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Washington, DC | Curator-Led Tour: Time-Based Media at the National Portrait Gallery

June 12, 2024 | 4:30 pm – 5:30 pm

Expand your understanding and appreciation of time-based media on this special tour for the ArtTable community, led by Dr. Charlotte Ickes, Curator of Time-Based Media and Special Projects at the National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution. As the pace of technological innovation continues to accelerate, so too will the quantity of art produced within this precisely defined, yet expansive category: time-based media, or art that reveals itself to the viewer or over time, encompasses film, audio, computer, and slide-based works. As the National Portrait Gallery and its peer institutions build their collections in time-based media, they are confronted with complex questions regarding the interpretation, installation, and conservation of these works, as well as the opportunity to define best practices for future generations of scholars. Dr. Ickes’ tour will cover highlights of the National Portrait Gallery’s acquisitions in time-based media, as well as explore how her Smithsonian colleagues have been grappling with these issues.

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National Portrait Gallery

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Washington, DC | Curator-Led Tour: Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860-1960

May 28, 2024 | 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Installation view of Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860–1960, March 22, 2024–April 20, 2025. Courtesy of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Photo: Rick Coulby.

Meet ArtTable in DC for a curator-led tour of Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860-1960 with Dr. Marina Isgro, Associate Curator of Media and Performance Art at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution. In anticipation of the fiftieth anniversary of the Hirshhorn’s opening on October 4, 2024, Revolutions places the work of 19 contemporary artists in dialogue with that of 117 artists who worked between 1860 and 1960: the century that introduced Modernism and abstraction, and led up to the Hirshhorn’s establishment by Congress in 1966. An audio guide by Katy Hessel—part of her Museums Without Men series—accompanies the exhibition, highlighting the women represented in Revolutions, whose work completes and complicates art historical narratives they were frequently written out of. Revolutions‘ dialogue between living artists—including Torkwase Dyson, Loie Hollowell, and Catherine Opie—and their 19th- and 20th-century counterparts—such as Berenice Abbott, Mary Cassatt, and Alma Thomas—reveals the resonance and relevance of these earlier works in our contemporary culture.

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Admission to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and to all its exhibitions, tours, and other public educational programs is free of charge. Any charge or request for contributions is unrelated to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.

About the Curator

Marina Isgro is Associate Curator of Media and Performance Art at the Hirshhorn and was the lead curator of Revolutions: Art from the Hirshhorn Collection, 1860-1960. At the Museum, she has also curated Laurie Anderson: The Weather; John Akomfrah: Purple; and OSGEMEOS: Endless Story, forthcoming in September. Prior to joining the Hirshhorn, Marina was Nam June Paik Fellow at the Harvard Art Museums, where she curated Nam June Paik: Screen Play. She received her MA and PhD in art history from the University of Pennsylvania and her BA from Princeton University.

New York, NY | Curator-Led Tour of Rose B. Simpson’s “Seed” at Madison Square Park

June 20, 2024 | 9:30 am – 10:30 am

This tour with Brooke Kamin Rapaport, Artistic Director and Martin Friedman Chief Curator of Madison Square Park Conservancy, explores the current project in the Conservancy’s field-leading program of contemporary public art. In Seed, Rose B. Simpson (Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico, b. 1983) presents a circle of seven steel figures, each eighteen feet tall, surrounding a female form in bronze. The steel figures protect and support the central figure, while simultaneously looking to the past, the present, and the future. While this tour will cover Simpson’s work in Madison Square Park, additional figures are installed in Inwood Hill Park in upper Manhattan, marking the Conservancy’s twentieth anniversary as well as its first public art collaboration with a public New York City park.

Of her installations in each park, Simpson says: “While I am there with my work, I have the opportunity to guide through reminders. Maybe my work is about the displaced Indigenous residents who had thousands of years communing with that ground—a heuristic relationship that shaped their culture. Maybe it’s about the act of being in that space, gendered. Maybe it’s about the feeling of communing in a public space, about safety, about the feeling of anonymity that comes from an immense crowd, the clench of protective identity and the need to exhale.” While Seed is Simpson’s first solo exhibition of public art in New York, her work can also be seen in the 2024 Whitney Biennial as well as collections including the Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, LACMA, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art. In 2023, President Biden appointed Simpson to the Board of the Institute of American Indian Arts.

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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.

National Portrait Gallery

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Baltimore | Curator-Led Tour: Recent Acquisitions at The Walters Art Museum

May 17, 2024 | 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Local to Baltimore or in town for AAM? Reconnect with ArtTable friends between conference sessions at The Walters Art Museum, located less than a mile from the Baltimore Convention Center. This exclusive, 90-minute tour with Lynley Anne Herbert, Robert and Nancy Hall Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, covers two of her exhibitions: Reflect and Remix: Art Inspiring Artists and New on the Bookshelf: The Creative Power of Women. These exhibitions explore the visual and material resonances between works of art separated by time in the Walters collection, as well as highlighting new acquisitions that celebrate the contributions of women to the book arts.

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San Francisco | Curator-Led Tour of Zanele Muholi: Eye Me at SFMOMA

April 30, 2024 | 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Three figurative paintings by Zanele Muholi hang on a light-green gallery wall. — _{Installation view of Eye Me: Zanele Muholi (SFMOMA, 2024); photo: Don Ross}

Meet ArtTable at SFMOMA for a curator-led tour of Zanele Muholi: Eye Me, the photographer’s acclaimed first major exhibition on the West Coast. On this hour-long tour, Sally Martin Katz, SFMOMA’s Curatorial Associate for Photography and a co-curator of Eye Me, will cover major works across more than two decades of Muholi’s career. Read more about this unmissable show in The San Francisco Chronicle’s Datebook and KQED.

About the exhibition: A self-described visual activist, Zanele Muholi (b. 1972, Umlazi, South Africa) uses the camera to explore issues of gender identity, representation, and race. Often photographing their own body or members of their LGBTQ+ community in South Africa, Muholi calls attention to the trauma and violence enacted on queer people while celebrating their beauty and resilience. Activism is central to Muholi’s artistic practice, from their early work contending with the dangers of being queer in South Africa to their more recent work embracing their own blackness and gender expression. This exhibition brings together photographs from 2002 to the present alongside the artist’s latest explorations in painting and sculpture. The first major exhibition of Muholi’s work on the West Coast, it provides the opportunity for Bay Area audiences to experience the full range of the artist’s expansive project. —SFMOMA.org

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Sally Martin Katz is a curator based in San Francisco. Since 2017 she has been working in the photography department at SFMOMA. Concurrently, she is a PhD candidate in Art History, specializing in History of Photography, at the Sorbonne. As an independent curator, she guest curated the Louis Stettner retrospective at the Fundación MAPFRE in Madrid (2023) and Barcelona (2024) and was the editor of the exhibition catalogue, and also guest curated A Moment in Time: Iconic Images by Harry Benson at the Southampton Arts Center, New York (2023). She has co-edited several books, including American Geography: Photographs of Land Use from 1840 to the Present (2021) and snap+share: transmitting photographs from mail art to social networks (2019). In Paris, she worked at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Louvre. She received a BA in Art History and French Literature from Brown University, as well as an MA in Art History and MFA in Photography from the Sorbonne.

National Portrait Gallery

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New York | Responsible Transacting in the Art Market with Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

April 30, 2024 | 8:30 am – 10:30 am

This was the first program in our three-part Art Law Series sponsored by Patterson Belknap. Join us in Miami Beach for the next installment in December 2024, followed by a Los Angeles event in early 2025!

The art market has undergone exponential growth across the last 10 years, both in terms of volume and value. The old ways of purchasing and selling art via handshakes are now becoming increasingly rare as a wave of new players enter the art market and the value of works skyrockets. Art transactions have consequently become more complex, introducing a range of legal risks and issues which require each party to become equipped with a more thoughtful and better-informed approach to a transaction.

This panel will provide an overview of the channels for purchasing art—at auction, from a gallery, or through a dealer or advisor—and how each comes with its own unique considerations and potential challenges. We will cover the basics of building relationships within the marketplace, understanding how transactions are structured, and issues that may arise on each side of the transaction. Our discussion will also include best practices for conducting due diligence not only for the works themselves but also on the parties engaged in the transaction. This panel will be geared towards private individual collectors, art dealers, and independent advisors in addition to arts professionals working in galleries and museums.

This event will begin with a networking reception including a light breakfast, with Kosher for Passover menu options. We will reserve time at the end for audience questions.

Panelists:

Anne-Laure Allehaut, Counsel, Patterson Belknap
Alana Ricca, Managing Director, Schoelkopf Gallery
Aubrey Catrone, Owner & Consultant, Proper Provenance, LLC
Moderated by Andrea Zorrilla, Founder, AMZ Art Advisory + Appraisals LLC

Event Admission:

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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.

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

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

Alana Ricca is Managing Drector at Schoelkopf Gallery in Tribeca, a leader in the field of American art from 1875 to the present day. She oversees day-to-day management of the gallery with a focus on sales, business development, and client relationships, and plays a crucial role in the strategic planning and project management of art fairs, exhibitions, and programming. An expert in 20th-century American Art, she holds specific knowledge in works of art created in the late 20th century and has catalogued, researched, and written extensively on post-war art.

Alana holds a B.A. in Russian and Eurasian Studies from Colgate University. She is Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice-compliant and completes USPAP-compliant appraisals. Alana is a member of ArtTable and speaks Russian, Spanish, and Italian.

Aubrey Catrone is an international art historian, appraiser, and provenance researcher. Aubrey earned an MA in History of Art from University College London, specializing in the documented histories of art objects. With an art gallery and academic research background, Catrone founded Proper Provenance, LLC to provide her clients with the tools, not only to historically contextualize art but also to shed light on attribution and legal title within the international art market.

Catrone has researched artworks paintings, artefacts, works on paper, prints, and sculptures spanning the fourth century B.C.E. to the twenty-first century C.E. She has been cited as a guest expert in ARTnews and on the History Channel. Catrone has also published her scholarship in a variety of publications including RICS Journals and the Journal of Art Crime.

Andrea M. Zorrilla, AAA is the founder of AMZ Art Advisory & Appraisals, a Miami-based appraisal and advisory service dedicated to Modern & Contemporary Latin American fine art in addition to the Latinx and Caribbean diasporas. She is a Certified Member of the Appraisers Association of America, and is distinguished with being one of four Certified Members of AAA specialized in the field of Latin American art in U.S.

Prior to establishing AMZ Art Advisory & Appraisals LLC in 2022, Andrea held the role of VP, Specialist of Latin American Art at Sotheby’s New York. Andrea currently serves on the National Programming Committee of ArtTable. She is also a member of the Young Collectors Board of the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Miami. She is a graduate of Villanova University with a BA in Economics and Spanish Language & Literature and received her Master of Arts with Distinction in Art Business from Sotheby’s Institute of Art, New York / University of Manchester, England.

National Portrait Gallery

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New York | Curator-Led Tour of MAD About Jewelry

May 6, 2024 | 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

ArtTable members and friends are invited on an exclusive curator-led tour of the 2024 edition of MAD About Jewelry, the Museum of Arts & Design’s annual survey and sale of the most exciting contemporary jewelry. At MAD, jewelry is valued as an art form; it is the only museum in the U.S. to dedicate gallery space both to special jewelry exhibitions and to its own collection of modern contemporary jewelry. In addition to furthering MAD’s educational mission, MAD About Jewelry supports the careers and ongoing creative development of the leading creators featured in the exhibition.

Following our tour with Bryna Pomp, Curator of MAD About Jewelry, we will have the opportunity to meet the featured artists, learn about the creative and technical processes that go into their work, and even have the opportunity to acquire our own handcrafted pieces.

Tour Rates, including Museum Admission:

ArtTable Member – $15
Friend of Member – $20
Public – $25

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National Portrait Gallery

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New York | Guided Tours of the Whitney Biennial

April 17, 2024 | 11:30 am – 1:30 pm

_{Maja Ruznic, The Past Awaiting the Future/Arrival of Drummers, 2023. Oil on linen, 99 1/2 × 151 1/2 × 2 1/2 in. (252.7 × 384.8 × 6.4 cm). Collection of the artist. © Maja Ruznic. Courtesy Karma. Photograph by Brad Trone.}

ArtTable is thrilled to invite you on a guided tour of the 2024 Whitney Biennial: Even Better Than the Real Thing. Now in its 81st edition, the Biennial—the longest ongoing survey of contemporary American art—shifts the culture and shapes art history with each presentation. Curated by Chrissie Iles and Meg Onli with Min Sun Jeon and Beatriz Cifuentes, the exhibition features 71 artists; the performance program is organized with Taja Cheek and the film program is organized with Korakrit Arunanondchai, asinnajaq, Greg de Cuir Jr, and Zackary Drucker.

Select 11:30 AM ~~or 12:30 PM~~ at the registration link below to sign up for your 60-minute tour with one of the Whitney’s Teaching Fellows. Please Note: 12:30 tickets are now SOLD OUT.

Tour Rates, including Museum Admission:

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National Portrait Gallery

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CANCELLED Fort Worth, TX | Curator-Led Tour of Surrealism & Us: Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists Since 1940

July 18, 2024 | 3:45 pm – 4:45 pm

_{Kenny Rivero, Olafs and Chanclas, 2021. Oil on canvas. 72 x 72 inches. Collection of Michael Sherman. © Kenny Rivero. Photograph by Ed Mumford, Courtesy of the Artist and Charles Moffett, New York}

Join ArtTable Fellowship alum María Elena Ortiz, Curator at the Modern Art Museum of Forth Worth, on a private tour of her current exhibition. Surrealism and Us: Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists Since 1940, on view at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth until July 28. As the Modern’s first exhibition exploring art of the Caribbean and the African diaspora from an intergenerational perspective, Surrealism and Us includes more than 80 works dating from the 1940s through the present, exploring the history of Caribbean Surrealism, the Affrosurreal in American art, and global interpretations of modernism.

Exploring themes developed in Suzanne Césaire’s essay “1943: Surrealism and Us,” Ortiz’s exhibition features a multi-media selection of work by Belkis Ayón, Firelei Báez, Romare Bearden, Nick Cave, Aimé Césaire, Hew Locke, Kerry James Marshall, Ana Mendieta, Wangechi Mutu, Naudline Pierre, Betye Saar, Kara Walker, and other artists who examined the histories of Black resistance and the European avant-garde for their own creative purposes.

Admission:

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National Portrait Gallery

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New York | Studio Visit with Heide Fasnacht

April 5, 2024 | 6:00 pm – 7:15 pm

_{Heide Fasnacht, “Lake Gloriette” (blue), 2023. Mixed media on wood panel, 48” x 60″. Courtesy of the artist.}

Join ArtTable for a Friday evening tour of Heide Fasnacht‘s Tribeca studio, hosted by the artist. Since starting her career in the late 1970s, Fasnacht has focused her output on a variety of media over the years, focusing on sculpture, photography-based work, and drawing as distinct fields of inquiry and as complementary modes of expressing common themes. Over the past six years, she has returned to her first medium of painting, incorporating photography and collage into mixed-media works that pay special attention to the relationship between the environment and the human body and psyche.

While Fasnacht’s work has long been compared to that of Vija Celmins, Gerhard Richter, and Sigmar Polke, it is distinguished by its translation of two-dimensional sources into sculpture and openness to abstraction in form as well as in meaning. Represented in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, Detroit Institute of Arts, the High Museum of Art, MFA Boston, and many other institutions, Fasnacht’s next New York exhibition is Anywhere But Here, a four-person exhibition opening May 8 at Project: ARTspace.

This talk is made possible by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, with special thanks to Kelly Cahn for coordinating.

Please note, the studio building does not have elevator access.

Admission:

ArtTable Members – $15
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National Portrait Gallery

8th & G Streets NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States + Google Map