Events October 2022

The Glass House. Photo by Michael Biondo
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Hillary Lewis on Philip Johnson and The Glass House

October 19, 2022

Join the National Arts Club and Hilary Lewis, Chief Curator & Creative Director at The Glass House, for a lecture examining one of the nation’s most innovative architectural environments, The Glass House in New Canaan, CT. This former home of Philip Johnson, first built in 1949, now a center for art, architecture, and culture features examples of some of the most important movements in 20th-century architecture as well as a significant collection of postwar American art. A National Trust site, it continues to preserve 50 acres as much a part design as the architecture.

Johnson was best known in the world of architecture, but he played an equally powerful role as a patron of art, a large donor to MoMA. The talk will look at the property’s extraordinary figure behind it, which served as a laboratory and salon for art and architecture.


Wednesday October 19, 6pm

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