ArtTable is pleased to announce its collaboration
as a program partner of Prospect.1
New Orleans. We are planning Urban
Prospects, a series of three public events
during the groundbreaking opening weekend of this inaugural
international biennial. As an aspect of ArtTable’s
public service programming, our goal is to provide
a forum for discourse about current topics in the arts
relevant to both the New Orleans cultural community
and the art world at-large. The first panel, Urban
Prospects: Art in Economic Development, will
be held on Saturday, November 1, 2008 from 5:00 - 7:00p.m.
at Tulane University, and will explore the impact of
art in economic development and urban renewal. Nationally
recognized art, business, government policy and non-profit
leaders will offer perspectives on art as an economic
driver in emergent urban communities around the country.
The second public program, Urban Prospects:
Art in Community Development, to
be held on Sunday, November 2, 2008 from 2:00 – 3:30p.m.
at the New Orleans Museum of Art, will include several
New Orleans-based artists and biennial artists who
will present and discuss their community-based artworks
and practices. Following this program from 3:30 - 4:30p.m.
ArtTable and the New Orleans Museum of Art is proud
to host Urban Prospects: Vanguards an
informal dialogue between Toby Devan Lewis, ArtTable
member, collector, philanthropist, curator, and founder
of the Toby Fund, the initial funder of Prospect.1,
and Dan Cameron, Prospect.1 Director, Founding Director
of U.S. Biennial and Visual Arts Director at the Contemporary
Art Center New Orleans, who will discuss their longstanding
working relationship and how it has culminated in the
largest international biennial to be held in the U.S.
Saturday, November 1, 5:00 – 7:00pm
Location: Tulane University School of Architecture,
Richardson Memorial Building, Thomson Hall (Room 201) Urban Prospects: Art in Economic Development
Panelists:
Joy Glidden, Director, Louisiana ArtWorks
and Founding Director of DUMBO Art Center, Brooklyn, NY
Laura Steward Heon, Phillips Director,
SITE Santa Fe
Camille Russell Love, Director, Bureau
of Cultural Affairs, City of Atlanta; Board Member,
The National Black Arts Festival
Paul Morris, Founder, Armory Show
and VP of Art Shows and Events, Merchandise Mart Properties,
Inc.
Matt Petersen, President and CEO, Global
Green USA Craig Robins, President, Dacra Development,
Miami FL
Moderator: Dr. Thomas F. Reese,
Executive Director, Roger Thayer Stone Center for Latin
American Studies, Tulane University, and board member
for the Audubon Nature Institute, the Arts Council
of New Orleans, Contemporary Arts Center, National
Performance Network and the New Orleans Museum of Art
Sunday, November 2, 2:00 – 3:30
Location: New Orleans Museum of Art Urban Prospects: Art in Community Development
Panelists:
Mark Bradford, Mel Chin, Dawn Dedeaux, Jan Gilbert,
Victor Harris, Wangechi Mutu, Jana Napoli
Moderator:
Claire Tancons, Associate Curator, Prospect.1 and Contemporary Art Center, New
Orleans
Sunday, November 2, 3:30 – 4:30
Location: New Orleans Museum of Art Urban Prospects: Vanguards - Prospect.1 Director,
Founding Director of U.S. Biennial, and Visual Arts Director at Contemporary
Arts Center New Orleans, Dan Cameron,
and Toby Devan Lewis, ArtTable member,
collector, philanthropist, curator, and founder of the Toby Fund, the initial
funder of Prospect.1
ArtTable Tours New Orleans is a 5-day, 4-night trip
created to highlight and explore the New Orleans
arts community and the inaugural biennial Prospect.1
New Orleans, the largest biennial of international
contemporary art ever organized in the United States.
As an ArtTable trip participant, you will enjoy special
access to biennial sites and biennial artists,
and get an exclusive taste of the local art scene and
cuisine!
Note: This itinerary is subject to change based
on the availability of artists and venues. Venues that are biennial sites are
indicated; during our program every effort will be made to include the artists
in our visit.
Wednesday, Oct. 29 From 3:00 - 4:30pm trip participants will
check in to the four-star Renaissance
Arts Hotel. Enjoy a welcome reception
at New
Orleans Museum of Art at 5:00pm with a
tour of the Sculpture Garden with collector Sydney
Bestoff; welcome remarks by Deputy Director, Jackie
Sullivan; Assistant Director, Lisa Rotondo-McCord;
and ArtTable member and Assistant to the Director of
Special Projects at NOMA, Alice Yelen; followed by
a tour of biennial works with Curator of Contemporary
Art, Miranda Lash; a group dinner to follow.
Thursday, Oct. 30 Be the first to see the biennial! ArtTable
trip participants are scheduled for the first preview
tour with biennial director Dan Cameron
at the Contemporary
Art Center. The day will also include
visits to local artists’ studios and collectors’ homes,
and will include a group lunch. In the early evening,
Ogden Museum Assistant Director, Jan Katz, and
Chief Curator, David Houston, will give us a private
tour of the Ogden
Museum of Southern Art’s permanent
collection, special exhibitions and biennial works,
followed by reception featuring local music. Trip
participants can then attend the exclusive VIP
Prospect.1 cocktail party at the W
Hotel and/or a block party in the arts district.
Friday, Oct. 31 The day will begin with a private tour of
the McKenna
Museum of African American Art, with Director,
Shantrelle Lewis. Learn more about the featured exhibitions
from local artists Terrance Sanders and Marcus Brown
and see the biennial pieces installed at the Museum.
ArtTable has been offered an invitation for special
brunch at KK
Projects during which artists such as
Dawn Dedeaux and Mel Chin, among others who have created
installations at KK Projects, will meet us to talk
about their works. We will then tour the Ninth Ward
to see the many biennial
projects in the neighborhood including:
Sebastian Preece’s installation at L9
Center for the Arts; Wangechi Mutu’s Sarah’s
House; Nari Ward’s installation at Battle
Ground Baptist Church; Ghada Amer’s work at Common
Ground Relief; and Mark Bradford’s project at
Richard Lee Playground. Later in the day, a private
reception will take place on ArtTable member
Sarah Jane Bruce’s house boat. After a private
tour at The
Mint Museum, we will have a group dinner
on Frenchman Street. The bus will return any participants
who wish to go back to the hotel after dinner, though
ArtTable will provide a resource list of suggested
entertainment spots in the area to be enjoyed before
the Frenchman Halloween Parade begins!
Saturday, Nov. 1 Trip participants have a morning of free time
to stroll the city and attend the biennial’s
official ribbon cutting, various parades and biennial
projects – a resource list and maps will be provided.
In the afternoon, join ArtTable’s board at Newcomb
Gallery at Tulane Universityto enjoy a
wine reception with biennial artist, Shirin Neshat;
curator, Sally Main; and Gallery Director, Charles
Lovell.
Trip participants are invited to attend a panel
discussion at Tulane, “Urban
Prospects: Art in Economic Development,” planned
and organized by ArtTable in partnership with
Prospect.1. The evening will end with a private group
dinner at a local collector’s home.
Sunday, Nov. 2 The trip will conclude with a farewell brunch
and tour of Louisiana
ArtWorks with Director, Joy Glidden, and
President & CEO, Shirley Trusty Corey. While there,
we will see local artists’ open studios and biennial
pieces. At 1:00pm the bus will return trip participants
to the hotel. Participants are, however, invited to
attend the two remaining public program pieces: a
discussion with Dan Cameron and Toby Lewis, ArtTable
member and initial funder of Prospect.1 (location
TBD) from 3:00 – 4:00pm followed by “Urban
Prospects: Art in Community Development” (location
TBD) from 4:30 – 6:00pm. Note: Those who wish
to stay over Sunday evening must make their own hotel
accommodations.
ArtTable Tours Buenos Aires
ArtTable Tours Buenos Aires is a
seven day, six night international trip to the capital
of Argentina. Designed for up to 25 ArtTable members
and guests, this trip will include visits to
the studios of internationally recognized Argentine
artist, special access to important private collections,
attendance at the VIP reception of the international
art fair, ArteBA, and tours of the best galleries and
museums in the city. It will also include a guided
tour through the significant cultural, architectural
and socio-political sites that have shaped the growth
of Buenos Aires from village to megalopolis. Of course,
good food, shopping and tango will also be in the mix!
Participants will depart on evening flights to Buenos
Aires, Argentina on Monday, May 26.
Day 1:Tuesday, May
27 Participants arrive in Buenos Aires and check
in to the NH Crillón hotel;
there will be free time to allow for freshening up,
unpacking, and settling in.
The trip will begin in the late afternoon with a tour
to the studio of Marta Minujin, a
main figure of the Pop movement in Argentina during
the 60’s; followed by a visit to a private collection
(TBD). We will have a welcome dinner at the popular Cabaña
Las Lilas to taste the most delicious steaks
in the world, courtesy of the restaurant's private estancia.
Day
2:Wednesday, May 28
The day begins with a visit to the private collections
of Jorge Helft and Marion
Epinger, together offering a complete overview
of Argentinean art in the last fifty years. After visiting
the Philippe Starck-designed Hotel El Porteño,
we will have a lunch of traditional Argentine cuisine
by the warmth of the adobe mud oven at El Mercado,
the hotel’s top-notch restaurant that is inspired
by European markets and the cantinas of Buenos Aires.
Guided by a renowned historian and professor at the
University of Buenos Aires, we will be treated to a
tour of beautiful Buenos Aires, with an emphasis on
the cultural, architectural, and socio-political sites
of significance. Followed by coffee at Café Tortoni.
An Argentinean institution, this historic cafe has
served as the artistic and intellectual capital of
Buenos Aires since 1858.In the early evening, we will
attend the VIP opening of ArteBA art
fair--the top visual arts event in the country.
In the international context, ArteBA is undoubtedly
a leading referent for the Latin American art
market. Followed by dinner at the traditional
restaurant Munich.
Day
3: Thursday, May 29 The day begins with a free morning to discover
Buenos Aires at your leisure and have lunch on your
own.
In the afternoon, we will visit the renowned private
collection of Juan & Patricia Vergez,
showcasing local artists like Jorge Macchi and Guillermo
Kuitca, and as well as such international stars as
Olafur Eliasson. We will then be led on an informative
guided tour of MALBA (Museum of Latin
American Art, Buenos Aires); the museum director Marcelo
Pacheco will receive the group. The day will continue
with artist studio visits, including the internationally
renowned Nicola Constantino.
Dinner and remainder of the evening will be free.
Day 4: Friday, May 30
We will visit the collection of Mauro Herlitzka,
a key figure in, and champion of, the Argentine art
movement and President of the ArteBa Foundation. Then
we will visit the Braga Menendez Gallery, which
represents a young generation of artists and be met
by the director Florencia. Next we will head to the
fashionable neighborhood of Palermo where we will have
lunch at Olsen and have some free
shopping time in the hip stores of Palermo
Viejo.
In the early evening, we will return to the ArteBA fair
to get another chance to see more of the art. Followed
by dinner at Piegari, considered one
of the best Italian restaurants in town.
Day 5: Saturday, May
31 We will visit the Ruth Benzacar Gallery,
meet with its directors,Orly Benzacar & Solana
Molina Viamonte, and converse with artists Jorge Macchi,
Eduardo Costa, Pablo Siquier, Graciela Hasper and Marcelo
Pombo. We
will thenstop for lunch at Prima Fila Italian
restaurant located in the Design Center in
the Recoleta Park. After lunch we will tour the Recoleta Cemetery,
the final resting place of many of Argentina's wealthiest
and most famous including Evita Peron.
Then we will go to the Museo Nacional de Bellas
Artes, Argentina's premier fine arts museum
with 32 galleries and 11,000 individual works. The
day will end with a visit to the private collection
of Ignacio Liprandi with
works by renowned Argentinean and international artists.
Day 6: Sunday, June 1
Gaucho Day - Optional (see pricing structure below): You
may wish to spend a day outside the city of Buenos
Aires in a traditional Argentine Estancia in the town
of San Antonio de Areco. Considered the birthplace
of the gaucho, the region has a destinct rural identity
and traditional customs, and has preserved the image
of the gaucho and his time. There we will enjoy a typical
barbecue to taste the famed Argentine beef and wines
of the Pampas, accompanied with folk music and dance,
and artisan handicrafts.
Or
This can be a free day on your own
to enjoy the city. We suggest a visit to the San Telmo antique
fair and flea market.
The group will reconvene for a very special farewell
meal together, where we will savor dinner and watch
a spectacular tango show at Señor Tango.
Day 7: Monday, June
2 On our final day, guests will check out of
the hotel (leaving luggage at the hotel) and will be
given tours of several artists’ studios including Flavia
Da Rin and Marina de Caro. The
remainder of the afternoon and lunch are free to enjoy
on your own. You will return to the hotel and retrieve
luggage and make your way to the airport. Flights are
typically in the late afternoon and early evening.
2006/2007
Program Highlights
ArtTable Tours Phoenix and Scottsdale, AZ
Thursday, February 28 – Sunday, March
2, 2008
Phoenix Art Museum
ArtTable Tours Phoenix-Scottsdale is an extended-weekend
travel program organized by the ArtTable national office
and hosted by members in the region including ArtTable
founder, Lila Harnett. The trip, designed for up to
25 members and guests, is an opportunity to visit Arizona’s
dynamic variety of museums, galleries, corporate and
private collections. It will include special tours
and receptions organized by members in the region with
leaders from the area’s unique art community
including directors, curators, artists and collectors.
From Thursday, February 28 - Sunday, March
2, 2008 ArtTable members from the area will
guide trip participants through the arts and cultural
landscape of Phoenix and Scottsdale. This four day,
three night trip is filled with private tours and
receptions, visits to major art institutions and
prominent collections, and an abundance of local
flavor!
ASU Art Museum
Guests will check in at The Clarendon Hotel on
Thursday, and be welcomed at a wine reception at the Victoria
Boyce Gallery, followed by dinner and a guided
tour of the Scottsdale Art Walk. The
next three days will include:
A visit and private tour of
the Nelson Fine Arts Center and Ceramics
Research Center at Arizona State
University Art Museum
A visit and private tour of
the Heard Museum and visit to its 50th
Annual Indian Market
A visit and private tour of
the Phoenix Art Museum and its recent
$50 million expansion by renowned architects Tod
Williams and Billie Tsien
Taliesin West
A visit and private tour of SMoCA
(Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art)
Visits to private collections
including those of Sylvie and Pascal de Sarthe and Jim
Bialac
A private tour of the corporation
collections of Zelma Basha Salmeri Gallery
of Western American and Native American Art, Pinnacle
West Capital Corporation, and Snell & Wilmer law
firm
Buffet dinner at the private
collection of ArtTable founder, Lila Harnett
A visit and private tour of
the Heard North Museum
Special tour of Frank
Lloyd Wright’s Taliesin West
Pacific Northwest Trip: Seattle Area Focus (June
13-17, 2007)
ArtTable Tours the Seattle Area is
a five-day travel program produced by ArtTable, the
national organization for professional women in the
visual arts, and organized by ArtTable’s Northwest
Alliance. Designed for a total of 30 members and guests,
the tour is an opportunity to visit the region’s
outstanding array of new and revitalized museums, galleries,
artist studios, and private collections, many of which
have thrived under the leadership of women.
The goals of ArtTable Tours
the Seattle Areaare:
to present the region’s unique cultural
voice to the broad, national membership that
is ArtTable; to bring members together for purposes
of professional development and networking; and
to launch a mentorship program for the NW Alliance. Donations
to ArtTable that are included in the trip price
will support this project while also contributing
to general operations of ArtTable.
The trip is structured around three days of guided
touring throughout Seattle and surrounding cities,
and two days of self-guided and optional walking tours
by local host members. A dynamic variety of venues
and sights are on the itinerary, most of which include
special tours by directors and curators. The tour opens
and closes with festive receptions and the opportunity
for guests to meet leaders from the Seattle art community.
TRIP HIGHLIGHTS
Wednesday, June 13
This is a travel day and arrival times in Seattle
will vary. From noon till 9 pm a Northwest Alliance
ArtTable member will welcome you at the Pioneer Square
Hotel. After checking in, members may take a self-guided
tour of Seattle or join an ArtTable member for a walking
tour. At 7 pm join us for a welcome reception at a
member’s gallery in Pioneer Square, right in
the middle of a neighborhood of artists’ lofts
and studios. You are free to have dinner wherever you
like, however we suggest either La Paloma, a wonderful,
inexpensive Turkish restaurant, or Al Bocollino, a
deluxe Italian restaurant. Both are on the same block
as the hotel.
Thursday, June 14
We tour on foot and by free city bus to see how Seattle
has made art and architecture a priority. Stop one
is the Rem Koolhaas-designed library with unique, site-specific
installations by many artists including Gary Hill,
Ann Hamilton, and Tony Oursler. Next tour the new Brad
Cloepfil-designed Seattle Art Museum (SAM) featuring
an enormous public space and completely new and fully
remodeled galleries. Meet key administrative staff
of SAM, all of whom are women!
Next we board a free city bus through Belltown to
the Olympic Sculpture Park (OSP) of SAM, a free, brilliantly
designed nine-acre park. A special docent tour is provided.
After lunch in the Pavilion at OSP, enjoy some free
time touring the park and waterfront or shopping! Next
take a tour bus through eclectic waterfront areas of
Seattle, Queen Ann, Fremont, Wallingford, and to the
University of Washington with the Henry Art Gallery
as our destination. After a museum tour with ArtTable
member curators, we proceed to historic Ballard and
the fascinating and creative home, studio, and gardens
of visual artist and collector Ginny Ruffner for dinner.
Friday, June 15
The day begins with a quick drive past the Experience
Music Project designed by Frank Gehry. Next is the
waterside Ship Canal studio of collaborative sculptors
Flora Mace and Joey Kirkpatrick. From there we go to
Dale Chihuly's working studio on Lake Union, the Boathouse,
to watch glass blowers, look at his swimming pool and
collections, and eat lunch.
After lunch there’s time for a quick rest until
we venture across Lake Washington to see the new Bellevue
Arts Museum (BAM) designed by Stephen Holl. Director
Michael Monroe and Curator Stefano Catalani talk about
the collection and the reincarnation of BAM.
After the museum, collectors Jon and Mary Shirley
host us for a cocktail reception. The Shirleys are
among the top collectors in the U.S. as well as major
benefactors of every museum and many artists in the
Seattle area. Their amazing waterfront home is really
a private George Suyama-designed museum with a condo
attached. At the reception trip participants have the
opportunity to meet many Northwest Alliance ArtTable
members. Upon returning to the hotel, the evening is
free.
Saturday, June 16
We venture south of Seattle to the reinvigorated downtown
of Tacoma, WA, stopping first at the Tacoma Art Museum,
where ArtTable member Stephanie Stebich, director of
the museum, gives us a private tour. From there we
walk over the Chihuly Bridge to the Museum of Glass
(MOG) where ArtTable member Susan Warner, education
director of MOG, shows us around. Next there’s
time to walk around the waterfront and pop into the
well respected William Traver Gallery in a renovated
19th century warehouse. You are free to have lunch
at any of the small, gourmet restaurants in walking
distance of the museums.
On the way back to the hotel we stop at Western Bridge,
a private art space. Operating out of a Roy McMakin-designed
and renovated 10,000 square-foot warehouse in Seattle’s
industrial district, Western Bridge presents the current
state of art making through thematic group shows drawn
from the True Collection. Western Bridge has focused
exhibitions on contemporary artists, and newly commissioned
works in film, video, as well as more traditional media.
Bill and Ruth True, founders of the True collection,
and their curators join us.
We take you back to the Pioneer Square Hotel for a
brief rest and the tour resumes with a visit to a Seattle
collector, who has a fine collection of contemporary
regional artists. From there we take over one of our
favorite restaurants in Seattle for a private dinner
and networking evening.
Sunday, June 17
Trip participants can check out at their leisure.
If your schedule permits, go on a self-guided tour
of Seattle and enjoy the great galleries, shops, museums,
aquariums, ferries, bike paths, and markets which are
all open on Sunday.
The itinerary is subject to change as necessary. The
final itinerary will be provided before departure.
Included: 4 nights at the Pioneer Square Hotel including
breakfast; 2 lunches; 2 dinners; many receptions, visits
to see and meet with private collectors, artists, curators,
and directors; entrance fees to all museums; bus transportation;
tips for meals, drivers, and hosts.
Documenta (July 6-14, 2007)
Every 10 years, two major international art events
coincide within the heart of Germany: documenta, also
known as the 100 day contemporary art museum, and sculpture
projects Münster, the world's most extreme urban
sculpture show.
ArtTable, Inc., announces a July 2007 trip to documenta
12, sculpture projects Münster and West Germany's
fertile art land around Düsseldorf and Cologne.
The trip runs from Friday, July 6th to Saturday, July
14th, 2007.
TRIP HIGHLIGHTS
Friday, July 6th:
Meet Roger Buergel, artistic director of documenta
2007, for an introduction to round 12 of this seismograph
of contemporary art. Afterwards, Alard von Rohr-Demmin,
your art expert throughout the trip, gives you an
orientation tour of the exhibition, which explores
the meaning of globalization for art in an international
extravaganza intended to thrill and chill alike.
Enjoy a Welcome Dinner this evening.
Saturday, July 7th:
Today will be spent charting the newest trends and
positions at documenta 12.
Sunday, July 8th:
Spend another day exploring documenta 12 with meetings
and program visits. Today, Ruth Noack, co-curator
of the exhibition, joins the group for a stimulating
debate of the leitmotifs that guided her exploration
of 'humanity's common horizons'.
Monday, July 9th:
Take a day trip to sculpture projects Münster
07.
Every 10 years since 1977, this international exhibition
has pushed the sphere of public art into new and unmapped
territory. For 2007, Prof. Dr. Kaspar König from
the Ludwig Museum Cologne (father of NY art dealer
Leo König) is turning this historic university
town into a forum of ‘confrontation with civil
urbanism’.
Enjoy a private walking tour of the 35 sculptures
installed in a resonant variety of public spaces from
Münster’s Romanesque cathedral and Renaissance
town hall to a 1940s sports arena and a derelict caravan
site.
Among the 35 contributors are Francis Alys, Guy Ben-Ner,
Martin Boyce, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Isa Genzken, Dominique
Gonzalez-Foerster, Mike Kelley, Suchan Kinoshita, Bruce
Naumann, Manfred Pernice, Susan Philipsz, Martha Rosler,
Thomas Schütte, Rosemarie Trockel and Mark Wallinger.
Tuesday, July 10th:
Travel by bus to Cologne. On the way, visit Germany’s
furniture hub Herford, where Jan Hoet, director of
documenta 11, runs an award-winning Museum of Art and
Design (MARTa). The building is Frank Gehry’s
finest in Germany, a swirling brick and steel concoction
evoking southern Baroque. Jan Hoet’s highly provocative
shows explode the barrier between high art and applied
design.
Wednesday, July 11th:
An overview tour of Cologne should begin with a descent
into the ancient Roman city that lies beneath its
post-war facades, including a governor’s palace,
defence towers, baths and Germany's oldest surviving
Jewish bath.
Visit Cologne’s towering landmark, the Dome
of St Peter and St Mary. After a tour of its awe-inspiring
interior, Prof. Klaus Hardering, Director of Restoration,
takes you via a lift up the outside scaffolding for
an unprecedented close-up view of its Gothic architecture,
from flying buttresses and gargoyles to resident ferns,
birches, lizards and falcons.
Visit the Ludwig Museum of Modern Art, where its director,
Prof. Kaspar König, introduces this first-class
collection of 20th century art covering all major positions.
Studio and Gallery Visits:
The Rhineland is Germany’s second contemporary
art hub alongside Berlin with prominent galleries and
artists. Some of the acclaimed artists living
and working in Cologne include: Kai Althoff, Cosima
von Bonin, Georg Herold, Candida Höfer, Michael
Krebber, Marcel Odenbach, Andreas Schulze and Rosemarie
Trockel. Specific studio visits will be arranged closer
to the date.
End the day with a reception at the Taschen Publishing
House crammed with art works from Benedikt Taschen’s
personal collection (Martin Kipperberger, Albert Oehlen,
Mike Kelley, Jeff Koons, Christopher Wool and many
others).
Thursday, July 12th:
Spend the day visiting two wonderful art institutions:
Stiftung Insel Hombroich & Langen Foundation.
Art collector Karl-Heinrich Müller returned an
island in the river Erft to its preindustrial state,
erected 11 beautifully simple brick pavilions and created
an art environment that hovers somewhere between Giverny
and Marfa. Brancusi, Chillida, Jean Arp and Mark di
Suvero have never looked so good!
The Langen Foundation is Karl-Heinrich Müller’s
second art project, a disused NATO army base, whose
centerpiece is a sublimely floating museum by Tadao
Ando (Modern Art Museum Fort Worth).
Upon your return to Cologne, enjoy drinks at the home
of Mr. and Ms. Christian Dumont-Schütte, whose
private collection features works by Cosima von Bonin,
Andreas Schulze, Rosemarie Trockel and Franz West.
Friday, July 13th:
Enjoy a day trip to Düsseldorf and Krefeld.
En route to Düsseldorf, visit Turner Prize-winning
Tony Cragg at his large studio in Wuppertal.
First stop in Düsseldorf is K21, one of Germany’s
edgiest museums of contemporary art housed in a spectacularly
refitted old Parliament building.
After a welcome by the museum’s director, Dr.
Julian Heynen, enjoy a private tour of the collection
ranging from Juan Munoz, Paul Mc Carthy, Robert Gober
and Jeff Wall to Katharina Fritsch, Thomas Ruff, Thomas
Schütte and Reinhard Mucha.
Studio visits: With Joseph Beuys, Gerhard Richter
and Bernd and Hilla Becher as former professors, it
comes as no surprise that the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
has turned out more winners than any other art school
in Germany. Many of its former students are settled
in the area, among them Katharina Fritsch, Andreas
Gursky, Reinhard Mucha, Thomas Ruff, Dirk Skreber,
Thomas Struth and Paloma Varga Weisz. Specific studio
visits will be determined closer to the date.
After lunch, take a stroll along Düsseldorf’s
port along the Rhine. Over the last 5 years, Germany’s
fashion, computer and media industries have turned
the waterfront into a showcase for contemporary architecture
with sensational contributions by Frank Gehry, Will
Alsop, David Chipperfield, Claude Vasconi and others.
On your way back to Cologne, pause in Krefeld for
a visit to two beautiful villas designed in the 1920s
by Mies van der Rohe. Both Haus Esters and Haus Lange
are now museums hosting contemporary art exhibitions.
Recent solo shows featured Carl Andre, Robert Longo,
Candida Höfer and Martin Boyce.
Saturday, July 14th:
Departures
This is a selected list of highlights and subject
to change as necessary. Final itinerary provided
before departure.
Included: 4 nights at Movenpick Hotel
Kassel and 4 nights at Marriott Hotel Cologne with
daily breakfasts; 5 lunches, 4 dinners; Art speakers
and specialists; Private collection visits and artist
encounters; entrance fees to all museums and events
listed in itinerary; Air conditioned motor coach; tips
for meals, driver, and guides.
2005/2006
Program Highlights
Mexico City 2006
ArtTable will travel to Mexico City to experience
the reinvention of the city as the Latin American capital
of contemporary art, architecture and culture! We
will engage in conversation with arts colleagues and
experience this dynamic city together– Thursday,
April 20 through Tuesday, April 25, 2006.
On the heels of our trip is the third edition of MACO,
the Mexican contemporary art fair, which will be held
April 26-30, 2006. This year the fair will include
over 55 international art galleries as well as new
galleries with less than five years of experience working
with emerging artists. Parallel evening events
and parties are planned in conjunction with the fair.
Art Table’s Mexico City Steering Committee is
considering the following activities and visits. We
will also be scheduling a number of private meetings
with museum directors, artists and collectors.
TRIP HIGHLIGHTS
Thursday, 20th:
We will start the evening at 6pm with a margarita at
the Blue Lounge of the Camino Real Hotel before departing
for a welcome dinner at the home of collector and
curator Haydee Rovirosa.
Friday, 21st:
We will start the day with a walking tour and orientation
on the rich history of the Historic Center of Mexico
City. The buildings of the historic center,
which stand on the site of the former Aztec city,
date mainly from the colonial and post-independence
eras. We will be received by the directors
and curators at the following institutions: Museum
Mural Diego Rivera where we will see the famous mural “Dream
of a Sunday Afternoon in the Alameda Central”;
a private guided tour of the National Museum of Art
(MUNAL); Antiguo Colegio San Ildefonso, the meeting
place of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo; and the Palacio
de Bellas Artes, arguably the most beautiful building
in the historic center.
Saturday, 22nd:
We are considering a trip to the Pyramids of Teotihuacan
followed by a visit to the Jumex Collection. Mexican
art collector and Jumex heir Eugenio Lopez stores
some 1,200 works of his international contemporary
collection in the warehouse of one of Mexico’s
biggest corporations. In the afternoon we will
visit the Rufino Tamayo museum in Chapultepec park,
which houses Oaxacan artist Rufino Tamayo’s
work as well as exhibiting some of the best contemporary
programming in Mexico City. Tonight we will
dine in the hip and modern Casa Lamm in the Roma
neighborhood, which also houses a cultural art center.
Sunday, 23rd:
Today we will be visiting with Mexico City’s
top galleries and artists. Our day begins with
a visit to the contemporary art gallery Galeria Kurimanzutto
with owners Jose Kuri and Monica Manzutto followed
by a visit to OMR Gallery where we will be received
by gallery directors Patricia Ortiz Monasterio, Jaime
Riestra and Pamela Echeverria followed by studio visits
to artists represented by the galleries. In the
afternoon we will visit Garash Gallery, an emerging
contemporary gallery representing young artists. Director
Rodrigo Espinosa will welcome our group.
Monday, 24th:
Today we travel some 50 miles south of Mexico City
to visit Cuernavaca, the cosmopolitan, charming "city
of the eternal spring," with its marvelous climate,
flowers, swimming spots and architecture. The
highlight will be visiting the Centro Cultural Muros,
which houses the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection. Over
320 works including those artists of the mid 20th
century such as Rivera, Kahlo, Siquerios, Orozco,
Tamayo, Izquierdo and 21st century such as Gabriel
Orozco, Francis Aÿs, Melanie Smith and Miguel
Calderon are exhibited in this cultural center recently
inaugurated in 2004.
Tuesday, 25th:
Our tour concludes with a special visit to one of the
most impressive collections of modern Mexican art. The
collection of Andrés Blaisten houses countless
Mexican masterpieces, which are a product of more
than 30 years of careful selection, and are displayed
throughout his beautiful home. This stunning
and comprehensive collection is a wonderful insight
into the evolution of Mexican fine arts throughout
the 20th century. Our tour will officially
end just around 1pm after visiting the Museum of
Modern Art.
ArtTable’s international trips are a great opportunity
to meet other members and get the behind the scene
(insiders) tour. Many of you will also want to stay
in Mexico City to attend the MACO art fair, which opens
on Wednesday, April 26th.
Approximately 1-3 ArtTable trips are coordinated
annually. Reservations are no longer being taken
for Mexico City. Check back for future listings
or contact
for
more information.
ArtTable attends the College Art
Association 94th Annual Conference, Boston
ARTTABLE ATTENDS THE COLLEGE ART ASSOCIATION
94TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE, BOSTON (www.collegeart.org)
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23
12:30–2:00 PM: Art Paths: Alternative Careers in the
Visual Arts
Hynes Convention Center, Third Level, Room 311
Chair: Katie Hollander, ArtTable
Judy Fox, Harvard University Art
Museums
Barbara O'Brien, Art New England
Rachel Lafo, DeCordova Museum
and Sculpture Park
Diana Caston, Fidelity Investments
5:30 - 7:00PM: ArtTable Cocktail Reception at the Mills
Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts,
during the College Art Association Annual Conference!
539 Tremont Street between Berkeley and Clarendon
Streets
Open to ALL ArtTable members
Please join ArtTable members from across the country
for a cocktail party at the Mills Gallery, Boston Center
for the Arts, in conjunction with the College Art Association
National Conference. Co-hosted by ArtTable and the
Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts.
On view will be the exhibit "After", a group
exhibition which examines the aftermath of events that
range from personal and intimate to cataclysmic and
world changing. Artists include Jake Bloomer, Anna
Broell Bresnick, Gary Duehr, Cynthia Greig & Richard
H. Smith, Andrew Johnson, Julie Levesque, Mary Magsamen & Stephan
Hillerbrand, David Politzer, Emily Puthoff, Julie
Roberts, Misa Saburi, Kimi Weart, and Jonathan
Whitehall. This exhibition is being generously sponsored
by CAA.
Welcome remarks at 6 p.m. by Mills Gallery Director, "After" curator,
and new ArtTable Member, Laura Donaldson,
as well as President of the Boston Center for the Arts, Libbie
Shufro, and ArtTable NE Regional Alliance Chair Rachel
Lafo.
Organized by Barbara O'Brien.
Arts Advocacy Day 2006
March 13-14, 2006 - ArtTable
is a pleased to be a National Co-Sponsor of Arts Advocacy
Day. Entering its nineteenth
consecutive year, Arts Advocacy Day is the only national
event designed to bring together a broad cross section
of America’s national cultural and civic organizations.
These groups will join hundreds of grassroots advocates
from across the country to underscore the importance
of developing strong public policies and appropriating
increased public funding for the arts.
Find out more! Visit Arts
Advocacy Day on the Americans for the Arts website,
for scheduling and registration information.
Additional details on ArtTable programming
will be announced shortly.
2004/2005
Program Highlights
ArtTable’s 25th
Anniversary Conference and Gala Award Dinner, April
6-9, 2005
ArtTable's 25th anniversary
conference, Looking Back- Moving Forward: 25 Years
of Women's Leadership in the Visual Arts in New
York City, celebrated the role women have played
in changing the visual arts over the past 25 years
and looked ahead at the changes to come.
The conference was open to ArtTable's
1,600 members as well as to the community-at-large,
assembling a diverse group of arts professionals
from across the country. The week included an opening
night reception at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
day excursions to galleries and museums, lectures
and forums at Sotheby’s
and intimate dinners at the homes of some of New York’s
most notable private collectors.
Conference Session topics included:Women
as Patrons, Women as Institution Builders, ‘Art’repreneurs,
Trendspotting in the Art World, and Feminism and
the Feminization of the Visual Arts.
Selected Participating Panelists:
Bonnie
Clearwater, Director Miami MoCA; Anne d’Harnoncourt,
Director, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Agnes Gund,
President Emerita, Museum of Modern Art; Sheila C.
Johnson, CEO, Salamander Middleburg; Emily K Rafferty,
President, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Susan Sollins,
Director, Art 21; Lowery Stokes Sims, Director, Studio
Museum in Harlem, Susana Torruella Leval, Director,
Emerita, El Museo del Barrio, Linda Nochlin, Professor,
Institute of Fine Arts, NYU; Linda M. Pace, Trustee,
ArtPace and others.
The Gala Award Dinner, held at Cipriani on April 7, looked
back and recognized its past 12 award recipients
and looked forward and honored twelve future
women leaders, selected by the past recipients.
RECOGNIZED LEADERS Elizabeth C. Baker,
Editor, Art in America (2004) Linda Nochlin, Lila
Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art, New York University’s
Institute of Fine Arts (2003) Iris Cantor, Chairman,
Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Foundation (2002) Paula Cooper,
Director, Paula Cooper Gallery (2001) Marcia Tucker,
Founding Director, The New Museum of Contemporary Art
(2000) Lucy Lippard,
scholar (1999) Stephanie French,
formally Vice President, Corporate Contributions, Philip
Morris Companies, Inc. (1998) Joan Mondale,
arts advocate (1997) Dianne H. Pilgrim,
former Director, Cooper-Hewitt Nat'l Design Museum
(1996) Emily Rauh Pulitzer,
trustee (1995) Agnes Gund, President,
Emerita, MoMA (1994) Kitty Carlisle Hart (1993)
FUTURE WOMEN LEADERS Andrea Barnwell,
Director, Spelman College Museum of Fine Art Melissa Chiu, Director,
The Asia Society, New York, NY Fairfax Dorn,
Executive Director, Ballroom and Virginia
Lebermann, President, The Ballroom,
Marfa, TX Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn,
Director, Salon 94 and Greenberg, Van Doren Gallery,
New York, NY Ellen Haddigan,
Executive Director, Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation,
New York, NY Laura Hoptman, Curator,
Carnegie Museum, Pittsburg, PA Bronwyn Keenan,
Founding Member, Downtown for Democracy, New York,
NY Marysol Nieves,
Curator of Contemporary Art, Museo de Arte de Puerto
Rico, San Juan, PR Sheri L. Pasquarella,
Director, Gorney Bravin + Lee and founding member,
New Art Dealers Alliance, New York, NY Maura Reilly, Curator,
The Elizabeth A. Sackler for Feminist Art, Brooklyn
Museum of Art Natasha Schlesinger,
Founder, ARTMUSE, New York, NY Olga Viso,
Deputy Director, The Hirshhorm Museum and Sculpture
Garden, Washington, DC
MOTHER- DAUGHTER GALA CO-CHAIRS Ellyn Dennison / Lisa Dennison Carol Goldberg / Beth Goldberg Nash
The Northern California Chapter hosted the 2005
Creative Force Award honoring, Dede Wilsey,
President, Board of Trustees, Fine Arts Museum of San
Francisco with Mercedes Ruehl, Obie award winning actress
for her role as Peggy Guggenheim in Women Before a
Glass, as the keynote speaker.
The chapter organized a terrific weekend of activities.
Friday, October 21, 2005 included a continental
breakfast and welcome at the de Young Museum in Golden
Gate Park with Harry S. Parker III, Director, Fine
Arts Museums of San Francisco. Curators led tours of
the new 300,000 square ft. museum designed by Herzog & de
Meuron including the galleries, sculpture garden and
special exhibit: “Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh.” Afterwards,
ArtTable visited the Legion of Honor, the de Young’s
sister museum in Lincoln Park for a reception and the
2005 Creative Force Award luncheon. Members
then took self-guided tours of San Francisco members
gallery’s, and attended a cocktail reception
at Crown Point Press and dinner at Hawthorne Lane.
Some Saturday highlights included; Richard and Pamela
Kramlich collection of time-based media and video art,
Robin Wright’s collection of conceptual art,
the avant-garde contemporary collection of Ann Hatch
and Paul Discoe and a cocktail reception at Fletcher
Benton’s Mies VanDer Rohe inspired studio and
home. On Sunday, members and guests had
the opportunity to view the Northern California’s
Oral History Project and visit SFMoMA.
Washington DC Tea
ArtTable’s Washington DC Tea, celebrated ArtTable’s
Oral History Program by honoring three influential
women in the arts, Olga Hirshhorn, philanthropist and
President of the Olga and Joseph H. Hirshhorn Foundation;
Wilhelmina Cole Holladay, founder of the National Museum
of Women in the Arts; and Janet Solinger, museum education
pioneer and Vice President of Public Programs at the
Corcoran Gallery of Art.
Over 200 ArtTable members and guests attended the
Washington DC Tea, which was held on Thursday, September
22, 2005 at the historic Willard hotel in Washington,
DC. Liza Kirwin, Curator of Manuscripts, Archives
of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, gave the
keynote address.
The purpose of ArtTable’s Oral History program
is to record, permanently document, and make accessible
to the widest possible audience of researchers and
the general public the contributions of women who are
outstanding leaders or pioneers in their field. The
Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art has agreed
to conduct oral histories on our behalf. These
collective stories become a rich and vital legacy to
inspire and benefit future generations. The three
honorees will be interviewed and recorded to preserve
their legacies and their experiences as professionals
in the visual arts.
MIAMI À LA
CARTE 2005
ArtTable coordinated a fun Saturday of programming
to gather ArtTable and NLA members, who attended Art
Basel Miami and surrounding fairs.
The day included a rare viewing of private artworks
via boat on the Biscayne Bay of Miami Beach. Members
were led along the waterfronts of collectors George
Lindemann Jr., Susan and Dennis Richard, Craig Robins,
Debra and Dennis Scholl and Richard Tuttle at Aqua.
Next, members went to Key Biscayne to visit
the private collection of Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz,
which included works by assume vivid astro focus,
Cosima von Bonin, Sigmar Polke, Dirk Skreber, Kelley
Walker, Wade Guyton, Dana Schutz, Daniel Richter, neo
Rauch, Mamma Andersson, Kaye Donachie, Jonathan Meese, Tal
R, Martin Kippenberger, Sergei Jensen, Alison
Fox, Henry Taylor. Also, a large installation
by Jon Pylypchuck, and another large installation by
Christian Holstad. Also works by Lucy McKenzie,
Jim Hodges, Felix Gonzalez-Torres and a large mural
by Arturo Herrera. Jorge Pardo's lamps and Manfred
Pernice sculptures.
The day ended with an open wine and cheese Reception
at PILIKIA, @ the South Seas Hotel!
With so many of us in Miami, this became a relaxing
way to meet-up with colleagues and friends from around
the country!
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