Washington, DC | Tour of 'Breaking It Down: Conversations from the Vault' at the Phillips Collection
2024-11-12 15:00 - 16:30 (America/New_York) | The Phillips Collection, 1600 21st St NW, Washington, DC, 20009
Sam Gilliam, April, 1971 [detail], Acrylic on canvas, 60 x 60 x 2 1/2 in., The Phillips Collection, Bequest of Mercedes H. Eichholz, 2013

Join curator Renee Maurer on a one-hour guided tour of The Phillips Collection, exploring Breaking It Down: Conversations from the Vault plus access to the exhibition Creative Aging. In connection with Breaking It Down‘s examination of the history of collecting at the Phillips, inseparable from its founding mission of using the arts to support healing and community-building, the tour will introduce us to the museum’s current cutting-edge education programs.

About the exhibition:

The Phillips Collection, from its inception, has focused on creating what founder Duncan Phillips called “units”: groups of works of art that represent key aspects of an artist’s vision or spirit. Leaders in championing the independent-minded artist, Duncan and Marjorie Phillips gave many their first museum exhibitions and acquisitions. This presentation offers a deep dive and new take on several artists who are cornerstones of the collection, including Georges Braque, Richard Diebenkorn, Arthur Dove, Sam Gilliam, Paul Klee, and Georgia O’Keeffe, alongside a growing collection of works by trailblazers of our time, including Sean Scully, Sylvia Snowden, Renée Stout, Joyce Wellman, and more.

Program Admission:

ArtTable member: $15

Friend of member: $20

Not-yet-member: $25

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San Francisco, CA | Walkthrough of Forms Unbound: Peter Young and Maren Hassinger at Gallery Wendi Norris
2024-11-12 17:00 - 18:00 | Gallery Wendi Norris, 436 Jackson St, San Francisco, California, 94111, United States
[L] Peter Young, #5 – 1967, 1967, Acrylic on canvas, 144 x 72.25 inches (365.76 x 183.52 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco. [R] Maren Hassinger, Untitled Vessel (Small Body), 2021, Stainless steel wire rope on steel armature, 48 x 36 inches (121.92 x 91.44 cm). Courtesy of the artist and Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC. Photo by Adam Reich.

Join ArtTable for a walkthrough of Forms Unbound: Peter Young and Maren Hassinger at Gallery Wendi Norris, along with an overview of the gallery’s program. Installed across two venues—Gallery Wendi Norris, and Gallery Wendi Norris Offsite, located across the street in the historic carriage house at 38 Hotaling Place—Forms Unbound pairs fluid wire and fiber-based sculptures by Maren Hassinger (b. 1947) with monumental dot paintings by Peter Young (b. 1940). Young and Hassinger have followed parallel journeys in life and art: both raised in Los Angeles, they launched their careers in New York, where the art world was dominated by Abstract Expressionism and Minimalism. As the works on view in Forms Unbound demonstrate, each artist developed new visual vocabularies and practices to mark their own departure from the limiting influence of formalism. Bringing these two artists into dialogue, this exhibition explores the limits—and possibilities—of abstraction and minimalism. Our tour will focus especially on Hassinger’s work; reshaping industrial materials like steel wire rope into forms that appear organic or handmade, and melding natural materials with the manmade, Hassinger contemplates the relationship between the earth and our human world. Juxtaposed with Young’s monumental paintings, the full impact of Hassinger’s large-scale sculptures is fully felt in the carriage house space, where viewing the works becomes an immersive experience.

Enjoy conversation and a glass of wine following the tour!

Accessibility note: There no stairs leading into or within the main gallery space and Carriage House. Limited seating is available for guests who need.

Program Registration:

ArtTable Member – $15

Friend of Member – $20

Non-Member – $25

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Maren Hassinger (b. 1947, Los Angeles) has built an expansive practice that articulates the relationship between nature and humanity. Carefully choosing materials for their innate characteristics, Hassinger has explored the subject of movement, family, love, nature, environment, consumerism, identity, and race. Wire rope has played a prominent role in Maren Hassinger’s artistic practice since the early 1970s when, as a sculptor placed in the Fiber Arts program at UCLA, Hassinger used the material to bridge the gap between the two disciplines. The artist often takes a biomimetic approach to her material, whether bundling it to resemble a monolithic sheaf of wheat or planting it in cement to create an industrial garden. Within the past five years, Hassinger has been commissioned to make work for Sculpture Milwaukee (curated by Ugo Rondinone), Dia Bridgehampton, Socrates Sculpture Park, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Aspen Art Museum. Her work is currently installed at Dia Beacon and at Longhouse Reserve in East Hampton. Hassinger will be honored with an upcoming two-person survey alongside Senga Nengudi at IVAM, Valencia, as well as participation in an upcoming exhibition at The Met. Hassinger is the recipient of the Women’s Caucus for the Arts Lifetime Achievement Award. Her work can be found in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago; the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Modern Art, NYC; the San Francisco Museum of Art; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Whitney Museum, NYC, among others.

Peter Young (b. 1940, Pittsburgh) grew up in Los Angeles and studied at Pomona College for two years before moving to New York in 1960. Young’s paintings have continuously defied categorization since his early New York years showing with Leo Castelli and Richard Bellamy. He has been described variously as the first post-modernist painter, as well as a minimalist and an abstract surrealist. From the beginning, his paintings have addressed the rigid formal criteria of minimal art that prevailed in the 1960’s. Following his first two solo exhibitions in 1967 and 1970 at the Noah Goldowsky Gallery, Young then exhibited at Richard Bellamy’s Oil & Steel Gallery in Tribeca in 1984. Through Bellamy’s interest in Young’s work, it came to the attention of then P.S.1 Director, Alanna Heiss, and in 2007 the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center dedicated a comprehensive survey exhibition to the artist’s work, accompanied by a monograph, focusing on the period between 1963 and 1977. His work has been included in exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, Arizona; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Guggenheim, New York; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; as well as the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Tate St. Ives, United Kingdom; Rolf Ricke, Cologne; and Documenta 5, Kassel, Germany. Peter Young’s work is featured in collections, including the Allen Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio; the American University, Washington D.C.; the Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Neuberger Museum, Purchase College, New York; Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita; University of Texas, Austin; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others.

About Gallery Wendi Norris: Gallery Wendi Norris is a leading international art gallery with headquarters in San Francisco, California. The gallery holds decades-long relationships with 20th-century luminaries such as Leonora Carrington, Dorothea Tanning, Wolfgang Paalen, Remedios Varo, and Alice Rahon, artists whose nomadic and visionary practices interrogated the aesthetic, scientific, and philosophical movements of their times. The gallery also represents María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Enrique Martínez Celaya, Chitra Ganesh, Julio César Morales, Ranu Mukherjee, Eva Schlegel, Peter Young, and other contemporaries, artists whose work similarly flows across disciplines, continents, and generations as they speculate on the present moment. Opened in 2002, Gallery Wendi Norris remains committed to its founding principles of rigorous programming, development of artists’ legacies, public accessibility, and cultural significance. To those ends, the gallery hosts visiting academics, sponsors artist talks, and publishes highly-researched books with original contributions from international scholars. The gallery actively supports artists in engaging new audiences through influential commercial, biennial, and institutional collaborations. Pioneering an offsite exhibition model in 2017, the gallery produces public-facing artworks and shows wherever they might reach the widest viewership and provide the deepest impact. Working in concert with major museums, private collectors, and innovative curators, Gallery Wendi Norris builds enduring, well-represented collections for its respected array of international clients.

Brooklyn, NY | Behind-the-Scenes Tour: Dieu Donné
2024-11-13 18:00 - 19:30 | Dieu Donné, Brooklyn Navy Yard, Bldg 3 / 63 Flushing Ave, Suite 602 (6th floor), Brooklyn, New York, 11205
Join ArtTable for an immersive experience at Dieu Donné, where artists create unique handmade paper artworks in collaboration with an expert team. This event includes a behind-the-scenes tour of the Brooklyn-based hand papermaking studio, a live demonstration by a Master Papermaker, and an opportunity to learn about different hand papermaking techniques. Discover exclusive works made in collaboration with Dieu Donné by artists including Howardena Pindell, Diana Al-Hadid, Melvin Edwards, Glenn Ligon, Lynda Benglis, and more.

Program admission (limited spots available):

ArtTable Members – $20

Member Guests – $25

Non-Members – $30

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Accessibility Note: The closest walk-in entrance to the building is through a turnstile, followed by a few stairs. If you require a wheelchair- or walker-accessible entry, please let ArtTable know, and they will provide detailed campus directions from Dieu Donné. Seating will be available to those who need it during our visit.

ArtTable extends a special thank you to Angelica Semmelbauer for coordinating this visit.

DIRECTIONS:

By NYC Ferry: The Brooklyn Navy Yard stop is a 10-15 minute ride on the Astoria line, either from Wall Street (take the northbound/90th Street-bound ferry 1 stop to the Brooklyn Navy Yard) or from East 34th Street (take the southbound/Wall Street-bound ferry 1 stop to the Brooklyn Navy Yard). Dieu Donné, in Building 3 at the Navy Yard, is a 12-minute walk from the ferry stop (see map below).

Bus/Subway: Please see below for directions provided by Dieu Donné, as well as a map of Dieu Donné’s section of the Brooklyn Navy Yard campus.

Philadelphia, PA | Curator-Led Tour: 'Mickalene Thomas: All About Love' at The Barnes Foundation
2024-11-18 15:30 - 16:45 | The Barnes Foundation, 2025 Benjamin Franklin Parkway, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19130, United States
Mickalene Thomas. Afro Goddess Looking Forward, 2015. Rhinestones, acrylic, and oil on wood panel. © 2024 Mickalene Thomas

Join ArtTable for a tour of Mickalene Thomas: All About Love on the East Coast debut of this major international survey of Thomas’ work. Meet us in the galleries of the Barnes Foundation, where ArtTable member Nina Diefenbach, The Barnes’ Senior Vice President and Deputy Director for Advancement will provide an introduction to the exhibition. At 3:45, our 60-minute tour with Nancy Ireson, Deputy Director for Collections & Exhibitions and Gund Family Chief Curator at The Barnes, begins.

About the exhibition: Mickalene Thomas: All About Love is the first major international tour focused on the work of pioneering artist Mickalene Thomas (American, b. 1971), whose influences range from 19th-century painting to popular culture. All About Love is co-organized by the Hayward Gallery, London, and The Broad, Los Angeles, and in partnership with the Barnes and Les Abattoirs, Musée–Frac Occitanie Toulouse. The Barnes presentation of All About Love showcases a selection of vivid artworks—paintings, collage, photography, video, and site-specific installation—that celebrates Thomas’s distinctive artistic practice from the late 2000s to the present day. Her work is characterized by spectacularly staged, rhinestoned, large-scale painted tableaux and bold, intimate compositions, decisively foregrounding Black femininity in abundant realms of visual pleasure, agency, and kinship. Whether in imaginative dialogue with canonical works from the history of art or playfully reckoning with popular culture, Thomas’s exuberant portraits offer an empowered vision of beauty and desire, formulated through a sensual, Black feminist lens. The Barnes presentation is curated by independent curator and scholar Renée Mussai.

About the Artist: Mickalene Thomas (b. 1971, Camden, New Jersey) is one of today’s most influential artists. Her innovative practice has yielded instantly recognizable and widely celebrated aesthetic languages within contemporary visual culture. Thomas completed her MFA at the Yale University School of Art in 2002 and a residency at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2003, and soon became known for her large-scale acrylic paintings of Black women in states of leisure and repose. Her confident and assured subjects are often depicted in domestic interiors from Black America, claiming the agency of womanhood while deconstructing the art historical canon. Outside of her core practice, Thomas is a Tony Award–nominated co-producer, curator, educator, and mentor to many emerging artists. Thomas’s work has become an undeniable force within the contemporary art world and an indispensable inspiration to younger generations of artists. She lives and works in New York.

Program Admission:

ArtTable member: $25

Friend of member: $30

Not-yet-member: $35

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New York, NY | Curator-Led Tour of Nicole Eisenman: Fixed Crane at Madison Square Park
2024-11-19 09:30 - 10:30 | Madison Square Park, 11 Madison Ave, New York, New York, 10010, United States
Nicole Eisenman (American, b. France 1965), Fixed Crane, 2024. Crane, bronze, plaster, wire, and various additional materials. Approximately 12 feet x 12 feet x 102 feet. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Commissioned by Madison Square Park Conservancy, New York. Photo: Elisabeth Bernstein

This tour with Brooke Kamin Rapaport, Artistic Director and Martin Friedman Chief Curator of Madison Square Park Conservancy, explores Nicole Eisenman: Fixed Crane, the current project in the Conservancy’s field-leading program of contemporary public art.

About the exhibition: Nicole Eisenman – one of the most influential artists working today — assembles a monumental public project for Madison Square Park that destabilizes familiar heroic objects associated with human achievement. Fixed Crane features a toppled industrial crane embellished with handmade sculptural objects. The work marks a significant moment in Eisenman’s practice, expanding her explorations of the twentieth-century concept of the “readymade,” created in 1916 by Dada artist Marcel Duchamp to elevate everyday, mass-produced objects to the status of an artwork, and pushing the boundaries of her work in figuration. The project is part of the milestone twentieth anniversary of Madison Square Park Conservancy’s art program.

Parkgoers can walk around the deflated machine, a mighty symbol of construction prowess and urban growth that now rests impotently on the park’s Oval Lawn. Rather than reach valiantly into the sky, the once imperious 1969 Link-Belt crane has capsized, provocatively challenging our notions of betterment. Turned on its side, the operator’s cab reaches nine-feet high; the tracks extend up twelve feet, and the boom stretches ninety feet. The artist upends an Edenic refuge from the city by placing a rusted relic of presumed advancement center stage. Eisenman questions cycles of progress in public space: how powerful cranes build skyscrapers–and, lately, “supertalls”–like those near Madison Square Park. In recent months, a towering wisp of an 860-foot-high structure has risen to eclipse views of the Empire State Building from in and around the park. Eisenman critiques New York City’s impulse for ever higher ascension, which advances some lives and compromises others, and alludes to how the human condition may be endangered by ongoing urban construction.

At the apex of the cab is a diminutive explorer. The figure is a symbol of surrender or of occupation. Sculptural bandages placed on the crane’s boom are there to heal the fallen apparatus. A large foot wearing a Birkenstock sandal adjacent to the engine, is footloose no longer, an unexpected culprit as the kicker who capsized the crane. Visible through a small portal is a tableau of a solitary seated female figure, draped in a shawl, and bathed in the soft light of a chandelier. She sits before a small cast-iron stove. She is now a vision (or a squatter), a glowing soul who recently found a haven for a wiener roast, skewering a sausage with a stick. The crane’s original counterweight and interior mechanisms become benches for seating as the artist daylights what was once hidden in the machine’s interior. Viewers can look at the fallen crane–once a commanding, necessary force for building, but now in stasis.

Admission:

ArtTable Members – $15

Member Guests – $20

Non-Members – $25

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About the Curator:

Brooke Kamin Rapaport is Artistic Director and Martin Friedman Chief Curator at New York’s Madison Square Park Conservancy, where she is responsible for the outdoor public sculpture program of commissioned work by contemporary artists including Diana AI-Hadid, Tony Cragg, Abigail DeVille, Leonardo Drew, Teresita Fernandez, Maya Lin, Josiah McElheny, Martin Puryear, Erwin Redl, Arlene Shechet, and Krzysztof Wodiczko. She was commissioner and curator of the 2019 US Pavilion at the Venice Biennale with the exhibition Martin Puryear: Liberty/Liberta. She is the founder of Public Art Consortium, a national initiative of museum, public art, and sculpture park colleagues launched in 2017. Rapaport was a curator in the contemporary art department at the Brooklyn Museum and a guest curator at The Jewish Museum. She sits on the boards of three artist-endowed foundations and the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College.

*CANCELED* San Francisco, CA | Curator-Led Tour of Mary Cassatt at Work at the de Young Museum with Emily Beeny
2024-11-19 16:00 - 17:15 | de Young Museum, Golden Gate Park 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Drive, San Francisco, California, 94118, United States
Mary Cassatt at Work, Legion of Honor, 2024. Photo by Gary Sexton.

Join ArtTable for a tour of Mary Cassatt at Work with Emily Beeny, PhD, Curator in Charge of European Paintings at the de Young Museum. The largest exhibition of Cassatt’s work in the US in decades, Mary Cassatt at Work was organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art with the support of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

About the exhibition: Too often dismissed as a sentimental painter of mothers and children, Mary Cassatt (1844–1926) was in fact a modernist pioneer. Her paintings, pastels, and prints are characterized by restless experimentation and change. Cassatt was the only American to join the French Impressionists, first exhibiting with the group at Degas’s invitation in 1879, and quickly emerged as a key member of the movement. Alongside scenes of women at the opera, visiting friends, and taking tea, Cassatt produced many images of “women’s work” — knitting and needlepoint, bathing children, and nursing infants. These images suggest parallels between the work of art making and the work of caregiving. The exhibition calls attention to the artist’s own processes of making — how she used her brush, etching needle, pastel stick, and even fingertips to create radical art under the cover of “feminine” subject matter.

Accessibility note: Wheelchairs and lightweight portable stools are available from Coat Check or the Admissions counter on a first come, first-served basis. A Photo ID must be provided to ensure items are returned prior to leaving the museum.

Program Registration:

ArtTable Member – $30

ArtTable Member with FAMSF membership – $15

Friend of Member – $35

Nonmember of ArtTable – $40

Nonmember of ArtTable with FAMSF membership – $20

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VIP Access Passes | Miami Art Week 2024
2024-12-02 09:00 - 2024-12-08 18:00
PC: Untitled Art

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

Participating Fairs:

Art Basel Miami Beach

UNTITLED

NADA Miami

SCOPE Art Show

Design/Miami

Red Dot Miami

Spectrum Miami

VIP Access Pass Levels Available:

Platinum Level – $170

Gold Level – $150

Silver Level – $135

Bronze Level – $125

Copper Level – $100

General Access Level – $85

West Palm Beach, FL | Private Tour of The Bunker Artspace
2024-12-02 14:00 - 16:30 | The Bunker Artspace, 444 Bunker Rd, West Palm Beach, Florida, 33405, United States
Image credit: The Bunker Artspace – The Collection of Beth Rudin DeWoody

*Registration for this event is at capacity. To join the waitlist, please click Register Here.*

To gather our members and kick off a very busy arts week, we will gather in West Palm Beach for visits to two private collections.

ArtTable will be one of the first to experience The Bunker Artspace, the new home of the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, located in a historic Art Deco building in downtown West Palm Beach. Featured work includes over three hundred leading modern and contemporary artists, from Lynda Benglis, Robert Mapplethorpe, Betye Saar, Mickalene Thomas, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and Cy Twombly. Many of these works entered the DeWoody Collection early in an artist’s career, a testament to DeWoody’s vision as a collector and curator. The Collection has been the subject of exhibitions at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach and the Parrish Museum in Southampton, among others. Our guide will take us through the space, highlighting stories about the history of the collection.

After the tour, ArtTable member Eileen Ekstract invites us to her home (fifteen minutes from The Bunker Artspace) for a cocktail reception. We will also be treated to a viewing of Eileen’s private collection, featuring works by Alison Zuckerman, vanessa german, Jessie Makinson, and Lisa Roy.

This program is open to ArtTable members and their guests. Space is limited, so we encourage you to reserve your spot early!

Program admission:

ArtTable Member: $55

Friend of Member: $65

Not yet a member? Join us today!

Parking will be available immediately in front of The Bunker and across Webster Avenue (at the intersection with Bunker Rd).

Miami Beach, FL | ArtTable's Art Law Series, Part II | Panel Discussion & VIP Lounge Reception at Untitled Art
2024-12-04 16:00 - 18:00 | Untitled Art Miami Beach, Ocean Drive and 12th Street, Miami Beach, Florida, 33139, United States
Image credit: Untitled Art Fair

From Purchase to Patronage: Stewarding Your Growing Collection

With generous support from Private Client Select, SRI Fine Art Services, and Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP, ArtTable presents an engaging discussion of the roles of steward and patron that the collector assumes upon purchasing a work of art. This second program in ArtTable’s Art Law Series, appropriate for new and seasoned collectors alike, covers multiple dimensions of stewardship each collector must consider to ensure the long-term integrity and care of works of art. Meticulous planning for insurance, shipping, and protection from natural disasters is paramount to maintaining the physical safety of the collection, but the collector’s actions following the sale—ascertaining holding periods, loaning works to museums, and exploring the resale market—must also be conducted diligently, with the sustainability of the artist’s career in mind. This panel brings together experts from the insurance, shipping, legal, and curatorial fields to cover collectors’ contractual, financial, and ethical responsibilities to the artists they work with, setting up all participants for success.

Speakers include:

Barbara Chamberlain, Director, Art Services, Private Client Select

Amani Lewis, Artist and Co-Founder, Artists First Collective

Shamim Momin, Curator; former Director of Curatorial Affairs, Henry Art Gallery; and co-founder, LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division)

Melissa Osterwind, President, SRI Fine Art Services

Moderator: Samantha Anderson, Attorney, Art and Museum Law, Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

Program Itinerary:

4:00–5:00 PM: Panel Discussion, Untitled Art Podcast Lounge

5:00 PM Onward: Networking Reception, Untitled Art VIP Lounge

Join us on the beach as the sun sets, and connect with friends and colleagues between stops on your busy Miami calendar! Please note that seating is limited for the panel discussion – we encourage you to arrive early to secure your seat.

Registration for this program includes a pass to Untitled Art Miami Beach.

Program Registration:

ArtTable Member – $45

Friend of Member – $55

Non-Member – $65

Our sincere thanks to Samantha Anderson of the Art Law Group at Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP and Andrea Zorrilla of AMZ Art Advisory + Appraisals LLC for coordinating this event.

About the Panelists

Barbara Chamberlain has more than 25 years of experience in private, public, and corporate collections, museums, and galleries, plus knowledge of library and archival science. She started her career managing works of art in a contemporary art gallery in New York City, after which she was assistant curator of The FORBES Magazine Collection, and the registrar at the Appleton Museum of Art in Ocala, Florida. Since 2008, she has provided collections management and care, risk management, and claims support services to hundreds of Private Client Select (formerly AIG Private Client Group) policyholders with private collections, museums, and/or foundations. Today, Barbara is also a member of the Association of Registrars and Collections Specialists (ARCS) Board of Directors and an Executive Board member of the Friends of the Uffizi Gallery. Barbara earned a BA in Art History and Psychology from Smith College and an MA in Museum Studies at Johns Hopkins University where she now teaches the first course in private collectors, collections, and museums.

Amani Lewis is a Miami-based artist, known for their powerful explorations of identity, community, and social justice. Amani holds a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), where they graduated in 2016 with a focus on painting and printmaking. Amani has been featured in several prominent exhibitions, including “Amani Lewis: Subjective Nature” at the August Wilson African American Cultural Center in Pittsburgh, “It’s from the light that we are found, blessed and guided” at Lévy Gorvy Dayan (2021), “Amani Lewis: Nothing Remains the Same” at Salon 94, and “Unapologetic WomXn” at The Venice Biennale in 2024. Their work often combines vibrant color, photography, and mixed media to challenge narratives around marginalized communities. Amani’s work has been extensively covered by publications such as Hyperallergic, Juxtapoz, and The New York Times, which have praised their ability to combine social activism with artistic expression. As co-founder of Artist First Collective, Amani is dedicated to advocating for artist-friendly business models, ensuring transparency, and providing resources that support artists in their studio practices.

Shamim M. Momin currently lives and works in New York. She is the former Director of Curatorial Affairs at the Henry Art Gallery. In this role from 2018-2024, she has overseen the Curatorial Department, and organized numerous exhibitions, including the museum-wide group exhibition In Plain Sight, as well as major commissions by Tala Madani, Gary Simmons, Kelly Akashi, Donna Huanca, Diana Al-Hadid, and others. Prior to joining the Henry, she was director, curator, and co-founder of LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division), a nonprofit public art organization committed to curating site- and situation-specific contemporary art projects. Previously, Momin served for more than ten years at the Whitney Museum of American Art, co-curating the 2004 and 2008 Whitney Biennials and overseeing the Contemporary Projects series. Momin was Adjunct Professor of Contemporary Art for Williams College for the 2007 and 2008 Semester in New York program, and is currently Affiliate Professor of Art at the School of Art, Art History and Design, University of Washington. [Photo credit: Stefanie Fink]

Melissa Osterwind, President at SRI Fine Art Servives, joined the SRI team in 2013 and brings over two decades of financial management and operations experience to our table. Prior to SRI, Melissa was the Controller at the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and oversaw their $1.6 billion expense budget. In addition to her extensive managerial experience and financial expertise, Melissa is visionary team builder. She has guided SRI through record growth; doubling the staff, storage footprint and gross sales over the past decade. She recently navigated SRI through the Covid-related shutdowns without layoffs or furloughs. Melissa is currently a Trustee at The Bronx Museum of Art and Project for Empty Space. She holds a Masters Degree in Public Administration from Syracuse University, with a concentration in finance.

Samantha Anderson (Moderator) is an Attorney in Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler’s Art and Museum Law practice. Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Anderson served as in-house counsel to an international Art Advisory, and Sotheby’s auction house where she was Vice President in their Fiduciary Client Group. Ms. Anderson advises clients on a broad range of issues in the Art industry including transactional matters such as private sales and consignments, as well as commissions of art, artist representation, and various estate, planning and philanthropic matters surrounding complex collections, including valuation issues. Ms. Anderson is a frequent speaker on Art Law topics and holds various leadership and board positions. She teaches Law and the Arts at both Columbia University and Cardozo School of Law.

Dallas, TX | MeetAT at Cris Worley Fine Arts
2024-12-11 17:30 - 19:00 | Cris Worley Fine Arts, 1845 E Levee St #110, Dallas, Texas, 75207
You’re invited to our next MeetAT networking event on December 11 in Dallas, Texas, graciously hosted by Cris Worley, Owner and Director of Cris Worley Fine Arts. Join us for an evening of light refreshments and engaging conversations with fellow ArtTable members and prospective members.

Cris Worley Fine Arts is a contemporary art gallery established in 2010 in Dallas, TX. Cris Worley Fine Arts is dedicated to promoting innovative work by contemporary artists at various stages of their careers. The gallery’s dynamic approach to fostering artistic growth includes the presentation of compelling exhibitions, and collaborations with public institutions, professional art organizations, and collectors, both locally and internationally.

For over two decades, Cris Worley has contributed to national art dialogues as a gallery director participating in art fairs, as a guest juror for numerous exhibitions, and as an esteemed art advisor. As a charter member of the Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas, Cris Worley has played a vital role in the vigorous growth of the Dallas arts community, encouraging the evolution of contemporary art collections.

For this event, the gallery will feature present their eighth solo exhibition of oil paintings by Paul Manes. The exhibition entitled, Into the Woods, opens Saturday, November 16, and will be on view through December 28. Whether it be the differing color palettes of the landscape images or the wall of rain or the bowls falling upon one another, Manes’ new works seem to be a random smattering of subjects across his oeuvre. Yet, in this new show, the artist invites us to see how his subject matter has been affected through his own experiences.Manes’ new work reflects his own physical move from New York City to Colorado a decade ago. Manes traded the concrete jungle for a sky of stars, and that location shift has changed his subject matter. In this new show, Manes has moved from the sky to the landscape, where he interacts with different elements and environments that he sees every day. Many of the works depicted reflect images of meadows and plants, and Manes’ large canvases and use of perspective allow for us all to step into this world he lives in daily. Every new painting acts as a window into another world – one where we get to see landscapes through the lens of the artist. Suddenly, we are alongside Manes on his motorcycle ride from home to the studio through the Colorado mountains.

Are you considering joining ArtTable and want to know more about who we are and what we do? This is a great opportunity for potential members to get to know us!

Admission:

FREE to ArtTable Members and prospective members*

*each member is allowed to bring one guest with them at this time. We encourage members to bring a member of the visual arts field who would enjoy this community engagement opportunity.

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New York, NY | Holiday MeetAT at DC Moore Gallery
2024-12-11 17:30 - 19:30 | DC Moore Gallery, 535 West 22nd Street, New York, New York, 10011, United States
You’re invited to our upcoming Holiday MeetAT networking event on December 11, graciously hosted by DC Moore Gallery. Enjoy light refreshments while catching up with fellow ArtTable members and prospective members, and making new connections right before the holiday season!

Founded in 1995, DC Moore Gallery represents nationally and internationally known contemporary artists whose diverse practices include painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, and installation; important estates and foundations including those of Charles Burchfield, Romare Bearden, Robert De Niro, Sr., David Driskell, Jacob Lawrence, George Tooker, Jane Wilson and George Woodman; and specializes in the sale of major 20th century American painting, sculpture, and works on paper, including Modernism, Magic Realism, African American, Social Realism, and Abstract Expressionism. The gallery organizes fifteen to twenty exhibitions a year and publishes significant catalogues and books, with essays by distinguished historians and critics. As a member of the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) the gallery subscribes to the highest standard of connoisseurship and scholarship.

This Holiday Party MeetAT will also include a raffle for your chance to win items ArtTable prizes and additional generous contributions from Kendra Scott, BLICK Art Materials, and Gourmet Gift Baskets.

On View at DC Moore GalleryRomare Bearden: Paris Blues/Jazz and Other WorksNovember 14, 2024 – January 11, 2025

Are you considering joining ArtTable and want to know more about who we are and what we do? This is a great opportunity for potential members to get to know us!

Admission:

FREE to ArtTable Members and prospective members*

*each member is allowed to bring one guest with them at this time. We encourage members to bring a member of the visual arts field who would enjoy this community engagement opportunity.

With this free event, ArtTable would like to thank all its members for a wonderful year! We appreciate any contribution you can make to help us continue to create opportunities for connections like these. Please kindly add a fully tax-deductible donation in support of ArtTable and our mission to empower, engage, and foster the leadership of women and nonbinary professionals in the visual arts!

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San Francisco, CA | Guided Tour of 'Amy Sherald: American Sublime' at SFMOMA
2024-12-12 16:00 - 17:15 | SFMOMA, 151 Third Street, San Francisco, CA, 94103, United States
Amy Sherald, Michelle LaVaughn Robinson Obama (detail), 2018; National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. The National Portrait Gallery is grateful to the following lead donors for their support of the Obama portraits: Kate Capshaw and Steven Spielberg; Judith Kern and Kent Whealy; Tommie L. Pegues and Donald A. Capoccia. Courtesy of the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery.

Join ArtTable at SFMOMA an exclusive guided tour of Amy Sherald: American Sublime with Auriel Garza, Curatorial Assistant, Painting & Sculpture.

About the exhibition: Amy Sherald: American Sublime invites you to breathe. Come and be taken in by the colors, shapes, and forms painted by one of America’s defining contemporary portraitists. This exhibition presents nearly 50 of Amy Sherald’s luminous paintings, including her iconic portraits of Michelle Obama and Breonna Taylor, poetic early works, and new works on view for the first time. Sherald’s artworks convey the quiet power in everyday people and invite viewers to participate in a more complex debate about accepted notions of American identity. In the spirit of great American artists like Edward Hopper, Alice Neel, and Kerry James Marshall, Sherald’s works reframe our understanding of American culture. American Sublime is organized thematically, with each gallery presenting a crucial idea in her work and explaining her detailed approach to making paintings. Learn more about Sherald’s central themes.

Accessibility note: SFMOMA offers gallery stools, wheelchairs, and canes at the Coat Check on Floor 1 as you enter at 151 Third Street. Benches are installed at several points in the galleries.

Program Registration (includes admission):

ArtTable Member – $20

Friend of Member – $25

Non-Member – $35

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Washington, DC | Holiday MeetAT at Morton Fine Art
2024-12-12 18:00 - 20:00 | Morton Fine Art, 52 O St NW, Washington, District of Columbia, 20001, United States
You’re invited to our upcoming Holiday MeetAT networking event on December 12, graciously hosted by Amy Morton, Owner & Chief Curator of Morton Fine Art. Enjoy light refreshments while catching up with fellow ArtTable members, prospective members and making new connections.

Founded in 2010 in Washington, DC by curator Amy Morton, Morton Fine Art (MFA) is a fine art gallery and curatorial group that collaborates with art collectors and visual artists to inspire fresh ways of acquiring contemporary art. Firmly committed to the belief that art collecting can be cultivated through an educational stance, MFA’s mission is to provide accessibility to museum-quality contemporary art through a combination of substantive exhibitions and a welcoming platform for dialogue and exchange of original voice. Morton Fine Art specializes in a stellar roster of nationally and internationally renowned artists as well as has an additional focus on artwork of the African and Global Diaspora.

Morton Fine Art founded the trademark *a pop-up project in 2010. A pop-up project is MFA’s mobile gallery component which hosts temporary curated exhibitions nationally.

On view from November 12th, 2024 to January 18th, 2025, Meditation on Blue brings together a diverse group of artists whose works transcend geographical boundaries to explore the depth and versatility of blue in abstract art. Learn more about their Art and Healing Series: Meditation on Blue

Are you considering joining ArtTable and want to know more about who we are and what we do? This is a great opportunity for potential members to get to know us!

Admission:

FREE to ArtTable Members and prospective members*

*each member is allowed to bring one guest with them at this time. We encourage members to bring a member of the visual arts field who would enjoy this community engagement opportunity.

With this free event, ArtTable would like to thank all its members for a wonderful year! We appreciate any contribution you can make to help us continue to create opportunities for connections like these. Please kindly add a fully tax-deductible donation in support of ArtTable and our mission to empower, engage, and foster the leadership of women and nonbinary professionals in the visual arts!

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New York, NY | Curator-Led Tour of 'Make Way for Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde' at the NYU Grey Art Museum
2025-01-08 17:30 - 18:30 | NYU Grey Art Museum, 18 Cooper Square, New York, New York, 10003
Installation view of ”Make Way for Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde.” Courtesy Grey Art Museum, New York University. Photo: Simon Cherry

*This program has reached capacity. To join the waitlist, please cick “Register” below. An ArtTable staff member will contact you if a space becomes available.*

Join ArtTable for our first event of 2025! Join us at NYU’s Grey Art Museum for a tour of Make Way for Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde with Lynne Gumpert, Director of the Grey and co-curator of the exhibition. This tour covers a pivotal chapter in the history of modern art: the career of Berthe Weill, who broke boundaries as the first woman in her profession and as the dealer who recognized and cultivated the talents of many of the most influential artists of the 20th century.

Make Way for Berthe Weil is the second exhibition presented in the Grey Art Museum’s new and expanded home on Cooper Square, where NYU’s campus museum moved in 2024 after nearly fifty years as the Grey Art Gallery on Washington Square East.

About the Exhibition: Make Way for Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde surveys the groundbreaking career of the first woman modern art dealer. Berthe Weill (1865–1951) championed many fledgling masters of modern art early on—such as Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Amedeo Modigliani—as well as numerous others who did not achieve wide acclaim. Yet her role in early 20th century modernism has been omitted from most historical accounts.

The exhibition will feature some 110 paintings, drawings, prints, and sculpture—many of which were shown at her gallery during the first four decades of the 20th century. The exhibition also includes archival documents—such as letters, exhibition catalogs, photographs, and journals—that reveal her deep relationships with a range of artists. Examining Weill’s contributions to the history of modernism as a gallerist, a passionate advocate of contemporary art, and a Jewish woman, it brings to light the remarkable achievements of a singular figure who overcame sexism, antisemitism, and economic struggles in her quest to promote emerging artists.

Co-organized by NYU’s Grey Art Museum, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and the Musée de l’Orangerie, the exhibition’s curatorial team includes Grey Director Lynn Gumpert, Marianne Le Morvan, founder of the Berthe Weill Archives in Paris, Anne Grace, curator of modern art at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and Sophie Eloy, collections administrator and coordinator of the Contrepoints installations at the Musée de l’Orangerie. The exhibition will tour to the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts May 10–September 7, 2025, and the Musée de l’Orangerie in Paris October 8, 2025–January 25, 2026.

Visitor Policies and Accessibility: Please note that large bags and backpacks must be checked in a secure locker, and food & drink (including water bottles) are not permitted. The Grey is fully walker- and wheelchair-accessible, and several portable stools are available to borrow for use within the galleries.

Program Admission:

ArtTable Members – $15

Member Guests – $20

Non-Members – $25

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

About the Curator:

Lynn Gumpert is the Director of NYU’s Grey Art Museum, formerly known as the Grey Art Gallery. During her tenure, the Grey has presented over 75 exhibitions. Among them are: Make Way for Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde (2024); Taking Shape: Abstraction from the Arab World (2020); and The Beautiful Brain: The Drawings of Santiago Ramón y Cajal (2018). Lynn received a BA from the University of California at Berkeley and an MA in art history from the University of Michigan. The French government honored Gumpert with the distinction of Chevalier of the Order of Arts and Letters in 1999.

ArtTable would like to thank Dorothea Basile, Riva Blumenfeld, and Donna Harkavy for coordinating this event, and to acknowledge the late Julie Saul‘s contributions to the ArtTable community as well as to the NYU Grey Art Museum.

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

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

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

Not a member? Join today!

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

FREE

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Program Admission:

ArtTable Members – $25

Member Guests – $30

Non-Members – $35

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

About the Authors:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Program Admission:

ArtTable Members – $25

Member Guests – $30

Non-Members – $35

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

About the Curator:

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

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

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

FREE

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Admission:

FREE (limited availability)

Circle, Patron, and Benefactor Members Only

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

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

OPENING HOURS

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

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

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

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

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Washington, D.C. | MeetAT at Chela Mitchell Gallery
2025-02-20 17:30 - 19:00 | Chela Mitchell Gallery, 1350 5th Street NE, Suite C, Washington, District of Columbia, 20002, United States
You’re invited to our next D.C. MeetAT networking event on February 20, graciously hosted by Chela Mitchell, Art Advisor and Creative Director of Chela Mitchell Gallery. Join us for an evening of light refreshments and engaging conversations with fellow ArtTable members and new connections.

Chela Mitchell Gallery is a contemporary art space rooted in community cultivation, the richness of culture, and the amplification of unique voices in fine art and design. Founded in 2021 by art advisor Chela Mitchell, the gallery has quickly become a premier destination for discovering artists who push boundaries and inspire new perspectives. Through curated exhibitions, educational programming, and a carefully curated store featuring art, gifts, and design objects, Chela Mitchell Gallery fosters meaningful connections between artists, collectors, and the broader art ecosystem.

Are you considering joining ArtTable and want to know more about who we are and what we do? This is a great opportunity for potential members to get to know us!

Admission:

FREE to ArtTable Members and their guests*

*each member is allowed to bring one guest with them at this time

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

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

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

Program Admission:

ArtTable Members – $15

Member Guests – $20

General Admission – $25

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About Francine Birbragher-Rozencwaig, Ph.D.

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

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

Los Angeles, CA | MeetAT at Los Angeles Center of Photography
2025-03-03 17:00 - 18:30 | Los Angeles Center of Photography, 252 S Los Angeles St., Los Angeles, California, 90012, United States
You’re invited to our next MeetAT networking event on January 9 in Los Angeles, CA, graciously hosted by Rotem Rozental at Los Angeles Center of Photography. Join us for an evening of light refreshments and engaging conversations with fellow ArtTable members and prospective members.

About LACP:Visual storytellers change the world. They need a safe space to hone their craft and articulate their voices. Los Angeles Center of Photography (LACP) is a crucible that forges creative vision, insight, and experimentation into a vibrant photographic community that expresses the cultural and artistic crosscurrents that are the essence of Los Angeles.A non-profit since 2013, LACP supports, mentors and promotes visual storytellers on their creative journeys, at all stages of life and career.

Each year, LACP programs, organizes and offers the wider public over 150 exhibitions, classes, workshops, public programs, reviews and events, whether in its home in Downtown Los Angeles, with partners across LA County, or online.

For this event, the gallery will feature Flourish, a solo exhibition with inagural winner of the Aline Smithson Next Generation Award, Stephanie Shih (史欣雲). 欣欣向荣 𝕱𝖑𝖔𝖚𝖗𝖎𝖘𝖍, focuses on work from the last five years, seeking to articulate central themes and approaches. As a second generation Taiwanese-Chinese American, Shih explores contemporary and historical cultural dynamics of the diaspora through still life creations, drawing on her background in semiotics and research to recode the symbologies of the still life canon.

Are you considering joining ArtTable and want to know more about who we are and what we do? This is a great opportunity for potential members to get to know us!

Admission:

FREE to ArtTable Members and prospective members*

*each member is allowed to bring one guest with them at this time. We encourage members to bring a member of the visual arts field who would enjoy this community engagement opportunity.

Not a member? Join today!

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

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

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

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

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

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

Program Admission:

ArtTable Members – $15

Member Guests – $20

Non-Members – $25

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

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

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

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

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

Please review BAMFA’s accessibility page for available accommodations.

Program Admission:

ArtTable Members – $15

Member Guests – $20

Public – $25

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About Margot Norton

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Program Admission:

ArtTable Patron, Benefactor, and Circle Members – Free

All other ArtTable Members – $10

Member Guests – $15

General Admission – $20

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

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

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

About Cara Romero

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

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

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

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

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

We hope you will join us!

Program Admission:

ArtTable Members – $10

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New York, NY | MeetAT at Fountain House Gallery & Studio
2025-03-13 17:30 - 19:00 | Fountain House Gallery & Studio, 702 9th Ave, New York, New York, 10019, United States
You’re invited to our next NY MeetAT networking event on March 13, graciously hosted by Rachel Weisman, Gallery Director of Fountain House Gallery & Studio. Join us for an evening of light refreshments and engaging conversations with fellow ArtTable members and new connections.

Fountain House Gallery and Studio supports the careers and creative visions of contemporary artists living with mental illness. Founded by Fountain House in 2000 as a not-for-profit exhibition space for its member artists living and working with mental illness, the Gallery sells original artworks and collaborates with a wide network of artists, curators, and cultural institutions. Embracing artists who are emerging or established, trained or self-taught, Fountain House Gallery cultivates artistic growth, makes a vital contribution to the New York arts community, and challenges the stigma surrounding mental illness.

For this event, the gallery will present Meticulous Markings which features 9 artists who utilize a unique method of mark-making in their work. All works intrigue and invite the viewer to look more closely at the images, to see something more. This fastidious attention to detail by the artist will hopefully transfer to the viewer and allow them time to focus. Everyone’s life is often busy, and people rush about, but we hope this exhibition will allow audiences to pause, reflect, and find hidden things in the art, to bring about a greater sense of well-being.

Are you considering joining ArtTable and want to know more about who we are and what we do? This is a great opportunity for potential members to get to know us!

Admission:

FREE to ArtTable Members and their guests*

*Each member is allowed to bring one guest with them at this time

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

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

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

FREE

Open to Affiliate, Associate, and Professional Members Only

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

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