Scarsdale Adult School Catalog Spring/Summer 2025
Art Appreciation Walking Tour: Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie at the Met Using a feminist lens, Monstrous Beauty (running March 24, 2025, through August 17, 2025) radically reinterprets the history of European porcelain. When porcelain first arrived in Europe from China, it led to a decorative style fixated on the East as exotic. Explore how this art form shaped not only European women's identities but also the racial and cultural stereotypes of Asian women. When viewed with a critical eye through the lens of female empowerment, this exhibit of nearly 200 porcelain works from the sixteenth century to the present shatters the illusion of chinoiserie and a neutral, harmless fantasy. HELEN LEE 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. Monday, April 7 • 10:30am-12:00pm 10:00am-11:30pm • Metropolitan Museum of Art • Course 13059 • $85 PAGE KNOX is an adjunct professor in the Art History Department of Columbia University, where she received her PhD in 2012. She lectures widely in museums in New York City. Friday, July 11 • 11:00am-12:30pm • Metropolitan Museum of Art • Course 13213 • $85
Walking Tour: European Wing at the Met Tour will include highlights in the Met's European Wing, including its celebrated European Paintings collection encompassing more than 2,500 works of art from the thirteenth through the early twentieth century. This visit will not repeat any works shown during the September 2024, December 2024, and February 2025 tours. PAGE KNOX (see bio for “ Monstrous Beauty ”). Friday, April 18 • 11:00am-12:30pm • Metropolitan Museum of Art • Course 13210 • $85
Walking Tour: Eighteenth Century French Paintings at the Met Tour the galleries that include eighteenth century paintings by French artists. PAGE KNOX (see bio for “ Monstrous Beauty" ). Friday, May 16 • 11:00am-12:30pm 1:00pm-2:30pm • Metropolitan Museum of Art • Course 13215 • $85
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