FINAL EVENTS!

Monday, January 17 at 7pm
Actress Fiona Shaw + Philosopher Simon Critchley
discuss the crackling emptiness in Ibsen

Wednesday, January 19 at 7pm 
Science Writer Richard Panek + Physicist Lee Smolin
on how scientists discover what they can't see

Saturday, January 29 at 6pm
 Writer/Activist Raj Patel + Director Peter Sellars
on the economics of nothing

The Rubin Museum of Art's TALK ABOUT NOTHING is a series of on-stage conversations with eminent artists, philosophers, actors, writers and musicians about what "nothing" means to them. It began in October, continues through January 2011 and runs counterpoint to the exhibition Grain of Emptiness, currently open.  Most TALK ABOUT NOTHING events have sold out, including those with Mike Nichols, Ken Burns, Bill Viola, Philip Glass, Karen Armstrong...Don't miss the remaining talks!

For Media Questions or a press ticket, please email
Kimberly Burns: KB@KimberlyBurnsPR.com


Films About Nothing screen Fridays at Cabaret Cinema at The Rubin Museum. Moulin Rouge director Baz Luhrmann introduces the ultimate film about nothingness, Fellini's 8 1/2 (Feb. 11); Frances Kazan introduces her husband Elia Kazan's masterpiece, America, America (Jan. 21) and acclaimed writer Francine du Plessix Gray will introduce the Norma Shearer classic, Marie Antoinette (Feb. 18).
Free with a $7 bar minimum.
See the complete schedule of films here: Cabaret Cinema

RMA holds one of the world's most important collections of Himalayan art. Paintings, pictorial textiles, and sculpture are drawn from cultures that touch upon the arc of mountains that extends from Afghanistan in the northwest to Myanmar (Burma) in the southeast and includes Tibet, Nepal, Mongolia, and Bhutan.  The larger Himalayan cultural sphere, determined by significant cultural exchange over millennia, includes Iran, India, China, Central Asia, and Southeast Asia. This rich cultural legacy, largely unfamiliar to Western viewers, offers an uncommon opportunity for visual adventure and aesthetic discovery.  

 

The Rubin Museum of Art is located at 150 West 17th Street, New York, NY.

To reach the museum by subway, visitors may take the A, C or E to 14th Street; the 1 to 18th Street; 1, 2, 3 to 14th Street; F and V to 14th Street; N, R, Q, W, 4, 5 and 6 to 14th or the L to 6th Avenue. By bus, visitors may take the B20 to the corner of 7th Avenue and 17th Street.