Events July 2021

Marine Midland Building, Gordon Bunshaft, 1967, 140 Broadway, NYC. Photo: Samantha Marsden
LocalVirtual Tour

Wall Street Modern

July 25, 2021

This Municipal Art Society virtual tour will examine highlights of Modern architecture and public art in Manhattan’s Financial District created from the 1960s through the 1980s. It will begin with two International Style masterworks by Pritzker Prize winner Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), One Chase Plaza, now 28 Liberty Street, and the former Marine Midland Bank Building. In addition to other Modern buildings designed by SOM, James Ingo Freed, and Emery Roth & Sons, it will visit Postmodern works from former modernists Kevin Roche and Philip Johnson. The tour will also include sculpture of Noguchi, Nevelson, Dubuffet and di Suvero. Explore Modernism and more where New York began with John Arbuckle, President of DOCOMOMO US/New York Tri-State.

Sunday July 25, 11:00 am

Registration coming soon. Visit Mas.org for details.