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SUMMARY:The Father of Chinese Art Deco Architecture
DESCRIPTION:During the height of the Art Deco era\, a wave of Chinese artists came to Paris to learn from Western culture. Among them was architect Liu Jipiao\, the organizer and designer of China’s section at the famous 1925 Paris Exposition (which introduced the world to Art Deco)\, and a key figure in bringing modernist art and architecture to his home country. This Art Deco Weekend lecture features the architect’s granddaughter\, Jennifer Wong\, who will relate Liu’s life as a student in Paris\, his work as an architect and educator on his return to China\, and the dramatic change in fortunes that led to him and his family relocating to America. \nOrganized by The Wolfsonian-FIU and presented as part of Art Deco Weekend. \nFree | Register at the Wolfsonian-FIU website
URL:https://artdecoweekend.org/event/the-father-of-chinese-art-deco-architecture/
LOCATION:Wolfsonian-FIU\, 1001 Washington Avenue\, Miami Beach\, 33139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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SUMMARY:Astaire\, Rogers\, and the Art Deco Dream
DESCRIPTION:This is a VIRTUAL\, pre-recorded event. RSVP to receive a link to the on-demand recording when it becomes available. \nGlistening dance floors\, star-lit skies\, sequined gowns\, white tie and tails—and the sleek\, witty\, romantic  songs of the age. We have the hard edges of tapping yet the dances and singing are also open and airy. This is the Art Deco sensibility at play in American popular music. \n  \nAbout Michael Lasser \nMichael Lasser is a writer\, speaker\, teacher\, and critic. He is the author of three books: America’s Songs: The Stories Behind the Songs of Broadway\, Hollywood\, and Tin Pan Alley (co-written with Philip Furia)\, America’s Songs II: From the 1890s to the Post-War Years\, and City Songs and American Life\, 1900-1950. From 1980-2021\, he was the host of the nationally syndicated public radio show\, Fascinatin’ Rhythm\, winner of a 1994 Peabody Award. A graduate of Dartmouth College\, he is the former theater critic for the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle and CITY\, and for 35 years has appeared at museums\, universities\, and performing arts centers around the country. He currently appears in performance with singers Jessica Ann Best and Alan Jones. In 2010\, he was named a Thomas P. Johnson Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Rollins College. He is currently at work on two books on American music\, tentatively titled I Hear America’s Song: Popular Music and American Identity and There Goes That Song Again: The Persistence of the Great American Songbook. He taught for forty years\, including thirty-two of them at The Harley School in Rochester\, NY.
URL:https://artdecoweekend.org/event/astaire-rogers-and-the-art-deco-dream/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220116T150000
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SUMMARY:Deborah Desilets: Spotlight on Art in Public Places
DESCRIPTION:In the 1930s art and national symbolism converged within the Federal Arts Projects\, or the WPA Projects\, that supported the values of the American Public. The great Depression and these Arts Projects changed the relationship between art and the public and are the harbinger of the relationships of art in the public realm today. Federal Arts Projects aimed to express American civic pride; today there are challenges to those very arts works as values in the public have changed greatly. \nThis lecture addresses Morris Lapidus’s life-long battle for ornamentation in architecture. The intention is to look at the ornaments\, their symbolism\, and the lasting quality of the messages in his art pieces for public consumption in his early hotels on Miami Beach\, and his lasting contribution to the art experience on Lincoln Road. \nDeborah Desilets is a registered architect\, curator of the Morris Lapidus Exhibition\, and steward of the Morris Lapidus archives.
URL:https://artdecoweekend.org/event/deborah-desilets-spotlight-on-art-in-public-places/
LOCATION:Art Deco Museum and Welcome Center\, 1001 Ocean Drive\, Miami Beach\, FL\, 33139\, United States
CATEGORIES:Lectures
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SUMMARY:Joel Levine: The Fontainebleau Hotel: Imagining Paradise
DESCRIPTION:The Fontainebleau Hotel is a Miami Beach icon appearing in more than a dozen Hollywood films\, representing  both the city’s splendid glory and sordid historical past. Utilizing  movie clips and other archival material\, Joel will explore the meaning of architecture in American cinema and then reconstruct the history of the Fontainebleau while exploring the themes of architectural beauty\, status\, racism\, and antisemitism.    \n  \nAbout the Guide\n \nJoel Levine is a Tour Guide and Board Member of the Miami Design Preservation League.  Prior to retiring from a career in medical and educational administration\, he collected and restored radios and televisions from the Art Deco and Mid Century Modern periods (1925-1970).   Joel uses unconventional sources\, including movie clips and picture postcards to tell a story about a place and it’s people.  He has presented in Miami Beach\, Tel Aviv\, Mauritius and Napier\, New Zealand.
URL:https://artdecoweekend.org/event/joel-levine-the-fontainebleau-hotel-imagining-paradise/
LOCATION:Art Deco Museum and Welcome Center\, 1001 Ocean Drive\, Miami Beach\, FL\, 33139\, United States
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SUMMARY:Deco for a Demagogue: Father Coughlin's Shrine of the Little Flower
DESCRIPTION:The Shrine of the Little Flower\, a Catholic church built in the Art Deco style outside Detroit\, was the center of a radio empire started by Father Charles Coughlin that reached up to 30 million Americans each week in the 1930s. Originally an advocate of President Roosevelt’s New Deal and critic of the Ku Klux Klan\, Coughlin turned to anti-Semitism and support for fascism by the end of the decade. In a talk that reveals the links between design\, politics\, and power\, Wolfsonian chief librarian Frank Luca and curator Shoshana Resnikoff will trace Coughlin’s role in American life and shed light on how religion and rhetoric shaped the Deco design of his church. \nOrganized with Wolfsonian-FIU and presented as part of Art Deco Weekend. \nTickets must be obtained through the Wolfsonian-FIU’s website. To register\, click here.
URL:https://artdecoweekend.org/event/deco-for-a-demagogue-father-coughlins-shrine-of-the-little-flower/
LOCATION:Wolfsonian-FIU\, 1001 Washington Avenue\, Miami Beach\, 33139\, United States
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SUMMARY:When Radio Was New: John Vassos and Design for Mass Media
DESCRIPTION:What should a radio look like? How should a tuning dial feel to the touch? More than a half-century before the iPhone\, pioneering industrial designer John Vassos addressed these questions\, recognizing that the right answers could mitigate fears about new media technologies and inspire people to welcome them into their homes. Danielle Shapiro\, author of a book about Vassos\, will show how he contributed to the shape of radio and television receivers as a lead consultant to RCA in an age when these devices revolutionized how Americans consumed information and entertainment. \nOrganized with Miami Design Preservation League and presented as part of Art Deco Weekend. \nTickets must be obtained through the Wolfsonian-FIU’s website. To register\, click here.
URL:https://artdecoweekend.org/event/when-radio-was-new-john-vassos-and-design-for-mass-media/
LOCATION:Wolfsonian-FIU\, 1001 Washington Avenue\, Miami Beach\, 33139\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sound and Vision: A Conversation with a Radio Collector
DESCRIPTION:Beginning with a small\, streamlined radio he spotted at an antique show\, South Florida collector Harvey Mattel built a collection of radios that now numbers in the many hundreds and includes some of the most coveted receivers in existence. In conversation with Wolfsonian development director Michael Hughes\, Mattel will reveal what sparked his passion for radios\, share how his collecting interests have evolved\, and speak about some of the most significant pieces he has acquired over the years. \nOrganized with Miami Design Preservation League and presented as part of Art Deco Weekend. \nTickets must be obtained through the Wolfsonian-FIU’s website. To register\, click here.
URL:https://artdecoweekend.org/event/sound-and-vision-a-conversation-with-a-radio-collector/
LOCATION:Wolfsonian-FIU\, 1001 Washington Avenue\, Miami Beach\, 33139\, United States
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SUMMARY:A. Brad Schwartz: "Broadcast Hysteria: Orson Welles's War of the Worlds and the Art of Fake News"
DESCRIPTION:View the event on-demand at the following link: click here. Video will be available starting 1/14 at Noon EST. \nOn the evening of October 30\, 1938\, radio listeners across the United States heard a startling report of a meteor strike in the New Jersey countryside. With sirens blaring in the background\, announcers in the field described mysterious creatures\, terrifying war machines\, and thick clouds of poison gas moving toward New York City. As the invading force approached Manhattan\, some listeners sat transfixed\, while others ran to alert neighbors or to call the police. Some even fled their homes. But the hair-raising broadcast was not a real news bulletin-it was Orson Welles’s adaptation of the H. G. Wells classic The War of the Worlds. \nIn Broadcast Hysteria\, A. Brad Schwartz boldly retells the story of Welles’s famed radio play and its impact. Did it really spawn a “wave of mass hysteria\,” as The New York Times reported? Schwartz is the first to examine the hundreds of letters sent to Orson Welles himself in the days after the broadcast\, and his findings challenge the conventional wisdom. Few listeners believed an actual attack was under way. But even so\, Schwartz shows that Welles’s broadcast became a major scandal\, prompting a different kind of mass panic as Americans debated the bewitching power of the radio and the country’s vulnerability in a time of crisis. When the debate was over\, American broadcasting had changed for good\, but not for the better. \nAs Schwartz tells this story\, we observe how an atmosphere of natural disaster and impending war permitted broadcasters to create shared live national experiences for the first time. We follow Orson Welles’s rise to fame and watch his manic energy and artistic genius at work in the play’s hurried yet innovative production. And we trace the present-day popularity of “fake news” back to its source in Welles’s show and its many imitators. Schwartz’s original research\, gifted storytelling\, and thoughtful analysis make Broadcast Hysteria a groundbreaking new look at a crucial but little-understood episode in American history. \n  \nAbout the speaker: \nA. Brad Schwartz is a doctoral candidate at Princeton University\, studying 20th century American history with a special interest in questions of media and journalism\, law and policing\, and the cultural production of history. His undergraduate thesis at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor explored Orson Welles’s 1938 War of the Worlds radio broadcast\, drawing upon an untapped trove of listener letters to challenge the standard narrative of the so-called “panic broadcast.” This research became the basis for his first book\, Broadcast Hysteria: Orson Welles’s War of the Worlds and the Art of Fake News (Hill and Wang\, 2015). In 2013\, he co-wrote a documentary about War of the Worlds for the PBS series American Experience\, based in part on his thesis research. His second book\, Scarface and the Untouchable: Al Capone\, Eliot Ness\, and the Battle for Chicago\, co-written with Max Allan Collins\, was published by William Morrow in 2018. \n  \n\n 
URL:https://artdecoweekend.org/event/a-brad-schwartz-broadcast-hysteria-orson-welless-war-of-the-worlds-and-the-art-of-fake-news/
LOCATION:On-Demand / Pre-Recorded\, Miami Beach\, FL\, 33139\, United States
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SUMMARY:Peter Sheridan: "Deco Radio: The Most Beautiful Radios Ever Made"
DESCRIPTION:View the event on-demand at the following link: click here. Video will be available starting 1/14 at Noon EST. \nThis is the untold story of the Art Deco radio and the extraordinary contributions of famous industrial designers in the 1930s\, who contributed so much to the development of radio and the world-wide spread of the Art Deco style. Enjoy a look at the most beautiful radios ever made. \nDr Peter Sheridan AM BDS MDS FICD Clinical Senior Lecturer\, Sydney University\nMember\, Australian Institute of Professional Photography\nCommittee Member\, Art Deco & Modernism Society of Australia \nPeter has been in general dental practice in Macquarie Street Sydney since 1971. An accredited professional photographer specializing in fine art\, Peter is also an internationally respected collector\, historian and lecturer in the field of Art Deco design. His collections are considered world class and have been displayed by the National Gallery of Victoria and featured by the The National Trust and the Historic Houses Trust. He is the author of 4 major award-winning photographic reference books on design and architecture: Radio Days (2008); Deco Radio (2014); Sydney Art Deco (2019) and Sydney Art Deco & Modernist Walks – Potts Point & Elizabeth Bay (2021) \nIn 2001 Peter was honored by the Australian government and awarded a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) for his work with people with Multiple Sclerosis. Peter is an avid tennis player competing in Australia and overseas in Masters’ tournaments.
URL:https://artdecoweekend.org/event/peter-sheridan-deco-radio-the-most-beautiful-radios-ever-made/
LOCATION:On-Demand / Pre-Recorded\, Miami Beach\, FL\, 33139\, United States
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