A classmate of director Jia Zhangke at the Beijing Film Academy, Wang Hongwei would become one of the mainstays of Jia’s cinema from their student days onward—an archaeologist sifting through the debris of a vanished Fengjie in Still Life, an abusive massage parlor customer in A Touch of Sin, the lead in Jia’s 1997 breakthrough Xiao Wu (Pickpocket)… Sometimes ... Read more

Every March, New Yorkers come together online and across the five boroughs to celebrate public data in New York City and mark the anniversary of the City’s first open data law, which was signed on March 7, 2012. Throughout the week, participants can engage with NYC Open Data at dozens of virtual and in-person events. ... Read more

Join us at the 53rd Street Library to welcome Korean poet Seo Jung Hak and translator Megan Sungyoon for a reading and discussion of The Cheapest France in Town (World Poetry Books, 2023), a “droll, absurdist collection that pokes fun at poetry as well as life’s tedium and despair” (Publishers Weekly). The elusive, distant, almost ... Read more