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AMA Art Lovers Book Club

Third Tuesdays | 6 PM

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Season 6 of the AMA Art Lovers Book Club continues Nov 19, 2024, with The Life & Art of Athos Menaboni by Barbara C. Taylor, Athos Menaboni.

RSVP HERE.

The bimonthly club meets at 6 pm in the Willson Auditorium at the Albany Museum of Art.

The meetings are free and open to everyone. There is no formal membership, just a love for art, books and good conversation.

Registration is free for everyone and helps us ensure adequate seating is ready when you arrive. You may also contact AMA Director of Education and Public Programming Annie Vanoteghem by calling 229.439.8400.
 
ABOUT THE BOOK
 
The Life & Art of Athos Menaboni by Barbara C Taylor and Athos Menaboni is a biography of the artist widely regarded as one of the world’s finest illustrators and painters of bird life.

Unlike Audubon, Menaboni, whose career spanned 60 years, worked mostly with live bird studies. His work showed his love for the more than 150 American birds he painted in their natural surroundings, capturing the vibrant colors and details of nature.

Menaboni explored a wide range of media, including painting on canvas, silk, glass, masonite, wood panels, gesso-covered board, and mirrors. He also experimented with different textures, using tiles, eggshells, watercolor, Italian glass, and pencil in his work.

Menaboni shunned the spotlight of publicity and fame. Thus, he is largely unknown today, despite the excellence and size of his body of work.

THE 2024-25 READING LIST

AMA Art Lovers Book Club meetings are set for every two months on the third Tuesday so that club members have plenty of time to obtain and read the books before each session. 
 
Here is the complete reading list for 2024-25. Books were selected through an online vote by book club participants:
  • July 16: Stealing Rembrandts: The Untold Stories of Notorious Art Heists by Anthony M. Amore.
  • September 17: The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath..
  • November 19: The Life & Art of Athos Menaboni by Barbara C Taylor, Athos Menaboni. RSVP HERE.
  • January 21: Chasing Me to My Grave: An Artist’s Memoir of the Jim Crow South by Winfred Rembert. (Registration will open soon.)
  • March 18: The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism by Ross King. (Registration will open soon.)
  • May 20: The Vanishing Velázquez: A 19th Century Bookseller’s Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece by Laura Cumming. (Registration will open soon.)