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NFTs have brought digital art into the spotlight, but they also have cast a long shadow over the decades-long history of digital art that preceded them. Even the artistic projects that were made with and about blockchain technologies just five years ago seem to have been erased in the rush to hail this “revolutionary” development in contemporary art. In this program, we heard from Dr. Tina Rivers Ryan who brought us through a brief journey of digital art since the 1960s. Her talk emphasized digital art’s major artists, practices, and themes, as well as the evolution of its relation to traditional arts institutions, such as galleries and museums.

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Marcela Guerrero, Jennifer Rubio Associate Curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and Daisy Nam, Curator at Ballroom Marfa, participated in a virtual conversation about Donna Huanca’s exhibition ESPEJO QUEMADA, on view at Ballroom Marfa through January 22, 2022. The two also discussed Guerrero’s work on influential recent exhibitions of contemporary art from Latin America, including the exhibitions Pacha, Llaqta, Wasichay: Indigenous Space, Modern Architecture, New Art at the Whitney Museum of American Art and Radical Women: Latin American Art, 1960-1985 at the Hammer Museum.

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ArtTable members and guests enjoyed a virtual tour and discussion with Mira Lapidot, Chief Curator at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Mira joined us from Israel to talk about the museum’s history and architecture while giving us an insider’s look at its current collection and collecting practices.

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Members joined Claudia Schmuckli, Curator-in-Charge of Contemporary Art and Programming at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, for a guided tour of the exhibition, Judy Chicago: A Retrospective at the de Young Museum. Following the tour, they enjoyed a no-host lunch with Schmuckli at the de Young Café.

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Members joined Ruth Estévez, Amant’s Artistic Director, for a private tour of The Amant Foundation’s 21,000 square foot multi-building SO-IL designed “art campus” in East Williamsburg. Opened in June 2021, the complex serves as Amant’s new headquarters, as well as the home for its exhibitions, public events, archival projects, performances, and residency program. Members toured the inaugural exhibition, “Grada Kilomba: Heroines, Birds and Monsters,” the first solo exhibition of the artist in the United States.

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ArtTable’s DC Chapter hosted October’s BreakfastTable with Karyn Miller, Director of Planning, Art, and Activation at Golden Triangle Business Improvement District. They chatted with Karyn and toured of Social Spaces, three outdoor public art activations featuring “Meridian” by artist Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong, and “Common Ground” by artist Risa Puno, and “Circula” by design team Studio Rygalik.

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ArtTable members joined us for a special Collection Visit to the home of Brooklyn-based art dealer Lillian Heidenberg. This was our first in-person collection visit since pre-pandemic days.

Lillian Heidenberg is both a collector and an internationally renown art dealer. She has been specializing in modern and contemporary masters for many years. Today she also includes several contemporary cutting edge artists in her collection including Ebony Patterson and Summer Wheat. She also has a special interest in British sculpture and has represented the works of Henry Moore and Lynn Chadwick and is an expert on their art. Her collection includes Louise Bourgeois, Fernando Botero, John Wesley, Helen Frankenthaler, Alex Katz among many others. Lillian also has a strong interest in Chinese contemporary art.

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ArtTable members joined us for an in-person tour of monuments and memorials throughout Harlem. Attendees enjoyed a leisurely walk through the most Northern and less traveled parts of Central Park around the Harlem Meer, along the way viewing three monumental memorials to Duke Ellington, Frederick Douglas, and Harriet Tubman. The tour was guided by ArtTable member Cathie Behrend.

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For the 2021 Annual Leadership Series, ArtTable was pleased to present a discussion on The Precarious Position of Women in Leadership. The discussion was moderated by Stephanie A. Stebich, Director of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC, with panelists:

• Min Jung Kim, Director, Saint Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis, MO
• Dorothy Kosinski, Vradenburg Director and CEO of The Phillips Collection, Washington DC
• Mia Locks, Independent Curator and Culture Worker, Los Angeles, CA
• Danyelle Means, Executive Director, Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM
• Brittany Webb, Evelyn and Will Kaplan Curator of 20th-Century Art & the John Rhoden Collection, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA

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ArtTable members came together virtually once again for the Fall National Networking Event! These seasonal events provide an opportunity for members worldwide to connect, meet some new people, and share ideas. Participants went into breakout rooms of 3-4 people for about 10 minutes to discuss going back to the office, the reopening of the art world “post-pandemic,” and advice or best practices that they’ve learned over the past year.

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