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  • Marvin Heiferman, “Why We Look”

    Great Hall Auditorium

    As part of the ArtNOW Visiting Artist Series, Marvin Heiferman will speak about grief, photography and image sharing. After the March 2020 COVID-related death of his husband – the noted cultural critic and curator Maurice Berger – and when grief struck and as words failed him, Heiferman suspected photography wouldn’t.  Since then, daily postings of images and their accompanying captions on his Instagram account have functioned as intimate, frontline reports on the experience and processing of grief.  Widely viewed and written about, his online project has engaged thousands in a communal dialog and is now the subject of an upcoming documentary film short.

    ArtNOW events are free and open to the public.

  • Xala

    Pollak Theatre and Lobby

    Xala is a 1975 Senegalese satirical comedy film written and directed by Ousmane Sembene, an adaptation of Sembène’s 1973 novel of the same name. A corrupt politician is cursed with impotence on the night of his third wedding after embezzling 100 tons of rice.

    Free & Open to the Public

  • Okja

    Pollak Theatre and Lobby

    For 10 idyllic years, young Mija has been caretaker and constant companion to Okja – a massive animal and an even bigger friend – at her home in the mountains of South Korea. But that changes when family-owned, multinational conglomerate Mirando Corporation takes Okja for themselves and transports her to New York, where an image-obsessed & self-promoting CEO has big plans for Mija’s dearest friend. With no particular plan but single-minded in intent, Mija sets out on a rescue mission.

    Free & Open to the Public