Antique collectors, mark your calendars for the Fifth Annual Antiques Show at Carnegie
Museum of Art April 18–20. More than 40 dealers from the U.S and England will be here
with antiques from across the country. Sponsored by the Women’s Committee of the Carnegie
Museum of Art, the show benefits the museum’s fund for the restoration and installation
of the 1935 Art Deco panels originally made for the French ocean liner Normandie and
scheduled for exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Art in 1998. The show is in the
halls of Architecture and Sculpture and in the Music Hall Foyer. Tickets are $7 at
the door for members, $8 for non-members, and include admission into the Carnegie
Museums of Art and Natural History. The Antiques Show will be open 11:00 a.m.–7:00
p.m. on Friday and Saturday, April 18 and 19, and noon-5:00 p.m. on Sunday, April
20.
Be among the first to see the Antiques Show by attending the Preview Party
on Thursday, April 17, from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m. The $75 ticket includes cocktails, hors
d’oeuvres, desserts and three-day admission to the Antiques Show and the museums.
On Friday, April 18, at 11:00 a.m. in Carnegie Music Hall, renowned interior designer
Bunny Williams presents a lecture on Perceptions in Design. Williams is a protégé of
Sister Parish and co-owner of the New York City garden shop Treillage. Tickets for
the lecture are $25 and include Friday admission to the Antiques Show. All tickets
may be purchased by calling 622-3325.
If you’re a fan of the contemporary (and sometimes classic), culturally diverse
films shown in the Museum of Art Theater, join the club—the CineClub, that is. For
an annual fee of $25, you will enjoy a year’s worth of films for only $2 per screening.
If you usually bring a friend, take out a double membership for $40 and you each get
in for $2. CineClub members also receive each film schedule by mail.
Three
film series are under way during the months of March and April, and the Museum of
Art offers additional screenings on weekend afternoons or some films. On Thursday
nights at 8:00 and Sundays at 3:00, there is a rare opportunity to explore diverse
issues and perspectives on Algeria in films by Algerian and European directors made
about that volatile North African country.
On Friday nights at 8:00 p.m. and
Saturdays at 2:30 p.m. through the first part of May, a series of classic 1920s and
‘30s European and American films are scheduled in conjunction with the Museum of Art
exhibition Designing the Modern World, 1885–1945: The Arts of Reform and Persuasion
(see feature story in this issue). Most films are followed by a discussion. Highlights
from the series include Failsafe and Chaplin’s Modern Times, as well as Busby Berkeley’s
Gold Diggers and Cecil B. DeMille’s astonishing Art Deco sci-fi hit, Madame Satan.
On Saturday nights at 8:00 p.m. and Sundays at 1:30 p.m., see films by Japanese
director Yasuzo Masumura. Most of these films will be seen here for the first time
in the U.S. Special schedule March 27–29. Call 622-3212 for details. No films on Easter
Sunday, March 30. All films are shown in the Museum of Art Theater. For more information
about films and the CineClub, call the Department of Film and Video at 622-3212 or
visit the website at www.clpgh.org/moa/films.
Between 1885 and 1962 a remarkable number of buildings by some of the period’s most important American architects incorporated a Spanish system of tile construction known by the name of the Catalan family that brought it to the United States, Guastavino. The exhibition includes original architectural drawings, photographs, technical materials and samples of the tile. Several Pittsburgh buildings are represented.