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The Jazz Age: Picasso, Matisse, Chanel, Gershwin, Joyce, Fitzgerald and Hemingway
The wild times and brilliant work of a tightly connected group of musicians,
artists and writers during the 1920s continues to cast a fascinating spell on
the imagination. The lives, loves and artistic passions of the expatriate
community in Paris, the Gold Coast and Harlem-among them Picasso, Léger, Chanel,
Hemingway, the Fitzgeralds, Joyce, Gershwin, Cole Porter and Gertrude
Stein-created the legendary Jazz Age, surely history's most remarkable
convergence of talent and creativity in one era. Based on his book, Free
as Gods, Museum Director Dr. Charles A. Riley II organizes an exhibition
that evokes this era that produced The Great Gatsby
(which had its start in Great Neck, as a manuscript), this unparalleled an epoch
in which the arts flourished as never before.
The Jazz Age is highlighted by masterpieces of
the 1920s, neoclassical paintings by Picasso, the avant-garde breakthroughs of
James Joyce and Coco Chanel and enduring classics such as Balanchine's Apollo. The exhibition also features musical and literary
programs, lectures and symposia exploring the art, design, music, dance and
literature of this unforgettable era.
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The wild times and brilliant work of a tightly connected group of musicians,
artists and writers during the 1920s continues to cast a fascinating spell on
the imagination. The lives, loves and artistic passions of the expatriate
community in Paris, the Gold Coast and Harlem-among them Picasso, Léger, Chanel,
Hemingway, the Fitzgeralds, Joyce, Gershwin, Cole Porter and Gertrude
Stein-created the legendary Jazz Age, surely history's most remarkable
convergence of talent and creativity in one era. Based on his book, Free
as Gods, Museum Director Dr. Charles A. Riley II organizes an exhibition
that evokes this era that produced The Great Gatsby
(which had its start in Great Neck, as a manuscript), this unparalleled an epoch
in which the arts flourished as never before.
The Jazz Age is highlighted by masterpieces of
the 1920s, neoclassical paintings by Picasso, the avant-garde breakthroughs of
James Joyce and Coco Chanel and enduring classics such as Balanchine's Apollo. The exhibition also features musical and literary
programs, lectures and symposia exploring the art, design, music, dance and
literature of this unforgettable era.
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