Events  2022

Thursday
December

22

LocalVirtual Tour

That Postmodern Moment!

Matt Postal hosts a virtual tour and lecture for the Municipal Art Society on Postmodernism in New York City, focusing on leading architects including Philip Johnson, Kevin Roche and Helmut Jahn.

Thursday
December

15

LocalFilm Screening

Moonlight & Movies: The Apartment

Join the Museum of the City of New York for some 1960s throwback fun—a screening of Billy Wilder’s Oscar Award-winning rom-com “The Apartment” (1960), introduced by design curator Donald Albrecht.

Wednesday
December

07

Further Afield Film Screening

Expo ‘58: A More Humane Art

Bowerbird, a Philadelphia-based nonprofit organization that shares music, dance, film, and related art forms, will host a film screening on the 1958 Brussels Exposition at the University Lutheran Church in Philadelphia, PA. The Brussels World’s Fair served as the premiere of some of the most important and radical artistic works of the second half of the 20th century.

Sunday
December

04

LocalWalking Tour

Modern Architecture 3rd Avenue/UN

DOCOMOMO NY/Tri-State’s President, John Arbuckle, will lead this Municipal Art Society tour examining highlights of Modern architecture along Third Avenue from East 52nd Street to 42nd Street and surrounding the United Nations as originally mapped by Ada Louise Huxtable.

Thursday
December

01

LocalVirtual Tour

The New York Architectural Legacy of Kevin Roche

The Municipal Art Society hosts historian James Russiello as he explores Kevin Roche’s work in Manhattan as part of a series on notable architects who contributed to the history and development of postwar American architecture in post-industrial New York.

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