2018 LECTURE SERIES SCHEDULE SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 18
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1:00PM
BIOPHILIA defined, A dialogue with Art, Nature and Science Panel Discussion
The Rosenberg Family Legacy and Looted Art Recovery
Christopher Marley (Artist), Louise Irving (Museum Director for the Weiner Museum of Decorative Art), Violeta de la Serna (Moderator) • Gallery of Amazing Things Biophilia is a condition that, to one degree or another, affects all of humanity. It is an instinctive sense of kinship with the rest of the living, breathing world. Literally translated, it is "love of life." Psychoanalyst Erich Fromm defined it as "the passionate love of life and all that is alive." In this panel discussion, we will explore how NY Times Best Selling Author and Internationally collected Artist, Christopher Marley, has created a symbiotic relationship with art and nature, successfully transforming the art of taxidermy into contemporary work. We will explore humanity's need to connect with the natural world and evidences its stimulating power over us.
3:00PM Glass is More: Stories from the Road Arlie Sulka • Lillian Nassau LLC Arlie Sulka is the owner of Lillian Nassau LLC, world-renowned for specializing in the work of Louis Comfort Tiffany and Tiffany Studios. Since 1998, Ms. Sulka has been a regular appraiser of glass on PBS’ Antiques Roadshow. Lillian Nassau LLC began exhibiting at the Palm Beach Jewelry, Art & Antique Show in 2007. Ms. Sulka will recount her stories from the road as an appraiser of glass for PBS’ Antiques Roadshow particularly how her expertise expanded from her knowledge of Tiffany and other 19th and 20th Century art glass to more common everyday glassware. She will also share some of her most exciting discoveries.
Marianne Rosenberg • Rosenberg & Co A history of the multi-generational art dealing family which redefined the art market and represented luminaries of the twentieth century (Picasso, Matisse, Braque et al.). A discussion of the family’s wartime journey from Paris to New York and the following quest to recover their Nazi-looted art.
3:00PM Post-War Fashion Illustration A Genre Rediscovered Connie Gray • Gray M.C.A Fashion Illustration is back in vogue. The astonishing talents of these great masters are now celebrated as the missing school of 20th century art and inspire today’s leading fashion illustrators as fashion illustration once again features internationally as a key communicator of fashion interpretation. Through this fascinating talk the work of these 20th and 21st century masters will be brought to life. Once considered commercial drawings these unique original drawings are now sought after by collectors worldwide exciting discoveries.