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SUMMARY:The Making of a Modern Museum: The Hewitt Sisters
DESCRIPTION:When New Yorkers utter the phrase “Cooper Hewitt\,” it typically brings to mind the Cooper Hewitt\, Smithsonian Design Museum\, housed in Andrew Carnegie’s mansion on 91st Street and Fifth Avenue. Far less renowned are the institution’s 19th-century women patrons\, who made their family names synonymous with achievements in art and design. Sue Shutte\, the historian at Ringwood Manor in Ringwood\, New Jersey (the Hewitt family’s longtime country home)\, will bring deserved attention back to three sisters\, Amy\, Sarah and Eleanor Hewitt. They were world travelers with deep interests in collecting\, music and equestrianism. Their story is particularly relevant now\, as ever more scholarship is devoted to the history of influential women. Come meet the Hewitt sisters and their famous family and discover how these three young progressive women used their passion to establish America’s premier museum devoted to design.
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/the-making-of-a-modern-museum-the-hewitt-sisters/
LOCATION:Bard Graduate Center\, 38 West 86th St\, New York\, NY\, 10024\, United States
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SUMMARY:How Victorian Valentines Made Hearts Soar
DESCRIPTION:Nancy Rosin\, president of the National Valentine Collectors Association\, has made a “passionate obsession” for more than 40 years out of historical love and friendship cards\, keepsakes and related ephemera. Her lecture will reveal the visual and structural wonders of Victorian Valentines. Surfaces were richly textured with gilded lace and high-relief embossing\, and cards were engineered to turn into three-dimensional forms including battlefield tents and steam engines. Rosin will discuss the cards’ hidden codes of floral motifs\, which represented various virtues and emotions\, and the evolution of flattering and comic depictions of lovers\, whether athletes\, crooked politicians or caged mice. Rosin has made major discoveries about the makers; women and immigrants played groundbreaking roles in designing and marketing Valentines. She describes the cards and mementoes\, whether handmade or mass-produced\, as demonstrating “the creativity and passion of human emotion.” Rosin is also the president-emerita of the Ephemera Society of America. In 2018\, her family’s collection of about 12\,300 Valentines and related items was donated to e Huntington Library\, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens in San Marino\, California\, to be accessible for research and display.
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/how-victorian-valentines-made-hearts-soar/
LOCATION:Bard Graduate Center\, 38 West 86th St\, New York\, NY\, 10024\, United States
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SUMMARY:Devil’s Mile: The Rich\, Gritty History of the Bowery
DESCRIPTION:Victorian times were all about the suppression of anything salacious\, as Alice Sparberg Alexiou\, author of the new book\, Devil’s Mile: The Rich\, Gritty History of the Bowery\, will explain. The era’s prudery just increased the urge to experience sex and weirdness—all commodities then were readily available on the Bowery. This is where the action was\, in the form of freak shows\, minstrel shows\, gay bars (“fairy resorts”)\, concert saloons with back rooms devoted to fight contests and the waitresses doubling as prostitutes\, anatomical museums that featured human fetuses and diseased human body parts pickled in formaldehyde\, and scams offering cures for syphilis (which was then untreatable). The Bowery was at its most spirited on Saturday nights\, where uptown swells headed for a night of slumming. But watch out\, because you might get your drink drugged (a “mickey finn”)\, your pocket picked. Or even murdered. \nAttendees are invited to pre-lecture receptions at 6pm. Talks begin at 6:45 pm. \nRSVP for the November 6th Lecture
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/devils-mile-the-rich-gritty-history-of-the-bowery/
LOCATION:Bard Graduate Center\, 38 West 86th St\, New York\, NY\, 10024\, United States
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SUMMARY:Treading the Borders: Immigration and the Victorian Stage
DESCRIPTION:Maria Bonfati in the Black Crook. Oil on Canvas. ca. 1866. \n“Treading the boards” is a colloquial theatrical expression that refers to the wooden planks of the stage upon which performers ply their trade. Dr. Matthew Wittmann\, curator of the Harvard Theatre Collection at Hougton Library\, will highlight a simple but signficant point – much of the richness and vitality of the performing arts in American derives from creative talent originating elsewhere. The Victorian stage featured a fascinating mix of performers who enriched American culture. Dr. Wittman’s presentation draws upon materials in the Harvard Theatre Collection to tell the stories of noteworthy immigrant actors and entertainers. \nAttendees are invited to pre-lecture receptions at 6pm. Talks begin at 6:45 pm. \nRSVP for the November 6th Lecture
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/treading-the-borders-immigration-and-the-victorian-stage/
LOCATION:Bard Graduate Center\, 38 West 86th St\, New York\, NY\, 10024\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Secret Surgery on Grover Cleveland: Cancer and Politics in the Gilded Age
DESCRIPTION:On July 1\, 1893\, President Grover Cleveland boarded a friend’s yacht\, sailed into the calm blue waters of Long Island Sound and disappeared. The events of the next five days were so incredible that even when the truth was revealed\, many Americans simply would not believe it. Matthew Algeo\, author of The President is a Sick Man\, will discuss this extraordinary unknown chapter in American history: Cleveland’s secret cancer surgery and the brazen political cover-up which followed. \nPlease RSVP here. \nAttendees are invited to pre-lecture receptions at 6pm. Talks begin at 6:45 pm.
URL:https://vicsocny.org/calendar/the-secret-surgery-on-grover-cleveland-cancer-and-politics-in-the-gilded-age/
LOCATION:Bard Graduate Center\, 38 West 86th St\, New York\, NY\, 10024\, United States
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