PostDec Panel Discussion

Better late than never!  The pictures are finally in from the PostDec panel discussion that was held on December 6, 2007 in the Koopman Commons at the Hartford Art School.

It was standing room-only as PostDec artists Joyce Kozloff, Jesse Lambert, Renee Petropoulos, Suzanne McClelland, and Robert Kushner discussed art, art-making, and the evolution of Pattern and Decoration.

Gallery Director Zina Davis moderated the panel as the five artists discussed ideas and answered questions from the audience, then proceeded to the Joseloff Gallery or a brief reception.

Thank you to everyone who attended the discussion and those who donated their services to make the evening a success.  Thank you to Sam Ekwutzel for recording the discussion, and to Roger Castonguay for taking the lovely photographs.  An a big thank you to all of the artists for attending and participating in such an interesting and engaging panel discussion.

SOLD OUT!

Thank you to everyone for your interest in out October 2007 tour of the Philip Johnson Glass House.  We are now officially sold out with a waiting list of 12+.  We called to book a spring tour and weren’t able to secure one until July 2008!  If anyone likes to plan a year in advance, please send us an email and we’ll add your name to the list.

Trip Confirmed

It is now official.  We have a 22-person motorcoach reserved to take us down to New Canaan to the Philip Johnson Glass House for our spectacular tour on October 3.  In the next couple of weeks you should receive a mailing about the trip, including a registration form.  We have already had several people reserve the limited twenty seats on the guided tour, so register early.  Spaces are bound to go quickly.

The cost for the trip will be $55.  That’s $25 for the guided tour of the Glass House, and $30 for the motorcoach.

We will leave West Hartford at approximately 9:30am, and arrive in New Canaan for 11am.  Our first tour will begin at 12:30pm, leaving plenty of time to have lunch in beautiful downtown New Canaan beforehand.  Then the first group of ten will leave for their tour, while the second group gets to enjoy the shops and streets of this historic town.  The second tour will begin at 1:30pm and end at 3pm.  We will all have a brief break to stretch our legs and get one last coffee before we board the motorcoach again and head back to West Hartford.  We should arrive home by 5pm.

We’re all very excited about this exclusive opportunity to tour the Philip Johnson Glass House.  If you have any questions, or would like to reserve your space on the trip by phone, please don’t hesitate to call (860) 768-4090.

Mark Your Calendars - The Philip Johnson Glass House Tour

Just in! We have secured two 10-person tours of the Philip Johnson Glass House in New Canaan, CT for Wednesday, October 3, 2007. In case you haven’t heard, the amazing Philip Jonson Glass House will open to the public for guided tours this summer and early fall only. When I spoke to the booking agent this morning, 80% of the tours had already been taken and October was our earliest possibility. Don’t miss out on this rare treat!

We will be booking a small luxury motorcoach to take us down to New Canaan for what I’m sure will be a glorious fall day. The guided walking tours are for ten at a time and take approximately an hour and a half each. While one set of us takes off for the 1:00pm tour, the others can stroll around the lovely town of New Canaan and take in the shops and restaurants. While the 2:00pm tour takes off, the first group can relax and enjoy the town. It should be a perfect day.

If you would like to read more about the Glass House, please visit their website at www.philipjohnsonglasshouse.org and read the wonderful article in this past Sunday’s New York Times.

More information and registration forms well be mailed out in the coming weeks so mark your calendars and join us for this exclusive peek at Philip Johnson’s amazing architecture.

(More about the Glass House after the jump.)

The Talk of New York - Your Last Chance!

This is your last chance to join our lecture and trip series for the fall - 2+2: The Talk of New York.

Our first trip to the Met and the Whitney were fantastic. Next week we’ll be taking our final trip of the fall and heading into Chelsea to visit some wonderful galleries and soak up as much contemporary art as we possibly can. Would you like to join us? Hurry! there are only a few spaces left on the bus.

We’ll be taken into New York via luxury motorcoach where we’ll be expertly guided through many of Chelsea’s finest contemporary art galleries by the Joseloff Gallery’s own Zina Davis. If the weather doesn’t cooperate, we’ll visit the Museum of Modern Art to see the fabulous Brice Marden Exhibition. Click on the link on the right to download a printable registration form, or for more information, please send an email. We hope you’ll be able to join us on this fantastic trip!

Susan Stamberg Agrees!

NPR’s Susan Stamberg recently had a piece on Morning Edition about the Vollard exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The same exhibition we visited a few short weeks ago! You can read a transcript or listen to the story by clicking here. You can also download a free copy from iTunes in the podcast section where the story was “NPR’s Story of the Day” for October 17.

Met curators are interviewed and Vollard stories are shared. The story is less than seven minutes long and well worth listening to if you want to replay the trip in your mind, or if you haven’t seen it yet, to get a glimpse of what the show is all about. Very interesting!