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Virtual | New Member Orientation & Member Portal Walkthrough
2025-01-13 15:00 - 15:30, 2025-03-17 15:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York)
12 pm PT / 1 pm MT / 2 pm CT / 3 pm ET

Welcome new ArtTable members! Please join us for a virtual orientation session where you will meet other new members and learn how to take full advantage of all the ArtTable community has to offer. This program is free and open to all ArtTable members.

Whether you are new to our community or have been a long-time member, there’s no wrong time for a refresher course! Connect with other members in a casual and relaxed online environment and learn more about what our community is all about.

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(You will receive an email confirmation containing the Zoom link.)

Accessibility: Please note that this program will offer live closed captioning. If you require additional accommodations, please email programs@arttable.org.

Can’t join us for this new member orientation? Don’t worry, we host virtual orientation sessions every 3 months! In the meantime, we hope you can join us for another upcoming program or support other ArtTable initiatives!

2025 The Winter Show | Insiders Preview & Early-Access Mornings
2025-01-24 10:00 - 2025-02-01 12:00
For ArtTable Executive, Circle, Patron and Benefactor Levels only.

ArtTable Executive, Circle, Patron, and Benefactor Members are invited to claim their complimentary pass for The Winter Show’s Insiders Preview & Early-Access Mornings.

The Winter Show is the premier art, antiques, and design fair in America, featuring many of the world’s top experts in the fine and decorative arts. The Winter Show, held annually at the Park Avenue Armory, showcases a breadth of works spanning 5,000 years presented by over 70 internationally renowned dealers.

These passes provide complimentary access to the fair on the below dates and times:

Insiders Preview: Friday, January 24 | 10AM – 12PMEarly-Access: Friday, January 31 | 10AM – 12PMEarly-Access: Saturday, February 1 | *11AM – 12PMAdmission:

FREE

Executive, Circle, Patron, and Benefactor Members Only with possibility to open to lower levels if availability allows later.

All registrants will receive an email after registration here with how to get their ticket(s). These passes are only offered while supplies last.

Location: Park Avenue Armory643 Park Avenue New York, NY 10065

If you want to be eligible for this or other opportunities, consider upgrading your membership! Reach out to membership@arttable.org with any questions.

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New York, NY | Author Talk: 'Mothers of Invention: The Feminist Roots of Contemporary Art'
2025-01-29 18:00 - 20:00 | Home of Joyce Pomeroy Schwartz, Address to be shared with registrants, Midtown Manhattan, New York
Join ArtTable for an Author Talk exploring Mothers of Invention: The Feminist Roots of Contemporary Art (Lund Humphries, 2024), written by Eleanor Heartney, Helaine Posner, Nancy Princenthal, and Sue Scott. This talk will be generously hosted in the home of Joyce Pomeroy Schwartz, a founding Board member of ArtTable.

This program will begin with light refreshments and conversation, with the Author Talk beginning at 6:30 PM. Seating will be provided.

About the book: Offering a radical rewriting of the history of contemporary art from a feminist perspective, four distinguished authors explore the lineages of performance, abstraction, craft and ecofeminism in ways that reveal the debt these important genres owe to the work of pioneering women artists. Tracing these influences over time, Mothers of Invention underscores the enormous impact of feminist ideas on the work of contemporary artists of all genders.

The painters, sculptors and performance artists featured here have shaped ideas now dominating the art world: the vulnerability of the environment, the rise of activist art, the challenge to the reign of high technology (including digital culture), and the development of a new language of abstraction. Having demolished the linear narrative of modernism, the privileging of a white male ethnocentric vision, the division of high and low art and the separation of art from larger social issues, feminist artists laid the groundwork for the globalised, multi-media, postmodern art world of today.

Illustrated with a spread of work from the last sixty years (and including contextual discussion of earlier practitioners), this book makes a compelling case for placing feminist art and artists at the heart of contemporary art.

Program Admission:

ArtTable Members – $25

Member Guests – $30

Non-Members – $35

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ArtTable’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

About the Authors:

Eleanor Heartney is Contributing Editor to Art in America and Artpress. Recent publications include: Doomsday Dreams: the Apocalyptic Imagination in Contemporary Art (2019).

Helaine Posner is Chief Curator Emerita at the Neuberger Museum of Art, SUNY, Purchase College, New York. She is the author of monographs on the artists Kiki Smith, Louise Fishman, and, most recently, Donna Dennis: A Poet in Three Dimensions (2023).

Nancy Princenthal is a writer whose most recent book Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art, and Sexual Violence in the 1970s (2019) was named one of the best art books of the year by the New York Times. She is also the author of Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art (2015), which won a PEN America award for biography.

Sue Scott is an independent curator and writer. She was Adjunct Curator of Contemporary Art at the Orlando Museum of Art from 1989 to 2008 and founder and director of Sue Scott Gallery in New York City. All four writers are co-authors of the award-winning book After the Revolution: Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art (2007) and of The Reckoning: Women Artists of the New Millennium (2013).

Los Angeles, CA | Guided Tour of 'Diane von Furstenberg: Woman Before Fashion' at the Skirball Cultural Center
2025-02-04 15:30 - 16:30 | Skirball Cultural Center, 2701 N. Sepulveda Blvd, Los Angeles, California, 90049, United States
Installation view of Diane von Furstenberg: Woman Before Fashion. Courtesy Skirball Cultural Center.

Join ArtTable for an exclusive tour of Diane von Furstenberg: Woman Before Fashion at the Skirball Cultural Center with Chief Curator Cate Thurston. Organized by the Fashion & Lace Museum in Brussels, where von Furstenberg was born, the exhibition uncovers the fascinating life story of a woman whose business transformed the world of fashion – and whose designs have empowered and celebrated the women who wear them. Program registration includes admission to the Skirball, with time to explore the galleries until the Center closes at 5:00 pm.

About the exhibition: Diane von Furstenberg: Woman Before Fashion explores the remarkable life and work of fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg. This expansive, multidisciplinary exhibition, enriched by a lavishly illustrated catalogue featuring interviews and scholarly essays, invites visitors to discover the extraordinary features of von Furstenberg’s career, from the 1970s to the present day.

Organized in four thematic sections, Diane von Furstenberg: Woman Before Fashion includes a selection of over sixty pieces drawn from the DVF archives along with ephemera, fabric swatches, media pieces, and information on her philanthropic work. The Skirball’s presentation of this exhibition will also include new images and audio that shed light on von Furstenberg’s personal biography as the daughter of a Holocaust survivor and a war refugee, offering additional perspective on the factors that shaped her life and work. Diane von Furstenberg: Woman Before Fashion was organized by the Fashion & Lace Museum in von Furstenberg’s native city of Brussels, Belgium.

Parking and Accessibility (please see the Skirball’s website for full details):

Parking at the Skirball Cultural Center is free. ADA accessible parking is available in the South Parking garage, with a limited number of additional ADA accessible spaces available in the North and East garages.

All indoor and outdoor spaces are accessible to mobility devices, with heelchairs available for check-out from the Main Entrance lobby desk and North Parking Garage security kiosk on a first-come, first-served basis.

Program Admission:

ArtTable Members – $25

Member Guests – $30

Non-Members – $35

Not a member? Join today!

ArtTable extends its sincerest thanks to Felice Axelrod for coordinating this program.

About the Curator:

Cate Thurston, Chief Curator, joined the Skirball team in 2015 and is the coordinating curator for Diane von Furstenberg: Woman Before Fashion. She is also the co-curator of the Skirball exhibition “I’ll Have What She’s Having”: The Jewish Deli, which is currently traveling on a five-city national tour. Thurston previously curated the acclaimed exhibition Notorious RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg (2018). She was the managing curator for the Skirball’s presentations of Blacklist: Hollywood’s Red Scare (2023) Sara Berman’s Closet (2018), Future Aleppo (2018), Paul Simon: Words & Music (2017), Chasing Dreams: Baseball and Becoming American (2016), and the curator for The Unauthorized History of Baseball in 100-Odd Paintings: The Art of Ben Sakoguchi (2016). Prior to joining the Skirball, Thurston worked at the Autry Museum of the American West for five years in a variety of exhibition, education, and visitor experience-related positions, culminating in a hybrid curatorial role. Thurston holds a B.A. in American History from Franklin Pierce University in New Hampshire and an M.A. in History from California State University, Northridge.

Virtual | Member Networking for Executive, Circle, Patron, and Benefactor Members
2025-02-10 17:30 - 18:30
ArtTable Executive, Circle, Patron, and Benefactor Members are invited to a Virtual Networking Session on February 10 at 5:30 PM EST/2:30 PM PST.

Make your cocktail or some afternoon caffeine, and join us on Zoom to connect with fellow ArtTable members nationwide. It is an excellent opportunity to share your projects and ideas while building your network and community. ArtTable staff members Jessica L. Porter, Lila Harnett Executive Director, and Alyssa Garland, Membership and Impact Initiatives Manager, will facilitate this session.Admission:

FREE

Open to Executive, Circle, Patron, and Benefactor Members Only

All registrants will receive Zoom details the day before the event.

This networking session is a perk for Executive, Circle, Patron, and Benefactor Members of ArtTable. If you want to join for this or other opportunities, consider upgrading your membership! Reach out to membership@arttable.org with any questions.

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2025 Frieze LA | Complimentary Passes
2025-02-20 10:00 - 2025-02-23 18:00
For ArtTable Circle, Patron, and Benefactor Members only.

ArtTable Circle, Patron, and Benefactor Members are invited to claim 1 complimentary General or VIP pass for 2025 Frieze Los Angeles.

The sixth edition of the fair returns to Santa Monica Airport from February 20-23, 2025 and will feature galleries from around the world, plus an expansive program of ambitious installations, collaborations with nonprofit organizations, and pop-ups from some of Los Angeles’ most beloved restaurants.

The Focus section will be curated by Essence Harden (co-curator Made in L.A 2025) for the second year. Focus is dedicated to solo presentations by galleries with a space in the US, formed in or after 2013. This section benefits from a subsidized rate.

Passes are available to Circle, Patron and Benefactor Members only on a first come, first-served basis, with a limit of 1 pass per member. Get your pass while they last!

Admission:

FREE (limited availability)

Circle, Patron, and Benefactor Members Only

All registrants will receive an email from ArtTable after registration here with next steps on how to get their ticket. Our supply is limited, so register while the supply lasts.

Location: Santa Monica Airport3027 Airport Avenue, Santa Monica, 90405

OPENING HOURS

Frieze Los Angeles takes place from February 20 – 23, 2025.

Thursday, February 20: 10am – 7pm  (invitation only): Friday, February 21: 11am – 7pm  (invitation only 11am – 1pm, open to the public from 1pm) Saturday, February 22: 11am – 7pm Sunday, February 23: 11am – 6pm

Please note that last admission is 30 minutes before closing time on each day.

If you want to be eligible for this or other opportunities, consider upgrading your membership! Reach out to membership@arttable.org with any questions.

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North Miami, FL | Curator Tour of "See Me, Hear Me: Native Cultures" at ArtNexus Space
2025-02-26 16:00 - 17:00 | ArtNexus Space, 12500 N.E. 8th Avenue, 2nd Floor, North Miami, Florida, 33161, United States
Please join us for a tour of the group exhibition “See Me, Hear Me: Native Cultures,” the inaugural exhibition at the new ArtNexus Space in North Miami. The exhibition delves into the creative production of members of Indigenous communities, artists of Indigenous descent, and contemporary visual artists who have addressed issues related to the cosmogonies of various Indigenous peoples of Latin America and the problems they have faced over time. Artists on view include Claudia Andújar, Lastenia Canayo García (Pecón Quena), Sandra Gamarra, Santiago Yahuarcani, Sheroanawe Hakihiiwë, Zoila Andrea Coc-Chang, and many others. ArtNexus Space Executive Director & Chief Curator, Francine Birbragher-Rozencwaig, Ph.D., will lead us through the space and exhibition. Light refreshments will be provided.

The new ArtNexus Space will expand the work the organization has been doing for 48 years to promote the dissemination, knowledge, and study of art from Latin America and the Caribbean. ArtNexus Space will present two annual shows drawn from private collections to which the public does not usually have access. In many cases, early works by important artists, acquired shortly after their production, will be on view. These projects will be accompanied by curatorial studies and publications that will become valuable reference documents.

The ArtNexus Space has a small elevator that can accommodate up to 2 people or a wheelchair. Benches are located throughout the gallery.

Program Admission:

ArtTable Members – $15

Member Guests – $20

General Admission – $25

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About Francine Birbragher-Rozencwaig, Ph.D.

Francine Birbragher-Rozencwaig is an art historian, independent curator, and art critic. Shereceived a Master’s in art history and a Ph.D. in Latin American history from the University ofMiami. She is a founding and contributing editor of ArtNexus magazine and was recentlyappointed Executive Director and Curator of the ArtNexus Space in North Miami. Since 1989,she has written about modern and contemporary art for specialized magazines, newspapers,artists’ monographs, and exhibition catalogs. She specializes in Latin American and Caribbeanart, emphasizing young emerging artists and pioneering women artists from the 20 th century. Sheis the author of the book Essays on 20 th Century Latin American Art (Routledge, 2022). From2008 to 2015, she worked as an adjunct curator at The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum,Florida International University, Miami, Florida. In 2023, she co-curated the XXIII Bienal deArte Paiz in Guatemala with Juan Canela. As an independent curator, she has organized over onehundred exhibitions in the United States and Latin America. She serves on the Advisory Boardof the Friends of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. She belongs to several professionalorganizations, including the International Association of Art Critics (AICA), the College ArtAssociation (CAA), the Association for Latin American Art (ALAA), and ArtTable.

Image: Zoila Andrea Coc-Chang, Más mazorca verde (More Green Cob), 2021Silk organza, corn husks and leaves, plastic, glitter, floral wire, and nails on the wall15.7 x 17.7 in. Courtesy of the artistPhoto: Etienne Frossard

Los Angeles, CA | Tour of 'Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal' with Erin Christovale at the Hammer Museum
2025-03-05 14:00 - 15:00 | Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, California, 90024, United States
Portrait of Alice Coltrane, 1970. Photo: Chuck Stewart. © Chuck Stewart Photography, LLC/Fireball Entertainment Group.

Join ArtTable for an exclusive tour of Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal at the Hammer Museum with Curator Erin Christovale. Christovale, who is also the co-founder of Black Radical Imagination, was an ArtTable New Leadership Awardee in 2020 and named to Apollo‘s 40 Under 40 USA in 2023. Our tour of this inventive interdisciplinary exhibition will explore Coltrane’s creative practice as well as her deep influence on contemporary art, evident in the work of Rashid Johnson, Jennie C. Jones, and Cauleen Smith, among others.

About the exhibition: The exhibition Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal is inspired by the life and legacy of jazz musician, devotional leader, and mother Alice Coltrane (b. 1937, Detroit). The title takes its name from her book Monument Eternal (1977), which reflected her newfound spiritual beliefs; the loss of her husband, the saxophonist John Coltrane; and the path to healing and self-discovery. The exhibition presents works by contemporary American artists paired with ephemera from Coltrane’s personal archive. Featuring a range of mediums including video, installation, performance, and sculpture together with Coltrane’s archival handwritten sheet music, unreleased audio recordings, and rarely seen video footage, Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal explores themes including spiritual transcendence, sonic innovation, and architectural intimacy to honor Coltrane’s cultural output and practice. This exhibition is part of a larger initiative called “The Year of Alice,” and in partnership with the John & Alice Coltrane Home.

Visitor Guidelines & Accessibility (please see the Hammer’s website for full details):

Convenient self-parking is available under the museum. Parking entrances are located on the east side of Westwood Boulevard (northbound) or on the west side of Glendon Boulevard (southbound), between Wilshire Boulevard and Lindbrook Drive. Rates are $8 for the first three hours with museum validation, and $3 for each additional 20 minutes, with a $22 daily maximum. There is a $8 flat rate after 5 p.m. on weekdays, and all day on weekends.

Portable gallery stools can be borrowed from a Hammer ambassador stationed in the galleries. Two wheelchairs are available to borrow from the Welcome Desk on a first-come, first-served basis. The Hammer asks visitors to check oversized bags and leave food and beverages outside the gallery spaces. There may be a few portions of the exhibition with capacity limits.

Program Admission:

ArtTable Members – $15

Member Guests – $20

Non-Members – $25

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ArtTable extends its sincerest thanks to Nicole Berry for assistance in coordinating this program.

Berkeley, CA | Curator-Led Tour: "Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection" with Chief Curator Margot Norton
2025-03-05 16:00 - 17:00 | Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, 2155 Center Street, Berkeley, California, 94720, United States
Join ArtTable for a curator-led tour of Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection at the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, led by Chief Curator Margot Norton.

Making Their Mark brings together more than seventy artworks from the Shah Garg Collection, which is committed to amplifying the voices and visions of women artists. The exhibition, which premiered in New York in 2023, is the first public presentation of this important collection. Making Their Mark juxtaposes contemporary practices with pathbreaking historical works to illuminate transgenerational affinities, influences, and methodologies among artists from the postwar era to the present. Featuring a wide spectrum of artworks spanning almost eight decades, the exhibition emphasizes dialogues between artists who circumvent and break through conventions in art making, embracing craft techniques, uncommon supports, and alternative materials. Accompanied by a major publication produced in advance of the exhibition, Making Their Mark assembles significant examples by artists whose works go beyond prescribed definitions of art making established within a historically patriarchal field.

The Shah Garg Collection us owned by Komal Shah and Gaurav Garg, who support scholarship and public engagement highlighting the achievements and innovations of women artists through the Shah Garg Foundation. Through a wide range of projects and partnerships with educational institutions, arts organizations, and arts leaders, the Foundation works to bring greater recognition to art by women and to rectify the underrepresentation of women in public collections, exhibitions, and art historical narratives. Komal Shah will be honored at ArtTable’s Annual Benefit & Award Ceremony in April of this year. Click here to read more and register!

“I want to make a point with the collection, which is how excellent these artists are — they belong in every single museum.”– Komal Shah, The New York Times, 2023

Please review BAMFA’s accessibility page for available accommodations.

Program Admission:

ArtTable Members – $15

Member Guests – $20

Public – $25

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About Margot Norton

Margot Norton is Chief Curator at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), where she leads the curatorial team and oversees the exhibition program. At BAMPFA she curated the exhibition Gabriel Chaile: No hay nada que destruya el corazón como la pobreza (2023), and is curating the collection exhibition To Exalt the Ephemeral: The (Im)permanent Collection (2024) and Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection, co-curated with Cecilia Alemani (2024). Norton was previously Allen and Lola Goldring Senior Curator at the New Museum, New York, where she recently co-curated the 2021 New Museum Triennial: Soft Water Hard Stone; Wangechi Mutu: Intertwined; and Pepón Osorio: My Beating Heart/ Mi corazón latiente. At the New Museum, she has also curated solo exhibitions with Carmen Argote, Judith Bernstein, Diedrick Brackens, Pia Camil, Sarah Charlesworth, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Ragnar Kjartansson, Sarah Lucas, Chris Ofili, Goshka Macuga, Nathaniel Mellors, Laure Prouvost, Pipilotti Rist, Mika Rottenberg, Kaari Upson and Bárbara Wagner and Benjamin de Burca, among others, and group exhibitions including The Keeper, Here and Elsewhere, and NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star. In 2017, she curated the Eighth Sequences Real Time Art Festival in Reykjavik, Iceland, and the Georgian Pavilion at the 2019 Venice Biennale with artist Anna K.E. She is a founding member of Museums Moving Forward (MMF), an intergenerational, cross-institutional coalition of art museum professionals committed to advancing equity across the museum field. Before joining the New Museum in 2011, Norton was a curatorial assistant at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She has contributed to and edited numerous publications and exhibition catalogues, and regularly lectures on contemporary art and curating. She holds an MA in Curatorial Studies from Columbia University, New York.

Image credits:Installation view: Making Their Mark: Works from the Shah Garg Collection, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, October 27, 2024–April 20, 2025

Margot Norton, photo by Elliott Jerome Brown Jr, courtesy of Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

Virtual | Artist & Curator Conversation with Cara Romero & Jami Powell
2025-03-12 11:00 - 12:00
8am PST | 9am MST | 10am CST | 11am EST

Join ArtTable for a virtual conversation with artist Cara Romero and curator Jami Powell on the occasion of Romero’s solo exhibition currently on view at the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College, Panûpünüwügai (Living Light).

Cara Romero: Panûpünüwügai (Living Light) explores the narrative artistic practice of Chemehuevi photographer Cara Romero. Spanning the past decade of her work, this exhibition presents a thematic examination of Romero’s complex and layered images, which celebrate the multiplicity, beauty, and resilience of Native American and Indigenous experiences. Accompanied by a catalogue of the same title and debuting at the Hood Museum in January 2025, this is Romero’s first major solo exhibition.

Click here for more details about the exhibition.

Program Admission:

ArtTable Patron, Benefactor, and Circle Members – Free

All other ArtTable Members – $10

Member Guests – $15

General Admission – $20

Not a member? Join today!

All program registration fees go toward event expenses and administrative costs for the organization. Please note that if you end up not being able to attend the live program, you will receive the virtual recording after the event.

ArtTable’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

ArtTable Artist Talk programs are generously supported by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.

About Cara Romero

Cara Romero (b. 1977, Inglewood, CA) is a contemporary fine art photographer. An enrolled citizen of the Chemehuevi (CHE -MEH- WAY- VEE) Indian Tribe, Romero was raised between contrasting settings: the rural Chemehuevi reservation in Mojave Desert, CA and the urban sprawl of Houston, TX. Romero’s identity informs her photography, a blend of fine art and editorial photography, shaped by years of study and a visceral approach to representing Indigenous and non-Indigenous cultural memory, collective history, and lived experiences from a Native American female perspective.

As an undergraduate at the University of Houston, Romero pursued a degree in cultural anthropology. Disillusioned, however, by academic and media portrayals of Native Americans as bygone, Romero realized that making photographs could do more than anthropology did in words, a realization that led to a shift in medium. Since coming to Santa Fe’s Institute of American Indian Arts in 1998, Romero’s expansive oeuvre has been informed by formal training in film, digital, fine art and commercial photography. By staging theatrical compositions infused with dramatic color, Romero takes on the role of storyteller, using contemporary photography techniques to depict the modernity of Native peoples, illuminating Indigenous worldviews and aspects supernaturalism in everyday life.Maintaining a studio and gallery in Santa Fe, NM, Romero regularly participates in Native American art fairs and panel discussions, and was featured in PBS’ Craft in America (2019) and again for a short documentary called “Following the Light in 2023. Her award-winning work is included in many public and private collections internationally. Married with three children, she travels between Santa Fe and the Chemehuevi Valley Indian Reservation, where she maintains close ties to her tribal community and ancestral homelands.

Image credits:Cara Romero, 3 Sisters, 2022, archival pigment print. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Acquisition and Preservation of Native American Art Fund; 2022.47.2. © Cara Romero. Courtesy of the Hood Museum of Art.

Washington, DC | BreakfastTable with Carol Duke
2025-03-13 08:00 - 09:00 | Mount Vernon Triangle Neighborhood, Exact Address to be Provided, Washington, District of Columbia, 20001, United States
Join ArtTable for the return of the BreakfastTable event! Launched by a group of dedicated members based in Washington, DC, this long-loved program welcomes female and nonbinary leaders in the arts to share their stories in a casual setting. This month, please join us in welcoming ArtTable Board Member Carol Duke as our featured speaker.

With a passion for the arts and architecture for over 30 years, Carol Duke helps museums and galleries plan for and design facilities that best suit the needs of their audiences, communities, and colleagues. She leads client development and strategy at DLR Group, expanding the firm’s international cultural and performing arts studio. Her long-range planning and commitment to equitable community-building supports projects at a high level, resulting in exceptional, inspiring design solutions. Carol is a trustee of the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. and actively supports several arts organizations, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Society for College & University Planning, the American Institute of Architects, and the International Association of Museum Facilities Administrators. She holds a BA in Art History from Randolph-Macon Woman’s College. In her spare time, Carol loves to curate her Little Free Library, travel with her husband and twin daughters, attend the theater, and visit museums.

We hope you will join us!

Program Admission:

ArtTable Members – $10

Not a member? Join today!

Please note that ArtTable registration fees go toward administrative costs for the organization.

Virtual | Member Networking for Affiliate, Associate, and Professional Members
2025-03-17 17:30 - 18:30
ArtTable Affiliate, Associate, and Professional Members are invited to a Virtual Networking Session on March 17 at 5:30 PM EST/2:30 PM PST.

Grab a cocktail or some afternoon caffeine and join us on Zoom to connect with fellow ArtTable members nationwide. It is an excellent opportunity to share your projects and ideas while building your network and community. ArtTable staff members Jessica L. Porter, Lila Harnett Executive Director, and Alyssa Garland, Membership and Impact Initiatives Manager, will facilitate this session. Admission:

FREE

Open to Affiliate, Associate, and Professional Members Only

All registrants will receive Zoom details the day before the event.

Reach out to membership@arttable.org with any questions.

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New York, NY | Author Talk: "The Blonde with the Balls: An Insider's View of The Art World" with Patricia Hamilton
2025-03-18 18:00 - 20:00 | Bortolami Gallery, 39 Walker St, New York, New York, 10013, United States
ArtTable is thrilled to present a book talk with trailblazing gallerist Patricia Hamilton, a longtime member of the ArtTable community, at Bortolami in Tribeca. Her memoir, The Blonde with the Balls: An Insider’s View of the Art World, recounts stories that only a figure as inimitable as Hamilton could have collected in a voice that is singularly her own. We’ll follow her riveting recollections of life and work as one of the few women and self-made professionals who emerged onto the scene fifty years ago – and transformed it irrevocably. From the Whitney Museum and Art in America to her eponymous Hamilton Gallery – where she championed Louise Bourgeois, Grace Hartigan, Deborah Remington, Joan Snyder, and many other artists – Hamilton has cut a unique path and shares a perspective no one else has on the art world. Jessica L. Porter, Lila Harnett Executive Director of ArtTable, will moderate the discussion.

Please note that registration for this event does not include a copy of the book. Books will be available at the gallery for purchase and signing.

Seating will be available during this event. Please note that Bortolami’s main entrance is a two-step entrance from the street; the elevator-accessible entrance is directly to the left of the steps. The third-floor event space is primarily accessed by stairs, but there is an onsite elevator that can be used as needed.

Program Admission:

ArtTable Members – $25

Member Guests – $30

Non-Members – $35

Not a member? Join today!

ArtTable’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

About the Author

Patricia Hamilton, a founding member of ArtTable, has been involved in the art world for fifty years: first as assistant to Robert Doty at the Whitney Museum, then as Senior Editor of Art in America. Finally, she found her calling as a dealer and was Curator of Exhibitions at the Andrew Crispo Gallery. At age 26, she opened her own gallery on 57th Street, the Hamilton Gallery of Contemporary Art. This was 1977, and 10% of women were dealers, and most had family money. She raised all the money to open and showed 60-70% women. She wanted to show mid-career artists who had been ignored by the world. What better reason to show women? She showed Louise Bourgeois (for the first time in a commercial gallery in 15 years), Grace Hartigan, Deborah Remington, and Joan Snyder. Six of the artists have attained blue-chip status. Aside from Louise, Deborah, and Joan, she would include Ron Gorchov, Sam Gilliam, and Robert Colescott. Then, due to a family tragedy, she closed in 1984 and became an artist’s agent. She rented pop-up spaces and showed artists in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. In 1990, she moved to Los Angeles before it was fashionable. She became the first director of the Salander-O’Reilly Gallery and then went off on her own, selling art to Hollywood collectors. Today, she lives in Whitley Heights in Los Angeles with her two dogs and is peaceful and content.

Washington, DC | Curator-Led Tour of "Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo" at the Smithsonian American Art Museum
2025-03-20 17:00 - 18:00 | Smithsonian American Art Museum, 8th and G Streets, NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20004, United States
Join ArtTable for a curator-led tour of Pictures of Belonging: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, and Miné Okubo at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, led by Melissa Ho, Curator of 20th Century Art.

Miki Hayakawa (1899-1953), Hisako Hibi (1907-1991), and Miné Okubo (1912-2001) were three of the most active and critically acclaimed American artists of Japanese descent in the years leading up to World War II. Their careers spanned eight decades and four US states, yet the full extent of their contributions remain underrecognized within twentieth-century American art history.

Pictures of Belonging is an unprecedented examination of these three trailblazing figures. By tracing their artistic development before, during, and after the mass incarceration and displacement of Japanese Americans during World War II, the exhibition offers a nuanced view of how these women continued to explore and experiment with new artistic expression throughout their lives. Created during tumultuous decades in modern US history, their paintings, along with their stories of resilience, remind us of art’s power in the face of adversity and challenge.

Click here to read more about the exhibition.

Please review the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s accessibility page for available accommodations.

Program Admission:

ArtTable Members – $15

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About Melissa Ho

Melissa Ho is the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s curator of 20th-century art; she joined the museum’s staff in September 2016. Ho is responsible for research, acquisitions and exhibitions related to the museum’s collections focusing on art since 1945. She currently is leading an initiative to expand and enrich the representation of Asian American experiences, perspectives and artistic accomplishment in the museum’s collection and public displays.

Recent projects include “American Voices and Visions: Modern and Contemporary Art” (2023), the first phase of a multiyear renewal and reinstallation of the museum’s permanent collection galleries, and “Composing Color: The Paintings of Alma Thomas” (2023), which will travel to several venues in the United States. Ho organized the critically acclaimed exhibition “Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965-1975” (2019) and “Artist to Artist” (2021).

Previously, Ho worked as a curator at the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden from 2011 to 2016, where she organized “Barbara Kruger: Belief+Doubt” (2012), “Salvatore Scarpitta: Traveler” (2014) and “Shirin Neshat: Facing History” (2015) with Melissa Chiu. She also co-curated with Evelyn Hankins “At the Hub of Things” (2014), a re-installation of the museum’s collection.

Ho earned a bachelor’s degree in studio art and art history from Princeton University and a master’s degree in art history from the University of Pennsylvania.

Image credits:Miki Hayakawa, One Afternoon, ca. 1935, oil on canvas, 40 x 40 in., New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, Gift of Preston McCrossen in memory of his wife, the artist, 1954, 520.23P

2025 IFPDA Print Fair | General & VIP Passes
2025-03-27 17:00 - 2025-03-30 21:00
For ArtTable Executive, Circle, Patron, and Benefactor Levels only.

ArtTable Executive, Circle, Patron, and Benefactor Members are invited to claim their complimentary General or VIP passes for IFPDA’s 2025 Print Fair.

Established in 1987, the IFPDA is the preeminent international membership organization for galleries, dealers, and publishers specializing in prints and editions. Join us at the Park Avenue Armory from March 27th through the 30th for the IFPDA Print Fair, a celebration of 550+ years of prints and printmaking.

You may choose General passes or VIP passes.

VIP passes will allow you access to our VIP Preview on Thursday, March 27th from 5-9 PM, as well as access to our VIP calendar of events once those have been finalized.

General passes will allow for access to the fair during public hours.

Admission:

FREE

Executive, Circle, Patron, and Benefactor Members Only with the possibility to open to other levels if availability allows later.

All registrants will receive an email after registration here with how to get their ticket(s). These passes are only offered while supplies last.

Location: Park Avenue Armory643 Park Avenue, New York, NY

OPENING DAYVIP Preview Thursday, March 27, 2025Invitation and VIP Pass Only 5 – 9 PM

PUBLIC HOURSFriday, March 28, 202511 AM – 7 PMSaturday, March 29, 202511 AM – 7 PMSunday, March 30, 202511 AM – 5 PM

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2025 Annual Benefit & Award Ceremony
2025-04-03 18:30 - 20:30
People of all gender identities are allies in supporting women and nonbinary professionals’ leadership in the arts, and everyone is welcome to attend our Benefit events.

Details on Ticket Levels Below

Please join us at the Bohemian National Hall in New York City, honoring ArtTable’s 2025 Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts Awardee Komal Shah, and New Leadership Awardee Danielle Amodeo.

ArtTable’s Annual Benefit & Award Ceremony was launched in 1993, 13 years after the organization was founded. The inaugural event honored actress, singer, television personality, spokesperson for the arts, and then Chair of the New York State Council on the Arts, Kitty Carlisle Hart, with the first-ever Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts Award. In following years, the event would go on to honor trailblazers and powerhouse women in the arts, including Agnes Gund, Marcia Tucker, Yoko Ono, Thelma Golden, Lowery Stokes Sims, and many more. In 2005, the New Leadership Award was introduced to honor and celebrate emerging women leaders in the arts. Click here to learn more about ArtTable’s Annual Benefit & Award Ceremony.

Register to be a part of one of the year’s most celebrated art world events and contribute to ArtTable’s vision for a more equitable art world!

This program is a standing cocktail reception with refreshments, light bites, and remarks from our honorees. Limited seating is available. ASL interpretation will be provided.

Details on Ticket Levels Below

Tickets $25,000 - Mentorship and Equity Supporter Named support of one ArtTable Fellowship* in 2025Support 5 Mentorship tickets for emerging professionals or former fellow in the field1 purchaser ticket and 9 guest tickets to the BenefitAcknowledgement as a contributor to ArtTable’s Impact Initiatives Fund, in Honor of Meg Perlman on website and press releases for one yearPremier recognition on Benefit listings and spoken recognition at BenefitPremier advertisement$15,000 - Member Supporter Support of 20 Affiliate level* Memberships for emerging professionals in the artsListing on ArtTable Membership webpage as an Affiliate Supporter for one year1 purchaser ticket and 9 guest tickets to the BenefitSupport 5 Mentorship tickets to the Benefit for emerging professionals in the artsPremier recognition on Benefit listingsPriority screen advertisement$10,000 - Visionary Supporter 1 purchaser ticket and 9 guest tickets to the BenefitPremier recognition on Benefit listingsSupport 1 Mentorship ticket to the Benefit for an emerging professional in the artsPriority screen advertisement$5,000 - Community Supporter 1 purchaser ticket and 4 guest tickets to BenefitRecognition in Benefit listingsClassic screen advertisement$3,000 - Leadership Ticket 1 purchaser ticket and 3 guest tickets to BenefitRecognition in Benefit listings$1,000 - Executive Ticket 1 purchaser ticket and 1 guest ticket to BenefitRecognition in Benefit listings$550 - Member Friend Ticket 1 purchaser ticket to BenefitRecognition in Benefit listings$375 - General Ticket $225 - ArtTable Member Ticket (Sign into your ArtTable account to access) $200 - Mentorship Ticket Mentorship tickets provide access to the Benefit for a current or former ArtTable Fellow or other early career professional (Please note that mentorship tickets are distributed through the national office and may not be purchased for a specific person).*ArtTable's Fellowship Program is one of ArtTable’s Impact Initiatives which provides work experiences and mentorship to women and nonbinary emerging professionals in the visual arts. *ArtTable's Affiliate Level is a subsidized ArtTable Membership Level for early career professionals. Advertisement Levels $1,375 - Premier Video Advertisement Five-second video advertisement to be played at the Benefit a minimum of 30 timesInclusion in dedicated e-blast to ArtTable members$775 - Priority Screen Advertisement Three-second stationary advertisement to be played at the Benefit displayed a minimum of 20 timesInclusion in dedicated e-blast to ArtTable members$475 - Classic Screen Advertisement Three-second stationary advertisement to be played at the Benefit displayed a minimum of 10 timesInclusion in dedicated e-blast to ArtTable members$200 - Priority Message Maximum 150-character message to be played at the Benefit displayed a minimum of 20 times $100 - Classic Message Maximum 150-character message to be played at the Benefit displayed a minimum of 10 timesAll advertisements and messages are digital and will be displayed at the Benefit if received by March 20th, 2025. Messages can be in support of the honorees or ArtTable itself. All messages are subject to review by ArtTable. Advertisement purchases do not include a ticket to the Benefit.

ArtTable is a 501.c.3 organization and all events are non-refundable. A portion of all ticket levels is tax-deductible; mentorship tickets are fully tax-deductible for the purchaser. Registrants will receive an acknowledgement letter confirming the tax-deductible donation amount after the event. Please email programs@arttable.org with any questions.

New York, NY | Curator-Led Tour of "Anonymous Was a Woman: The First 25 Years" at NYU's Grey Art Museum
2025-04-04 16:00 - 17:00 | NYU Grey Art Museum, 18 Cooper Square, New York, New York, 10003
Join ArtTable for a curator-led tour of Anonymous Was A Woman: The First 25 Years at the Grey Art Museum at New York University, led by exhibition co-curators Nancy Princenthal and Dr. Vesela Sretenović.

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.

Showcasing some 50 artworks by 41 of the 251 award recipients from AWAW’s first 25 years (1996 through 2020), this exhibition explores several themes surrounding anonymity and, ultimately, celebrates the transformative impact women artists have made on contemporary art since the award’s founding. With each year represented by at least one artist, the exhibition includes works created within a few years of their grant, demonstrating the significance of the award to the artist’s growth. The range of artists featured in the exhibition demonstrates the demographic and aesthetic diversity of past awardees. All 251 artists are represented in a publication accompanying the exhibition, which also includes critical essays about the awardees by Princenthal, Sretenović, and other women scholars.

Click here to read more about the landmark exhibition.

Visitor Notes:

The Grey is fully walker- and wheelchair-accessible, and several portable stools are available to borrow for use within the galleries upon request.

Please note that large bags and backpacks must be checked in a secure locker, and food & drink (including water bottles) are not permitted.

Program Admission:

ArtTable Members – $15

All registrants for this event will be provided with a 20% discount on ArtTable’s limited edition scarf celebrating 25 Years of Anonymous Was a Woman, created in 2021 in conjunction with ArtTable’s 45 year anniversary and the year Susan Unterberg received the Distinguished Service to the Visual Arts Award. Made of 100% silk habotai, only a handful of scarves remain in our inventory!

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All program registration fees go toward event expenses and administrative costs for the organization.

ArtTable’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

About the Curators

Nancy Princenthal is a Brooklyn-based writer whose book Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art (2015) received the 2016 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography. She is also the author of Hannah Wilke (2010) and Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art, and Sexual Violence in the 1970s (2019), and co-author of Mothers of Invention: The Feminist Roots of Contemporary Art (2024). Princenthal has taught at Bard, Princeton, Yale, the School of Visual Arts, NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts, and elsewhere.

Dr. Vesela Sretenović has been a long-time curator of modern and contemporary art with special interest in cross-disciplinary art practices and in bridging theoretical knowledge with hands-on experience. Most recently (2009-23) she served as Director of Contemporary Art Initiatives and Academic Affairs at The Phillips Collection in Washington DC. During her tenure, she had organized Intersections, a series of ongoing contemporary art projects, as well as monographic exhibitions of prominent artists including Robert Ryman, Ellsworth Kelly, Antony Gormley, and the first museum retrospective of Cuban artist Zilia Sanchez. Additionally, she oversaw academic partnership initiatives with the University of Maryland (UMD) and the University of Virginia (UVA). Prior to The Phillips, Sretenović worked at Brown University, the University at Buffalo SUNY, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art. She is a frequent visiting faculty, teaching modern and contemporary art history and theory, and works as an independent curator. Sretenović holds a BA in Art History from University of Belgrade, Former Yugoslavia, an MA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and a PhD in Humanities from Syracuse University.

Image credits:Judy Pfaff, Ram’s Delhi, 2012. Wood, mild steel rod, melted plastics, black aluminum foil, and LED and UV Fluorescent light, 70 x 132 x 17 in. Collection of the artist, New York

Washington, DC | Curator-Led Tour of "Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist" at the National Gallery of Art
2025-04-08 15:00 - 16:00 | National Gallery of Art, East Building, 4th St and Constitution Ave NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20565, United States
Join ArtTable for a curator-led tour of Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist at the National Gallery of Art, led by Dr. Lynn K. Matheny, Deputy Head of Interpretation and Curator of Special Projects.

This retrospective exhibition showcases 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 features more than 150 works, including well-known sculpture and prints, rare paintings and drawings, and important ephemera. The exhibition is co-organized by the Brooklyn Museum and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and presented in collaboration with the Art Institute of Chicago.

One of the defining artists of the 20th century, Elizabeth Catlett addressed the injustices she witnessed and experienced through her bold prints and dynamic sculptures. In striving to make art for the people—from her roots in Washington, DC, Chicago, and New York to the remarkable body of work she made during some 60 years in Mexico—Catlett put social justice at the very center of her work. An avowed feminist, lifelong activist, and deft formalist, Catlett passionately addressed injustices such as class inequality, racial violence, and U.S. expansionism through her politically engaged art, injustices which continue to shape the world today.

“I have been, and am currently, and always hope to be a Black Revolutionary Artist and all that it implies.”– Elizabeth Catlett, 1970

Click here to read more about the exhibition and this visionary artist-activist.

Please review the National Gallery of Art’s accessibility page for available accommodations.

Program Admission:

ArtTable Members – $15

Member Guests – $20

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Please note that ArtTable registration fees go toward administrative costs for the nonprofit organization. The National Gallery of Art does not charge an admission fee.

About Lynn K. Matheny

Dr. Lynn K. Matheny currently serves as Deputy Head of Interpretation and Curator of Special Projects at the National Gallery of Art. She has worked on a wide array of modern and contemporary art exhibitions, including Philip Guston Now; Afro-Atlantic Histories; Gordon Parks: The New Tide, Early Work 1940-1950; and Sally Mann: A Thousand Crossings, among many others. She frequently collaborates with museums in the United States and abroad and is honored to help bring to the National Gallery Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist.

Image credits:Elizabeth Catlett, Gossip, 2005color digital and photo-lithograph on wove paperimage: 37.47 x 45.72 cm (14 3/4 x 18 in.)sheet: 59.69 x 60.96 cm (23 1/2 x 24 in.)National Gallery of Art, Washington, Reba and Dave Williams Collection, Gift of Reba and Dave Williams© 2024 Mora-Catlett Family / Licensed by VAGA at Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

Lynn K. Matheny, courtesy of the Corcoran School of the Arts & Design, George Washington University.

2025 San Francisco Art Fair | Complimentary General Passes
2025-04-17 16:00 - 2025-04-20 18:00
All ArtTable Members are invited to claim their complimentary General passes for the 2025 San Francisco Art Fair, running April 17- April 20!

Art Market San Francisco is now the San Francisco Art Fair. This evolution is a direct affirmation of the fair’s commitment to the thriving arts ecosystem that defines the Bay Area. Continuing the fair’s dedication to San Francisco’s vibrant cultural institutions, active collecting community, and the vital notion of unwavering patronage, the San Francisco Art Fair is a year-round platform for the many voices of its region.

Make sure to also sign up for our Guided Tour of the San Francisco Art Fair for ArtTable Members on April 18 at 1 pm.

These passes are only offered while supplies last.

Admission:

FREE to All ArtTable Members

All registrants will receive an email after registration here with how to get their ticket(s). These passes are only offered while supplies last.

Location: Fort Mason Festival Pavilion2 Marina BoulevardSan Francisco, CA 94123

Select VIP Preview:Thursday, April 17, 2025: 4 pm – 6 pmExclusive Entry for Select VIPs

Opening Night presented by RBC Wealth ManagementThursday, April 17, 2025: 6 pm – 9 pmExclusive Entry for Fair Pass Holders and Select VIPs

Public HoursFriday, April 18, 2025: 11 am – 7 pmSaturday, April 19, 2025: 11 am – 7 pmSunday, April 20, 2025: 11 am – 6 pm

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San Francisco, CA | Guided Tour of the San Francisco Art Fair
2025-04-18 13:00 - 14:00 | Fort Mason Center – Festival Pavilion, 2 Marina Blvd., San Francisco, California, 94123, United States
Join ArtTable 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 will present 85 leading galleries from around the world alongside a dynamic series of public programming at Fort Mason Festival Pavilion. This year’s programming will be a continuation of the fair’s consistent commitment to providing a platform that celebrates diverse perspectives and pushes the boundaries of artistic expression.

Program Admission:

ArtTable Members – $15

Member Guests – $20

Admission includes complimentary access to the fair.

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Please note that ArtTable registration fees go toward administrative costs for the organization.

Image credits:2024 San Francisco Art Fair, Courtesy AMP

2025 Photography Show by AIPAD | Complimentary VIP Passes
2025-04-23 11:00 - 2025-04-27 22:00
ArtTable Members are invited to claim their complimentary VIP passes for the 2025 Photography Show Presented by AIPAD.

The Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD) cordially invites you to attend The Photography Show at the iconic Park Avenue Armory. The Photography Show transforms one of New York’s most notable architectural landmarks, rich with social and design history, into an immersive photography experience, transcending eras, attitudes, and artistic styles.

The fair is the longest-running exhibition dedicated to the photographic medium in the world. It provides an international platform for collectors, museum curators, executives and professionals, artists, and photography enthusiasts.

Each VIP Pass provides access for two guests

– VIP Pass, access Wednesday, April 23 – Sunday, April 27– VIP Pass, access Thursday, April 24 – Sunday, April 27

These passes are only offered while supplies last.

All registrants will receive an email after registration here with how to get their ticket(s). These passes are only offered while supplies last.

Location: Park Avenue Armory643 Park Avenue, New York, NY

VIP Opening Evening: Wednesday, April 23 | 4pm – 9pm

Show Hours: Thursday, April 24 | 12pm – 8pm (11am VIP Hour)Friday, April 25 | 12pm – 7pm (11am VIP Hour)Saturday, April 26 | 12pm – 7pm (11am VIP Hour)Sunday, April 27 | 11am – 5pm

If you want to be eligible for this or other opportunities, consider upgrading your membership! Reach out to membership@arttable.org with any questions.

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2025 EXPO Chicago | Complimentary VIP Passes
2025-04-24 11:00 - 2025-04-27 20:00
ArtTable Members are invited to claim their complimentary VIP passes for EXPO CHICAGO 2025.

Save the dates April 24–27, 2025 for the next edition of EXPO CHICAGO Contemporary Art Fair. Leading contemporary and modern art galleries return to Navy Pier’s Festival Hall, alongside a diverse and inventive program of talks, on-site installations, and public art initiatives. EXPO CHICAGO draws upon the city’s robust history as a vibrant international cultural destination, while highlighting the region’s contemporary arts community.

Make sure to register for the ArtTable Brunch at EXPO on April 25 at 9:30 AM.

Each VIP Pass provides access for one guest– VIP Pass, access on Thursday, April 24 at 12 pm.

These passes are only offered while supplies last.

All registrants will receive an email after registration here with how to get their ticket. These passes are only offered while supplies last.

Location: Navy Pier Festival Hall600 E Grand AveChicago IL 60611

VIP Preview:Thursday, April 24, 2025By Invitation Only. Check your VIP pass for entry time. Fair closes at 8:00pm

General Admission:Thursday, April 24, 2025 | 5:00–8:00 pm* Opening Night Ticket holders onlyFriday, April 25, 2025 | 11:00 am – 7:00 pmSaturday, April 26, 2025 | 11:00 am – 7:00 pmSunday, April 27, 2025 | 11:00 am – 6:00 pm

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Chicago, IL | ArtTable Brunch at EXPO Chicago
2025-04-25 09:30 - 11:00 | EXPO Chicago, Navy Pier, Chicago, Illinois, 60611, United States
Here at ArtTable, we love nothing more than a pre-art fair brunch. Join us at EXPO Chicago for drinks, bites, and networking before exploring the 2025 edition of the fair. We are excited to be joined by Kate Sierzputowski, Artistic Director of the fair!

EXPO CHICAGO Contemporary Art Fair showcases 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 draws 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.

Please review EXPO Chicago’s accessibility page for available accommodations. Please email us at programs@arttable.org with any accommodation requests.

Program Admission:

ArtTable Members – $50

Member Guests – $60

General Admission – $70

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All registration fees go toward administrative costs for the nonprofit organization.

Image credits:The scene at the 2023 edition of Expo Chicago, at Navy Pier.

New York, NY | Private Walkthrough at Bonhams with Senior Specialist Kacie Desabla
2025-05-06 09:30 - 10:30 | Bonhams, 580 Madison Avenue, New York, New York, 10022, United States
Bonhams is pleased to welcome ArtTable Members for a private walkthrough and viewing of their 20th and 21st Century Sales, including the 20th / 21st Century Art Evening Sale, Impressionist & Modern Art, and Post-War & Contemporary Art Day Sale, led by Senior Specialist, Post War & Contemporary Art, Kacie Desabla.

Light refreshments will be provided.

Program Admission:

ArtTable Members – $20

Member Guests – $25

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Please note that ArtTable registration fees go toward administrative costs for the nonprofit organization.

ArtTable’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

2025 New York Art Week | VIP Pass Packages
2025-05-07 09:00 - 2025-05-11 18:00
PC: Frieze New York

ArtTable VIP Access Passes for fairs taking place during New York Art Week are now live and available to all ArtTable members for purchase! To secure your pass, login to the member portal and select your preferred available pass option. Participating fairs and remaining pass types indicated below; we look forward to seeing you in in New York in May.

Participating Fairs:

Frieze New York

Future Fair

NADA New York

Independent

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VIP Access Pass Levels Available:

Platinum Level – $150

Gold Level – $115

Silver Level – $100

Bronze Level – $60

2025 TEFAF New York | Complimentary VIP & General Admission Passes
2025-05-08 11:00 - 2025-05-13 18:00
ArtTable Members are invited to claim their complimentary VIP Collector’s Pass or General Admission pass for 2025 TEFAF New York from May 8 – May 13.

As the world’s most prestigious and vibrant art market, New York City provides the ideal setting for a TEFAF fair outside of Maastricht. TEFAF is proud to present the tenth edition of TEFAF New York at the Park Avenue Armory from May 9-13, 2025. The historic Park Avenue Armory is a prime Manhattan location and setting for the world’s leading art dealers to showcase their work. TEFAF New York will also include a concurrent edition of TEFAF Online with a selection of the works on display at the Armory, alongside Programming, Stories, and other content from the TEFAF community.

These passes are only offered while supplies last, and Collector’s Passes are first-come, first-served.You choose from the following:

– Collector’s Pass – Access May 8– General Admission Pass with secret digital floor plan – Access May 9

These passes are only offered while supplies last.

All registrants will receive an email after registration here with how to get their ticket(s). These passes are only offered while supplies last.

LocationPark Avenue Armory643 Park AvenueNew York, NY 10065United States, IL 60611

Opening HoursCollectors Preview (by invitation only):Thursday, May 8

General AdmissionFriday, May 9, 11 am – 7 pmSaturday, May 10, 11 am – 7 pmSunday, May 11, 11 am – 7 pmMonday, May 12, 11 am – 7 pmTuesday, May 13, 11 am – 6 pm

If you want to be eligible for this or other opportunities, consider upgrading your membership! Reach out to membership@arttable.org with any questions.

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New York, NY | ArtTable’s Art Law Series: Building and Managing a Fine Art Collection
2025-05-09 09:00 - 11:00 | Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, 1133 6th Ave 24th Floor, New York, New York, 10036, United States
Join us for the third installment of ArtTable’s Art Law Series, produced in partnership with Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP. In this conversation, we will explore 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 will focus 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 will hear from several arts professionals involved at the different stages of collection-building, from the initial purchase to long-time care and conservation.

This conversation will build on topics explored in the first two conversations in this series: Responsible Transacting in the Art Market (held at Patterson Belknap’s New York office in April 2024) and From Purchase to Patronage: Stewarding Your Growing Collection (hosted at Untitled Art Miami Beach in December 2024, with additional support from Private Client Select and SRI Fine Art Services). If you missed us in Miami Beach, you can enjoy our December conversation courtesy of the Untitled Art Fairs Podcast!

Panelists:

Moderator: Anne-Laure Allehaut, Counsel, Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Sharon Chrust, President, Sharon Chrust & Associates

Maura Kehoe Collins, Principal, Artiphile

Tanya Wells, Owner, TMSW Art Advisory

Program Admission:

ArtTable Members – $15

Member Guests – $20

General Admission – $25

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Please note that ArtTable registration fees go toward administrative costs for the organization.

This program is hosted in partnership with and supported by Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

ArtTable’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

About the Speakers

Anne-Laure Alléhaut is Counsel in Patterson Belknap’s Art and Museum Law practice. Anne-Laure started her career at Skadden Arps in M&A before serving as a Senior Vice President of Sotheby’s legal transactional team, negotiating many of the auction house’s most complex and high value transactions while also overseeing Sotheby’s advisory, appraisal and valuation departments.

Anne-Laure brings 18 years of law firm and in-house experience to the art industry and draws on her broad and deep experience to advise her clients with speed and efficiency. Her client base includes private collectors, galleries, estates, start-ups, art dealers, museums, advisors and financial institutions. Anne-Laure is a graduate of Université Paris X, Nanterre and Université Paris II, Panthéon-Assas. She received her J.D. and LL.M. from Cornell University.

Maura Kehoe Collins is founder and director of Artiphile, an independent art advisory firm specializing in art collections management services. Established in 1991 to promote the conscientious stewardship of cultural property, Artiphile is primarily concerned with the preservation of artistic and historic works held in collections outside museums. Artiphile implements museum standard procedures for inventory and registration, cataloguing, photo-documentation and records management, condition surveys and baseline condition reports; advises on installation, conservation and framing, lighting, environmental controls, appraisal and insurance needs, loans, storage, packing, and transit; provenance and authentication procedures, as well as succession concerns. All needs germane to the proper maintenance of any art collection large or small, from acquisition to disposition.

Collins is a graduate of Mount Holyoke College with a BA in Art History and a minor in Asian Studies acquired during fourteen months of study in Taiwan and at Beijing Normal University in the PRC. During college Collins worked as a curatorial assistant in the Mount Holyoke College Art Museum and as acting registrar initiated the project to computerize the Museum’s catalogue. In post graduate studies Collins was the first recipient of the C.V. Starr Fellowship for training in Far Eastern Art Conservation at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, a position she held for three years. A Kress Foundation grant then funded an internship in the Eastern Pictorial Art Conservation Department of the British Museum, London, which led to a permanent post. Collins continued her interest in computerized documentation by representing her department on a task force to network conservation records in all UK museums.

Sharon Chrust has been involved in the Contemporary Art market for over 25 years. In 2003, she started Sharon Chrust & Associates, which provides appraisal and art consulting services to private and corporate clients. She has attained the highest accreditation of the Appraisers Association of America, that of a Certified member and is the Immediate Past President of the Board of the organization. In addition, Sharon has been an adjunct instructor at New York University in the Appraisal Studies program, is an instructor for the Appraisers Association of America’s CASP program, and was President of the Board of Franklin Street Works, a non-profit arts space in Stamford, Connecticut.

Sharon has participated in a number of national and international panels, and discussions on art and art appraising, in cities as diverse as Shanghai, New York City, Greenwich, and Sarasota. She has been quoted in articles in Artnews, and Artsy, and has written articles on insurance appraisals, and contributed essays to publications on posthumous editions, and appraisal writing. Prior to starting Sharon Chrust & Associates, Sharon was a gallery director at the Waterside Art Gallery in Stamford, CT, a docent at the Whitney Museum of American Art and worked in the public relations department of the Cooper Hewitt Museum. She has a Masters in Art History from Hunter College, a BA from Boston University, has completed the Certificate of Appraisal Studies at NYU and has passed the Uniform Standards of Appraisal Practice Exam.

Tanya Wells began her career in museum education at The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth under Terri Thornton and Michael Auping. She has worked as a specialist and sales director with Christie’s New York and Bonhams in 19th and 20th Century art for almost twenty years. Tanya also spent a brief time with Winston Art Group in the advisory division assisting large collections and family offices.

Tanya currently owns and oversees TMSW Art Advisory, an independent practice focused on creating fine art collections and consulting with families and fiduciaries to manage the unique needs of collectors during a transition, or at the end of a collecting period. Tanya is a former participant in the ArtTable career fair, a member of The Modern and Contemporary Collectors Committee of The Morgan Library and Museum, an IFAR supporter, and recently became a member of The Cosmopolitan Club.

New York, NY | Curator-Led Tour of "Madalena Santos Reinbolt: A Head Full of Planets" at the American Folk Art Museum
2025-05-13 14:00 - 15:00 | American Folk Art Museum, 2 Lincoln Square, NY, United States
Join ArtTable for 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.

A Head Full of Planets explores the context in which Santos Reinbolt’s artistic practice crystallized in the early 1950s, after she became a live-in cook for the architect Lota de Macedo Soares and her partner, the American poet Elizabeth Bishop, at their home in Petrópolis, a mountain getaway favored by Brazilian high society. It was not until the mid-1960s, while working in another household, that she began to dedicate herself to embroidery and would begin creating many of the works for which she is best known today.

Click here to read more about the exhibition and this mysterious yet extraordinary artist, as well as a recent artnet article about the exhibition and Dr. Rousseau’s curatorial process.

The American Folk Art Museum is fully accessible. Gallery stools and wheelchairs are available upon request, and an access ramp is available to enter the upper gallery if needed. If you require additional accommodations, please email us at programs@arttable.org.

Program Admission:

ArtTable Members – $15

Member Guests – $20

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Please note that ArtTable registration fees go toward administrative costs for the nonprofit organization.

ArtTable’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

About Valérie Rousseau, PhD

Valérie Rousseau, PhD, is Curatorial Chair and Senior Curator of 20th-Century & Contemporary Art at the American Folk Art Museum, New York. She overviewed critically acclaimed exhibitions, notably Willem van Genk: Mind Traffic (2014), When the Curtain Never Comes Down (AAMC award, 2015), Art Brut in America: The Incursion of Jean Dubuffet (2015), Photo|Brut (2021), Morris Hirshfield Rediscovered (2022), as well as projects on the legacy of Francesc Tosquelles, the concomitance of psychiatric and artistic avant-gardes (FACE Foundation Curatorial Fellowship “Étant Donnés,” 2019), neurodiversity (IMLS, 2023–2025), art brut literature, art environments, and artists like Henry Darger, William Edmondson, Eugen Gabritschevsky, and Madalena Santos Reinbolt. She authored Bill Traylor (FILAF award, 2018), “Regarder par les failles de ce monde: Intersections de l’art brut et de l’art populaire” (Les cahiers du Musée national d’art moderne, 2024), The Hidden Art (Rizzoli, 2017), “Visionary Architectures” (Alternative Guide to the Universe, Hayward Gallery, 2013), and guest edited the issue “The Fate of Self-Taught Art” (The Brooklyn Rail, 2018). In 2022, she participated in the seminar “Showing/Searching: art brut and its archival impulse” of the Bibliothèque Kandinsky Summer University (Centre Pompidou, Paris).

Image credits:Madalena Santos Reinbolt, Untitled, 1965–1976. Acrylic wool on burlap, 35 7/8 x 46 in. Collection Renan Quevedo, São Paulo, Brazil

Valérie Rousseau, courtesy of the American Folk Art Museum.

New York, NY | Curator-Led Tour of "Saya Woolfalk: Empathic Universe" with Alexandra Schwartz
2025-05-20 17:00 - 18:00 | Museum of Arts & Design, 2 Columbus Circle, New York City, NY, 10019, United States
Join ArtTable for a curator-led tour of Saya Woolfalk: Empathic 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.

Program Admission:

ArtTable Members – $15

Member Guests – $20

Not a member? Join today!

Please note that ArtTable registration fees go toward administrative costs for the nonprofit organization.

ArtTable’s programs are made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.

Image courtesy of the Museum of Arts and Design
