Dodsworth (1936)
TICKETS
Admission to the film programs is free in conjunction with New-York Historical’s Pay-as-you-wish Friday Nights (6-8 PM). No advanced reservations are possible for these events. Tickets are distributed on a first-come, first-served basis beginning at 6 PM. Auditorium doors open at 6:30 PM (unless otherwise noted).
Swing Time: Reginald Marsh and Thirties New York Gallery Tour
Note: This event is sold out.
EVENT DETAILS
In paintings, prints, watercolors, and photographs, Reginald Marsh captured the animation and visual turbulence that made urban New York life an exhilarating spectacle. In this intimate gallery tour led by curator Barbara Haskell, experience New York in the 1930s as Marsh viewed it. Gallery tours are limited to 35 guests per tour. Please buy tickets in advance.
Art Deco of the 1930s
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Join architectural historian Barry Lewis for this Sunday program on New York’s Art Deco buildings of the 1930s. From the Empire State and Chrysler Buildings to more modest buildings about town, Art Deco was the dominant style of “Swing Time.”
SPEAKER BIOS
Barry Lewis is an architectural historian and host of a popular series of walking tours on PBS.
LOCATION
The Robert H. Smith Auditorium at the New-York Historical Society, 170 Central Park West, New York, NY 10024
Swing Time Ball: Dinner Dance at New-York Historical Society
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Join us for a wonderful evening of ballroom dancing at the New- York Historical Society and enjoy a dazzling professional exhibition of dancing featuring swing, foxtrot, waltz, Argentine tango, Cha-cha, and more performed by Arthur Murray Dance Center dancers. Price includes a buffet dinner and guests are invited to visit the new exhibition Swing Time: Reginald Marsh and Thirties New York.
Greenwich Village in the 1930s
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In the sequel to his popular program on Greenwich Village, Barry Lewis returns, in conjunction with the exhibition Swing Time, to discuss the evolution of the Village in the 1930s. How did the Village change as New York and the nation moved from the carefree era of the ’20s to the more sobering decade of the ’30s?
SPEAKER BIOS
Barry Lewis is an architectural historian and host of a popular series of walking tours on PBS.
Swing Time: Reginald Marsh and Thirties New York
His subjects were not glamorous or affluent New Yorkers, but those in the middle and lower class—Bowery bums, burlesque queens, Coney Island musclemen, park denizens, subway riders and post-flapper era sirens. Marsh was fascinated by the crass glamour, gaudiness and sexuality these city inhabitants exhibited in public, as well as by the humanity expressed by those living under severe economic and social duress.
Paintings >
The New-York Historical Society houses an outstanding collection of over twenty-five hundred American paintings—primarily portraits, genre scenes and landscapes—dating from the colonial period through the twentieth century, as well as a select number of European works. It includes the personal collection of the New York merchant and pioneering art patron Luman Reed, as well as the collection of Robert L. Stuart, another nineteenth-century New York philanthropist and art collector.
