Monday, February 29, 2016

Zika virus talk today

Monday, February 29at 6 PM - 9 PM in EST

The House of Brews
302 W 51st St, New York, New York 10019
Join EcoHealth Alliance’s Young Professionals Council for a discussion about Zika virus.

Learn about the techniques behind disease movement mapping from Dr. Noam Ross and have your Zika questions answered.

EcoHealth Alliance recently analyzed U.S. airports by assessing the frequency with which passengers from areas with confirmed cases of Zika virus travel through each airport. They identified 17 airports in 11 states and ranked them according to risk. (http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/05/zika-virus-florida-texas-airports-risk-infection)

FREE
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Thursday, February 25, 2016

Spectacular art shows by Time out

Spectacular art shows

“Flatlands" Whitney Museum of American Art, through Apr 17
Five contemporary painters—Nina Chanel Abney, Mathew Cerletty, Jamian Juliano-Villani, Caitlin Keogh, and Orion Martin—share an approach to representational imagery that relies on flattened forms and color. While their debt to the cartoonish qualities of Pop Art and Chicago Imagism is obvious, these artists eschew the anarchic optimism of both for expressing a certain 21st century anomie, conjuring, in the words of the curators “a sense of space that is dimensionless and airless.”

“Peter Fischli David Weiss: How to Work Better” Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, through Apr 20
The work of this renowned Swiss artistic duo ruminates on the everyday and how we deal with it, framing experience as a dialectic of minor epiphanies and incidental absurdities. Their most famous piece, a 1987 video titled, The Way Things Go is a demented masterwork of comic timing that follows the chain of causalities created by an enormous Rube Goldberg contraption built out of wood, metal, Styrofoam and castaway objects (tires, jugs, buckets, ladders).

Marcel Broodthaers Museum of Modern Art, through May 15
Broodthaers may be the most important artist you never heard of. Originally A critic and poet, he became a leading figure in European art during the 1960s and 1970s. His enigmatic works helped to create the template for contemporary installation art and practically invented the Conceptualist genre known as “institutional critique.” He was that classic figure of art history, the innovator who writes the checks eventually cashed by others. Presenting 200 works in multiple mediums, this retrospectiveoffers a long-overdue appraisal of his career.

“Vigée Le Brun: Woman Artist in Revolutionary France” The Metropolitan Museum of Art, through May 15
The Old Master period in Western Art History was, let’s face it, a sausage fest with women pretty much relegated to the role of artist’s model or mistress. There were, however, a few exceptions, one of whom is the subject of this Met showcase. Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755–1842) was primarily a portrait artist, but her style and technique rivaled those of her contemporary, Jacques-Louis David. Remarkably, she was completely self-taught, but that didn’t prevent her from being accepted into the prestigious Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture. Her exceptional oeuvre is vividly brought back to life in this retrospective, the first ever accorded the artist.

Isa Genzken, Two Orchids Doris C. Freedman Plaza Central Park, through Aug 21
The German artist who stuck a giant rose on the facade of the New Museum reaches back into her floral bag of tricks with this pair of gargantuan orchids measuring 34 and 28 feet high, respectively. Last installed at the 2015 Venice Biennale’s, these meditations on nature versus artifice pop up outside Central Park just in time for Spring.by the time out!

Friday, February 19, 2016

The German Center for Research and Innovation: Big Data - Small Devices

The German Center for Research and Innovation, The German Research Foundation (DFG), and the University Alliance Ruhr cordially invite you to a panel discussion on

Big Data - Small Devices

Monday, March 7, 2016 from 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.

with

Prof. Dr. Kristian Kersting
Associate Professor of Computer Science, TU Dortmund University

and

Prof. Dr. Katharina Morik
Head of Collaborative Research Center, TU Dortmund University

and

Prof. Dr. Dr. Wolfgang Rhode
Professor of Physics, TU Dortmund University

and

Dr. Claudia Perlich
Chief Scientist, Dstillery

moderated by

Dr. Tina Eliassi-Rad
Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science, Northeastern University Boston, MA

German House, 871 United Nations Plaza (First Ave. at 49th Street), New York, NY

RSVP by March 4 by clicking here. Registration is required to attend. Seating is limited.

Reception to follow.

Wednesday, February 17, 2016

I walk for women rights, NYC UN

WOMEN'S RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS

March 5th, 2016



But as you read these words, nearly 5 million women and girls are living in slavery, victims of human trafficking.


60 million more are child brides, and 140 million
live with the pain of enforced genital mutilation.



These are more than just numbers, they are
our mothers, our sisters, and our daughters.



The United Nations Women for Peace Association will hold its
Fourth Annual March to End Violence Against Women
on March 5th, 2016. Speakers will begin at 11 A.M and the March will commence at 11:30 A.M. at

Dag Hammarskjold Plaza
833 United Nations Plaza
New York, NY 10017
(click here to view in Google Maps)


LEND US YOUR VOICE.
MARCH WITH US.
#IWALK4WOMEN
http://www.unwomenforpeace.org/march-in-march/

Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Cait and the Critters at Radegast: live swing music

Cait and the Critters at Radegast
Thursday, February 11 at 9 PM - 12 AM in EST

Radegast Hall & Biergarten LLC
113 N 3rd St, Brooklyn, New York 11249


Just think: the yummy mustards, the tasty beers, German comfort foods and a serenade. I hope you all can miss a night of Fram and dance in Williamsburg instead! I'll be singing all night along with a fantastic group of musicians:

Chris Gelb on percussion
Ian Hutchison on bass
Bjorn Ingelstam on trumpet

Tuesday, February 9, 2016

The Derek Zoolander Center for People Who Don’t Age Good pop up!!

The Derek Zoolander Center for People Who Don’t Age Good Opens Today


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Hop on the Zoolander 2 hype juggernaut ahead of the movie's Friday premiere and check out The Derek Zoolander Center for People Who Don't Age Good (henceforth known as the simple DZCFPWDAG), opening to the public at the corner of 14th Street and Eighth Avenue at 4pm today. It's a partnership with Kiehl's, which has created a limited-edition line of anti-aging products in honor of the film:


The unisex "The Ridiculously Youthful Collection" (left) goes for $26, while the men's "Blue Kiehl" kit is $25.

Of course, this isn't going to be all you find at the Chelsea pop-up. We're just going to let the press release do the talking on this one:

DZCFPWDAG's proven 6.5 step program was born out [of] Derek's aversion to other, traditional 12-step processes, and his desire for a leaner, more efficient approach to an issue affecting the population at large. Kiehl's, Derek's expert counterpart in this ambitious endeavor, has injected their 165 years of skincare prowess into the program, ensuring maximum youthification in every single step and a half.

The experience is complimentary and open to the public, and clients at The Derek Zoolander Center for People Who Don't Age Good can expect to be guided along their youthification journey by ridiculously good-looking and supple-skinned male models. Each step of the program has its own dedicated activation within the center and targets a specific ailment of aging — whether that's Phalangeal Preservation, Scents or Sensibility test or Decontamination, among others.
The pop-up runs through Saturday and its hours are a little funny (see below), so be sure that it's open before heading over.

The DZCFPWDAG is open Tue—Thu 4pm—8pm, Fri 3pm—9pm, and Sat 12pm—6pm.



The Derek Zoolander Center for People Who Don’t Age Good
77 8th Ave, New York, NY 10014