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LECTURES
Arthur King Satz Hall, NYSID, 170 East 70th Street.
Seating is limited; print the Ticket Order form and send it by fax or mail
with your payment. A series ticket for four lectures is
$100. Single lecture tickets are available for $25 each in advance or, if available, $35 at the door. Lectures
are free to NYSID students: please reserve seats in advance at the 70th Street reception desk.
Ticket Order Form for Lectures
View exhibition schedule
NYSID Fall Lecture Series
Wednesday, September 24, 2008, 6 pm
Fashioning the Modern French Interior: Pochoir Portfolios in the 1920s
by Sarah Schleuning, curator of The Wolfsonian–Florida International University in Miami Beach, Florida, where she also serves as an adjunct professor in the Department of Art History/Museum Studies Program. Ms. Schleuning is the author of the companion catalog, Moderne: Fashioning the French Interior (Princeton Architectural Press, 2007). A preview of the exhibition follows the lecture.
Wednesday, October 1, 2008, 6 pm
Publishing the Designed Interior: Color, Decoration, and the Pochoir Print
by Jeremy Aynsley, professor of History of Design at the Royal College of Art, London, where he leads the postgraduate program run jointly with the Victoria
and Albert Museum. Mr. Ansley is the author of German Design Cultures (Reaktion Books, Fall 2008) and a contributing author of Moderne: Fashioning the French Interior.
Wednesday, October 8, 2008, 6 pm
A Visit to Art Deco New York
by David Garrard Lowe, lecturer and author of the prize-winning Lost Chicago, Beaux Arts New York, and Stanford White's New York as well as articles on architectural and social history in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, American Heritage, and House & Garden.
Wednesday, October 15, 2008, 6 pm
The Salon des Arts Menagers, 1923-1983: A French Effort to Instill the Virtues of Home and the Norms of Good Taste
by Martine Segalen, professor emeritus at the University of Paris X-Nanterre and former curator at the Musée des Arts et Traditions Populaire. She is the author of several books on family and traditions in the home as reflected in furnishings and decoration, including Historical Anthropology of the Family and Fifteen Generations of Breton. The topic of her lecture was first published as an article in Journal of Design History.
The Decorators Club Education Fund, Inc. 2008 Lecture Series
(presented in Arthur King Satz Hall, NYSID):
The Seventeenth Century: Art and Commerce in the Dutch Golden Age
Wednesday, October 22, 2008, 6 pm
The Interiors of Vermeer: Fact or Fancy
by Walter Liedtke, curator of Paintings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Wednesday, October 29, 2008, 6 pm
The Island at the Center of the World: The Dutch Founding of Manhattan
by Russell Shorto, author of the book of the same title
Wednesday, November 5, 2008, 6 pm
17th Century Dutch Decorative Arts
by Danielle Kisluk-Grosheide, curator of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Wednesday, November 12, 2008, 6 pm
Who Put the Mania in Tulipmania
by
Peter M. Garber, author of Famous First Bubbles: The Fundamentals of Early Manias
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