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New York | Guided Tour of 'Kusama: Cosmic Nature', at The New York Botanical Garden
2021-07-15 17:30 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | New York Botanical Garden, 2900 Southern Blvd, Bronx, 10458
Join us for a guided tour of artworks by Yayoi Kusama on the grounds, the Haupt Conservatory, and the Art Gallery of the New York Botanical Garden. The tour will be led by Joanna Groarke, Director of Public Engagement at the New York Botanical Garden, who will guide us through monumental floral sculptures, spectacular installations, and the full breadth of Kusama’s fascination with the natural world.
The tour will begin at 5:30pm and end at approximately 7pm. Then, attendees will be free to explore the garden independently until closing time at 9pm. This program will take place rain or shine.
Click here to read more about the exhibition!
This program is open to ArtTable members only. Admission is $50 for ArtTable Circle members and $60 for all other ArtTable members.
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Please note that by registering for this event you consent to have your contact information shared with ArtTable to be used in the event that contact tracing is needed.
At the New York Botanical Garden, visitors are required to wear face coverings, regardless of vaccination status, indoors and in high density areas where it may be difficult to maintain six feet of distance. Please review the full list of guidelines here. We will alert attendees if there are updates to these guidelines between now and July 15.

Accessibility: All NYBG buildings, seasonal exhibitions, and tour vehicles are accessible for wheelchairs, walkers, and personal 3- and 4-wheeled electric scooters. However, due to the Garden’s naturally varied topography, portions of the historic landscape may be inaccessible. An Accessibility Guide with recommended wheelchair routes is available at the Garden or can be downloaded here. Learn more about accessibility and read our Service Animal Policy here.
Getting There: NYBG is easily accessible via Metro-North Railroad and by subway (B, D, and 4 trains to Bedford Park Blvd. Station and 2 train to Allerton Ave. Station). NYBG is only 20 minutes from Grand Central Terminal to Botanical Garden Station on Metro-North’s Harlem local line. We recommend using public transportation, taxi, or other rideshare services to avoid parking delays. Drop-off and pickup location for these services is 2900 Southern Blvd., Bronx, NY 10458. Detailed directions can be found here.

About Yayoi Kusama
Click here to read about Yayoi Kusama and her lifelong artistic practice.
About Joanna Groarke
Joanna L. Groarke is Director of Public Engagement and Library Exhibitions Curator at The New York Botanical Garden, where she is part of the team that develops Garden-wide exhibitions and interpretive materials. She has developed exhibitions and programs for more than fifteen years for institutions including The New York Botanical Garden; the Irish Arts Center, New York; and Tufts University Art Gallery, Somerville, Massachusetts.

About the New York Botanical Garden
The New York Botanical Garden is an advocate for the plant world. The Garden pursues its mission through its role as a museum of living plant collections arranged in gardens and landscapes across its National Historic Landmark site; through its comprehensive education programs in horticulture and plant science; and through the wide-ranging research programs of the International Plant Science Center.Established in 1891, The New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) is distinguished by the beauty of its landscape, collections, and gardens, and the scope and excellence of its programs in horticulture, education, and science. Click here to read more.

Thank you to Lori Shepard from the ArtTable NY Chapter Program Committee member for organizing this program.

Images:

Dancing Pumpkin, 2020. Courtesy of the New York Botanical Garden. Photo by Robert Benson Photography.
Joanna Groarke, courtesy of the speaker
New York Botanical Garden, courtesy of NYC The Official Guide

Virtual | Artist Talk with Charlotte Caspers
2021-07-15 14:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
2pm ET | 1pm CT | 11am PT
ArtTable’s Artist Talk series is made possible by the Pollock Krasner Foundation. Originally formatted as in-person Artist Breakfasts, ArtTable has moved most programming into the virtual realm during the pandemic. Please join us for a virtual Artist Talk with Charlotte Caspers.
Admission

Non-Members – $10
ArtTable Members – $5
ArtTable Circle Members – Free
Members may bring an additional guest for $5

How to take part:

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About Charlotte Caspers
Charlotte Caspers (Ghent, 1979) is an artist who makes use of historical painting techniques and materials in a contemporary way. Central to her work is the subtle communication of materials, of human beings as makers, with nature as the basis of everything. She connects these themes with her specific form language and with her clearly recognisable aesthetics. Caspers studied Art History at Radboud University in Nijmegen and took the postgraduate course in painting restoration at Stichting Restauratie Atelier Limburg in Maastricht (SRAL). She specialized in historical painting materials and techniques and has made historical reconstructions for numerous museums and institutions, including the Van Gogh Museum, the Rijksmuseum, Tate Britain, Princeton and Duke University, and Dutch television. For ten years, Caspers has been a guest lecturer in historical painting techniques at the Department of Conservation and Restoration at the University of Amsterdam.

This program is generously supported by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. The 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.

Images:

Colour composition maple tree, 2019. 93 x 72 cm. Oak panels, mineral pigments in distemper, graphite, & goldleaf. Image courtesy of the artist.
Charlotte Caspers, courtesy of the artist; Photo by Joris Hilterman

Northwest | AT Local - Olympic Sculpture Park Summer Meet-up
2021-07-08 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Olympic Sculpture Park, 2901 Western Avenue, Seattle, WA, 98121
5:00pm PST
Current and prospective members are welcome to join ArtTable’s Northwest Chapter leaders for this summer meetup!
This meet-up is for members and non-members, as our summer party, and is an opportunity to network and catch up with friends. As part of the current Covid-19 guidelines, the OSP asks visitors to keep moving while in the park – and so we will congregate at 5pm from the Trust for Public Lands Terrace, next to the Paccar Pavilion, and from there we will walk through the park while we catch up. Please dress accordingly for walking!
This will be our first in-person event in 20 months, and we hope our members and potential members will be excited to see each other in person again! We will have have a current or former Seattle Art Museum employee there to give us a bit of a guided tour and answer questions as we walk – but the primary purpose of this meet up is to network and catch up with friends.
Admission

Current ArtTable Members – Free
Members may bring a guest for an additional $5
Prospective ArtTable Members – $10

Not an ArtTable member? Join today!
Please read before registering:
Covid-19 Guidelines:

Please note that by registering for this event you consent to have your contact information shared with ArtTable to be used in the event that contact tracing is needed.
While masks are no longer required outdoors for fully vaccinated individuals, we highly recommend wearing a mask or face covering when in close proximity to persons not from your household.
Click here to read more information on OSP’s policies and guidelines.

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About the Olympic Sculpture Park
The Olympic Sculpture Park is a preeminent art and public space on the Seattle Waterfront, offering 9 acres of park, waterfront, views and permanent and temporary sculpture. Currently home to more than 20 permanently installed sculptures by artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Louise Nevelson, Beverly Pepper, Ginny Ruffner, Teresita Fernández, Alexander Calder, Tony Smith, and more. It was built on a formally disused and polluted industrial site, which is also the traditional homelands of the Duwamish, and the customary territories of the Suquamish and Muckleshoot Peoples, and connects the waterfront Piers of Seattle to Myrtle Edwards Park – with its own monumental (and often overlooked) sculpture Adjacent, Against, Upon (1976), by Michael Heizer.
Click here to read more.
Thank you to ArtTable’s Northwest Chapter Leaders Gina Broze, Jessica Landau, and Judith Rinehart for organizing this program.

Images:

An overhead view of Olympic Sculpture Park; Photo by Benjamin Benschneider

NoCal | AT Local - First Thursday Coffee Break on Location: Music Concourse, Golden Gate Park
2021-07-08 08:00 - 10:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Music Concourse, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA, 94118, United States
8:00am PST
All members of ArtTable’s Northern California Chapter are welcome to join us in the early morning of Thursday, July 8th, to share a cup of coffee before your workday gets started. Bring your own coffee, tea, and/or pastry and meet and catch up with other members during this first in-person outdoor coffee break together.
We will meet at the benches across the street from the DeYoung Museum, directly East of Monumental Reckoning, a public installation by artist and See Black Womxn co-founder Dana King. This work, unveiled on Juneteenth 2021, represents the first Africans stolen from their homeland and sold into chattel slavery in 1619. King’s installation consists of 350 ancestral sculptures that encircle the vacant plinth of the slaveholder Francis Scott Key, that was toppled by protesters on Juneteenth of 2020.

This is a Northern California members-only event. First Thursdays Coffee Break is a recurring event and is donation based.
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Please read before registering:
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Please note that by registering for this event you consent to have your contact information shared with ArtTable to be used in the event that contact tracing is needed.
While masks are no longer required outdoors for fully vaccinated individuals, we highly recommend wearing a mask or face covering when in close proximity to persons not from your household.

A list of attendees will be shared with all registrants for reference in advance of the program.
Please email programs@arttable.org if you would like accessibility information for this program.
Thank you to ArtTable’s Northern California Chapter Executive Committee for planning and hosting this program.

Images:

Dana King, Monumental Reckoning, installation view. Photograph by Candace Huey.

Virtual | Asian American Perspectives at the Whitney Museum, with Xin Wang
2021-07-07 12:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
12pm ET | 11am CT | 9am PT
Please join us and Xin Wang, art historian and John Tisch Teaching Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art, for a presentation on Asian American Perspectives, drawing on contemporary artists works from the Whitney Museum’s collection.
Admission

ArtTable Circle Members – Free
All other membership levels – $12
Non-members – $15

How to take part:

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About Xin Wang
Xin Wang is the John Tisch Teaching Fellow at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. She is an art historian and curator whose past curatorial projects include Ink Art: Past and Present in Contemporary China, Metropolitan Museum of Art (2013); Field Meeting of Asian Contemporary Art Week (2014, New York), Lu Yang’s solo debut in New York THE BANK SHOW: Vive le Capital and THE BANK SHOW: Hito Steyerl (2015), Art in China since the 1990s (2018, Ulm, Germany), to highlight a few projects. Her writing has appeared in E-flux journal, Artforum, Kaleidoscope, Hyperallergic and Leap.
Xin is currently pursuing her PhD in modern and contemporary art at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and holds an MA in Art History from Columbia University and a BA in Art History, Mathematics, and Psychology from Hamilton College. She is currently planning an exhibition that explores Asian Futurisms for The Museum of Chinese in America in New York City and manages the discursive archive on Asian Futurisms at afuturism.tumblr.com.

Images:

Sarah Sze, (not yet titled), 2000, Chromogenic print mounted on aluminum; courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of Arthur and Susan Fleischer, © Sarah Sze

SoCal | Artist-Led Walking Tour of Sonia Romero's 'Hecho A Mano'
2021-07-06 12:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Mariachi Plaza Metro Station, 1831 E 1st St, Los Angeles, CA, 90033, United States
12:00pm PST
Current and prospective members are welcome to join ArtTable’s SoCal Chapter leaders for an in-person, artist-led walking tour of Sonia Romero’s Hecho A Mano. On view at the Mariachi Plaza Metro Station in Boyle Heights, the mural was just recently completed this past year.
The mural Hecho A Mano was commissioned by Metro Art, and it highlights the historic and contemporary stories of Latinx, Jewish, and Japanese makers and workers from Boyle Heights, featuring an eclectic mix of objects that intertwine the artist’s personal connection to Boyle Heights with those of individuals from the neighborhood. In reference to the work, Romero states that, “There is a certain homemade and handmade quality that has been created by generations of people raising families and creating livelihoods in the neighborhood. I wanted to capture and honor this quality through the metaphor of the hand, by painting this mural by hand.”
Later this summer, join us for an upcoming virtual roundtable discussion focused on the public art scene in Los Angeles. More details to be announced soon!
Admission

Current ArtTable Members – $10
Members may bring a guest for an additional $5
Prospective ArtTable Members – $15

Not an ArtTable member? Join today!
Please read before registering:
Covid-19 Guidelines:

Please note that by registering for this event you consent to have your contact information shared with ArtTable to be used in the event that contact tracing is needed.
While masks are no longer required outdoors for fully vaccinated individuals, we highly recommend wearing a mask or face covering when in close proximity to persons not from your household. For any indoor portion of this program, face masks are required per federal law.
Click here to read more information on the LA Metro Safety Guidelines.

Please click here for accessibility information for this program.

About Sonia Romero
Sonia Romero is a Los Angeles-based artist known for her paper-cut and printmaking aesthetics, which she incorporates into both her fine art and public art commissions. Born in 1980, she grew up in an artistic household in Echo Park before formally studying at the Rhode Island School of Design. After returning to California, she began working as a public artist. Romero was the artist in residence at Avenue 50 Studio in Northeast Los Angeles from 2007-2014.
Calling upon her own experiences and perspectives as a multiracial person, Romero creates work that reflects the cultural diversity found in Los Angeles communities. She explores themes relating to the universal connectedness within humanity as well as its relationship to the environment. Her signature style is a dynamic combination of printmaking, paper-cutting, painting, and sculpture. Her oeuvre includes fine art pieces that have been showcased in many galleries and acquired for the collections of prominent institutions, such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Smithsonian. Romero’s distinctive paper-cut shapes and patterns can be found in steel, tile, or paint in one of her many large-scale permanent installations in notable locations such as Little Tokyo, the Mariachi Plaza and MacArthur Park Metro Stations and the Artesia County Public Library. Click here to see more of Sonia’s work on her website.
Thank you to Shana Nys Dambrot, ArtTable SoCal Chapter Leader, for organizing this program.

Images:

Sonia Romero, Hecho A Mano, 2020
Sonia Romero, courtesy of the artist

Virtual | DC BreakfastTable Special: Faith Flanagan Fellows
2021-07-02 08:30 - 09:30 (America/New_York) | Zoom
8:30am ET
Join ArtTable’s DC Chapter for a presentation by the 2021 Faith Flanagan Fellows. For this special BreakfastTable, the Fellows will present their engagement projects undertaken over their course of the fellowship.
Learn more about Mehveş Lelic’s Choose-Your-Own-Adventure story titled, How to Curate an Exhibition. Sourced from anecdotes submitted anonymously by womxn working in the visual arts, the story leads the reader through a number of plot twists that either culminate in a successful or an unsuccessful exhibition. View the story here.
Johanna Obenda’s audio story profiles a handful of DC-area cultural practitioners who are working to reimagine cultural institutions and how we engage with visual arts in a variety of ways. Obenda engages healing artist Geo Edwards, Kristi Maiselman, Executive Director of Cultural DC, and Loretta Thompson, a visual artist and arts administrator for Sitar Arts Center who have each disrupted traditional approaches to arts engagement. Listen to the audio story here.
Susannah Stern hosts a conversation with Lena Galperina, Visitor Experience Director at ARTECHOUSE, Don Allen Stevenson III, Artist and XR Content Creator, and Charlotte Ickes, Curator of Time-Based Media and Special Projects, about their unique perspectives on immersive, technology-based art, opening the door to an honest look at the trend toward art as experience. Listen to the conversation here.
Special thanks to this year’s mentors: Nora Halpern, Victoria Reis, and Vesela Stretenovic.
This program is free for all ArtTable members. Members may bring 1 additional guest for $5.
Not a member? Join today!
How to take part:

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Following registration you will receive call-in information in the form of a ZOOM link.
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Thank you to Jaynelle C. Hazard and Lily Siegel, ArtTable DC Faith Flanagan Fellowship Co-Chairs, for organizing this program.

Images:

Top: Johanna Obenda; Bottom Left: Mehveş Lelic; Bottom Right: Susannah Stern

Virtual | Exhibition Tour - 'Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists & the Politics of Scale'
2021-07-01 16:30 (America/New_York) | Zoom
4:30pm ET | 3:30pm CT | 1:30pm PT
Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists and the Politics of Scale, on view at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, examines the approaches of women artists for whom space is a critical feature of their work, whether they take the space on a wall, the real estate of a room through sculpture and installation, engage seriality as a spatial visual practice, cast a wide legacy in art history or claim the space of their body. Curated by Jodi Throckmorton and Brittany Webb, this exhibition features more than sixty works of art from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts’ permanent collection. In this virtual exhibition tour, Dr. Brittany Webb will discuss the exhibition and the importance of women’s leadership in producing this exhibition.
This program is open to ArtTable members only.
Admission

ArtTable Members – $5
ArtTable Circle Members – Free
Members may bring an additional guest for $5

How to take part:

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Following registration you will receive call-in information in the form of a ZOOM link.
Before joining a Zoom meeting on a computer or mobile device, you can download the Zoom app from the Download Center and select the “Zoom Client for Meetings” option. Alternatively, you will be prompted to download and install Zoom when you click a join link.
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Accessibility: Please note that this program will offer live closed captioning. If you require additional accommodations, please email programs@arttable.org.

About Brittany Webb
Brittany Webb is the inaugural Evelyn and Will Kaplan Curator of Twentieth-Century Art and the John Rhoden Collection. In this role, Webb oversees the Museum’s collections, exhibitions, and programs of 20th century art and provides instruction for the School of Fine Arts at PAFA. Webb’s first exhibition at PAFA, Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists and the Politics of Scale (November 2020-September 5, 2021) is co-curated with Jodi Throckmorton, Curator of Contemporary Art at PAFA. Webb is also organizing a major retrospective exhibition and catalogue of the work of the African American sculptor John Rhoden (1916-2001) and stewards a collection of nearly 300 sculptures by Rhoden, leading PAFA’s ongoing effort to place his artworks into the permanent collections of museums around the world.
Prior to joining PAFA, Webb was a member of the curatorial staff of the African American Museum in Philadelphia. Dr. Webb holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Temple University and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Southern California.
Thank you to ArtTable Philadelphia Chapter Co-Chairs Laurie McGahey and Rachel Zimmerman for organizing this program, and Dr. Brittany Webb and Christiana Cruz-Council from PAFA.

Images:

Deborah Willis, I Made Space For a Good Man, 2009, Lithograph, gift from the collection of Winston and Carolyn Lowe in honor of Brandywine founder, Allan L. EdmundsDeborah Willis/Courtesy of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 2019.18.35
Taking Space: Contemporary Women Artists and the Politics of Scale. Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, January 21, 2021–September 5, 2021. Photo by Adrian Cubillas, courtesy of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia.

Virtual | Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York
2021-06-28 14:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
2pm ET | 1pm CT | 11am PT
Join us for a discussion with Alexander Nemerov, author of Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York, and Sarah Kirk Hanley, an independent prints and editions expert and critic based in the New York area, who is currently writing an essay for the Dulwich Picture Gallery for their Fall exhibition of woodcuts by Helen Frankenthaler.
Dr. Nemerov’s biography of Frankenthaler encompasses her life and work beginning with her college years at Bennington, where Nemerov’s father was her English teacher, and Clement Greenberg, her first significant romantic partner, gave seminars in Art history and organized exhibitions. Nemerov concentrates his text on Frankenthaler of the 1950s which, Karen Wilkin’s review of the book writes,” she was notably strong and inventive, almost from the start at a time when artists were expected to spend years maturing before their work was considered to be worthy of attention.” Nemerov acknowledges her importance as an Ab-ex painter and also writes about Freudian sources of her lifetime romantic relationships. There is a great deal to unpack about this major abstract woman artist of the twentieth century.
Admission

Non-Members – $15
ArtTable Members – $10
ArtTable Circle Members – Free

How to take part:

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

About Alexander Nemerov
Alexander Nemerov is The Carl and Marilyn Thoma Provostial Professor in the Arts and Humanities, as well as Chair of the Department of Art and Art History at Stanford University. He formerly taught Yale University where he was the Vincent J. Scully Professor of the History of Art. He has a Masters and Doctor of Philosophy in History of Art from Yale University and has published several books before the Frankenthaler. A scholar of American art, Nemerov writes about the presence of art, the recollection of the past and the importance of humanities in our lives today.

About Sarah Kirk Hanley
Sarah Kirk Hanley is an independent prints and editions expert and critic based in the New York area. Her critical writing focuses on prints by women artists, artists of color, as well as work grounded in socio-political themes. Her past experiences include Consultant for Auctionata and 1st Dibs (2009-19); Assistant Vice President , Christie’s Print Department (2006-2009); Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings and Photographs, Milwaukee Art Museum (2000-2005). She writes extensively for Art 21 Magazine and Art in Print.

Thank you to Susan L Halper, President , Susan L Halper Fine Art, Inc. for organizing this program.

Images:

Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York, courtesy of Penguin Random House
Alexander Nemerov, courtesy of Penguin Random House
Sarah Kirk Hanley, courtesy of the speaker

New York | Dutch Treat Breakfast at Madison Square Park
2021-06-25 09:30 - 11:00 (America/New_York) | Madison Square Park (Exact meeting spot TBA), Madison Square Park, New York, NY, 10010, United States
Join us for an informal Dutch Treat Breakfast at Madison Square Park! An ongoing, informal, occasional get together for current and prospective members, Dutch Treat programs are a great way to meet, mingle, and network in a casual setting. Grab a coffee and breakfast from some of the nearby cafes (Starbucks, Caffe Lavazza at Eataly, and Flatiron Green Cafe are all great, nearby options!) and meet us at the fountain on the south side of the park. We’ll hang out, chat, and enjoy Maya Lin’s installation, “Ghost Forest.”
This program is free and open to all, current and prospective members. The rain date is tentatively set for Friday, July 9.
Not an ArtTable member? Join today!
Please read before registering:
Covid-19 Guidelines:

Please note that by registering for this event you consent to have your contact information shared with ArtTable to be used in the event that contact tracing is needed.
While masks are no longer required outdoors for fully vaccinated individuals, we highly recommend wearing a mask or face covering when in close proximity to persons not from your household.
Please review the guidelines at Madison Square Park before registering.

Accessibility: Madison Square Park, as a public, open green space, is free and fully accessible to patrons of all abilities; including by not limited to individuals with physical, visual, and auditory disabilities, owners of special care animals, and wheelchair users. There are no steps or stairs within Madison Square Park, or between the sidewalk and the park. Ramp access for wheelchairs and strollers as well as access for individuals with impaired mobility is available for all the park’s pathways and lawns, in compliance with ADA regulations. For more information or to request accommodations, please call 212.520.7600.
Getting There: Take the R or W train to 23rd Street

About Madison Square Park
Madison Square Park is a seven-acre green space at the heart of New York City that has been public land since 1686. Over the centuries, it has played a part in the city’s rich history, providing space for everything from the invention of baseball to fundraising efforts for the Statue of Liberty.
Just like New York City, Madison Square Park is a place where many different people and things come together. Surrounded by landmark architecture and vibrant businesses, it is home to some of the world’s best art and horticulture exhibitions. It is a public garden, a playground, an open-air museum, a dog park, a performance venue, an eatery, an arboretum, a gathering place, and a sanctuary. It is a space that belongs to everyone, and that each of us can make our own.
The park is managed by Madison Square Park Conservancy, a non-profit that is fully funded by the community.
Click here to read more.
Thank you to Ingrid Dinter, Principal Dinter Fine Art, and ArtTable NY Chapter Program Committee member for organizing this program.

Images:

Maya Lin, “Ghost Forest”; courtesy of Maya Lin Studio

Virtual | Luise Kaish and Women Artists in America, with Gail Levin
2021-06-24 12:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
12pm ET | 11am CT | 9am PT
Please join us for a discussion with Gail Levin, Distinguished Professor of Art History, American Studies, and Women’s Studies at the City University of New York. Levin is Judy Chicago’s and Lee Krasner’s biographer, and an acknowledged authority on Edward Hopper, having written his catalogue raisonné, his biography, and many other publications. She is the editor and author of Theresa Bernstein: A Century in Art; a co-editor of Ethics and the Visual Arts; as well as contributor to the recently published monograph Luise Kaish: An American Art Legacy. Levin will speak about the work of pioneering artist Luise Kaish, in the context of the history of women artists in America.
Luise Clayborn Kaish (1925–2013) was a pioneer. A key figure in the New York art scene of the late 20th century, her multidisciplinary practice and process-oriented work spanned a range of mediums, materials, techniques, and themes. The strength and breadth of her work—monumental sculptures in bronze, oil paintings, watercolours, lithographs, collage—and the prestigious awards and fellowships she received set her apart as an early female leader in the visual arts. Dedicated to absorbing world cultures through travel and research, Kaish studied a broad range of subjects from architecture, design, and engineering to spiritualism, metaphysics, and the cosmos. Through her wide-ranging practice, she explored the spaces and connections between material, natural, and spiritual worlds. The publication Luise Kaish: An American Art Legacy celebrates her immense talent, highly individual point of view, far- reaching influence, pursuit of the sublime, and passion for life.
Admission

Non-Members – $10
ArtTable Members – $5
ArtTable Circle Members – Free
Members may bring an additional guest for $5

How to take part:

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This program is generously supported by the Kaish Family Art Project.

Images:

Luise Kaish at work on the Ark of Revelation, MacDougal Street Studio, New York, circa, 1962.

Virtual | Artist Talk with Shahzia Sikander
2021-06-22 12:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
12pm ET | 11am CT | 9am PT
ArtTable’s Artist Talk series is made possible by the Pollock Krasner Foundation. Originally formatted as in-person Artist Breakfasts, ArtTable has moved all programming into the virtual realm during the pandemic. Please join us for a virtual Artist Talk with Shahzia Sikander.
Shahzia will talk about individual works she created from 1988 to 2003, elaborating on the evolution of her unique visual lexicon as she negotiated a language between the pictorial traditions of Central and South Asia and contemporary practices, through the lens of her experience from Pakistan to the US as an immigrant pre and post 9/11 and how that period’s shifting socio-political culture shaped her broader practice.
Admission

Non-Members – $10
ArtTable Members – $5
ArtTable Circle Members – Free
Members may bring an additional guest for $5

How to take part:

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Following registration you will receive call-in information in the form of a ZOOM link.
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About Shahzia Sikander
Pioneering Pakistani-American artist Shahzia Sikander is one of the most influential artists working today. Sikander is widely celebrated for expanding and subverting pre-modern and classical Central and South-Asian miniature painting traditions and launching the form known today as neo-miniature. By bringing traditional and historical practice into dialogue with contemporary international art practices, Sikander’s multivalent and investigative work examines colonial archives to readdress orientalist narratives in western art history. Interrogating ideas of language, trade, empire, and migration through imperial and feminist perspectives Sikander’s paintings, video animations, mosaics and sculpture explore gender roles and sexuality, cultural identity, racial narratives, and colonial and postcolonial histories.
Sikander earned a B.F.A. in 1991 from the National College of Arts in Lahore, Pakistan. Her seminal thesis work, The Scroll (1989–1990) which initiated the start of the neo-miniature movement, garnered awards, exhibitions and press, as well as led to increased enrollment in the NCA’s miniature painting department. Subsequently, Sikander was appointed as a lecturer in miniature painting at the school. The artist then moved to the United States to pursue an M.F.A. at the Rhode Island School of Design from 1993 to 1995; from 1995 to 1997, she participated in the Glassell School of Art’s CORE Program at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship (2006) and the State Department Medal of Arts (2012), Sikander’s innovative work has been exhibited and collected internationally.
Shahzia Sikander will be the subject of a traveling exhibition titled Shahzia Sikander: Extraordinary Realities. The exhibition will open at The Morgan Library in New York in June 2021, followed by the RISD Museum in Providence, Rhode Island in November 2021, and then the MFA Houston in Texas in Spring 2022. On the occasion of these exhibitions, there will be a major new monograph printed. Extraordinary Realities is an exhaustive examination of Sikander’s work from 1987 to 2003, charting her early development as an artist in Lahore and the United States, and foregrounding her critical role in bringing miniature painting into dialogue with contemporary art. Edited by Jan Howard and Sadia Abbas, with contributions by Gayatri Gopinath, Faisal Devji, Kishwar Rizvi, Sadia Abbas, Jan Howard, Vasif Kortun, Dennis Congdon, Bashir Ahmed, Rick Lowe, and Julie Mehretu.

This program is generously supported by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. The 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.
Thank you to Julia P. Herzberg, Ph.D., member of ArtTable’s New York Chapter Programming Committee, for organizing this program.

Images:

“Cholee Kay Peechay Kiya? Chunree Kay Neechay Kiya? (What Is under the Blouse? What Is under the Dress?)”, 1997; Vegetable Color, dry pigment, watercolor and tea on wasli paper; Marieluise Hessel Collection, Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
“Hood’s Red Rider No. 2”, 1997; Vegetable Color, dry pigment, watercolor, gold and tea on wasli paper; Collection of Susan and Lew Manilow

Virtual | Professional Empowerment: Repatriation of Cultural Heritage w/ Leila Amineddoleh
2021-06-16 12:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
12pm ET | 11am CT | 9am PT
Please join us for a discussion with Leila Amineddoleh, internationally recognized expert on art and cultural heritage crime and law and Founder of Amineddoleh & Associates, LLC on the topic of repatriation of cultural heritage.
For centuries, sought-after art objects and antiquities have been subject to high-profile ownership disputes. From the smuggling of religious artifacts out of the Holy Land to Hitler’s extensive looting of artistic property, cultural objects have been targeted by rapacious collectors and leaders. The British Museum’s ownership of the Parthenon Marbles is perhaps the best-known cultural heritage debate, yet legal battles are often not the focus of such intense public scrutiny. The presentation will examine antiquities disputes, including a discussion of the laws that regulate ownership of cultural heritage and the evolution of the art market.
ArtTable’s Professional Empowerment program 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. If you have a topic or idea for a Professional Empowerment program, email us at programs@arttable.org!
Admission

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About Leila Amineddoleh
Leila A. Amineddoleh represents art collectors, museums, galleries, dealers, non-profit organizations, artists, estates, foundations and foreign governments. She has been involved in matters related to multi-million dollar contractual disputes, international cultural heritage law violations, the recovery of stolen art and antiquities, authentication disputes, art-backed loans, and the purchase and sale of hundreds of millions of dollars of art and collectibles. As a specialist in art authentication and title disputes, Leila advises clients on the acquisition and sale of fine art and cultural heritage.
Leila began her career as an intellectual property law litigator. She continues to work with artists and entrepreneurs to develop their intellectual property portfolios and protect their works and artistic rights.
Leila has lectured at esteemed institutions, including the Frick Collection, Victoria & Albert Museum, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. She has appeared in major news outlets, including the NY Times, ABC News, LA Times, Forbes, The Guardian, TIME Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal. She has been published in legal journals and has had scholarly contributions published in books, including Nazi Law: From Nuremberg to Nuremberg and The Provenance Research Handbook.
Leila teaches International Art & Cultural Heritage Law at Fordham University School of Law, in addition to Art Crime and the Law at New York University.

Images:

Part of the Elgin Marbles, were originally part of the Parthenon in Athens. Photo: by VCG Wilson/Corbis via Getty Images. via artnet news.
Leila Amineddoleh, courtesy of the speaker

Virtual | Speed Networking - DC Chapter Faith Flanagan Fellows
2021-06-15 18:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
6pm ET | 5pm CT | 3pm PT
Join ArtTable DC for an opportunity to meet and support the 2021 Faith Flanagan Fellows in a fun round of Speed Networking! Like Speed Dating, Speed Networking is an opportunity for brief face-to-face, virtual interactions designed to help the Fellows perfect their “30-second elevator pitch.” ArtTable members will provide feedback on their pitches and advance the next generation of arts leaders.
This program is Free for all ArtTable members. Not a member? Join today!
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Can’t join us for this event? Don’t worry, there will be plenty more opportunities to connect with members in the future! In the meantime, we hope you can join us for another upcoming virtual program or support other ArtTable initiatives!
Thank you to Jaynelle C. Hazard and Lily Siegel, ArtTable DC Faith Flanagan Fellowship Co-Chairs for organizing this program.

Image: ArtTable DC members and friends gathered online to honor Kim Sajet with the annual Chapter Leadership Award.

New York | Tour of 'RE:GROWTH, A Celebration of Art, Riverside Park, & the New York Spirit'
2021-06-11 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Riverside Park, Riverside Blvd, New York, 10069
Please join us for an in-person tour of ‘RE:GROWTH, A Celebration of Art, Riverside Park, and the New York Spirit‘ on view at Riverside Park in New York City. The tour will be led by Independent Curator Karin Bravin. We will also be joined by artists Blanka Amezkua, Dahlia Elsayed, and Jean Shin, who will speak about the pieces they have on view in the show.
This program is open to ArtTable members only. The program fee is $15. The exact meeting spot will be circulated prior to the program. During the tour we will walk for approximately 10-12 blocks, so please prepare accordingly!
All attendees are invited to stick around after this program to meet the New York-based 2021 ArtTable Fellows! More details on this to come.
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About Karin Bravin

Karin Bravin is a curator with a strong focus on site-specific, public and installation art projects. In 2006 she curated and produced Studio in The Park, a three month exhibition of eleven art installations in Riverside Park. The projects were sited in unexpected places: under tunnels, on baseball backstops, in the Hudson River, and along the meandering paths. In 2009 she became consultant for the Downtown Alliance, where she selected and oversaw several art projects on construction barriers in lower Manhattan. Among some of her other projects, she curated 19 site -specific works at Lehman College and several installations for a gallery during Bushwick Open Studios. She is the curator and consultant for The Public Arts Commission of Lewes, Delaware and on the arts advisory committee for The Stirner Arts Trail in Easton Pennsylvania.
Since 1991, Karin Bravin and her husband, John Post Lee, have owned and operated BravinLee programs, a contemporary art gallery in New York. They focus their attention on their exhibition program, artist rug program, site-specific/public art program and an artist book program. They curate outside of the gallery, lecture, teach, participate in art fairs, and foster an active art advisory. Bravin received her BA in art history from Dartmouth College.
About Blanka Amezkua
Blanka Amezkua is formally trained as a painter; she attended the Accademia di belle Arti in Florence, Italy and received her B.A. from California State University Fresno. Her work and projects have been shown in the United States, Mexico, Belgium and Greece. In cultural establishments such as: MoMA-P.S.1, Exit Art, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, El Museo del Barrio, Queens Museum of Art, Towson University, Dorsky Gallery, The Taller Boricua, The Block Gallery among others. You can read more about Blanka’s work and projects on her website.
Mentions of Blanka’s work and projects are included in ARTnews, the New York Times, TimeOut, Daily News, Art21:blog, athinorama, Athens News, Queens Chronicle, International Museum of Women, WNYC, as well as other publications.
About Dahlia Elsayed
Dahlia Elsayed is an artist and writer who makes text and image based work that synthesizes an internal and external experience of place, connecting the ephemeral to the concrete. She writes short fictions for created landscapes that take the form of narrative paintings, print and installation. Her work has been exhibited at galleries and institutions throughout the United States and internationally, including the 12th Cairo Biennale, Robert Miller Gallery, BravinLee Programs, The New Jersey State Museum and Aljira Center for Contemporary Art. Her work is in the public collections of the Newark Museum, the Zimmerli Museum, Johnson & Johnson Corporation, the US Department of State, amongst others. Dahlia has received awards from the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the Edward Albee Foundation, Visual Studies Workshop, the MacDowell Colony, Women’s Studio Workshop, Headlands Center for the Arts, and the NJ State Council on the Arts. She received her MFA from Columbia University, and lives and works in New Jersey. Ms. Elsayed is Professor of Humanities at CUNY LaGuardia Community College in Long Island City, NY. You can view more of her work on her website.
About Jean Shin
Born in Seoul, South Korea, and raised in the United States, is nationally recognized for her monumental installations that transform everyday objects into elegant expressions of identity and community engagement. For each project, she amasses vast collections of a particular object—prescription pill bottles, sports trophies, sweaters—which are often sourced through donations from individuals in a participating community. These intimate objects then become the materials for her conceptually rich sculptures, videos, and site-specific installations. Distinguished by her meticulous, labor-intensive process, and her engagement of community, Shin’s arresting installations reflect individuals’ personal lives as well as collective issues that we face as a society.
Shin attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1999 and received a BFA and MS from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. She is a tenured Adjunct Professor of Fine Art at Pratt Institute and a recipient of Pratt’s 2017 Alumni Achievement Award. She lives and works in Brooklyn and Hurley, NY. You can view her full bio and see more of her work on her website.

Images:

Digital rendering of Letha Wilson, ‘Double Arc Leaves and Lava (Hawaii California),’ courtesy of Karin Bravin.
Karin Bravin, courtesy of the speaker.
Blanka Amezkua, courtesy of Greece-Is. Photo by Nikos Kokkas
Dahlia Elsayed, courtesy of the artist.
Jean Shin, courtesy of the artist.

Virtual | Global Perspectives - Art & Culture in Mali with Massira Toure
2021-06-10 14:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
2pm ET | 1pm CT | 11am PT
Join us for a discussion with Massira Toure, the founder and director of a digital art gallery, Agansi.com, which combines art and technology to enhance visibility for visual artists from Africa and allow them to sell their work worldwide. Through this platform, Massira organizes virtual exhibitions, sales, and rentals of works of art. An artist herself, Massira also organizes in-person exhibitions in Mali. She will speak with ArtTable member Janet Goldner about her gallery, her art, and the Malian cultural scene.
Admission

Non-Members – $10
ArtTable Members – $5
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About Massira Toure
Massira has a masters from the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers de Bamako. Her painting practice centers around traditional Malian cloth. She has exhibited her works in group and individual exhibitions in Mali, Tunisia, Benin, the USA and France. She is also a committed educator, teaching drawing and painting at the Conservatoire.
About Janet Goldner
Janet is an independent researcher, scholar, consultant and artist. She has a lifelong relationship with Africa. She received a Fulbright Senior Research Fellowship to Mali in 1995. Since then, she has spent several months every year in Mali engaged cultural research and projects concerning cultural preservation, contemporary art, and artists in Mali. Her research takes the form of immersive fieldwork, and she often collaborates with Malian artists. She has received three Fulbright Specialist grants and grants from the Ford Foundation and the UN Special Committee Against Apartheid. She has lectured widely. Published articles include a chapter in Contemporary African Fashion, Indiana University Press, an essay in Poetics of Cloth, Grey Art Gallery, NYU.

Thank you to Janet Goldner from ArtTable’s New York Chapter Programming Committee for organizing this program.

Images:

Massira Toure, courtesy of the speaker
Janet Goldner, courtesy of the speaker

DC | BreakfastTable with Allison Nance & Teddy Rodger
2021-06-10 09:00 (America/New_York) | Plain Sight, 3218 Georgia Avenue NW, Washington, DC, DC, 20010, United States
9am ET
Join ArtTable’s DC Chapter for June’s BreakfastTable featuring Allison Nance and Teddy Rodger, co-founders and curators of Plain Sight, an independent exhibition space born out of the many art space closures during the Covid-19 pandemic. Guests will gather in front of Plain Sight and learn more about Allison and Teddy’s partnership and concept behind Plain Sight, and about their current exhibition by Lee Nowell-Wilson. After, we will walk one block to Doubles Cafe for a Dutch Treat-style breakfast and conversation outdoors on their large covered patio.
This program is free for all ArtTable members. Members may bring 1 additional guest for $5.
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About Allison Nance
Allison Nance has over 15 years of leadership experience in arts non-profit management for the visual arts. She is deeply dedicated to supporting and empowering artists as leaders, and elevating cultural exchange opportunities both abroad and locally. In addition to co-founding and curating Plain Sight, Allison is the Managing Director of The Nicholson Project, an Artist Residency Program and exhibition space in Washington, DC. She is also the curator of exhibitions at Culture House DC.
Previously, Allison was the Director of Hillyer Art Space (IA&A at Hillyer) from 2013-2020 where she facilitated a robust schedule of artist selection and mentorship, organizing and curating over 30 exhibitions and 85+ public programs annually. She fostered initiatives and key partnerships throughout DC and the surrounding region and broadened artist-focused projects between Washington, DC, and international counterparts. Allison currently serves on the Alexandria Commission for the Arts and the Washington Sculptors Group Advisory Board. She is the Programs Chair for ArtTable’s DC Chapter Executive Committee.
About Teddy Rodger
Teddy Rodger specializes in program development within the cultural sector. She delivers high-quality and thoughtful initiatives and events that connect communities around the world through the arts. She is well-versed in launching large-scale and internationally-focused arts events, fellowships, and collaborative projects that elevate organizational mission and presence on a global scale. In addition to co-founding and curating Plain Sight, Teddy is a Program Manager for the Goethe Institute. There she manages Shaping the Past, a partnership between the Goethe-Institut, Monument Lab, and the German Federal Agency for Civic Education. The partnership connects memory workers in North America and Germany to deliver public programs and a multi-city, international exhibition.
She was the Public Engagement and Events Manager at IA&A at Hillyer before its pandemic related closure in May 2020. Before that, Teddy worked as the Programs Manager at Georgetown’s The Lab for Global Performance and Politics, as well as the Producer of their international Cross-Currents festival. Amongst others, previous experience includes Assistant to Playwrights Charles L. Mee and Michi Barall, and Associate Director of Audience Development and Promotions at the hakespeare Theatre Company.

Thank you to Allison Nance, DC Chapter, for organizing this program.

Images:

Teddy Rodgers headshot courtesy of District Fray Magazine, photo by Rick Kessler Photography.

Virtual | NoCal Film Night - "Everybody Knows...Elizabeth Murray"
2021-06-09 20:30 (America/New_York) | Zoom
8:30pm ET | 7:30pm CT | 5:30pm PT
Join ArtTable’s Northern California Chapter for a virtual film night to view and discuss Everybody Knows…Elizabeth Murray — The Life of a Great Contemporary Painter. You can also view the film in advance and join us for the discussion afterwards. We are delighted that after the viewing, we will be joined Daisy Murray Holman, daughter of the late artist. We look forward to a moving documentary and discussion of an inspiring artist.
This program is free for ArtTable Members only. Not a member? Join today!
How to take part:

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How to view the film in advance:
Members can watch the film at their leisure through their own public library Kanopy accounts.
Kanopy – San Francisco Public Library
Kanopy – Berkeley Public Library – California
PBS (only available to KQED Passport Members)
About Daisy Murray Holman
Daisy Murray Holman is Head of Archives for the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation and manages the estate of her mother, Elizabeth Murray.

Thank you to Jan Wurm for organizing this program.

Image: Elizabeth Murray, Everybody Knows, 2007, oil on canvas, 87″ x 93″ © 2019 The Murray-Holman Family Trust / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

DC | MeetAT at Tudor Place
2021-06-09 18:00 - 19:15 (America/New_York) | Tudor Place, 1644 31st St NW, Washington, DC, DC, 20001
Enjoy a glass of wine and the company of old and new friends at the DC chapter’s first in-person program in over a year! Learn about Tudor Place’s history with a brief welcome from their Executive Director Mark Hudson, a private tour of their gardens, and meet our Faith Flanagan Fellows 2021 Cohort!
Due to social distancing requirements, registration for this program is limited to 30 attendees. Waitlisted registrants will be notified if space becomes available.
This program is free and open to ArtTable members only.
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Please note that by registering for this event you consent to have your contact information shared with ArtTable to be used in the event that contact tracing is needed. While masks are no longer mandated by the CDC for fully vaccinated individuals, Tudor Place continues to enforce Health and Safety Guidelines that require all visitors aged 3 and over to wear a mask at all times. Masks will not be provided. Anyone without a mask will not be admitted to the program. There will be no exceptions.

Thank you to Caitlin Berry, Co-chair of ArtTable’s DC Chapter, as well as Janet Wall, Director of Development & Communications at Tudor Place, for organizing this program.

Image: Tudor Place Historic House & Garden

Partner Program | The Convening: Women in Art
2021-06-07 12:00 - 2021-06-12 13:30 (America/New_York) | Zoom
June 7-12, 2021
The Convening is a week-long virtual leadership conference founded by Sheri Pasquerella of SLP The Class + SLP Women’s Group, and Lauren Jackson Harris & Daricia Mia DeMarr of Black Women in Visual Art. Presented in collaboration with ArtTable and inaugurating in June 2021, the gathering will provide tools, education, and mentorship for women of all ages working in the visual arts ecosystem. We will unite more than 300 female visionaries from across the country and convene around the question: How can we lead real change in 2021?
For 5 Days, The Convening will present daily programming on a rotating schedule designed to encourage equity and growth in the arts, including Morning Meditations, Afternoon Workshops, and Evening Panel Discussions. All these programs are leading up to The Great Convening on Friday and Saturday. During these gatherings, 10 inspiring women will lead small groups & mentor-based sessions of 10-15 people to brainstorm and consider the question: How can we lead real change? Each circle is tasked with coming up with 1-2 actions that they can commit to. The group will nominate a ‘presenter’ to share the ideas & actions during Saturday’s The Great Convening.
Admission

Students – $50 (limited amount available)
Monday – Thursday (Workshops & Panels only) – $125
Full Week – The Great Convening Combo Ticket – $250

Visit The Convening website to read more about the event, the speakers and panelists, view the full schedule, and purchase your ticket today!

NoCal | MeetAT at Headlands Center for the Arts
2021-06-05 16:00 - 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Commons at Headlands Center for the Arts, Between 944 & 945 Simmonds Road, Sausalito, CA, 94965, United States
Please join us for an in-person MeetAT program at the Headlands Center for the Arts! Attendees will enjoy wine and bites outdoors in the stunning landscape of the Marin Headlands.
Headlands Center for the Arts is a multidisciplinary, international arts center dedicated to supporting artists, the creative process, and the development of new, innovative ideas and artwork. On June 2nd, Headlands’ 2021 Benefit Auction will kick off with a live virtual auction and performance by Fog Beast, followed by a silent auction from June 2nd-16th. The Preview Exhibition for this event will be on view should members wish to see it. The exhibition features work by renowned local, national, and international artists, including Annie Lapin, Ad Minoliti, David Maisel, and Chanell Stone.
This program is open to ArtTable members only. The program fee is $5.
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Due to social distancing requirements, registration for this program is limited to 15 attendees. Waitlisted registrants will be notified if space becomes available.
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Please note that by registering for this event you consent to have your contact information shared with ArtTable to be used in the event that contact tracing is needed. Please note that all visitors, regardless of vaccination status, must wear a mask over the nose and mouth at all times, except while eating or drinking—no neck gaiters, open-chin triangle bandanas, or face coverings with valves, mesh, or holes. We recommend reading the full list of guidelines at the Headlands before registering. Mask and social distancing guidelines apply indoors and in outdoor common areas.

Thank you to Dorothy Davila, ArtTable Board Member, NoCal Chapter Executive Committee Member, and Deputy Director for Operations at Headlands Center for the Arts for organizing this program.

Images:

Headlands Center for the Arts, Photo by Robert Divers Herrick

Virtual | Reimagining Public Monuments: Old Stories & New Narratives
2021-06-02 18:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
6pm ET | 5pm CT | 4pm PT
We are delighted to present Monuments & Memorials: Then & Now, a three part series about the history, context and creation of public monuments and memorials.
This first panel will introduce milestones and controversies of past memorials and monuments. We will hear from Professor Harriet F. Senie, Professor of Art History at C.U.N.Y. and its Graduate Center, who will offer her perspective on The Evolution of Monuments: Paradigms and Underlying Issues based on her 30 years of experience teaching, writing and participating on national selection commissions in the field of public art. She is joined by artist Alison Saar, who will reflect on her much admired permanent 2007 Harriet Tubman Monument in Harlem, a case study, in New York City where there are few monuments to women or non-white males. We will also hear from artist Marisa Williamson, who is known for reimagining under-represented historical subjects by bringing these figures to life through performance art and augmented reality (AR). She will speak about her practice using new narratives and new media for contemporary audiences. Cathie Behrend, ArtTable New York member who co-organized this series, will introduce the program and panelists.
The second panel in this series will be announced in the coming weeks and will focus on Reimagining Public Monuments & Memorials: Through Other Lenses. What have we seen? Whose stories will we now tell? Who will decide? Who will provide funding? What visions do artists now imagine for the future? A third panel in September will wrap up the series with a focus on the Preservation of Public Monuments & Sacred Spaces at Home & Abroad. We hope you will join us for all three!
We also look forward to sharing more information on an upcoming walking tour of Harlem with Cathie Behrend that will highlight monuments and memorials in the neighborhood, including Alison Saar’s “Swing Low: Harriet Tubman Memorial” and the Frederick Douglass Sculpture and Water Wall. Stay tuned for more details!
Admission

Non-Members – $15
ArtTable Members – $10
ArtTable Circle Members – Free
Members may bring an additional guest for $5

How to take part:

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About Professor Harriet F. Senie
Harriet F. Senie is professor of art history at City College and the CUNY Graduate Center. She is the author of Memorials to Shattered Myths: Vietnam to 9/11; The “Tilted Arc” Controversy: Dangerous Precedent?; and Contemporary Public Sculpture: Tradition, Transformation, and Controversy. She is co-editor and contributor to Teachable Monuments: Using Public Art to Spark Dialogue and Confront Controversy; Museums and Public Art?; A Companion to Public Art; and Critical Issues in Public Art. In 2008, she cofounded Public Art Dialogue, an international organization and College Art Association affiliate, and coedited its peer review journal Public Art Dialogue from 2011-17. She has served on the New York City Mayoral Advisory Commission on City Art, Monuments, and Markers; the She Built New York advisory committee, and selection committees for the Women’s Rights Pioneers Monument in Central Park; the Mexico City 1968 Memorial; and the Flight 587 Memorial. Her current book project is Monumental Controversies: Mount Rushmore, Four Presidents, and the Quest for National Identity.
About Alison Saar
Alison Saar was born in Los Angeles, California. She has been commissioned to create a number of Public Monuments including Swing Low a monument to Harriet Tubman, Terra Incognita a memorial to York of the Lewis and Clark expedition and Embodied a monument to Justice. She received the United States Artist Fellowship in 2012 and has also been awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and two National Endowment Fellowships. Alison has exhibited at many galleries and museums, including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Her art is represented in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Baltimore Art Museum, the Modern Museum of Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
About Marisa Williamson
Marisa Williamson is a project-based artist who has produced site-specific works at Monticello, & by commission from Storm King Art Center, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Monument Lab, & the National Park Service. She has had solo exhibitions at the University of Virginia, the University of Washington, & SPACES in Cleveland. Her work has been exhibited nationally & internationally. Williamson has received grants from the Rema Hort Mann Foundation, the Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, & the Graham Foundation. Williamson holds a BA from Harvard & an MFA from CalArts. She lives & works in New Jersey & Connecticut, serving as an assistant professor of media arts at the University of Hartford.

Thank you to Cathie Behrend, former Deputy Director of New York’s Percent for Art Program and founder of VenturesinVision, and Lori Shepard, member of ArtTable’s New York Chapter Programs Committee, for organizing this program series.

Images:

Marisa Williamson, Ruffin Hall: University of Virginia – Seeing that nothing is purely black or white, the Ghost of Thomas Jefferson wanders in this grey area. Charlottesville, VA. From Postcard Book: The Ghost of Thomas Jefferson, 2018. Edition of 150. Photo by Gabby Fuller. Courtesy of the Artist. | Swing Low: A Harriet Tubman memorial by Alison Saar (Photo: Devin A. Hill for TravelMag)
Harriet F. Senie, courtesy of the speaker
Alison Saar Self Portrait, courtesy of the artist
Marisa Williamson, courtesy of the artist

Virtual | Coffee Break with Ruri Yampolsky, Seattle Waterfront Program Arts Manager
2021-05-28 14:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
2pm ET | 1pm CT | 11am PT
Grab a cup of coffee and join us for an informal chat and virtual presentation about the Seattle Waterfront Arts Program! This presentation will highlight the ongoing installation taking place along the Seattle Waterfront that includes the work of female-identifying artists who have indigenous backgrounds. Ruri Yampolsky will speak about this public art program, sharing with ArtTable Northwest’s audience and anyone else who is interested. After the presentation there will be time set aside for questions and also for networking in smaller groups.
Admission

Non-Members – $5
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About Ruri Yampolsky
Ruri Yampolsky is the Waterfront Program Arts Manager for the city of Seattle’s Office of the Waterfront and Civic Projects, working to ensure that arts and culture are fully integrated into one of the largest civic transformations Seattle has undertaken. With 30 years’ experience in the public art field, including managing Seattle’s public art program and numerous art projects, she has worked to expand collective experience by advocating for a variety of artistic expressions in artworks that shape urban space, engage community, encourage civic dialog and bring new voices into the field.

Ruri served on the Public Art Network Council for Americans for the Arts, finishing out as vice-chair, and focusing on diversity, equity and inclusion in public art practice, policies and procedures. Most recently, she collaborated with national colleagues on a document addressing issues of problematic monuments and memorials. She is a registered architect with a Master of Architecture from Columbia University, and earned her Bachelor of Arts in architecture with a minor in Latin from Barnard College.

Thank you to Ruri Yampolsky, Waterfront Program Arts Manager, and ArtTable’s Northwest Chapter for organizing this program.

Images:

Image courtesy of Waterfront Program

Virtual | Let's Connect! Spring National Networking Event
2021-05-27 17:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
5pm ET | 4pm CT | 2pm PT
We invite all ArtTable members to join us for this virtual national networking event! Building upon the success of the networking event held after this year’s Annual Benefit and Award Ceremony, we are thrilled to offer our members this opportunity to connect with each other nationwide. Participants will go into breakout rooms to chat, connect, see old friends and make new ones! This is a great opportunity for members from all over the country (and the world!) to form new connections and find ways to collaborate with one another.
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Can’t join us for this event? Don’t worry, there will be plenty more opportunities to connect with members in the future! In the meantime, we hope you can join us for another upcoming virtual program or support other ArtTable initiatives!

Image: Courtesy of Point Road Group

Virtual | Professional Empowerment: Taxation Insights on Art Transactions, with Galina Portnoy
2021-05-26 12:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
12pm ET | 11am CT | 9am PT
ArtTable’s Professional Empowerment program 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. Please join us and Galina Portnoy, CPA, Director at Marks Paneth Accountants & Advisors for a discussion on issues of taxation in the art world. We will touch upon how similar art transactions are treated differently by the IRS depending on who is conducting the transaction (artist vs. dealer vs. investor vs. collector), art inclusion in estate planning, art transactions and crypto currency, among other essential topics!
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About Galina Portnoy
Galina Portnoy, CPA, is a Director in the Private Client Services Group at Marks Paneth LLP. For more than 20 years, Ms. Portnoy has provided tax, accounting and consulting services to high-net-worth individuals, family partnerships and their related entities. She has advised on a broad range of complex issues, including strategic income tax planning and execution, gifts and estates, philanthropy, matrimonial accounting, business management and planning, real estate and other transactions, multi-state taxation and financial planning.
Ms. Portnoy has extensive experience advising artists, art dealers and art investors, as well as educators and researchers. In addition, her clients include hedge fund managers, investment advisors, real estate investors and providers of legal, financial and real estate-related services. She also oversees engagements that provide concierge services to high-net-worth individuals and their related entities.
Ms. Portnoy has represented clients before the Internal Revenue Service, as well as the State and City of New York, including on income tax, residency and UBT issues.
Before joining Marks Paneth LLP in 2016, Ms. Portnoy was a CPA at another accounting firm and, prior to that, worked in a variety of private and publicly traded organizations in a tax and accounting capacity. She is based in the firm’s New York City headquarters.
Thank you to ArtTable’s New York Chapter Programming Committee for organizing this program.

Images:

Header image courtesy of Kyle E. Krull
Galina Portnoy, courtesy of the speaker

Virtual | DC Around the Table Book Group - Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama
2021-05-25 19:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
7pm ET | 6pm CT | 4pm PT
Join ArtTable’s Washington, D.C. Chapter for an Around the Table Book Group. This program is open to all ArtTable members and meets four times a year; participants can join for one book or for all!
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For the second DC Around the Table Book Group of 2021, we will discuss “Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama.”

In 1957, encouraged by Georgia O’Keeffe, artist Yayoi Kusama left Japan for New York City to become a star. By the time she returned to her home country in 1973, she had established herself as a leader of New York’s avant-garde movement, known for creating happenings and public orgies to protest the Vietnam War and for the polka dots that had become a trademark of her work. Her sculptures, videos, paintings, and installations are to this day included in major international exhibitions.

Thank you to Ruth Abrahams, ArtTable DC Committee Member at Large and ArtTable VP of Chapter Leadership for organizing this program.

Image: Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama

Virtual | AT Connect with Silvia Karman Cubiñá
2021-05-24 12:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
12pm ET | 11am CT | 9am PT
ArtTable’s AT Connect program series encourages members to network, connect, and ask questions outside of their regular areas of expertise. In this session we will hear from Silvia Karman Cubiñá, Executive Director and Chief Curator of The Bass in Miami Beach and a member of ArtTable’s Florida Chapter.
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About the Speaker

Since 2008, Silvia Karman Cubiñá has held the position of Executive Director and Chief Curator of The Bass in Miami Beach. During her tenure, Ms. Cubiñá led a $12 million institutional transformation, complete with a building renovation by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Arata Isozaki and David Gauld. Throughout this time, the museum’s annual budget and full-time staff quadrupled and the board grew from three members to thirty. Prior to The Bass, Ms. Cubiñá was the Director of The Moore Space, Miami, from 2002-2008. She also held the position of Adjunct Curator at INOVA, the Institute of Visual Arts at University of Wisconsin- Milwaukee.
Ms. Cubiñá has curated numerous exhibitions, lectured extensively, and has participated in grant panels and award selection committees, including serving as a juror for both the Guggenheim Museum’s Hugo Boss Award 2006 and the 2008 Biennale de Lyon. In 2007, she was a finalist for the Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement and a fellow in the Center for Curatorial Leadership (CCL) fellowship program. Ms. Cubiñá served on the Knight Foundation National Arts Advisory Board and, in 2012, she was awarded the distinction of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture. In 1997, she was the Puerto Rico commissioner to the Bienal de São Paolo.
In her role as Chief Curator of The Bass, Ms. Cubiñá has organized more than 30 major exhibitions including: Where Do We Go From Here: Selections from la Colección Jumex (2009), Isaac Julien: Ten Thousand Waves (2011), Ugo Rondinone: good evening beautiful blue (2017), The Haas Brothers: Ferngully (2018), Haegue Yang: In the Cone of Uncertainty (2019) and Mickalene Thomas: Better Nights (2019), all while at The Bass; Jim Lambie: Paradise Garage (2004), Miami Calling…Jonathan Monk (2005), Allora & Calzadilla: Clamor (2006) and Kalup Linzy (2008) during her time at The Moore Space; and Pepón Osorio: Door to Door (2002).
Married and a mother of two, Ms. Cubiñá is fluent in English, Spanish and French; proficient in Italian.

Images:

Silvia Karman Cubiñá, Executive Director and Chief Curator, The Bass. Photo by Nick Garcia.
The Bass, Miami Beach, Florida. Photo by Zachary Balber. Courtesy of The Bass.

Virtual | Demystifying Art World Anti-Money Laundering & Compliance Regulations
2021-05-20 11:00 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
11am ET | 10am CT | 8am PT
Anti-money laundering (AML) regulations are very much in play in the United Kingdom and throughout the European Union, putting more obligations on art dealers. While legislation regarding anti-money laundering for the US market is still uncertain, we live in a global age where art market professionals need to be aware of and understand regulations in different countries. Join us and expert panelists Susan J Mumford (CEO of ArtAML and former gallerist), Azmina Jasani (Partner, Art & Cultural Property Law Group), and Megan Noh (Co-chair, Pryor Cashman’s Art Law Group), and moderated by Eileen Kinsella (Senior Market Reporter, artnet News), for a discussion on these new regulations coming out of Europe, and the implications for international transactions when involved parties are on opposite sides of the Atlantic.
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About the Speakers
Azmina Jasani is a Partner in the Art & Cultural Property Law Group at Constantine Cannon and a leading art law and luxury assets specialist. She is valued by her clients for her “effective”, “diligent” and “straightforward” style and for her dual qualifications and experience in New York and London, which they deem “a real asset.” Azmina represents clients on a variety of matters, including disputes involving issues of authenticity, provenance, title and copyright as well as disputes relating to artist-gallery relations and looted or illegally exported cultural property. She is also often instructed by art and luxury businesses to help them comply with regulations pertaining to anti-money laundering, consumer protection, import and export, data protection, bribery and introductory commissions.
Azmina lectures at the Institute of Art & Law, Queen Mary School of Law, Sotheby’s Institute of Art and the Courtauld Institute of Art. She received her Juris Doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and her B.A., summa cum laude, from Queens College, City University of New York.
Megan Noh co-chairs Pryor Cashman’s Art Law Group. With over 15 years of combined experience in private practice and both in-house legal and business positions in the auction world, Megan is sought after for her extensive knowledge of the complex issues impacting today’s art market, including specifically with respect to transactional matters and artists’ rights. Megan’s practice is uniquely holistic in its representation of members of almost every segment of the art market, and she is known for her ability to negotiate a transaction from both sides of its key issues—whether it’s an auction house consignment agreement, a museum exhibition loan agreement, or an artist-gallery representation agreement.

Susan J Mumford is a serial entrepreneur in the art market. Having arrived in the UK from the USA in 2000, she ran a gallery in Soho, London, from 2006-11. When the art world entered a new era following the credit crunch of 2008, she founded the Association of Women Art Dealers (AWAD), an international multi-chapter non-profit network connect women and women-identifying art dealers on a global basis. This was followed by the creation of Be Smart About Art, an online-accessible professional development platform that helps creative professionals thrive in a changing world. In 2018, she embarked upon ArtAML, which unites technology and art market know-how to help dealers keep dealing and buyers keep buying in the face of anti-money laundering legislation that hit the art market in 2020.
Eileen Kinsella (moderator) is a journalist who has been covering the international art market, and the intersection of art and finance, for more than 20 years. After starting as a news assistant on the national news desk of the Wall Street Journal in New York, she moved to the Money & Investing section of the paper where she wrote stories on commercial real estate, mutual funds, equity markets and investment trends. Kinsella joined the paper’s newly debuted “Weekend Section” in 1998 with expanded coverage of the art market, where she first started reporting on art.
Kinsella spent more than a decade at ARTnews magazine as a contributing writer and editor of a newsletter that covered a wide range of issues related to the international art market, including auction sales, gallery shows, and legal developments that impact issues of authenticity, ownership and international repatriation. She has covered numerous high-profile art-fraud related cases and trials and appeared as a guest on numerous CNBC art market news segments and its “American Greed” series, as well as BBC News, BBC Radio, NPR, Reuters, and numerous podcasts Artnet News’s own The Art Angle.
She has appeared on and moderated numerous art market panels around the world and made presentations on art crime including at New York University’s Visual Arts Administration Program, and at the Foundation for Appraisal Education (FAE’s) conference in Philadelphia in 2016. Since 2014, Kinsella has been senior market reporter for Artnet News, based in New York.

Images:

Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2021. All rights reserved.
Azmina Jasani, courtesy of Constantine Cannon
Megan Noh, courtesy of Pryor Cashman
Susan J Mumford, courtesy of the speaker
Eileen Kinsella, courtesy of the speaker

Virtual | Discovering Digital - Immersive Technology & Art with Laura Hertzfeld & Nancy Baker Cahill
2021-05-18 18:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
6pm ET | 5pm CT | 3pm PT
Discovering Digital is a new programming series developed by ArtTable’s New York Chapter Programs Committee. Each discussion will explore different aspects of new media initiatives in the art world. These virtual conversations are led by experts in the field and appeal to all who are interested in digital media.
As COVID-19 has created a higher demand for art that can be experienced in the public space, immersive technologies like augmented reality and virtual reality have become synonymous with what’s marketable and accessible in our current pandemic world. Artist Nancy Baker Cahill and journalist/producer Laura Hertzfeld will discuss immersive art, the creative process, and the possibilities and perils of the brave new world of NFTs – as well as provide insight on how to get started in the digital art world.
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About Nancy Baker Cahill

Nancy Baker Cahill is a new media artist who examines power, selfhood, and embodied consciousness through drawing and shared immersive space. She is the Founder and Artistic Director of 4th Wall, a free Augmented Reality (AR) art platform exploring resistance and inclusive creative expression. Her recent AR public art project, Liberty Bell, commissioned by Art Production Fund, earned features in the New York Times, frieze Magazine, Artnet, Smithsonian Magazine and the Washington Post, among many other publications. The project, on view through 2021, spans six historic and culturally significant sites along the Eastern Seaboard of the U.S. and appeared in Artnews’ list, The Defining Public Artworks of 2020. Baker Cahill was also included in ARTnews’ list of 2021 Deciders.
Her 2018 TED talk, Augmented Reality (AR) as an Artist’s Tool for Equity and Access, launched her international public speaking practice. She has since delivered keynotes at the 2019 Games For Change, 2020 A.W.E. (Augmented World Expo) and has spoken at the Hirshhorn Museum and numerous academic institutions and conferences. Baker Cahill is an artist scholar in the Berggruen Institute’s inaugural Transformations of the Human Fellowship, and will begin a residency focused on AR monuments at Oxy Arts this summer. She is the Art and Creative Technologies Advisor for the XRSI Safety Initiative, and is a member of the Guild of Future Architects. In May 2021, she will receive the Williams College Bicentennial Medal of Honor.
About Laura Hertzfeld
Laura Hertzfeld is an Emmy-winning producer, writer, and editor with over a decade of experience helping news organizations develop online content, engagement and distribution strategies. She leads the XR Partner Program at Yahoo Ryot Labs, building AR and VR projects for Verizon Media’s news partners. Laura was a 2018-2019 John S. Knight Journalism Fellow at Stanford University where she researched the intersection of art, immersive storytelling, and journalism. She previously led Journalism 360, an immersive storytelling initiative from Google News Lab, Knight Foundation, and ONA. She has held leadership roles at Entertainment Weekly, Ora TV, and PBS.org and was an editor on the original Yahoo News team.

This program is generously supported by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. The 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.
Thank you to Regan Lynne Larroque, ArtTable’s New York Chapter Programming Committee Co-Chair, for organizing this program.

Images:

Hollow Point 101, LUMINEX: Dialogues of Light, Courtesy of Nancy Baker Cahill
Nancy Baker Cahill, courtesy of the speaker
Laura Hertzfeld, courtesy of the speaker

Virtual | Reading at the (Art)Table - 'Consuming Stories: Kara Walker' by Rebecca Peabody
2021-05-16 14:00 (America/New_York) | Zoom
2pm ET | 1pm CT | 11am PT
Join us for Reading at the (Art)Table as we delve into the new selection, “Consuming Stories: Kara Walker and the Imagining of American Race,” by Rebecca Peabody. Peabody uses the work of contemporary American artist Kara Walker to investigate a range of popular storytelling traditions with roots in the nineteenth century and ramifications in the present.
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Thank you to Jan Wurm, ArtTable Northern California Chapter, for organizing this program.
Image: “Consuming Stories: Kara Walker and the Imagining of American Race” by Rebecca Peabody
