Autumn Kickoff Event : Private Tour of The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Help us kick off the autumn event season with a private tour of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Page Knox ’12 GSAS, an adjunct professor in the Art History Department of Columbia University, will provide an insider’s view New York City’s premier art museum.
Biography
Page Knox works in a variety of capacities at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: for the Education Department she gives public gallery talks and lectures in special exhibitions as well as the permanent collection; for Membership she teaches classes at the museum; and, more recently, for Development she leads groups for Travel with the Met. Page graduated from Yale University and was a double major in Art History and Economics. Upon graduation, Page spent her twenties in the financial world. Before returning to graduate school, she worked at the Yale Center for British Art. At Columbia, she received a PhD with a focus in American Art, while her minor field was Renaissance painting, specifically Leonardo da Vinci. Her dissertation, “Scribner’s Monthly 1870-1881: Illustrating a New American Art World,” explored the significant expansion of illustration in print media during the 1870s, using Scribner’s Monthly as a lens to examine how the medium changed the general aesthetic in American art in the late nineteenth century. She continues to publish and lecture at various conferences on the subject and is a contributing author for a recently released text book on the History of Illustration. In addition to her Art Humanities class, she also teaches summer courses at Columbia that focus on American Art and Trans-Atlantic Exchange during the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Time: 5:00PM
Enter through the Main Entrance. Please note this entrance has stairs. Contact the office if you require assistance.
Cost: $25
After the tour: The group will gather in the Cantor Rooftop Garden Bar, 5th floor, for an à la carte cocktail. Participants will be free to visit other exhibitions after the tour. The Met closes at 9PM.
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Registration is required. We are unable to accommodate walk-ins. All reservations are final. Space is limited.