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Friday,
October 20, 2017

Displaying Fine Art: Installation, Framing, Lighting
Join April Russell, formally known as Lady Thomson, from The Art of Interiors in London & New York for a conversation about the intricate science of properly displaying fine art. Drawing from her expertise and distinction as a designer whose clients have significant collections, April’s illustrated presentation provides essential insights into and approaches for displaying and living with fine art. Topics include optimal ways to frame, light, hang, and display. Two of Atlanta’s leading art and framing experts, Frederick Brooks of Brooks & Black Fine Art Framing and Spalding Nix of Spalding Nix Fine Art will facilitate a Q & A session with April for designers and their clients.

Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Art Collecting Today:
Market Insights for Everyone Passionate About Art

A presentation by best-selling author Doug Woodham. 

Are you passionate about art? Would you like an Art World insider's perspective on buying, selling and collecting art? One of the top leaders in the Art World, Doug Woodham will discuss how the art marketplace works in practice and how to navigate it smartly. Doug brings a unique perspective to the art market from his life-long interest in art, business and collecting. A trained economist with a PhD from the University of Michigan, Woodham served as President of the Americas for Christie’s, the international auction house. Now, Doug is sharing his art market insights with the world as the author of the best-selling book Art Collecting Today (published in April 2017).  A book signing will follow the presentation.

Click HERE to purchase the book.

Wednesday,
June 14, 2017

COLLECTING ART 101

6:30 p.m. - Reception
7:00 p.m. - Talk

Want to learn more about starting your own art collection? Join our conversation with Atlanta’s top collecting experts Jane Cofer, Spalding Nix, and Anne Tracht featuring MOCA GA’s own director Annette Cone-Skelton moderating. The discussion will focus on how collections are started and how they grow and evolve over time.

This event is brought to you by the MOCA GA Art and Social League.

Thursday,
May 18, 2017

Prince Charles: The Passions & Paradoxes of an Improbable Life

A presentation by best-selling author Sally Bedell Smith.

Atlanta Decorative Arts Center (ADAC)
351 Peachtree Hills Avenue, NE
Atlanta, Georgia 30305

6:30 p.m. Presentation
7:30 p.m. Book-signing

In this illustrated lecture, based on her new book Prince Charles: The Passions and Paradoxes of an Improbable Life (April, 2017), Ms. Smith will give unprecedented insights into Prince Charles, a man who possesses a fiercely independent spirit, and yet has spent his life in waiting for the ultimate role of monarch.

Friday,
May 12, 2017

Artist Talk
Ashley Woodson Bailey

6:00 to 8:00 p.m.

Friday,
April 21, 2017

Opening Reception
Ashley Woodson Bailey & Katherine Sandoz

6:00 to 8:00 p.m.

Both artists will be in attendance.

Wednesday,
April 19, 2017

The Great Rivalry: England & France in the Modern World

At Design Within Reach's NEW showroom
1210 Howell Mill Road

Presented by Jimmy Caughman. Caughman is an independent cultural historian with a focus on Europe.  He will be exploring the history of England and France from the 18th to the 20th centuries focusing on the different personalities and artistic sensibilities of each country.

Sponsored by Spalding Nix's CULTURE CLUB, French Heritage Society & Design With Reach.

Saturday,
March 11, 2017

ARTIST TALK
Lisa Tuttle

11:00 a.m. at the gallery
 

Friday,
March 3, 2017

ARTIST TALK
Spencer Sloan

6:30 p.m. at the gallery

Friday, February 3, 2017

Opening Reception - ON THE EDGE
Landon Nordeman, Spencer Sloan & Lisa Tuttle

6:00 to 8:00 p.m.

Tuesday, November 29, 2016

Modern Aristocrats: Ancestral Houses & Their Stories

A presentation by James Reginato, writer-at-large, Vanity Fair.

Atlanta Decorative Arts Center (ADAC)
351 Peachtree Hills Avenue, NE
Atlanta, Georgia 30305

6:30 p.m. Presentation
7:30 p.m. Book-signing

The history of England and the British people is inextricably linked with the stories of its leading aristocratic dynasties and the seats they have occupied for centuries. These houses have survived great wars, economic upheavals, and at times scandal and tragedy.

James Reginato, Writer-at-large for Vanity Fair, will talk about several of these homes in England, Ireland, Italy, and the Carribean, and for the first times illustrate some of their private interiors—among them the exquisite Old Vicarage in Derbyshire, the last residence of the late Dowager Duchess of Devonshire; Villa Cetinale in Tuscany owned by the 7th Earl of Durham; Blenheim Palace, the home of the 11th Duke of Marlborough; Broughton Castle, home of the 21st Baron Saye and Sele; and The Grove in Oxfordshire, home of Countess Mountbatten of Burma and Lady Pamela Hicks.

Mr. Reginato will bring the history of these families and remarkable residences alive and discuss how the modern stewards and aristocrats keep these stately homes going in high style, based on his new book Great Houses, Modern Aristocrats(Rizzoli, 2016).

Wednesday, November 16, 2016

Thomas Jefferson: Planting the Arts in America

A presentation by Susan R. Stein, Richard Gilder Senior Curator and Vice President of Museum Programs at Monticello.