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February 2023
Upcoming Walking and Armchair Tours
Art, history, and architecture are all on display in our upcoming walking and virtual tours. All of the following classes take place in the next three weeks.
Next week, on Tuesday, February 28, 2023, Riva Blumenfield takes students on a virtual tour of Nick Cave: Forothermore at the Guggenheim (Course 11680). Running through April 10, 2023, the exhibit highlights Cave's elaborate installations and textile works and covers the entirety of his internationally celebrated career. Blumenfield returns the following Tuesday, March 7, 2023, for Walking Tour: Contemporary Galleries of New York City (Course 11664). Explore the hottest galleries within Tribeca, Chelsea, or the Upper East Side. Tour routes are carefully curated and designed to highlight the best selection of what is currently on display in any of the neighborhood galleries, making each trip in this series unique.

Also on Tuesday, March 7, 2023, Page Knox leads two tours of different exhibits at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In the morning, she guides students in person through Walking Tour: Beyond the Light at the Met (Course 11648). Featuring approximately 100 works by nineteenth century Danish artists, the exhibit displays the drawings, oil sketches, and paintings created during this period that explore notions of place, identity, and belonging. In the evening, Knox returns online to revisit Cubism and the Trompe l'Oeil Tradition at the Met (Course 11851). This recently closed exhibition demonstrated how the many qualities for which cubism is known were derived from European and American trompe l’oeil (“deceive the eye”) painting from the seventeenth through the nineteenth centuries.

Knox returns to the Met on Friday, March 10, 2023, for Walking Tour: Nineteenth Century Wing at the Met (Course 11639). Explore the old masters including Francisco de Goya, Édouard Manet and Claude Monet. This museum visit is the final companion tour to Knox's Masterpieces of Western Art lecture series.

Walking Tour: Violins of Hope: Every Violin Has a Story at Temple Emanu-El (Course 11710) on Thursday, March 9, 2023, gives students a unique opportunity to experience an exhibit that combines string concert with visual artifacts. The display has been touring the country and has recently arrived for the first time in New York. The violins represent precious mementos of despair and survival from the Holocaust, telling tales of torment and endurance, the power of music, and the importance of memory. This visit to the Bernard Museum of Judaica also includes a tour of Temple Emanu-El's synagogue.
On Thursday, March 16, 2023, get an exclusive look at one of midtown's historic Beaux Arts landmark and its extraordinary contents in Walking Tour: New York Public Library and Polonsky Exhibition (Course 11774). This private, docent-led library tour covers the history and architecture of the Stephen A. Schwarzman Building plus a brief visit to the Polonsky Exhibition of the New York Public Library's Treasures, a first-ever permanent showcase of some of the most extraordinary manuscripts, artworks, letters, still and moving images, recordings, and more items from among the 56 million in the library's world-renowned research collections.

Lace up your walking shoes or nestle into your armchair for the best view in the house.
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Classes Starting in the Next Two Weeks
All class listings are for the Eastern Time Zone. Course numbers appear in parentheses.
Week of February 26, 2023
Architecture
  • Great Architects of the Western World: Filippo Brunelleschi of Florence (11809)* NEWLY ADDED

Art Appreciation
  • Armchair Tour: Nick Cave: Forothermore at the Guggenheim (11680)
  • Masterpieces of Western Art: Claude Monet at the Rise of Impressionism (11635)

Current Events and Politics
  • World Politics with Ralph Buultjens (11670)

Games
  • Beginner Canasta (11574)
  • Canasta: Supervised Play (11575)
Literature, Film, and Television
  • Author Visit: David Sipress, What’s So Funny? A Cartoonist’s Memoir (2022) (11696)
  • Reading Contemporary Memoirs (11681)
  • Shakespeare's Richard II (11658)
  • Short Stories Live (11676)
  • Film Discussion: Movies About Jewish Identity (11702)
Week of March 5, 2023
Architecture
  • Great Architects of the Western World: Leon Battista Alberti of Florence (11810)* NEWLY ADDED
Art Appreciation
  • Walking Tour: Beyond the Light at the Met (11648)
  • Walking Tour: Contemporary Galleries of New York City (11664)
  • Virtual Tour: Cubism and the Trompe l'Oeil Tradition at the Met (11851)* NEWLY ADDED
  • Masterpieces of Western Art: Claude Monet During the Crisis of Impressionism (11636)
  • Walking Tour: Nineteenth Century Wing at the Met (11639)

Arts & Crafts
  • A Tisket, a Tasket, Learn to Make a Tote Basket (11679)

Current Events and Politics
  • Gross National Happiness: Rethinking What A Healthy Economy Means (11759)* NEWLY ADDED
History and Culture
  • Walking Tour: Violins of Hope: Every Violin Has a Story at Temple Emanu-El (11710)* NEWLY ADDED

Literature, Film, and Television
  • Film Screening and Discussion: Last Flight Home (Timoner 2022) (11704)
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Catalog of Winter Classes
All upcoming classes are listed in our printer-friendly, interactive Winter 2023 Flipbook Catalog. New classes are added regularly. Our Spring/Summer 2023 Flipbook Catalog will be available soon!

Class times are for the Eastern Time Zone. Please check regularly for additional options to keep you engaged and learning, whether from the comforts of home or through our expanding number of in-person options.
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