Thursday, March 7
7 pm
Location: Barrow’s Intense Tasting Room, 86 34th St, Brooklyn, NY 11232 (Map here)

This lecture is FREE to all. Please RSVP with your email address at checkout.

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Join us tonight as we welcome Andrew Garn for a celebration of Brooklyn’s historic Green-Wood Cemetery. Through Garn’s stunning and somber photographs, as well as rarely seen archival ephemera, this New York City treasure will be brought to life as a garden in the city, a repository for memory, and a place for repose, inspiration, and delight.

Founded in 1838 and now a National Historic Landmark, Green-Wood was one of the first rural cemeteries in America. By the early 1860s, it attracted 500,000 visitors a year, second only to Niagara Falls as the nation’s greatest tourist attraction. Green-Wood’s popularity helped inspire the creation of public parks, including New York City’s Central and Prospect Parks. It has 478 spectacular acres of hills, valleys, glacial ponds, and paths, throughout which exists one of the largest outdoor collections of nineteenth- and twentieth-century statuary and mausoleums. Its 570,000 permanent residents include Leonard Bernstein, Boss Tweed, Jean-Michel Basquiat, and Louis Comfort Tiffany. It continues to be one of New York City’s great wonders.

Brooklyn Arcadia takes a deep dive, with 15 chapters on all facets of Green-Wood Cemetery, including over 400 new photographs by Mr. Garn, historic images, blueprints and informative essays, the book is an insightful survey of Green-Wood's storied past and riveting present.

At once a celebration and an invitation, Brooklyn Arcadia ranges from a consideration of the natural landscape in which it is set to a close look at its architecture, statuary, symbols, typography, birds and fauna, trees, and typography.

A native New Yorker, Andrew Garn is a fine art and editorial photographer and writer whose work has been widely exhibited and has appeared in the pages of the The New York Times Magazine, New York, National Geographic, Audubon Magazine, Fortune, Forbes, Interview, Vogue, Der Spiegel, French Photo, Elle Décor, and Bloomberg LP. He has completed twelve previous books, including New York Art Deco: Birds, Beasts & Blooms (Rizzoli), The New York Pigeon (PowerHouse), The Houseboat Book (Rizzoli), Bethlehem Steel (Princeton Architectural Press), Exit to Tomorrow (Universe), and Subway Style (New York Transit Museum).