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Purchase a copy of Ina Garten’s newly-released memoir, Be Ready When the Luck Happens with a signed book plate. Books with bookplates are limited.*

In a live moderated conversation with co-writer Deborah Davis, Ina Garten will discuss and elaborate on the themes of her new memoir, Be Ready When the Luck Happens —from childhood to becoming an author of bestselling cookbooks and a celebrated television host.

Ina Garten will present an intimate, entertaining, and inspiring account of her remarkable journey. Ina’s gift is to make everything look easy, yet all her accomplishments have been the result of hard work, audacious choices, and exquisite attention to detail. In her unmistakable voice (no one tells a story like Ina), she brings her past and her process to life in a high-spirited and no-holds-barred memoir that chronicles decades of personal challenges, adventures (and misadventures) and unexpected career twists, all delivered with her signature combination of playfulness and purpose.  

From a difficult childhood to meeting the love of her life, Jeffrey, and marrying him while still in college, from a boring bureaucratic job in Washington, DC to answering an ad for a specialty food store in the Hamptons, from the owner of one Barefoot Contessa shop to author of bestselling cookbooks and celebrated television host, Ina has blazed her own trail and, in the meantime, taught millions of people how to cook and entertain. Now, she invites them to come closer to experience her story in vivid detail and to share the important life lessons she learned along the way: do what you love because if you love it, you’ll be really good at it, swing for the fences, and always Be Ready When the Luck Happens. 

Please join Stan Herman, author of the widely acclaimed memoir Uncross Your Legs: A Life in Fashion for a thoughtful, engaging and fun-filled conversation with longtime friend and fellow fashion icon Fern Mallis.

On any given day, more people will be “wearing” Stan Herman than any other American fashion designer. Having recently celebrated his 96^th birthday, he is the most acclaimed uniform designer of our time – and that’s just part of his remarkable, well-lived and well-loved life. Herman reflects on his background as a Brooklyn born, Passaic, NJ-raised young man, his Army service in Europe during the Korean War and his burgeoning fashion career a young freelance designer in the fashion hothouse of the Garment District. Later, he served for 16 years as head of the Council of Fashion Designers of America, where he was instrumental in bringing New York Fashion Week to Bryant Park – all the while continuing his thriving corporate uniform and, popular leisurewear design businesses.

The book is also a deeply moving and insightful memoir, following personal triumphs and tragedies, including his nearly 40-year relationship with novelist Gene Horowitz, who tragically suffered a heart attack and passed away in 1992. Together they lived their lives in the shadow of the AIDS crisis that decimated their personal and professional worlds. They also shared a beloved poodle named “Mozart,” who helped fill the void when Herman found himself suddenly alone. Herman writes with good humor and direct compassion, recalling the cruel and casual racism he witnessed in the military, his focus on animal rights within the fashion industry – as well as encountering the indignities and joys of his nearly 10 decades. Learn the history of the man whose vision has dramatically helped forge and transform American style and fashion.

Following the event, copies of Uncross Your Legs: A Life in Fashion will be available for purchase and signing.

 This program will take place in Guild Hall’s Hilarie and Mitchell Morgan Theater.

During this exclusive listening party, you’ll be among the first to experience Anderson’s latest work, Amelia. The album features collaborations with the renowned Czech orchestra Filharmonie Brno, conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, as well as contributions from acclaimed artists like Anohni, Marc Ribot, Rob Moose, and others.

After the full album preview, Laurie Anderson will conduct an intimate conversation and Q&A, during which she will share insights into the creative process behind Amelia, her inspirations, and how she wove together historical narrative and musical innovation to honor Earhart’s daring spirit. This event offers a chance to dive deep into Amelia’s world and explore the boundaries of music, history, and imagination.

Seating is general admission.

Please join mixed-media artist Diane Tuft and painter April Gornik for a conversation moderated by Andy Battaglia, Executive Editor of ARTnews and Art in America, to discuss climate change and the environment in connection with their artistic practices.

The event coincides with the recent release of Tuft’s latest monograph, Entropy, which focuses on water and its radical transformation under the unrelenting pressures of climate change.

A book signing with Diane Tuft will follow the discussion. The book can be purchased after the program for $80 plus tax.

ABOUT ENTROPY

A photographic exploration detailing the poetry and fragility of nature amidst the tragedy of climate change.

Since 1998, mixed-media artist Diane Tuft has traveled the world recording the environmental factors shaping Earth’s landscape. Entropy is Tuft’s fourth monograph capturing the sublime and awe-inspiring beauty of nature as it is radically transformed under the unrelenting pressures of climate change.

The exquisite collection of photographs provides a captivating glimpse into the rapidly changing landscapes of our world. Tuft focuses specifically on water as its subject, contrasting global sea-level rise with water depletion in Utah’s Great Salt Lake. Compelling essays by prominent figures in art and science contributed by Bonnie K. Baxter, Ph.D., Professor of Biology and Director of Great Salt Lake Institute at Westminster University, and twentieth-century art historian Stacey Epstein, Ph.D. add depth and insight to Tuft’s work and its significance in the context of climate change.

Weaving passages of haiku with her beguiling photographs, Tuft’s newest monograph is packaged in a luxe-cloth-wrapped case screenprinted with her artwork Journey’s End featuring the Great Salt Lake. An extraordinary book, Entropy is a dramatic call to arms inspiring collective action for the critical preservation of nature.