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METROPOLITAN CHAPTER
EVENTS
SAVE THE DATE: Margot Gayle's 100th birthday celebration
LECTURE
SERIES
All lectures are at the Donnell Library Auditorium. The lectures
are FREE, and no reservations are required. The Donnell Library
Auditorium is located at 20 W. 53rd St., New York City, between
Fifth and Sixth Avenues. The nearest public transportation is the
Fifth Avenue stop on the E and V subway lines. The Fall series includes:
SPRING 2008 LECTURES
Tuesday, February 12, 6 PM
The Proper Decoration of Book Covers: The Life and Work of Alice C. Morse
Mindell Dubansky, preservation librarian, Thomas J. Watson Library at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and curator of an exhibition on Morse and her book covers at the Grolier Club, on view January 24-March 7
Virtually unknown today, Alice C. Morse achieved fame in the late 1880s as a designer of intricate book covers and case bindings. She trained in stained glass production with John La Farge, and worked as a designer for Louis Comfort Tiffany before her career as a designer of book covers, literary posters and ephemeral materials.
Tuesday, March 11, 6 PM
Women in the (Vaudeville) House
Barbara Cohen-Stratyner , curator of exhibitions, The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts
Recognizing women's increasing discretionary income, Vaudeville circuit managers, led by B.F. Keith, targeted them to attend afternoon performances. As a result, the image of women in vaudeville shifted from victim of marriage, as in Bird in a Gilded Cage, to independent young women in control of their free time, as did Katie Casey who demanded that her beau take her out to the ball game. In addition, young immigrant working women became popular characters.
Tuesday, April, 8, 6 PM
Transmitting Beauties of Nature to Elements of Decoration:
The Glass Gardens of Louis C. Tiffany
Lindsy Parrott, manager and curator of The Neustadt Collection of Tiffany Glass in New York
Louis C. Tiffany devoted significant amounts of time and money to developing new glass formulas and innovative fabrication techniques that enabled him to translate the beauty and subtleties of the natural world into glass. This lecture will explore some sources of Tiffany’s inspiration and focus on the materials and methods used to masterfully replicate naturalistic effects of color, texture and pattern in his famous leaded-glass windows and lampshades.
Tuesday, May 13, 6 PM
The Great War of the Architects:
Religious Architecture in New York during the Victorian Period
Dr. Ronald J. Brown, assistant professor of history, ethnic studies, and political science at Touro College and adjunct professor of world religions at Unification Theological Seminary
In the Victorian era, Jews, Catholics and Orthodox Christians from the Russian, German and Austro-Hungarian empires, Christians and Jews from Lebanon, Armenia and Syria and Roman Catholics from Italy and Ireland transformed New York into the world's most religiously, eth-nically and linguistically diverse city. Construction of unique houses of worship that reflected their countries of origins was central to the immigrants' retention of their religions and cultures.
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TOURS
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scheduled time. Tours must be reserved
in advance.
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information on any of the programs may be obtained by calling (212)
886-3742.
VSA Metropolitan Chapter
232 East 11th Street
New York, NY 10003
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