The 15th Annual Award Luncheon

Weekend of Events

During the weekend of the 15th Annual Award Luncheon ArtTable organized a weekend of events to celebrate the luncheon beginning with a membership meeting and reception on Thursday, May 8th; Dutch Treat Topic Dinners the evening of the 9th; and a Saturday of events in New York.

Thursday, May 8th 5:00- 6:00PM

Vishakha Desai and Kath Halbreich
in Conversation at MoMA

Member's meeting and conversation with the 2008 Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts Awardee, Vishakha N. Desai and Kathy Halbreich, Associate Director, MoMA
Museum of Modern Art's Titus Theater II
Followed by a Member's Reception at Gering & Lopez Gallery, 730 Fifth Ave., from 6:30 – 8:00pm

Friday, May 9th
11:00AM - 2:00PM
ArtTable's Award Luncheon for Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts
Mandarin Oriental New York

7:00 - 9:00 PM
Dutch Treat Topic Dinners
ArtTable members from across the country hosted topic dinners around the city!

Topic Dinners included:
Don't Neglect Your Assets: Managing a Personal Collection of Any Size
Alvah Beander, Appraiser, Melanin Art Appraisals, LLC, WashingtonDC

Multiple Cultural Capitals: NYC, London, Paris, Dubai, Shanghai...Will Any One City Ever Be the #1 Art City?
Cathie Behrend, Adjunct Professor, Fashion Institute of Technology, NY

Public Art Now:Contemporary Considerations of Site and Community
Lisa Gold, Public Relations and Marketing Director, The Drawing Center, NY, & Jennifer Rissler, Director of Academic Administration/Visiting Faculty, San Francisco Art Institute, CA

Contemporary Art Outside the Centers
Carol Cole Levin, Artist, Curator, Collector and Trustee, & Nancy Doll, Director, Weatherspoon Art Museum, NC, and ArtTable Board member
(with guest speaker John Pollard, Director/Owner ADA Gallery & Kirsten Kindler, artists, Richmond, VA)

Art Gossip/The Art of Gossip
Joy Glidden, Director of Louisiana ArtWorks, New Orleans, & guest co-host Lilly Wei, Independent Curator, Art Critic and Essayist

Reinventing Curatorial Careers in the New Global Arena
Margaret Mathews-Berenson, Independent Curator, 2008 Luncheon Co-chair and Board member & co-host Charlotta Kotik, Independent Curator; Curator Emerita, Brooklyn Museum

The Art Market, Women Artists and Collectors
Ferris Olin, Director, Institute for Women and Art at Rutgers, NJ, & Kristen Accola, Independent Curator and Dealer

Feminism, the Environment & Public Art 
Joyce Pomeroy Schwartz, Director, Works of Art for Public Spaces, NY, & guest co-host Catherine Morris, independent curator, adjunct curator of Contemporary Art at Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, OK, and appraiser of modern and contemporary art.

Saturday, May 10th
10:00AM - 6:00PM (Events Start Times Varied)
The New York Chapter hosted ArtTable members with a day of events!

• A morning in the Lower East Side with a tour of the NewMuseum
• A breakfast and tour of the Whitney Biennial
• A presentation at the Guggenheim and visit to
  Cai Gou-Qiang's I Want to Believe
• An afternoon at Fisher Landau Center for the Arts!