New this year!

ART AT LUNCH

September 9, 2010

ITALIAN PAINTINGS FROM THE RICHARD L. FEIGEN COLLECTION
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Laurence B. Kanter, Lionel Goldfrank III Curator of European Art

DCA Members will be given a private tour of the Feigen collection of Italian Renaissance paintings which feature some 60 examples including major works from the 14th through the 17th century.  This is the FIRST TIME the collection has been exhibited and catalogued in its entirety.  It is one of the finest collections of Italian art in existence.  (Lunch will be on your own, restaurant recommendations provided.)

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October 7, 2010

"TALES FROM THE ART CRYPT: THE PAINTERS, THE MUSEUMS, THE CURATORS, THE COLLECTORS, THE AUCTIONS, THE ART"
June 2000, Alfred A. Knopf
Richard L. Feigen, Owner Richard L. Feigen Gallery, New York, New York

One of the most important art collectors and dealers in the world.  For over 50 years, Richard Feigen has been collecting and dealing in a wide range of work from the Old Masters to Contemporary.  A unique opportunity to hear the penultimate insider.

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October 21, 2010

"HOW ITALIAN FOOD CONQUERED
THE WORLD"
Publication Date, Early Winter, 2011, Macmillan
John Mariani, Esquire Magazine Food and Travel Consultant

An internationally acclaimed food writer, his book "Dictionary of Italian Food and Drink" won the IACP Julia Child Cookbook award. He is widely regarded as one of the most esteemed experts in Italian cuisine and foodways in the country.  The DCA will be his first pre-publication presentation on this much awaited new book on the social and cultural omnipresence of Italian food not only in the US but around the world.

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October 28, 2010

PALLADIO'S VENICE: HIS PATRONS AND THE WOMEN BEHIND THE SCENES
Tracy E. Cooper, Ph.D, M.F.A. Princeton University, Certificate, Centro Internazionale
di Studi di Architettura, Andrea Palladio, Vicenza, Italy.

Author of Palladio's Venice: Architecture and Society in a Renaissance Republic, winner of the Renaissance Society of America's 2007 Phyllis Gordon Prize.  Dr. Cooper's groundbreaking work in the field of Palladio scholarship makes the indisputable claim that it was his work in Venice where he made his greatest contributions to architecture.

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