Our annual meeting is a time to gather for an update on ADSLA’s achievements in 2024 and a preview of where it is going in the new year. Following a 30 minute meeting with ADSLA’s board of directors, we will offer a presentation on What is Art Deco?
Our annual meeting is a time to gather for an update on ADSLA’s achievements in 2023 and a preview of where it is going in the new year. Following a 30 minute meeting with ADSLA’s board of directors, we will offer a presentation on the impending preservation of the exterior of the Earl Carroll Theatre.
Take a virtual tour of Catalina Island’s historic tile with author and artist Ronald Smith. We will see the tile and learn about the production of tile on Catalina. Island in the Art Deco era.
Art Deco World Congresses are back! The Miami Design Preservation League and the Art Deco Society of the Palm Beaches will host the 2023 Congress in April. To give us a talk on Miami Art Deco architecture, as well as a preview of the upcoming gathering of Art Deco organizations from around the world, is Jack Johnson, Chair of the Miami Preservation League.
Our annual meeting is a time to gather for an update on ADSLA’s achievements in 2022 and a preview of where it is going in the new year. Following a 30 minute meeting with ADSLA’s board of directors, we will turn the mic over to Miami Preservation League Chair Jack Johnson, for a talk on Art Deco Miami, in anticipation of the April 2023 World Congress in Florida.
November 2022 marks the centennial of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun, so we have invited Colleen (aka the Vintage Egyptologist) and John Darnell to give a virtual illustrated presentation to commemorate the occasion. This talk also coincides with the release of their latest book EGYPT'S GOLDEN COUPLE: WHEN AKHENATEN AND NEFERTITI WERE GODS ON EARTH, published by St. Martin's Press
Operetta remained a popular and vibrant form of musical storytelling throughout the Art Deco era. Indeed, the modern musical theater form owes as much to operetta as it does to early musical comedy. In the United States especially, the 1920s and 30s were a period of rich experimentation in which the two styles were combined in countless ways on stage and in film until they finally emerged as what we recognize today as “musical theater.” In this lecture by Mary Stanford, we will explore the history of Jazz Age Operetta.
Join us for a virtual book talk with Christopher Long, author of “Jock Peters | The Varieties of Modernism Architecture and Design. Peters is best known in Los Angeles for the Bullocks Wilshire interiors that he designed., but he also had a stint in the fledgling motion picture industry. Soon after Peters immigrated to America in 1922, he became a set designer for Famous Players-Lasky (later Paramount Pictures), working under the famed Hans Dreier. In 1927,
Operetta remained a popular and vibrant form of musical storytelling throughout the Art Deco era. Indeed, the modern musical theater form owes as much to operetta as it does to early musical comedy. In the United States especially, the 1920s and 30s were a period of rich experimentation in which the two styles were combined in countless ways on stage and in film until they finally emerged as what we recognize today as “musical theater.” In this lecture by Mary Stanford, we will explore the history of Jazz Age Operetta.
The Weimar era in Germany, from the end of World War One in 1918 to the Nazi takeover in 1933, was a time of social and political ferment, a time of conflict and rapid change, with people rejecting the old conventions and constraints and embracing modernity in art, film, sex and dance. Dance historian Walter Nelson will look at this era through the lens of social dancing, as depicted in the films and art of the time - and dispel some widespread misconceptions reflected in programs like "Babylon Berlin".
