Tag: Exhibition Tour

Demystify Art at The Getty Center

Enjoy walking through time from the Middle Ages to the early 20th century and “peek behind and beyond the canvas” as Ellen Greenberg, art historian, guides you through the spectacular collection at The Getty Center in Brentwood. You’ll see the highlights of the museum and be wowed and amazed with the stories she’ll tell you about how artists have impacted history and yet still relate to our current, everyday lives. Be titillated by Titian. Baffled by Bernini. Rembrandt revealed. Monet mastered. Van Gogh verified. These are among the groundbreaking artists that will be featured on the tour. In this 90-minute tour, find out why there are so many nudes in Renaissance Art— and so many dead bugs, wilted flowers and skulls in Dutch paintings! And why is the Virgin Mary always depicted wearing red and blue during the Renaissance and Baroque periods? What were the inspirations for Impressionism? You’ll never look at art the same way again!

Your guide will be Ellen Greenberg. Ellen’s interests and expertise have been inspired by interior design, fashion design and production and costume design in her early years to museum touring and unique travel journeys as owner of Quick Culture. Ellen has been an instructor at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising and has guest lectured at UCLA. She holds Docent Program certificates at both The Getty Center and LACMA—and is the author of Inside Chocolate, a pictorial art book published by Abrams Books (formerly Harry N. Abrams) New York. Notables Ellen has toured range from Merrick Garland, United States Attorney General, to Max Getty, J. Paul Getty’s great-grandson. Her studies continue at The Getty Research Institute.

This tour will depart from the Museum Atrium Entrance.

Please Note: The fee to park at The Getty Center is $25.

Admission:

• ArtTable Members – $15
• Member Guests – $20
• Public – $25

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Special thanks to Jane Glassman for coordinating on behalf of ArtTable.

Join ArtTable for an after-hours gallery tour of Lee Krasner: The Edge of Color. Geometric Abstractions, 1948–53 at Kasmin, in association with the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Eric Gleason, Executive Director of Kasmin, will provide an introduction and answer questions about the works on view and their context with Krasner’s oeuvre. The conversation will be followed by refreshments generously provided by the Pollock Krasner Foundation.

Through the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Kasmin has represented Lee Krasner’s work since 2016. Lee Krasner: The Edge of Color. Geometric Abstractions, 1948–53 is Kasmin’s fourth solo presentation of her work. It is the first exhibition to focus on this under-examined period of the artist’s work, which laid the groundwork for several major series of paintings Krasner completed later in her career. Drawing on formative connections with peers in the American Abstract Artists group as well as Piet Mondrian, Krasner’s work in the late forties and early fifties attracted early critical praise. Constrasting rectilinear forms, painted in somber tones with varying thicknesses of brushwork, sometimes appear on repainted canvases. Highlights of this presentation of Krasner’s work include the only two extant paintings from her first solo exhibition, reunited for the first time; Number 3 (Untitled) (1951), on loan from the Museum of Modern Art, and Number 2 (1951), on view in New York for the first time in over 70 years.

Admission:

• ArtTable Members – $10
• Member Guests – $15
• Public – $20

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Eric Gleason is Head of Sales at Kasmin Gallery. Since Eric joined the gallery in 2013, he has played a key role in its expansion, which involved the opening of its new flagship gallery and rooftop sculpture garden in New York in 2018. Eric works closely with a number of the prominent contemporary artists at Kasmin, including Diana Al-Hadid, Judith Bernstein, Lyn Liu and Jan-Ole Schiemann, and is the primary representative for several artist estates, notably Barry Flanagan, Lee Krasner, Robert Motherwell, and George Rickey. Eric has spearheaded numerous critically recognized Kasmin exhibitions, including Lee Krasner: The Umber Paintings 1959-1962 (2017–2018) and Lee Krasner: Collage Paintings (2021). Eric has contributed to numerous institutional exhibitions to promote the careers and legacies of the gallery’s artists. Eric represents Kasmin at art world events and participates in the gallery’s domestic and international art fair program. In 2020, Eric joined the Council of the Visual and Performing Arts school at Syracuse University, and in August of 2023, Eric joined the Board of Directors at Artistic Noise, a non-profit offering visual arts and entrepreneurship programs to young people impacted by the juvenile justice system.

Join ArtTable for an intimiate look at the first survey exhibition in the United States of Marta Minujín, a defining force of Latin American art whose trajectory intersected with the major artistic developments of the postwar period while reflecting a singular spirit and vision infused by her sharp intellect, irreverent humor, and performative presence. Hosted by The Jewish Museum, this tour will be led by Associate Curator, Rebecca Shaykin.

This extensive exhibition includes nearly 100 works organized to reflect Minujín’s bold experimentation over six decades. The exhibition charts Minujín’s influential career in Buenos Aires as well as time spent in Paris, New York, and Washington, DC, through a range of pioneering, mattress-based soft sculptures; fluorescent large-scale paintings; psychedelic drawings and performances; and vintage film footage. The artist’s ephemeral works – happenings, participatory installations, and monumental public art – are presented through rarely-seen photographs, video, and other documentation.

Admission:

• ArtTable Members – $10
• Member Guests – $20
• Public – $25

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Thank you to Dr. Julia P. Herzberg for organizing this program.

Rebecca Shaykin is an Associate Curator at the Jewish Museum, where she has worked since 2010. She is co-curator of Marta Minujín: Arte! Arte! Arte! (2023, with Darsie Alexander). In 2019, she organized the critically-acclaimed Edith Halpert and the Rise of American Art; the accompanying catalogue was a New York Times Critic’s Pick and winner of the 2019 National Jewish Book Award (Visual Arts). Additional projects include: Roberto Burle Marx: Brazilian Modernist (2016, with Jens Hoffmann and Claudia J. Nahson), Helena Rubinstein: Beauty Is Power (2014, with Mason Klein); and The Radical Camera: New York’s Photo League, 1936-1951 (2011, with Mason Klein and Catherine Evans). Shaykin has played a vital role in the museum’s acquisitions program, bringing works by Candice Breitz, Elinor Carucci, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Deborah Kass, Kali Spitzer, and Carrie Mae Weems into the collection. Previously, Shaykin worked at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art at the Brooklyn Museum, where she assisted on Seductive Subversion: Women Pop Artists, 1958–1968 (2010) and Kiki Smith: Sojourn (2010). She received her BA in Art History from Oberlin College and MA from the Williams College Graduate Program in the History of Art.