From Frank Gehry to Julian Schnabel to Tim Gunn – 92Y is chatting with giants from the worlds of art, design and fashion this fall, and you're invited. Whether you're interested in Marc Newson's cool industrial designs, Anselm Kiefer's brooding paintings, Maira Kalman's whimsical cartoons or Diane von Furstenberg's quintessential wraparound dress, they have got a talk that will expand your understanding and satisfy your visual appetite. And if you're interested in more than talking, they offer art tours (geared to painters, jewelry-makers or potters) and master classes with visiting artists as well.

Thu, Sep 16, 8:15 pm, $29 - Dialogues with Design Legends | MARC NEWSON

If you're Marc Newson, industrial design means funky, futuristic shapes and bright colors, chairs that look like folded corrugated cardboard; a green dish rack lined with what look like plastic matches; swooping lamps; cool, Qantas Airline interiors and the gleaming Lockheed Lounge chair. Time magazine says he is one of the 100 most important people who shape our lives. Come let him shape yours as he talks with DANIELLA OHAD SMITH, the curator of their design talks series.

Mon, Oct 4, 8:15 pm, $29 - Dialogues with Design Legends | SANTIAGO CALATRAVA with PAUL GOLDBERGER

Calatrava's structures almost fly – they swoop and soar through the air rather than piercing it. He has made a name for himself around the world, but his first New York building is only going up now – the WTC Transportation Hub. If you missed his set designs for the spring New York City Ballet season, come see the man and his work as he talks with New Yorker architecture critic Goldberger.

Wed, Oct 13, 8 pm, $29 - Dialogues with Design Legends | FRANK GEHRY with PAUL GOLDBERGER

Perhaps the best-known architect working today talks with the New Yorker's architecture critic.

Thu, Oct 28, 8:15 pm, $29 - Dialogues with Design Legends | VICTORIA HAGAN with HOLLY BRUBACH

Hagan designs for the Architectural Digest crowd, but also for Starwood Resorts and Hotels and Target. Find out what this leading interior designer brings to each of her projects. She talks with Brubach, former style editor at The New York Times.

Tue, Nov 2, 8 pm, $29 - Art in Context with Sir Norman Rosenthal | ANSELM KIEFER

One of the most important artists of the last 40 years, Kiefer has tackled nothing less than German history and mythology, war, religion and love in his paintings, which frequently use glass, straw, dirt, sand and other materials along with paint and canvas. A few days before his new exhibition opens at Gagosian Gallery, the painter talks with Sir Norman, the former Secretary of Exhibitions at London's Royal Academy of Arts.

Tue, Nov 9, 8:15 pm, $29 - JEWISH COLLECTORS, NAZI ART THEFT AND THE QUEST FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE

Art was also a victim of the Holocaust. The beautiful collections of a number of Jewish art lovers were stolen by the Nazis and have been dispersed across the world since the war's end. Author MELISSA MÜLLER, art critic AMEI WALLACH and RONALD LAUDER, who founded the Commission for Art Recovery, tell how the heirs of the original owners are trying to recover stolen art.

Thu, Nov 11, 8 pm, $29 - Art in Context with Sir Norman Rosenthal | JULIAN SCHNABEL

The painter and movie director (The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Basquiat) talks with the former Secretary of Exhibitions at London's Royal Academy of Arts. Schnabel's Miral, a film about Israel and Palestine, will have opened a few days before our talk.

Sun, Nov 14, 7:30 pm, $29 - TIM GUNN with BUDD MISHKIN

The apostle of "Make it work" is every bit as charming in person as he is on television.

Sun, Nov 21, 7:30 pm, $29 - GLORIA VANDERBILT WITH WENDY GOODMAN

The woman who keeps "Vanderbilt" a name to be reckoned with, and not simply a relic of the city's Gilded Age, talks with her biographer.

Mon, Nov 29, 8:15 pm, $29 - ROZ CHAST, AL JAFFEE and ROBERT MANKOFF: THE CARTOONIST CHRONICLES

Chast is the New Yorker cartoonist whose images are often rich in detail (a store in the background of one street scene named "Skirt Bucket"). Jaffee has contributed hundreds of cartoons to MAD magazine. Mankoff is The New Yorker's cartoon editor. How do they do what they do?

Thu, Dec 2, 8:15 pm, $29 - LYNDA BARRY AND MAIRA KALMAN: WORDS AND PICTURES

Most kids draw and write, and then stop as they get older. Why? Two cartoonists talk about how they never stopped using words and pictures together.

Thu, Jan 13, 8:15 pm, $29 - Captains of Industry | DIANE VON FURSTENBERG

She made her splash with her iconic 1972 wrap dress. Since then, she's built DVF into a global luxury brand that encompasses everything from shoes to watches to rugs. How does she stay at the top of a fickle and demanding business?

MASTER CLASSES AND VISITING ARTISTS

Fri, Sep 24, 10 am-4 pm, 2 sessions, $265

MIA HEBIB: WOOD VENEER AND STERLING JEWELRY

Learn to use wood veneer to modernize and elevate simple jewelry designs. Hebib has shown her work at the Houston Center for Contemporary Craft and the Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, among other institutions. Her jewelry has also been featured in magazines, including Lucky, Contemporary Jewelry and Z-magazine.

Fri & Sun, Oct 1 & 3, 10 am-4 pm, 2 sessions, $265

BETTINA SPECKNER: JEWELRY AND THE GARDEN

Learn to create jewelry that incorporates natural elements and savor the links between designing a garden and designing jewelry. Speckner's work is in London's Royal College of Art, the Jewelry-museum Pforzheim, Chicago's Museum of Art and design and the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, among other venues. She won the prestigious Danner Prize in 1998.

Fri & Sun, Oct 15, 17, 22 and 24, 10 am-4 pm, 4 sessions, $455

BARBARA BECK: WEAVING WITH METAL

Use copper, brass and aluminum sheet and wire to execute samples of flat and textured weaves, rectangular and non-rectangular weaves and three dimensional forms. Explore color, pattern, texture and scale. Beck's jewelry is in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the Museum of the Gemological Institute of America. She has won the American Gem Trade Association Spectrum Award, the Women's Jewelry Association Award for Excellence in Design and the Saul Bell Design Award.

Sun, Jan 9, 10 am-4 pm, 1 session, $185

MAX GOODMAN: FLOCKED JEWELRY

Flocking uses paint on a variety of surfaces to create a dense, rich, fuzzy texture. Learn to use a simple pressurized air application and study stenciling techniques, troubleshooting and safety. Goodman has her own line of jewelry, Moxy Metals, and teaches jewelry and painting.

Tue &Wed, Jan 18 & 19, 9:30 am-3:30 pm, 2 sessions, $275

CHINA PAINTING with KURT WEISER

Kurt Weiser shows you how to exploit the gleaming smoothness of porcelain and the rich colors of overglaze enamels in this special workshop, and gives tips on making best use of the shape of a ceramics piece. Weiser is the Regents' Professor of Art at Arizona State University and his work can be found in the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and the National Museum of History in Taiwan, among other institutions.

Mon & Tue, Jan 24 & 25, 9:30 am-3:30 pm, 2 sessions, $275

CERAMIC TOOLS with MICHAEL SHERRILL

Master ceramicist Michael Sherrill has long made his own tools, which in turn has expanded what he can do with clay. In this workshop, he demonstrates a variety of techniques for creating pottery and sculpture tools using affordable materials and objects. Sherrill is the creator of the Mudtools line of ceramics tools and his work is included in the collections of the Mint Museum of Craft and Design, the Smithsonian Museum of American Craft and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

Mon-fri, Jan 24-28, 9:30 am-4 pm, 5 sessions, $550

MASTER CLASS IN DRAWING, WATERCOLOR AND PAINTING with WILLIAM BAILEY

Contemporary realist painter William Bailey offers a five-day intensive where students work in charcoal, pencil, oil, acrylic or watercolor. Bailey is known for his precisely rendered, luminous still life paintings and portrait drawings. His work can be found in many museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, Boston's Museum of Fine Arts and Washington's Hirshhorn Museum.

Mon-fri, Jan 24-28, 10 am-4 pm, 5 sessions, $550

Jewelry Artist in Residence | ADAM PAXON: LAMINATED ACRYLIC FOR JEWELRY

Through a variety of techniques, participants explore the color potential of sheet acrylic, with each generating her own color palette. Paxon has exhibited and taught internationally. He won Munich's Hofmann prize in 2002 and the Jerwood Applied Arts Prize in 2007.

ART TOURS with 92ND STREET Y

Sat-tue, Oct 2-12

CERAMIC WORKSHOP IN TUSCANY ITALY

Create and fire work in the soda-firing workshop of La Meridiana, the International Center for Ceramic Art, in the Tuscan town of Certaldo. In addition to a week of classes and studio work, enjoy wine and chocolate tastings, cooking demonstrations and side trips to Florence and Siena. A unique opportunity. Call the 92Y Art Center at 212.415.5565 for itinerary and application – space is limited.

Fri-mon, Oct 8-11

FALL PAINTING WEEKEND IN THE CATSKILL MOUNTAINS

American painters have long found inspiration in the Catskills, and you will too, surrounded by the splendid fall landscape. We'll visit the Straus Center, a former country estate boasting hiking trails, meadows, ponds, cascading waterfalls and renowned trout streams, located in the pristine forest at the base of Slide Mountain. Three nights' accommodation, exclusive use of the inn, eight full meals, painting instruction and artistic opportunities galore. Call the 92Y Art Center at 212.415.5565 for itinerary and application – space is limited.

Wed-sat, Jan 5-15

JEWELRY TOUR TO INDIA

Join Jonathan Wahl, the Director of the Jewelry Center; anthropologist Dana Sawyer; and goldsmith Stephani Briggs for a tour of the spectacular jewelry, decorative arts and sights of northern India. Go behind the scenes in gem cutters' workrooms, see ancient goldsmithing methods still in use and become familiar with Meenakari enameling technique in some of the most thrilling places in India: Delhi, Agra, Jaipur and Jodhpur. Call the 92Y Art Center at 212.415.5562 for more information.

Founded in 1874 by a group of visionary Jewish leaders, 92nd Street Y has grown into a wide-ranging cultural, educational and community center serving people of all ages, races, faiths and backgrounds. 92nd Street Y's mission is to enrich the lives of the over 300,000 people who visit in person each year as well as those who visit virtually, through 92Y's satellite, television, radio and Internet broadcasts. The organization offers comprehensive performing arts, film and spoken word events; courses in the humanities, the arts, personal development and Jewish culture; activities and workshops for children, teenagers and parents; and health and fitness programs for people of every age. Committed to making its programs available to everyone, 92nd Street Y awards nearly $1 million in scholarships annually and reaches out to more than 6,000 public school children through subsidized arts and science education programs. For more information, please visit www.92Y.org.

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