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.

Selected Tuesdays
2:00 – 3:30 pm

Meeting Room C
Presented by Susan Rosoff

Tuition for the Season
Members: $35
Future Members: $45

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Tuesday, February 4
All the Beauty in the World: Me and the Met by Patrick Bringley
Patrick Bringley was a guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. With plenty of time to look at the works, everything from medieval paintings to Egyptian art, he becomes an intimate observer. The book is an inspiring portrait of a great museum, its hidden treasures, and the people who make it tick.

Tuesday, March 18
Life with Picasso by Françoise Gilot and Carlton Lake
Françoise Gilot was the only woman to leave Pablo Picasso. Picasso filed three lawsuits to try and block this book’s publication in which Gilot gives an intimate portrait of her friendship, love affair, and ten year relationship with him. Gilot was one of Picasso’s muses but also very much her own woman, determined to make herself into the remarkable painter she did indeed become.

Tuesday, April 8
The Lost Notebook of Édouard Manet by Maureen Gibbon
In this historical novel set at the end of Manet’s life, the author gives readers a look at what’s in Manet’s mind during the last three years of his. Suffering with syphilis and in great pain, he completes The Bar at the Folies Bergere. The compelling book reveals an understanding of Manet’s place in time and art in a way that makes you hardly believe it’s fiction.