Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York: Chaos and Classicism Programs

Madeleine Vionnet Caftan dress, 1921 Silk crepe Beverley Birks Collection Photo: John Bigelow Taylor	Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum 1071 Fifth Avenue (at 89th Street) New York City http://Guggenheim.org/publicprograms
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Please join us for the following public programs in conjunction with Chaos and Classicism: Art from France, Italy, and Germany, 1918–1936 (on view through January 9, 2011). Lecture Constructing Classicism in Fashion Tuesday, December 7 @ 6:30 pm Patricia Mears Deputy Director, The Museum at FIT Tuesday, December 7 @ 6:30 pm The years between the two World Wars were dominated by female couturiers and designers in two leading fashion centers: Paris and New York. Not only were women heading some of the most important fashion houses in the world, a number of them developed groundbreaking innovations in clothing construction that changed the course of modern dress. Interestingly, all of these creators embraced classicism as the primary aesthetic vehicle to advance their craft. Their modern interpretations of classicism not only defined the look of the 1930s, but those garments continue to influence fashion today. The work of couturieres in Paris such as Madeleine Vionnet, Alix Grès, Augusta Bernard, and Louise Boulanger, along with designers Elizabeth Hawes, Valentina, and Claire McCardell in New York, will be examined to illustrate their innovations and how they were linked to classicism. A reception and exhibition viewing follows. For tickets: guggenh eim.org/publicprograms. Symposium for Emerging Scholars Is Returning to the Past Modern? Wednesday, January 5 @ 1 pm In the spirit of Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy, and Germany, 1918–1936, the Sackler Center for Arts Education sponsors a symposium showcasing emerging scholars, moderated by Kenneth E. Silver, guest curator and Professor of Modern Art, New York University, and Vivien Greene, Guggenheim Curator of 19th- and Early 20th-Century Art. Through new research, this series of focused presentations grapples with the long-standing question of whether artists and architects working between the wars (1918-1945) and across international regions can look to the past for inspiration, and still be considered modern. To register: guggenheim.org/publicprograms. Free. Speakers: Travis English (State University of New York, Stony Brook), "Di Gesetze der Malerei" and the Radical Use of Tradition in the Neue Sachlichkeit Aglaya Glebova (University of California, Berkeley), "The Exact Same Landscape": Aleksandr Rodchenko at the White Sea-Baltic Canal Andrew Manson (Columbia University), Adversarial Aesthetics? Tradition, Innovation, and the Palazzo del Littorio Competition Ikuyo Nakagawa (Graduate Center, City University of New York) Michelangelo of the East: the Paradoxes of the East/the West and Old/New in Tsuguharu Foujita's Composition and Combats (1928) Breanne Robertson (University of Maryland), New Deal Art for a New World Nationalism: Ancient Mexico in United States Federal Art Projects, 1933-1945 Film Screenings Metropolis (1927) December 3 and 10 at noon and 3 pm Directed by Fritz Lang In this new digital restoration of the crowning achievement of German silent cinema, a tense futuristic balance between two societies—workers who must live in darkened underground and the rich who enjoy a futuristic city of splendor—is realized through elaborate sets and science-fiction style. The Architecture of Doom (1991) December 17 and 24 at noon and 3 pm Directed by Peter Cohen Featuring film footage of Adolph Hitler and the Nazi regime, The Architecture of Doom captures the inner workings of the Third Reich and illuminates the Nazi aesthetic in art, architecture, and popular culture. This riveting documentary shows how Hitler rose from failed artist to creating a world of ponderous kitsch and horrifying terror. Films are free with museum admission. For more information: guggenheim.org/filmscreenings.