ART AND LITERATURE TOUR OCTOBER 25th to 28th Hotel & Arrival The Omni Berkshire Place 21 East 52nd Street, 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 Broadway 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 Collection 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 LIBRARY . 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 reading 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 Manhattan on the elevated section of the old . 225 Madison Ave. at 36th St NY Railroad line. It has become a jewel of the city 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 books, 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 (Flatiron District) . 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 Bowery . 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 Columbus Circle . 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.