Directors have picked great classical concert works to enhance and underpin their films. If it’s Handel, there must be corsets and wigs!

Why Beethoven? And why so much of him?? We dive into Beethoven’s very busy side-gig, the sound-tracking of hundreds of films.

Classical Crossover: exploring groundbreaking film scores by concert hall composers Shostakovich, Bernstein, Copland, Corigliano, Gershwin, Walton, Prokofiev, each a giant of the concert hall, with much of the 20th century’s most important classical work to their credit.

The fusion of classical music into popular culture is so complete that most listeners have absolutely no idea where their favorite tropes come from.

The catalogue focuses on Diebenkorn’s evolution to maturity. It features nearly 200 paintings and drawings, many from the archives of the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation, that precede his shift to figuration.

My Father: Richard Diebenkorn presented by Gretchen Diebenkorn Grant, daughter of the artist Richard Diebenkorn, introduced by Dorsey Waxter, Partner of Van Doren Waxter, New York.

Bring your brown-bag lunch and join Chief Curator and art historian, Anke Van Wagenberg, Ph.D. (art history) for a free Art Appreciation Course every Wednesday in September, following the 11 a.m. free Art Tour of the current exhibitions.

Learn about visual literacy, media and materials, figurative to abstract and from Leonardo da Vinci to Leonardo Drew.