Scarsdale Adult School Catalog Winter 2024
Walking Tour: Faces of Europe at the Met The Met's galleries dedicated to European Paintings from 1300 to 1800 reopened on November 20, 2023, following the completion of a five-year renovation. Reconfigured into a chronological sequence of more than 700 artworks, the galleries illuminate the interconnectedness of cultures, materials, and moments across national and geographically-based artistic schools and movements. Featured are longstanding strengths of the Met's collection — such as masterpieces by Jan van Eyck, Caravaggio, Poussin, El Greco, and Goya — while works by women artists and pieces that illustrate Europe’s complex relationships with New Spain and the Viceroyalty of Peru and the histories of class, gender, race, and religion are now also incorporated. Consider European paintings within the greater arc of history and artistic production as they are juxtaposed with works from other curatorial areas, including sculptures, metalwork, decorative arts, musical instruments, arms and armor, and modern art. HELENLEE (see bio for “Walking Tour: Meiji Modern”). Thursday, February 15 • 1:00pm-2:30pm • Metropolitan Museum of Art • Course 12420 • $80 France, Spain, and England: Monday, March 18 • 11:00am-12:30pm • Metropolitan Museum of Art • Course 12499 • $85
Walking Tour: Klimt Landscapes at the Neue Galerie
Klimt Landscapes (February 15, 2024 through May 6, 2024) features the significant idyllic depictions by Gustav Klimt (1862–1918) from his summer holidays on the Attersee in the Salzkammergut region of Austria, known for its tranquil lakes. Created purely for his own pleasure, these bucolic scenes were highly coveted by collectors and most were made in a square format — a reflection of his fascination with photography. Examine Klimt’s landscapes within the context of his larger oeuvre and trace his constantly evolving approach that included traditional works, symbolism, modernist art, and the decorative and ornate Golden Style style reflected in his famous masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch Bauer I (the "Woman in Gold"). Klimt’s landscapes will be situated alongside his rare print portfolio as well as photography, fashion, and the decorative arts of the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops). HELENLEE (see bio for “Walking Tour: Meiji Modern”).
Thursday, February 29 • 1:00pm-2:30pm 2:45pm-4:15pm • Neue Galerie New York • Course 12421 • $80
Walking Tour: The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism at theMet The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism (February 26, 2024, through July 28, 2024) explores how Black artists portrayed everyday modern life in the new Black cities that took shape in the 1920s–40s in New York and nationwide in the early decades of the Great Migration when millions of African Americans began to move away from the segregated rural South. The first art museum survey of the subject in New York City since 1987, the display of 160 paintings, sculptures, photography, films, and ephemera demonstrates how the Harlem Renaissance and its portrayal of the modern Black subject were central to the development of international modern art. Featured artists include Charles Alston, Aaron Douglas, Meta Warrick Fuller, William H. Johnson, Archibald Motley, Winold Reiss, Augusta Savage, James Van Der Zee, and Laura Wheeler Waring. Their work will be juxtaposed against portrayals of international African diasporan subjects by European counterparts such as Henri Matisse, Edvard Munch, Pablo Picasso, Germaine Casse, Jacob Epstein, and Ronald Moody. HELENLEE (see bio for “Walking Tour: Meiji Modern”). Thursday, March 7 • 1:00pm-2:30pm 11:00am-12:30pm • Metropolitan Museum of Art • Course 12418 • $80
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