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SOCAL | Self-Guided Visit to Shirin Neshat at the Broad

Image: Shirin Neshat, Land of Dreams, 2019, video still

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Join ArtTable for a visit to Shirin Neshat: I Will Greet the Sun Again, the largest exhibition to date of the artist’s approximately 30-year career. This will not be a curator-led walk-though, but an opportunity to experience with colleagues the exhibition and its plethora of time-consuming video works, which can be viewed at will. For those who are interested in discussing the exhibition after the visit, sign up to attend the optional, self-pay lunch or coffee at Vespaio opposite the museum, beginning at 1:00.

Taking its title from a poem by Iranian poet Forugh Farrokhzad, I Will Greet the Sun Again presents 230 photographs and eight video works. The retrospective offers a rare glimpse into the evolution of Neshat’s artistic journey as she explores topics of exile, displacement, and identity with beauty, dynamic formal invention, and poetic grace.

Beginning with her early photograph series, Women of Allah, the exhibition features iconic video works such as Rapture, Turbulent, and Passage, monumental photography installations including The Book of Kings and The Home of My Eyes, and Land of Dreams, a new, ambitious work encompassing a body of photographs and two immersive videos that will make its global debut in the exhibition.

Admission covers the museum’s per person change for a group visit.

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Thank you to Roni Feinstein, ArtTable SoCal Chair, for organizing this program.

NW | Professional Development: Judith Rinehart on Opening a Gallery

Image: Judith Rinehart, Owner and Director

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Join ArtTable Northwest for an evening of conversation with Judith Rinehart, Owner and Director of J. Rinehart Gallery, opening in October. Rinehart will share her insight on opening and running an art gallery in Seattle. Appetizers and drinks will be provided.

J. Rinehart Gallery Has a Physical Space, Baby! The Stranger

Brick by Brick, Gray

Judith Rinehart Owner & Director, Judith Rinehart graduated with her BFA in Art History from the University of Utah and has been working in fine art galleries since 2007. She has previously managed two highly successful art galleries in Seattle and has established herself as a fixture in the gallery community. She served for three years as treasurer of the Seattle Art Dealers Association and served as the curator and panelist at the Seattle Emerging Arts Fair in 2018. By launching J. Rinehart Gallery in 2019, Rinehart has taken her passion for art to a personal level. As an art dealer and a collector herself, she understands the complexities behind every purchase and strives to make the process as easy as possible for both the artist and the collector.

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Thank you Judith Rinehart, Owner and Director, J. Rinehart Gallery.

NY | MeetAT at IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair

This program is free for members and guests, but advance registration is required. Click here to register!

ArtTable’s MeetAT networking program continues in October! This month we are teaming up with the IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair. We invite members and guests to join us during the IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair’s Young Collectors Cocktail Reception taking place on Thursday, October 24, 2019 from 7-9 PM. At 8PM members + guests will gather in the VIP Lounge to hear remarks from Fair Director, Helen Toomer. Fair access is included in registration. All registrants will receive a code to access their fair pass closer to the event date.

ArtTable MeetATs are a free member-hosted event for existing and potential ArtTable members from all sectors of the art world to mingle and engage with each other in a casual atmosphere. Come solo or bring a guest to this lively gathering that encourages new friends and trusted colleagues to get to know one another better. Without a formal program, everyone is free to network and engage in conversation.

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Thank you to ArtTable members Klaudia Ofwona Draber, Founder, KODA Labs; Helen Toomer, Fair Director, IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair; and creator of MeetAT programs, Louky Keijsers-Koning, Director/Owner, LMAK Gallery, for organizing and supporting this program.

SOCAL | October MeetAT The Roof on Wilshire

Image: Panoramic view from the Roof on Wilshire

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Join us for our monthly MeetAT at The Roof on Wilshire. Come mingle with SoCal members and bring colleagues who you’d like to sponsor for membership for no-host beverages and appetizers from their Sunset Hour Menu (happy hour).

Valet parking is available for $12 at the hotel or there is a lot next door that offers a $6 flat rate.

MeetAT, a signature ArtTable program, is a free, member-hosted event for existing and potential ArtTable members from all sectors of the art world to mingle and engage with each other in a casual atmosphere. Come solo or bring a guest to this lively gathering that encourages new friends and trusted colleagues to get to know one another better. Without a formal program, everyone is free to network and engage in conversation.

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Thank you to Geneen Estrada, SoCal Chair of Communications and Melissa Pugash, SoCal member.

NY | Tour of the New MoMA with Ann Temkin

Image: Pablo Picasso. Les Demoiselles d’Avignon. 1907. Oil on canvas. 8′ x 7’8″ (243.9 x 233.7 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest. © 2004 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

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Join ArtTable NY for an after hours visit to the newly renovated galleries of the Museum of Modern Art with Ann Temkin, The Marie-Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture.

Ann Temkin assumed the role of Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture in 2008, after joining The Museum of Modern Art in 2003 as Curator. During her tenure, Ms. Temkin has focused especially on the acquisitions program of the Department of Painting and Sculpture, and on reimagining the Museum’s collection galleries. The acquisitions program has followed a three-pronged approach: to strengthen the holdings of landmark works by modern artists whom the Museum collects in depth; to widen its breadth with works by historical artists new to the department’s collection, especially women, artists of African descent, and artists working outside of Europe and North America; and to collect actively from the new generation of artists working today.

Ms. Temkin is currently preparing an exhibition of the work of Donald Judd (2020). Her exhibitions at MoMA include Studio Visit: Selected Gifts from Agnes Gund (2018), Picasso Sculpture (2015), Robert Gober: The Heart Is Not a Metaphor (2014), Jasper Johns: Regrets (2014), Ileana Sonnabend: Ambassador for the New (2013), Ellsworth Kelly: Chatham Series (2013), Claes Oldenburg: The Street and The Store and Mouse Museum/Ray Gun Wing (2013), Abstract Expressionist New York (2010), Gabriel Orozco (2009), and Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today (2008).

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NY |Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory

Image: Vija Celmins, Untitled (Big Sea #1), 1969. Graphite on acrylic ground on paper. © Vija Celmins, courtesy the artist and Matthew Marks Gallery. Photo © McKee Gallery, New York

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Join ArtTable NY for a curatorial walk through of “Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory” at the Met Breuer, New York City, with Meredith Brown, Research Associate, the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

This retrospective will provide a comprehensive view of Vija Celmins’s career through a selection of approximately 120 works—from her earliest paintings made in Los Angeles in the 1960s to objects completed in New York in the last five years.

Throughout an accomplished career that spans more than fifty years, Celmins has sustained a practice of deep focus and extraordinary skill in a wide range of media. Celmins bases her exquisitely wrought paintings, sculpture, drawings, and prints on the world around us—sometimes through direct observation, but more often mediated by photography. Whether her sources are quotidian objects from her first studio in Venice, California, photographs of the Pacific Ocean taken at the local pier, or reproductions from newspapers, magazines, scientific exploration and inquiry, the resulting work possesses a magical verisimilitude.

Meredith A. Brown first joined the department as the 2013–14 Chester Dale Senior Fellow, conducting research for a book project on feminist politics and American art institutions in the 1970s. In her current role, she has worked on various exhibitions of contemporary art, including The Roof Garden Commission: Pierre Huyghe (2015), Kerry James Marshall: Mastry (2016), Marisa Merz: The Sky Is a Great Space (2017), Range: Experiments in New York, 1961–2007 (2017), David Hockney (2017), Odyssey: Jack Whitten Sculpture, 1963–2017 (2018) and Everything is Connected: Art and Conspiracy (2018). She also researches art for acquisition. A graduate of Stanford University, Meredith received her MA and PhD from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, and previously worked at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Thank you to Ian Alteveer, Aaron I. Fleischman Curator, Modern and Contemporary Art for helping organize this program.

SOCAL | Visit to the Home of Cliff and Mandy Einstein

Images provided by Cliff and Mandy Einstein

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Please join ArtTable for a very special visit to the Brentwood home of Cliff and Mandy Einstein, where our tour will be led by the collectors themselves.

Assembled over the course of the past several decades, the Einstein Collection consists of about 200 works by almost as many artists. The works, which range from pieces by John McLaughlin, Rufino Tamayo, George Segal, Mark di Suvero, Ed Ruscha, John Baldessari, and Gilbert and George to Sterling Ruby, Mary Weatherford, Mark Grotjahn, Albert Oehlen, Oscar Murrillo, and Mai-Thu Perret, fill the contemporary art gallery-like home. Outside are not only a Thomas Houseago figure and gigantic Nancy Rubins sculpture made of airplane parts, but

a James Turrell skyspace, Second Meeting (1985; installed in 1989), the artist’s first freestanding work and his first skyspace to enter a private collection in the U.S. Cliff Einstein has served on the Board of Trustees of LACMA and is currently Chairman Emeritus of MOCA LA. He has also served both as a trustee and lecturer on art and the creative process at Otis College of Art and Design, where he was awarded an honorary Ph.D.

In 2019, the Cliff and Mandy Einstein Visiting Artist Series was initiated at Otis, which many ArtTable members have attended. Among the artists already presented were Elmgreen and Dragset, Kara Walker, and Edgar Heap of Birds and upcoming on Monday, October 14th, is Shirin Neshat.

Space is extremely limited and reserved for members only. As parking is also of limited availability, we will arrange for carpooling among attendees. Please be advised as well that only soft, rubber-soled shoes will be permitted (no socks or stockinged feet!)

Thank you to SoCal Chapter Chair, Roni Feinstein and ArtTable member Victoria Burns of Victoria Burns Art Advisory.

ArtTable is a 501.c.3 organization. All programs are non-refundable.

NY | How to Navigate Recruiting in the Art World

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ArtTable’s professional empowerment series invites experts to share their professional experiences, knowledge and skills. Each session presents an opportunity to engage with and learn more about a topic, issue or skill that directly impacts the professional lives of our members. Past sessions topics have included, Art Market Legal Basics with Katie Wilson-Milne and John Koegel, Public Speaking with Michaela Ablon, Everything You Wanted to Know About Social Media But Were Afraid to Ask with Robin Cembalest and many more!

Session 10: How to Navigate Recruiting in the Art World with Sarah Murkett, Founder of Murk & Co

What we’ll be discussing:

The definition of recruiting and the tools of recruitment
For Employers:
- What employers need to think about when starting a search
- Why an employer would want to use a recruiter
- Fee structures
- What employers should be thinking about to attract and retain top talent
For Candidates:
- How the relationship between a candidate and recruiter starts
- What recruiters look for in a candidate
- Interview preparation
- Salary expectations and contract negotiations

Sarah Murkett:
Founder and principal of Murk & Co, an executive search firm providing staffing solutions for the art world, Sarah Murkett has over 20-years of experience in the field. Sarah began her art career at Marlborough and PPOW galleries after which she worked as a development and marketing consultant to art organizations and individuals in the creative industries including NADA, Socrates Sculpture Park and Atelier 4. She joined Armand Bartos Fine Art in the fall of 2007. As Director, she was instrumental in launching the prestigious gallery and its exhibition program, which presented two historical exhibitions a year until the gallery closed in April of 2011. Murk & Co began that year as a business dedicated to buying and selling artwork with a focus on Post-War and Contemporary Art, providing advisory services for both beginning and seasoned collectors, and curating projects with a focus on art historical themes of the 20th Century. Before turning her focus to recruitment, Sarah served as an advisor to both the Artist Pension Trust (APT) and MutualArt, helping to initiate sales programs for both companies and leading to the first financial distributions to artist members of APT in August of 2016.

Sarah is a member of PAIAM, POWarts, and Art Table, where she served as co-chair of the New York chapter’s programming committee from 2011-2013.

Thank you to Bonhams for providing breakfast and generously hosting the Optimizing Success: Professional Empowerment series. Bonhams, founded in 1793, is one of the world’s largest and most renowned auctioneers, offering fine art and antiques, motor cars and jewellery. The main salerooms are in London, New York, Los Angeles and Hong Kong, with auctions also held in Knightsbridge, Edinburgh, Paris, San Francisco and Sydney. With a worldwide network of offices and regional representatives in 22 countries, Bonhams offers advice and valuation services in 60 specialist areas. For a full list of forthcoming auctions, plus details of Bonhams specialist departments, please visit bonhams.com.

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Thank you to ArtTable Members Sarah McNaughton, Katherine Wilson-Milne, Eileen Jeng, Jacqueline Towers-Perkins and Louky Keijsers Koning, for organizing this series.

ArtTable is a 501.c.3 organization. All programs are non-refundable.

NY | 2019 CAREER ROUNDTABLE PROGRAM

Established in 2009 ArtTable New York’s Career Development Roundtable is one of our longest standing and most impactful career mentoring programs. The program is designed to give emerging leaders in arts administration, art business, museum studies, art history, curatorial studies, and arts internships across the New York metropolitan area an experience to meet with professional women in the visual arts to discuss career opportunities. It is also a chance to network among peers and build lasting relationships

Emerging professionals seeking career advice and inspiration for careers in the visual arts, are invited to attend ArtTable’s 2019 Career Development Roundtable taking place on November 15, 2019. Graduate students in art history, in art history, design history, museum and curatorial studies, museum education, art business, and arts administration programs in the New York City area are invited to participate. Students will have the opportunity to gather around selected tables for open and engaged conversations with leading professional women in the visual arts, to learn about their diverse career paths and experiences, to gain insights and advice for their own career development, and to network and build future relationships with peers and mentors.

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AT TOURS | Japan

Image: Seiichi Ohsawa Courtesy of Benesse Art Site Naoshima

THIS TRIP IS COMPLETELY SOLD OUT- TO JOIN THE WAITLIST PLEASE EMAIL [email protected]

Naoshima and Tokyo are where art lovers are flocking to along with
Kyoto for lovers of heritage and nature. It is attracting tastemakers from all corners, with its booming contemporary art scene around Tokyo such as the Yayoi Kusama Museum and TeamLab Space, and lesser known Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Enoura Observatory selected by Conde Naste as one of the most exciting destinations for 2019. And of course the epic Naoshima Art Islands with surreal masterpieces of art and architecture. Autumn is one of the most delightful and admiring seasons to experience in Japan, and Kyoto is notorious for its beautiful Fall foliage.

This journey immerses you to the modern and contemporary art world starting from cosmopolitan Tokyo, that is a micro-universe on its own. You will be introduced to the local art and creative movers and shakers in the various neighborhoods of this city, whether its commercial, non-profit or underground, it is what makes Tokyo such a unique place unlike any other. For fashion and design lovers, Tokyo is a mecca for cutting-edge trends and innovation.

After the introductory plunge into Japanese culture, we sweep across to the highlight of your trip visiting the Naoshima Art Islands. Established by an art collector, the Naoshima art project is a series of remote islands acquired and redeveloped into a private museum with stunning architecture (i.e. Tadao Ando) maximizing the impact of the art with its natural surroundings. Your final stop will be in Kyoto, one of the most beautiful cities on earth that has just the right balance of cultural heritage with modernity and nature. Kyoto was once the capital of Japan and because it was spared the bombs of World War II, its historic monuments, heritage sites, and 2500+ temples and shrines are still intact. Kyoto boasts the nations greatest concentration of craft artisans, as it was home to the Imperial court for 1,000 years. Your experience will not only uncover the traditional side of Kyoto, but will also show you the modern take of this alluring city.