Upcoming Events
2025 Events
While we understand that New Yorkers have busy schedules making it difficult to commit far in advance, we remind our guests that our dining establishments require advanced guest counts. The NAC, for example, requires a firm estimate by the Wednesday before the following week’s event to insure adequate purchasing and staffing, with the final count due on Friday morning before Tuesday’s dinner, otherwise a late fee is incurred.
For that reason, our member rate expires on Friday at noon. Guest and late registrations are still gladly accepted through the day of the event for those whose schedules open up at the last minute.
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Thursday, March 20, 2025, 7:00 pm | Dinner with Nicholas D. Lowry | National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, New York, NY 10003
Nicholas D. Lowry is President and Principal Auctioneer of Swann Auction Galleries, and is also the Director of Swann’s Vintage Posters Department. Nicholas joined Swann—the family business—in 1995.
In 2001 Nicholas was named President of Swann. As one of the world’s foremost authorities on vintage posters, he has spent nearly 25 years serving regularly as poster appraiser on the PBS television show Antiques Roadshow.
He currently sits on the Board of Governors of The National Arts Club, in New York City, for whom he is also Chairman of the Fine Arts Committee and is a member of the Advisory Board of New York’s Poster House Museum where he was also a founding patron. In addition, Nicholas is actively involved with many worthy causes, and in a non pandemic era presides over as many as 20 charity auctions a year.
Nicholas holds a BA in History from Cornell University, 1990.
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Tuesday, April 15, 2025, 6:00 – 7:30 pm | Après-work Apéro | Mino Brasserie | 225 West 12th Street (at Greenwich Avenue) New York, NY 10011
Members and friends join for wine and hors d’oeuvres. Feel free to practice your possibly fractured French.
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Tuesday, April 22, 2025, 7:00 pm | Dinner with Elaine Sciolino | Café Un, Deux, Trois | 123 West 44th Street, New York, NY 10036
Elaine Sciolino, a contributing writer for The New York Times in Paris, is the author of “Adventures in the Louvre: How to Fall in Love with the World’s Greatest Museum,” to be published in April 2025. She returns to the club after her fascinating and entertaining talk in December 2019 on her book “THE SEINE: The River That Made Paris.”
We look forward to welcoming her back.
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Tentative Calendar of Meetings 2025 (As of 2/19/25)
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Date |
Event |
Speaker/Topic |
Venue |
| Jan 7 | Dinner | Annual Meeting: State of the Club and Guest Speaker Author Lila Azam Langaneh | NAC |
| Feb 11 | Dinner | Dinner | Chez Francis |
| Mar 20 | Dinner |
Speaker Nicolas Lowry, CEO of Swann Gallery & expert on Antique Roadshow NB: Thursday |
NAC |
| April 15 | Apéro | Après-work Apéro 6-7:30 & Jérôme Lohez 9/11 Scholarship Awards | Mino Brasserie |
| April 22 | Dinner | April in Paris, Author Elaine Sciolino | Cafè Un, Deux, Trois |
| May 13 | Reception | New Members 2024 & 2025, Armagnac Tasting | Château Village |
| June 3 | Dinner | Speaker Daniel Obst, American Field Service | NAC |
| June 8 | Brunch | Roland Garros Men’s Finals | Monte’s Trattoria |
| July 14 | Fête | Bastille Day |
Madison Ave (btw 59 & 63rd) & Central Park |
| July 15 | Sail | post-Bastille Cruise |
Classic Harbor Line 62 Chelsea Piers |
| Sept 16 | Dinner | Speaker Domitille Marchal Lemoine, Executive Director of Friends of Fondation de France | TBD |
| Oct 7 | Magique | Dîner à la magique! | Monte’s Trattoria |
| Oct 14 | Dinner | Speaker TBA | TBA |
| Nov 11 | Cocktail | Soirée d’automne 80th Anniversary | TBA |
| Dec 9 | Dinner | Program TBA | TBD |
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