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The Arts Intel Report

National Arts Club: June Events

June 1–22, 2022
15 Gramercy Park S, New York, NY 10003, United States

The National Arts Club, located on the south side of Manhattan’s Gramercy Park, is a hive that hums with culture. You may recognize the building from its appearance in movies—Woody Allen’s Manhattan Murder Mystery and Martin Scorsese’s The Age of Innocence (both released, strangely enough, in 1993). The club is special and its lectures are varied and smart. The month of June has two Pulitzer Prize winners on the schedule: on June 7, Tania León, who won for music in 2021, will discuss her new book, Tania Leon’s Stride: A Polyrhythmic Life, before introducing a program of music by emerging women composers; and on June 10, the marvelous Margo Jefferson, who won the prize for criticism in 1995, will discuss her latest book, Constructing a Nervous System: A Memoir, in a virtual interview. Tutankhamun’s tomb was opened 100 years ago, in 1922, hence the June 22 lecture by Montpellier 3 professor Marc Gabolde, “The Fate of Missing and Diverted Artifacts from Tutankhamun’s Tomb.” Check out the NAC Web site for other goodies. —Laura Jacobs