The Chairman Emeritus of Christie’s, Stephen S. Lash, will take his audience on a journey of discovery, mixing art and social history to take his audience to a bygone age of glamor. This talk is a walking tour of great interior spaces of the ocean liners of the golden age of transatlantic travel. These great vessels were repositories of art and design as well as floating national symbols that sent political and aesthetic messages around the world at a moment predating mass media. Mr. Lash developed a passion for ocean liner memorabilia through his own collecting, and was the inspiration for Ocean Liners, a 2017 an exhibition of ocean liner art and design at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts.
Stephen S. Lash is Chairman Emeritus of Christie’s Americas, having served as Chairman of Christie’s Americas for nearly a decade. He has been with Christie’s since 1976, when he was a member of the original team responsible for launching the auction house’s first galleries in the United States on Park Avenue in New York City. Prior to joining Christie’s, Mr. Lash was a Vice President at S.G. Warburg & Co. Mr. Lash has served as President and Trustee of the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University. He is also a former Trustee of the Museum of the City of New York, the Park Avenue Armory, and the New York Landmarks Conservancy, where he served as Chairman. He now chairs the Maritime Visiting Committee of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, where he serves as an Overseer. He is current Co-Chair of the American Friends of the Israel Museum, for which he served as President for six years, and has been a Board member of the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission and the Preservation League of New York State. Mr. Lash received a B.A. from Yale and an M.B.A. from Columbia.
Thursday, 24th October
5.30 Reception
6.00 Lecture
Harrison Room
Members: $10.
Non-Members: $20.
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