It’s our first FashionSpeak Friday of 2020! Exploring the theme of “death and the maiden.”
Continuing our discussion on western fashion.
Yeehaw! We’re celebrating western apparel at tonight’s FashionSpeak Friday.
It’s FashionSpeak Friday! Tonight, we’re looking at the style of Ralph Lauren with fashion designer and author Alan Flusser.
FashionSpeak Fridays presents Tartan Talk
FashionSpeak Fridays presents Tartan Talk
A discussion on the intersections of art and activism with artists Ming Smith, Adrienne, Zoe Buckman, and Dáreece Walker, and the New York State Bar Association.
American Duchess presents 18th Century Beauty
Photojournalist Kimberly Butler presents images and poetry from her book “The Art of FEAR”
A conversation on the role of anger in today’s feminist movement, with authors Rebecca Traister and Dr. Brittney Cooper.
Lisa Brennan-Jobs joins us to discuss her memoir “Small Fry”
Is artificial intelligence the future of art?
Exploring this and other questions with speakers from the art world and academia:
- Ahmed Elgammal, Professor, Computer Science, Rutgers University and Director of the Art and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
- Lindsay Griffith, International Head of Contemporary Editions, Christie’s
- Matthew Jones, James R. Barker Professor of Contemporary Civilization and Leader of Big Data and Science Studies Research Cluster, Columbia University
- Srividya Kannan Ramachandran, Marketing Science at Facebook and Artist working in AI
Co-hosted by Columbia University's Center for Science and Society
FashionSpeak Fridays presents “Crimes of Fashion” with author and fashion historian Dr. Alison Matthews David
Award-winning actor F. Murray Abraham joins us to talk about his career and passion for Shakespeare.
FashionSpeak Fridays: Guo Pei - Couture Beyond
Celebrating 45 years of Graywolf Press, with Poetry Society of America.
It’s FashionSpeak Friday! We’re joined tonight by Valerie Steele, Director and Chief Curator at the Museum at FIT, for a look at the museum’s collection and to celebrate their 50th anniversary.
FashionSpeak Fridays: Doll Fashion
Join us for an evening on the history of fashion dolls and meet the new generation of collectible dolls for adults in a one-night-only exhibition, introduced by two of their prominent makers.
Joshua McKenney’s Pidgin Doll was conceived as a medium for the language of style and has become a style icon of her own since her debut in 2013. Inspired by living personalities, Pidgin’s outfits are original collections in miniature.
Mel Odom’s creation, Gene Marshall, is based on the actresses of Hollywood's Golden Era, with costumes evoking the work of Edith Head. Born in 1995, Gene has been voted the most influential doll since Barbie.
Before artist Joshua David McKenney’s work progressed with doll-making, he had a successful career as an illustrator, working with brands, including, Mariah Carey, Dolce and Gabbana, Maybelline, and Dita Von Teese.
Mel Odom is a commercial artist and award-winning illustrator. He was a longtime contributor to Playboy magazine, and has created covers for CBS Records, Time and Omni magazines.
Doll fashion is highly encouraged!
Welcoming Jerry Schatzberg
Acclaimed artist Jerry Schatzberg discusses his latest book DYLAN By Schatzberg a collection of essential early photographs of the music legend and Nobel Laureate. Schatzberg captured Dylan in a number of photo sessions from 1965-1967, the first of which was during the recording of Highway 61 Revisited. These photographs, considered by many to be the quintessential images of Bob Dylan, have influenced and contributed to the legendary persona of one of the greatest artists of our time.
Jerry Schatzberg has excelled in both the realms of photography and filmmaking. Published in Vogue, McCall’s, Esquire, Glamour, and Life in the 1960’s, he captured intimate portraits of the generation's most notable artists, celebrities and thinkers. In the 1970s he moved to filmmaking, participating in the renaissance of American cinema, directing films such as Puzzle of a Downfall Child.
An Evening with Historian Simon Schama
An Evening with Historian Simon Schama
Tuesday, October 30
6:30 PM
Book reading and signing
The eminent historian Sir Simon Schama will speak about his latest book, Belonging: The Story of the Jews 1492-1900. In this second volume of his Jewish history trilogy, Schama studies a crucial time period—from the expulsion of Jews from Spain, to the beginnings of Zionism—by immersing his readers in the lives of individuals both well-known and obscure. The Times Literary Supplement calls it “an extraordinary feat of historical imagination…so beautifully written it regularly takes your breath away.” Schama’s accompanying television series, The Story of the Jews, was broadcast by PBS in 2014.
Simon Schama is University Professor of History and Art History at Columbia University. He has lectured in history at Cambridge, Oxford, and Harvard, and is a presenter of the BBC’s landmark 2018 art-history series "Civilisations." In June Sir Simon was knighted by Queen Elizabeth.
Please join us for an open discussion with experts in the blockchain space as we discuss how new opportunities for artists to promote and sell their work through this new medium.
Featuring John Crain founder of SuperRare, a platform that allows artists to release limited-edition digital artwork tracked on the blockchain; Jess Houlgrave Co-founder & COO at Codex Protocol, a decentralized registry for unique assets like art, fine wines, watches and more; Jessica Angel an installation artist currently developing a blockchain inspired public art pavilion for the Vancouver Biennale 2018-2020Dan Anderson iCounterparty (XCP) developer and the creator of Bitcorn Crops, a cryptoart game built on the Bitcoin blockchain, and Louis Parker a lifelong memer pursuing his degree in Psychotechnic Memetics. Parker has been involved in Crypto Art/Meme projects such as the Rare Pepe Blockchain Project. He is passionate about empowering others to find their voice through the medium of the meme.
Join us for a lecture on: The Handbook of Drone Photography by...
Join us for a lecture on: The Handbook of Drone Photography by Chase Guttman
One Track Mind at The National Arts Club
"One Track Mind" on Wednesday, Feb 24 at 8pm at The National Arts Club. Check out this preview and then join us for a discussion with Manhattan Borough Historian @MichaelMiscione, filmmaker @JeremyWorkman and subway historian extraordinaire @PhilipCoppola.
The mission of The National Arts Club is to stimulate, foster, and promote public interest in the arts and to educate the American people in the fine arts. 
