Enjoy coffee, a lively talk, and a related docent-led tour during this book club on Gabrielle Selz's Unstill Life: A Daughter’s Memoir of Art and Love in the Age of Abstraction (available at The Museum Store). RSVP: 619-696-1941.

About the book: In 1958, soon after Gabrielle Selz was born, she, her parents, and her sister moved to New York, where her father, Peter Selz, would begin his job as the chief curator of painting and sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art. What followed was a whirlwind childhood spent among art and artists in the heyday of Abstract Expressionism. Gabrielle grew up in a home full of the most celebrated artists of the day: Rothko, de Kooning, Tinguely, Giacometti, and Christo, among others.

Unstill Life is a daughter’s memoir of the art world and a larger-than-life father known as Mr. Modern Art. Selz offers a unique window into the glamour and destruction of the times: the gallery openings, wild parties, and affairs that defined one of the most celebrated periods in American art history.