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IMPORTANT INFORMATION IMPORTANT Form Registration SPRING/SUMMER 2020 At 1:30pm our Kusama Plus experience begins in the WOMEN’S COMMITTEE LuEsther T. Mentz Library Building. Be sure to browse the WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 2020 Day Art Tours NYBG’s extensive gift shop before we depart. GREENWICH & NEW HAVEN, CONNECTICUT Lunch on your own at either of the NYBG’s two dining venues; conversation, and art making spaces, you are sure to experience The Pine Tree Cafe or the full-service farm to table Hudson Greenwich Historical Society & more art in new ways. Explore The Marie-Josee and Henry TUESDAY, APRIL 28, 2020 Garden Grill restaurant. Reservations are required at Hudson Yale Center for British Art Kravis Studio for live experimental programming—where you CAMBRIDGE, Garden Grill. Reserve your table early to accommodate the can engage with artists, works in progress, and emerging works The Greenwich Historical Society campus is home to the 1:30pm afternoon experience. Harvard Art Museums & in dialogue—and The Paula and James Crown Creativity Lab—a National Historic Landmark Bush-Holley House, a nationally Harvard Museum of Natural History new experimental space to explore ideas, questions, and art $118; $108 members: includes transportation, admissions, accredited museum, library, archive, and museum store. A processes that arise from MoMA collections and exhibitions. and gratuities. guided tour of the Bush-Holley House reveals historic interiors Begin this fascinating and inspirational day exploring the where, during the summer months between 1890 and 1920, BUS TIMES beautiful collection of Asian, Middle Eastern, Mediterranean, Exhibitions on view include Judd; Felix Feneon: The Anarchist the Cos Cob Art Colony—the first impressionist art colony in 7:30am Departs Manchester European, and American art at the Harvard Art Museums and the Avant-Garde—From Signac to Matisse and Beyond; Niki Connecticut—would gather. The group, whose early members 8am Departs New Britain (the Fogg Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, and Arthur M. de Saint Phall; and Engineer, Agitator, Constructor: The Artist included Childe Hassam, Ernest Lawson, Theodore Robinson, 4pm Departs New York Sackler Museum), now united under one roof. Reinvented. Find exhibition details at moma.org. John Henry Twachtman, and J. Weir, formed an art school for Take this opportunity to see Painting Edo: Japanese Art from the Don’t miss MoMA’s new flagship store and expanded dining teaching, and exploring impressionist ideas and dialogue. Feinberg Collection, one of the largest exhibitions ever presented options. Lunch on your own within the museum or choose Explore the historically significant works of art and artists of from a list of restaurants in the area available at moma.org. at the Harvard Art Museums. Painting Edo offers a window WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 2020 the Cos Cob Art Colony and the special exhibition An Unfinished onto the amazing array of artistic lineages and studios active $105; $95 members, includes transportation, admission, and STAATSBURG, RHINEBECK & GERMANTOWN, NEW YORK Revolution: The Woman’s Suffrage Centennial. The exhibition during the Edo period (1615–1868 in present-day Tokyo) which gratuities. takes a new look at the history and legacy of the women’s fueled a major expansion of Japanese pictorial culture and later Mills Mansion and suffrage movement celebrating the 100th anniversary of the BUS TIMES reverberated in the history of painting in the West. Nineteenth Amendment. To illustrate the long struggle for 7am Departs Manchester Clermont State Historic Site women’s voting rights, original materials from the Greenwich Nearby the Harvard Museum of Natural History houses the 7:30am Departs New Britain The beautiful Hudson River Valley is the setting for our visit Historical Society, museum and private collections, libraries, internationally acclaimed Ware Collection of Blaschka Glass 4pm Departs New York to two magnificent New York State Historic Sites. ilM ls and descendants of suffragettes are on view. Models of Plants, known as the . The Glass Mansion at Staatsburgh State Historic Site, originally built Flowers gallery was completely renovated in 2016 to display in 1832 and greatly expanded in the 1890s, is emblematic Lunch will be served at the Greenwich Historical Society. the unique collection of over 4,300 models representing more of the great country homes of the late nineteenth and early Assorted sandwiches or wraps, salad, dessert, soda, water, than 780 plant species created by a father and son team of TUESDAY, JUNE 2, 2020 twentieth centuries. The Beaux Arts home of Ogden Mills and and juice are included. Czech glass artisans. Renowned for their beauty and exacting BRONX, NEW YORK his wife Ruth Livingston Mills is a fine example of an estate From Greenwich, our trip continues to the Yale Center detail, the glass botanical models on view are so highly realistic built by America’s financial and industrial leaders during for British Art where a docent-led tour of the renowned that they seem to live and breathe. It’s no wonder that this is New York Botanical Gardens the Gilded Age (1876–1917). A guided tour leads us through collections illuminates more than five centuries of British one of the most noted tourist attractions in the area. Don’t miss this very special trip to the New York Botanical rooms fully furnished with original collections. art, featuring works by J.M.W Turner, George Stubbs, Thomas Take your time, design your own schedule and delight in all Gardens to explore Kusama: Cosmic Nature, a multisensory A buffet lunch will be served at The Tavern at the Beekman Gainsborough, , and Benjamin West. that the Harvard Museums have to offer. Lunch on your own at presentation designed to capture and illuminate Yayoi Arms & Delamater Inn—the oldest inn in America. The Yale Center for British Art is a modern building designed Jenny’s Café, located in the Museums’ courtyard, or one of the Kusama’s profound engagement with nature. The NYBG is by the internationally acclaimed American architect Louis I. At the Clermont State Historic Site— the Hudson River seat many restaurants situated in . the exclusive venue for this singular garden-wide experience. Kahn to house Paul Melon’s gift to , the most of New York’s politically and socially prominent Livingston comprehensive collection of British art outside of the United $102; $92 members: includes transportation, admission, and Across the NYBG’s 250-acre landmark landscape and buildings, Family—experience the legacy of seven successive Kingdom. gratuities. Kusama’s lifelong fascination with the natural world will be generations of the Livingston family. A guided tour highlights revealed in depth with multiple installations, including her BUS TIMES their imprint on the site’s architecture, room interiors, and $99; $89 members: includes transportation, admission, guided signature mirrored environments and organic forms, polka- 7:30am Departs New Britain landscape. Robert R. Livingston, Jr., one of the Committee tours, lunch, and gratuities. dotted sculptures of colossal flora, mesmerizing nature-based 8am Departs Manchester of Five that drafted the Declaration of Independence, was BUS TIMES paintings, biomorphic collages, works on paper, botanical 4pm Departs Massachusetts Clermont’s most notable resident. The property also features 7:45am Departs Manchester sketches, as well as a spectacular horticultural showcase in the formal gardens which you can explore after the house tour. 8:15am Departs Bew Britain Enid A. Haupt Conservatory. The exhibition will also debut new 4:30pm Departs New Haven works created by the legendary artist, including a monumental $135; $125 members: includes transportation, admission, site-specific pumpkin sculpture and her first-ever participatory guided tours, lunch, and gratuities. TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2020 greenhouse installation that will be transformed over the BUS TIMES NEW YORK, NEW YORK course of the exhibition from spring into fall. 7am Departs Manchester Upon our arrival, explore the gardens at your leisure to see 7:30am Departs New Britain The Day Art Tours are planned and hosted by The Women’s 4:30pm Departs New York MoMA has been remixed! The newly reinstalled galleries share Kusama’s outdoor works of large-scale sculpture as well as Committee of the Wadsworth Atheneum. exhilaratingly broad views of extraordinary works of Modern the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory and its spectacular horticultural We hope you enjoy your trip. Download an extra registration and Contemporary art. In the expanded galleries, performance, tribute to Kusama based on one of her vibrant paintings. form at thewadsworth.org/dayarttours.