Scarsdale Adult School Catalog Winter 2024
Walking Tour: Meiji Modern: Fifty Years of New Japan at Asia Society
Hailed as a must-see exhibit, Meiji Modern reevaluates a seminal era of turmoil, creativity, and transformation in Japan spanning the mid-nineteenth to early-twentieth centuries. Comprising over 80 works that include paintings, prints, photographs, sculptural works, and objects in various media such as enamel, lacquer, embroidery, and textiles, this exhibition presents some of the finest examples of Meiji-period artworks in
American collections, both public and private. Arranged around traditional Japanese motifs, such as the sea and nature, Buddhist deities, beauties, and mythical animals, the exhibit highlights these themes as they are transformed by the introduction of newly imported techniques, materials, and objects, surprising the viewer with works of technical virtuosity, unexpected scale, and sheer beauty. HELENLEE is an independent art educator, conducting research and crafting personal, customizable, in-person and virtual gallery experiences for adults and children at several museums. She studied art history as an undergraduate and graduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with areas of concentration in Asian Art and Modern Art. Friday, January 5 • 11:00am-1:00pm • Asia Society • Course 12266 • $75 Walking Tour: Africa & Byzantium at theMet
Walking Tour: Unnamed Figures: Black Presence and Absence in the Early American North at the American Folk Art Museum Unnamed Figures: Black Presence and Absence in the Early American North (November 15, 2023 through March 24, 2024) at the American Folk Art Museum offers a new window onto Black representation in a region that is often overlooked in narratives of early African American history. As a corrective to histories that define slavery and anti-Black racism as a largely Southern issue, this exhibition focuses on figures who appear in or are omitted from early American images. The 125 remarkable works of paintings, needlework, and photographs challenge conventional narratives that have minimized early Black histories in the North, revealing the complexities and contradictions of the region’s history between the late 1600s and early 1800s. HELENLEE (see bio for “Walking Tour: Meiji Modern”). Tuesday, February 6 Friday, February 9 Wednesday, March 20 • 1:00pm-2:30pm 2:00pm-3:30pm 1:30pm-3:00pm • American Folk Art Museum • Course 12422 • $80
Art history has long emphasized the glories of the Byzantine Empire (circa 330–1453). Less known are the profound artistic contributions of North Africa, Egypt, Nubia, Ethiopia, and other powerful African kingdoms whose pivotal interactions with Byzantium had a lasting impact on the Mediterranean world. Bringing together a range of masterworks — from mosaic, sculpture, pottery, and metalwork to luxury objects, paintings, and religious manuscripts — Africa & Byzantium (on view through March 3, 2024) recounts Africa’s central role in international networks of trade and cultural exchange. With artworks rarely or never before seen in public, this exhibit sheds new light on the staggering artistic achievements of medieval Africa and highlights how the continent contributed to the development of the premodern world, offering a more complete history of the vibrant multi-ethnic societies of north and east Africa that shaped the artistic, economic, and cultural life of Byzantium and beyond. HELENLEE (see bio for “Walking Tour: Meiji Modern”). Thursday, January 11 • 1:00pm-2:30pm • Metropolitan Museum of Art • Course 12419 • $80 PAGEKNOX (see bio for “Contemporary Artists”). Tuesday, February 27 • 11:00am-12:15pm • Metropolitan Museum of Art • Course 12460 • $80
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