PLAIN or FANCY, RESTRAINT and EXUBERANCE: A Conversation about Taste at the Met

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has invited ADSNY to attend an evening of conversation between noted author and cultural critic, Wayne Koestenbaum, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Iris and Gerald B. Cantor, Curator in Charge, Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, Luke Syson, contrasting ornate with plain in art and one’s taste in art. MMA thought ADSNY members would enjoy the aesthetic questions.

DATE: Wednesday, May 15th

TIME: 6:00 pm

LOCATION: The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Enter at Fifth Avenue and 83rd Street

COST: $25. Tickets can be purchased at metmuseum.org/tickets or call 212/570-3949 and includes Museum admission.

Radio City Music Hall Hildreth Meière medallion

This is not an Art Deco Society of New York event, however, ADSNY is a great fan of Hildreth Meiere’s work and believe in supporting and sharing this opportunity.

Join the Historic Districts council for a very special two-part Secret Lives Tour: The Art Deco Murals of Hildreth Meière. Hildreth Meière (1892-1961) was a renowned Art Deco muralist, whose numerous commissions grace government and commercial buildings and houses of worship across the country. In midtown Manhattan alone, Meière’s mosaics decorate Temple Emanu-El and St. Bartholomew’s Church, where she also designed the stained glass clerestory windows. Her enormous mixed-metal and enamel sculptures adorn the façade of Radio City Music Hall. In lower Manhattan, Meière’s mosaics can be seen in the dramatic Red Banking Room at One Wall Street, and in the landmarked lobby of the Walker-Lispenard Building. Curator Catherine Coleman Brawer, author of Walls Speak: The Narrative Art of Hildreth Meière, will lead two tours, one Uptown & one Downtown. Each tour will run approximately 2.5 hours.

UPTOWN TOUR
Tuesday, April 23rd — 1pm
$125 for public; $100 for Friends of HDC

DOWNTOWN TOUR
DATE TBD
$100 for public; $75  for Friends of HDC

BOTH TOURS
$150

You can purchase tour tickets here at the Historic District Council’s website.
Please contact ashedd@hdc.org or 212-614-9107 for further information.

The Beaux Arts Alliance in collaboration with the Art Deco Society of New York presents Ernst Lubitsch’s Monte Carlo (1930; 90 mins.) starring Jeanette McDonald as a sexy countess who leaves her prince fiancé at the alter and runs off to the Riviera where she meets and falls for the handsome Count Rudolph (Jack Buchanan) who poses as a hairdresser in hopes of getting closer to her. This delightful early musical features the hit song “Beyond the Blue Horizon” and some of the most ravishing Art Deco sets to grace the silver screen.

Wine and popcorn reception to Follow

DATE: Wednesday, March 13, 2013

TIME: 6 pm

LOCATION: Church of the Resurrection (Undercroft)
119 East 74th St. (bet. Park + Lexington Avenues)

COST: $20; $25 non-members. (One can pay at the door)

RSVP: (212) 679-3326

Please note: The Undercroft is NOT handicapped accessible

Join us for a book signing and lecture by noted author Polly Guérin on the history of the Cooper-Hewitt dynasty. Hear the tale of two remarkable women visionaries who fulfilled their grandfather’s dream of opening a museum, which became the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, today part of the Smithsonian Institution. Learn about the amazing story of wealth and generosity, politics and integrity and family and community that could have only unfolded in New York.

Polly Guerin is an adjunct professor at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and the author of four college textbooks and two video productions. Her feature on the decorative arts, antiques, collectibles and design have appeared in Art & Antiques magazine. She also write on fashion and Art Deco and is currently the author of four blogs: pollytalkfromnewyork; menremarkablevisionaries; womendeterminedtosucceed and poetryfromtheheartbypollyguerin. Ms. Guerin is a board member of the Art Deco Society of New York (ADSNY), the American Revolutionary Round Table (ARRT) and the Giullo Gari Foundation. She is also a member of the Victorian Society, Metro Chapter.

Copies of this historic book will be on sale and Polly will be available to autograph your copy.

In addition, Kathryn Hausman president of the ADSNY will be selling some of her Medusa’s Heirlooms collection of hair accessories and costume jewelry.

25% of the proceeds will be contributed to ADSNY

WINE and CHEESE RECEPTION Included at Joyce Chasan’s Loft
ARTSOURCE INTERNATIONAL

Proceeds to Benefit ADSNY

ADSNY is a 501 (c) (3). All  money for the evening is fully tax-deductible.

DATE: TUESDAY, JANUARY 22nd
LOCATION: 333 Park Avenue South, Suite 2A (bet. 24th and 25th Street)
TIME: 6 – 8 PM
COST: $25 ADSNY members, $30 guests
RSVP: 212/679-3326

Wednesday, July 25th, 2012
6:30 – 8:30

ART SOURCE INTERNATIONAL
333 Park Avenue South, Suite 2A
(bet. 24th and 25th St.)

SLIDE LECTURE by MARIA ELENA MARTIN ZEQUEIRA

INTRO & INFO on ICADS 12th WORLD CONGRESS in HAVANA, CUBA
Discussion by GEO DARDER

Monday July 9, 2012
Museum of the City of New York
A Musical Concert Celebrating New York Deco by
Peter Mintun
6:00pm — ADSNY’s Welcome, Business and Deco News
6:30pm — Performance by Peter Mintun

Admission is Complimentary to Members, Guests $15
Reception to Follow
Museum of the City of New York
1220 Fifth Avenue at 103rd Street,
New York, NY  10029

Mr. Mintun’s performance is co-presented with the Museum of the City of New York

Reservations required. To RSVP and register, please call
(917)492-3395 or (212)679-3326.

Wednesday, May 16th

Dear ADSNY Member,  In celebration of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s current exhibit The Steins Collect, David Garrard Lowe’s illustrated lecture will focus on the extraordinary American, Gertrude Stein, who settled in the French capital before the First World War and made her apartment at 27, rue de Fleurus a center of the artistic life of Paris.

Wine reception to follow