Upcoming Event: Talk on Luminism with Peter Layne Arguimbau

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Upcoming Event:

Luminism: The Last Movement of the Renaissance

with artist and gallery owner Peter Layne Arguimbau

Wednesday, March 18th, 2020, at 7:30 PM

Perrot Memorial Library

Join us in learning about luminism, a style of 19th-century American landscape painting that focused on light and atmosphere, with local artist and gallery owner Peter Layne Arguimbau. The term "luminism" was coined in 1954 by John Baur, director of the Whitney Museum of American Art, who noticed a unique quality of light in four painters of the Hudson River School: Martin Johnson Heade, Sanford Robinson Gifford, Fitz Henry Lane, and John Frederick Kennett. Arguimbau will trace the roots of the luminist movement across history, from Rembrandt and other Dutch masters to the 20th century. This lecture is part of Arguimbau's upcoming book, Finding Rembrandt's Lost Secret: The Origin of Renaissance Art. 

Upcoming Event: Book Discussion on Machines Like Me

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Upcoming Event:
Book Discussion on Machines Like Me, by Ian McEwan
Facilitated by Diane Tunick Morello of Greenwich Pen Women
Monday, March 16th, 2020 at 7 PM
Perrot Memorial Library

Meet Adam. Out of the box he is an artificially intelligent man, bought for amusement by Charlie, a drifter, and used as a lure for Charlie's crush, Miranda, a liar. Adam grows from machine infancy to intellectual superiority as he ingests research, information, and theories of business, economies, and global history. What he does not understand--and what becomes the crux of his new life--are the emotional entanglements, irrational thinking, and ethical shortcuts that define human beings. As Charlie and Miranda begin to use Adam for their own purposes, we as readers wonder how human beings and humanoids will thrive. In Machines Like Me, author Ian McEwan (Atonement) weaves the noble views of Adam into the messy lives of Charlie and Miranda. To serve his purpose, the author plots out the tale on an alternative timeline in which Alan Turning--the computer genius who introduced artificial intelligence--did not commit suicide in 1954 and is instead alive in 1982 to witness what happens when humans by origin and humans by programming collide.

Copies of the book are available for checkout at the Circulation Desk. Seating for the event is limited!

Snow Date is Monday, April 6th, 2020

Upcoming Event: Sheri Koones on her new book, Downsize: Living Large in a Small House

Upcoming Event: 

Sheri Koones on her new book, Downsize: Living Large in a Small House

Wednesday, March 4th, 2020 at 7:30 PM

Perrot Memorial Library

Perrot welcomes back best-selling author and Greenwich resident Sheri Koones with a talk about her newest book. Downsize: Living Large in a Small House shows how small houses can be comfortable, practical, energy-efficient, and beautiful. Koones is an expert on small houses, energy efficiency, and prefabrication, whose previous books include Prefabulous, Prefabulous Small Houses, Prefabulous + Sustainable, Prefabulous + Almost Off the Grid, and Prefabulous World.