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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Can listening to classical music more closely enrich how you experience the world? Corinna da Fonseca-Wollheim, contributing essayist and critic for The New York Times and founder of Beginner’s Ear listening events, leads a fascinating new Roundtable course exploring how it can. In The Art of Listening she shares her insights and the skills anyone can learn, as she demystifies classical music along the way. She talked with us ahead of the course. …
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“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.” …
One year ago, The 92nd Street Y, New York launched Roundtable, a new destination for online learning — a place where people with a voracious love of ideas can gather to deepen their knowledge, widen their perspectives, and get inspired by some of the world’s brightest thinkers …
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 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 …
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 …
Ahead of her eagerly anticipated Roundtable course on T.H. White’s The Once and Future King — the definitive 20th century retelling …
Skewers of charred, smoky beef and lamb, fragrant with smoked paprika and fresh mint … a summer bread pudding with fresh raspberries … the dumplings and noodles of Chinatown. Hungry yet? We are! And we’ve got cooking classes and food talks with some of the world’s most renowned chefs and culinary experts to satisfy your appetite for all things food all summer long …
In the last two years, the Belfer Center for Innovation and Social Impact has helped to launch 92NY Confronts Hate, the LessLonely Project, the Newmark Civic Life Series, Share Our America, the Home Project, the State of Democracy Summit, and the Campaign for 100% — all addressing, as Managing Director Rebekah Shrestha calls it, a “crisis of community” in American life …
Welcome to Roundtable: the next big thing in online learning! Learning as enjoyment. Moving from passively watching educational videos to engaging with a live group in real time. Mapping the world in our own ways by exploring the things that interest us most. Finding an unexpected connection to a fellow student who lives halfway across the world …
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 …
As our 92Y Camps team puts the finishing touches on plans for this summer’s camps programs, we spoke with Lauren Wexler, Director, Children’s Enrichment & Engagement, about what they have in store for kids and families this year …
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 …
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 …
Ahead of his upcoming 92U course Jews and Modern Art — a fresh look at the Jewish origins of modern art at the turn of the 20th century — we talked to award-winning art historian and author Charles Dellheim about why Jews noticed avant-garde artistic talent ahead of the curve, Dellheim’s deeply personal commitment to uncovering Jewish culture lost during the Nazi era, the interconnection of art history and politics, and much more …
Can you really learn anything meaningful in a 6-hour online class? At 92U, the answer is a definitive yes. 92U is our new online hub for learning, launched during the pandemic when our classrooms were shuttered, and very quickly blossoming into a virtual school of learning attracting students from all over the world. And as our in-person programs return, 92U’s online course are proving as popular as ever …
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 …
Elie Wiesel was a guiding beacon at 92Y for more than half a century. His pursuit of justice and his unwavering belief in the power of humanity embodied our most deeply held values. Over nearly half a century, on 180 occasions, Elie Wiesel graced the stage at 92Y with his wonder and wisdom … …
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 …
For more than 60 years, 92Y’s summer camps have given generations of kids unforgettable summers of magic and adventure. After last year’s virtual experiences, our families are more excited than ever to return to in-person, outdoor fun. On the eve of our first week of in-person camp in more than a year, we talked with Lauren Wexler, Director, 92Y Camp Programs, about what does into creating Camp Yomi’s unique “best summer ever” experience — and why this year, getting back to our beautiful Rockland County campgrounds feels sweeter than ever
The Harkness Dance Center at the 92Y has certainly been a catalyst for generations of artists and educators in the dance field …
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 …
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 …
92Y School of Music Director Yana Stotland talks about the extraordinary benefits children gain in learning to play an instrument …
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 …
During this time of enormous worry and fear — and all the contradictory advice that comes with it — Dr. Harold S. Koplewicz, MD, the founding president of the Child Mind Institute and one of America’s most highly regarded psychiatrists, is a trusted guide for parents …
“If you can walk, you can dance Salsa!” Marlon Mills, one of the best-known faces in NYC’s Salsa dance community, is talking about how easy it is to get up off the couch and take part in one of his online dance classes …
“You have this outward spotlight on everything around you, and because you’re confined to your home for the most part, you’re hyper aware – not only of what’s happening in the news, but also of what’s happening around you.” …
Wennie Huang is a visual artist and has been teaching watercolor painting, pastel and drawing at the 92Y Gilda and Henry Block School of the Arts since 2005. She developed the sewing and design courses for youth, and art exploration classes for teens. A devoted teacher, Wennie has built up a strong following among her students, many of whom have been taking classes with her for several years …
In anticipation of his new two-part class at 92Y in December, we talked with him about his new book, What It’s Like to Be a Bird, the importance of community to birding, some of his most fascinating discoveries of why birds behave they do, and what humans have to learn from birds …
A young rabbi’s approach to helping children find their way into Jewish life …
Ahead of his highly anticipated class on the surprising cultural afterlife of the German composer, New Yorker music critic and author of the acclaimed new book Wagnerism talked to us about why Wagner is worth our attention, his own complicated feelings about Wagner’s music, and the music he’s missed most during the pandemic …
Elissa Bassist, who leads a humor-writing workshop at the 92Y Unterberg Poetry Center, describes her ideal student. …
Unterberg Poetry Center Managing Director Ricardo Maldonado talks to us about 92Y’s upcoming literature and writing classes, finding inspiration in literary community during the pandemic, his debut poetry collection, and more …
The architect Charles Renfro — a partner at the visionary firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro — talked to us about making cities more humane, combatting systemic racism through design, rediscovering Central Park during the pandemic, and his upcoming master class on The Future of Cities as part of our Great Thinkers series. …
We talk with Ava Lehrer, Director of 92Y’s Center for Arts Learning & Leadership about how a global crisis sparked a national education initiative — and why top artists and thought leaders want to be part of it …
Adam Gopnik talks to us about the invention of poetic journalism, lunch with Joseph Mitchell at the Grand Central Oyster Bar, life in New York during the pandemic, and his popular online course, Adam Gopnik: Reading The New Yorker, which is part our new 92U: The Great Thinkers series of master classes …
For the past five summers, 92Y’s Unterberg Poetry Center has brought high school students from all over the country together in New York City for three weeks to flex their creativity in poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction. Through small groups with expert teachers and celebrated guest authors, the workshops have effectively helped a new generation find their collective voice and articulate truths that will carry them into adulthood …
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