Upcoming museum previews serve as armchair tours to enhance your visit or serve as a fine substitute if you are unable to go in person. The next three Wednesdays provide an opportunity to learn about impressive exhibitions on display now.

Hilma af Klint: What Stands Behind the Flowers, running at MoMA from May 11, 2025 through September 27, 2025, focuses on a recently discovered portfolio of nature drawings that break with traditional botanical art. Made during the spring and summer of 1919 and 1920, af Klint's work employed jewel-toned watercolors to juxtapose exquisitely rendered blossoms with precisely drawn diagrams. Museum Preview: Hilma af Klint: What Stands Behind the Flowers at MoMA (13301) meets on Wednesday morning, July 23, 2025.

The following week features David Hockney 25, running at Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris from April 9, 2025 through August 31, 2025. More than 400 of Hockney's works from his seventy-year career, primarily those created in the past twenty-five, occupy the entire building in this retrospective that is exceptional in scale and originality. On display are paintings from international, institutional, and private collections, as well as works from the artist’s own studio, in a variety of media. Museum Preview: David Hockney 25 at Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris (13304) takes place Wednesday morning, July 30, 2025.

The third preview is of this year's Costume Institute's spring exhibition, Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, running May 10, 2025 through October 26, 2025 at the Met. Through a variety of media, including garments, paintings and drawings, photographs, film excerpts, and more, the exhibit illustrates the importance of sartorial style to the formation of Black identities in the Atlantic diaspora. Explore the history of Black dandyism from its emergence in eighteenth century Europe to its incarnation today, as a discrete phenomenon reflecting societal issues of power and race. Museum Preview: Superfine: Tailoring Black Style at the Met (13302) will be on Wednesday morning, August 6, 2025.

Each of the above classes, all led by Page Knox, will be recorded and made available to registered students for viewing on demand for one week. Register for any or all today!

Week of July 20, 2025

Art Appreciation

• Museum Preview: Hilma af Klint: What Stands Behind the Flowers at MoMA (13301)

Arts & Crafts

• A Tisket, a Tasket, Learn to Make a Garden Trug (13306)

Computers, Technology, and the Internet

• iPhone Beyond the Basics (13375)

Literature

• Book Chat with Anna Katsavos: Becoming Madam Secretary (2024) by Stephanie Dray (13395)

Walking Tours

• Walking Tour: Lower East Side, South of Delancey (13351)
• Walking Tour: Sargent and Paris at the Met (13387)
• Walking Tour: The Frick Collection (13385)
• Culinary Walking Tour: Chinatown (13364)
• Walking Tour: Sculptures at the Met (13305)

Week of July 27, 2025

Art Appreciation

• Museum Preview: David Hockney 25 at Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris (13304)

Arts & Crafts

• Painting En Plein Air (13457)

Computers, Technology, and the Internet

• Intermediate ChatGPT: Unlocking AI for Productivity, Planning, and Precision (13417)

Walking Tours

• Walking Tour: Mondays at the Met, Arts of Ancient America (13170)
• Walking Tour: Belmont in the Bronx (13350)
• Walking Tour: The Frick Collection (13414)
• Walking Tour: Art Deco NYC, Central Park West (13179)

All upcoming classes through end of March are listed in the Printer-Friendly, Interactive Version of our Spring/Summer 2025 Catalog. New classes are added in real time.

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 expansive number of in-person options.