America at 250 Through the Arts — A Symposium
A full-day symposium at the 92nd Street Y exploring how American art, literature, and music reflect the nation's 250-year history across three sessions.
Date & Time at 11:00 AM EST
Location The 92nd Street Y New York, US
Organizer The 92nd Street Y
Why we picked this
Three sessions spanning books, Sargent and Whistler, and American song — the kind of full-day immersion that reminds you why the 92Y remains an intellectual institution.
This full-day symposium explores how a nation’s art, literature, and music reflect and are shaped by its history, organized around three sessions: The History of the United States in Five Books; American Artists on the Global Stage, examining Sargent and Whistler; and Three Visions of America in Song.
Timed to the country’s 250th anniversary, the event brings together scholars and critics for the kind of sustained, cross-disciplinary conversation that’s hard to find outside a university seminar — but with the public accessibility the 92Y is known for.