HDI Exhibition Tip: “Anything Goes: The Jazz Age Featuring Original Cover Art for The Great Gatsby”, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY

We had the best time venturing outside the City and to Roslyn Harbor on Long Island to visit the Nassau County Museum of Art to see the current exhibition: “Anything Goes:  The Jazz Age  Featuring Original Cover Art for The Great Gatsby”. We absolutely loved the exhibit and can only highly recommend the show. Hurry, it closes on July 8th. If you are not in the area or can’t make it, enjoy our favorite photos below.

“Wild, hot, roaring, and free, the Jazz Age is immediately identified as the decadent heyday of such heroes as Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, e.e. cummings, Langston Hughes and other rebels who would “live it up to write it down” in New York, Paris and the Riviera. The gang’s all here in one multimedia exhibition that combines art, literature and music. Explore the masterpieces and experiments of a generation that changed the history of Modernism. The giants among the artists of the Twenties were Picasso, Léger, Miro, Gaston Lachaise, Stuart Davis, Florine Stettheimer and Tamara de Lempicka. Composers such as Gershwin and Porter were taking syncopation and the blues to new heights, while the Ballets Russes broke all dance conventions. The literature of the era included such masterworks as James Joyce’s Ulysses and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby, which was begun in nearby Great Neck and inspired in part by a painting by Francis Cugat that is one of the highlights of the show.” – nassaumuseum.org