Art Deco Society of New York

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

We’d like to inform you of two fantastic poster sales coming up.

The sale at Poster Auction International, Inc. will feature automobile, airline and aviation themes as well as tennis images and Swiss posters. Included in the sale will be works by such artists as Pierre Bonnard, Cappiello, Mucha, Klimt and Toulouse-Lautrec.

Preview April 20 – May 5
Sale – May 6

For more details, visit their website at www.posterauctions.com.

POSTER AUCTIONS INTERNATIONAL, INC.
601 West 26th Street, Suite 1370New York, NY 10001

Swann Galleries is featuring Russian avant-garde and constructivist works, some early typography masterpieces, as well as iconic mid-century and contemporary designs. Highlights include a poster for a van Gogh exhibition in 1928, two versions of Paul Rand’s iconic design for IBM, both signed and inscribed by the artist, as well as designs for Dior, Chanel, Lavazza and more. Also included will be Pop culture and comic book inspired posters and several designs by A.M. Cassandre including an Hermes silk scarf.

Preview May 5 – 9
Sale – May 10

For more detailed information, please see their website at swanngalleries.com

SWANN GALLERIES, INC.
104 East 25th StreetNew York, New York 10010

Saturday, May 5th

Dances of Vice and the Japan Society have invited ADSNY members to peruse the exhibit Deco Japan: Shaping Art and Culture, 1920 – 1945 and to partake in a decadent evening celebrating the Moga or modern girl, and her kaleidoscopic world of dancing, drinking, and late night revelry. Learn a new step on the dancefloor, sip an intoxicating tonic and take in the sultry sounds of live pre-War jazz by the Kuni Mikami Jazz Quintet featuring vocalist Mari Koga. Also, watch as fashionable flirtation comes to life as real Mogas wearing Deco era style fashion designed by Mutsumi Gee of Allure Original Styles shimmy through the halls of Japan Society’s exhibition Deco Japan: Shaping Art and Cutlure 1920-1945. Period attire is strongly encouraged.

LOCATION: The Japan Society
333 East 47^th St., NYC
TIME: 7:15 – 8:00pm Exhibition Tour by Gallery Director Joe Earle
8:00pm Opening Remarks by Art Deco Society of New York President
Kathryn Hausman
8:15 – 9:00pm Charleston Dance Lesson
9:00 – 11:30pm Live Jazz, Performances, and Fashion Show
COST: ADSNY members $15 in advance. $20 day of the event.
Gallery admission included with ticket.
RSVP: Reservations required. Please call 212-679-3326

Sunday, April 29th

Come join ADSNY for a brand-new walking tour itinerary – Art Deco on the Upper-West Upper West Side (that’s not a typo) with ADSNY’s own Tony Robins, who is currently completing his Guide to the Art Deco Architecture of New York City.

Our walk starts at the northeast corner of Broadway and West 84th Street, and meanders back and forth across the upper west tracts of the Upper West Side, ending at Riverside Drive and 103rd Street. We see work by such stalwart Manhattan Deco icons as Sugarman & Berger, Boak & Paris, and Harvey Wiley Corbett, as well as architects less well known for their Deco productions, including Emery Roth and Rosario Candela. Most of the buildings on the tour are residential – highlights being Roth’s Normandy Apartments and Corbett’s Master Apartments. We also look at the Broadway Fashion Building – four-stories of commercial space in a Moderne glass box; Joan of Arc Junior High School; Boak & Paris’s Midtown (now Metro) Theater; and one of Manhattan’s last surviving Horn & Hardart automat buildings, with splendid Art Deco terra-cotta. If you’ve taken Tony’s tour of Art Deco on Central Park West, and wondered what else might be out there closer to the Hudson, this is your chance to find out! Wear the proverbial comfortable shoes.

LOCATION: NE corner of Broadway & West 85^th St.
TIME: 2:00 – 5:00 PM. Please arrive at 1:45.
COST: ADSNY members $20, Guests $25. One can pay at the event.
RSVP: Reservations required. Please call 212-679-3326

• Optional cocktail stop at the end of the tour with Tony & Kathy •

Thursday, April 19th

ADSNY has reserved a section of seats for a wonderful period production of “Sitting Pretty”, which is part of the Musicals Tonight series. It was the last show of the immensely successful partnership of Guy Bolton, P. G. Wodehouse and Jerome Kern. Bolton created the plot and wrote the dialogue, Wodehouse pounded out the lyrics and Kern composed the music.

The storyline is as follows: a millionaire plans to adopt one of two twin orphans and marry her to his protégé, who is in reality a “New Yoik” con artist who plans to steal the family jewels. Songs include “All You Need Is a Girl,” “A Year from Today,” “Is This Not a Lovely Spot?“, “Bongo on the Congo,” and “Shufflin’ Sam.”

LOCATION: The Lion Theater on Theatre Row, 410 West 42^nd Street
TIME: Thursday, April 19^th, 7:30 PM
COST: ADSNY Members $25.00. Reservations and prepayment required. Limited seats.
RSVP: Please call 212-679-3326

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Sunday, November 13th

A Lecture by John Tauranac

The Art Deco Society of New York presents to its members a slide presentation by John Tauranac. John Tauranac knows architectural New York, but even he was stumped by some of the subjects that the great aerial photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand shot for their newest book. Tauranac takes it all with a sense of humor and more than a dash of humility as he discusses some of the mysteries with which he was presented. He will share the stories with you, and he’ll show some of his favorite photographs and tell the tales behind them.

John Tauranac is on ADSNY’s Advisory Board and is an expert on New York’s architectural history and has written three books on the subject. This fabulous new book features phenomenal aerial views of New York and John has written all the historical text. His presentation will focus on New York’s important Art Deco landmarks.

This gorgeous book will be on sale for $60 and if purchased at the event, will be available to ADSNY members for $50.

LOCATION: Neighborhood Preservation Center, 232 East 11^th Street
DATE: Sunday, November 13th
TIME: 4:00 – 6:00 PM
ADMISSION: $20 members, $30 guests
RSVP: Reservations required. 212-679-3326

Thursday, November 10th

The Art Deco Society of New York has arranged a private docent-led tour of this extensive exhibit of 138 paintings, sculptures, and photographs by 67 of the greatest artists of their time. This is the first wide- ranging exploration of American art from the decade between the end of World War I and the onset of the Great Depression.

LOCATION: Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn
DATE: Thursday, November 10th
TIME: 6:30 – 7:30 PM. Check in by 6:15 please
ADMISSION: $25 members, $30 guests
RSVP: Reservations required. 212-679-3326

Presented by the ART DECO SOCIETY of NEW YORK
A Lecture by David Garrard Lowe

ADSNY is partnering with the Beaux-Arts Alliance to present an illustrated lecture by David Garrard Lowe. This lively program will focus on that astonishing array of Americans who ventured to Parisian quarters and found inspiration and freedom. Among the fascinating personalities examined will be Richard Morris Hunt, the first American architect to attend the École des Beaux-Arts; painters such as Mary Cassatt and John Singer Sargent; and writers such as Henry James. Also featured will be those Americans in Paris during the 1920s at the time of the cultural revolution which gave birth to the movement known as Art Deco: Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, Josephine Baker and F. Scott Fitzgerald. A reception will follow.

LOCATION: Church of the Resurrection, 115 East 74^th Street
DATE: Monday, October 17th, 2011
TIME: Monday, October 17th, 2011 6:30 PM
ADMISSION: $30 members, $35 non-members
RSVP: Reservations required. 212-679-3326