Chicago, IL | Curator-Led Tour of Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind with Jamillah James

Program Page | Exhibition Tour

Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind presented one of the most comprehensive exhibitions to date of Yoko Ono, the trailblazing artist, celebrated musician, and formidable campaigner for world peace. This remarkable retrospective—on view at the MCA as the only US venue—celebrated key moments of Ono’s career, showcasing art driven by ideas and expressed in poetic, humorous, and profound ways.

Photo courtesy of Catherine Crain

Washington, DC | Curator-Led Tour of Anonymous Was a Woman: Jae Ko | linn meyers | Joyce J. Scott | Renée Stout with Dr. Vesela Sretenović

Program Page | Exhibition Tour

The Kreeger Museum’s exhibition, curated by Sretenović, focused exclusively on four AWAW recipients who reside and work in the Washington, DC metropolitan area: Jae Ko (AWAW 2012), linn meyers (AWAW 2023), Joyce J. Scott (AWAW 1997), and Renée Stout (AWAW 1999). The museum’s presentation spotlighted the most recent work of its participating artists and presented a focused, in-depth look at the new works of Ko, meyers, Scott, and Stout.

Photo courtesy of Maggie Edwards

New York, NY | Curator-Led Tour of Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective with Cara Manes

Program Page | Exhibition Tour

Featuring some 300 artworks, Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective charted the artist’s lifelong explorations of materials and forms in a variety of mediums, including wire sculpture, bronze casts, drawings, paintings, prints, and public works. This first posthumous survey celebrated the ways in which Asawa continuously transformed materials and objects into subjects of contemplation, unsettling distinctions between abstraction and figuration, figure and ground, and negative and positive space.

Photo courtesy of ArtTable

Washington, DC | Curator-Led Tour of Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 1600-1750 with Virginia Treanor

Program Page | Exhibition Tour

Women Artists from Antwerp to Amsterdam, 1600-1750 showcased a broad range of work by more than forty Dutch and Flemish women artists, including Gesina ter Borch, Maria Faydherbe, Anna Maria de Koker, Judith Leyster, Magdalena van de Passe, Clara Peeters, Rachel Ruysch, Maria Tassaert, Jeanne Vergouwen, Michaelina Wautier, and more. Presenting an array of paintings, lace, prints, paper cuttings, embroidery, and sculpture, this exhibition drew on recent scholarship to demonstrate that a full view of women’s contributions to the artistic economy is essential to understanding Dutch and Flemish visual culture of the period.

Photo courtesy of Channah Norman

Los Angeles, CA | Curator-Led Tour of Made in L.A. 2025 with Essence Harden

Program Page | Exhibition Tour

Made in L.A. 2025 was the seventh iteration of the Hammer’s signature biennial exhibition that showcases artists practicing throughout the greater Los Angeles area. The 28 participants in the exhibition presented work not only made in the city but also grounded in its complex and unfolding terrain. Neither myth nor monolith, Los Angeles is many things to many people, and its dissonance is perhaps its most distinguishing feature. The works presented in this year’s biennial included film, painting, theater, choreography, photography, sculpture, sound, and video. Attitude drew them together: Each engaged with this city in ways alternately literal, formal, material, and metaphoric. Conceived or made in Los Angeles, they are of this city and nowhere else.

Photo courtesy of Nancy Adams

New York, NY | Guided Tour of the Deutsche Bank Art Collection with Blaire Sacks

Program Page | Collection Visit

Located in the center of one of the world’s most multi-cutural cities, the Deutsche Bank Collection at Columbus Circle reflects New York’s globally renowned and vibrant contemporary art scene. Since it was established in the late 1970s, the collection has focused on the medium of paper, and there is a reason for this: the idea was that art should not be hung only on the executive floors and lobbies, but in all of its offices and retail branches. Works on paper, drawings, collages, and photographs serve this purpose well, among other things because of their high artistic quality and their experimental spirit. With this strategy, the Deutsche Bank Collection broke new ground at the time.

Photo courtesy of ArtTable

New York, NY | Guided Tour of Coco Fusco: Tomorrow, I Will Become an Island with Zuna Maza

Program Page | Curator Tour

El Museo del Barrio presented the first U.S. survey of influential Cuban-American artist, writer, and activist Coco Fusco (b. 1960, lives in New York). A renowned artist, writer, and activist, Fusco has been globally lauded for her distinctly perceptive, acerbic, and piercing voice. Since the 1990s, her films, photographs, texts, installations, and performances have addressed the dynamics of politics and power in relation to issues of representation, culture, and institutional critique.

Photo courtesy of ArtTable

New York, NY | Annual Leadership Series | Art at Risk: Censorship & the Fight for Creative Freedom

Program Page | Annual Leadership Series

ArtTable’s 2025 Annual Leadership Series returned with a timely conversation on the evolving responsibilities of arts institutions in an era of heightened scrutiny and constrained freedoms. This year’s panel featured cultural leader and curator Sara Reisman and art lawyer Katherine Wilson-Milne in conversation with moderator Elizabeth Larison, Arts and Culture Advocacy Program Director at National Coalition Against Censorship.

Photos courtesy of ArtTable

Los Angeles, CA | Artist Talk & Exhibition Walkthrough with Rebecca Morris

Program Page | Artist Talk

Attendees visited Regen Projects for an Exhibition Walkthrough with Rebecca Morris! Regen Projects presented #34, Los Angeles-based artist Rebecca Morris’s first solo exhibition with the gallery and the thirty-fourth of her career. Over the past thirty years Morris has established a sophisticated visual lexicon to expand the limits and possibilities of non-objective abstraction in painting.

Photo courtesy of Jane Glassman

Houston, TX | ArtTable Brunch at Untitled Art, Houston

Program Page | ArtTable Brunch

The ArtTable community reconnected with colleagues and friends at ArtTable’s Brunch at Untitled Art, Houston!

Photo courtesy of Sarah Foltz

New York, NY | ArtTable Annual Armory Show Brunch

Program Page | ArtTable Brunch

We reconnected with colleagues and friends at ArtTable’s Annual Brunch at The Armory Show! It was such a pleasure to connect with members of our community from across the globe. We were also joined by one of the fair curators, Ebony L. Haynes.

Photo courtesy of ArtTable

East Hampton, NY | ArtTable Day Trip to the Hamptons

Program Page | Special Event

Attendees visited three locations in East Hampton: Onna House, long-time ArtTable member and art collector Susan Jacobson’s Home, and Mary Heilmann: Water Way at Guild Hall.

Photo courtesy of ArtTable

Stanford, CA | Curator-Led Tours of “Archive Room: Ruth Asawa” & “Archive Room: Ester Hernandez”

Program Page | Curator Tour

ArtTable members gathered at Stanford University’s Cantor Arts Center for a curator-led tour of Archive Room: Ruth Asawa with Kathryn Cua and a curator-led tour of Archive Room: Ester Hernandez with Jorge Eduardo Sibaja.

Photo courtesy of Tracy Bosworth Bosche

New York, NY | Curator-Led Tours of Arresting Beauty: Julia Margaret Cameron & Lisa Yuskavage: Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum

Program Page | Curator Tour

We were excited to experience two back to back curator-led tours at the Morgan Library & Museum! Curator Allison Pappas led attendees on a tour of Arresting Beauty: Julia Margaret Cameron and Claire Gilman led attendees on a tour of Lisa Yuskavage: Drawings.

Photos courtesy of ArtTable

New York, NY | Private Guided Tour of the United Nations Art Collection

Program Page | Collection Tour

ArtTable members experienced an exclusive visit to the unique art collection of the United Nations Headquarters! The UN gifts collection is a combination of artworks, historic objects, and architectural components donated by member states, foundations, and individual donors since 1950. Many of the most prominent figures in the art world, such as Marc Chagall, Candido Portinari, Arnaldo Pomodoro, Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore, are represented in the UN collection.

Photos courtesy of ArtTable

New York, NY | Studio Visit with Francine Tint

Program Page | Studio Visit

ArtTable members gathered at Francine Tint’s studio in Greenwich Village! Francine Tint’s practice is rooted in the exploration of color as a means of capturing and embodying light. Tint’s approach emerged within painterly abstraction, bridging Color Field influences with the dynamic gestures of Abstract Expressionism. While grounded in this tradition, she continually expands its boundaries, exploring new forms of expression that challenge conventional abstract frameworks. 

Photo courtesy of ArtTable

New York, NY | Private Collection Visit with Victoria Rogers

Program Page | Collection Visit

Noted arts professional Victoria Rogers welcomed ArtTable into her home! Victoria’s tour of her wide-ranging personal collection included works by Hank Willis Thomas, Kara Walker, Lorna Simpson, Jennifer Packer, and EJ Hill. We celebrated the start of summer by mingling with fellow ArtTable members after the tour in a beautiful, art-filled setting!

Photos courtesy of ArtTable

Chicago, IL | Curator-Led Tour of Highlights From the Intuit Art Museum Collection with Alison Amick

Program Page | Curator Tour

Highlights from the IAM collection are on view beginning May 23 in the first-ever gallery devoted to continually exhibiting the museum’s collection. Artworks include William Hawkins’ monumental Statute of Liberty (1986); work from an artist-built environment by Emery Blagdon; sculpture by Kevin Sampson and work Lonnie Holley made during a 2007 residency at IAM; paintings and works on paper by Howard Finster, Sister Gertrude Morgan, Martín Ramírez and Nellie Mae Rowe; and a recent commission by Milwaukee-based artist Della Wells. 

Photos courtesy of Jill Snyder

New York, NY | After Hours Reception and Guided Tour of Amy Sherald: American Sublime at the Whitney Museum

Program Page | Reception and Tour

Hosted in the Trustee Room at the Whitney Museum, we networked and connected over food and drinks before attending a tour of Amy Sherald: American Sublime!

Amy Sherald is a storyteller. She creates precisely crafted narratives of American life, selecting, styling, and photographing her sitters as the foundation for her nuanced paintings. Thus, while Sherald (b. 1973; Columbus, Georgia) bases her works on specific people, they are more than traditional portraits. They center everyday Black Americans, compelling in their individuality and extraordinary in their ordinariness, inviting viewers to step into Sherald’s imagined worlds. In this exhibition, paintings of such ordinary Americans join her iconic portraits of First Lady Michelle Obama and, heartbreakingly, Breonna Taylor, to produce a resonant ode to the multiplicity and complexity of American identity. 

Photos courtesy of ArtTable

Washington, DC | Studio Visit with Lex Marie

Program Page | Artist Talk

Lex walked guests through the large-scale works she has created over the past two years at her current studio before she transitioned out in July. She shared her process, the unconventional materials she often incorporates, and how they help tell stories about Black childhood, motherhood, and social justice. Her work is heavily inspired by personal experiences, community narratives, and the resilience of marginalized voices.

Photo courtesy of Maggie Edwards

San Francisco, CA | Artist Talk and Exhibition Walkthrough with Masako Miki

Program Page | Artist Talk

The first fully site-responsive exhibition in the new ICA SF at The Cube, Midnight March presented Masako Miki’s work as never seen before in her largest presentation to date. The exhibition collapsed Miki’s two-dimensional and three-dimensional practices, bringing her paintings known as “Night Parades” to life in experiential form.

Photo courtesy of ArtTable

New York, NY | Curator-Led Tour of Hilma af Klint: What Stands Behind the Flowers with Jodi Hauptman

Program Page | Curator-Led Tour

ArtTable gathered for a curator-led tour of Hilma af Klint: What Stands Behind Flowers at the Museum of Modern Art! The tour was led by Jodi Hauptman, The Richard Roth Senior Curator, Department of Drawings and Prints at MoMA.

In the spring and summer of 1919 and 1920, during a period of intense engagement with nature, artist Hilma af Klint drew flowers almost every day. “I will try,” she wrote, “to grasp the flowers of the earth.” This exhibition focuses on a portfolio of drawings new to MoMA’s collection—jewel-toned watercolors made by a keen-eyed naturalist, attuned to the rhythms and bounty of the blooming season.

Photo courtesy of ArtTable

Los Angeles, CA | Artist Studio Visit with Suchitra Mattai

Program Page | Artist Studio Visit

We were excited to visit Suchitra Mattai’s Studio in Los Angeles!
Suchitra Mattai is a multi-disciplinary American artist of Indo-Caribbean descent who creates work that sheds light on untold histories through the exploration of memory and myth.  She often combines processes and materials once associated with the domestic sphere, such as embroidery, sewing, “weaving,” and found clothing, to honor the labor of women and to preserve ancestral stories.  Past projects include solo exhibitions at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC, the ICA San Francisco, the Tampa Museum of Art, Socrates Sculpture Park in NYC and group exhibitions at the MCA Chicago, the ICA Boston, Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, the Sharjah Biennial 14 (Sharjah, UAE), and the MCA San Diego. Her works are represented in public and private collections which include Crystal Bridges Museum of Art, the Denver Art Museum, the Tampa Museum of Art, the MCA San Diego, the Nasher Museum of Art, and the Joslyn Museum of Art.  Suchitra received an MFA in painting and drawing and an MA in South Asian Art from the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia and is a recent recipient of an Anonymous Was a Woman Award (2023).

Photo courtesy of Liza Shapiro

New York, NY |  Curator-Led Tour of Saya Woolfalk: Empathetic Universe with Alexandra Schwartz

Program Page | Curator-Led Tour

ArtTable attended a curator-led tour of Saya Woolfalk: Empathetic Universe at the Museum of Arts & Design, led by Alexandra Schwartz, Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Craft, and Design

The first retrospective of the artist’s two decades of world-building installations, the exhibition showcases Woolfalk’s ambitious fictional narrative of an imagined race of women known as “Empathics.” Woolfalk has created for the Empathics’ their own distinctive visual imagery, symbolism, and folklore, which reflect her investigations of African, African American, Japanese, European, and Brazilian art, craft, and storytelling.  In this parable told through garment-based sculptures, video, paintings, works on paper, and performances, cultures mix, clash, and are ultimately transformed through shared understanding.

Photo courtesy of ArtTable

New York, NY |  Curator-Led Tour of “Madalena Santos Reinbolt: A Head Full of Planets” at the American Folk Art Museum

Program Page | Curator-Led Tour

ArtTable attended a curator-led tour of Madalena Santos Reinbolt: A Head Full of Planets at the American Folk Art Museum, led by Valérie Rousseau, PhD, Curatorial Chair and Senior Curator of 20th-Century & Contemporary Art.

Featuring 42 textile works and oil paintings, Madalena Santos Reinbolt: A Head Full of Planets is the first comprehensive survey of Santos Reinbolt’s art ever presented and marks the first-ever solo museum exhibition for the artist organized outside her native Brazil. Best known for her large-scale embroideries made from hundreds of vibrant colored threads, which the artist referred to as quadros de lã (“wool paintings”), the exhibition represents more than half of all known works by the artist and examines the artist’s work through a variety of lenses, including gender, race, and socio-economic dynamics.

Photo courtesy of ArtTable

New York, NY | Art Law Series: Building and Managing A Fine Art Collection

Program Page | Panel Presentation

This was the third installment of ArtTable’s Art Law Series, produced in partnership with Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP. In this conversation, panelists explored the various roles and responsibilities that are involved when building and managing an art collection. Coinciding with the Spring art fair season in New York, a city whose contemporary art scene is constantly evolving, this panel focused on the professionals who help collectors navigate the collection- building and management process. What resources are available to guide collectors when purchasing artworks? How should a collector care for the art once it is in their collection? What are the responsibilities when owning fine art that new collectors might not be aware of? We heard from several arts professionals involved at the different stages of collection-building, from the initial purchase to long-time care and conservation.

Photo courtesy of ArtTable

New York, NY | Private Walkthrough at Bonhams with Specialist and Head of Sales Isabel Norsten

Program Page | Guided Tour

Bonhams welcomed ArtTable Members for a private walkthrough and viewing of their 20^th and 21^st Century Sales, including the 20th / 21st Century Art Evening Sale, Impressionist & Modern Art, and Post-War & Contemporary Art Day Sale, led by specialist Isabel Norsten.

Photo courtesy of ArtTable

Chicago, IL | ArtTable Brunch at EXPO Chicago

Program Page | Guided Tour

Here at ArtTable, we love nothing more than a pre-art fair brunch. We gathered at EXPO Chicago for drinks, bites, and networking before exploring the 2025 edition of the fair. We were excited to be joined by Kate Sierzputowski, Artistic Director of the fair!

EXPO CHICAGO Contemporary Art Fair showcased leading contemporary and modern art galleries each April at Navy Pier’s Festival Hall, alongside a diverse and inventive program of talks, on-site installations, and public art initiatives. Inaugurated in 2012, EXPO CHICAGO drew upon the city’s robust history as a vibrant international cultural destination, while highlighting the region’s contemporary arts community. In 2023, EXPO CHICAGO was acquired by Frieze, the world’s leading platform for modern and contemporary art.

San Francisco, CA | Guided Tour of the San Francisco Art Fair

Program Page | Guided Tour

ArtTable members gathered for a special tour of the San Francisco Art Fair. Produced by AMP with Fair Director Kelly Freeman working in partnership with Artistic Director Nato Thompson, the 2025 edition of the San Francisco Art Fair presented 85 leading galleries from around the world alongside a dynamic series of public programming at Fort Mason Festival Pavilion. This year’s programming was a continuation of the fair’s consistent commitment to providing a platform that celebrates diverse perspectives and pushes the boundaries of artistic expression.

New York, NY | Curator-Led Tour of “Anonymous Was a Woman: The First 25 Years” at NYU’s Grey Art Museum

Program Page | Curator-led Tour

In 1996, artist and philanthropist Susan Unterberg founded the Anonymous Was A Woman (AWAW) award, making a simple, yet radical commitment to redress the lack of institutional support for women visual artists over the age of 40. She sought to provide mid-career artists with the means to procure workspace, art supplies, childcare, or whatever else they needed to further their artistic careers. For the past two and a half decades, AWAW has provided unrestricted grants of $25,000 to ten or more artists each year.

Photo courtesy of ArtTable

Washington, DC | Curator-Led Tour of “Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist” at the National Gallery of Art

Program Page | Curator-led Tour

Artable joined curator Lynn Matheny for Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist at the National Gallery of Art on April 8th, 2025! This retrospective exhibition showcased the enduring legacy of Elizabeth Catlett (1915–2012) as a visionary artist and an unwavering activist. As the most comprehensive presentation devoted to Catlett in the United States, it featured more than 150 works, including well-known sculpture and prints, rare paintings and drawings, and important ephemera. The exhibition was co-organized by the Brooklyn Museum and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and presented in collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago.

Photo courtesy of ArtTable