Scarsdale Adult School Catalog Winter 2024
Walking Tour: Art in Transit Since 1985, the Metropolitan Transit Authority Arts & Design program has been commissioning dynamic contemporary art for subway and commuter rail stations, creating memorable and lively environments for travelers. Tour the subway stations that feature work by Nick Cave and visit the recently opened Grand Central Madison that houses installations by Yayoi Kusama, Kiki Smith, and Jordan Bruner. RIVA BLUMENFELD is an art educator at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum, and the Guggenheim Museum, focusing on school, family and access groups for 14 years. Besides the museums, Blumenfeld conducts art tours for groups. Previously she owned a gallery in Soho that specialized in contemporary American art. Tuesday, January 23 • 11:00am-1:00pm • TBD in NYC • Course 12303 • $80 Walking Tour: Contemporary Galleries of New York City Explore the hottest galleries within Tribeca, Chelsea, or the Upper East Side and enjoy a day of beautiful art and architecture. Tour routes are carefully curated and designed to highlight the best selection of what is currently on display in any of the neighborhood galleries, making each trip in this series unique. Class meeting location will be provided via email one week prior to the tour. This installment focuses on female artists in honor of Women's History Month. Venture to Chelsea to view more than 80 works curated by Cecilia Alemani within Komal Shah’s private art collection installed on two floors of the former Dia building, including those by Amy Silllman, Rina Banerjee, Julie Mehretu, and Sarah Sze, who are innovators in abstraction, and by more historic artists such as Jennifer Bartlett, Joan Mitchell, Barbara Chase Riboud. Then view Prickling Goosebumps & a Humming Horizon , an hypnotic exhibition by Pipilotti Rist with washes of color projected from
the video's fantastical imagery at Hauser & Wirth. RIVA BLUMENFELD (see bio for “Walking Tour: Art in Transit”). Tuesday, March 5 • 11:00am-1:00pm • TBD in NYC • Course 12302 • $80
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