Scarsdale Adult School Catalog Fall/Winter 2024-25
Walking Tour: Flight Into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876 to Now at Met Flight into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now (running November 17, 2024 through February 17, 2025) examines how Black artists and other cultural figures have engaged with ancient Egypt through visual art, sculpture, literature, music, scholarship, religion, politics, and performance. This multi-sensory display includes nearly 200 works in a wide range of media covering roughly 150 years of artistic and cultural production, including the Harlem Renaissance and the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. Explore Black artists' use of ancient Egyptian imagery, Black scholars' contributions to the study of ancient Egypt, and the engagement of modern and contemporary Egyptian artists with ancient Egypt. In collaboration with MetLiveArts, the exhibit includes a documentary history of Black performance art that incorporates ancient Egyptian themes as well as live performances on select days throughout the run.
HELEN LEE (see bio for “Walking Tour: Collecting Inspiration: Edward C. Moore at Tiffany & Co. at the Met”). Monday, January 27 • 10:30am-12:00pm • Metropolitan Museum of Art • Course 13057 • $85 Tuesday, February 4 • 11:00am-12:30pm • Metropolitan Museum of Art • Course 13082 • $85
Walking Tour: Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930 at the Guggenheim
Orphism, an artistic movement that transitioned cubism to pure abstraction, is the subject of Harmony and Dissonance , running November 8, 2024, to March 9, 2025, in the museum’s iconic rotunda. As modern innovations altered conceptions of time and space, artists experimented with kaleidoscopic compositions, color, form, and motion. Over 90 works on display by Robert and Sonia Delaunay, Mainie Jellett, František Kupka, Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso, and others demonstrate the transnational nature of this movement that emerged in Paris.
RIVA BLUMENFELD (see bio for “Walking Tour: Contemporary Galleries of New York City”). Tuesday, February 4 • 11:00am-12:30pm • Guggenheim Museum • Course 13085 • $85 HELEN LEE (see bio for “Walking Tour: Collecting Inspiration: Edward C. Moore at Tiffany & Co. at the Met”). Monday, February 24 • 11:30am-1:00pm • Guggenheim Museum • Course 13063 • $85
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 (see bio for “Walking Tour: Collecting Inspiration: Edward C. Moore at Tiffany & Co. at the Met”). Monday, March 10 Monday, April 7 • 10:30am-12:00pm • Metropolitan Museum of Art • Course 13059 • $85
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