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Miami Art Week | ArtTable VIP Fair Pass Packages
2019-12-02 | California
Image: Art Basel Miami Beach 2018
We’re out of passes! Email programs@arttable.org to be placed on a waitlist
Join ArtTable members for special access to fairs during Miami Art Week, December 2 – 6, 2019! This year ArtTable is offering a VIP Pass Package. Please note that there is a very limited number of packages and that these will be distributed on a first come first serve basis.
VIP Package includes:
Art Miami, CONTEXT, Aqua Art Miami (VIP Pass)
Art Basel Miami Beach (Single Day Pass)
Design Miami (VIP Pass)
NADA (VIP Pass)
Prizm (VIP Pass)
Pulse (VIP Pass)
Scope (VIP Pass)
UNTITLED (VIP Pass)
Passes to be distributed digitally and by mail. This offer is exclusive to ArtTable members, limited to one package per member.

DC | Curator-led tour of "Topographies of Life" with Jennifer Riddell
2019-11-23 13:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Katzen Arts Center American University Museum, 4400 Massachusetts Ave NW, Washington, DC, 20016, United States
Image: Lynn Sures, “2019.4 The Hell Hole,” 2019, Colored pencil drawing on artist-made kenaf paper, 16 x 24 inches, Courtesy of the Artist / Photo: Mark Gulezian
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Join fellow AT member and independent curator Jennifer Riddell to visit “Topographies of Life,” featuring the work of Lynn Sures, Pam Rogers, and Mel Watkin. Each artist borrows from the practice of illustration to explore aspects of nature and our interrelation with it across time and varied landscapes.
There is free parking available in the Katzen Center garage on weekends. Metro to Tenleytown + AU shuttle.
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Thank you to Jennifer Riddell for leading and organizing this program.

NY | Dutch Treat Breakfast at L'Express
2019-11-22 08:30 - 10:00 (America/New_York) | L’Express, 249 Park Ave S, New York, NY, 10003, United States
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Join us for an informal Dutch-treat breakfast at L’Express. Enjoy breakfast while catching up and networking with ArtTable members in a casual cafe setting.
To view the menu and for more information, visit: L’Express
L’Express is located at 249 Park Avenue south, SE corner of 20th Street
Subways:
6 or R to 23 rd Street or N/R,4,5,6 to 14th street.
If on the West side crosstown bus at 23 rd street. Exit at Park Ave south or if taking the L to 14th Street from Brooklyn or West side, exit at Union Square and walk or take 6 to 23rd street.

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Thank you to Ingrid Dinter for organizing and Susan Halper for hosting this program.

NY | MeetAT at the Arts Student League for 'Post-War Women'
2019-11-21 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | California
Image Credit: MAY STEVENS. Forming the Fifth International, 1985. Acrylic on canvas, 78 x 120 inches. Courtesy of Arts Student League and Ryan Lee Gallery.
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Program is free and open to members and guests, advance registration required.
ArtTable’s MeetAT networking program continues in November! This month we are hosted by the Arts Student League whose fantastic exhibition, Post-War Women, is currently on view.
ArtTable MeetATs are a free member-hosted event for existing and potential ArtTable members from all sectors of the art world to mingle and engage with each other in a casual atmosphere. Come solo or bring a guest to this lively gathering that encourages new friends and trusted colleagues to get to know one another better. Without a formal program, everyone is free to network and engage in conversation.
Postwar Women is The Art Students League’s first exhibition to explore the vital contributions of these alumnae on the international stage. On view at The Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery from November 2 to December 1, 2019, Postwar Women challenges the misperception that great art produced by women artists is somehow an exception rather than the rule. Curator Will Corwin investigates the history of innovative art academies like The League that promoted democratic ideologies, which in turn created artistic opportunities for women of all social classes.
Thank you to Will Corwin, Curator, Arts Student League and creator of MeetAT programs, Louky Keijsers-Koning, Director/Owner, LMAK Gallery, for organizing and supporting this program.

NY | Walk-through of Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates with Emma Enderby
2019-11-20 17:00 - 18:00 (America/New_York) | The Shed, 545 West 30th Street, New York, NY, 10001, United States
Image: Installation view: Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates, The Shed, New York, October 9, 2019 – March 22, 2020. Photo: Dan Bradica.
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Join ArtTable NY for a curator led walk through of Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates at The Shed with Emma Enderby, senior curator at The Shed.
Agnes Denes rose to international attention in the 1960s and 1970s as a leading figure in conceptual, environmental, and ecological art. A pioneer of several art movements, she creates work in a broad range of mediums, utilizing various disciplines—science, philosophy, linguistics, ecology, psychology—to analyze, document, and ultimately aid humanity. Denes turns her analysis into beautiful, sensual visual forms, poetry, and a philosophy that she has developed over the course of her career.
This comprehensive survey exhibition, Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates, brings together over 150 works spanning her 50-year career. The exhibition includes a comprehensive look at her important series the “Philosophical Drawings” (1969 – 80), “Map Projections” (1973 – 79), and “Pyramid Series” (1970 –); her realized monumental public works, including the iconic Wheatfield—A Confrontation (1982); as well as a presentation of unrealized works. The Shed has also commissioned a number of works that both expound and expand on the ideas that have been ever present throughout Denes’s career. Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue.
Emma Enderby is the senior curator at The Shed, NYC, where she has organized the retrospective exhibitions Agnes Denes: Absolutes and Intermediates, as well as Collision/Coalition featuring Tony Cokes, Oscar Murillo, Vanessa Bergonzoli and Yanina Valdivieso), Open Call (52 emerging artists), and Trisha Donnelly. As adjunct curator at Public Art Fund, Enderby curated Tauba Auerbach: Flow Separation (2018); as associate curator solo presentations Katja Novitskova: EARTH POTENTIAL (2017), Spencer Finch: Lost Man Creek (2016–18), and David Shrigley: MEMORIAL (2016–17), along with group exhibitions Commercial Break (2017) and The Language of Things (2016). Previously, as exhibitions curator at the Serpentine Galleries, London, she organized exhibitions including Hilma af Klint: Painting the Unseen (2016), Rachel Rose: Palisades (2015), Leon Golub: Bite Your Tongue (2015), Trisha Donnelly (2014), and Haim Steinbach: once again the world is flat (2014) and assisted on Adrián Villa Rojas: Today We Reboot the Planet (2013). She was also co-project curator for the Serpentine’s Pavilion commissions of selgascano (2015) and Smiljan Radić (2014). Previously, she worked at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, and Whitechapel Gallery, London.

Agnes Denes The Ghost of Nautlus

This work, printed for ArtTable, re-imagines one of Denes’ most iconic forms, a snail shaped nautilus spiraling delicately through space, as an ode to The Nautilus, a destroyed amphitheater designed by Denes. Proceeds from the sale of this work support ArtTable and its mission to support inclusion in the art world. For more information, see here.

Thank you to Emma Enderby and Leslie Tonkonow.

NY | Artist Breakfast with Nona Faustine at Two Palms
2019-11-19 08:30 - 10:00 (America/New_York) | Two Palms, 38 Crosby Street, 3rd floor, New York, NY, 10013, United States
Image: Nona Faustine, Fragment of Evidence, Statue of Liberty, 2019. Silkscreen on lanaquarelle, 40 x 60 in, edition of 20.
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Join ArtTable for Artist Breakfasts, a series of conversations with artists. These intimate monthly breakfasts feature leading figures in the visual arts in discussion with curators, academics, and critics. This month we will hear from Nona Faustine, whose work has been exhibited at Harvard University, the Studio Museum of Harlem, and who’s body of work My Country, is currently on view at Two Palms and will be traveling with the studio to Miami Art Basel.
About the artist:
Nona Faustine is an award-winning photographer and visual artist born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. She is a graduate of the School of Visual Arts and The International Center of Photography at Bard College’s MFA program. Her work focuses on history, identity, representation, evoking a critical and emotional understanding of the past, and proposes a deeper examination of contemporary racial and gender stereotypes.
Faustine’s images have received worldwide acclaim and have been published in a variety of national and international media outlets such as Artforum, New York Times, Huffington Post, Hyperallergic, The Guardian, New Yorker Magazine, and Los Angeles Times, among many others. Faustine’s work have been exhibited at Harvard University, Rutgers University, Maryland State University, the Studio Museum of Harlem, the African American Museum in Philadelphia, Schomburg Center for Black Research in Harlem, the International Center of Photography, Saint Johns Divine Cathedral, Tomie Ohtake Institute in Sao Paulo, among other institutions. Her work is in the collection of the David C. Driskell Center at Maryland State University, the Studio Museum of Harlem, the Brooklyn Museum, and recently, the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 2019, Faustine was the recipient of the NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship, Colene Brown Art Prize, Finalist in the Outwinn Boochever Competition of the National Portrait Gallery and selected to be the first inaugural class of Kehinde Wiley’s Black Rock Senegal Residency.
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Thank you to ArtTable’s Artist Breakfast Committee, Tiana Webb Evans and to Two Palms for hosting this event.

NY | 2019 CAREER ROUNDTABLE PROGRAM
2019-11-15 09:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | California
Established in 2009 ArtTable New York’s Career Development Roundtable is one of our longest standing and most impactful career mentoring programs. The program is designed to give emerging leaders in arts administration, art business, museum studies, art history, curatorial studies, and arts internships across the New York metropolitan area an experience to meet with professional women in the visual arts to discuss career opportunities. It is also a chance to network among peers and build lasting relationships

Emerging professionals seeking career advice and inspiration for careers in the visual arts, are invited to attend ArtTable’s 2019 Career Development Roundtable taking place on November 15, 2019. Graduate students in art history, in art history, design history, museum and curatorial studies, museum education, art business, and arts administration programs in the New York City area are invited to participate. Students will have the opportunity to gather around selected tables for open and engaged conversations with leading professional women in the visual arts, to learn about their diverse career paths and experiences, to gain insights and advice for their own career development, and to network and build future relationships with peers and mentors.

Career Topics that will be explored include: appraiser | art advisor | art fairs | art publishing | art conservator | auction houses/online art businesses | collection management/ registrar/archivist | curator/art historian | development/fundraising | gallerist/dealer | museum/nonprofit director | public programing/museum education | public relations/marketing/social media.

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NY | Curatorial Walk-through of Edith Halpert and the Rise of American Art
2019-11-14 17:45 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | The Jewish Museum, 1109 5th Ave at 92nd St, New York, NY, 10128, United States
Image: Edith Halpert at the Downtown Gallery, wearing the 13 watch brooch and ring designed for her by Charles Sheeler, in a photograph for Life magazine in 1952. She is joined by some of the new American artists she was promoting that year. Credit: Photograph © Estate of Louis Faurer
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Join ArtTable NY for a curatorial walk through of Edith Halpert and the Rise of American Art at The Jewish Museum with Rebecca Shaykin, Associate Curator, The Jewish Museum.
The Jewish Museum will present Edith Halpert and the Rise of American Art, the first exhibition to explore the remarkable career of Edith Gregor Halpert (1900-1970), the influential American art dealer and founder of the Downtown Gallery in New York City. A pioneer in the field and one of New York’s first female art dealers, Halpert propelled American art to the fore at a time when the European avant-garde still enthralled the world. The artists she supported — Stuart Davis, Jacob Lawrence, Georgia O’Keeffe, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Ben Shahn, and Charles Sheeler key among them — became icons of American modernism. Halpert also brought vital attention to overlooked nineteenth-century American artists, such as William Michael Harnett, Edward Hicks, and Raphaelle Peale, as well as little-known and anonymous folk artists. With her revolutionary program at the Downtown Gallery, her endless energy, and her extraordinary business acumen, Halpert inspired generations of Americans to value the art of their own country, in their own time.
The exhibition, on view at the Jewish Museum from October 18, 2019 through February 9, 2020, will feature 100 works of American modern and folk art, including paintings, sculptures, and prints by artists such as Davis, Lawrence, O’Keeffe, Kuniyoshi, Shahn, and Sheeler, as well as Arthur Dove, Elie Nadelman, Max Weber, and Marguerite and William Zorach, among others, and prime examples of American folk art portraits, weathervanes, and trade signs. Along with major artworks that were exhibited at and sold through the Downtown Gallery, highlights from Halpert’s acclaimed personal collection of both modern and folk art, reassembled for the first time since its landmark sale in 1973, will also be on view.
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Thank you to Randy Rosen, ArtTable NY Program Committee Member, for organizing this program.

DC | Director and Curator-Led Tour of the US Diplomacy Center
2019-11-14 08:30 - 09:30 (America/New_York) | US Diplomacy Center, 330 21st St NW, Washington, DC, 20006, United States
Image: Courtesy US Diplomacy Center
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Join ArtTable for a behind-the-scenes exploration of the U.S. Diplomacy Center, coffee and pastries will be provided.
The event will include a discussion with Museum Director Mary Kane, curatorial and education staff, and a tour of the museum’s preview exhibit “”Diplomacy Is Our Mission,”” designed in conjunction with Smithsonian Exhibits.
Through the voices of diplomats, “”Diplomacy Is Our Mission”” tells the often surprising story of how diplomacy has shaped our nation. When complete, the U.S. Diplomacy Center will be the nation’s first museum dedicated to the history, practice, and challenges of American Diplomacy. A public-private partnership with the U.S. Department of State, it will seek to broaden the public’s understanding of the critical role played by American diplomacy in establishing and maintaining our nation’s security, economic prosperity, and success. Through exhibitions, interactives, outreach programs, and over 9,000 unique artifacts, the U.S. Diplomacy Center will inspire the American public to discover diplomacy and how it impacts their lives every day.
Please note registration closes on November 10!!***MUST BRING PHOTO ID***
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Thank you to Jennifer Duncan, Director of Foundation of Art and Preservation in Embassies, for organizing this program.

SOCAL | Self-Guided Visit to Shirin Neshat at the Broad
2019-11-13 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Broad, 21 S. Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, 90012, United States
Image: Shirin Neshat, Land of Dreams, 2019, video still
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Join ArtTable for a visit to Shirin Neshat: I Will Greet the Sun Again, the largest exhibition to date of the artist’s approximately 30-year career. This will not be a curator-led walk-though, but an opportunity to experience with colleagues the exhibition and its plethora of time-consuming video works, which can be viewed at will. For those who are interested in discussing the exhibition after the visit, sign up to attend the optional, self-pay lunch or coffee at Vespaio opposite the museum, beginning at 1:00.
Taking its title from a poem by Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad, I Will Greet the Sun Again presents 230 photographs and eight video works. The retrospective offers a rare glimpse into the evolution of Neshat’s artistic journey as she explores topics of exile, displacement, and identity with beauty, dynamic formal invention, and poetic grace.
Beginning with her early photograph series, Women of Allah, the exhibition features iconic video works such as Rapture, Turbulent, and Passage, monumental photography installations including The Book of Kings and The Home of My Eyes, and Land of Dreams, a new, ambitious work encompassing a body of photographs and two immersive videos that will make its global debut in the exhibition.
Admission covers the museum’s per person change for a group visit.
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Thank you to Roni Feinstein, ArtTable SoCal Chair, for organizing this program.

DC | Around the Table Book Club
2019-11-12 19:00 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Ruth Abrahams’ home, address to be sent a week prior, DC, United States
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Join ArtTable DC for our member’s book club focusing on books by artists or about the visual arts. We read a mixture of fiction, memoir, and biography, plus anything else that seems interesting. This book club is open to all members. Please register online.
This month we’ll discuss “Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art” by Nancy Princenthal.
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Thank you to Ruth Abrahams for organizing this program.

NY | Artist-Led Tour of "A Bridge Between You and Everything..." curated by Shirin Neshat
2019-11-12 18:30 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | High Line Nine Galleries, 507 West 27th Street, New York, NY, 10001, United States
Image: Hadieh Shafie, Turn No 11. Ink, Acrylic and pencil on mat board, 12 inch in diameter, 2019
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Join ArtTable for an evening with the artists of A Bridge Between You and Everything: An Exhibition of Iranian Women Artists presented by the Center for Human Rights in Iran and curated by Shirin Neshat, an internationally renowned, Iranian-born, New York-based artist whose work includes film, video and photography.
A Bridge Between You and Everything features nearly 100 works—paintings, drawings, sculpture, photography and video—by both established and emerging artists, who began working after Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution.
“At a time when the Western world is shining a spotlight on women’s issues and equality, it’s vital that we use this moment of the public imagination to empower dialogues from women and immigrant artists who have, and likely still continue to experience forms of repression, both in the extreme and every day,” curator Shirin Neshat said.
“This exhibit showcases the richness of contemporary Iranian art and the ability of these women to communicate vital and universal themes of identity and gender through their artistic vision,” added Hadi Ghaemi, executive director of the Center for Human Rights in Iran.
Participating Artists:
Afruz Amighi is an Iranian-born artist who completed her BA in political science at Barnard College at Columbia University, before going on to complete her MFA at New York University. She was the inaugural recipient of the Jameel Prize for Middle Eastern Contemporary art awarded by the Victoria & Albert Museum in London in 2009. Afruz’s work draws heavily upon Iranian architecture for both its forms and concepts. Working with a wide variety of materials, including textiles and steel, the mainstay of her practice involves the interplay between light and shadow. Through the manipulation of light, she creates imagined sanctuaries for the purpose of both reflection and escape. In 2011, Afruz was granted a fellowship in sculpture by the New York Foundation for the Arts and in 2013 her work was commissioned for the 55th Venice Biennale. Her work is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art; (New York, NY); the Houston Museum of Fine Art (Houston, TX); the Victoria & Albert Museum (London, UK); and the Morgan Library & Museum (New York, NY), among others. In 2018, she had her first solo museum exhibition at the Frist Art Museum in Nashville, Tennessee. Afruz currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
Roya Farassat is a painter and sculptor born and raised in Tehran, Iran. She moved to New York prior to the Islamic revolution and received a BFA in painting from the Parsons School of Design. The themes of oppression, solitude and identity animate both her paintings and sculptures, welded on steel. In an earlier body of work from the series, A Mirror Has Two Faces, she paints abstracted and symbolic portraits of women in veil and frames them in ornamental elements as seen in compositions familiar to the history of imperial Persian painting. Roya challenges the cultural expectations of her heritage with humor and investigates the identity of women and their silent resistance, living under the scrutiny of a patriarchal society. These paintings have been reviewed by The New York Times and exhibited widely in the United States including at The Edward Hopper House (Nyack, NY); The Queens Museum (Queens, NY); The Taubman Museum 9Roanoke, VA0; Leila Heller Gallery (New York, NY); The Center for Book Arts (New York, NY); and most recently the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design. Roya currently lives and works in New York.
Shahrzad Changalvaee is a sculptor and visual artist. Born in Tehran, Iran, she received her BA in Visual Communications from Tehran University and her MFA in Sculpture from Yale University in 2015. Working across installation, sculpture, photography, performance and video, her practice responds to time and space, using found images and footages in adjacent to artist-made and primary materials. Through structures that are mostly temporal, fragile and fragmented, she constructs narratives that question local/global, information/anecdote, language/communication and alienism/exoticism. Shahrzad’s work has been featured in both solo and group exhibitions in Iran, the UAE, Britain, Canada and the U.S. Notable shows have been held at The Chimney (Brooklyn, NY), Soho20 Gallery (Brooklyn, NY) and the O Gallery (Tehran, Iran). In 2011 Shahrzad was introduced as the runner-up for the Magic of Persia Award. She currently is a member and co-director of Bon-Gah Collective in Tehran. Shahrzad lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Nazanin Noroozi works predominantly in the medium of printmaking, but also incorporates painting and alternative photographic processes, exploring new ways to represent the ideas of collective memory, longing and diaspora. She invites the viewer to look into broken narratives through various juxtapositions of personal and family archives, landscapes, found imagery and lo-fi graphics. These works are a riff on the voyeuristic pleasures of looking at strangers’ personal archives and at the same time recalling a sense of ambiguity and fragility that the analogue world of the recent past carried. Nazanin’s work has been widely exhibited in both Iran and the United States, including at the Museum of Russian Art (Jersey City, NJ); Noyes Museum of Art (Atlantic City, NJ); Prizm Art Fair (Miami, FL); and Columbia University (New York, NY). She is the recipient of NYFA IAP Program 2018, Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts fellowship, MASS MoCA Studio Residency 2019, and the winner of “Selection of a New Generation” award in Iran. She is the editor at large of Kaarnamaa, a Journal of Art History and Criticism. Nazanin received her MFA in painting and drawing from Pratt Institute in 2015 and her MA in Art History from Tehran University of Art in 2012. She currently lives and works in New York City.
Bahar Sabzevari is an Iranian artist exploring identity through self-portraiture, narrative painting and video art. In her most recent series of self-portraits, she questions Iranians’ tendency and obsession to praise the past. Why do we romanticize Persian history which is so far from the realities of our contemporary life? Integrating Persian motifs, religious details and characters into her self-portraits, Bahar explores the concept of nostalgia and creates illusions of a lost age of glory. Her earlier self-portraits focus on contemporary Iranian society. In the “Bad Girls” series, Bahar explores the paradoxes she has experienced, being a woman caught between the restrictions of the Islamic cultural regime and everyday existence living in modern times. Born in Shahroud, Iran, Bahar received her MFA in painting at the New York Academy of Art in 2018. Notable exhibition venues include FIAC Art Fair (Paris, France); Leila Heller Gallery (New York, NY); Galerie RX (Paris, France); Kamil Art Gallery (Monte Carlo, Monaco); Cité Internationale des Arts (Paris, France); and a solo show at the Watson Institute, Brown University (Providence, RI). Bahar has been the recipient of the Central Academy of Fine Arts Residency in Beijing, China summer of 2017. She lives and works in New York.
Hadieh Shafie is a visual artist based in Brooklyn, New York. In her works the occulting of text can be traced back to her childhood and adolescence growing up in post-revolutionary Iran, where the influence of books on political and social affairs was highly scrutinized and policed by the newly established government. Books, poetry and music were conversely also a means of mental escape for her from the subsequent years of political turmoil during the Iran-Iraq war. In 1983 she immigrated to the USA. Her work is included in prominent public collections namely the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, NY); The Victoria and Albert Museum (London, UK); The Columbus Museum of Art (Columbus, OH); Sheldon Museum of Art (Lincoln, NE); The Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art (Winter Park, FL); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA); The Davis Museum (Wellesley, MA); The British Museum (London, UK); and The Brooklyn Museum of Art (Brooklyn, NY). Hadieh holds an MFA in Imaging and Digital Arts from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and an MFA in Painting from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. In 2017, she was nominated for the “Anonymous Was A Woman” Award.
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Thank you to Lauren Poehl, Director of Development, Center for Human Rights in Iran and Lucy Oakley, Head of Education and Programs, Grey Art Gallery for organizing this program.

NY | Employment Law 101: What every art business and worker should know
2019-11-12 08:15 - 09:30 (America/New_York) | Bonhams, 580 Madison Avenue, New York, NY, 10022, United States
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ArtTable’s professional empowerment series invites experts to share their professional experiences, knowledge and skills. Each session presents an opportunity to engage with and learn more about a topic, issue or skill that directly impacts the professional lives of our members. Past sessions topics have included, Art Market Legal Basics with Katie Wilson-Milne and John Koegel, Public Speaking with Michaela Ablon, Everything You Wanted to Know About Social Media But Were Afraid to Ask with Robin Cembalest and many more!
Session 11 with Kerry C. Zaroogian
What we’ll be discussing:

Employees, independent contractors and interns
Exempt versus non-exempt and overtime
When you need a written agreement
Family leave and benefits
Termination considerations, including restrictive covenants

KERRY C. ZAROOGIAN is an associate in Outten & Golden LLP’s Executives and Professionals Practice Group and its Financial Services Practice Group in New York. She represents employees, partners, consultants and freelancers in the negotiation and drafting of employment, severance, independent contractor, international assignment and restrictive covenants agreements. She also counsels individuals and groups of individuals with respect to employment-related issues such as lift-outs, restructurings and corporate transactions. Ms. Zaroogian has experience working with individuals in a wide array of industries—including finance, tech, healthcare, entertainment, and luxury retail—and with employees of companies of all sizes—from large, public conglomerates to small start-ups.
Prior to joining Outten & Golden, Ms. Zaroogian represented individuals and small businesses in employment matters and litigations at Sapir Schragin LLP. Ms. Zaroogian received her B.A. from Brandeis University and her J.D. from Northeastern University School of Law, where she served on the Editorial Board of the Northeastern University Law Journal and interned at another plaintiff-side employment law firm in New York City and the Legal Unit of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s New York office.
Ms. Zaroogian is the Chair of the New York City Bar Association’s New Lawyers Practice and Skills Committee, a leader of City Bar’s New Lawyers’ Council and a member of the City Bar’s Council on the Profession. She is also an active member of the American Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Section.

Many thanks to ArtTable NY’s Professional Empowerment Committee: Sarah McNaughton, Elileen Jeng-Lynch, Jacqueline Towers-Perkins, Louky Keijsers Koning and Katherine Wilson-Milne.

AT TOURS | Japan
2019-11-11 - 2019-11-18 | California
Image: Seiichi Ohsawa Courtesy of Benesse Art Site Naoshima
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Naoshima and Tokyo are where art lovers are flocking to along with
Kyoto for lovers of heritage and nature. It is attracting tastemakers from all corners, with its booming contemporary art scene around Tokyo such as the Yayoi Kusama Museum and TeamLab Space, and lesser known Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Enoura Observatory selected by Conde Naste as one of the most exciting destinations for 2019. And of course the epic Naoshima Art Islands with surreal masterpieces of art and architecture. Autumn is one of the most delightful and admiring seasons to experience in Japan, and Kyoto is notorious for its beautiful Fall foliage.
This journey immerses you to the modern and contemporary art world starting from cosmopolitan Tokyo, that is a micro-universe on its own. You will be introduced to the local art and creative movers and shakers in the various neighborhoods of this city, whether its commercial, non-profit or underground, it is what makes Tokyo such a unique place unlike any other. For fashion and design lovers, Tokyo is a mecca for cutting-edge trends and innovation.
After the introductory plunge into Japanese culture, we sweep across to the highlight of your trip visiting the Naoshima Art Islands. Established by an art collector, the Naoshima art project is a series of remote islands acquired and redeveloped into a private museum with stunning architecture (i.e. Tadao Ando) maximizing the impact of the art with its natural surroundings. Your final stop will be in Kyoto, one of the most beautiful cities on earth that has just the right balance of cultural heritage with modernity and nature. Kyoto was once the capital of Japan and because it was spared the bombs of World War II, its historic monuments, heritage sites, and 2500+ temples and shrines are still intact. Kyoto boasts the nations greatest concentration of craft artisans, as it was home to the Imperial court for 1,000 years. Your experience will not only uncover the traditional side of Kyoto, but will also show you the modern take of this alluring city.

NTL | Annual Leadership Series with Amy Sherald
2019-11-07 18:30 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | The Manny Cantor Center, 197 E Broadway, New York, NY, 10002, United States
Image: Amy Sherald by Jordan Geiger
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ArtTable’s Annual Leadership Series returns this year with Amy Sherald, Artist, and Ashley James, Assistant Curator, Contemporary Art, Brooklyn Museum.
ArtTable’s Annual Leadership series presents a public forum featuring a distinguished roster of artists, change-makers and leaders in our field to discuss relevant and emerging issues for those working in arts and culture. This year we turn our attention to the politics of portraiture and representation, thinking deeply about the ways a portrait can convey power and subvert truths and using as a starting point Sherald’s transformation of the everyday into the monumental in her most recent series at Hauser & Wirth .
“‘Artists of color are using portraiture to author a narrative of people that art history was written without. It speaks to the human condition and holds up a mirror to life.’”- Amy Sherald in conversation with Marc Payot, Partner and Vice President of Hauser and Wirth for her upcoming exhibition Amy Sherald the Heart of the Matter…
Celebrated for her presidential portrait of First Lady Michelle Obama, Sherald positions her subjects firmly within our understanding of American Art, reimagining the style of traditional portraiture to construct layered identities through colorful compositions.
About Amy Sherald
Born in 1973 in Columbus, GA, Amy Sherald documents contemporary African-American experience in the United States through arresting, otherworldly portraits. Sherald subverts the medium of portraiture to tease out unexpected narratives, inviting viewers to engage in a more complex debate about accepted notions of race and representation, and to situate black heritage centrally in the story of American art.
Sherald received her MFA in Painting from Maryland Institute College of Art (2004) and BA in Painting from Clark-Atlanta University (1997). She was the first woman and first African-American ever to receive first prize in the 2016 Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition from the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C.; in February 2018, the museum unveiled her portrait of former First Lady Michelle Obama. Sherald has also received the 2018 David C. Driskell Prize from the High Museum of Art in Atlanta GA, the 2018 Pollock Prize for Creativity, and the 2017 Anonymous Was A Woman grant. Her solo exhibition “heart of the matter..” opened at Hauser & Wirth NYC in September 2019. Alongside her painterly practice, Sherald has worked for almost two decades along-side socially committed creative initiatives, including teaching art in prisons and art projects with teenagers.
Public collections include Embassy of the United States, Dakar, Senegal; National Museum of Women in the Arts; Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture; Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery; The Columbus Museum; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art; Baltimore Museum of Art; and Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, NC.
About Ashley James
At the Brooklyn Museum, Ashley James organized the Brooklyn Museum presentation of “Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power”; and “Eric N. Mack: Lemme walk across the room”; and is co-curating the forthcoming “John Edmonds: A Sidelong Glance.” Prior to Brooklyn she worked in the Department of Drawings and Prints at the Museum of Modern Art, where she contributed to the 2018 Charles White retrospective and the 2018 Adrian Piper retrospective. James is a Ph.D. candidate in the Departments of African American Studies; English Literature; and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Yale University, from which she holds Master’s degrees in those fields. At Yale she co-curated the 2014 University Art Gallery exhibition “Odd Volumes: Book Art from the Allan Chasanoff Collection.” James writes broadly on modern and contemporary visual and literary arts practices, and her dissertation reorients the contemporary discourse of black representation by way of experimental art making practices of the late 1960s/early 1970s.
Thank you to Hauser & Wirth for their support.

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NY | Tour of the New MoMA with Ann Temkin
2019-11-05 18:30 - 19:30 (America/New_York) | The Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 Street, New York, NY, 10019, United States
Image: Pablo Picasso. Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. 1907. Oil on canvas. 8′ x 7’8″ (243.9 x 233.7 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest. © 2004 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

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Join ArtTable NY for an after hours visit to the newly renovated galleries of the Museum of Modern Art with Ann Temkin, The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture.
Ann Temkin assumed the role of Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture in 2008, after joining The Museum of Modern Art in 2003 as Curator. During her tenure, Ms. Temkin has focused especially on the acquisitions program of the Department of Painting and Sculpture, and on reimagining the Museum’s collection galleries. The acquisitions program has followed a three-pronged approach: to strengthen the holdings of landmark works by modern artists whom the Museum collects in depth; to widen its breadth with works by historical artists new to the department’s collection, especially women, artists of African descent, and artists working outside of Europe and North America; and to collect actively from the new generation of artists working today.
Ms. Temkin is currently preparing an exhibition of the work of Donald Judd (2020). Her exhibitions at MoMA include Studio Visit: Selected Gifts from Agnes Gund (2018), Picasso Sculpture (2015), Robert Gober: The Heart Is Not a Metaphor (2014), Jasper Johns: Regrets (2014), Ileana Sonnabend: Ambassador for the New (2013), Ellsworth Kelly: Chatham Series (2013), Claes Oldenburg: The Street and The Store and Mouse Museum/Ray Gun Wing (2013), Abstract Expressionist New York (2010), Gabriel Orozco (2009), and Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today (2008).
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DC | BreakfastTable with Lindsey Doyle
2019-11-01 08:00 - 09:00 (America/New_York) | Boulangerie Christophe, 1422 Wisconsin Ave NW, DC, 20007, United States
Image: Lindsey Doyle
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Join us for an informal conversation with Lindsey Doyle, Co-founder and Chief Strategy Office of MAP. MAP is a creative consulting and talent agency representing top media and arts professionals from conflict zones and diaspora communities. Lindsey specializes in peacebuilding, conflict management and transformation, and U.S. foreign policy. She leads MAP’s work on business development, strategy, client-facing creative design, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation, and finance.
Prior to MAP, Lindsey served in the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations where she designed and implemented interagency strategies and programs on a range of diplomatic and development issues.
As a Princeton in Latin America Fellow and Rotary Peace Fellow, Lindsey worked overseas where she researched, promoted, and often spoke publicly on the strategic use of creative arts and media in peacebuilding.
Lindsey is from Los Angeles, California and holds an M.S. in Peace and Conflict Research from Uppsala University in Sweden and a B.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University.
Dutch treat, cash preferred. Rideshare preferred, limited street parking.
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NY | Artist Breakfast with Valerie Hegarty
2019-10-30 08:30 - 10:00 (America/New_York) | The Flag Foundation, 545 W 25th St #9, New York, NY, 10001, United States
Image: Flowers with Roots Elegy. 2019. Wood, canvas, wire, foil, epoxy clay, foam, acrylic paint45” (h) x 31” (w) x 6” (d)
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Join ArtTable for Artist Breakfasts, a series of conversations with artists. These intimate monthly breakfasts feature leading figures in the visual arts in discussion with curators, academics, and critics. This month we will hear from Valerie Hegarty, whose work is currently on show at Figuring the Floral at Wave Hill.
Valerie Hegarty is a visual artist based in Brooklyn who creates paintings, sculptures, and installations that often address themes of memory, place and history. Hegarty’s solo exhibitions include Nicelle Beauchene, NY; Marlborough Gallery Chelsea; Locust Projects, Miami; Museum 52, London; The MCA in Chicago; and Guild & Greyshkul, NY, among others including a commission for a public sculpture on the High Line, NY and her most recent show of site-specific installations in The Brooklyn Museum’s period rooms. Selected group exhibitions in NY include Artists Space, The Drawing Center, D’Amelio Terras Gallery, Derek Eller, White Columns and MoMA PS1. Hegarty has been awarded numerous grants through foundations such as the Pollock Krasner Foundation, The New York Foundation for the Arts, the Rema Hort Mann Foundation, the Tiffany Foundation, and Campari NY. Residencies include LMCC, Marie Walsh Sharpe, PS 122, MacDowell, Yaddo and Smack Mellon. Hegarty received an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a BFA from San Francisco’s Academy of Art College and a BA from Middlebury College, VT. Hegarty was the first Andrew W. Mellon Arts and the Common Good Artist-in-Residence at Drew University in Madison, New Jersey from 2014-2015.
This program is gernerously funded by the Pollock Krasner FoundationThe Pollock-Krasner Foundation has been a leader in providing grants enabling emerging and established artists to focus on their work. Funding helps artists to create new work, acquire art supplies, rent studio space, and prepare exhibitions. The Foundation also provides grants to organizations that directly engage with artists, such as artist residency programs. Please visit www.pkf.org for more information.

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Thank you to ArtTable NY’s Artist Breakfast Committee and to The Flag Art Foundation for hosting this event.
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NW | Professional Development: Judith Rinehart on Opening a Gallery
2019-10-28 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Judith Rinehart Gallery, 319 Third Ave S., Seattle, Washington, 98104
Image: Judith Rinehart, Owner and Director
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Join ArtTable Northwest for an evening of conversation with Judith Rinehart, Owner and Director of J. Rinehart Gallery, opening in October. Rinehart will share her insight on opening and running an art gallery in Seattle. Appetizers and drinks will be provided.
J. Rinehart Gallery Has a Physical Space, Baby! The Stranger
Brick by Brick, Gray
Judith Rinehart Owner & Director, Judith Rinehart graduated with her BFA in Art History from the University of Utah and has been working in fine art galleries since 2007. She has previously managed two highly successful art galleries in Seattle and has established herself as a fixture in the gallery community. She served for three years as treasurer of the Seattle Art Dealers Association and served as the curator and panelist at the Seattle Emerging Arts Fair in 2018. By launching J. Rinehart Gallery in 2019, Rinehart has taken her passion for art to a personal level. As an art dealer and a collector herself, she understands the complexities behind every purchase and strives to make the process as easy as possible for both the artist and the collector.

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Thank you Judith Rinehart, Owner and Director, J. Rinehart Gallery.

SOCAL | October MeetAT The Roof on Wilshire
2019-10-28 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Roof on Wilshire, (located on top of the Kimpton Hotel Wilshire), Los Angeles, CA, 90048, United States
Image: Panoramic view from the Roof on Wilshire
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Join us for our monthly MeetAT at The Roof on Wilshire. Come mingle with SoCal members and bring colleagues who you’d like to sponsor for membership for no-host beverages and appetizers from their Sunset Hour Menu (happy hour).
Valet parking is available for $12 at the hotel or there is a lot next door that offers a $6 flat rate.
MeetAT, a signature ArtTable program, is a free, member-hosted event for existing and potential ArtTable members from all sectors of the art world to mingle and engage with each other in a casual atmosphere. Come solo or bring a guest to this lively gathering that encourages new friends and trusted colleagues to get to know one another better. Without a formal program, everyone is free to network and engage in conversation.
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Thank you to Geneen Estrada, SoCal Chair of Communications and Melissa Pugash, SoCal member.

NY | Alice Miceli: Project Chernobyl at America’s Society
2019-10-28 17:45 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | America’s Society, 680 Park Ave, New York, NY, 10065, United States
Image: Alice Miceli Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, radioactive woods, Belarus, 2008
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Join ArtTable NY for a private curatorial walk through of Alice Miceli: Project Chernobyl at the America’s Society.
This exhibition presents Alice Miceli’s Projeto Chernobyl (Chernobyl Project), a series of 30 radiographs produced in 2006–2010. Miceli developed a method of image making to document the enduring effects of the Soviet nuclear plant explosion of April 26, 1986. Though gamma radiation continues to be present and to cause health problems and deaths in the area, it is invisible to the naked eye and to traditional methods of photography that have been used to document the region’s ruins. With Projeto Chernobyl, Miceli made this contamination visible via direct contact between the radiation and film, which was exposed in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone for months at a time. Both technically and conceptually complex, Miceli’s work questions our ideas of vision, memory, politics, and environmental issues.
Learn more about the exhibition.
Diana Flatto is assistant curator, Visual Arts at the Americas Society, where she has co-curated Alice Miceli: Projeto Chernobyl and assisted on Walls of Air: The Brazilian Pavilion at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale, Victoria Cabezas and Priscilla Monge: Give Me What You Ask For and Lydia Cabrera and Édouard Glissant: Trembling Thinking. Prior to that, she worked for over five years as a specialist at an auction house. She graduated from Brandeis University with a BA in art history and business, and earned an MA in art history with an advanced certificate in curatorial studies from Hunter College, where she co-curated exhibitions including Framing Community: Magnum Photos 1947–Present and Copy, Translate, Repeat: Contemporary Art from the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros.
Carolina Scarborough is Assistant Curator for Public Programs, Visual Arts at Americas Society, where she has realized all public programs related to the organization’s exhibitions including, Alice Miceli: Projeto Chernobyl, Walls of Air: The Brazilian Pavilion at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale, Victoria Cabezas and Priscilla Monge: Give Me What You Ask For, and Lydia Cabrera and Édouard Glissant:Trembling Thinking. At the Americas Society she also creates public programs to contextualize, educate and promote Latin American Art. She is also responsible for the donors, the Arts of the Americas Circle and fundraising of special public programs of the Visual Arts Department. Ms. Scarborough’s previous experience includes four years at Phillips Auction House as Latin American Art Specialist in the Latin American and Contemporary Art Departments, and four years as Sales Associate at the Thomas Segal Gallery, Baltimore. She interned and volunteered in prestigious museum and art institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Independent Curators International, International Center of Photography, and The Smithsonian Institution. Ms. Scarborough holds an MA in Museum Studies from New York University and a BA in Comparative Literature from Oberlin College.
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Thank you to Julia Herzberg, Independent Curator and ArtTable NY Programs Committee Member, and Carolina Scarborough, Assistant Curator, America’s Society, for organizing this program.

DC | Curator-Led Tours at the National Museum of Women in the Arts
2019-10-25 09:00 - 10:00 (America/New_York) | National Museum of Women in the Arts, 1250 New York Ave NW, Washington, DC, 20005, United States
Image: Janaina Tschäpe, Fiji, from the series 100 Little Deaths, 2002; Chromogenic color print, 31 x 47 in.; NMWA, Gift of Heather and Tony Podesta Collection; © Janaina Tschäpe; Image courtesy of Janaina Tschäpe studio. Creative: Tronvig
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ArtTable DC invites you to enjoy curatorial tours of two new fall exhibitions at the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA).
Judy Chicago—The End: A Meditation on Death and Extinction explores the newest body of work by feminist artist and pop-cultural icon Judy Chicago. In nearly 40 works of painted porcelain and glass, as well as two large bronze sculptures, the artist reflects on her own mortality and issues an appeal for compassion and justice for all earthly creatures.
The exhibition Live Dangerously features fierce, dreamy and witty images of the female figure integrated into the Earth’s terrain. Drawn primarily from NMWA’s collection of modern and contemporary photography, the exhibition features artists who make the female body their sculptural material, positioning figures in natural surroundings to suggest provocative narratives. The exhibition includes Janaina Tschäpe’s series of one hundred large-scale photographs, 100 Little Deaths (1996–2002), exhibited in full for the first time.
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Thank you to Amy Mannarino, Director of Communications and Marketing at National Museum of Women in the Arts.

NY | MeetAT at IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair
2019-10-24 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | California
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ArtTable’s MeetAT networking program continues in October! This month we are teaming up with the IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair. We invite members and guests to join us during the IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair’s Young Collectors Cocktail Reception taking place on Thursday, October 24, 2019 from 7-9 PM. At 8PM members + guests will gather in the VIP Lounge to hear remarks from Fair Director, Helen Toomer. Fair access is included in registration. All registrants will receive a code to access their fair pass closer to the event date.
ArtTable MeetATs are a free member-hosted event for existing and potential ArtTable members from all sectors of the art world to mingle and engage with each other in a casual atmosphere. Come solo or bring a guest to this lively gathering that encourages new friends and trusted colleagues to get to know one another better. Without a formal program, everyone is free to network and engage in conversation.
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Thank you to ArtTable members Klaudia Ofwona Draber, Founder, KODA Labs; Helen Toomer, Fair Director, IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair; and creator of MeetAT programs, Louky Keijsers-Koning, Director/Owner, LMAK Gallery, for organizing and supporting this program.

NY | How to Navigate Recruiting in the Art World
2019-10-24 08:15 - 09:30 (America/New_York) | Bonhams, 580 Madison Avenue, New York, NY, 10022, United States
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ArtTable’s professional empowerment series invites experts to share their professional experiences, knowledge and skills. Each session presents an opportunity to engage with and learn more about a topic, issue or skill that directly impacts the professional lives of our members. Past sessions topics have included, Art Market Legal Basics with Katie Wilson-Milne and John Koegel, Public Speaking with Michaela Ablon, Everything You Wanted to Know About Social Media But Were Afraid to Ask with Robin Cembalest and many more!
Session 10: How to Navigate Recruiting in the Art World with Sarah Murkett, Founder of Murk & Co
What we’ll be discussing:

The definition of recruiting and the tools of recruitment
For Employers:

What employers need to think about when starting a search
Why an employer would want to use a recruiter
Fee structures
What employers should be thinking about to attract and retain top talent

For Candidates:

How the relationship between a candidate and recruiter starts
What recruiters look for in a candidate
Interview preparation
Salary expectations and contract negotiations

Sarah Murkett:
Founder and principal of Murk & Co, an executive search firm providing staffing solutions for the art world, Sarah Murkett has over 20-years of experience in the field. Sarah began her art career at Marlborough and PPOW galleries after which she worked as a development and marketing consultant to art organizations and individuals in the creative industries including NADA, Socrates Sculpture Park and Atelier 4. She joined Armand Bartos Fine Art in the fall of 2007. As Director, she was instrumental in launching the prestigious gallery and its exhibition program, which presented two historical exhibitions a year until the gallery closed in April of 2011. Murk & Co began that year as a business dedicated to buying and selling artwork with a focus on Post-War and Contemporary Art, providing advisory services for both beginning and seasoned collectors, and curating projects with a focus on art historical themes of the 20th Century. Before turning her focus to recruitment, Sarah served as an advisor to both the Artist Pension Trust (APT) and MutualArt, helping to initiate sales programs for both companies and leading to the first financial distributions to artist members of APT in August of 2016.

Sarah is a member of PAIAM, POWarts, and Art Table, where she served as co-chair of the New York chapter’s programming committee from 2011-2013.
Thank you to Bonhams for providing breakfast and generously hosting the Optimizing Success: Professional Empowerment series. Bonhams, founded in 1793, is one of the world’s largest and most renowned auctioneers, offering fine art and antiques, motor cars and jewellery. The main salerooms are in London, New York, Los Angeles and Hong Kong, with auctions also held in Knightsbridge, Edinburgh, Paris, San Francisco and Sydney. With a worldwide network of offices and regional representatives in 22 countries, Bonhams offers advice and valuation services in 60 specialist areas. For a full list of forthcoming auctions, plus details of Bonhams specialist departments, please visit bonhams.com.
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Thank you to ArtTable Members Sarah McNaughton, Katherine Wilson-Milne, Eileen Jeng, Jacqueline Towers-Perkins and Louky Keijsers Koning, for organizing this series.
ArtTable is a 501.c.3 organization. All programs are non-refundable.

SOCAL | Visit to the Home of Cliff and Mandy Einstein
2019-10-22 17:00 - 19:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | To be provided upon registration
Images provided by Cliff and Mandy Einstein
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Please join ArtTable for a very special visit to the Brentwood home of Cliff and Mandy Einstein, where our tour will be led by the collectors themselves.

Assembled over the course of the past several decades, the Einstein Collection consists of about 200 works by almost as many artists. The works, which range from pieces by John McLaughlin, Rufino Tamayo, George Segal, Mark di Suvero, Ed Ruscha, John Baldessari, and Gilbert and George to Sterling Ruby, Mary Weatherford, Mark Grotjahn, Albert Oehlen, Oscar Murrillo, and Mai-Thu Perret, fill the contemporary art gallery-like home. Outside are not only a Thomas Houseago figure and gigantic Nancy Rubins sculpture made of airplane parts, but
a James Turrell skyspace, Second Meeting (1985; installed in 1989), the artist’s first freestanding work and his first skyspace to enter a private collection in the U.S. Cliff Einstein has served on the Board of Trustees of LACMA and is currently Chairman Emeritus of MOCA LA. He has also served both as a trustee and lecturer on art and the creative process at Otis College of Art and Design, where he was awarded an honorary Ph.D.
In 2019, the Cliff and Mandy Einstein Visiting Artist Series was initiated at Otis, which many ArtTable members have attended. Among the artists already presented were Elmgreen and Dragset, Kara Walker, and Edgar Heap of Birds and upcoming on Monday, October 14th, is Shirin Neshat.
Space is extremely limited and reserved for members only. As parking is also of limited availability, we will arrange for carpooling among attendees. Please be advised as well that only soft, rubber-soled shoes will be permitted (no socks or stockinged feet!)
Thank you to SoCal Chapter Chair, Roni Feinstein and ArtTable member Victoria Burns of Victoria Burns Art Advisory.
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NY | "Yto Barrada: The Dye Garden" at the Neuberger Museum
2019-10-18 10:00 - 14:00 (America/New_York) | Neuberger Museum of Art, 735 Anderson Hill Road, Purchase, NY, 10577-1400, United States
Image: Yto Barrada. Untitled (After Stella, Rabat), 2017. Cotton, indigo, chamomile. 44 x 38 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Pace Gallery. Photography by Mark Waldhauser, courtesy Pace Gallery.
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Join ArtTable NY for a trip to the Neuberger Museum to see work by an internationally-acclaimed, Moroccan-French, multimedia artist and winner of the 2019 Roy R. Neuberger Prize, Yto Barrada. Helaine Posner, Chief Curator at the Neuberger Museum of Art and ArtTable member, will lead us through this exhibition and the museum’s collection.
Following our tour, catered lunch will be provided at the Museum.
How does one transmit political courage? Yto Barrada asks.
The Neuberger Museum’s 2019 Roy R. Neuberger Prize, carrying an honorarium of $25,000, has been awarded to Yto Barrada, an internationally-acclaimed, Moroccan-French multi-media artist. In addition to the cash award, the exhibition, Yto Barrada: The Dye Garden, will be presented for the first time in the United States.
Originally presented at the American Academy in Rome and expanded for the Neuberger Museum of Art, Yto Barrada: The Dye Garden features recent work by Barrada, whose artistic practice weaves together family history and broader sociopolitical narratives, employing a variety of media, including photography, film, video, installation, sculpture, books, and hand-dyed textiles. The artist has long investigated gestures of resistance to structures of power and control. She has an abiding interest in mechanisms of displacement and dislocation, as well as questions of appropriation and authenticity.
Yto Barrada: The Dye Garden is co-organized by the Neuberger Museum of Art and the American Academy in Rome. Co-curated by Chief Curator Helaine Posner and Peter Benson Miller, Curator and former Andrew Heiskell Arts Director at the American Academy. A fully-illustrated, multi-essay catalogue will accompany the exhibition. Generous support for the Roy R. Neuberger Prize has been provided by Jim Neuberger and Helen Stambler Neuberger.

Yto Barrada, who was born in Paris and raised in Tangier, had her first solo exhibition in 2003 at the Galerie Polaris, Paris. Since then, her work has been featured in exhibitions at the Jeu de Paume, Paris (2006); Venice Biennale (2007, 2011); and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2009), among other venues. In 2011, she received Deutsche Bank’s Artist of the Year Award. According to Ms. Posner, Barrada’s wide--ranging intelligence and global perspective inform her work in a variety of media including photography, film, sculpture, and hand--dyed textiles. She creates aesthetically compelling images and objects and tackles serious sociopolitical and cultural issues leavened with humor.” Barrada now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.
Helaine Posner is Chief Curator at the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, SUNY, Purchase, New York. Her exhibitions at the Neuberger Museum include Yto Barrada: The Dye Garden (0219), Leandro Erlich: Port of Reflections (2017), Louise Fishman: A Retrospective (2016), Robin Rhode: Animating the Everyday (2014), Dana Schutz: If the Face Had Wheels (2011), and Tania Bruguera: On the Political Imaginary (2010), each accompanied by a monographic catalogue. From 1991-1998, she was curator at the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts where she curated such exhibitions as Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism, and Self-Representation (1998); Glenn Ligon: Skin Tight (1995); and Leon Golub and Nancy Spero: War and Memory (1994); among other projects. Previously, she was Director of the University Gallery, University of Massachusetts/Amherst.
Posner is the author of a monograph on the artist Kiki Smith (Monacelli, 2005) and was United States Co-commissioner for the 48th Venice Biennale where she organized Ann Hamilton: Myein. She is the co-author of the award-winning book After the Revolution: Women Who Transformed Contemporary Art and of The Reckoning: Women Artists of the New Millennium (Prestel, 2007 and 2013). She was curator of a mid-career survey of the work of Lorna Simpson which traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Miami Art Museum; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2006-7). Posner is the recipient of three AICA (International Association of Art Critics) Awards. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History at Georgetown University and a Master of Arts degree from George Washington University, both in Washington, D.C.

Getting to the Neuberger Museum of Art:
Neuberger Museum of Art is located:
10 minutes from White Plains, NY
10 minutes from Greenwich, CT
45 minutes from mid-town Manhattan
Train Directions:
Use the Harlem Line of the Metro-North Railroad to arrive in White Plains.
Taxicabs/ Uber are readily available for hire to Purchase College.
Please visit http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/mnr for schedule and fare information.
Thank you to Randy Rosen, ArtTable Member, and Helaine Posner, Chief Curator at the Neuberger Museum of Art.
ArtTable is a 501.c.3 organization. All programs are non-refundable.

NOCAL | MeetAT: Root Division's 2019 Collector's Preview
2019-10-15 18:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | California
Image: Courtesy of Root Division, San Francisco
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The October MeetAT will offer ArtTable members the opportunity to network while previewing more than 170 auction artworks over cocktails and refreshments at Root Division’s 2019 Collector’s Preview Tour.
Our members are invited to join Root Division’s VIPs to preview auction artworks by both established and emerging artists from the Bay Area and beyond. Docents will lead previews of highlighted artworks in the exhibition.
Our members are invited to join Root Division’s VIPs to preview auction artworks by both established and emerging artists from the Bay Area and beyond. Docents will lead previews of highlighted artworks in the exhibition.
Root Division is non-profit arts organization offering programs that not only nurture creativity, but also foster volunteerism and community engagement that is vital to the social, economic, and cultural health of the Bay Area. Established in 2004, the organization has since forged strong connections with the community to provide:

Group exhibitions and solo features of work by more than 1,700 artists
Subsidized studio space for more than 130 emerging artists
More than 4,000 hours of free art classes for neighborhood youth
Partnership with two-dozen public schools and community centers, and more than 150 local businesses
Training for 240 artist-teachers

The October 15 MeetAT is an invitation-only ARTWORK PREVIEW event held for Root Divisions high level donors and collectors, and is extended to ArtTable members for free. Space is limited and registration is required.
A 20% special discount is extended to ArtTable members for the Silent & Live Auction event to be held on October 24. Email programs@arttable.org for details.
Thank you to Donna Napper, Co-Chair of Art Table Northern California Chapter and Samantha Reynolds, Art Program Director, Root Division for organizing this event.
ArtTable is a 501.c.3 organization. All programs are non-refundable.

NY |Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory
2019-10-15 17:30 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | The MET Breuer, 945 Madison Avenue, New York, 10021, United States
Image: Vija Celmins, Untitled (Big Sea #1), 1969. Graphite on acrylic ground on paper. © Vija Celmins, courtesy the artist and Matthew Marks Gallery. Photo © McKee Gallery, New York
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Join ArtTable NY for a curatorial walk through of “Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory” at the Met Breuer, New York City, with Meredith Brown, Research Associate, the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
This retrospective will provide a comprehensive view of Vija Celmins’s career through a selection of approximately 120 works—from her earliest paintings made in Los Angeles in the 1960s to objects completed in New York in the last five years.
Throughout an accomplished career that spans more than fifty years, Celmins has sustained a practice of deep focus and extraordinary skill in a wide range of media. Celmins bases her exquisitely wrought paintings, sculpture, drawings, and prints on the world around us—sometimes through direct observation, but more often mediated by photography. Whether her sources are quotidian objects from her first studio in Venice, California, photographs of the Pacific Ocean taken at the local pier, or reproductions from newspapers, magazines, scientific exploration and inquiry, the resulting work possesses a magical verisimilitude.
Meredith A. Brown first joined the department as the 2013–14 Chester Dale Senior Fellow, conducting research for a book project on feminist politics and American art institutions in the 1970s. In her current role, she has worked on various exhibitions of contemporary art, including The Roof Garden Commission: Pierre Huyghe (2015), Kerry James Marshall: Mastry (2016), Marisa Merz: The Sky Is a Great Space (2017), Range: Experiments in New York, 1961–2007 (2017), David Hockney (2017), Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture, 1963–2017 (2018) and Everything is Connected: Art and Conspiracy (2018). She also researches art for acquisition. A graduate of Stanford University, Meredith received her MA and PhD from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, and previously worked at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Thank you to Ian Alteveer, Aaron I. Fleischman Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art for helping organize this program.

SOCAL | Curatorial Perspective: Manet and Modern Beauty at the Getty
2019-10-13 14:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | The Getty Center, 1200 Getty Center Dr., Los Angeles, CA, 90049, United States
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Image: Édouard Manet (French, 1832 – 1883) Jeanne (Spring), 1881, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
Join ArtTable SoCal for a curatorial walk-through of Manet and Modern Beauty with Emily Beeny, Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings, Getty Museum.
The first-ever exhibition devoted to the later years of Impressionist painter, provocateur, and dandy Édouard Manet’s career, Manet and Modern Beauty features about fifty paintings, pastels and works on paper, a third of which are on loan from private collections.
Co-curator and Getty Associate Curator of Drawings, Emily Beeny will lead us on an insider tour of Manet’s social world as depicted in his lively cafe and outdoor scenes, fashionable portraits, and striking still lives: “Fresh, intimate, and unapologetically pretty, Manet’s late works demonstrate his fierce embrace of beauty and pleasure in the teeth of acute physical suffering.”
We will meet at 1:45 at the entrance to the Getty Museum’s temporary exhibition pavilion.
Thank you to Susan Power, ArtTable SoCal Co-Cahir, and Emily Beeny, Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings, Getty Museum.

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State of Art 5/DC: A Conversation
2019-10-10 17:30 - 20:30 (America/New_York) | Smithsonian American Art Museum, 8th Street Northwest Kogod Courtyard, Washington, DC, 20004, United States
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Join ArtTable and the Smithsonian American Art Museum for the 5th edition of State of Art/DC: A Conversation. State of Art/DC: A conversation is a series of forums about visual arts in the DC region. This series, launched in 2015, aims to make new connections and generate new ideas among visual arts leaders, artists, administrators, and artrepreneurs.in State of Art 5, presenters will respond to the question, ‘What can the arts teach us about progress?’ PechaKucha style.
Presenters include diverse leaders who represent a spectrum of the DC region visual arts sector including museum curators, collectors, artists, community organizers and more. Speakers will be announced weekly starting early August. Follow ArtTable DC on Instagram, @arttable_dc to see speakers as they’re announced leading up to the program. For more information on State of Art/DC: A Conversation, visit stateofartdc.org.
State of Art5/DC: A Conversation is an ArtTable program and is organized in partnership with the Smithsonian American Art Museum. ArtTable DC is a regional chapter of the national non-profit professional organization for women in the visual arts. The event supports the organization’s mission to foster and promote the visual arts through conversations that raise awareness, support, and diversity.
The Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) is dedicated to collecting, understanding, and enjoying American art. The Museum celebrates the extraordinary creativity of artists whose works reflect the American experience and global connections. Learn more by visiting americanart.si.edu.
The views presented during the program do not necessarily reflect the views of ArtTable or SAAM.

ArtTable is a 501.c.3 organization. All programs are non-refundable.
