# @villalapietra on Instagram

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- **Posted:** 2025-04-29T13:13:55.000+00:00

## Caption

✨Our new exhibition "Harold Acton, Oxford, and the Twenties" is officially open! ✨On April 23rd, curators Francesca Baldry, Lisa Cesarani, and student curators Emilee Baack, Sophia Meyer, and Tech Nix hosted the public and the NYU community at Villa La Pietra for a presentation on the exhibition highlighting on Harold Acton during his years at Oxford University in the 1920s. 

The exhibition is split into five sections: Fashion and Dance as Social Expression, Traveling With the Oxford Railway Club, The Hypocrites Club at Oxford, Harold Acton and the Salon: Art and Literature between Florence and Paris, and lastly, Harold in Oxford, an extension of last semester’s exhibit, "Growing Up at the Villa: The Adventures of the Acton Boys (1904-1920)". 

📸🌸Set-up of the Fashion and Dance section displaying a 1925 Pink Sequined Flapper Dress attributed to the Callot Soeurs 

🦋"When I read about the nineteen-twenties to-day, I feel I might be reading about butterflies, and that the contemporary critic has turned entomologist. […] The butterfly never settles on any flower for long.” - Harold Acton, Memoirs of an Aesthete (1948), p. 201.

You can visit the exhibition only through reservation until July 4th.
villa.lapietra@nyu.edu
Also available online at https://lapietra.nyu.edu/project/harold-acton-oxford-and-the-twenties/  

Photos by Jack Power, Claudia Beyer and Sophia Meyer
Textile Conservators: Claudia Beyer & Costanza Perrona Da Zara
Installation: Stefano Pasolini
Photo Archivist: Pamela Ferrari

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#1920s #Acton #VillalaPietra #Twentiesfashion #Flappers #Oxford #Railwayclub #Literature #Hypocritesclub #Art #Museum #Artcollection

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## Credits

| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jack Power | @jackpowerphotography | https://gondola.cc/jackpowerphotography | Photographer |
| Jack Power | @jackpowerphotography | https://gondola.cc/jackpowerphotography | Photo Editor |

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art, twentiesfashion, hypocritesclub, flappers, villalapietra, acton, oxford, literature, railwayclub, museum, artcollection, 1920s

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