Francis Morrone - Tours and Lectures - May–June 2022
Hello,
I know I've been bad about sending out these notices in any regular fashion. It's partly that this has been a crazy spring, and partly that, believe it or not, I'm really shy about this kind of promotion. Here's what I have forthcoming in the next few weeks:
A last-second reminder of a rather ambitious series of five one-hour lectures (by Zoom) that I am doing on consecutive Wednesdays, beginning May 18, from 3:00 to 4:00, for the 92nd Street Y ($185 for the series):
Paris: 500 Years of Art and Architecture
Please note that these will be recorded and made available to registrants, in case you can't make it at 3:00.
I will be rounding out my series on The Architects of America for the Scarsdale Adult School with these two lectures (by Zoom, $25 each):
The Scarsdale programs are also recorded and made available to registrants. Both 92nd Street Y and Scarsdale Adult School have staff people who handle the recording, and get it out the next day. It's only when I'm the one responsible for the recording that you have to wait two weeks to get it.
By the way, Arthur Brown Jr., of San Francisco, may be my favorite American architect. As for Frank Lloyd Wright, many of you know I grew up surrounded by his houses in Oak Park, Illinois, and later worked for an architect who had worked for Wright for a decade. There is no architect whose works I know better—or am as ambivalent about!
On Wednesday, June 15 (6:30 reception, 7:00 lecture, in person at the University Club, 54th Street and Fifth Avenue, free for members of the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art, $45 otherwise), I will talk to Robert A.M. Stern about his life and career, on the occasion of the publication of his autobiography, Between Memory and Invention: My Journey in Architecture (The Monacelli Press):
Robert A.M. Stern's Journey in Architecture: A Conversation with Francis Morrone
Finally, as some of you know, I now teach film courses every summer at New York University's School of Professional Studies. This summer (Thursdays, 12:00–1:40, June 16–August 4) I will be teaching History on Film: Fact or Fiction? in which we will view and dissect several historical films—possibly including classics such as The Seven Samurai, Red River, and Rossellini's The Taking of Power by Louis XIV, as well as blockbusters such as Ben-Hur, and others (including some surprises), a film a week—to determine whether such films are a good or a bad way of learning history, or if films can tell us things about history that novels or nonfiction books or paintings can't. I'm really looking forward to this.
I have a whole new series of talks (by Zoom, plus possibly one or two in-person walking tours) coming up for Scarsdale Adult School in June, July, and August, plus the continuation of my Zoom series on Every Building on Fifth Avenue from Start to Finish, but the dates won't be set for a week or two. I promise to send an announcement when they are ready.
I hope to see you at one or more of these programs, and, till then, stay safe and healthy, and don't hesitate to contact me with any questions.
All my best,
Francis
fm27@nyu.edu