Society of the Four Arts in Palm Beach: Schedule of main events

Art Exhibitions

All exhibits will be held in the Esther B. O’Keeffe Gallery Building

* “Hard Bodies Contemporary Japanese Lacquer Sculpture,'' Dec. 3-Jan. 22. Andreas Marks' related lecture is at 11 a.m. Jan. 9.

* “Contemplating Character Portrait Drawings & Oil Sketches from Jacques-Louis David to Lucien Freud,” Feb. 4-April 2. Robert Flynn Johnson's related lecture is at 11 a.m. Feb. 27

* “Eduard Angeli Cities on Water,” Feb. 4-April 2

* “2022 Benjamin Mkapa African Wildlife Photography Awards,” April 26-June 4.

Esther B. O’Keeffe Speakers Series

Presentations are at 3 p.m. in the Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium

* Jan. 3: Leonard Lauder, “Life with Estée”

* Jan. 10 10: David Petraeus, “American Leadership in the World”

* Jan. 17: John Hays, “Emanuel Leutze’s Washington Crossing the Delaware: The Apotheosis of George Washington in the Art Market”

* Jan. 24: John Mauceri, “Music on the Silver Screen: A Brief History”

* Jan. 31: Eliza Manningham-Buller, “Terror, Security, & Freedom”

* Feb. 7: Deepak Malhotra, “Reexamining Chamberlain’s Negotiations with Hitler: Ten Essential Lessons for Strategy, Leadership, and Dealmaking”

* Feb. 14: Peter Zeihan, “Living After the Lightning”

* Feb. 21: Jesse Watters, “Watters’ World”

* Feb. 28: Placido Domingo, “A Life in Music and Song”

* March 7: Ken Griffin, “The Future of Finance”

* March 14: Tal Zaks, Vision, Collaboration, and Communication: Lessons Learned from Developing Moderna’s COVID Vaccine”

* March 21: Laurence Des Cars, “A Vision for Art: The Next Century at the Louvre”

* March 28: Sally Mann, “One Story”

Live Performances

All performances are in the Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium

* “A Chanticleer Christmas”: 7:30 p.m. Nov. 30

* Canadian Brass: 7:30 p.m. Dec. 7

* Emanuel Ax, piano: 3 p.m. Jan. 8

* Calidore String Quartet: 3 p.m. Jan. 15

* Paul Huang, violin, and Anne-Marie McDermott, piano: 7:30 p.m. Jan. 18

* The Romeros Guitar Quartet: 3 p.m. Jan. 22

* Emerson String Quartet: 3 p.m. Jan. 29

* “Sing and Swing: Our American Songbook” featuring Bria Skonberg and Benny Benack III and an All Star Jazz at Lincoln Center band: 7:30 p.m. Feb. 1

* Lucas and Arthur Jussen, piano: 3 p.m. Feb. 12

* Miró Quartet with David, Shifrin, clarinet, “Rendezvous with Benny”: 7:30 p.m. Feb. 22

* “Schubert Revealed” A festival featuring three performances organized by Wu Han with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center

Schubert Revealed I: 6:30 p.m. March 5

Schubert Revealed II: 7:30 p.m. March 8

Schubert Revealed III: 3 p.m. March 12

* Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, “Voices of the Americas”: 7:30 p.m. March 15

* The Royal National Ballet, Direct from Tbilisi, The Democratic Republic of Georgia, “Fire of Georgia”: 7:30 p.m. March 22

* Winter Journey: The film Winter Journey will be shown at 5:30 p.m. on March 28 with a live performance at 7:30 p.m. March 29

* Sitkovetsky Trio: 3 p.m. April 2

* Juno Pohjonen, piano: 7:30 p.m. April 12

* Joe Mullins & The Radio Ramblers: 3 p.m. April 16

* An Afternoon of Gilbert & Sullivan: Pirates of Penzance and Other Favorites: 3 p.m. April 16

National Theatre Live

All held in the Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium

* “The Book of Dust-La Belle Sauvage” (previously recorded): 2 p.m. Jan. 7

* “Henry V” (previously recorded): 2 p.m. Jan. 28

* “Jack Absolute Flies Again” (previously recorded): 2 p.m. Feb. 26

* “Straight Line Crazy” (previously recorded): 2 p.m. March 11

* “Much Ado About Nothing” (previously recorded): 2 p.m. March 25

Metropolitan Opera: Live in HD

All held in the Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium

* Gaetano Donizetti’s “Lucia di Lammermoor” (previously recorded): 1 p.m. Dec. 3

* Kevin Puts, Libretto by Greg Pierce “The Hours”: 1 p.m. Dec. 10

* Umberto Giordano’s “Fedora”: 1 p.m. Jan. 14

* Brett Dean, libretto by Matthew Jocelyn “Hamlet” (previously recorded): 1 p.m. Jan. 21

* Giacomo Puccini’s “Turandot” (previously recorded): 1 p.m. Feb. 11

* Richard Wagner’s “Lohengrin”: noon March 18

* Giuseppe Verdi’s “Don Carlos” (previously recorded): Noon April 1

* Richard Strauss’ “Der Rosenkavalier” (previously recorded): Noon April 22

* Luigi Cherubini’s “Medea” (previously recorded): 1 p.m. April 29

Special HD presentation

In the Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium

* “The Nutcracker” (previously recorded), Ballet Company of the National Opera of Ukraine: 2 p.m. Dec. 17

Great Art on Screen

All held in the Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium, unless noted

* “Tutankhamun: The Last Exhibition”: 2 p.m. Nov. 20

* “Maverick Modigliani”: 2 p.m. Dec. 11

* “Botticelli: Florence and The Medici”: 2 p.m. March 19

* “Napoleon: In the Name of Art”: 2 p.m. March 26

* “Pompeii: Sin City”: 11 a.m. April 15, Fitz Eugene Dixon Education Building

Film Series

All held in the Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium

* 1917: 2 and 5:30 p.m. Nov. 18

* Genius: 2 and 5:30 p.m. Nov. 18

* The Black Stallion (Family Friendly): 2 and 5:30 p.m. Dec. 16

* The Keeper: 2 and 5:30 p.m. Jan. 6

* Burnt: 2 and 5:30 p.m. Jan. 13

* Memoirs of a Geisha:  2 and 5:30 p.m. Jan. 20

* The Lost Leonardo: 5:30 p.m. Jan. 27

* Breach: 2 and 5:30 p.m. Feb. 10

* The Exception: 2 and 5:30 p.m. Feb. 24

* The 12th Man: 2 and 5:30 p.m. March 10

* The Call of the Wild: 2 and 5:30 p.m. March 17

* Falling for Figaro: 2 and 5:30 p.m. March 24

* Project Paradise Film Fund short documentaries: 5:30 p.m. March 31

* Sundance Film Festival documentary: 5:30 p.m. April 21

* Argo: 5:30 p.m. April 28

* The Dig: 5:30 p.m. Mary 5

* Downfall: The Case Against Boeing: 5:30 p.m. May 19

Florida Voices Author Series

Held in the Dixon Education Building, unless noted

* The War Nurse with Tracy Enerson Wood: 1:30 p.m. Oct. 19

* The Wilder Heart of Florida with Leslie Kemp Poole: 1:30 p.m. Nov. 16

* Florida’s Healing Waters: Gilded Age Mineral Springs, Seaside Resorts, and Health Spas with Rick Kilby: 1:30 p.m. Dec. 7

* The Sound of the Sea with Cynthia Barnett: 1:30 p.m. Jan. 11

* Reef Road with Deborah Goodrich Royce: 1:30 p.m. Jan. 25, King Library

* Florida Sculptors and Their Work: 1880-2020 with Deborah C. Pollack: 1:30 p.m. Feb. 8

* Battle for the Bog Top: P.T. Barnum, James Bailey, John Ringling, and the Death-Defying Saga of the American Circus with Les Standiford: 1:30 p.m. March 8

* First Victim with Debbie Babitt: 1:30 p.m. April 12

Campus on the Lake Education Programs

All held in the Dixon Education Building unless noted

* Mac Stone with Luca Martinez, “Chasing Wild”: 3 p.m. Nov. 14

* Victoria Hagan, “Live Now: Creative Process in Interior Design”: 3 p.m. Nov. 17

* Lee Pollock, “Churchill at the Movies”: 3 p.m. Nov. 30

* Hank Willis Thomas, “Another Justice: By Any Medium Necessary”: 3 p.m. Dec. 5

* Amy Stanley, A Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and her World: 11 a.m. Dec. 12

* José H. Leal,  Amazing Florida Shells and Mollusks: 3 p.m. Dec. 12

* René Silvan, Frank Lloyd Wright: The Dramatic Life of America’s Most Controversial and Creative Architect: 3 p.m. Dec. 19

* Jeffrey Spier, Nubia: Jewels of Ancient Sudan: 3 p.m. Jan. 9

* John Tschirch, Every Place Has a Tale to Tell: 3 p.m. Jan. 12

* Marie-France Pochna, Christian Dior Destiny: 3 p.m. Jan. 23

* Frank McCourt, In Conversation: 5:30 p.m. Jan. 24

* Monica Buckle, Native American and Indigenous Art: Contextualizing its Past and Present: 11 a.m. Jan. 26

* Andrew Roberts, The Last King of America: The Misunderstood Reign of George III: 5:30 p.m. Jan. 26

* Nicholas Fox Weber, Anni and Josef Albers: Equal and Unequal in Art and Love: 11 a.m. Jan. 30

* Alexander Newley, Divining the Human: 3 p.m. Jan. 30

* Peter B. deMenocal, An Ocean of Solutions: Meeting the Climate Challenge Essentials: 5:30 p.m. Jan. 30

* Nicholas Fox Weber, Eminent Moderns: Some Tenacious Patrons of Modernism in America: 11 a.m. Feb. 1

* Tim Greer, Why Knock Down the Oldest Building on Fifth Avenue?: 11 a.m. Feb. 2

* Kent Weeks, The Face of Ancient Egypt: 2 p.m. Feb. 3

* Peter Lacovara, Death and Burial in Ancient Egypt: noon Feb. 6

* Kent Weeks, The Valley of the Kings: Discoveries Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow: 3 p.m. Feb. 6

* Peter Lacovara, Howard Carter and Tutankhamun’s Tomb: 3 p.m. Feb. 8

* Hugo Vickers, Malice in Wonderland: Cecil Beaton - His Life and Work: 3 p.m. Feb. 27

* Lynne Olson, Empress of the Nile: The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt’s Ancient Temples from Destruction: 3 p.m. March 1

* Hugo Vickers, The Sphinx: Gladys Deacon, Duchess of Marlborough: 11 a.m. March 2

* Emmanuel Ducamp, A French King Tours the United States: 11 a.m. March 6

* Ellen Warner, The Second Half: Forty Women Reveal Life After Fifty: 3 p.m. March 6

* Bronson van Wyck, Born to Party, Forced to Work: 3 p.m. March 9

* Bob Colacello, It Just Happened: My Life and Times: 3 p.m. March 13

* Emmanuel Ducamp, Ph.D., Potsdam: The Dream World of Frederick The Great: 3 p.m. March 15

* Henri de Ligne, Discover the Castle of Beloeil, the Belgian Versailles: 3 p.m. March 20

* Sally Bedell Smith, George VI and Elizabeth: The Marriage that Saved the Monarchy: 3 p.m. March 22

* Andrea Wulf, Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self: 11 a.m. March 27

* Wolf Burchard, Inspiring Walt Disney: The Metropolitan Museum’s First Exhibition Devoted to America’s Most Influential Artist: 3 p.m. March 29

* Rudy Tanzi, Taking Control of Alzheimer’s Through Research: 3 p.m. April 4

* Robert Hewison, John Ruskin: The Argument of the Eye: 3 p.m. April 5

* Alvin Felzenberg, Harry S. Truman and the World He Left Us: 3 p.m. April 10

* Taylor Hagood, Stringbean: The Life and Murder of a Country Music Legend: 5:30 p.m. April 17

* Jonna Mendez Argo: The Movie and the True Story: 11 a.m. April 27

Campus on the Lake Master Classes

* Titian and Donatello: Two Italian Masters: Mondays at 11 a.m.

January 2: Titian, with Philip Rylands, Ph.D.

April 3: Donatello, with Giuliana Castellani Koch

* “Conversations on Style” with Steven Stolman: Wednesdays at 3 p.m.

Jan. 4: Nick Mele, “A Newport Summer”

Feb. 1: Ken Fulk, “The Movie in My Mind”

* George Bernard Shaw, with Richard Digby Day

Jan. 23 at 11 a.m.: Shaw the Man

Jan. 25 at 11 a.m.: Shaw the Plays

Jan. 25 at 3 p.m.: Screening of Pygmalion

* American Foreign Policy with Jeffrey Morton: Thursdays from 3 to 4:30 p.m.

Jan. 19: Black Sea

Feb. 2: Quad Alliance

Feb. 23: Changing Demographics

March 2: Lebanon

March 16: Outer Space

March 30: NATO

* A Survey of Southern Culture, with Taylor Hagood: Mondays from 5:30 to 7 p.m.

Jan. 23: The Antebellum South

Feb. 27: The Civil War and Postbellum South

March 20: The Modern South

April 3: The South Today

* Dante’s Divine Comedy with Joseph Luzzi

Purgatory

Feb. 7, 14, and 21

Paradiso

March 7, 14, and 21

Saturday, December 3

Gingerbread

Saturday, December 10

JANUARY 2023

Seasons

Saturday, January 7

Bears

Saturday, January 14

This article originally appeared on Palm Beach Daily News: Four Arts 2022-23 schedule