Stop &#038; Chat: Gatsby at 100

Learn more about the exhibition &#8220;<a href="https://new.artsmia.org/exhibition/gatsby-at-100">Gatsby at 100</a>&#8221; and explore how F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby shaped—and was shaped by—the visual art of his time. Guides are stationed in galleries 315 and 316 between 11 a.m. and noon through March 2026.

“Gatsby at 100” explores how F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel The Great Gatsby shaped—and was shaped by—the visual art of his time. This exhibition brings together works from Mia’s collection that embody the decadence, excess, and social upheaval of Fitzgerald’s most famous novel, highlighting paintings, books, and works on paper that are rarely on view. Like Fitzgerald, artists such as Oskar Kokoschka, Fernand Léger, and Henri Matisse, as well as regional artists like Wanda Gág and Clement Haupers, endeavored to capture the contradictions of the Jazz Age, a term coined by Fitzgerald himself.
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To mark the 100th anniversary of the publication of The Great Gatsby, The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library is convening a variety of programs that invite us to revisit the book and consider how its themes apply today.
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