New York City is packed with amazing culture and inspiring art, but sometimes it’s difficult to break the Morningside-bubble and experience it all first-hand. “Where Art Thou” is a weekly guide to interesting and notable lectures, events, and performances for the literary/musically/theatrically-inclined on campus.

On Campus

• Join Italian curator and author Paola Antonelli, and CU Architecture school Dean Amale Andraos, this Thursday for Broken Nature: Design Takes on Human Survival. Head to the Lenfest Center at 6:30 PM to explore Antonelli’s work curating projects for the Milan Triennial that embody the idea, “our only chance at survival is to design our own beautiful extinction.”
• Also Thursday, those interested in fashion theory won’t want to miss Cultural Heritage Practices and Critical Fashion Theory: How Does (High) Fashion Interpret Cultural Heritage? at Columbia’s Italian Academy. The workshop and Q&A, beginning at 3:30, will bring together fashion artists from a variety of French, Italian and American institutes. There will be an exhibit at 6:30.

Off Campus:

• You can never get enough out of your student ID. This Friday at 6:30, check out the lecture opening of the Morgan Library’s exhibit Sargent’s Portrait Drawings in Charcoal. Peruse the beautiful and evocative portraits of John Singer Sargent from late in his career, and learn about Sargent himself as well as some of the exceptional people he portrayed.

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