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Greetings Lifelong Learners, We are looking forward to another fabulous semester packed with special events, walking tours, lectures, and discussion classes! SAS strives for the right blend of brand new timely topics with recurring fan favorites in a wide array of disciplines to meet student interest and scheduling preferences. An award-winning source of affordable quality adult enrichment, SAS offers a diverse selection of subject matter taught by high caliber instructors, all while instilling a sense of camaraderie among its students, even in the virtual classrooms.

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Registration for classes is open 24/7 at www.ScarsdaleAdultSchool.org , with staggered class start dates and varied meeting days and times throughout the year. In-person classes are housed in southern Westchester venues convenient to mass transit, parkways, and highways. Online classes are held over Zoom. Though originally born out of necessity, SAS’s impressive assortment of online classes have now become a mainstay, providing the perfect opportunity to engage in a common activity with friends and family in other communities, states, and even countries and most are being recorded and made available to watch on demand, eliminating any scheduling constraints. Classes are open to all, regardless of residency, and fill on a first-come/first-served basis.

We welcome your feedback and encourage you to fill out a Completed Course Survey for each class you take. If you love our classes, please tell your friends – word of mouth is much appreciated! In-person and online lifelong learning is a community-building experience regardless of place and space. With an unparalleled breadth of course offerings our catalog has something for everyone!

Embrace the opportunity. Embrace the adventure. Embrace SAS.

Onward and Upward, Jill Serling, Executive Direct

Mission Statement Scarsdale Adult School (SAS) is a pre-eminent, independent, not-for-profit adult education organization, offering a wide range of intellectually stimulating, best-in-class courses, lectures, and cultural activities along with skill-enhancing and recreational classes. By serving the needs of adults locally, regionally, and internationally, SAS continually strives to innovate, create a high quality curriculum, and grow our community of lifelong learners.

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Table of Contents

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Special Events.....................................................................................................................................................1 Walking Tours......................................................................................................................................................9 Art Appreciation................................................................................................................................................13 Architecture....................................................................................................................................................... 25 History and Culture...........................................................................................................................................29 Current Events and Politics.............................................................................................................................33 Literature, Film, Theater, and Television.........................................................................................................36 Writing................................................................................................................................................................ 51 Music Appreciation...........................................................................................................................................52 Performing Arts.................................................................................................................................................54 Arts & Crafts......................................................................................................................................................58 Hobbies and Edutainment................................................................................................................................71 Computers, Technology, and the Internet.......................................................................................................72 Natural Sciences...............................................................................................................................................75 Home and Garden.............................................................................................................................................76 Financial and Retirement Planning.................................................................................................................77 Games................................................................................................................................................................ 79 Food and Beverage...........................................................................................................................................85 Fitness and Dance.............................................................................................................................................89 Health, Wellness, and Personal Growth..........................................................................................................95 Languages......................................................................................................................................................... 98 Support Our School........................................................................................................................................104 Our Team..........................................................................................................................................................104 Campaign 2023 Honor Roll.............................................................................................................................105 General Information........................................................................................................................................107 Registration Information.................................................................................................................................108 Register By Mail Form....................................................................................................................................109 Index of Classes By Day of the Week............................................................................................................110 Index by Time of Day.......................................................................................................................................119

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Special Events Recipes to Live By : An Evening with Al Roker and Courtney Roker Laga in Conversation with Joy Bauer Meet the world's most famous weatherman Al Roker and his daughter, Courtney Roker Laga, as they discuss their new family cookbook, Al Roker's Recipes to Live By . The Rokers will be joined in conversation with Joy Bauer, MS, RDN, CDN, one of the nation’s leading health authorities. Rejoice in and relate to the Roker family rituals while thumbing through the Roker family recipe box. Roker's amusing anecdotes explain why he writes that "[f]ood is the narrative that has shaped so much of who I am, and it’s the source of my warmest memories." Registration includes a copy of the cookbook. Additional details about this special community event will be added shortly. AL ROKER is a coanchor of NBC’s Today, an Emmy-award winning journalist, and a NewYork Times bestselling author. He lives in New York with his family. COURTNEY ROKER LAGA is a recipe developer and trained chef who has worked in two Michelin-starred restaurants. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and young daughter.

JOY BAUER , MS, RDN, CDN, is one of the nation's leading health authorities. She serves as the nutrition and healthy lifestyle contributor for NBC’s Today show and is a featured expert on NBC News Daily. Renowned for her expertise, she has written 14 bestsellers, spent more than a decade as the official nutritionist for the New York City Ballet, and maintains a website with cutting-edge health information and thousands of delicious recipes. Passionate about delivering scientifically sound, practical advice, she has received numerous awards, including the National Media Excellence Award from both the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics and the American Society of Nutrition Science. She has also been honored with eight Taste Award nominations, a distinction often described as the Oscars of food, fashion, and lifestyle media. Wednesday, December 11 • 7:00pm-8:30pm • Temple Israel of New Rochelle • Course 12819 • $50 Al Roker and Courtney Roker Laga photo credit: Amy Roth

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Author Visit: Lorraine Besser, The Art of the Interesting: What We Miss in Our Pursuit of the Good Life and How to Cultivate It (2024) Meet Lorraine Besser, Professor of Philosophy at Middlebury College, whose studies on what makes for a good life are the subject of her upcoming book, The Art of the Interesting: What We Miss in Our Pursuit of the Good Life and How to Cultivate It (on-sale September 10, 2024). Traditionally, philosophers and psychologists have thought of the good life in terms of happiness or meaning, or some combination of both. Emerging research suggests that such understandings are incomplete, and that “psychological richness,” that which helps make life more interesting, is a key ingredient. Psychological richness derives from our experiences of things that stimulate and engage us – i.e., the interesting. Through delightful stories, Professor Besser explains how to cultivate the “interesting” through mindfulness, novelty, turning obstacles into adventures, and friendships.

LORRAINE BESSER , PhD, is a professor of philosophy at Middlebury College, who specializes in the philosophy and psychology of the good life and teaches popular courses for undergraduates on happiness, well-being, and ethics. An internationally recognized scholar, she was a founding investigator on the research team studying psychological richness. She is the author of The Philosophy of Happiness: An Interdisciplinary Introduction and Eudaimonic Ethics: The Philosophy and Psychology of Living Well , as well as dozens of professional journal articles on moral psychology. Thursday, September 26 • 7:00pm-8:30pm • Zoom • Course 12832 • $30 Author Visit: Chris Whitaker, All the Colors of the Dark (2024) In conversation with Crown Publishing’s Senior Vice President and Fiction Publisher Amy Einhorn, meet UK-based author Chris Whitaker during his limited US tour for a discussion of his latest bestseller, All the Colors of the Dark (2024), a book that Jenna Bush Hager is turning into a mini-series. This heart-wrenching genre-bending epic depicts the fine line that separates light and dark, triumph and tragedy, and devotion and obsession. Set in Missouri beginning in the 1970s and spanning over 25 years, the novel is part mystery, part serial killer thriller, and part love story. Girls in the small town of Monta Clare have been disappearing. When the daughter of a wealthy family becomes the target, an unlikely hero emerges in Patch Macauley, a local boy, born with only one eye, who saves her. Haunting and beautiful, the story explores how childhood wounds impact adulthood as it focuses on Patch, his best friend Saint, and Patch's multi-year effort to locate another one of the girls who had been abducted. CHRIS WHITAKER is the award-winning author of Tall Oaks , All the Wicked Girls , We Begin at the End , and All the Colors of the Dark .

AMY EINHORN is the Senior Vice President and Fiction Publisher at Crown Publishing. Previously, she was President at Henry Holt & Co., Publisher at Flatiron Books, and had her own eponymous imprint, Amy Einhorn Books, at Penguin Random House. Einhorn has published many New York Times bestselling fiction authors, including Chris Whitaker, Liane Moriarty, Min Jin Lee, and others, as well as bestselling memoirs and narrative nonfiction by authors such as James Comey, Jenny Lawson, and Amy Sedaris.

Wednesday, October 9 • 7:00pm-8:30pm • Scarsdale Public Library • Course 12869 • $35

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Author Visit: Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures (2022) In conversation with Anna Katsavos, Shelby Van Pelt will discuss her best-selling debut novel, Remarkably Bright Creatures . Narrated by an ornery octopus that is bored and frustrated by his confinement in an aquarium, the book centers around the unlikely bond formed with a 70-year-old widow who works the night shift there as a cleaner and is tormented by her son's disappearance decades ago. Unusual, witty, and absorbing, this heartwarming book is a beautiful exploration of friendship and optimism in spite of loss. SHELBY VAN PELT is the author of Remarkably Bright

Creatures (2022), an instant New York Times Bestseller and a Read With Jenna Today Show book club pick. In 2023, she was awarded the Heartland Prize for Fiction and the McLaughlin-Esstman-Stearns First Novel Prize from The Writer’s Center. Van Pelt's short stories have also appeared in multiple publications. Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest, she now lives near Chicago.

ANNA KATSAVOS , PhD, is an experienced book group facilitator. A SUNY Professor Emerita of English Literature and Women’s Studies, she has received numerous awards for teaching, and her scholarship has been published in a variety of literary journals. She has interviewed many best-selling authors and has presented interactive programs focusing on a wide range of women’s issues. Additionally, she conducts writing, editing and publishing workshops. Monday, September 16 • 1:00pm-2:30pm • Zoom • Course 12788 • $30

Author Visit: Sierra Greer, Annie Bot (2024) In conversation with Anna Katsavos, Sierra Greer will discuss her recent best-seller, Annie Bot . This provocative novel explores the increasingly complicated relationship between a female robot and her human owner. Programmed to provide housekeeping and intimacy services to cater to her owner's every need, Annie is placed in autodidactic mode that makes her seem more human as she acquires knowledge. As he tries to shape her into a

misogynist's dream of perfection, her learned emotional intelligence creates conflict between owner and robot. This gripping story explores questions of consent, empowerment, and domestic abuse.

SIERRA GREER grew up in Minnesota before attending Williams College and Johns Hopkins University. A former high school English teacher, she writes about the future from her home in rural Connecticut. ANNA KATSAVOS (see bio for “Author Visit: Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures (2022)”). Monday, September 30 • 1:00pm-2:30pm • Zoom • Course 12789 • $30

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Author Visit: Catherine Newman, Sandwich (2024) In conversation with Anna Katsavos, Catherine Newman will discuss her instant New York Times bestseller, Sandwich (2024). Characteristic of her other publications, this novel concerns the ordinary, inevitable, and often messy daily struggles from the perspective of a woman sandwiched between her aging parents and grown children. The narrator is neurotic, sentimental, joyous, sorrowful, and slightly unhinged all at once. Funny observations about the constantly changing stages of life infuse the story that unfolds during the family's annual vacation in Cape Cod.

CATHERINE NEWMAN is the author of the memoirs Catastrophic Happiness and Waiting for Birdy , the middle-grade novel One Mixed-Up Night , the kids’ craft book Stitch Camp , the best-selling how-to books for kids How to Be a Person and What Can I Say? , and the novels We All Want Impossible Things and Sandwich . She writes the Substack newsletter Crone Sandwich and has been a regular contributor to the New York Times , Real Simple , O: The Oprah Magazine , Cup of Jo , and many other publications. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts where she is the academic department coordinator/secretary of the Creative Writing Center at Amherst College. ANNA KATSAVOS (see bio for “Author Visit: Shelby Van Pelt, Remarkably Bright Creatures (2022)”). Thursday, October 24 • 10:00am-11:30am • Zoom • Course 12790 • $30

Author Visit: Alexandra Lapierre, Belle Greene, A Novel of America's Most Famous Librarian (2023)

Belle Greene by Alexandra Lapierre, translated from French by National Book Award finalist Tina Kover, tells the remarkable true story of the librarian Belle da Costa Greene. Though Black, Greene lived most of her life passing as white in furtherance of her education and career goals in a culturally segregated society. Flamboyant, brilliant, and stunningly beautiful, Greene became a sensation to both fashionable society and the male-dominated art world. Curator and collector of rare books and manuscripts for J.P. Morgan, Greene transformed the Morgan Library's exclusive private holdings into a public institution and served as its librarian and inaugural director until her retirement in 1948. Lapierre brings Greene's brilliant essence to life in her thoroughly researched tribute to an historical figure whose accomplishments, relationships, and singularity were as complex and fascinating as the collections she helped curate. Books will be available for sale and signing. This class is free of charge but seating is limited so advanced registration is required. Please consider a donation to Scarsdale Adult School at time of checkout.

ALEXANDRA LAPIERRE is a bestselling French novelist, short story writer, and biographer. She graduated from Sorbonne University and the University of Southern California. Among her other works of fiction that illuminate the lives of great women neglected by history is the international bestseller Artemisia (Vintage 2012). Tuesday, October 22 • 11:00am-12:15pm • Scarsdale Public Library • Course 12897 • $0 (free)

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Author Visit: Alice Hoffman, When We Flew Away (2024)

In conversation with literary scholar Anna Katsavos, acclaimed author Alice Hoffman will discuss her latest fiction, When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary (2024). Through extensive research and in cooperation with the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, the book imagines and recreates Anne Frank's life in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands during the years before she went into hiding. Hoffman imbues Frank, a young child, with wit, mischief, creativity, and wisdom beyond her age, foreshadowing the literary talent reflected in her now famous diary.

ALICE HOFFMAN is the highly acclaimed author of more than thirty novels, three books of short fiction, and eight books for children and young adults. Her works include the Practical Magic book series ( Practical Magic , The Rules of Magic , Magic Lessons , The Book of Magic ), The World That We Knew (winner of the Dayton Literary Peace Prize), The Marriage of Opposites , The Red Garden , Here on Earth (Oprah's Book Club Choice), The Museum of Extraordinary Things , The Dovekeepers , Faithful , and Turtle Moon . Born in

New York City, she currently lives near Boston. ANNA KATSAVOS , PhD, is an experienced book group facilitator. A SUNY Professor Emerita of English Literature and Women’s Studies, she has received numerous awards for teaching, and her scholarship has been published in a variety of literary journals. She has interviewed many best-selling authors and has presented interactive programs focusing on a wide range of women’s issues. Additionally, she conducts writing, editing and publishing workshops. Thursday, November 14 • 10:00am-11:15am • Zoom • Course 12893 • $35 Author Visit: Daniel M. Lavery, Women's Hotel (2024) Meet Daniel M. Lavery in conversation with Anna Katsavos as they discuss Lavery’s debut novel, Women’s Hotel (2024), a comic yet poignant series of vignettes about the denizens of a waning, second-rate women’s hotel in 1960s New York City. The Biedermeier is home to a charming cast that includes a cynical manager, a party girl, a freeloader, a failed hairdresser, a typesetter, a daytime elevator operator, and others. The period prose narrates every quirky backstory and misadventure as it brings these characters living in a transitory home to life. Delightfully offbeat, this slice-of-life comedy is infused with satirical commentary.

DANIEL M. LAVERY co-founded and co-edited the editorial site The Toast from 2013 to 2016, served as Slate’s “Dear Prudence” advice columnist from 2016 to 2021, and currently publishes a biweekly literary newsletter “The Chatner” at Substack. His first book, Texts from Jane Eyre (2014) was a New York Times bestseller. He has also written The Merry Spinster (2018), Something that May Shock and Discredit You (2020), and Dear Prudence (2023). Women’s Hotel is his first novel. ANNA KATSAVOS , PhD, is an experienced book group facilitator. A SUNY Professor Emerita of English Literature and Women’s Studies, she

has received numerous awards for teaching, and her scholarship has been published in a variety of literary journals. She has interviewed many best-selling authors and has presented interactive programs focusing on a wide range of women’s issues. Additionally, she conducts writing, editing and publishing workshops. Monday, February 10 • 1:00pm-2:15pm • Zoom • Course 12980 • $30

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Author Visit: Beena Kamlani, The English Problem (2025) Meet Beena Kamlani, whose extraordinary debut novel The English Problem is due out on January 29, 2025. Set against the backdrop of the Indian independence movement, protagonist Shiv Advani is selected by Mahatma Gandhi to travel from western India to study law in England for the purpose of returning home better equipped to drive the British colonialists out. Before leaving, his family insists on his betrothal in an arranged marriage. Once in London, Advani's allegiances -- to his family, culture, and politics -- are tested. Beautifully written in understated prose, this tender saga illustrates one man's personal liberation as it also shows the multifaceted relationship between British and Indian culture and the impact of Gandhi's nonviolent resistance.

Books will be available for sale and signing. BEENA KAMLANI is a Pushcart Prize-winning fiction writer whose work has appeared in Virginia Quarterly Review , Ploughshares ,

World Literature Today , several short story anthologies, and other publications. She received the Yeovil Fiction Award (Somerset, England), for a novel in progress in 2017. She has been awarded fellowships at Yaddo, MacDowell, Ledig House/Writers Omi, Hawthornden Castle, Jentel Arts, and Hedgebrook. She has worked as a senior editor at the Penguin Group and taught book editing at New York University for nearly two decades, earning their award for teaching excellence. The English Problem is her first novel. Wednesday, February 5 • 7:00pm-8:15pm • Scarsdale Public Library • Course 13049 • $30 Author Visit: Julie Averbach, The Art of Trader Joe's (2024) Over lunch with all ingredients sourced from Trader Joe's, meet author Julie Averbach for a presentation and Q&A about her recently published book, The Art of Trader Joe's: Discovering The Hidden Art Gems of America's Favorite Grocery Store (2024). Averbach illuminates how to view the grocery store as an art gallery. Hidden in plain sight, artwork animates everything from the brown paper grocery bags to eye-catching murals, and handmade signs. Many of the images at Trader Joe’s have histories stretching back centuries or are parodies of classic works ranging from Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa to Vincent van Gogh's Starry Night . Explore Trader Joe’s product packaging, from the ancient Roman sculpture posing on Caesar Salad to the famous hot air balloon on Bamba Peanut Snacks. Discover how graphic designers have remixed nineteenth century cartoons in the Fearless Flyer newsletter.

Books will be available for sale and signing. JULIE AVERBACH graduated summa cum laude from Yale University with a BA in History of Art and Psychology. The Art of Trader Joe’s draws on her award-winning thesis titled “Collecting Worlds: Trader Joe’s as a Contemporary Cabinet of Curiosities.” Averbach is the Founder & CEO of smARTee, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that provides live virtual art museum tours to promote arts access, wellness, and lifelong learning. Monday, March 3 • 12:00pm-1:30pm • Private Home in Scarsdale • Course 13071 • $75

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Author Visit: Vicki Valosik, Swimming Pretty: The Untold Story of Women in Water (2024)

Popular Hollywood films of the 1940s and 50s helped earn women the right to swim freely for fun and fitness. Vicki Valosik traces a century of aquatic performance from circus acts to the Olympics, and brings to life the cast of characters whose swimming spectacles laid the groundwork for a new sport and changed women’s relationship with water. Once forbidden to swim alongside men or required to wear petticoats to hide their legs while wading, female swimming pioneers defied society’s rigid expectations of what was permissible for their sex. Far more than so-called “mermaid queens,” they ushered in sensible swimwear, developed life-saving swim instruction programs, reduced drowning rates, and turned synchronized swimming into a global sport showcasing women’s ambition, grace, and athleticism. Valosik will recount fascinating stories about the athletic joy of “fancy swimming” and why they remain significant today.

For an optimal experience, pair this course with “Swimming Lessons: Swimming and Aquatics in Popular Culture, Literature, and Life” (in-person Course 12713 or online Course 12843 ). VICKI VALOSIK is a writer, a synchronized swimmer, and an editorial director and writing instructor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service. Her work has appeared in publications such as the Atlantic , Smithsonian Magazine , and Slate . She holds an MA in Nonfiction Writing from Johns Hopkins University and an MA in Sociology from the University of South Alabama. LORI ROTSKOFF (see bio for “Author Visit: Danielle Friedman”). Thursday, September 19 • 1:00pm-2:15pm • Zoom • Course 12816 • $30

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Author Visit: Danielle Friedman, Let’s Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World (2022) Meet Danielle Friedman, whose book, Let’s Get Physical: How Women Discovered Exercise and Reshaped the World (2022), chronicles the entrepreneurs who pioneered the barre method, Jazzercise, city marathons, modern yoga studios, and other fitness trends. Today, working out is an accepted, and even expected, part of women's lives. But before the mid-twentieth century in mainstream America, sweating was considered unladylike, and girls grew up believing that too much physical exertion could be harmful to their health. Learn how trailblazing fitness pioneers marketed a vibrant range of commercial programs to enhance women’s mental and physical health, and ponder how successful they have been in transforming fitness from an upscale privilege into an essential right. Friedman’s discussion of her research will spark your nostalgia for past fitness fads and bring you up to date on the latest movements in staying strong.

Author Visit: Ava Purkiss, Fit Citizens: A History of Black Women’s Exercise from Post-Reconstruction to Postwar America (2023) Meet Ava Purkiss, Assistant Professor at the University of Michigan, as she shares insights from her groundbreaking book about historical figures including W.E.B. Du Bois, Ida B. Wells, and Michelle Obama, who championed fitness for Black women and children alongside broader efforts for racial equality. Amidst the struggle against segregation and political oppression, Black women devised new approaches to the battle for full citizenship and social justice. Through exercises such as calisthenics, gymnastics, and nature walks, Black women demonstrated their physical and moral fitness for national belonging. Purkiss explores how physical activity was not merely a path to individual health but also a way for Black women to uplift their race and, over time, to ensure that citizens of all races have access to recreational spaces, including YMCAs, beaches, parks, and playgrounds.

DANIELLE FRIEDMAN is an award-winning journalist who specializes in telling stories at the intersection of health, gender, and culture. Friedman contributes regularly to the New York Times Well section, where she often explores the connection between movement and mental health. She holds a BA in English from Duke University and an MS from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. LORI ROTSKOFF is a cultural

AVA PURKISS is an assistant professor of women's and gender studies and American culture at the University of Michigan. Her research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of race, gender, health, and the body. Purkiss earned her PhD in history from the University of Texas at Austin and has received numerous fellowships and grants supporting her research. She is the recipient of the 2017 Organization of

historian, writer, educator, and public speaker specializing in memoirs and narrative nonfiction, childhood and youth, women’s and gender studies, and arts and culture. She studied history and literature at Northwestern University and earned a PhD in American Studies at Yale. Thursday, September 26 • 1:00pm-2:15pm • Zoom • Course 12817 • $35

American Historians Lerner-Scott Prize for best dissertation in U.S. women’s history and the 2018 Letitia Woods Brown prize for best article in African American women’s history from the Association of Black Women Historians. LORI ROTSKOFF (see bio for “Author Visit: Danielle Friedman”). Thursday, October 17 • 1:00pm-2:15pm • Zoom • Course 12818 • $35

For an optimal experience, pair these two author visits and register for both at once using Course 12725 to save $15. Sessions will be recorded and made available to registered students for two weeks of viewing on demand.

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Walking Tours

Below are the walking tours organized by month. Full class descriptions of all in-person walking tours may be found within this interactive catalog. Please search by course number: September ● Walking Tour: Greenwich Village, West of Fifth Avenue (12860) ● Walking Tour: European Wing at the Met (12674) ● Walking Tour: Collecting Inspiration: Edward C. Moore at Tiffany & Co. at the Met (12745) ● Culinary Walking Tour: Multi-Ethnic Cuisine of Astoria (12726) ● Walking Tour: Galleries of Chelsea (12753) ● Walking Tour: Galleries of Chelsea (12878) ● Walking Tour: Greenpoint Art Excursion, North Brooklyn Renaissance (12754) ● Walking Tour: Mondays at the Met, the Period Rooms (America and Europe) (12737) ● Walking Tour: Contemporary Galleries of New York City (12731) ● Walking Tour: Financial District (12708) ● Culinary Walking Tour: Arthur Avenue (12735) ● Walking Tour: Privately Owned Public Spaces in the Financial District (12660) ● Walking Tour: Mondays at the Met, the Period Rooms (Ancient World and Europe) (12738)

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October ● Walking Tour: Mondays at the Met, the Art of Material, Exploring the Variety of Artistic Mediums (12739) ● Walking Tour: Wonderful Women of Greenwich Village (12885) ● Walking Tour: Contemporary Galleries of New York City (12732) ● Walking Tour: Andy Warhol and Andrew Wyeth Exhibits at the Bruce Museum (12748) ● Walking Tour: Stone Facades, Modern and Neo-Traditional Architecture on the Upper East Side (12757) ● Walking Tour: NYC Immigration's Many Waves (12884) ● Walking Tour: Southern End of Riverside Drive (12709) ● Walking Tour: Mondays at the Met, Intimate Engagement with Selected Works of Art (12740) ● Walking Tour: Modern Wing at the Met (12675) ● Walking Tour: Chelsea During Halloween (12710) ● Culinary Walking Tour: Bushwick's Street Art and Culinary Scene (12727)

November ● Walking Tour: Print Center New York and FLAG Art Foundation (12902) ● Walking Tour: Mondays at the Met, the American Gilded Age (12741) ● Walking Tour: Contemporary Galleries of New York City (12733) ● Culinary Walking Tour: Industry City (12728)

● Walking Tour: Central Park During Fall Foliage (12711) ● Walking Tour: Lower East Side Art Scene (12906) ● Walking Tour: Lower East Side Art Scene (12755) ● Walking Tour: Fashionable Upper East Side (12907) ● Walking Tour: American Wing at the Met (12676)

● Walking Tour: Make Way for Berthe Weill at the Grey Art Museum (12747) ● Walking Tour: Mondays at the Met, the American Modern World (12742) ● Culinary Walking Tour: Chinatown (12729)

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December ● Walking Tour: Mondays at the Met, the Story of Clay (12743) ● Culinary Walking Tour: Multi-Ethnic Cuisine of Astoria (12913)

● Walking Tour: Franz Kafka at the Morgan Library and Museum (12746) ● Walking Tour: Elizabeth Catlett at the Brooklyn Museum (12734) ● Culinary Walking Tour: Chinatown (12912) ● Walking Tour: Mondays at the Met, the Art of Chinese Brush (12744) ● Walking Tour: European Wing at the Met (12993) ● Walking Tour: Mexican Prints at the Vanguard at the Met (12994) ● Walking Tour: Gilded Age Mansions of the Upper East Side During Holiday Season (12716)

January ● Culinary Walking Tour: Industry City (12935) ● Walking Tour: Grand Central Terminal (12983) ● The Way I See It: Selections From the KAWS Collection at the Drawing Center (13072) ● Walking Tour: Siena, the Rise of Painting, 1300-1350 at the Met (12996) ● Walking Tour: Belle da Costa Greene at the Morgan Library & Museum (13060) ● Walking Tour: Make Way for Berthe Weill at the Grey Art Museum (13064) ● Walking Tour: Flight Into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876 to Now at Met (13057) ● Walking Tour: American Wing at the Met (12995)

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February ● Walking Tour: Flight Into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876 to Now at Met (13082) ● Walking Tour: Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930 at the Guggenheim (13085) ● Walking Tour: Draw Them In, Paint Them Out: Trenton Doyle Hancock Confronts Philip Guston at the Jewish Museum (13061) ● Walking Tour: Farley Post Office and Penn Station's Moynihan Train Hall (12984) ● Walking Tour: Mondays at the Met, Jewish Art (13058) ● Walking Tour: Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature at the Met (13084) ● Walking Tour: European Wing at the Met (13083) ● Walking Tour: Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930 at the Guggenheim (13063) March ● Walking Tour: Real Clothes, Real Lives at the New York Historical (12985) ● Walking Tour: Tribeca, New York's Hottest Gallery District (13103) ● Walking Tour: Mondays at the Met, Female Art Patrons (13124) ● Walking Tour: Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie at the Met (13059) ● Walking Tour: Contemporary Galleries of New York City (13086) ● Walking Tour: The Book of Esther in the Age of Rembrandt at the Jewish Museum (13062) ● Walking Tour: Mondays at the Met, the World of Napoleon, the New Paris (13163) ● Walking Tour: Women of Woodlawn Cemetery (13123) ● Culinary Walking Tour: Industry City (13090) ● Walking Tour: Modern Wing at the Met (13006) ● Walking Tour: Galleries of Chelsea (13104) ● Walking Tour: Galleries of Chelsea (13105)

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Art Appreciation

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. Each separate tour is unique. 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. Thursday, September 5 • 12:30pm-2:00pm • Metropolitan Museum of Art • Course 12674 • $80

Monday, December 16 • 10:30am-12:00pm • Metropolitan Museum of Art • Course 12993 • $80 Friday, February 21 • 11:00am-12:30pm • Metropolitan Museum of Art • Course 13083 • $80

Walking Tour: Modern Wing at the Met The Modern and Contemporary Art wing at the Met is devoted to the study, collection and exhibition of art from 1890 to the present. An era marked by seismic cultural, social and political shifts across the globe, artistic responses to these changes have shaped multiple modernities and diverse contemporary practices. In 2012, the wing intentionally began to expand and diversify its collection that had historically focused on the art of Western Europe and North America. Now inclusive of more works by women and artists of color, with particular emphasis on acquisitions from Latin America, South Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, Turkey, and African diasporas, the wing spans a range of media, including paintings, sculpture, works on paper, design, decorative arts, and time-based media. Each separate tour is unique. PAGE KNOX (see bio for “Walking Tour: European Wing at the Met”). Thursday, October 24 • 10:30am-12:00pm • Metropolitan Museum of Art • Course 12675 • $80 Tuesday, February 25 • 10:30am-12:00pm • Metropolitan Museum of Art • Course 13006 • $80

Walking Tour: American Wing at the Met

The newly updated American Wing comprises approximately 20,000 works of art by African American, Euro American, Latin American, and Native American artists. Ranging from the colonial to early-modern periods, the holdings include painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts, including furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass, silver, metalwork, jewelry, basketry, quill and bead embroidery, as well as historical interiors and architectural fragments. The wing includes a courtyard, multiple balconies, and historical interior period rooms to display this impressive and ever-evolving collection. Each separate tour is unique. PAGE KNOX (see bio for “Walking Tour: European Wing at the Met”). Thursday, November 14 • 10:30am-12:00pm • Metropolitan Museum of Art • Course 12676 • $80 Tuesday, January 28 • 10:30am-12:00pm • Metropolitan Museum of Art • Course 12995 • $80

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Walking Tour: Mexican Prints at the Vanguard at the Met Drawn mainly from the Met’s own collection, Mexican Prints at the Vanguard (running September 12, 2024 through January 5 2025) highlights Mexico’s rich tradition of printmaking from the eighteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. Among the early works presented are those by Mexico’s best-known printmaker, José Guadalupe Posada, whose depictions of skeletons engaged in different activities helped establish a global identity for Mexican art. Featuring over 130 works that include woodcuts, lithographs, and screen prints by artists such as Diego Rivera, José Clemente

Orozco, and Leopoldo Méndez, the exhibition explores how prints were central to the artistic identity and practice in Mexico and highlights their effectiveness in addressing social and political issues, a role of the graphic arts that continues today. PAGE KNOX (see bio for “Walking Tour: European Wing at the Met”). Tuesday, December 17 • 10:30am-12:00pm • Metropolitan Museum of Art • Course 12994 • $80

Walking Tour: Siena, the Rise of Painting, 1300-1350 at the Met Siena: The Rise of Painting, 1300–1350 (running October 13, 2024 through January 26, 2025) examines the pivotal role of Sienese artists at the dawn of the Italian Renaissance. In the decades prior to the plague around 1350, Siena was the site of phenomenal artistic innovation and activity. Although Florence is often described as the Renaissance’s epicenter, this exhibit offers a fresh perspective on the importance of Siena and the profound influence of its artists, including Duccio, Pietro and Ambrogio Lorenzetti, and Simone Martini, whose achievements had an immeasurable impact on painters in the centuries that followed. PAGE KNOX (see bio for “Walking Tour: European Wing at the Met”). Tuesday, January 21 • 10:30am-12:00pm • Metropolitan Museum of Art • Course 12996 • $80

Walking Tour: Caspar David Friedrich: The Soul of Nature at the Met Commemorating the 250th anniversary of Caspar David Friedrich's birth, The Soul of Nature , running February 8, 2025 through May 11, 2025, is the first comprehensive U.S, exhibition dedicated to the artist. A landscape painter from the German romantic movement, Friedrich emphasized the individuality, intimacy, open-endedness, and complexity of our responses to the natural world. Comprising 75 oil paintings, finished drawings, and working sketches by Friedrich from every phase of his career along with select examples by his contemporaries, the exhibit illuminates how Friedrich's landscapes conveyed personal and existential meaning. PAGE KNOX (see bio for “Walking Tour: European Wing at the Met”). Friday, February 14 • 11:00am-12:30pm • Metropolitan Museum of Art • Course 13084 • $80

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Harlem Renaissance and Beyond During the Great Migration, millions of African Americans moved from the segregated rural South to cities throughout the country, including New York City's Harlem. This series considers the extensive and expansive ways in which Black artists captured everyday modern life in Harlem and across America, with the Black subject as its center. Inspired by the Met’s exhibition The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism , this series explores paintings, sculpture, and photographs by Black American artists working from 1920 to 1940 and by the European artists who engaged with aspects of the international African Diaspora, the transatlantic nature of the movement, as well as Black artists from the later part of the twentieth century up to the present whose work owed much to their predecessors from the Harlem Renaissance. PAGE KNOX (see bio for “Walking Tour: European Wing at the Met”).

The Rise of Harlem and its Artistic Minds, James Van Der Zee Wednesday, September 25 • 11:00am-12:00pm • Zoom • Course 12664 • $30 Portraiture and the Modern Black Subject, William H. Johnson and Laura Wheeler Waring Tuesday, October 1 • 11:00am-12:00pm • Zoom • Course 12665 • $30 Debate and Synthesis, African and Western Aesthetics, Meta Vaux Warrick Fuller and Augusta Savage Wednesday, October 9 • 11:00am-12:00pm 10:45am-11:45am • Zoom • Course 12666 • $30 Aaron Douglas Wednesday, October 23 • 11:00am-12:00pm • Zoom • Course 12667 • $30 The New Negro Artist Abroad, Archibald Motley, European Artists Embrace the New Negro Aesthetic Wednesday, October 30 • 11:00am-12:00pm • Zoom • Course 12668 • $30

Luminaries and Nightlife Wednesday, November 13 • 11:00am-12:00pm • Zoom • Course 12669 • $30 Family and Society, Issues of Color, Beauford Delaney and Winold Reiss Wednesday, November 20 • 12:00pm-1:00pm • Zoom • Course 12670 • $30 Resistance and Looking to the Future, Romare Bearden Wednesday, December 4 • 11:00am-12:00pm • Zoom • Course 12671 • $30 Jacob Lawrence, Norman Lewis, and Alma Thomas Wednesday, December 11 • 11:00am-12:00pm • Zoom • Course 12672 • $30 Black Artists After the Harlem Renaissance Wednesday, December 18 • 11:00am-12:00pm • Zoom • Course 12673 • $30

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Masterpieces of French Art from the Medieval Era to the Modern Age From Claude Lorrain to Claude Monet, art in France has delighted, instructed and challenged audiences throughout the ages. This series begins with the eleventh century School of Chartres and concludes with the twentieth century School of Paris to examine the wide range of artistic moments and movements in France. Delve into the important artists and styles from the Gothic Era, the Renaissance, the Bourbon kings period, the French Revolution, romantic movement, impressionism, and modernism. Also explore the lives of some of the great patrons behind French art, from royalty to the members of the rising bourgeoisie. PAGE KNOX (see bio for “Walking Tour: European Wing at the Met”). Medieval Spiritual Life Wednesday, January 15 • 11:00am-12:00pm • Zoom • Course 13034 • $30 Late Medieval/Early Renaissance Court Life Wednesday, January 22 • 11:00am-12:00pm • Zoom • Course 13035 • $30 Louis XIV Court Life Wednesday, January 29 • 11:00am-12:00pm • Zoom • Course 13036 • $30 Louis XV Court Life Tuesday, February 4 • 11:00am-12:00pm • Zoom • Course 13037 • $30 Louis XV Dining and Seduction Wednesday, February 12 • 11:00am-12:00pm • Zoom • Course 13038 • $30 Louis XVI Court Life Wednesday, February 19 • 11:00am-12:00pm • Zoom • Course 13039 • $30 Jacques-Louis David Wednesday, February 26 • 11:00am-12:00pm • Zoom • Course 13040 • $30 Eugène Delacroix Wednesday, March 5 • 11:00am-12:00pm • Zoom • Course 13041 • $30 Édouard Manet and Claude Monet Wednesday, March 12 • 11:00am-12:00pm • Zoom • Course 13042 • $30 Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Mary Cassatt Wednesday, March 26 • 11:00am-12:00pm • Zoom • Course 13043 • $30 L'Esprit Moderne Wednesday, April 9 Wednesday, April 23 • 11:00am-12:00pm • Zoom • Course 13044 • $30

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Walking Tour: Collecting Inspiration: Edward C. Moore at Tiffany & Co. at the Met

Running through October 20, 2024, at the Met, Collecting Inspiration: Edward C. Moore at Tiffany & Co. showcases 70 pieces designed by silversmith Edward C. Moore (1827-1891), a pivotal creative force at Tiffany & Co., alongside more than 180 works donated to the museum from his own personal collection, including Greek and Roman glass, Japanese baskets, and metalwork from the Islamic world. The exhibit also includes seldom seen examples from a dozen private and public lenders.

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. Friday, September 6 • 10:30am-12:00pm • Metropolitan Museum of Art • Course 12745 • $85

Walking Tour: Andy Warhol and Andrew Wyeth Exhibits at the Bruce Museum

Tour two terrific exhibits currently on display at the Bruce Museum. Andy Warhol: small is beautiful (running April 6, 2024 through October 13, 2024) includes nearly 100 unique yet diminutive works by Warhol (1928-1987), one of the leading figures of the pop art movement. Organized thematically, the exhibit provides an intimate look at the artist's best-known subjects, such as an early iteration of his famous Campbell's soup can, portraits of celebrities and politicians, and late-career abstracts. Every Leaf & Twig: Andrew Wyeth's Botanical Imagination (running October 3, 2024 through January 5, 2025) explores Wyeth's lifelong admiration of Walden, or Life in the Woods by transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. Featuring nearly 35 works on paper, Wyeth's botanical drawings and watercolors capture the regional flora of the landscapes of his home in Pennsylvania and summers spent in coastal Maine.

HELEN LEE (see bio for “Walking Tour: Collecting Inspiration: Edward C. Moore at Tiffany & Co. at the Met”). Wednesday, October 9 • 11:30am-1:00pm • Bruce Museum • Course 12748 • $85

Walking Tour: Print Center New York and FLAG Art Foundation Print Center New York champions printmaking as an art form that drives invention, collaboration, and access, and plays a vital role in society. Through exhibitions, public programs, education, and artistic development, Print Center New York is a hub of exploration and inquiry for all those engaged with and new to prints. Tour the current exhibitions: (Re)Print and Kate Shepherd: Clocked . The FLAG Art Foundation is a non-collecting, nonprofit exhibition space that mounts solo, two-person, and thematic group exhibitions centering on emerging and established artists from around the globe. Organized by a diverse community of curators and thinkers within and beyond the art world, FLAG opened to the public in 2008 and has staged over 100 exhibitions celebrating the work of nearly 1,000 artists. Tour the current exhibitions: Lubaina Himid: Make Do and Mend and Spotlight: Steven Shearer . HELEN LEE (see bio for “Walking Tour: Collecting Inspiration: Edward C. Moore at Tiffany & Co. at the Met”). Friday, November 1 • 11:00am-12:30pm • TBD in NYC • Course 12902 • $80

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