Lecture and book signing: Private Edens: Beautiful Country Gardens with author Jack Staub: 5:30-6:30pm – Artist Reception with Photographer Rob Cardillo: 6:30-8:00pm Author Jack Staub and photographer Rob Cardillo collaborated to create Private Edens: Beautiful Country Gardens, (Gibbs M. Smith, Inc. 2013). The book features beautiful, personal country gardens primarily […]
Madame Argillet is both the Curator of this Dali Collection, as well as the daughter of the famed Pierre Argillet, Salvador Dali’s publisher and confidante for over fifty years. Her story is unparalled, and as compelling as any I have encountered in terms of artistic knowledge and family history with […]
This exhibition will highlight the histories of 100 notable examples of silver from the New-York Historical Society’s collection, ranging from domestic family heirlooms to acknowledged touchstones in the evolution of American silversmithing. Made across the span of four centuries, the objects in the exhibition tell a diversity of stories and […]
Photographs by MacArthur Foundation “genius award” winner Camilo José Vergara document changes that Harlem sustained over the last decades of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty-first century. Revealing a significant American story, the photographs bear witness to one of the nation’s most vibrant and famous neighborhoods. […]
NEW YORK, NY, January 6, 2014 – This month, the New-York Historical Society flies south for the winter, bringing its great collections and unique perspective on American art and history to Palm Beach residents and visitors. As part of the institution’s robust international outreach initiative Sharing a National Treasure: The […]