ArtTable’s 2019 Annual Benefit

ArtTable’s 2019 Annual Benefit and Award Ceremony took place on Thursday, April 18, 2019, at 583 Park Avenue in New York City, honoring Estrellita B. Brodsky, curator, collector, and philanthropist, with the Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts Award, and Alexandra Chang, Curator of Special Projects and Director of Global Arts Programs at NYU’s Asian/Pacific/American Institute, with the New Leadership Award. Awards were presented by Anne Collins Goodyear, PhD and co-director of Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Keynote addressed by Amy Cappellazzo, Chairman, Fine Art Division, Sotheby’s. The event brought together ArtTable members and supporters to celebrate the achievements of women leaders in the visual arts and their commitment to advancing equity and inclusivity in the field.

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Highlights from ArtTable’s 2019 Annual Benefit & Award Ceremony.

About the Honorees

Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts Awardee

Estrellita B. Brodsky, PhD, is an internationally known art historian, collector, and philanthropist who has advanced the presence of art from Latin America and its diaspora on the global stage. 

Brodsky holds a doctorate in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, and a Master’s from Hunter College. She has curated exhibitions and written extensively on post-WWII Latin American artists including Jesus Soto, Carlos Cruz-Diez and Julio Le Parc.  A founding member of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Latin American Art Initiative, a trustee of the Hirshhorn Museum and Tate Americas Foundation, she has endowed curatorial positions in Latin American art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met), Tate, and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). In 2015, she founded ANOTHER SPACE, a program and not-for-profit exhibition gallery established by the Daniel and Estrellita B. Brodsky Foundation, to broaden international awareness and appreciation of art from Latin America. 

New Leadership Awardee

Alexandra Chang is an Asian-American art curator, art historian, and editor. Chang co-founded the peer-reviewed journal Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas in 2015.

About the Speakers

Amy Cappellazzo is Chairman of the Fine Arts Division at Sotheby’s. She was a founder and principal of Art Agency, Partners, a global art advisory firm acquired by Sotheby’s in January 2016. As an advisor, Amy drew upon 13 years of experience in the art market as a leader in the field of Post-War & Contemporary art. Amy has overseen the sale of some of the most important collections and works of art of our time, served as a pioneer in private sales and online auctions, and acted as an advisor to numerous families, foundations, and trusts.

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Prior to accepting the position, Cappellazzo founded Art Agency, Partners with Allan Schwartzman. The firm filled a significant need in the art market for a client-oriented combination of industry knowledge, financial sophistication, and discretion. The company’s attention to detail and emphasis on client care catalyzed a paradigm shift in the market that did not go unnoticed; in January of 2016 Sotheby’s acquired Art Agency, Partners in a groundbreaking deal. Cappellazzo previously served as a market leader in the field of contemporary art at Christie’s, where she rose to the post of Chairman of Post-War & Contemporary Development over thirteen years. During her tenure Cappellazzo directed groundbreaking initiatives that led to record results, with upward of $650 million realized in a single sale. Previously, Cappellazzo was an art advisor, curator, and key figure in the establishment of Art Basel in Miami Beach. Cappellazzo received her B.A. in Fine Arts/Art History from New York University, where she was a Presidential Trustee Scholar. She holds a master’s degree in Urban Design from the School of Architecture at Pratt Institute, where she focused on the role of public art in shaping cities.

Anne Collins Goodyear, Ph.D. is Co-Director, with Frank Goodyear, of the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. She is a former Curator of Prints and Drawings at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, where she became the first curator to collect digital and time-based art. Goodyear has curated numerous exhibitions and published and lectured widely about modern and contemporary American art and portraiture. She is currently co-curating, with Jonathan Walz and Kathleen Campganolo, This Is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912–Today, which traces, over the course of the past century, the dissolution of a portraiture based on mimesis to one stressing instead conceptual and symbolic associations on the part of the maker with the portrait’s subject. The exhibition will open at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art in June 2016 and will be accompanied by a catalogue published by Yale University Press.


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April 5, 2019

Arttable’s Annual Benefit Honors Estrellita B. Brodsky and Alexandra Chang

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