ART AND LITERATURE TOUR OCTOBER 25th to 28th

Hotel & Arrival The Omni Berkshire Place 21 East , New York 212 753 5800

. Contact Number: Tina 416-419-2235

. Check in at the front desk. They will do their best to have rooms ready but there is no guarantee. If need be your luggage will be checked. There is a spa area where you can freshen up.

. If you are delayed please call or text me so that I will be aware of the situation.

. I have included the distance and approximate time that it will take from the hotel to the destinations, depending on your decision to walk or take a taxi. Allow yourself ample time due to NYC traffic.

. Please note that at each museum and gallery I will have your entrance ticket in hand. Be certain to arrive 10 minutes prior to start time.

. The hotel is centrally located, close to restaurants, shops and shows. Several suggestions are included in this booklet.

. Breakfast will be available daily in the hotel restaurant, on the main floor opposite the reception desk. THE TOUR BEGINS Friday October 26th BREAKFAST ON YOUR OWN AT THE OMNI BERKSHIRE PLACE

10:00 – 11:30 am CHRISTIE’S AUCTION HOUSE Thursday October 25th . 20 Rockefeller Plaza across from Rockefeller Square . 10 minute walk from the Omni Berkshire 1:00 – 3:30 pm THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART We will have a private tour led by a Christie’s specialist with a focus on the . 1000 5th at 82nd St workings of this famous institution as well as the current collections and up . 1.8 miles from the Omni Berkshire coming auction of Old Masters and Antiquities. This unique experience allows for . Taxi 10-20 minutes the opportunity to ask questions and personalize the visit.

Meet inside the main doors to the left. I will be waiting for the group off to the side After Christie’s we will walk over to Rue 57 for a group lunch. If walking along 6th after you go through security. Ave be sure to notice the Robert Indiana sculpture.

The tour begins with the rooftop garden installation “We Come In Peace” by artist 12:00 – 1:30 pm Huma Bhabha followed by highlights from the European with a focus on LUNCH AT RUE 57 Dutch Masters, The Golden Age and 19th Century Paintings and Sculpture. . 60 West 57th St at 6th . 212-307-5656 Adam Eaker, Assistant Curator in the department of European Painting, responsible for the Northern Baroque works in the collection will introduce to our group the new 2:00 – 3:00 pm exhibition In Praise of Painting: Dutch Masterpieces at the MET. THE OPERA GALLERY . 791 Madison at 67th St 4:15 – 5:30 pm THE JEWISH MUSEUM (OPEN UNTIL 8:00 PM) The Opera Gallery is an international modern and contemporary gallery presenting . 1109 5th Ave at 92nd St masterpieces by some of the most significant artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Together with director Amos Franjnd we will learn about the newly opened Chagall Together we will tour and discuss the Exhibition: Chagall, Lissitzky, Malevich: exhibition as well as the collection of contemporary and modern art. The Russian Avant-Garde in Vibsk, 1918-1922. Through some 160 works this exhibition traces the fascinating history of modernity and the Russian avant-garde. 3:30 – 4:15 pm THE SKARSTEDT GALLERY EVENING ON YOUR OWN . 20 E 79th St between Madison and 5th Ave

Skarstedt Gallery was opened in 1994 by private art dealer Per Skarstedt with the intention of mounting historical exhibitions of contemporary American and European artists. The present exhibition is Lineage: de Kooning and his Influence.

4:30 – 6:00 pm THE NEUE GALERIE . 1046 5th Ave at 86th St

The Neue Galerie offers a unique collection of paintings, sculpture, works on paper, decorative arts and photographs created in Austria and Germany between 1890 and 1940. We will tour part of this permanent collection including Klimt’s Lady in Gold in addition to the exhibition, Franz Marc and August Macke 1909-1914.

EVENING ON YOUR OWN Saturday October 27th Sunday October 28th

BREAKFAST ON YOUR OWN AT THE OMNI BERKSHIRE PLACE BREAKFAST ON YOUR OWN AT THE OMNI BERKSHIRE PLACE

10:00 – 11:30 am . Please check your bags with the hotel before starting the day THE NEW YORK PUBLIC . There is an area to change or freshen up before leaving for home . 476 5th Ave at 42nd St . Taxi 5-10 minutes from the Omni Berkshire 10:30am We will have a private tour of this remarkable building with attention given to its’ HIGH LINE (WEATHER PERMITTING) architecture and history combined with a personalized discussion led by Margret Glover . 2.3 miles from the hotel and Vincent Rutigiliano in the Prints and Drawings Department connecting our list . Taxi 15-35 minutes from the Omni Berkshire to the various works pulled from the collection. . Meet at the 23rd St and 10th Ave entrance –stairs or elevator access 12:00 – 1:30 pm THE MORGAN LIBRARY The High Line is an urban park built in on the elevated section of the old . 225 Madison Ave. at 36th St NY Railroad line. It has become a jewel of the and a well-respected platform for . 1.2 miles from the Omni Berkshire art. While walking we will discuss the architecture and history of the High Line as well . Taxi 8 minutes as the current site specific exhibit Agora.

The Morgan Library contains one of the world’s foremost collections of manuscripts, rare 12:00 – 1:30 pm , music, drawings, paintings and sculpture. Together we will tour the general space, as well as the exhibition “It’s Alive!” Frankenstein at 200. THE WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART . 99 Gansevoort St FREE AFTERNOON: Lunch suggestions . 3.4 miles from the Omni Berkshire Downtown . Taxi 20 minutes . Eataly 200 5th St () . Chelsea Market . Hundred Acres 38 McDougal St (Soho) . Westville 246 W 18th St (Chelsea) The Whitney has one of the world’s foremost collections of modern and contemporary . Russ and Daughters Café 179 Huston St . The Smile 20 Bond St art. Together with an art specialist we will view work from the “Where We Are” collection with a focus on what it means to write one's story into a work of art. Midtown . Todd English Plaza Food Hall 1W 59th St . Fig and Olive 10E 52nd St . Fred’s at Barney’s 660 Madison Ave. . Eat 1064 Madison Ave LUNCH ON YOUR OWN (reservations suggested) . Rustic Table 504 W 42nd St . The Modern (MoMA) 9W 53rd St The Studio Café at the Whitney on the 8th floor. Lines move quickly. MUSEUM SUGGESTIONS . The Tenement Museum 91 Orchard St (reservation required) Untitled Restaurant, at The Whitney 212 570-3670 . The Judd Foundation 101 Spring St (reservation required) . The Drawing Centre 35 Wooster St Santina 212 254 300 . The New Museum 235 . Poets House 10 River St . The Armory, TEFAF 643 Park Ave. at 67th St Bubby’s 212 206- 6200 . The Guggenheim 1071 5th at 89th . The Museum of Arts and Design 2 . The Rubins Museum 150th-17th St DEPART FOR THE AIRPORT AT YOUR LEISURE 5:30 pm PRE- DINNER DRINKS AT DUCKIE BROWN STUDIO . 321 W 13th St Thank you for joining me on this New York adventure . 3.1 miles from the hotel . taxi 27 minutes

Hosted by clothing designers Daniel Silver and Steven Cox. Conversations with artist Ohad Meromi and journalist Naomi Fry from The New Yorker Magazine.

7:00 pm GROUP DINNER - RUBIROSA . 235 Mulberry St (between Prince and Spring) . 1.6 miles from 13th St . Taxi 10 minutes PRESENT EXHIBITIONS

THE MET MOMA Roof Top Installation: “We Come In Peace” Looking at Jerry Lewis: The Nutty Professor Story Boards

Huma Bhabha (born 1962, Karachi, Pakistan) created this site-specific A recent gift to the Museum, John Lauris Jensen’s storyboards for The installation the sixth in a series of commissions for the outdoor space. Nutty Professor are graphic interpretations of the script, suggesting Bhabha's work addresses themes of colonialism, war, displacement, and elements of performance, staging, lighting effects, camera placement, memories of place. Using found materials she creates haunting human and cutting continuity. The 11-storyboard sequences anticipate the look figures that hover between abstraction and figuration, monumentality and and experience of the motion picture, skilfully expressing Lewis’s entropy. The title refers back to a line from the 1951 movie The Day the intentions as both director and performer. Earth Stood Still. Charles White: A Retrospective Devotion to Drawing Charles White’s commitment to creating powerful images of African Renowned as a giant of French Romantic painting, Eugène Delacroix Americans was what he described as “images of dignity”. White believed (1798–1863) was equally a dedicated and an innovative draftsman. that art had a role to play in changing the world: “Art must be an integral Through a selection of more than one hundred works on paper from part of the struggle. It can’t simply mirror what’s taking place. It must finished watercolors to sketchbooks, from copies after old master prints adapt itself to human needs. It must ally itself with the forces of to preparatory drawings for important projects this exhibition explores the liberation”. Charles White: A Retrospective is the first major museum central role of drawing in Delacroix's practice. survey devoted to the artist in over 30 years with over 100 works, including drawings, paintings, prints, photographs, illustrated books, Delacroix record covers and archival materials.

French painter Eugène Delacroix (1798–1863) was one of the greatest THE GUGGUENHEIM MUSEUM creative figures of the nineteenth century. Having produced an Hilma af Klint: Paintings For The Future extraordinarily vibrant body of work, Delacroix set into motion a cascade of innovations that changed the course of art. This exhibition illuminates When Hilma af Klint began creating radically abstract paintings in 1906, Delacroix's restless imagination through more than 150 paintings, they were like little that had been seen before: bold, colorful, and drawings, prints, and manuscripts many never before seen in the United untethered from any recognizable reference to the physical world. States. Her work however was all but unseen until 1986, and only over the subsequent three decades have her paintings and works on paper begun THE JEWISH MUSEUM to receive serious attention. This is the first major solo exhibition in the Chagall, Lissitzky, Malevich: The Russian Avant –Garde 1918-1922 United States devoted to the artist, offering an unprecedented opportunity to experience af Klint’s long-under recognized artistic This exhibition traces the fascinating post-revolutionary years when the achievements. history of art was shaped in Vitebsk far from Russia’s main cities. Through some 120 works and documents the artistic output of this group of artists highlights their unique and revolutionary style and innovation. THE MORGAN LIBRARY NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY “It’s Alive! Frankenstein at 200 Harry Potter: A History of Magic

Commemorating the two hundredth anniversary of Frankenstein, a Capturing the traditions of folklore and magic at the heart of the Harry classic of world literature and a masterpiece of horror, this exhibition Potter stories, Harry Potter: A History of Magic unveils century-old shows how Mary Shelley created a monster while tracing the origins and treasures including rare books, manuscripts, and magical objects from impact of her novel, which has been constantly reinterpreted in spinoffs, the collections of the British Library and New-York Historical Society with sequels, tributes and parodies. For the first time it is possible to view art original material from Harry Potter publisher Scholastic and J.K. and artifacts (including comic books, film posters, publicity stills, and Rowling’s own archives. movie memorabilia) that explain how Frankenstein caught the popular imagination in the course of two hundred years. THE MET BREUR Everything is Connected:Art and Conspiracy Drawing in Tintoretto’s Venice For many years, artists have explored the hidden operations of power Jacopo Tintoretto (1518–1594) was among the most distinctive artists of and the symbiotic suspicion between the government and its citizens that the Italian Renaissance. Drawing in Tintoretto’s Venice is the first haunts Western democracies. Everything Is Connected: Art and exhibition since 1956 to explore the drawing practice of this major figure Conspiracy is the first major exhibition to tackle this provocative topic. It of the Venetian Renaissance and will offer an entirely new perspective on traces the simultaneous development of two kinds of art about Tintoretto’s evolution as a draftsman, his individuality as an artist, and his conspiracy. The first is based upon intense research while the second is influence on a generation of painters in northern Italy. inspired by imagination. The exhibition features seventy works by thirty artists in media ranging from painting and sculpture to photography, THE WHITNEY MUSEUM video, and installation art, from 1969 to 2016. Mary Corse: A Survey in Light Delirious Art at the Limits of Reason 1950-1980 Mary Corse’s first solo museum survey is a long overdue examination of this artist’s career. Initially trained as an abstract painter, Corse emerged The years between 1950 and 1980 were beset by upheaval. Around the in the mid-1960s as one of the few women associated with the West globe, military conflict proliferated and social and political unrest flared. Coast Light and Space movement. She shared with her contemporaries Disenchantment with an oppressive rationalism mounted, as did an a deep fascination with perception and with the possibility that light itself interest in fantastic, hallucinatory experiences. Artists responded to these could serve as both a subject and material of art. developments by incorporating absurdity, disorder, nonsense, disorientation, and repetition into their work. Delirious explores the MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK embrace of irrationality among American, Latin American, and European Through a Different Lens: Stanley Kubrick Photographs artists while asking how best do we interpret a good deal of post war art.

Stanley Kubrick was just 17 when he sold his first photograph to Look Magazine in 1945. In his photographs, many unpublished, Kubrick trained the camera on his native city, drawing inspiration from the nightclubs, street scenes, and sporting events that made up his first assignments, and capturing the pathos of ordinary life with a sophistication that belied his young age. Through a Different Lens: Stanley Kubrick Photographs features more than 120 photographs by Kubrick from the Museum’s Look Magazine archive, an unparalleled collection that includes 129 photography assignments and more than 12,000 negatives from his five years as a staff photographer.

CHELSEA GALLERIES ADDITIONAL MUSEUMS www.chelseagallerymap.com THE GUGGENHEIM MUSEUM • Greene Naftali 1071 on the corner of East 89th St • Matthew Marks 212-423-3500 • Mitchell-Innes & Nash THE MUSEUM OF ART AND DESIGN • Cheim & Read • Foxy Production 212-299-7777 • Jack Shainman Gallery • James Cohan COOPER –HEWITT NATIONAL DESIGN MUSEUM • Lehmann Maupin 2 East 91st St • Lurhing Augustine 212-849-8355 • Marianne Boesky • Metro Pictures THE CLOISTERS - THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM • Pace 99 Margret Corbin Drive • Paula Cooper 212-923-3700 • Sikkema Jenkins And Co MoMA PSI • Tanya Bonakdar 22-25 Jackson Ave, Long Island City 718-784-2084

LOWER EAST SIDE GALLERIES NEW MUSEUM 235 Bowery • Canada 212-219-1222 • Participant, Inc. • Rachel Uffner • Salon 94 Bowery 146 Sixth Ave between Spring and Dominick • Lisa Cooley 212-759-0606 • Invisible Exports INTERNATIONAL CENTER OF PHOTOGRAPHY • On Stellar Rays 1133 Avenue of the Americas • Reena Spaulings 212-857-0000 • Sperone Westwater THE RUBIN MUSEUM OF ART 150 W 17th St SOHO GALLERIES ART MUSEUM • Artist Space 38 Greene St 3 Beekman St Beekman, NY • Swiss Institute 18 Wooster 1.5 Hour By Train From The City • Morrison Hotel Gallery 116 Prince St Train Information 212-679-2222 • The New York Earth Room 141 Wooster St MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK • Arcadia Gallery 51 Greene St 1220 5th St • Louis Meisle Gallery 141 Prince St 212-534-1672

THE MET BREUR 945 Madison Ave at 75th 212-731-1675 BOOKS AND THINGS OTHER NOVELS OF INTEREST

LIBRARIES A Piece of the World - Christina Baker Kline THE MORGAN LIBRARY AND MUSEUM Stolen Beauty - Laurie Albanes 225 Madison Ave at 36th St 212-685-0008 Sofie and Cecilia - Katherine Ashenburgh GROLIER CLUB LIBRARY Oil and Marble: A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo - S. Storey 47th E 60th Street, Upper East Side The Weeping Woman - Zoe Valdes POETS HOUSE 10 River Ter Battery Park The Painter of Souls - Philip Kazan NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY JEFFERSON MARKET BRANCH Girl Reading - Katie Ward 425 6th Ave The Forest Lover - Susan Vreeland NEW YORK SOCIETY LIBRARY 53 E 79th St Martin Sloane - Michael Redhill

BOOK STORES After Image - Helen Humphreys

CRAWFORD DOYLE BOOKSELLERS The Cellist of Sarajevo - Steven Galloway 1082 Madison between 81st and 82nd 212-288-6300 People of The - Geraldine Brooks

CORNER BOOKSTORE The Passion of Artemisia - Susan Vreeland 1313 Madison between 92nd and 93rd 212-813-3554 The Sixteen Pleasures - Robert Hellenga

STRAND BOOKSTORE The Birth of Venus - Sarah Dunant 828 Broadway at the corner of 12th St and Broadway 212-473-1452 The Pieces From Berlin - Michael Pye

192 BOOKS The Lost Painting - Jonathan Harr 192 Tenth at 21st The Glass Room - Simon Mawer BOOK CULTURE 536 West 112th St Pictures at an Exhibition - Sara Houghteling

MCNALLY JACKSON BOOKS Leaving Van Gogh - Carol Wallace 52 Prince St Still Life With Oysters and Lemon - Mark Doty BOOKBOOK BOOKSTORE 266 Bleeker St West Village Rembrandt’s Enterprise - Svetlana Alpers A TRUE NEW YORKER’S “Top 10” RESTAURANT SUGGESTIONS

TO EAT: THE GREY DOG 242 West 16 Street 212-229-2345 BARNEY GREENGRASS 244 Mulberry Street 212-966-1060 541 Amsterdam Avenue at 87th St 212-724 4707 Good easy and fast (lunch) BAR PITTI RUSS & DAUGHTERS CAFÉ 268 6th Ave. West Village 179 East Houston St 212-475-4880 212-982-3300 Italian (dinner) OMEN 113 Thompson St (between Prince and Spring St.) ABC KITCHEN 212-925-8923 35 E 18th St Flatiron District 212-475-5829 OYSTER BAR (GRAND CENTRAL STATION) 89 E 42nd St 212-490-6650 THE SMILE A taste of old New York 20 Bond St 646-329-5836 Great brunch-lunch spot DB BISTRO MODERNE 55 West 44th St 212-391-2400 CLAUDETTE 24 5th Ave. between 8th - 9th TO SEE: 212-866-2424 Delicious for dinner THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY 5th Ave. at 42nd St PALMA An amazing building to walk around 28 Cornelia St 212-691-2223 DOVER STREET MARKET NEW YORK Beautiful back garden (dinner) 160 at 30th St TODD ENGLISH-PLAZA FOOD HALL Beautiful, unusual clothing for everyone 1W 59th St Park Price point: reasonable to obscene FIG AND OLIVE ZOO 10E 52nd St 64th St and 5th Ave 212 319 2002 Across from the Omni Berkshire A step back in time ESTIATORIO MILOS TENEMENT MUSEUM 125 W 55th St 103 Orchard St 212-982-8420 High end Mediterranean, great buzz. (dinner) Spooky and wonderful L’ARTUSI 228W 10th St (lunch or dinner) THE BROOKLYN OR MANHATTAN BRIDGE Take a night ride over the bridge and look at the city lights and the BAR ITALIA Manhattan Skyline 786 Madison (lunch or dinner) THE CONCIERGE’S “TOP 10” RESTAURANTS SHOPPING EXPERIENCES

SUSHI ANN (Sushi Bar) CHELSEA MARKET 51st St between Madison and Park Ave 91 9th Ave Housed in the old National Biscuit Company Factory MALONEY AND PORCELLI (Steak and Seafood) The Chelsea Market offers a variety of food and clothing items 50th St between Madison and Park - Next to the New York Palace Hotel ABC CARPET AND FURNISHING VITAE (New American) 888 Broadway at the corner of 20th 46th St between Madison and 5th Ave A museum in it’s own right filled with furniture and home goods

INSIDE PARK (American Continental) RALPH LAUREN Corner of 50th and in the St Bartholomew’s Courtyard 888 Madison Ave at 72nd Architecturally beautiful THE NATIONAL (American Bistro) Iron Chef Jeffrey Zakarian Corner of 50th St and Lexington Avenue SAKS FIFTH AVENUE 611 5th Ave DEL FRESCO GRILLE (American Bistro) Founded in 1927 221 Avenue of the Americas Saks maintains its original charm in design and clothing

LA MASSERIE (Italian) BARNEY’S NEW YORK 235 W 48th St between 7th and 8th 660 Madison & 101 7th Ave High end well appointed department store BARBETTA (Italian) 321 W 46th St between 8th and 9th THE DOVER STREET MARKET 160 Lexington NATSUMI (Japanese) An eclectic array of trendy fashion housed in an interesting and newly 226 W 50th St between Broadway and 8th renovated building

GRATA RESTAURANT & WINE BAR (Mixed Grill) PIPPIN VINTAGE JEWELRY 1076 1st Ave between 57th and 58th 112 W 17th St A charming store filled with many unique treasures

FISHS EDDY A long standing corner destination with a selection of vintage style house wears

KINOKUNIYA 1073 6th Ave Everything Japanese from high quality stationary to books NOTES