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Coffee Break-John Freeman Gill


Coffee Break Chat
John Freeman Gill
in conversation with Gina Pollara about his book The Gargoyle Hunters

Coffee Break ChatLive on Zoom (Tomorrow!) Brought to you by CTA Architects P.C.

Wednesday, May 27 at 3:45 pmZoom Meeting ID: 834 9846 0434*Email info@nypap.org in advance to receive the password before event. 

Join us as we look at the backstory behind this novel by John Freeman Gill – including the real-life figure of Ivan Karp, who managed to salvage a trove of architectural remnants from Beaux Arts buildings around New York City with his renegade group The Anonymous Arts Recovery Society (some persist behind the Brooklyn Museum to this day). While Gill currently serves as Streetscapes columnist at The New York Times, this chat will focus exclusively on the book and the archival research that went into its creation as a historically-informed literary work.

Zoom ID: 834 9846 0434*Email info@nypap.org prior to the event to obtain passcode.

Preview for the Coffee Break Chat: Our database entry on Ivan Karp