Art
Lunchtime Lecture: Clock-making in Early America
Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden 421 E. 61st St., New York, NY, United StatesThe Curator of our current exhibit, “Revolutionary Revolutions: Clocks and Industry in Early America,” will speak about the widespread success of American-made shelf clocks in the 19th-century and the interrelated forces of technological convenience, comfort, taste, and affordability that drive the consumer habits of a middle class, then and now. Bring your lunch. Tea, conversation, exhibit, […]
Tour: Exploring Lower Manhattan
The Municipal Art Society of NY 488 Madison Ave Suite 1900, New York, NY, United StatesWherever possible, guide Joe Svehlak will keep us off the streets as we learn about the continuing struggle to keep Downtown Manhattan connected to its multi-layered history during this time of much redevelopment. Above ground we’ll view sites connected with preservation gains and losses, including the nation’s first memorial, and New York’s first Roman Catholic […]
The Politics of Preservation
MoMA PS1 22-25 Jackson Ave, Long Island City, NY, United StatesMoMA PS1 presents an afternoon of programming that examines the destruction of Iraqi heritage by the allied forces during the Gulf wars. Scholarship and mainstream attention surrounding the destruction and preservation of cultural heritage in Iraq have tended to focus largely on antiquity. This critical conversation expands this scope to not only address archeological sites […]
Aperture Conversations: Garth Greenwell and Mark McKnight
Aperture Gallery and Bookstore 547 W. 27th St., 4th Floor, New York, NY, United StatesAperture Foundation, in collaboration with Farrar, Straus and Giroux and Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, is pleased to present a conversation between acclaimed writer Garth Greenwell and photographer Mark McKnight, winner of the 2019 Aperture Portfolio Prize. Join us in celebrating Greenwell’s newest book, Cleanness, and McKnight’s exhibition at Aperture Gallery, on view through January 18, 2020—coinciding with his […]
Marino Marini and Henry Moore: An Italian Friendship
CIMA - Center for Italian Modern Art 421 Broome Street, 4th Floor, New York, NY, United StatesThis talk will explore the friendship between two of the most celebrated sculptors of the 20th century, Henry Moore and Marino Marini. Having met through the New York art dealer Curt Valentin, throughout the 1960s and 1970s they often spent time together on the coast of Tuscany in Italy, where Marini lived and Moore had […]