Greenwich Historical Society Lectures & Special Events

The New Spirit and the Cos Cob Art Colony: Before and After the Armory Show

October 9, 2013 ­– January 12, 2014

2013 Annual Meeting and Crooks Distinguished Lecture:

Culture Shock 1913: An Illustrated Lecture with Sara Fishko

It's 1913. The traditional culture of the 1800s is finally breaking apart in earnest. Big cities. More noise. Violence. Machines. And artists are responding by making jarring, Cubist paintings. Composers are writing thrusting, rhythmic, harshly dissonant music. The world seems shaky and uncertain, and there are riots and fistfights in the concert hall and at the ballet! At this year’s combined Annual Meeting and Crooks Distinguished Lecture, Sara Fishko of WNYC, New York Public Radio, will reflect on this astonishing moment in history.

You won’t want to miss this rare double feature that so aptly demonstrates what the Greenwich Historical Society is all about. A cocktail reception will take place prior to the meeting.

Edith and Roy B. Simpson have generously underwritten this event.

Thursday, September 19, 2013

Indian Harbor Yacht Club

100 Steamboat Road, Greenwich, CT

Reception begins at 6:00 pm. Program begins at 6:30 pm

Admission to reception and program: Members: $35, nonmembers $40

Reservations: www.greenwichhistory.org or 203-869-6899, Ext. 10

Autumn Story Barn

Shock! Tales of Horror, Joy and Surprise

Staged in a cabaret-like setting, Story Barn is a creative approach to oral history that puts a contemporary spin on good, old-fashioned storytelling. Storytellers will focus on events in their personal experience that produced emotions of horror, surprise or joy. The theme is in keeping with our fall exhibition’s theme, The New Spirit and the Cos Cob Art Colony: Before and After the Armory Show. The Armory show was an event notable for the display of “shocking” (at the time) works of European art that influenced countless American artists. Emceed by board member and comedian Bonnie Levison, the evening’s line up will be… guess what? A surprise!

What won’t be shocking is just how much you’ll love this program. Sit back, relax and get ready to hear amazing yarns spun by your friends and neighbors. If you haven’t attended a Story Barn, do yourself a favor and sign up now!

Ready to tell your own story? Shock yourself (and maybe us) and contact program organizer Bonnie Levison at sconsetbon@aol.com.

Friday, October 25, 2013

Doors open at 7:00 pm. Performance begins at 7:30.

Greenwich Historical Society Vanderbilt Education Center

89 Strickland Road, Cos Cob, CT 06807

Members $15; nonmembers $20. Beer, wine and light snacks will be served.

To reserve a space for the performance, call 203-869-6899, Ext. 10, or visit www.greenwichhistory.org. Space is limited.

Lecture by Art Historian William Agee

In conjunction with the Greenwich Historical Society’s exhibition, The New Spirit and the Cos Cob Art Colony: Before and After the Armory Show, William Agee will provide a public lecture entitled The Big Show: A 100 Year Legacy.

William Agee received degrees from Princeton and Yale. He specializes in modern art in America from 1900- 1970. He has published numerous articles, catalogues and monographs in conjunction with exhibitions he has organized on Stuart Davis, Morgan Russell, Stanton Macdonald-Wright, Arthur Dove, John Marin, Morton Livingston Schamberg, Fairfield Porter, Ray Parker, Donald Judd, Sam Francis, Sandy Wurmfeld, Tony Smith, Alfred Jensen, and others. He has also done catalogues and organized exhibitions on aspects of modern art in America, such as modernism in the 1930s, and Dada in America He is currently preparing a book for Phaidon Press, Modern Art In America 1908-1968. He has taught at Hunter College for twenty-five years. He was awarded an endowed chair five years ago, the Evelyn Kranes Kossak Professor of Art History. Prior to Hunter, he held directorships in museums in Houston and California, and was a curator at The Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Tuesday, November 5, 2013, 7:30 pm

The New Spirit and the Cos Cob Art Colony will be open for viewing in the Storehouse Gallery before the program from 6:30 to 7:30 pm.

Greenwich Historical Society Vanderbilt Education Center

89 Strickland Road, Cos Cob, CT 06807

Members $10; nonmembers $15

Reservations: www.greenwichhistory.org or 203-869-6899, Ext. 10