Free & Open to the Public Limited Seating Available Eric Velasquez is an illustrator who lives and works in New York. He was born in Spanish Harlem, the son of Afro-Puerto Rican parents, and attended the High School of Art and Design. He earned his BFA from the School of Visual Arts and also studied […]

Typical considerations about rapid evolution and its importance in structuring the world around us emphasize situations where evolution is causing rapid changes in organisms and environments.  Hendry contends that the primary role of evolution is in resisting change. Evolution is why organisms look the same not just across years and decades but across centuries and millennia. […]

Historian Kevin Baker’s hugely entertaining history of baseball and New York City, bursting with larger-than-life figures and fascinating stories from the game’s beginnings to the end of World War II, was voted Sports Illustrated #1 Book of 2024. In Baker’s hands the city and the game emerge from the murk of nineteenth-century American life—driven by visionaries […]

Celebrating the use of bronze in antiquity and today! Join us on Sat April 26 to see: Live demos of bronze casting ancient swords All-day iron smelting on Andrus field Demos and talks with archaeologists on how the discover and analyze metal artifacts Gallery talks on ancient bronze currency and copper minerals from Wes Collections Demos of new […]