OMA Book Club

The OM°A Book Club is for lovers of literature and art. On select months we’ll discuss a different book in relation to works on view in the Museum. Join us for an afternoon of literary gossip in the galleries. Tuition for the Season: $35 Members: $45 Non-Members Tuition for Individual Sessions: $15 Selected Tuesdays 2:00 – 3:30pm Meeting Room C Presented by Susan Rosoff Register for Fall Book Club Series http://orlando.tamretail.net/SelectEvent.aspx?eventid=1005034 Tuesday, October 6 Adventures in the Louvre: How to Fall in Love with the World’s Greatest Museum by Elaine Sciolino Elaine Sciolino was the former New York Times Paris bureau chief and she demystifies one of the most famous museums in the world. As an investigative journalist, she explores artworks – both famous and overlooked – and some of the people who are the museum’s lifeblood. It’s part travelogue, part history and part memoir. Her story is totally engrossing. http://orlando.tamretail.net/SelectEvent.aspx?eventid=1005035 Tuesday, November 3 Metropolitan Stories by Catherine Coulson Catherine Coulson worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for 25 years. In a series of vignettes, she writes about the behind the scenes world of the Met and the powerful voices of the art itself. It’s a short novel that bursts with wit and imagination. http://orlando.tamretail.net/SelectEvent.aspx?eventid=1005036 Tuesday, December 1 The Hare with the Amber Eyes: A Hidden Inheritance by Edmund de Waal Edmund de Waal, a world-famous ceramist, inherited a collection of 264 netsuke, tiny Japanese wood and ivory carvings. He wanted to know who had touched and held them. Part detective story and memoir, his book is marvelously absorbing. http://orlando.tamretail.net/SelectEvent.aspx?eventid=1005037