Anything Goes: The Jazz Age

The wild times and brilliant work of a tightly connected group of musicians, artists and writers during the 1920s continues to cast a fascinating spell on the imagination. The lives, loves and artistic passions of the expatriate community in Paris, the Gold Coast and Harlem-among them Picasso, Léger, Chanel, Hemingway, the Fitzgeralds, Joyce, Gershwin, Cole Porter and Gertrude Stein-created the legendary Jazz Age, surely history's most remarkable convergence of talent and creativity in one era. Based on his book, Free as Gods, Museum Director Dr. Charles A. Riley II organizes an exhibition that evokes this era that produced The Great Gatsby(which had its start in Great Neck, as a manuscript), this unparalleled an epoch in which the arts flourished as never before.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.