Art Deco City: New York Postcards from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection
About the Event:
During the 1920s and '30s, the bold new look of Art Deco heralded New York’s arrival as a cosmopolitan metropolis: a center of architecture, design, fashion, and culture stealing the spotlight from the great European capitals. At the same time, the picture postcard, a form of modern communication, transmitted vibrant images and messages around the globe. Art Deco City: New York Postcards from the Leonard A. Lauder Collection illuminates the key role postcards played in transforming New York into an international capital during the interwar years. Featuring over 250 postcards as well as decorative arts, fashion, photography, drawings, and architectural models, Art Deco City will immerse visitors in the dazzling style that defined the modern city.
Join ADSNY for a special private curator led tour of this exhibition that highlights the impact that colorful, mass-produced postcards had in establishing Art Deco landmarks like the Chrysler Building, Empire State Building, and Rockefeller Center as international icons that epitomize the stylishness of Midtown Manhattan. We will see close up how, in varied and creative ways, postcards echoed the sleek appeal of these soaring structures, which belied the realities of the Great Depression.
Pairing these sought-after souvenirs with an array of images, historic artifacts, film footage, and hands-on interactive experiences, the exhibition uncovers the Art Deco elements that shaped New York's image in the popular imagination. More than an aesthetic, Art Deco was the look that sold the city to the world.
Space is limited for this special tour so claim your place for this special event.
About the Guides:
Anna Jozefacka is an art historian and curator specializing in modern architecture and art of the United States and Europe. Her research spans several broad areas: urban history; interiors studies; and history of collecting. In 2023, she curated the exhibition Picasso: A Cubist Commission in Brooklyn at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and is the author of the lead essay in the accompanying exhibition catalogue. The exhibition explored Picasso's decorative commission for the Brooklyn residence of artist, collector, and critic Hamilton Easter Field. While ultimately unrealized, the commission served as a catalyst for Picasso's exploration of Cubism. Jozefacka's other recent essays that she authored and co-authored are “Private Rooms of the Cubist Still Life,” in Domestic Space in France and Belgium: Art, Literature and Design (1850-1920) (2022) and “Reading Picasso in Munich and Prague in 1922” in Umění/Art (2022). Jozefacka currently serves as associate curator of Leonard A. Lauder Collection. She earned her doctorate from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU.
Lynda Klich is an art historian specializing in modernism and is a faculty member in Art History at Hunter College, CUNY. Her first book, The Noisemakers: Estridentismo, Vanguardism, and Social Action in Postrevolutionary Mexico (University of California Press, 2018) explored transnational networks among Latin America and Europe and the relationships between culture and politics, nationalism and cosmopolitanism, and modernism and popular culture. The Noisemakers received the Phillips Collection Book Prize. Klich’s second book focuses on neocolonialist aesthetics and race in the murals, architecture, decorative arts, and urban spaces of 1920s-30s Mexico. She also is curator of the Leonard A. Lauder Postcard Collection, the subject of various collaborative exhibitions and catalogues with the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Klich received her MA from Hunter College and her PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU.
Registration:
This event is limited to current ADSNY members and the number of attendees and reservations are on a first–come, first–served basis. If you are not yet a member of ADSNY there is still time to join to participate in this very special evening.
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