February 04
2:30pm–2:50pm
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Join us at MOBIA for a twenty-minute Spotlight Tour highlighting Meière’s Magnificat window. This piece was created as a commission for St. Bartholomew’s Church and depicts Mary’s joyful response for being chosen to bear God’s Son. FREE with museum admission!
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February 16
6:30pm–7:30pm
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Completed in 1929, Temple Emanu-El is one of the largest synagogues in the world with a sanctuary almost 150 feet long and over 100 feet high. It was designed and built by the era’s leading craftspeople and has a style that blends Moorish and Romanesque design. Hildreth Meière was commissioned to design mosaics for the eight-story-high arch of the main sanctuary and the ark on the Eastern wall.
Temple Administrator Mark Heutlinger and Senior Curator Elka Deitsch, of the Herbert & Eileen Bernard Museum at Temple Emanu-El, will lead a tour of the Main Sanctuary and discuss the mosaics of Hildreth Meière.
Co-sponsered by MOBIA and Temple Emanu-El.
Enter at One East 65th Street.
FREE. Registration required. Click Register at left or call MOBIA at 212.408.1251.
 Third Thursday Event: on the third Thursday of each month, MOBIA offers free admission from 6:00-8:00 pm.
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March 01
6:30pm–6:50pm
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Surviving copies of soldiers’ bibles bear testimony to their use and tell compelling stories of hardship and faith. This twenty-minute Spotlight Tour focuses on soldiers’ bibles from the Civil War, the first war during which copies of the New Testament and the entire Bible were distributed to American soldiers. FREE with museum admission!
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March 03
2:30pm–2:50pm
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The twenty-minute Spotlight Tour will focus on the dome of the twelve apostles, the most important of many designs created for the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis. FREE with museum admission!
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March 15
6:30pm–7:30pm
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Catherine Coleman Brawer, curator of Walls Speak: The Narrative art of Hildreth Meière will lead an in-depth examination of the artist’s liturgical commissions on view at MOBIA.
FREE. Registration required. Click Register at left or call MOBIA at 212.408.1251.
Third Thursday event: on the third Thursday of each month, MOBIA offers free admission from 6:00-8:00 pm.
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March 31
1:00pm–2:00pm
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St. Bartholomew’s is a registered New York City Landmark that features beautiful mosaics in 24 karat gold created by Hildreth Meière. Join Becca Earley Richards, lead docent and author of Holy Light: The Iconography and History of the Stained Glass of St. Bartholomew’s Church in New York City, for a guided tour of this city gem.
This tour is co-sponored by MOBIA and St. Bartholomew’s Church. St. Bart’s is located at 325 Park Avenue at the corner of 51st Street.
Registration required. Click Register at left or call MOBIA at 212. 408.1251.
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April 05
7:30pm–8:50pm
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Join us at MOBIA for a twenty-minute Spotlight Tour on this commission of niche mosaics depicting scenes following Christ’s Resurrection for the National Cathedral.
FREE with museum admission!
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April 07
2:30pm–2:50pm
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This twenty-minute Spotlight Tour focuses on the three panels Meière painted for the altarpiece of St. Mark’s Church at the request of Bertram Goodhue, one of the foremost liturgical architects in America. FREE with museum admission!
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April 19
7:30pm–8:30pm
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Louise Meière Dunn, Hildreth Meière’s daughter and the President of the International Hildreth Meière Association, Inc., will present an illustrated lecture that traces Meière’s secular commissions. This is a rare opportunity to gain an intimiate portrait of the artist as only a daughter can paint!
FREE. Registration required. Click Register at left or call MOBIA at 212.408.1251.
Third Thursday event: on the third Thursday of every month, MOBIA offers free admission from 6:00-8:00 pm.
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April 28
2:30pm–3:30pm
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This exhibition brings together a large number of “Soldiers’ Bibles” that document individual lives within the tragic context of war. Dr. Diana Lupas, Curator of the Rare Bible Collection @ MOBIA, leads this free tour of the exhibition.
FREE with museum admission. Registration required. Click Register at left or call MOBIA at 212.408.1251.
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May 03
6:30pm–6:50pm
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This twenty minute Spotlight Tour focuses on the altarpiece to St. John the Evangelist and represented scenes from the life of Jesus, created for St. John’s Grace Episcopal Church in Buffalo, NY. FREE with museum admission!
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May 05
2:30pm–2:50pm
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This Spotlight tour brings together the Triptych for the Armed Services and WW II Editions of the New Testament from the exhibition, Walls Speak. FREE with museum admission!
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May 17
6:30pm–6:50pm
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This twenty-minute Spotlight Tour focuses on surviving Scriptures from the Civil War, when pocket copies of the New Testament or the entire Bible were first regularly distributed to both Union and Confederate soldiers.
FREE with museum admission!
Third Thursday event: on the third Thursday of every month, MOBIA offers free admission from 6:00-8:00 pm.
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Museum of Biblical Art
1865 Broadway at 61st Street
New York, NY 10023
Phone: (212) 408-1500
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