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Antenna Audio Tour

Making It New: The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy

June 1–September 14, 2008
The Marguerite and Robert Hoffman Galleries

Experience the extraordinary lives of Sara and Gerald Murphy and the couple’s influence on a remarkable constellation of creative individuals that flourished in Paris and the French Riviera in the 1920s and 1930s. Friends of Cole Porter, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Pablo Picasso, the Murphys strove to make something beautiful of their lives through “living well,” creating art, and encouraging their artistic friends. The result was some of the most noteworthy literature, music, theater, and art of the last century. 

The audio tour will guide you through the surviving works by Gerald Murphy, art by friends like Pablo Picasso and Fernand Léger, and photos, letters, and other ephemera. You’ll visit the beach parties, Paris salons, avant-garde art exhibitions, and theatrical events where modern art and literature were forged. The audio tour was produced by Antenna Audio for the Dallas Museum of Art and features commentary by Dallas Museum of Art Director Bonnie Pitman; Deborah Rothschild, organizing curator and former curator at the Williams College Museum of Art; and Amanda Vaill, author of Everyone Was So Young: Gerald and Sara Murphy, A Lost Generation Love Story.

The audio guide is available for purchase for $4.

PREVIEW EXCERPTS FROM THE AUDIO TOUR! You can download highlights of the Making It New audio tour to your MP3 player or listen to them on your computer.

Stop 200 :: Introduction

Stop 203 :: Cocktail, Gerald Murphy

Stop 204 :: Watch, Gerald Murphy

Stop 207 :: Razor, Gerald Murphy

Stop 209 :: Theater

Stop 212 :: Still Life with Bottles, Georges Braque

Stop 218 :: Antibes Mad Beach Party

Stop 222 :: Why Dallas

Download select audio tour tracks from iTunes (note, Windows users must open iTunes before clicking the link below.)

Download from iTunes

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Gerald and Sara Murphy on La Garoupe beach, Antibes, Summer 1926. Gerald and Sara Murphy Papers, Yale Collection of American Literature, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. © Estate of Honoria Murphy Donnelly/Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY