Scarsdale Adult School Catalog Spring/Summer 2025
Walking Tour: Amy Sherald: American Sublime at the Whitney Amy Sherald: American Sublime (running April 9, 2025 through August 10, 2025) is the first major museum survey of this NYC-based artist's work and is also her first solo exhibition at a New York museum. The exhibit contains approximately fifty of Sherald's paintings, including her iconic portraits of Michelle Obama and Breonna Taylor. These along with both her earlier lesser known works and newly created paintings of everyday and famous Black Americans focus intentionally on a population that has been omitted historically from portraiture and representation. HELEN LEE (see bio for “ Monstrous Beauty ”). Wednesday, May 14 • 2:00pm-3:30pm • Whitney Museum of American Art • Course 13172 • $125
RIVA BLUMENFELD (see bio for “Walking Tour: Contemporary Galleries of New York City”). Monday, May 5 • 2:30pm-4:00pm • Whitney Museum of American Art • Course 13334 • $85 Walking Tour: Yale Center for British Art The Yale Center for British Art, newly reopened in March
Walking Tour: Anonymous Was A Woman: The First 25 Years at the Grey Art Museum This exhibition showcases a selection of artists to receive the Anonymous Was A Woman (AWAW) award in its first twenty-five years of existence. Philanthropist and artist Susan Unterberg founded the award to redress the lack of institutional support for women visual artists over the age of 40, providing unrestricted grants of $25,000 to ten or more artists each year. The result is an array of artwork that explores themes of anonymity and, ultimately, celebrates the transformative impact women artists have made on contemporary art. Past awardees include Jeanne Silverthorne (AWAW 1996), Laura Aguilar (AWAW 2000), Senga Nengudi (2005), Marie Watt (AWAW 2006), Ida Applebroog (AWAW 2009), Jungjin Lee (2011), Rona Pondick (AWAW 2016), and Jennifer Wen Ma (AWAW 2019), among many others.
after an extensive renovation, houses the largest collection of British art outside the United Kingdom, encompassing works from the fifteenth century to the present in a range of media. Explore the collection as well as two special exhibits. J.M.W. Turner: Romance and Reality (running March 29, 2025 through July 27, 2025) celebrates the 250th anniversary of the birth of Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851), perhaps the most influential British artist of all time. The collection includes some of his most notable oil landscapes as well as outstanding watercolors, prints, and sketchbooks. Tracey Emin: I Loved You Until the Morning (running March 29, 2025 through August 10, 2025) is the first major exhibit in a North American museum of Emin's dynamic and autobiographical work. The display features paintings from 2007 to the present that draw upon her experiences of illness, intimacy, and sexuality. The tour will break for lunch in the museum's neighborhood. Transportation and lunch are not included in the class fee. HELEN LEE (see bio for “ Monstrous Beauty ”). Thursday, June 26 • 11:00am-5:00pm • Yale University Art Gallery • Course 13174 • $150
HELEN LEE (see bio for “ Monstrous Beauty ”). Tuesday, July 1 • 11:00am-12:30pm • Grey Art Museum • Course 13175 • $85
Walking Tour: Recasting The Past: The Art of Chinese Bronzes, 1100-1900 at the Met Recasting the Past: The Art of Chinese Bronzes, 1100–1900 (running February 28, 2025 through September 28, 2025) examines the often underappreciated works from this period of Chinese bronze art. While the archaic bronzes were functional serving pieces for food and wine, the later bronzes served as incense burners, flower vases, and more, and were previously stigmatized as poor imitations of the ancient creations. This exhibition highlights how these later vessels were fundamentally new creations with their own aesthetic and character, embodying a long-lost golden age worthy of study and emulation. HELEN LEE (see bio for “ Monstrous Beauty ”). Monday, July 14 • 10:30am-12:00pm • Metropolitan Museum of Art • Course 13169 • $85
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