’s transforming text into performance, her longtime affinity for poets, and more …
Behind the Marshall Weinberg Classical Music Season that comes to a close next weekend – a season bookended with performances by premier violinist Joshua Bell and the superstar trio of violinist Stefan Jackiw, cellist Alisa Weilerstein, and pianist Daniil Trifonov – is a man who plays no instrument but has been instrumental to every note. Marshall Weinberg is among the most generous supporters of classical music in the history of The 92nd Street Y …
Seventy years ago tonight, on May 14, 1953, the lights dimmed in 92NY’s Kaufmann Auditorium for the premiere of poet Dylan Thomas’ Under Milk Wood — an audaciously inventive “play for voices,” as Thomas called it, blurring the line between poetry and theater …
Colm Tóibín has written that Seamus Heaney “was not merely a central figure in the literary life of Ireland, but in its emotional life, in its dream life, in its real life. His skill at playing with rhythm, pushing phrases and images as hard as they will go, offered the poems an undertone, a gravity—a space between the words that allowed them to soar or shiver” …
From John Coltrane to Jimmy Heath to Joshua Redman, Sarah Vaughan to Dianne Reeves to Cécile McLorin Salvant, Thelonious Monk to Bill Evans to Hank Jones to Kenny Barron – for nearly 70 years, The 92nd Street Y has been a home to the greatest artists in jazz …
Billy Stritch and Dick Scanlan, creators of our new Lyrics & Lyricists production, take you behind the scenes …
Ahead of his reading with Ama Codjoe on April 10, Carl Phillips — a defining poet of his generation and the author of 16 collections of poetry — talked to us about his two new books, Then The War: New and Selected Poems, 2007-2020 and My Trade is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing, his influence on emerging writers, the unexpected joys of writing prose, and more …
Ahead of acclaimed actor Josh Hamilton’s reading from Franz Kafka’s magnetic, riveting diaries on Monday, March 13, we talked to translator Ross Benjamin — who has brought Kafka’s complete diaries into English for the first time ever — about the inherent drama of Kafka’s style, why it demands performance, how translating has altered Benjamin’s perception of the writer, and more …
Ahead of Roslyn Ruff’s upcoming reading of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks’ only novel, Maud Martha, we talked to New Yorker staff writer and theater critic Vinson Cunningham about how he abridged the text for the performance — and why Brooks and Maud Martha deserve to be heard by a new generation …
Ahead of their upcoming Roundtable seminar on the groundbreaking science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler’s final novel, Fledgling, we talked to acclaimed author Nisi Shawl — editor of the Library of America edition of Butler’s collected works — about creating plausible vampire stories, the prophetic nature of Butler’s writing, their close friendship, and much more …
NEA Jazz Master and triple Grammy Award winner Branford Marsalis is one of the most defining artists in jazz today. He is also one of music’s most expansive talents, performing Debussy with symphony orchestras, writing for film and theater (scores for George C. Wolfe films; a Tony nomination for Broadway work). He has collaborated with Sting and jammed with the Grateful Dead. But his musical home is with his renowned quartet – more than three decades in, one of the leading and most influential ensembles in all of music …
The Belfer Center for Innovation and Social Impact brings the mission of The 92nd Street Y, New York to life through grassroots global initiatives, leadership programs and civic movements. The Belfer Center has created a vibrant worldwide community built around big ideas and doing good …
You never know what might happen at a 92nd Street Y event. That’s true today and it was very much the case in 1952. One February night that year, two young Hunter College grads — Barbara Holdridge and Marianne Roney — came to a Dylan Thomas reading at 92NY, and their actions that night would change the course of their lives — and his …
Ahead of her upcoming Roundtable seminar on the short story — which offers incisive, close readings of three masterful stories by Elizabeth Bowen, Mavis Gallant, and Alice Munro — award-winning writer Tessa Hadley (author of Free Love, Late in the Day, The Past, and many others) talked to us about the mysteries of the form, the personal shock of reading Munro for the first time, why she loves reading in a group, and much more …
“Every artist brings their POV to a program they create,” says Amy Lam, Vice President of Tisch Music, “and the platform of a song recital is, I think, the best vehicle to really appreciate an artist for who they are. Through the selection of works, you come away with what makes an artist a great one, but also an appreciation of the human aspect and the values they stand for …
Ahead of his upcoming Roundtable seminar on T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, running in celebration of the great poem’s 100th anniversary — and Ralph Fiennes’ sold out staged reading — we talked to celebrated poet and critic Matthew Hollis about his new book The Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem, the truth about “difficult” poetry, why Eliot’s voice sounds as fresh as it’s ever been, and much more …
One evening last May, six young dance students – our 92NY Recanati-Kaplan dance scholars – sat in the front row of Kaufmann Concert Hall as their teacher and mentor Sameena Mitta and her company MeenMoves performed on stage as part of our Future Dance Festival. Mitta was one of 21 artists from around the world selected by an independent jury to showcase their work on the stage where some of the greatest luminaries in dance first presented their own …
We sat down with New Yorker writer and National Book Award-winning biographer Judith Thurman ahead of her Roundtable seminar on Colette’s Chéri and The End of Chéri to discuss the enigmatic, mordantly funny, taboo-flouting French writer — her inherent contradictions and dark humor, what Americans often miss when they read her, and why she still has the power to surprise us …
Liza Donnelly, the New Yorker staff cartoonist and author of eighteen books, is a regular participant at 92NY events — whether that’s appearing on our stage, or joining us as a member of the audience. And when she does, she often shares a cartoon of the action onstage …
Superstar violinist Joshua Bell, internationally acclaimed soprano Larisa Martinez, and renowned multi-genre pianist Peter Dugan open our Tisch Music 2022/23 season on Thu, Oct 20 with a sparkling program of arias, solos, and duets – specially arranged for these extraordinary artists – and including a brilliant West Side Story medley …
Amy Lam joined The 92nd Street Y, New York in November, 2021 as Vice President of Tisch Music, coming to us following more than two decades as Artistic Director of the renowned Celebrity Series of Boston. 92NY just announced the first concert season under Amy’s helm – a season so distinctive and exciting, it prompted Crain’s New York Business to name her one of their “5 New Yorkers to Know” in last week’s issue. We sat down with her to talk about the new season …
Ahead of her eagerly anticipated Roundtable course on T.H. White’s The Once and Future King — the definitive 20th century retelling …
Jazz in July 2022 kicks off in just three weeks with superstar Joshua Redman joining the Bill Charlap Trio as the first in an amazing lineup of some of the greatest and most influential artists in jazz …
Sara Becker’s Sounds of NYC project captures quintessential New York stories — and 100% of its profits go directly to The 92nd Street Y, New York. She talked to us about her inspiration for the project, the power of audio storytelling, why she wanted to support 92NY, and more …
Ahead of his upcoming class on Boccaccio’s Decameron for The 92nd Street Y, we sat down with critic, author, and Bard College professor of comparative literature Joseph Luzzi to talk about art’s relationship with historical disaster, the line between high culture and pop culture, why fiction can be just as useful as journalism, and more …
Sam Cooke possessed one of the most soulful, golden, angelic voices popular music has known. And in a too-brief period between 1957 and 1964, he used it to write, perform and record songs that would ease themselves into the soundtracks of our lives. Along the way, he helped change the course of music …
From Auden to Akbar, National Poetry Month at the Unterberg Poetry Center is a celebration of a living, breathing literary tradition that never ceases to astonish …
On April 6, in one of the most anticipated events of the New York City dance season, the Paul Taylor Dance Company brings choreographer Kurt Jooss’ 1932 antiwar masterpiece The Green Table to the stage where modern dance was born – ours …
On Saturday March 19, as the musicians sound the first notes of a jaunty overture and a cast of Broadway’s brightest talent hurries to their places on the stage of Kaufmann Concert Hall, an exuberant celebration of the American Songbook will begin – just as it has for much of 50 years …
Ahead of her conversation with actors André Holland, Chukwudi Iwuji and John Douglas Thompson on the challenges of playing Othello in the 21st century — co-moderated with James Shapiro — renowned Shakespeare scholar Ayanna Thompson sat down with us to talk about the nuances of the role, the shifting politics of race in its performances, how Shakespeare and the very idea of race “grew up as contemporaries,” and more …
The wait is finally over! Seven years since the bestselling Fashion Icons 1: Fashion Lives with Fern Mallis book premiered in 2015, The 92nd Street Y’s resident fashion industry insider Fern Mallis is releasing its long-awaited sequel this May: Fashion Icons 2
On Thursday, Feb 24 at 8 pm, our Harkness Artists in Residence, Baye & Asa and Passion Fruit Dance Company, will present their dynamic choreographic work, showcasing a variety of hip-hop, African, and street dance styles onstage in Kaufmann Concert Hall
The fashion industry is a quirky and unusual world, filled with great talents, huge egos, and bigger personalities. It is a fragile ecosystem that creates personas and cults that are sometimes larger than life. There are a handful of players often called crazy or obsessed, mentors or muses, gurus or guardians. I was so thrilled to host one of these very special individuals at Fashion Icons with Fern Mallis in 2013: André Leon Talley …
Give a young student the chance to study with a globally recognized expert, and possibilities are unlocked. In a new collaboration with Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute of Music — one of the most eminent music conservatories in the world and the launching ground of many of classical music’s most prominent artists — luminaries from its faculty bring their teaching and artistry to 92Y’s School of Music …
Reading and sharing ideas about books has become a crucial source of connection for the 92Y community during the pandemic. The Poetry Center’s Ricardo Maldonado and Sophie Herron, who are heavily involved in programming and moderating many of our literary programs at 92U, got together with Editorial Manager Daniel Poppick to talk about the books they loved most in 2021, how the pandemic has changed their reading habits, the poetry and 92U literary seminars they’re most looking forward to in 2022, and more …
Ahead of his highly anticipated first major New York City recital, we sat down with Randall Goosby, one of the most acclaimed classical artists of his generation. The 25-year-old Sphinx Competition winner, Itzhak Perlman protégé, and violin sensation shared thoughts on the music he champions, the greatest lesson he learned from “Mr. P,” and his passion for making classical music representative and accessible …
Ahead of her 92U course on Swann’s Way, the first volume in Marcel Proust’s monumental In Search of Lost Time, we sat down with award-winning literary critic and novelist Lila Azam Zanganeh to discuss her love of fairy tales, the connection between the essence of existence and cookies, her favorite contemporary writers, and much more …
Justin Davidson, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and New York magazine architecture critic, spoke to us at the start of his new four-part 92U course, New York City Form & Function: Skyline, Street, Apartment, Office, in which he brings insights into our iconic city from four distinct perspectives …
Our adult dance offerings just got an extra jolt of joy with new Lindy Hop classes led by three of the dance style’s most brilliant practitioners. Bessie Award-winning dancer and choreographer Caleb Teicher and swing dance masters Nathan Bugh and Gaby Cook have been leading New York City’s hottest and most in-demand Lindy Hop classes in pop-ups around the city. Now Harkness School of Dance Director Alison Manning has provided a home for them …
We’ve been chatting with each of the four 2021 Discovery Poetry Contest winners ahead of their reading on October 22. This week, Ina Cariño tells us about the feeling of dislocation in writing poetry between the US and the Philippines, grappling with blank spots in their ancestry in their poem “Ancestors for Sale,” the power of live poetry readings, and more …
We’ve been chatting with each of the four 2021 Discovery Poetry Contest winners ahead of their reading on October 22. This week, in the last conversation in our series, Kenzie Allen tells us about finding poetry in community, looking for joy in Indigenous ancestry in her poem “Quiet as Thunderbolts,” and more …
Marking the 10th anniversary of her namesake series, Fern Mallis invites some of the buzziest new voices in the business to our stage — the next-gen designers who are changing the face of fashion …
“The pioneers of modern dance were creating their work and taking risks on the stage of Kaufmann Concert Hall before anyone had even heard their names,” says Harkness Dance Center Director Taryn Kaschock Russell. “I thought, ‘There are amazing artists who are pushing the art form forward now. They need to be on this stage …
For over six decades, 92Y’s Discovery Poetry Contest has introduced exceptionally gifted young poets to a large audience early in their careers — including John Ashbery, Lucille Clifton, Mark Strand, Larry Levis, and Solmaz Sharif, to name but a few …
Fern Mallis writes: At one hundred years old, the self-proclaimed “world’s oldest teenager” and “geriatric starlet” is busier than anyone in New York City. She makes the Kardashians look like they are asleep. Tickets to our evening at the 92Y sold out in record time, twice! (thanks to an unplanned rain delay) … …
For over six decades, 92Y’s Discovery Poetry Contest has introduced exceptionally gifted young poets to a large audience early in their careers — including John Ashbery, Lucille Clifton, Mark Strand, Larry Levis, and Solmaz Sharif, to name but a few. This year, final contest judges Rick Barot, Mónica de la Torre, and Patricia Spears Jones selected four winning poets — Alexandra Zukerman, Kenzie Allen, Ina Cariño, and Mag Gabbert. Each receives a reading at 92Y, publication in The Paris Review Daily, a stay at the Ace Hotel in Manhattan and $500 …
Theater for Young Audiences was established at 92Y to create professional productions geared toward children — to introduce families to the joy of musical theater and inspire the next generation of dancers, singers, and theater-loving dreamers in an intimate setting. Theater for Young Audiences gives families up-close access to the magic of the art form that can be lost in the large-scale spectacle of a Broadway musical …
On Tuesday, July 20, Jazz in July returned to 92Y’s historic Kaufmann Concert Hall with a show of standards by two-time Grammy winner Kurt Elling — to the delighted our full-capacity audience …
Before the start of her new 92U course, Art and Culture of Renaissance Venice, Mount Holyoke Art History professor and recent NEH fellowship recipient Dr. Jessica Maier talked with us about her passion for art and for spreading that passion through her popular 92U classes, her latest book, The Eternal City: A History of Rome in Maps, and the surprise reveal of where she lives …
Director of Musical Theater Megan Doyle recently talked to us about why she thinks teaching children to work together is more important than teaching them to dance and sing, bringing Peter Pan to life during the pandemic, and what's in store for musical theater at 92Y in the coming months …
The electricity of live jazz has been filling Kaufmann Concert Hall for over 60 years, with legends and luminaries including John Coltrane, Thelonious Monk, Sonny Rollins, Bill Evans, Sarah Vaughan, Jim Hall, Wynton Marsalis, Cécile McLorin Salvant and scores of others lighting up our stage and dazzling audiences with their artistry …
“For more than a year, it’s felt as though we had no choice in how we lived our lives. Now, as we exit the pandemic, there’s a new feeling of agency – that we can be active participants in making our own future. What is the future we want to see?” …
The Harkness Dance Center at the 92Y has certainly been a catalyst for generations of artists and educators in the dance field …
Fern Mallis, the fashion industry doyenne most recognized as the founder of New York Fashion Week, is making previously unreleased content on her digital platform Fashion Icons: The Archive, a playlist available on our 92Y YouTube. The Archive is the exclusive digital destination for Mallis’ popular — and often sold-out — conversation series, Fashion Icons with Fern Mallis …
May 21 marks 50 years since the release of Marvin Gaye’s What’s Going On, universally regarded as one of the most iconic, enduring and resonant albums in all of music. A concept album centered on Gaye’s protest against racial and social injustices and a call for compassion, few could have imagined how relevant and urgent its messages would remain half a century later …
Shortly after recording his reading of William Maxwell’s classic novel So Long, See You Tomorrow for 92Y, award-winning actor John Lithgow sat down with us to discuss his personal relationship with the book, his reading habits, the perils and pleasures of voice acting, being moved to tears in the recording booth, and more. The conversation has been edited and condensed …
Ahead of her 92U class, Black Mothers and the Civil Rights Movement — and just in time for Mother’s Day — sociologist and author Anna Malaika Tubbs talked to us about the erasure of Black women from the history books, shedding a light on the mothers of Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and James Baldwin, and her new book, The Three Mothers …
Before the start of his 92U course Art and Thought in the Cold War, Pulitzer Prize-winning cultural critic Louis Menand talked to us about the protean politics around the concept of freedom in America, the value of the humanities in higher education, and his new book, The Free World …
Ahead of André Holland’s live dramatic reading of her dramatic monologue “The End of White Supremacy: An American Romance” on April 29, award-winning critic and writer Saidiya Hartman talked to us about W.E.B. Du Bois, the connection between scholarship and speculative fiction, Holland’s brilliant performance, and more …
A spotlight on the passions of world-renowned clarinetist Anthony McGill before his May 11 concert on our stage and “Inside the Concert” talk with former WQXR host Naomi Lewin April 29 …
Before her conversation with Ezra Klein on Wednesday, April 21 for 92Y, writer and actress Mira Sethi talked to us about breaking out of binary systems of thought, the challenges of writing about Pakistan for a Western readership, and her acclaimed debut story collection Are You Enjoying? …
1980s darling Justine Bateman shot to fame alongside Michael J. Fox on the smash hit sit-com Family Ties. Last year, her book Fame: The Hijacking of Reality gave us a remarkable insight into what it’s like to experience extraordinary fame, what fame does to a person, and what happens when fame starts to fade. Her new book tackles the topic of beauty. Face: One Square Foot of Skin takes a radical look at why – even after decades feminism, the body positivity movement, a shift in civic values — society deems that natural beauty, unenhanced by surgery or dermatological procedures, is not possible for women after age 50. In advance of her April 1 conversation with actress Carrie-Anne Moss, she answered some of our questions about her ideas on the subject of beauty
Frank Lloyd Wright called New York an “unlivable prison,” “a crime of crimes” and more, but the city gave him refuge from crippling personal and professional troubles and revitalized both his life and career. We talked with Anthony Alofsin, world-renowned authority on Wright, prizewinning author and Roland Roessner Centennial Professor of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin about Wright’s complex relationship with New York – the subject of his acclaimed latest book, and his 92U online class this week …
Hilary Holladay, author of the acclaimed new biography The Power of Adrienne Rich – a New York Times Top Book of 2020 – talks to us about why the iconic American poet was ahead of her time, the story behind the National Book Award-winning breakthrough Diving Into the Wreck, and her upcoming class Reading Adrienne Rich at 92U – 92Y’s new destination for online learning …
Dancer, choreographer and performance artist Shamel Pitts and his Brooklyn-based arts collective TRIBE is a 92Y Harkness Dance Center Artist in Residence for 2020/21. We talked with him about his new digital art experience Black Hole 360°, how a dynamic, movement-based global artist has dealt with the stillness of quarantine, and how that’s making its way into his art …
Golden Globe nominations are out … who’d get your vote? We were honored to host many of the nominees on our stage. For today’s sweet treat, we’re sharing some of the most fun and inspiring moments from our star-studded archives …
92U and the Unterberg Poetry Center present an immersive series of lectures on all of the Nobel laureate’s novels, led by some of the nation’s most celebrated Black literary scholars …
On Friday, December 4, dancers came back to Buttenwieser Hall to perform for the first time since the pandemic closed our doors on March 16 …
“When Billie Holiday sings, we hear a song but we feel the truth,” says Yana Stotland, director of 92Y’s School of Music, and the force behind 92Y’s new series of events, Billie Holiday: Reaching for the Moon. “Among those truths was an early cry against racism. At this watershed moment in our society in 2020, I thought it time we take a closer look at one of the most iconic figures in music.” …
The new online art space at 92Y’s Gilda and Henry Block School of the Arts …
The Unterberg Poetry Center’s Sophie Herron talks to us about the genesis of Read By, our literary podcast, and creating intimacy between readers and the greatest writers in the world during the pandemic …
A note on the performance by Paul Masse, Artistic Director …
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