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Programs & Exhibitions PROGRAMS & EXHIBITIONS Fall 2013 / Winter 2014 To purchase tickets by phone call (212) 485-9268 letter | exhibitions | calendar | programs | walks & talks | family | membership | general information Dear Members & Friends, New York will explode into the modern world all over again when The Armory Show at 100: Modern Art and Revolution opens on October 11, 2013 at the New-York Historical Society. Our Armory Show includes more than one hundred works from the original 1913 Armory Show, which introduced New York and the nation to modern art. Our galleries will be filled with paintings and sculptures by Picasso, Matisse, Brancusi, Duchamp, Cézanne, van Gogh, and others, as well as materials documenting the full impact of modernism delivered in 1913: the debates, discussions, and cultural shocks that made this show a “bombshell.” Also on view this fall/winter season will be Beauty’s Legacy: Gilded Age Portraits in America, a spectacular new exhibition drawn from our permanent Museum collection, and a remarkable selection of paintings by the contemporary American artist Clarice Smith. Our project in all three of these extraordinary exhibitions is to draw attention to the aesthetic pleasure of great works of art as well as the ways in which history frames them. In our DiMenna Children’s History Museum we call this approach “The Art of History.” Be sure to check out our new weekend and holiday programs for children and families featuring history and art on pages 26-27 of this brochure. As always we look to engage our serious “history buffs” and all those who love the American story in our Bernard and Irene Schwartz Distinguished Speakers Series, with offerings that include evening and weekend programs with Russell Shorto, Barry Lewis, Kati Marton, Leon Botstein, Khalil Gibran Muhammad, and Jodi Kantor, as well as our President Bill Clinton annual lecture featuring A. Scott Berg on Wilson. The Harold and Ruth Newman Lecture in American History will be given this fall by Robert A. Caro. The Byron Wien Lecture in Financial History will focus on the 1920s to the “Crash,” with James Grant and Amity Shlaes joining Byron R. Wien on the stage. Our Carl Menges Lecture in American History will look at “The Founders at Home,” with Myron Magnet and Richard Brookhiser. We thank Bernard and Irene Schwartz for enabling the Distinguished Speakers Series, the heart of our public programs, as well as our Classic Film Series, which will include Associate Justice, United States Supreme Court, Samuel Alito, among others. How lucky we are for the Schwartzes, whose generosity and leadership have made it possible for us to invite great historians, writers, and now filmmakers to our Robert H. Smith Auditorium over the past nearly ten years! Many thanks are owed as well to our outstanding Board of Trustees, above all our Chairman, Opposite and Front Roger Hertog, our Chair-elect, Pam B. Schafler, and our visionary past chairman, Richard Cover (detail): Gilder. As always I want to recognize and compliment my colleague Dale Gregory, our Vice Marcel Duchamp President for Public Programs, and her team for the splendid work that they do. (French, 1887-1968), Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2), 1912. I very much look forward to seeing all of you this fall/winter season in our auditorium and Oil on canvas, 57 7/8 x galleries! 35 1/8 in. Philadelphia Museum of Art, The With all best wishes, Louise and Walter Arensberg Collection, 1950, 1950-134-59. © 2013 Artists Rights Louise Mirrer, PH.D. Society (ARS), PRESIDENT and CEO New York / ADAGP, Paris / Succession Marcel Duchamp 2 New-York Historical Society Visit nyhistory.org for the latest information 3 letter | exhibitions | calendar | programs | walks & talks | family | membership | general information Exhibition Highlights The Armory Show at 100: Modern Art and Revolution Beauty’s Legacy: Gilded Age Portraits in America October 11, 2013 – February 23, 2014 September 27, 2013 – March 9, 2014 The New-York Historical Society Enjoy the remarkable critical and popular resurgence of The New-York Historical Society recognizes lead sponsors portraiture in the United States during the late-nineteenth and would like to extend special thanks Harold & Ruth Newman for their to the Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. exceptional commitment to The early-twentieth centuries. The exhibition, with over sixty works Horowitz Foundation for the Arts, Armory Show at 100. Generous of art, will investigate the strong cultural and social legacy of the Inc. for its generous grant. support has also been provided American portrait tradition. We are grateful to Irma R. by the Terra Foundation for Rappaport, John Joe Ricketts, American Art, the Institute of and an anonymous donor for William Adolphe Bouguereau (French, 1825 –1905), Cortlandt Field Museum and Library Services, their support of the exhibition. Bishop, 1873. Oil on canvas. New-York Historical Society, Gift of Mrs. the National Endowment for the Cortlandt F. Bishop and Mrs. Shirley Falcke, 1957.3 Arts, and the Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Inc. Support for the development of The Armory Clarice Smith: Recollections of a Life in Art Show at 100 web resource has November 8, 2013 – February 9, 2014 been provided by a grant from the National Endowment for the The exhibition will present a concentrated retrospective of this Humanities. distinguished contemporary painter’s signature subjects. The works will be organized chronologically and by themes; among them The Garden, Florals, Still Life, Landscapes, Equines, Screens, and Figures. Floral (Orange and White Lilies in Glass Vases), 1985. Oil on canvas. Private Collection. (Detail) Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890), Mountains at Saint Rémy (Montagnes à Saint- Rémy), 1889. Oil on canvas, 28 ¼ x 35 ¾ in. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, Thannhauser Collection, Justin K. Thannhauser, 1978, 78.2514.24 H omefront & Battlefield: uiltsQ & Context in the American Civil War Coming April 2014 Revisit the watershed 1913 New York Armory Show on its 100th anniversary. Commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Civil War (1861-1865) with this The original exhibition introduced the American public to European avant-garde traveling exhibition from the American Textile Museum. Homefront & Battlefield painting and sculpture. This exhibition reassesses the Armory Show with a tells the story of the Civil War through textiles and related artifacts, from a swatch carefully chosen group of approximately one hundred works, including Duchamp’s of fabric woven in a northern mill to clothe Southern slaves, to a quilt pieced by an Nude Descending a Staircase (No. 2), Gauguin’s Words of the Devil, Renoir’s Illinois woman from the uniforms of her two sons. The exhibition connects deeply Algerian Girl, and Matisse’s Blue Nude. moving and personal stories about the war with the broader national context. For the first time, the New-York Historical Society will offer timed ticketing for the exhibitionThe Armory Show at 100. Visitors will be able to buy advance tickets online for specific time slots up to 30 days in New York Story Film Experience advance. Tickets go on sale September 12 and include entrance to the exhibition as well as all-day Ongoing admission to New-York Historical. Please visit nyhistory.org/visit for more information. New York Story is an 18-minute panoramic film experience narrated by award- This film is made possible winning actor and native New Yorker Liev Schreiber. The film depicts New York’s by a generous gift from Bernard and Irene Schwartz. rise from remote outpost to city at the center of the world. Produced by Donna Lawrence Productions, the high-resolution video expands on screen from 25- to 73-feet wide over the course of the show. Front Cover: Marcel Gorham Manufacturing Co. (active 1865-1941), designed by Frank J. Ready Memorial to Henry Hudson: The Arrival of the Halve Maen (detail), 1609, 1908 Leaded glass New-York Historical Society, Gift of the Society of the Daughters of Holland Dames of New York, 1908.40 4 New-York Historical Society Visit nyhistory.org/exhibitions for all current, upcoming, and ongoing exhibitions 5 letter | exhibitions | calendar | programs | walks & talks | family | membership | general information G allery & Walking Tours PAGES 22 & 23 Sunday, September 29, 11 am Monday, October 21, 11 am Monday, January 13, 11 am Calendar Highlights Homes and Haunts of The Armory Show at 100 Gallery Tour 1 Tea Talk with Artist Clarice Smith: Gilded Age New York Marilyn Kushner Recollections of a Life in Art See all programs at nyhistory.org Cal Snyder, Lucy Oakley Clarice Smith Sunday, October 27, 11 am Lectures & Conversations PAGES 8 – 21 Monday, October 7, 1:30 pm From the Armory Show to WWI: Artists Monday, January 27, 11 am Beauty’s Legacy: Gilded Age and Memorials of Greenwich Village The Armory Show at 100 Gallery Tour 3 Portraits in America Gallery Tour Cal Snyder, Lucy Oakley Marilyn Kushner Saturday, November 9, 8:45 am–5:30 pm Tuesday, January 21, 6:30 pm O ctober Symposium: The Armory Show at 100: The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Barbara Dayer Gallati Monday, November 18, 11 am Tuesday, October 1, 6:30 pm New Perspectives Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues Saturday, October 12, 9 am The Armory Show at 100 Gallery Tour 2 Lincoln’s Citadel John Strausbaugh Fall Migration Bird Walk in the Ramble Kimberly Orcutt Kenneth J. Winkle, Harold Holzer Tuesday, November 12, 6:30 pm Alan Messer The Founders at Home: Wednesday, January 22, 6:30 pm Thursday, October 3, 6:30 pm The Building of America, 1735–1817 The Kennedy Presidency The Supreme Court and Myron Magnet, Richard Brookhiser Alan Brinkley, Ira Stoll, David Nasaw Films PAGE 24 Affirmative Action Randall Kennedy Saturday, November 16, 9–11 am February Friday, November 22, 7 pm O ctober February Masters of the Senate Tuesday, February 4, 6:30 pm Paths of Glory (1957) Wednesday, October 9, 6:30 pm Friday, October 18, 7 pm Friday, February 7, 7 pm Philip C.
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