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NORTHWEST | An Evening With the Founders of Wa Na Wari
2020-02-10 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Wa Na Wari, 911 24th Ave, Seattle, WA, 98122, United States
Image: The Founders of Wa Na Wari. Photo by Susan Fried.
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The Northwest Chapter of ArtTable invites you to join us for an evening of conversation and art with the founders of Wa Na Wari. Wa Na Wari is a center for Black art and culture in Seattle’s historically redlined Central District neighborhood, sited in a 5th-generation Black-owned home.
Co-Founder Inye Wokoma is the 2019 recipient of the 2019 Neddy at Cornish Grand Prize. Current Artists include Amir George, Abroad and Abound, Shurvon Hayes, In The Presence of Black Art: Healthy and Happy Mandala, Ronald Hall, Selected Works, and Jaleesa Johnson, Being/Conjured. Appetizers, wine, and non-alcoholic drinks will be provided.
“​Two of us, Inye Wokoma and Elisheba Johnson, are Black artists directly impacted by Seattle’s displacement and affordability crisis. Inye Wokoma’s grandmother is 93 years old and living with Alzheimers. As the guardian of her estate she has been fighting on her behalf to maintain ownership of the homes she and her husband worked their entire lives for. Elisheba Johnson, born and raised in Seattle, has a job with the City of Seattle and still cannot afford to live in the city. Their stories are reflective of what the housing crisis looks like for Black artists in Seattle. ​Two of us, Jill Freidberg and Rachel Kessler, are white artists using art and stories to challenge white supremacy, especially as it is expressed through gentrification and displacement.”
Thank you to Elisheba Johnson.

DC | Spanish Ambassador Residence in Washington D.C.
2020-02-11 12:30 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Spanish Ambassador Residence, 2350 Foxhall Rd NW, Washington, DC, 20007, United States
Image: Spanish Ambassador Residence
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Join ArtTable DC for a visit to the art collection at the Spanish Ambassador Residence followed by a seated lunch hosted by the Spanish Ambassador’s wife, Mrs. Sol Oyarzum de Cabanas.
Until the late 1990s, the residence of the Spanish Ambassador was the magnificent Beaux-Arts mansion located in the 16th street and designed by renowned American architect George Oakley Totte. When built, in 1922, it was part of a project conceived to develop the surrounding area as the center of social and diplomatic life in Washington, DC. The building is today the Cultural Center of the Spanish Embassy.
In 1996, the government of Spain commissioned Rafael Moneo, Spain’s most celebrated architect and winner of the 1996 Pritzker Architecture Prize (the profession’s equivalent of the Nobel Prize) to build a new residence in Foxhall road.
The addition of the Moneo building makes this stretch of Foxhall an architectural oddity, in a distinguished sort of way, for directly across the street is the Kreeger Museum, designed by Philip Johnson in 1963. Johnson was the first Pritzker laureate, back in 1979.
The embassy reflects some of Spain’s more characteristic architectural traits in the use of bricks for the external walls and in the colorful Andalusian tiles that decorate the greenhouse-like patio extension that sits on the house’s southern façade.
Inside, numerous paintings and works of art represent the best of the Spanish artistic tradition, from Royal portraits to Flemish tapestries as well as some paintings by today’s most recognized Spanish Contemporary artists.
This program is for ArtTable members only.
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Thank you to Mrs Sol Oyarzum de Cabanas and his excellency the Spanish Ambassador.

National | Los Angeles 40th Anniversary New Leadership Award Celebration
2020-02-12 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | The Standard West Hollywood, 8300 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, 90069, United States
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Join ArtTable poolside, at the Standard Hotel in Los Angeles, as we celebrate our 40th Anniversary and toast the achievements of our 2020 New Leadership Award recipients:
Wassan Al-Khudhairi (Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, MO)
Erin Christovale (Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA)
Lauren Haynes (Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR)
Jami Powell (The Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH)
In recognition of ArtTable’s 40th Anniversary in 2020, we are presenting four New Leadership Awards, representing the four decades of ArtTable’s influence in the visual arts community. The New Leadership Award was first introduced as part of ArtTable’s 25th anniversary celebration in 2005. It recognizes women whose early career accomplishments and distinguished service merit national and international recognition in the professional visual arts community.
Learn more about the accomplishments of our 2020 honorees here.

Thank you to First Republic Bank for their support.

NY | Curatorial Perspective: Zilia Sánchez: Soy Isla (I Am an Island)
2020-02-19 17:30 - 18:30 (America/New_York) | El Museo Del Barrio, 1230 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10029, United States
Image: Zilia Sánchez, Topología erotica [Erotic Topology], 1960–71. Acrylic on stretched canvas, 41 × 56 × 13 in. Collection [Colección] Jose R. Landron, San Juan
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Join ArtTable NY for a curatorial walkthrough of Zilia Sánchez: Soy Isla (I Am an Island) with Susanna Temkin, Curator at El Museo del Barrio.
Zilia Sánchez: Soy Isla (I Am an Island)is the first museum retrospective of the prolific, innovative, and yet largely unknown artist Zilia Sánchez (b. 1926, Havana – lives and works in San Juan). The exhibition features over 40 works from the early 1950s to the present, including paintings, works on paper, shaped canvases, sculptural pieces, graphic illustrations, and ephemera. The retrospective traces Sánchez’s artistic journey from her early days in Cuba to her extended travels in Europe in the 1950s and residence in New York in the 1960s, and finally her move to Puerto Rico, where she has lived and worked since the early 1970s. For more information, see here.
Susanna Temkin is a Curator at El Museo del Barrio since 2018, and recently organized the museum’s fiftieth-anniversary exhibition, Culture and the People: El Museo del Barrio, 1969-2019. Prior to El Museo, she served as Assistant Curator at Americas Society in New York. From 2011-2016 she was the Research and Archive Specialist at the Cecilia de Torres, Ltd., where she assisted in co-authoring the digital catalogue raisonné of artist Joaquín Torres-García. Temkin has published essays and reviews in the Rutgers Art Review, Burlington Magazine, and Hemispheres, and authored the chronology of Concrete Cuba: Cuba Geometric Abstraction from the 1950s, produced by David Zwirner Books. She earned her master’s and PhD degrees from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, where her research concentrated on modern art in the Americas, with a focus on Cuba.
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Thank you to Ingrid Dinter, Julia Herzberg and Susanna Temkin.

NY | Artist Breakfast with Ilana Harris-Babou
2020-02-20 08:30 - 10:00 (America/New_York) | Spring Place, 6 St Johns Ln, 10013, United States
Image: Ilana Harris-Babou, Decision Fatigue
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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 Ilana Harris-Babou, whose work was included in last year’s Whitney Biennial and whose exhibition Decision Fatigue, opens this month at Hesse Flatow.
About the artist:
Ilana Harris-Babou uses music videos, cooking shows, and home improvement television as material in an abject exploration of the American Dream. She works primarily in ceramic sculpture and video installation, and frames messy scenes with studio lighting and HD video in order to ask questions about intimacy, violence, and consumption.

Harris-Babou showed in the 2019 Whitney Biennial and in a 2017 exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York. In a well-reviewed New York gallery show she parodied Restoration Hardware’s rugged chic aesthetic. Her Reparation Hardware video, inspired by the chain’s own video promoting its salvaged wood furniture line, suggests a hypothetical reparations plan for the descendants of enslaved Americans.
Harris-Babou received an MFA in New Genres from Columbia University and a BA in Art from Yale University. She has exhibited her work throughout the United States and Europe. See more about Ilana here and here.

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Thank you to ArtTable’s Artist Breakfast Committee and Karen Flatow.

DC | MeetAT Happy Hour
2020-02-25 17:30 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Ben’s Next Door, 1211 U St NW, Washington, DC, 20009
Image: Ben’s Next Door
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Come MeetAT!
This is a networking event for art professionals looking to share ideas, contacts, information, resources, provide introductions and make new connections with tons of influencers and like-minded people residing in, or visiting the Washington, DC area.
Members, friends, non-members- all welcome!
Ben’s Next Door is known for its upscale Southern Cuisine, including their signature Chicken & Waffle, Shrimp, and White Cheese Grits, Crispy Skin Salmon, and Jumbo Lump Crab Cake.
Getting there: Shaw-Howard University Metro; Street Parking
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Thank you to La’Tasha Banks.

SOCAL | BookTable with Author Susan Jaques
2020-02-27 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Crestwood Hills Address- exact details to be shared on registration, Valet parking available
Images provided by Susan Jaques

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Join us for a talk by ArtTable member, acclaimed author Susan Jaques, on her book The Empress of Art in the art-filled home of ArtTable member Nancy Adams!
Join ArtTable for a talk by Susan Jaques on The Empress of Art: Catherine the Great and the Transformation of Russia, published in 2016. Ruthless and passionate, Catherine the Great is singularly responsible for the creation of the Hermitage and amassing one of the most awe-inspiring collections of art in the world. She also spearheaded turning St. Petersburg into a magnificent architectural wonder. Jaques’ art-oriented biography brings to life the creation of this captivating woman’s great artistic legacy. As was written in the Library Journal, “Jaques focuses on how Catherine’s prolific art acquisitions transformed Russia into a worldwide cultural powerhouse. As a form of statecraft, Catherine’s collecting conveyed authority and sophistication, making her and Russia a force to be reckoned with among nations… Jaques’s detailed description of Catherine’s passion for art stands on its own as a vivid portrayal of a fascinating ruler…” In 2018, Jaques published yet another monumental cultural history, the book The Caesar of Paris: Napoleon Bonaparte, Rome, and the Artistic Obsession that Shaped an Empire.
Nancy Adams will graciously host us that evening in her Brentwood home, which houses an eclectic collection focussed primarily on figurative work. Among the artists represented in her collection are Alison Saar, Kerry James Marshall, Alice Neel, Odd Nerdrum, Kent Twitchell, Robert Pruitt, Marion Post Wolcott, and Diego Rivera, as well as Old Master drawings and prints.
Refreshments will be served and valet parking will be available. Susan Jaques will be signing copies of The Empress of Art, which will be available for purchase.
For those who wish to read ahead, please note that another BookTable will take place on March 24th at the home of ArtTable member, art consultant Victoria Burns. It will focus on Mary Gabriel’s Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement that Changed Modern Art, published in 2018. A group discussion will follow a brief presentation by Roni Feinstein, who teaches a class on this subject at UCLA Extension.
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With thanks to Roni Feinstein, Nancy Adams, and Susan Jaques.

NY | MeetAT at RYAN LEE Gallery for 'Sandy Skolgund: Winter'
2020-02-27 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Ryan Lee Gallery, 515 WEST 26TH STREET, New York, New York, 10011
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This program is free and open to members, prospective members, and guests. Advance registration required.
ArtTable’s MeetAT networking program continues in February! This month we are hosted by the RYAN LEE Gallery whose fantastic exhibition, Sandy Skolgund: Winter, 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.
Winter, an exhibition of new work by the conceptual photographer Sandy Skoglund. Winter—ten years in the making—is a multifaceted project that includes sculpture, installation, and photography. Portions of Skoglund’s immersive tableau will be on view in the gallery, along with its final photographic iteration.
Also on view in Ryan Lee’s sister gallery, Mary Ryan Gallery, will be a celebratory exhibition of prints by women artists spanning nearly 125 years: Revolutionary by Nature: Master Prints by Women Artists, 1898 – 2020. The exhibition marks the 100th anniversary of women’s suffrage in the United States.

Thank you to ArtTable member Whitney Godfrey Hardin, Director, RYAN LEE Gallery and creator of MeetAT programs, Louky Keijsers-Koning, Director/Owner, LMAK Gallery, for organizing and supporting this program

SOCAL | South La Brea Gallery Shows: Raul Guerrero, Hank Willis Thomas, Lauren Halsey, Huma Bhabha
2020-02-29 12:00 - 14:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Kayne Griffin Corcoran, 1201 S La Brea Ave, Los Angeles, California, 90019
Image: Installation view of Lauren Halsey, David Kordansky Gallery, 2020
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Please join ArtTable’s SoCal Chapter for artist and director-led walkthroughs of current exhibitions Kayne Griffin Corcoran and David Kordansky galleries featuring an intergenerational array of leading artists representative of the current American artistic landscape.
Beginning at Kayne Griffin Corcoran, artist Raul Guerrero will guide us through Sonoran Desert: Flora, Fauna, Artifacts, his inaugural show with the gallery featuring recent paintings informed by his personal relationship to the Sonoran Desert. Interweaving autobiography and ethnography, Guerrero revisits issues of identity and culture, which have been central to his practice for upward of four decades.
KGC director Jamie Manné will present the work of Hank Willis Thomas on display in An All Colored Cast, the artist’s first solo show with the gallery. Drawing on sources as diverse as popular culture, postwar aesthetics, and the film industry, Thomas examines the loaded language associated with color theory and calibration charts to shed light on questions of gender, race and identity.
For more information: https://www.kaynegriffincorcoran.com/exhibitions
The program will continue across South La Brea at David Kordansky, with solo exhibitions of recent work by Angeleno artist Lauren Halsey and New York-based Pakistani sculptor Huma Bhabha.
Revisiting the visual urban fabric of South Central L.A. of her youth, Halsey packs her first show at the gallery with a colorful cacophonous maze of sculptural painting installations that engage with her ongoing concerns related to monuments, memorials, and public space in the face of gentrification and the displacement of local communities.
Characteristic of Bhabha’s range of visual and material vocabularies, her recent sculptures and drawings on view incorporate multiple processes and traditions, blending archaic and contemporary sources to create humanoid figures that address universal existential themes.
For further details: https://www.davidkordanskygallery.com/exhibitions
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Thank you to Geneen Estrada, ArtTable SoCal Communications Chair and Jamie Manné, Director Kayne Griffin Corcoran.

CHICAGO | BreakfastTable at The Arts Club of Chicago
2020-03-04 08:30 - 10:00 (America/Chicago) | The Arts Club Chicago, 201 E Ontario St, Chicago, IL, 60611, United States
Image: The Arts Club
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Please join us for the first in a series of visits to see the permanent art collections of Chicago’s private social clubs.
The first will be a welcoming and friendly networking breakfast at The Arts Club of Chicago with a bespoke tour of their phenomenal permanent art collection, including the architecture and history of the club.
Members and Non-Members, Visitors and Chicagoans all welcome.

DC | BreakfastTable with Lily Siegel
2020-03-06 08:00 - 09:00 (America/New_York) | Boulangerie Christophe, 1422 Wisconsin Ave NW, DC, 20007, United States
Image: Lily Siegel
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Join us for an informal conversation with Lily Siegel who is the incoming Executive Director of Hamiltonian Artists in Washington, DC.
Prior to joining Hamiltonian, she was Executive Director and Curator at Greater Reston Arts Center in Virginia and held curatorial positions at The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Current projects include concurrent exhibitions of the work of Moira Dryer (b. 1957, Toronto, Ontario; d. 1992, New York)–Moira Dryer: Yours for the Asking at Greater Reston Arts Center in Virginia, through April 18, 2020, and Moira Dryer: Back in Business at The Phillips Collection, on view February 8–April 19, 2020.
Dutch treat, cash preferred. Limited street parking, rideshare recommended.
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DC | Invisible Women: The Rediscovery of Historical Women Artists in Florence
2020-03-06 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Italian Cultural Institute @ Embassy of Italy, 3000 Whitehaven St, NW, Washington, DC, 20008
Image: Violante Beatrice Cerroti, Autoritratto (Self-Portrait), 1735, detail, oil on canvas, Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence, Italy
This event is now at capacity. Stay tuned for information on upcoming special opportunities for ArtTable members!
The Italian Cultural Institute invites ArtTable members to celebrate International Women’s Day, with a conversation on Invisible Women: The Rediscovery of Historical Women Artists in Florence. Spots for this event are limited and reserved for ArtTable members only.
Florence is home to great masters of Italian Renaissance art such as Botticelli, Donatello, Leonardo and Michelangelo but few people know that the city nourished women artists as well. Through the joint efforts of Italian museums such as the Uffizi and the US organization Advancing Women Artists, these often-forgotten women are now being rediscovered and their works restored and exhibited once more.
Join us and conservator Elizabeth Wicks for a talk focusing on Plautilla Nelli, Artemisa Gentileschi, Violante Siries Cerroti and Violante Ferroni, and the fascinating journey of their rediscovery and conservation.
Video preview: Youtube
Thank you to the IIC, Istituto Italiano di Cultura.

NATIONAL | The Armory Show Brunch
2020-03-07 10:00 - 11:30 (America/New_York) | The Armory Show VIP Lounge at Pier 90, 711 12th Avenue, New York, NY, 10019, United States
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Join ArtTable and Nicole Berry, Executive Director, The Armory Show for our annual brunch at the Armory show! This is a great event to meet members and friends from across the country while enjoying delicious breakfast refreshments in the Armory VIP lounge.
Tickets to this event cover access to the show, early private access to the VIP lounge, and breakfast!
The Armory Show is New York City’s premier art fair and a leading cultural destination for discovering and collecting the world’s most important 20th- and 21st-century art. The Armory Show features presentations by leading international galleries, innovative artist commissions, and dynamic public programs. Since its founding in 1994, The Armory Show has served as a nexus for the art world, inspiring dialogue, discovery, and patronage in the visual arts.
The Armory Show was founded by four New York gallerists – Colin de Land, Pat Hearn, Matthew Marks and Paul Morris – who sought a platform to present and promote new voices in the visual arts. In its 25 years, The Armory Show has stayed firm to its mission while establishing itself as an unmissable art event set in the heart of New York City.

FL | National Artist Talks: Maria Martinez-Cañas
2020-03-07 10:30 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Fortress Storage, 1629 NE 1st Avenue, Miami, Florida, 33132
Image: Frost Art Museum Installation
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ArtTable Florida is honored to announce the Florida Chapter’s artist talk with Maria Martinez-Cañas, sponsored by the Pollock Krasner Foundation. This talk will take place over delicious breakfast at Fortress Storage, Miami. Beginning in New York, these intimate breakfasts feature leading figures in the visual arts in discussion with curators, academics, and critics.
MARIA MARTINEZ-CAÑAS was born in Havana, Cuba. She received a B.F.A. in Photography from the Philadelphia College of Art and an M.F.A. in Photography from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. An artist who works with innovative, non-traditional photographic media, she has exhibited extensively in the United States and abroad, with 47 one-person exhibitions and over 300 group exhibitions. She is the recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation 2016 Photography Fellowship, a Civitella Ranieri Foundation Visual Arts Fellowship, a Cintas Fellowship; a National Endowment for the Arts award; and a Fulbright-Hays Grant, among others. Her works are included in the permanent collections of The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia; The Museum of Modern Art in New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco; The Center for Creative Photography in Tucson, Arizona; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago and the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC; among others. She lives and works in Miami since 1986.
ArtTable’s artist talk series began with the ongoing artist breakfast series in New York, which features high-profile artists, often in conversation with curators, scholars or writers. Since its inception in 2002, the breakfasts have brought together 4,300 women and have featured more than 160 women artists, raising the visibility of a group that continues to be underrepresented in museum or gallery exhibitions. This year the Pollock Krasner Foundation provided funding to expand the series outside of New York, to support ArtTable artist conversations in Washington DC, Miami, San Francisco, Seattle and Los Angeles. This year we’ve heard from Ilana Harris-Babou, Dana Schutz, Nona Faustine, and Mildred Howard.
Members and guests are welcome. Must register to attend.
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Thank you to Kim Jones (Fortress Storage), Maria Martinez-Cañas (artist), Rochi Llaneza (ArtTable FL Chapter Chair).

PA | Helen Frankenthaler on Paper
2020-03-11 17:30 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | The Arthur Ross Gallery, 220 S 34th St (In the Fisher Fine Arts Library), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104
Image: Helen Frankenthaler; Fiesta, 1973. Acrylic on paper. 22 1/4 x 30 1/4 inches (56.5 x 76.8 cm).
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The Arthur Ross Gallery invites ArtTable members for a reception and tour of Frankenthaler on Paper with the exhibition’s curator, Lynn Marsden-Atlass.
This exhibition presents ten unique paintings on paper and fourteen prints by Helen Frankenthaler that date from the 1970s to the 1990s. These rarely seen paintings on paper reflect her painterly process and were considered by the artist equal to her large-scale paintings. Renowned for her soak-stain abstract paintings, Helen Frankenthaler played a seminal role in both Abstract Expressionism and Color Field painting. With a career spanning six decades, she is considered one of the most important American artists of the twentieth century.
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Thank you to Heather Moqtaderi and Lyn Marsden-Atlass.

POSTPONED: NY | Curatorial Walk-through of Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist
2020-03-13 10:45 - 12:00 (America/New_York) | Whitney Museum of American Art, 99 Gansevoort Street, New York, NY, 10014, United States
Image: Agnes Pelton. Ahmi in Egypt, 1931. Oil on canvas, 36 3/16 × 24 3/16 in. (91.9 × 61.4 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase with funds from the Modern Painting and Sculpture Committee 96.175
In light of the developments concerning COVID-19, we have decided to postpone this special event. All registrations will be held for this event and we hope to be in touch with a new date. Alternatively, your account will be credited for a future ArtTable event.
Please see here for an epic graphic novel about Agnes Pelton’s life shared with Elisabeth Rouchau-Shalem, ArtTable NY Programs Chair.
Due to limited capacity, this program is currently open to ArtTable members only.
Join ArtTable NY for a first look at Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist at the Whitney Museum with Gilbert Vicario, The Selig Family Chief Curator, Phoenix Art Museum.
Agnes Pelton (1881–1961) was a visionary symbolist who depicted the spiritual reality she experienced in moments of meditative stillness. Art for her was a discipline through which she gave form to her vision of a higher consciousness within the universe. Using an abstract vocabulary of curvilinear, biomorphic forms and delicate, shimmering veils of light, she portrayed her awareness of a world that lay behind physical appearances—a world of benevolent, disembodied energies animating and protecting life. For most of her career, Pelton chose to live away from the distractions of a major art center, first in Water Mill, Long Island, from 1921 to 1932, and subsequently in Cathedral City, a small community near Palm Springs, California. Her isolation from the mainstream art world meant that her paintings were relatively unknown during her lifetime and in the decades thereafter. This exhibition of approximately forty-five works introduces to the public a little-known artist whose luminous, abstract images of transcendence are only now being fully recognized.
Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist is organized by the Phoenix Art Museum, and curated by Gilbert Vicario, The Selig Family Chief Curator. The installation at the Whitney Museum is overseen by Barbara Haskell, curator, with Sarah Humphreville, senior curatorial assistant.
Thank you to Elisabeth Rochau-Shalem, NY Programs Chair, Gilbert Vicario and Sarah Humphreville.

POSTPONED: DC | Chapter Leadership Award Ceremony and High Tea Honoring Kim Sajet
2020-03-18 14:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | The University Club of Washington DC, 1135 16th St NW, Washington, DC, United States
Image: Grace Roselli, Pandora’s BoxX Project
In light of the developments concerning COVID-19, we have decided to postpone this special event. All registrations will be held for this event and we hope to be in touch with a new date. Alternatively, your account will be credited for a future ArtTable event.
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In recognition of her significant achievements as the first woman director of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, ArtTable DC honors Kim Sajet with the 2020 Chapter Leadership Award. Please join us in celebrating this occasion with high tea at the University Club of Washington. Dr. Johnetta Cole, our 2018 recipient will present the award to Ms. Sajet.
High tea includes light fare, dessert, tea and champagne.
As the first woman to serve as director of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery, Kim Sajet (pronounced Say-et) has been exploring new ways to place personal experience and creativity at the center of learning and civic awareness. Not just a place to see famous Americans, the museum explores identity as a social construct that has been shaped in equal measure by opportunity and ability, prejudice and fear. By taking a cross-disciplinary approach that merges the traditional forms of painting, sculpture, drawing and printmaking with poetry, installation art, video and performance, Sajet aims to bring history alive.
Before her current appointment, Sajet was the president and CEO of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, the vice president and deputy director of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and the director of corporate relations at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Before arriving in the United States with her family in 1997, she served first as curator and then as director of two Australian art museums from 1989 until 1995.
Born in Nigeria, raised in Australia and a citizen of the Netherlands, Sajet brings a global perspective to the position. She earned a master’s degree in art history from Bryn Mawr College, a master’s degree in business administration from Melbourne University Business School in Australia, a bachelor’s degree in art history from Melbourne University and a graduate diploma in Museum studies from Deakin University in Australia. She has completed arts leadership training at the Harvard Business School, the Getty Institute and National Arts Strategies. In addition to 20 years of arts management experience, Sajet has written a number of scholarly publications, curated exhibitions and spoken at academic symposia around the world. Her current interests include the June 2019 study of identity politics, role-playing in online virtual worlds and the significance of celebrity in American history. She is also the host of the Portrait Gallery’s new podcast series, “Portraits,” exploring themes of art, history and biography.
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Thank you to Ruth Abrahams, Caitlin Berry, Alexa Kaye and Maria Sancho-Arroyo for organizing this program.

POSTPONED: SOCAL | BookTable: The Mythic Heroines of the New York School
2020-03-24 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Home of Victoria Burns in View Park, next to Baldwin Hills
Image: Joan Mitchell, Helen Frankenthaler, and Grace Hartigan in 1957. Photograph by Burt Glinn.
In light of the developments concerning COVID-19, we have decided to postpone this special event. All registrations will be held for this event and we hope to be in touch with a new date. Alternatively, your account will be credited for a future ArtTable event.
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Join us for a discussion of Mary Gabriel’s acclaimed book, Ninth Street Women, in the art-filled home of ArtTable member Victoria Burns!
Join ArtTable for what promises to be an enlightening and stimulating evening in which we will analyze and discuss Mary Gabriel’s Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art, published in 2018. While the story of Abstract Expressionism’s emergence in New York in the late 1940s and 1950s has been much told, the role played by women artists associated with the movement has rarely been the subject of review. Set amid the turbulent social and political period of the time, Ninth Street Women is the impassioned, wild, sometimes tragic, always exhilarating chronicle of five women who dared to enter the male-dominated world of twentieth-century abstract painting — not as muses but as artists. From their cold-water lofts, where they worked, drank, fought, and loved, these pioneers burst open the door to the art world for themselves and countless others to come. Or did they? What can we learn by looking back at their art, careers, and lives and from considering their impact both in their own time and today?
The evening will begin with a brief presentation on the book and the five artists it highlights by ArtTable SoCal Co-chair Roni Feinstein, who teaches a class on this subject at UCLA Extension. A group discussion will follow.
Victoria Burns will graciously host us that evening in her View Park home, which houses a collection heavy in photography, with works by Zhang Huan, Adam Fuss, Ori Gersht, Hank Willis Thomas, Dawoud Bey, and Richard Mosse, among others. Also represented in the collection are Pae White, Jesse Mockrin, Owen Kydd, Andrea Bowers, and a host of others.
Refreshments will be served.
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With thanks to Victorian Burns and Roni Feinstein.

POSTPONED: NOCAL | Minnesota Street Project Artist Studios Tour
2020-03-28 10:00 - 12:30 (America/New_York) | Minnesota Street Projects, 1240 Minnesota Street, San Francisco, California, 94107
Image: Ode to Yves, Narrative History of the Lightbulb, 2006. Courtesy of Catherine Wagner.
In light of the developments concerning COVID-19, we have decided to postpone this special event. All registrations will be held for this event and we hope to be in touch with a new date. Alternatively, your account will be credited for a future ArtTable event.
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Join ArtTable members for the exclusive opportunity to meet selected artists and tour their studios at the Minnesota Street Project arts complex in San Francisco.
Located across the street from a hub of contemporary art galleries is the 1240 building at MSP which houses private studios for artists ranging from emerging to prominent local talent. Members will have the chance to spend time with a handful of current studio artists and explore these artists’ work in depth.
Entrepreneurs and collectors Deborah and Andy Rappaport founded Minnesota Street Project in 2016, and since then it has firmly established itself as a key destination in the Bay Area’s art scene. The art center offers economically sustainable spaces for art galleries, artists, and related nonprofits. The Studio Program at MSP was created to address rapidly diminishing opportunities in San Francisco, by providing artists stability via affordable private studios situated within a campus environment.
Please note that the number of attendees for this program is limited, and registration is currently open to ArtTable members only.
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Thank you to Donna Napper, ArtTable Northern CA Co-Chair, Dorothy Davila, ArtTable Board Member, and Brion Nuda Rosch, MSP Studio Program Director.

VIRTUAL | How Can We Think of Art at a Time Like This? with Barbara Pollack and Anne Verhallen
2020-03-31 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
Image: Marilyn Minter. Lithium, 2019.
In response to our current state of distance, ArtTable is shifting programming online where we can. This event will take place as a live conversation! Registration is required and open to all. Suggested donation of $15.00. We hope to see you there!
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Join ArtTable for a conversation with curators Barbara Pollack and Anne Verhallen on responsive online curatorial action and collaboration! Pollack and Verhallen are the co-curators of, How Can We Think of Art at a Time Like This? an online exhibition that serves as a platform for the exchange of ideas at this time of crisis. On March 14th, 2020, in quick reaction to the US’s gallery and museum closures, the two writers-curators and longtime collaborators immediately spent the weekend to kick start a group show to respond to the crisis.
“We invited artists who are considered thought leaders, artists who struggle with futuristic pessimism, political outrage and psychic melt-downs. The invited artists have responded with unbridled enthusiasm and we will be posting new artists every day for the foreseeable future.”
Click here for How can we Think of Art at Time Like This?
Barbara Pollack is the author of Brand New Art from China: A Generation on the Rise published in 2018 by I.B. Tauris. Her first book was The Wild, Wild East: An American Art Critic’s Adventures in China, published in May 2010 by Timezone 8 Books. She is a leading authority on Chinese contemporary art and has been a featured speaker at the World Economic Forum’s Annual Meeting of New Champions in China, also known as Summer Davos.
Since 1994, Pollack has written extensively on contemporary Chinese art for such publications as Artnews, Art & Auction, the Village Voice, Vanity Fair, the New York Times, and many others. In addition to articles, Pollack has contributed major catalogue essays for such leading artists as Li Songsong, Lin Tianmiao, Wang Gongxin, Zhao Zhao, Sun Xun, and Tu Hongtao. Several of her essays were included in the China Art Book, published by Dumont Literatur in 2007.
Pollack was the lead curator of many shows of Chinese contemporary art including the groundbreaking My Generation: Young Chinese Artists, the first exhibition of the 1980s generation of Chinese artists in the U.S. which was shown at the Tampa Museum of Art and Museum Fine Arts, St. Petersburg in 2014 and traveled to the Oklahoma City Museum of Art and the Orange County Museum of Art in 2015. She has also curated in China most notably Tu Hongtao: A Timely Journey, at the Long Museum West Bund in November 2018and Sun Xun: Prediction Laboratory at Yuz Museum, also in Shanghai in 2016. In 2022, she will present Mirror Image: Changing Chinese Identity at the Asia Society Museum in New York.
Based on her research in this field, she received two grants from Asian Cultural Council in 2008 and 2016 and the prestigious Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation arts writers grant in 2008. Additionally, Pollack is an adjunct professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and frequently lectures on contemporary art at universities and museums throughout the United States and Asia.
Anne Verhallen is a New York-based curator, writer and artist agent. As director of the fine art division at CXA, she has worked on projects for many leading artists, including Kehinde Wiley, Robert Wilson, Friedrich Kunath and Lily Kwong.
Her independent curatorial projects include Virtually There, a performance conceived by Roya Sachs and Mafalda Milllies at MANA Comtemporary with collaborating artists the Compana Brothers, Kate Gillmore and Heather Row. She also writes monthly for Arte Fuse. Born and raised in the Netherlands, Verhallen started her career as a high-fashion model working for Vogue, Hermes, Marc Jacobs, exclusively for Givenchy and with leading photographers such Inez and Vinoodh, Roe Etheridge and Daniel Jackson. Currently, as an independent curator, she seeks to cultivate the intersection between technology, design, art and health.

POSTPONED: ArtTable Circle Collection Visit⎪Landy Collection of Feminist Art
2020-04-01 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
Image courtesy of Kathleen Landy
In light of the developments concerning COVID-19, we have decided to postpone this special event. All registrations will be held for this event and we hope to be in touch with a new date.
Join us at the Upper East Side home of Kathleen Landy, Founder, and President of the Feminist Institute, as we gather for cocktails and conversation and a tour of her outstanding collection of Feminist Art. From the halls of Womanhouse to the walls of A.I.R., this collection is a snapshot of feminist art dating from the ‘60s to today. Artists represented include: Miriam Schapiro, Judy Chicago, Faith Wilding, Carolee Schneemann, Hannah Wilke, Joan Jonas, Judith Bernstein, Rebecca Horn, Dana Schutz, Cindy Sherman, Mary Beth Edelson and more.
The full address will be sent to registrants upon confirmation.
Special thanks to ArtTable board member Kat Griefen.

VIRTUAL | Artist Breakfast with María Elena González
2020-04-02 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | ONLINE EVENT
Image: MARÍA ELENA GONZÁLEZ (b. 1957). Camo (Boogie Woogie), 2015. Silkscreen, 25 3/4 x 16 1/2 in. Signed, dated, and inscribed (at lower left): 4/20; (at lower center): “Camo Boogie Woogie”; (at lower right): M. E. González 2015.
In response to our current state of distance, ArtTable is shifting programming online where we can. This event will take place as a live conversation! Registration is required and open to all. Suggested donation of $15.00. We hope to see you there!
How to take part!

Register for this event here
Following registration you will receive call-in information in the form of a ZOOM link
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This breakfast conversation will now take place at noon East Coast Time, so as to accommodate our Pacific/ Central time members!

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 María Elena González, whose ongoing Tree Talk series has taken place at Mills College and most recently, at Brattleboro Museum and Art Center in Vermont.
Cuban-born artist María Elena González is an internationally recognized sculptor based in based in New York City and the Bay Area, CA . González interweaves the conceptual with a strong dedication to craft in her complex installations and poetic arrangements, exploring themes like identity, memory, and dislocation. Over a career spanning thirty years she has won the Prix de Rome (2003), and more recently, the Grand Prize at the 30th Biennial of Graphic Arts at Ljubljana, Slovenia (2013). She was a Guggenheim Fellow (2006) and has been awarded grants from numerous foundations including Pollock-Krasner, Joan Mitchell, New York Foundation for the Arts, and Penny McCall. She has served as the Sculpture Commissioner for New York City’s Design Commission and has also taught at Cooper Union School of Art, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and the San Francisco Art Institute among others.In 2017 González’s work will be featured in Home: So Different, So Appealing, to be presented by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and organized in collaboration with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston [as part of the Getty-funded Pacific Standard Time exhibition program]. Additionally, in 2017 her work was exhibited at the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) in Relational Undercurrents: Contemporary Art of the Caribbean Archipelago. González’s work can be found in numerous public collections including the Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland; Museum voor Modern Kunst, Arnhem, The Netherlands; Museum of Art, The Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI; The Museum of Arts and Design, New York; and The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
Who’s attending this program? Click here to see who’s currently registered!
Thank you to ArtTable’s Artist Breakfast Committee and Julia Herzberg.

POSTPONED: NOCAL | ArtTable New Member Happy Hour at Bonhams' New SF Location
2020-04-02 18:00 - 20:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Bonhams, 601 California Street, Suite 150, CA, 94108, United States
In light of the developments concerning COVID-19, we have decided to postpone this special event. All registrations will be held for this event and we hope to be in touch with a new date. Alternatively, your account will be credited for a future ArtTable event.
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ArtTable is kicking off spring early with a special happy hour welcoming new and potential ArtTable members! Hosted by our friends at Bonhams, members and guests are invited to come and view the newly-opened Bonhams gallery space, enjoy their exhibition on view, and meet new and potential members.
All are invited to bring a guest who would like to learn more about ArtTable membership and its benefits and connect with members of the Northern California chapter.
Who’s attending this program? Click here to see who’s registered!
Thank you to Amelia Manderscheid, VP Senior Director in Contemporary Art, Bonhams
We are closely monitoring the developments concerning the Coronavirus, (COVID-19) and will follow any suggested protocols from the CDC or any other governing body as they relate to our events, programs and travel opportunities.

VIRTUAL | Reading at the (Art)Table
2020-04-05 11:00 - 13:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Berkeley location to be provided on registration
Image: As Radical As Mother As Salad As Shelter: What Should Art Institutions Do Now?
In response to our current state of distance, ArtTable is shifting programming online where we can. This event will take place as a live conversation! Registration is required. We hope to see you there!
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Register for this event here
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This program is for ArtTable members only!

The Northern California Chapter book club, Reading at the (Art)Table, has selected a new publication by Paper Monument. We will be reading “As Radical As Mother As Salad As Shelter:What Should Art Institutions Do Now?”
Paper Monument’s new anthology surveys thirty curators, educators, and art administrators on the contemporary role, responsibilities, and possibilities of the art institution.
Paper Monument is a non-profit art press intent on presenting smart, serious writing that is accessible to a wide audience. Through our books and journal of contemporary art, we explore topics often overlooked by mainstream journalism.
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Thank you to Jan Wurm.

POSTPONED: ArtTable Circle | Special Collection Visit: Ellen Cantrowitz
2020-04-07 18:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York)
Image courtesy of Ellen Cantrowitz
In light of the developments concerning COVID-19, we have decided to postpone this special event. All registrations will be held for this event and we hope to be in touch with a new date. Alternatively, your account will be credited for a future ArtTable event.

April 7th is ArtTable Day! In 2005, the Mayor of New York City declared ArtTable Day to be April 7, to mark the twenty-fifth anniversary of ArtTable’s founding. Now fifteen years on from this proclamation, and during the year of our 40th Anniversary, we’re celebrating ArtTable Day again with a day of national celebration in chapters across the country!
Celebrate with a visit to the Upper East Side home of long time ArtTable member, art dealer, and collector Ellen Cantrowitz, for an intimate reception and tour of her personal collection, featuring work by Frank Stella, Jean Dubuffet, Joseph Cornell, Huma Bhabha, Yayoi Kusama, Henri Matisse, Philip Guston, Cindy Sherman, Alex Katz, Louise Nevelson, Glenn Ligon, Sol Lewitt, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Isamu Noguchi, Shinique Smith and more!
The full Address will be sent to registrants upon confirmation.
Thank you to Ellen Cantrowitz.
We are closely monitoring the developments concerning the Coronavirus, (COVID-19) and will follow any suggested protocols from the CDC or any other governing body as they relate to our events, programs and travel opportunities.

VIRTUAL | ATCONNECT with Maria Sancho-Arroyo
2020-04-08 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
Image: Maria Sancho-Arroyo, Sotheby’s Institute of Art
In response to our current state of distance, ArtTable is shifting programming online where we can. This event will take place as a live conversation! Registration is open to members only. Suggested donation of $15.00. We hope to see you there!
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Following registration you will receive call-in information in the form of a ZOOM link
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ArtTable CONNECT virtual lunch breaks
This April, ArtTable is expanding its CONNECT program to intimate online discussions open to members nationally across chapters. Originally designed to further encourage one-to-one networking amongst its members in DC, CONNECT is transitioning to a virtual lunch hour conversation series designed to allow members to ask questions outside their day-to-day areas of expertise.
Join us for these “Ask Me Anything” session via Zoom to take advantage of learning more about different sectors of the art world while respecting social distancing.
We’ll kick start this series with a virtual lunch hour with Maria Sancho-Arroyo to learn more about the global art market and this moment of fluctuation during COVID-19.
Maria has over 25 years of international experience in the art world, first at museums – National Museum of Catalan Art, MNAC, in Barcelona and at the Louvre in Paris- then at Sotheby’s Auction House in London. During her time at Sotheby’s, she gained experience in all aspects of the auction world with a focus on business and client development. She has participated in numerous auctions and worked closely with all Sotheby’s European offices. Maria has given lectures on art market trends at the London and New York Sotheby’s Institute, Georgetown University and Tsinghua University (Beijing, China) and is a regular contributor to the “Giornale dell’Arte”, the Italian edition of the Art newspaper. She is involved with art charitable organizations and is the co-chair of ArtTable DC chapter since June 2019.
Maria is currently adjunct faculty at the Sotheby’s Institute of Art in New York teaching various Art Market topics within the MA Art Business and online courses.
She is fluent in Spanish, Italian, French and English and hold and MS in Science (chemistry) from Zaragoza University and MA in Museum management by the Institut National du Patrimoine in Paris, France.
This program is hosted by Concetta Duncan, Maria Sancho-Arroyo and Caitlin Berry

VIRTUAL | BreakfastTable with Alice Walker
2020-04-09 08:30 - 09:30 (America/New_York)
Image: Alice Walker
In response to our current state of distance, ArtTable is shifting programming online where we can. This event will take place as a live conversation! Registration is open to members only. Suggested donation of $15.00. We hope to see you there!
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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ArtTable East Coasters, bring your breakfast and join the DC chapter for a virtual informal conversation with Alice Walker who is an expert in using storytelling, human centered design and technology to create indelible experiences for museums and cultural attractions.
This event will start 30 minutes later than usual to allow adequate time for coffee brewing and breakfast making!
As Managing Director for Art Processors (artprocessors.net), she is on the executive team, heads up their global business development, marketing and product development practices, and manages staff in Melbourne, San Francisco, Atlanta and New York City. Their projects range from location-aware guides and exhibition design to immersive sound installations, augmented and virtual reality experiences, and wearables for institutions such as the Smithsonian Institution, the J. Paul Getty Center, the Venetian and Bellagio in Las Vegas, Portland Museum of Art, and numerous Australian museums, zoos and aquaria.
Her former roles include serving as Antenna International’s Creative Director and Digital Media Director for 9 years, heading up Pentagram Design’s interactive team in their NYC studio, and educational media roles at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and SFMOMA.
Alice resides with her family in Bethesda, MD and is part of Art Table’s DC Chapter.
DC’s BreakfastTable normally takes place at Boulangerie Christophe. The bakery is open and we encourage members in DC to place and order for this event and those in other locations to support local businesses!
Thank you to Ruth Abrahams and Ashley Templeton!

Virtual | Care of Modern and Contemporary Paintings with Rustin Levenson, President and Founder, ArtCare Conservation
2020-04-10 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
In response to our current state of distance, ArtTable is shifting programming online where we can. This event will take place as a live conversation! Registration is required and open to all. Suggested donation of $15.00. We hope to see you there!
How to take part!

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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. During this session we’ll hear directly from Rustin Levenson, President and Founder, ArtCare Conservation.
The materials and techniques of Modern and Contemporary paintings offer unique challenges for those responsible for assessing, shipping, handling, and treating works. This session will discuss the history of recent artists’ materials and how they impact the life of their paintings. Rustin will outline best practices for handling and shipping these works. For those assessing works,
examples of treatments will give insight into the impact of damage and conservation.
Rustin Levenson has worked on the painting conservation staff of the Fogg Museum, the Canadian Conservation Institute, The National Gallery of Canada, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

In 1981, she founded ArtCare Conservation, a private studio offering museum quality conservation to institutions and private clients. ArtCare Conservation has grown to include studios in New York, Los Angeles, and Miami. Rustin has co-authored, with art historian, Andrea Kirsh, Seeing Through Paintings: Physical Examination in Art Historical Studies (Yale University Press, 2000) and written chapters for The Expert vs the Object (Oxford University Press, 2004) and The Conservation of Easel Paintings (Rutledge Press, 2013). She has published numerous technical and historical articles and has lectured widely. She is a Fellow both in the American Institute for Conservation and The International Institute for Conservation, and has served on numerous professional committees as well as chairing the Paintings Specialty Group of the American Institute for Conservation. In 2015 she was awarded a Residency at the American Academy in Rome.
Thank you to ArtTable’s Florida Chapter and Rustin Levenson.

VIRTUAL | ATCONNECT with Concetta Duncan
2020-04-15 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York)
Image: Concetta Duncan
In response to our current state of distance, ArtTable is shifting programming online where we can. This event will take place as a live conversation! Registration is open to members only. Suggested donation of $15.00. We hope to see you there!
How to take part!

This event is now at capacity. Please email programs@arttable.org to be added to the waitlist.
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.
For further instruction on how to use Zoom, see here.

ArtTable CONNECT virtual lunch breaks
This April, ArtTable is expanding its CONNECT program to intimate online discussions open to members nationally across chapters. Originally designed to further encourage one-to-one networking amongst its members in DC, CONNECT is transitioning to a virtual lunch hour conversation series designed to allow members to ask questions outside their day-to-day areas of expertise.
Join us for these “Ask Me Anything” session via Zoom to take advantage of learning more about different sectors of the art world while respecting social distancing.
During this virtual lunch hour we will hear from Concetta Duncan on tips on communications and messaging for institutions during COVID-19.
Concetta Duncan is Head of Communications at the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery where she oversees the museum’s press, marketing and social media strategies. In Washington, DC, she has directed impactful campaigns including the 2018 unveiling of the Obama portraits, the Portrait Gallery’s 50th anniversary, and the museum’s red-carpet American Portrait Gala. She also serves on the Marketing Steering Committee for the pan-institutional Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative.
In New York, Concetta played an integral role in the expansion of two of the art world’s leading communications agencies. She directed campaigns for numerous arts and culture organizations across the U.S., Europe, Dubai and Hong Kong, including Art Basel, in addition to serving in an in-house role at Pace Gallery.
Concetta joined the board of STABLE in June 2019 and was Chair of the organization’s Opening Party Committee. She is also Membership Chair of ArtTable’s Executive Committee, member of the Performa Biennial’s Advisory Council in New York and member of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
This program is hosted by Concetta Duncan, Maria Sancho-Arroyo and Caitlin Berry

VIRTUAL | Artist Talk with Shinique Smith
2020-04-22 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York)
Photo credit: Jeff Vespa
In response to our current state of distance, ArtTable is shifting programming online where we can. This event will take place as a live conversation! Registration is required and open to all, with a minimum donation of $5.00 to participate in this event. We hope to see you there!
How to take part!

Register for this event here
Following registration you will receive call-in information in the form of a ZOOM link
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This event was intended as an Artist Breakfast in New York. Artist Breakfasts are intimate monthly breakfasts featuring leading figures in the visual arts in discussion with curators, academics, and critics. We’re so excited to be able take this talk online for members and friends across the country! Join us for a special Earth Day conversation with Shinique Smith.
For over a decade artist Shinique Smith has employed clothing, fabrics, and objects—items that exist in the realm of what we call belongings—to construct sculptures, paintings, and site-specific installations bound with ribbon and calligraphic lines. Examining the ways in which these objects resonate on a personal and social scale, “Smith’s works operate at the convergence of consumption, displacement, and sanctuary. In Smith’s hands, these works reveal connections across space, time, and place to suggest the possibility of constructing worlds renewed by hopeful delight.”
Born and raised in Baltimore, MD, currently residing in Los Angeles, Smith has had solo exhibitions with California African American Museum; Frist Center for Visual Arts; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and MOCA Jacksonville. Currently, a show of her newest works is on view with the UBS Art Collection Gallery in New York until July 2020.
Smith’s artworks have been exhibited in many acclaimed group shows including UnMonumental: The Object in the 21st Century at New Museum, Frequency at Studio Museum in Harlem, 30 Americans: Rubell Family Collection and Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women 1947-2016 at Hauser + Wirth LA and is held within the permanent collections of Brooklyn Museum of Art; Denver Art Museum; Minneapolis Art Institute, Whitney Museum and LACMA among others. In March 15 – August 9, 2020, Smith’s newest sculpture, Grace Stands Beside will be presented as part of the Baltimore Museum of Art’s 2020 Vision series of exhibitions.
Shinique has received awards from Anonymous Was a Woman, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Joan Mitchell Foundation, NYFA, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Shinique earned her MAT from Tufts University & The Museum School, and MFA and BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art where Smith awarded the Alumni Medal of Honor in 2012.
Thank you to the Pollock Krasner Foundation for its support of this program.
