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text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Luckiest Guy; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Luckiest Guy; font-size: large;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>nyarts-exchangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15281059731332887468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493721968757194427.post-51627850754628648282024-02-17T14:05:00.000-08:002024-02-18T10:06:57.308-08:00Last Call: Picasso in Fontainebleau, closing today Feb 17 for general public, Feb. 19 for MoMA members<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ_dS0sdVkP8ijXpPZzggabecIIAKTRzup-4vYKlbQzZHk5mlQ9wjcYUOMyu940cehKStGKxHiyNY3RC3ypDm2Kr5q2DUntvIsPZmXjGkTo-MHO4hZGReEHqF9CI2tmiursYigk412__MH4AIgEcXYpM_5oCRr7HdIRFaNfrfrGn6QmeDOiTBWeWBa_H1b/s2000/MoMA%20Picasso%20Fontainbleau%202024%203%20Musicians%20MoMA%201921.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1806" data-original-width="2000" height="361" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ_dS0sdVkP8ijXpPZzggabecIIAKTRzup-4vYKlbQzZHk5mlQ9wjcYUOMyu940cehKStGKxHiyNY3RC3ypDm2Kr5q2DUntvIsPZmXjGkTo-MHO4hZGReEHqF9CI2tmiursYigk412__MH4AIgEcXYpM_5oCRr7HdIRFaNfrfrGn6QmeDOiTBWeWBa_H1b/w400-h361/MoMA%20Picasso%20Fontainbleau%202024%203%20Musicians%20MoMA%201921.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Pablo Picasso, Spanish, 1881–1973</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Three Musicians</i>, Fontainebleau, summer
1921</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oil on
canvas</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">6'
7" x 7' 3 3/4" (200.7 x 222.9 cm)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The
Museum of Modern Art, New York. Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Fund</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">©2023 Estate
of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div>
<p class="MsoNormal">From July to September in 1921, Picasso rented a villa for himself, his Russian ballerina wife Olga Khokhlova, and their five-month-old son Paul Joseph (“Paolo”) in the charming village <a href="https://bonjourparis.com/paris-day-trips/the-other-fontainebleau/">Fontainebleau</a>, about 35 miles from Paris, best known for its glorious, <a href="https://bonjourparis.com/history/journey-through-royal-history-at-the-chateau-de-fontainebleau/">eclectic château</a>, dating back to the 12<sup>th</sup> century. In the adjacent garage, fitted out as a studio, Picasso created four gigantic masterpieces: <i>Three Musicians</i> (two versions painted simultaneously) and <i>Three Women at the Spring</i> (two versions, one painting and one red-chalk drawing). These 6-foot works towered over 5 foot-4 inch Picasso in this narrow space, generating an enigmatic puzzle for future Picasso scholars: <span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">What can we glean from Picasso’s eclecticism during this summer in Fontainebleau?</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8rOVYbI46CMqNN0Wux35H9XkpOPn68AL1H-Mblu3rhLeVQhWatBOvoCDDPV1XVSfkWk3Y7agR3xGP7DFpLA6PGXjTDN1ch7p3U1HKwnTep5gKGA4skth7hfcpHoIfyvUacVo0gRpeKXLP6FqEwDRzooU7lL5TJlYvz5YmL-wf8DroHnK0fPff32mFOFQi/s2000/MoMA%20Picasso%20Fontainbleau%202024%203%20Musicians%20Boston%201921.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1879" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj8rOVYbI46CMqNN0Wux35H9XkpOPn68AL1H-Mblu3rhLeVQhWatBOvoCDDPV1XVSfkWk3Y7agR3xGP7DFpLA6PGXjTDN1ch7p3U1HKwnTep5gKGA4skth7hfcpHoIfyvUacVo0gRpeKXLP6FqEwDRzooU7lL5TJlYvz5YmL-wf8DroHnK0fPff32mFOFQi/w602-h640/MoMA%20Picasso%20Fontainbleau%202024%203%20Musicians%20Boston%201921.jpg" width="602" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Pablo Picasso, Spanish, 1881–1973</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Three Musicians</span></i><span face="Arial, sans-serif">, 1921</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oil on
canvas</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">80 1/2 ×
74 1/8" (204.5 × 188.3 cm)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif">The
Philadelphia Museum of Art. A. E. Gallatin Collection, 1952</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif">©2023 Estate
of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York</span></span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><br /></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Willing to take on the challenge and contribution to <i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Picasso
1973-2023: The Fiftieth Anniversary</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">,</span> New York’s Museum of Modern
Art brought these four significant works together for the first time since they
left Picasso’s Fontainebleau studio in 1921. Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller
Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture Anne Umland and her assistants
Alexandra Morrison and Francesca Ferrari examined the works diligently, and
then had them installed with other Picasso works completed at the same time in
order to study<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> this pivotal period in this artist’s very long and
extraordinarily productive career. Their
query is: What was Picasso thinking? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>have, on the one hand, his late Cubist style for <i>Three</i> <i>Musicians</i> and, on the other, his “Ingres-esque” classical style for the <i>Three Women at a Spring</i>. What
should we take away from this disparate combination?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjncMzhQfMFJdmzYn0MxTlzWoUZ5pzVJOC4cruRBN5I77SOhM_XaNccsYSzZN_oP2zs5Az2ja84nb4eF3mUuqem2p0lYd6HxKqqMPkIFMWdyfXc0cwuSTGyKO9Qx8WYv4fniupmodaLHuLbp7dV10NoxAOWCFWPyRGBFe8rIjaNokW3vCI285nBwJwSGxmj/s2000/MoMA%20Picasso%20Fontainbleau%202024%203%20Musicians%20Three%20Women%20at%20the%20Spring%201921.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1715" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjncMzhQfMFJdmzYn0MxTlzWoUZ5pzVJOC4cruRBN5I77SOhM_XaNccsYSzZN_oP2zs5Az2ja84nb4eF3mUuqem2p0lYd6HxKqqMPkIFMWdyfXc0cwuSTGyKO9Qx8WYv4fniupmodaLHuLbp7dV10NoxAOWCFWPyRGBFe8rIjaNokW3vCI285nBwJwSGxmj/w549-h640/MoMA%20Picasso%20Fontainbleau%202024%203%20Musicians%20Three%20Women%20at%20the%20Spring%201921.jpg" width="549" /></a><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="font-size: 10pt;">Pablo </span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Picasso, Spanish, 1881–1973</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Three Women at the Spring</i>, Fontainebleau, summer
1921</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oil on
canvas</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">6' 8
1/4" x 68 1/2" (203.9 x 174 cm)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The
Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Allan D. Emil</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">©2023 Estate
of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York</span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><p class="MsoNormal">First, let’s consider the brilliant exhibition <i>Picasso in
Fontainebleau</i>. We enter into a huge gallery where we see numerous works of
art produced within the few years leading up to the summer of 1921. Several come from the Museum of
Modern Art’s collection, owner of Picasso’s <a href="https://www.moma.org/artists/4609#works">greatest creations</a>, most
notably, <a href="https://www.moma.org/collection/works/79766"><i>Les
Demoiselles d’Avignon</i></a> (1907).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Then we walk through a small, narrow gallery that features ghostly reproductions
painted on the walls giving us a feeling for the dimensions inside Picasso’s
studio-garage, 20 x 10 feet. From there we emerge into a very large gallery which displays
the two versions of the late Cubist <i>Three Musicians</i> (from MoMA and
from the Philadelphia Museum of Art), facing each other on opposite walls, and
the two versions of his classical <i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Three Women at the Spring</span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">, which
face each other as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
musicians are male and the women at the spring are – well, you know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ_2O3osjaTqflyVm3pXW4SaXB6nb3jcYtNRQlzkH-D8iuSMnvPjJkpXRkJO0MvsXy4h06maW7MvbEfwg9gl5CoEdyzAjYhAqvYgQU-39bCTfYqG1gmGUHd1AyAGFMn5mFJ4X6kn6DkbypbpQ7wBFiRWimathpLYuW_eP0ilRRtHWId3v2atMVFSy5hooo/s2000/MoMA%20Picasso%20Fontainbleau%202024%20Installation%20Musicians%20and%20Women%20at%20the%20Spring.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1125" data-original-width="2000" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjZ_2O3osjaTqflyVm3pXW4SaXB6nb3jcYtNRQlzkH-D8iuSMnvPjJkpXRkJO0MvsXy4h06maW7MvbEfwg9gl5CoEdyzAjYhAqvYgQU-39bCTfYqG1gmGUHd1AyAGFMn5mFJ4X6kn6DkbypbpQ7wBFiRWimathpLYuW_eP0ilRRtHWId3v2atMVFSy5hooo/w640-h360/MoMA%20Picasso%20Fontainbleau%202024%20Installation%20Musicians%20and%20Women%20at%20the%20Spring.jpg" width="640" /></a><span style="text-align: left;">Installation view of </span><i style="text-align: left;">Picasso in Fontainebleau</i><span style="text-align: left;">, Museum of
Modern Art, New York, October 8, 2023-February 17, 2024. Photo: Jonanthan
Dorato</span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><br /></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">It’s an intriguing ensemble of characters. The musicians seem
lighthearted as they entertain us with their silent concerts. They belong to
the traveling burlesque Commedia dell’Art tradition, dating back to the Italian
Renaissance. Their masked faces peep out at us, eager to attract our
attention. Their bodies are flat interlocking planes of solid colors: bright
white,
orangy red, pale green, dark blues, gray, and light brown hues against a chocolate
brown background in the New York version and grassy patterned green background
in the Philadelphia version. All six figures seem to exude a bit of
rambunctiousness. The push-pull of the colors that share parts of their interconnected
bodies produces a rhythmic quality. These guys are rockin’. The Pierrots are tooting away on clarinets or
Spanish <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catalan_shawm">tenoras.</a> The New York Harlequin strums a guitar, while
the New York monk sings. The Philadelphia Harlequin pauses from fiddling his
violin, bow in his left hand, as his neighbor, the other monk, holds his cup in
his right hand and the concertina on his lap with the left. In this MoMA room they are showing off their
manly skills to impress six scantily-dress ladies preoccupied with drawing
water from a spout.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">
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1881–1973</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="background: white;"><span role="presentation" style="cursor: text; text-align: start; transform-origin: 0% 0%; transform: scaleX(1.00114);">Three Women at the
Spring</span></span></i><span style="background: white;">, 1921</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Red chalk on canvas</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">78 3/4 × 63 3/8"
(200 × 161 cm)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Musée National Picasso-Paris.
Dation Pablo Picasso</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">©2023 Estate
of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York</span></div><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">None of the <i>Women</i> seem to be listening to these hardworking
<i>Musicians</i>. They are lost in conversation, too absorbed in their task and
themselves to pay attention to anyone else, including us, their audience. In comparison to <i>Three Musicians</i>,
Picasso’s <i>Three Women at a Spring </i>imposes a somber note among the jazzy
razzle-dazzle of their male companions. Quiet
and contained within their earthy umber background, these colossal bodies, dressed in
grayish-white chitons, seem more like 5<sup>th</sup> century BC Greek columns
than lithe ancient Greek sculptures from the same era. They are zoftig and majestic, similar to figures in
17<sup>th</sup> century French Classicist Nicolas Poussin’s <i>Et in Arcadia
Ego</i>, which Picasso must have studied in the Louvre. Picasso’s 20<sup>th</sup> century version of classical
female figures whisper while their male counterparts, six <i>Musicians </i>in this gallery<i>,</i> bray. The women own their space with timeless,
monumental stability: salt of the earth, instead of fearsome <i>femme fatales</i>. The musicians seem to represent an ephemeral reality, the fairytale land of theatrical performance.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">
</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWkUi_5GVQxJ7ROl61-6gdaL0JOkYm68ey5zqdQFQQUeeR0HHwdoSYvixc06iR0I4Mf5cciIxLEnFwvNIHFweIYMSv0f4PZ4egDf-TbcMivwg27ine2Ofo4cFLyAzc_e25F8DimYDowRmecVUnzx3Ufec-Z9hjDXB-dLxyPPv7no-dRn9ajGNmE-35l2Fr/s1279/Poussin,%20Nicolas,%20Et%20in%20Arcadia%20ego,%20second%20version,%201628.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="912" data-original-width="1279" height="456" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjWkUi_5GVQxJ7ROl61-6gdaL0JOkYm68ey5zqdQFQQUeeR0HHwdoSYvixc06iR0I4Mf5cciIxLEnFwvNIHFweIYMSv0f4PZ4egDf-TbcMivwg27ine2Ofo4cFLyAzc_e25F8DimYDowRmecVUnzx3Ufec-Z9hjDXB-dLxyPPv7no-dRn9ajGNmE-35l2Fr/w640-h456/Poussin,%20Nicolas,%20Et%20in%20Arcadia%20ego,%20second%20version,%201628.jpg" width="640" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">Nicolas Poussin, <i>Et in
Arcadia Ego</i>, second version, 1628, Musée du Louvre.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Source : Wikipedia. Public
Domain</span></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">In short, we register an agon here between the flimsy “cubiçant”
guys and the substantial “classical” gals reunited in this physical space but perpetually
at odds with each other psychologically as they act out two different modes of
human interaction. They're Picasso's Kens and Barbies - the Great Divide between the
sexes. Nothing has changed since these huge canvases left Picasso’s
Fontainebleau garage over a century ago. The four groups of only men or women still huddle on the sidelines during this Big Dance of life.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><i><br /></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4G5-cPv2tnnUUBlmiSJbmZgXkYnjENunhd2P-8L9XM0TKw5ITS3i-DCQ9_UNE6RYI6LJ93Cwp08MrXzPy7RbTALaQB-FQzgd-ig0ETx84bZyvUIW9KV5vbS5ppG3GEcfqn7mJx5waf4SGDD2oWrZfgX1HCvOB9M-dqg09Ki_LWrEc61c0cGcLB9GPETYV/s2000/MoMA%20Picasso%20Fontainbleau%202024%20Picasso%20Studies%201920-22.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1622" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4G5-cPv2tnnUUBlmiSJbmZgXkYnjENunhd2P-8L9XM0TKw5ITS3i-DCQ9_UNE6RYI6LJ93Cwp08MrXzPy7RbTALaQB-FQzgd-ig0ETx84bZyvUIW9KV5vbS5ppG3GEcfqn7mJx5waf4SGDD2oWrZfgX1HCvOB9M-dqg09Ki_LWrEc61c0cGcLB9GPETYV/w520-h640/MoMA%20Picasso%20Fontainbleau%202024%20Picasso%20Studies%201920-22.jpg" width="520" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Pablo Picasso, Spanish, 1881–1973</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span face="Arial, sans-serif">Studies</span></i><span face="Arial, sans-serif">, 1920-1922</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oil on
canvas</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">39 3/8 ×
31 7/8" (100 × 81 cm)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Musée
National Picasso–Paris. Dation Pablo Picasso</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">©2023 Estate
of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York</span></div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal">Also, these works offer some insight into Picasso’s incipient midlife
crisis, caught between his old bohemian life with his Montmartre bodies and his
new embourgeoisement with demanding wife Olga and irresistibly adorable Paolo. The
late great art historian Theodore Reff interpreted the <i>tres amigos</i>
as a wistful backward glance toward Picasso’s early days in Paris when
Picasso’s Gang met every day in Montmartre or Montparnasse. This analysis
sounds quite convincing since Picasso would turn 40 in October, a significant
age for most, usually a time to reevaluate past accomplishments and worry about
the ultimate retirement in the not-too-distant future. Death, by the way, is definitely present in<i> Three
Musicians</i>. Here’s the scoop on that
interpretation.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIAwL2HaypczQCb_2s7dKiaJV27ouB6PBS_VWC3qraf3RAZysIt_hDWWtS-Tqo5GMecdCONBrG_JroKSYXNrd6bO3QQMha44uK6HB1UlGVMR25ViEYJ9_6zSUvyo6QJ1Mx8aJ5bscYAadKM-mzuuVSqLvw618-OpXjOgpdMgCvWfrO1rI1XCJR_Pe2zhiD/s2000/MoMA%20Picasso%20Fontainbleau%202024%20Installation%205.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1125" data-original-width="2000" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIAwL2HaypczQCb_2s7dKiaJV27ouB6PBS_VWC3qraf3RAZysIt_hDWWtS-Tqo5GMecdCONBrG_JroKSYXNrd6bO3QQMha44uK6HB1UlGVMR25ViEYJ9_6zSUvyo6QJ1Mx8aJ5bscYAadKM-mzuuVSqLvw618-OpXjOgpdMgCvWfrO1rI1XCJR_Pe2zhiD/w640-h360/MoMA%20Picasso%20Fontainbleau%202024%20Installation%205.jpeg" width="640" /></a></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Installation view of <i>Picasso in Fontainebleau</i>, Museum of
Modern Art, New York, October 8, 2023-February 17, 2024. Photo: Jonanthan
Dorato<o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">In both versions of <i>Three Musicians</i> we see Harlequin (a ne’er do well ladies man), Pierrot (a sad-sack clown), and a monk. Theodore Reff believed each character alluded to Picasso and two members of his famous entourage: Picasso as his alter-ego Harlequin, the poet/novelist/critic Guillaume Apollinaire as Pierrot, and poet/critic/artist Max Jacob as the monk. In the MoMA version we see parts of a dog under Pierrot’s chair on the extreme left. This <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anubis">Anubis</a>-like creature symbolizes death. Apollinaire died from “Spanish Flu” on November 9, 1918. That summer of 1921, Max Jacob retreated to a Benedictine monastery in St. Benoit-sur-Loire, hence the brown triangle (“hood”) atop a brown rectangle with depicted rope belt in the Philadelphia version and without a belt in the MoMA version. </p><br /><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimcUM3vTihXLgDBQfpE7dKddNwA9Uu14C4LUixFJWxhrpeFSvl8e_rUOjwCZb96vRkIdXS7Zjv-xc2MDrzd-w8xQ18KYtsQh4He5bJ7PCTFYusD3wP_02LAJk3Bx8MayK-p4_j46D2FtDmhJ-MfCdtRSNLRbNrsvnNiZVgZjSuXDfbE_Zh4-sd5uIdhyphenhyphen4N/s2000/MoMA%20Picasso%20Fontainbleau%202024%20Installation%201.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1125" data-original-width="2000" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimcUM3vTihXLgDBQfpE7dKddNwA9Uu14C4LUixFJWxhrpeFSvl8e_rUOjwCZb96vRkIdXS7Zjv-xc2MDrzd-w8xQ18KYtsQh4He5bJ7PCTFYusD3wP_02LAJk3Bx8MayK-p4_j46D2FtDmhJ-MfCdtRSNLRbNrsvnNiZVgZjSuXDfbE_Zh4-sd5uIdhyphenhyphen4N/w640-h360/MoMA%20Picasso%20Fontainbleau%202024%20Installation%201.jpeg" width="640" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Installation view of <i>Picasso in Fontainebleau</i>, Museum of
Modern Art, New York, October 8, 2023-February 17, 2024. Photo: Jonanthan
Dorato.</span></p><p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Other things to notice: Pierrot wears his signature white clown
outfit and Harlequin wears his signature diamond pattern jumpsuit.
Significantly, the colors for this Harlequin’s pattern are red, black, and
green, the colors of the Spanish flag, which reference Picasso’s nationality. Also
in both works the figures wear masks and the<i> </i>clothes are reminiscence of
the costumes and sets Picasso designed for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picasso_and_the_Ballets_Russes">Ballets
Russe</a> production of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulcinella_(ballet)"><i>Pulcinello</i></a>
in 1920. We imagine these figures are performing on stage as we stand in the
front row. We also notice that in the
Philadelphia version Pierrot’s clarinet contains a human profile, perhaps a
direct reference to <a href="https://bonjourparis.com/history/apollinaire-vision-poet-musee-de-lorangerie/">Apollinaire</a>.<o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><br /></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><br /></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmzK1Y7TOH7OVztFieKT0LCaO14Zl8dvvQt_dL7pzfDw0W8qd0wOiLA0J0yrmmXbg7LM1gWDeyNEoRnjBFMevUb6IOXNVhDN_a8gyWH-MLX1_prt0K0Edde4UuSXKySOVZZN319uxZ3hooy8uefDa_HVW4dK4H53Kzfxo23Uc7Qa4KXRAzydOM12k4wAMM/s466/Cohen-Solal,%20Annie,%20Cover%20of%20Picasso%20The%20Foreigner%202023.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="466" data-original-width="311" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgmzK1Y7TOH7OVztFieKT0LCaO14Zl8dvvQt_dL7pzfDw0W8qd0wOiLA0J0yrmmXbg7LM1gWDeyNEoRnjBFMevUb6IOXNVhDN_a8gyWH-MLX1_prt0K0Edde4UuSXKySOVZZN319uxZ3hooy8uefDa_HVW4dK4H53Kzfxo23Uc7Qa4KXRAzydOM12k4wAMM/w428-h640/Cohen-Solal,%20Annie,%20Cover%20of%20Picasso%20The%20Foreigner%202023.jpg" width="428" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cover photo of Annie
Cohen-Solal’s </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Picasso-Foreigner-Artist-France-1900-1973/dp/0374231230/ref=sr_1_1?crid=L243EQPIUGHT&keywords=annie+cohen+solal+picasso&qid=1708202958&sprefix=annie+cohen%2Caps%2C96&sr=8-1" style="font-family: inherit;">book</a></div><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal">Annie Cohen-Solal’s book and exhibition <a href="https://gagosian.com/exhibitions/2023/a-foreigner-called-picasso-curated-by-annie-cohen-solal-and-verane-tasseau/"><i>A
Foreigner Called Picasso</i> </a> points
out that Picasso’s identification with Harlequin references his sense of
alienation. Harlequin is a stock character in Commedia dell’Arte, whose antics
come from the position of an outsider, perhaps a drifter. He causes trouble
with his mischievous schemes. He may be <a href="https://tarotkey.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/1TheFool-e1619652233723.jpg">The
Fool</a> in the <a href="https://bonjourparis.com/art/french-tarot-anyone-historian-ronan-farrell-shares-insights/">Tarot
card</a> deck. His character seduces Pierrot’s wife, Columbina, behind
Pierrot’s back, which adds sexiness to Harlequin’s attributes, and melancholy
to Pierrot’s. No doubt Picasso identified with this flattering aspect of
Harlequin, the irrepressible <i>tombeur </i>(ladies’ man). <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVpne4dpENbXhTLe-0jmks4IVctFkytMVp4XUPzV8kDvhh4pmTeOD6lgJ08t5ETlviIArPoren-cu4CS_FVlBSEf6w6YGOSoop-8UDjwwprqkCmB0-9AR6D7tqB6rfnlVcLLOrJ8f6opsqEq34ZrN5Bfv6IRjERwItNpQ11ZwVkiBdWktfvjt4WGugMscr/s2000/MoMA%20Picasso%20Fontainbleau%202024%20Installation%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1334" data-original-width="2000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVpne4dpENbXhTLe-0jmks4IVctFkytMVp4XUPzV8kDvhh4pmTeOD6lgJ08t5ETlviIArPoren-cu4CS_FVlBSEf6w6YGOSoop-8UDjwwprqkCmB0-9AR6D7tqB6rfnlVcLLOrJ8f6opsqEq34ZrN5Bfv6IRjERwItNpQ11ZwVkiBdWktfvjt4WGugMscr/w640-h426/MoMA%20Picasso%20Fontainbleau%202024%20Installation%202.jpeg" width="640" /></a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Installation view of <i>Picasso in Fontainebleau</i>, Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 8, 2023-February 17, 2024. Photo: Jonanthan Dorato</span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal">Picasso’s late Cubist vocabulary continues the artist’s
collage aided planar vocabulary developed during the so-called Synthetic Period
of Cubism (1912-14) and connects these paintings to his studio in the Bateau
Lavoir, where he created his harlequin paintings during his Rose Period
(1905-1906) and <i>Les Demoiselles d’Avignon</i> in 1907, the masterpiece that
introduced his future Cubist planarity, <i>passage</i>, and geometricity. From my perspective, <i>Three Musicians</i>,
painted together in one studio, might represent his Parisian <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tertulia"><i>tertulia</i></a>, who shared
his jokes and pranks, which he performed in his Synthetic Cubist’ collages.
These visual and linguistic puns were decoded for us in Elizabeth Cowling and
Emily Braun’s illuminating exhibition <a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/cubism-trompe-loeil"><i>Cubism and
the Trompe l’Oeil Tradition</i></a>, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, another
contribution to the <i>Picasso 1973-2023: Fiftieth Anniversary</i> celebration.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBY8NWknDRlYRse1ZLhLIfwn4nCQhxQtp0-_NExibfnc_EO2vDIg9dOI9rMtsVtx_ZOi1BroY7bV9a3JIueYxynZb3sS8I1zxr9FR9hQG5LPhhFAK9yPQEOllIyaxBCwGTKeppy8p9cgIGB_W8Z-OFYaxq6OYtjsB0MkNLZtGh7zf1kV9toetj7xuHFtXX/s2000/MoMA%20Picasso%20Fontainbleau%202024%20The%20Spring%201921.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1425" data-original-width="2000" height="456" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhBY8NWknDRlYRse1ZLhLIfwn4nCQhxQtp0-_NExibfnc_EO2vDIg9dOI9rMtsVtx_ZOi1BroY7bV9a3JIueYxynZb3sS8I1zxr9FR9hQG5LPhhFAK9yPQEOllIyaxBCwGTKeppy8p9cgIGB_W8Z-OFYaxq6OYtjsB0MkNLZtGh7zf1kV9toetj7xuHFtXX/w640-h456/MoMA%20Picasso%20Fontainbleau%202024%20The%20Spring%201921.jpg" width="640" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit;">Pablo Picasso, Spanish, 1881–1973</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>The Spring</i><span>, 1921</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Oil on
canvas</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">25 3/16
× 35 7/16" (64 × 90 cm)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Moderna
Museet, Stockholm. Gift of Grace and Philip Sandblom</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">©2023 Estate
of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS) New York</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><o:p><span> </span></o:p><span> </span></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><br /></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIqx1nSbWXGUtoODnAgf3MB4i9RxVKHIiWbGdAXLTAu6Z8RQ1LuvZGzUwsSZqV39qkmEiv2T-KT-g3BMqB9OP8vlimCvqZucFcegFekUcPpbaQnIPthxOS0Cu9JZ58c3EtqAiQBY4ZT-r8RhDUSz_6CMfuKmhHiN5wzPYRB76PXZ6zXa6VKTNboxF_Heto/s2159/Ingres,%20JAD,%20La%20Source,%201850.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2159" data-original-width="1081" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgIqx1nSbWXGUtoODnAgf3MB4i9RxVKHIiWbGdAXLTAu6Z8RQ1LuvZGzUwsSZqV39qkmEiv2T-KT-g3BMqB9OP8vlimCvqZucFcegFekUcPpbaQnIPthxOS0Cu9JZ58c3EtqAiQBY4ZT-r8RhDUSz_6CMfuKmhHiN5wzPYRB76PXZ6zXa6VKTNboxF_Heto/w320-h640/Ingres,%20JAD,%20La%20Source,%201850.jpg" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, <i>La
Source</i> (<i>The Spring</i>), 1850</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Source: Wikipedia. Public Domain </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p class="MsoNormal"><i>Three Women at the Spring,</i> on the other hand,
continues Picasso’s neoclassical “Ingres Period” with its emphasis on
sculptural expression. This exploration of volumetric forms seems to chisel out
the face, body, massive hands, columnar pleats, and blocks of stone arranged
around the standing and sitting figures. We can see the same classical
robustness in Picasso’s <i>Studies</i> (1920-1922) and other portraits of his
ballerina wife Olga Khoklova, whom he married on July 12, 1918. <o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicdTeVaRpzCJLafW_RRDMcVphMPivj3Y8Ln9jEEx-EuOs05bhJEYYxaR3fzqRdmyleX7qiVehxU9btoQJCSfR1YkwwwIueM_6oRpyfL7SmZ0299FLC-zVsLNyuComhn9xciOkIeXTowI8XAs1HJ9Z1hpcaFocJUNauqFhP1uXwZ6KH2tkjdUaYciNu711R/s2000/MoMA%20Picasso%20Fontainbleau%202024%20Entrance%20photo.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1334" data-original-width="2000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicdTeVaRpzCJLafW_RRDMcVphMPivj3Y8Ln9jEEx-EuOs05bhJEYYxaR3fzqRdmyleX7qiVehxU9btoQJCSfR1YkwwwIueM_6oRpyfL7SmZ0299FLC-zVsLNyuComhn9xciOkIeXTowI8XAs1HJ9Z1hpcaFocJUNauqFhP1uXwZ6KH2tkjdUaYciNu711R/w640-h426/MoMA%20Picasso%20Fontainbleau%202024%20Entrance%20photo.jpeg" width="640" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-align: left;">Installation view of </span><i style="text-align: left;">Picasso in Fontainebleau</i><span style="text-align: left;">, Museum of
Modern Art, New York, October 8, 2023-February 17, 2024. Photo: Jonanthan
Dorato</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></o:p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal">Picasso’s pivot to a mannered classicism began in 1914 with
his unfinished (?) painting, <a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/656450"><i>The Painter
and the Model</i></a>. The following year he delicately drew in pencil several
Ingres-esque portraits of his friends and dealers, including Apollinaire and
Max Jacob. He hadn’t abandoned Cubism, he simply added to his arsenal of visual
expressions that seemed appropriate for his state of mind and spirit (<i>son
esprit</i>). In 1915, his eerily smiling
Cubist <a href="https://www.moma.org/collection/works/78696"><i>Harlequin</i></a>,
also in MoMA’s collection and included in this exhibition, seems to mark his
transition from a life with his beloved Eva Gouel (his muse during the Cubist
years) and without. She died in December 1915. This period of her illness
(cancer or tuberculosis) caused this normally resilient artist much anxiety (described
his letter to <a href="https://bonjourparis.com/museums/gertrude-stein-and-pablo-picasso/">Gertrude
Stein</a> at the time).<o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJA2W9GqW3ZVp3rAYHI-A5zRKYwdWMI6BD0zbxUhkGxbo5M8zGRRKwo3NeL5wczm-LrnuHyZEcGX1m8zMUEZMT6m7ZfJ6upKiX7pHArddNnk6_Spe1ic7c2BGkV4aw5cN3W6C4qTx3PFlH4dOTiLnLeDljNmcrxBQ6tF2OZjk_I45m6Lr9RsAM4Wirh1Ec/s2000/MoMA%20Picasso%20Fontainbleau%202024%20Installation%203.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1334" data-original-width="2000" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJA2W9GqW3ZVp3rAYHI-A5zRKYwdWMI6BD0zbxUhkGxbo5M8zGRRKwo3NeL5wczm-LrnuHyZEcGX1m8zMUEZMT6m7ZfJ6upKiX7pHArddNnk6_Spe1ic7c2BGkV4aw5cN3W6C4qTx3PFlH4dOTiLnLeDljNmcrxBQ6tF2OZjk_I45m6Lr9RsAM4Wirh1Ec/w640-h426/MoMA%20Picasso%20Fontainbleau%202024%20Installation%203.jpeg" width="640" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="text-align: left;">Installation view of </span><i style="text-align: left;">Picasso in Fontainebleau</i><span style="text-align: left;">, Museum of
Modern Art, New York, October 8, 2023-February 17, 2024. Photo: Jonanthan
Dorato</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p></div><p class="MsoNormal">In a 1923 interview Picasso explained: “If an artist varies
his mode of expression this only means that he has changed his manner of
thinking, and in changing, it might be for the better or for the worse. The
several manners I have used in my art must not be considered an evolution, or
as steps toward an unknown ideal of painting.
All I have ever made was made for the present and with the hope that it
always remains in the present.” (<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Picasso-Art-Selection-Views-paperback/dp/0306803305/ref=sr_1_1?crid=TECOSWKHYIVP&keywords=dore+ashton+picasso&qid=1707750594&sprefix=dore+ashton+picasso+%2Caps%2C93&sr=8-1"><i>Picasso
on Art</i></a>, edited by Dore Ashton, Da Capo Press, 1972, p. 5)<o:p></o:p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNhU1y8jkgcCpqQpsE98XpUrT6yM_m3VW2N3Ju-VD1Hqtoyv9Cxbm-Oz_pQ3DhIdpVwhxLWqLL13-0M8PMGOwvaJjVpyDaHXk7trgvSu3LuRHa_IdGglvD3Ty3Vd5SdREbCWWYpb2mxAp4wg2bIWQJfbPofg1iTo1XwmMrG33NU9ZUAO0z8nu6zLw8kVtq/s2000/MoMA%20Picasso%20Fontainbleau%202024%20Installation%204.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1125" data-original-width="2000" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNhU1y8jkgcCpqQpsE98XpUrT6yM_m3VW2N3Ju-VD1Hqtoyv9Cxbm-Oz_pQ3DhIdpVwhxLWqLL13-0M8PMGOwvaJjVpyDaHXk7trgvSu3LuRHa_IdGglvD3Ty3Vd5SdREbCWWYpb2mxAp4wg2bIWQJfbPofg1iTo1XwmMrG33NU9ZUAO0z8nu6zLw8kVtq/w640-h360/MoMA%20Picasso%20Fontainbleau%202024%20Installation%204.jpeg" width="640" /></a><span style="text-align: left;">I<span style="font-family: inherit;">nstallation view of </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i style="text-align: left;">Picasso in Fontainebleau</i><span style="text-align: left;">, Museum of
Modern Art, New York, October 8, 2023-February 17, 2024. Photo: Jonanthan
Dorato</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal">Anne <span style="background: white;">Umland </span><a href="https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/950"><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">observed</span></a><span style="background: white;">: “these four imposing works lie at the heart of </span><a href="https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5530"><em><span face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="background: white; border: 1pt none windowtext; color: blue; padding: 0in; text-decoration-line: none;">Picasso in
Fontainebleau</span></em></a><span style="background: white;">, which delves
into a strikingly contradiction-filled moment when Picasso seemed intent on
demonstrating how in his art, and in his conception of the tradition of
painting more broadly, classicism and cubism, the academy and the avant-garde,
the historical past and the contemporary present, were dialectically related
and inexorably linked.”</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; text-align: left;"><br /></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLFC7nzhMyrII93qVwudPybIP52644DG3TmSAwkjQh9F97gBMkIxtXp64PXt34RHQN_Jz_KgYRAiAPs6u6PBqBsABUfVE-nqP0GASAlkF1f_6ZXRFassR1hF1T3EDo4FZ_NYQ0UBH9AeGsGjzVIPVlW5P3UwzKpLlB1vKPRk6g6lwzyPAzliUoQcQM1tge/s1000/Olga%20Khokhlova%20photograph%201918.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="735" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiLFC7nzhMyrII93qVwudPybIP52644DG3TmSAwkjQh9F97gBMkIxtXp64PXt34RHQN_Jz_KgYRAiAPs6u6PBqBsABUfVE-nqP0GASAlkF1f_6ZXRFassR1hF1T3EDo4FZ_NYQ0UBH9AeGsGjzVIPVlW5P3UwzKpLlB1vKPRk6g6lwzyPAzliUoQcQM1tge/w470-h640/Olga%20Khokhlova%20photograph%201918.jpg" width="470" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Olga Khokhlova in Picasso’s studio, Montrouge, Spring 1918.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Photographer: Pablo Picasso (?) or
Emil Delatang(?)</span></div><p></p><p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 12.0pt; margin: 12pt 0in 0in; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal">
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white;">This phrase “dialectically related
and inexorably linked” holds the key to our appreciation of this extraordinary artistic
endeavor. Rarely, if ever, do we see an
artist work simultaneously in two distinctly different and contradictory
styles, one flat and the other in illusory three-dimensions. Picasso clearly
mastered each style at this point in his career but had also reached a
crossroads that needed processing before achieving some resolution. When <a href="https://bonjourparis.com/history/dora-maar-and-picassos-women/">Marie-Thérèse
Walter</a> entered his life in January 1927, Picasso seemed to have found his
synthesis, allegedly motivated by this blonde, athletic teenager. That may or
may not be true, but we can’t help notice Picasso changed his style and dog
(according to </span><a href="https://bonjourparis.com/history/dora-maar-retrospective-at-centre-pompidou/"><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Dora Maar</span></a><span style="background: white;">) every time he
changed his mistress. The next Picasso period blends his Cubist criteria with
his curvaceous figurative classicism to form his signature “Surrealist”
style, perhaps his most iconic visual expression when we think of the word
“Picasso” as a noun, an adjective, and a brand.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white;">The conundrum of Picasso’s four Fontainebleau
masterpieces created side-by-side in his modest garage-studio may have met its
match in MoMA’s ambitious exhibition. Or,
it may remain elusive, as much of Picasso’s work continues to be. Although fifty
years have passed since Picasso’s death on April 8, 1973 and 122 years have passed
since Picasso’s first exhibition at Ambroise Vollard’s gallery on the rue Lafitte
in June 1901, the protean complexity of Picasso never ceases to challenge
and amaze. He was, and remains, one of
greatest artists who graced this planet. And we have not heard the last word on his
Fontainebleau period, nor any other period, guaranteed. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;"><span style="background: white;">***<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white;">For more information about MoMA’s <i>Three
Women at a Spring</i>, please watch this </span><a href="https://www.moma.org/magazine/articles/934"><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">video</span></a><span style="background: white;">, and their <i>Three Musicians</i>, please watch this </span><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMy90xfyrnc"><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-latin;">video</span></a><span style="background: white;">. Both videos recount
the histories of paintings as physical objects. Fascinating!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background-color: white;">The catalogue for <i>Picasso in Fontainebleau</i>, featuring 15 essays, 239 color illustrations is available through MoMA and other booksellers online.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br /></p><br role="presentation" style="background-color: white; color: transparent; cursor: text; font-family: "Segoe UI", Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; transform-origin: 0% 0%; white-space: pre;" /><span color="transparent" dir="ltr" face="sans-serif" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; cursor: text; font-size: 16.8px; left: 158px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: absolute; top: 427.855px; transform-origin: 0% 0%; transform: scaleX(1.07536); white-space: pre;">c</span>
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Gersh-Nesic</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Pablo Picasso, <i>Harlequin</i>, 1901, Metropolitan Museum of Art</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Pablo Picasso, <i>Yo - Self-Portrait,</i> 1901, Museum of Modern Art</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Pablo Picasso, <i>Head of a Fool</i>, 1905, Private Collection</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /> </div><div style="text-align: center;"><i><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>A Foreigner Called Picasso</b></span></i></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>Gagosian Gallery</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>522 West 21st Street</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>Curated by Annie Cohen-Solal and Vérane Tasseau</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>Closing February 10th</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b>For more information, please visit the website:</b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://Gagosian.com">Gagosian.com</a></b></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheh4n4h31SvDzvbDtm3CfM5FGaAG6fhjJ5pTtnEkia30TQKORMn3XLRDHaj-ZGy6Y2cfxKv6352tfB7-nWSz5Ous1GnhLRP7dp9XxDmOoe8iQi4OlRcvgkVhgVfcdfFuyOMsuT8F-FOOGHod0Ysi5RGnUccd5-7RonPrjRZ-1LTia_K6HMa3jEKAHUAIFj/s466/Cohen-Solal,%20Annie,%20Cover%20of%20Picasso%20The%20Foreigner%202023.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Thursday, November 30, 2023<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />1pm PT / 2pm MT / 3pm CT / 4pm ET<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Federation of Alliances Françaises USA</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">In English</span></p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px;">Join us as art historian Beth S. Gersh-Nešić talks to Sarah Bernhardt scholar, Carol Ockman, about the recent exhibit on the famous actress at the Petit Palais in Paris.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px;">Writer, performer, and curator, <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Carol Ockman</span> is a world-renowned scholar of Sarah Bernhardt. She is co-author of <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Sarah Bernhardt: The Art of High Drama</em> (2005), whose awarding-winning exhibition and catalog she and Kenneth E. Silver curated and wrote for the Jewish Museum (New York, 2005-06). In addition to lecturing widely on Sarah Bernhardt, she was interviewed as Bernhardt in “Wish You Were Here,” as part of a series inspired by Andy Warhol’s <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth Century</em>. Her memoir, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Sarah Bernhardt’s Handkerchief </em>(in progress), which she wrote and performs as a one-woman show, weaves together close encounters with stardom, her father’s suicide, and the power of objects from the past to mitigate loss.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px;">Ockman has also written extensively on nineteenth-century art (<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Ingres’s Eroticized Bodies: Retracing the Serpentine Line</em>) and contemporary art and culture, including art criticism and essays on Barbie, the nude, portraiture, and stereotypes. As Curator at Large for Marie Selby Botanical Gardens (Sarasota, Florida, 2016-2022), she put major works of art in dialogue with living plants, working with horticulturalists to produce six exhibitions on Marc Chagall, Andy Warhol, Paul Gauguin, Salvador Dalí, Roy Lichtenstein, and Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith. As writer and performer, Ockman also collaborates with other creatives, in works like Netta Yerushalmy’s <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Paramodernities</em> (2016-2020), a six-part piece that queries iconic dances from Nijinsky to Cunningham. A long-time teacher at Williams College, Ockman is now Robert Sterling Clark Professor of Art Emerita.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Beth S. Gersh-Nešić</span>, Ph.D. is an art historian and the director of the New York Arts Exchange, an arts education service. She writes about Picasso, Cubism, the French poet/art critic/journalist André Salmon, modernism, and contemporary artists. Her most recent book is <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Pablo Picasso, André Salmon and </em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“</em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Young French Painting,</em><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">“</em> a translation with annotations and an introduction by Jacqueline Gojard, Professor Emeritus, University of Paris III. She is also a staff writer for <a href="https://bonjourparis.com/author/beth-gersh-nesic/" rel="noopener" style="border-bottom: 1px solid var(--tec-color-link-accent); box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: var(--tec-transition-color);" target="_blank"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Bonjour Paris</em></a>, an online magazine, and a Senior Lecturer at Mercy University. Her article on the Sarah Bernhardt exhibition at Wildenstein Gallery appeared in <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Women Artists News</em> (Spring 1985).</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">This event will be on Zoom and is free for all Alliance Française members, AATF members, and invited guests of the presenter or publicist. Click </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: red;"><a data-schema-attribute="" href="http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=4tqgfgnab&oeidk=a07ejygxwxo21e223f8" rel="noopener" style="border-bottom: 1px solid var(--tec-color-link-accent); box-sizing: border-box; color: red; text-decoration-line: none; transition: var(--tec-transition-color);" target="_blank">here</a></span> t</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">o register. You are a "guest of the lecturer,"</span></p>nyarts-exchangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15281059731332887468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493721968757194427.post-83755763882049296462023-11-22T21:58:00.000-08:002023-11-22T21:59:20.607-08:00Thanksgiving Greetings 2023<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOB7vYTszDiTB_E3RjiuFUsB6i78WRkVQTUaeaFEHC3qrr1iTMEwV7i4lWlF8gDVgBnooLiAPjGQD3bkqbPeQGKBru3VGRN_0pJw1udovXxVZdKsK7AmnVeQerc6lrJZcalBt2Jj9vXYvhGBhTl4pgqVNiVCE4VqOOSJU8YMaFWemykV1gLxeTR0-S7cFp/s800/Charles%20Ethan%20Porter,%20Apples%20on%20the%20Ground,%201878,%20Wadsworth%20Anthenum%20Museum.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="572" data-original-width="800" height="458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjOB7vYTszDiTB_E3RjiuFUsB6i78WRkVQTUaeaFEHC3qrr1iTMEwV7i4lWlF8gDVgBnooLiAPjGQD3bkqbPeQGKBru3VGRN_0pJw1udovXxVZdKsK7AmnVeQerc6lrJZcalBt2Jj9vXYvhGBhTl4pgqVNiVCE4VqOOSJU8YMaFWemykV1gLxeTR0-S7cFp/w640-h458/Charles%20Ethan%20Porter,%20Apples%20on%20the%20Ground,%201878,%20Wadsworth%20Anthenum%20Museum.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Ethan_Porter" target="_blank">Charles Ethan Porter</a>,<i> Apples on the Ground</i>, 1878</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Pinyon Script; font-size: x-large;"><b>Wishing you and your loved ones</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Pinyon Script; font-size: x-large;"><b>a joyous Thanksgiving celebration - </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Pinyon Script; font-size: x-large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Pinyon Script; font-size: x-large;"><b>And all the blessings of the Holiday Season!</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Pinyon Script; font-size: x-large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Pinyon Script; font-size: x-large;"><b>With love and tremendous gratitude </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Pinyon Script; font-size: x-large;"><b>for 20 years of sharing art with you - </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: Pinyon Script; font-size: x-large;"><b> Beth</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;"><b>Beth S. Gersh-Nesic, PhD</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;"><b>Director/owner</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;"><b>New York Arts Exchange, LLC</b></span></div> <p></p>nyarts-exchangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15281059731332887468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493721968757194427.post-44585361825024181722023-10-22T12:10:00.009-07:002023-10-22T19:28:01.183-07:00Fall Greetings and a letter from the heart<p> </p><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhOGUve4rh4ZzyLn2xgbLtc9hodCTtod66x31QnEiZYYq9ZoqRn_lsekX4wNJ4GmExH_QcM1FvF6IObH1K9HeZE3Lta26OgqwsG3sLB8MWUvpezligwhu-j_6v1WAJyI_ZfqP7zX0Vsz2lv-jF4Rk-NahcXyCLk4oHwQEZ-GbFoEVm6_4kaG_L4bzDvNpgI" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1197" data-original-width="975" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhOGUve4rh4ZzyLn2xgbLtc9hodCTtod66x31QnEiZYYq9ZoqRn_lsekX4wNJ4GmExH_QcM1FvF6IObH1K9HeZE3Lta26OgqwsG3sLB8MWUvpezligwhu-j_6v1WAJyI_ZfqP7zX0Vsz2lv-jF4Rk-NahcXyCLk4oHwQEZ-GbFoEVm6_4kaG_L4bzDvNpgI=w520-h640" width="520" /></a></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="europa, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">Mark Podwal, <i>Jerusalem in My Heart</i>, 2001</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="europa, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">Etching</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span face="europa, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="europa, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">Dear friends,</span></span></div><div><span face="europa, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="europa, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">I live with this image of Jerusalem etched by Mark Podwal. It's a rose cradling three religions, growing and thriving from its stem of thorns. It is a metaphor for the region that cradles Israel and Palestine today. What can we say? There are no words. We feel these thorns. We pray for the survival of the rose. When will the conflict in the Middle East end? This image seems to say that the only way to see this region survive, having experienced its thorny history, is to rise above it, protecting this vision of peaceful coexistence among the main religions, if not all humankind.</span></span></div><div><span face="europa, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="europa, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">I am praying everyday that all sides of the conflict will reach a peaceful agreement and work toward the survival of all who have been dragged into this horror. Their pain and suffering belongs to us all, there and here - as we worry daily for the hostages and the possibility of an all out war among Israel and its neighbors. We pray for peace as soon as possible.</span></span></div><div><span face="europa, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="europa, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">My heart goes out to the mourners, whose lives have been damaged forever because of their losses. My heart goes out to the family members who wait for word from their loved ones in captivity. My heart goes out to the families who are enduring bombs on both sides, the destruction on both sides, the loss of their homes and personal security on both sides. And my heart goes out to those who tried to broker peace in the region, failed, and lived to see this horror. I remember those who died because they tried to make it happen: Anwar Sadat, Yitzak Rabin, and countless others. </span></span></div><div><span face="europa, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="europa, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">Our population on earth is enduring war, terrorism, gang violence, and personal assaults/assassinations all the time, all over the place. What can we do? </span></span></div><div><span face="europa, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="europa, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">I have no idea. . . .</span></span></div><div><span face="europa, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="europa, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="europa, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_3nA9BgNid-cguuqYU428jrYaNMux_Y0FjCB6fmCQtHt7D-7-BN1j0jOYeZMvYGUxANvFaaXpghYvaph_EH1Wh1MEs53IGtEYYLlb0XIxyA5xAVvifWAPCKofp8Z2gYiBOkU_SXmMY2TXK-tZL0a3GDP0S0MBm-N4SHJQEcTLcYapgpzsTZqgwcV86DHD/s3705/Mark%20Podwal,%20Jerusalem%20In%20My%20Heart,%202001.tiff" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3705" data-original-width="2943" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_3nA9BgNid-cguuqYU428jrYaNMux_Y0FjCB6fmCQtHt7D-7-BN1j0jOYeZMvYGUxANvFaaXpghYvaph_EH1Wh1MEs53IGtEYYLlb0XIxyA5xAVvifWAPCKofp8Z2gYiBOkU_SXmMY2TXK-tZL0a3GDP0S0MBm-N4SHJQEcTLcYapgpzsTZqgwcV86DHD/w509-h640/Mark%20Podwal,%20Jerusalem%20In%20My%20Heart,%202001.tiff" width="509" /></a></div><div><span face="europa, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><br /></span></div><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">Mark Podwal, <i>Jerusalem in My Heart</i>, 2001</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">original ink drawing; image courtesy of the artist</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><br /></span></div></span></div><div><span face="europa, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">I often think about what to write for this blog and then it feels trite and inconsequential in the face of the pain of so many others. So, I don't write anything at all. Art is all I can offer. Is this enough for you? Does art lift you up out of your sorrow and bring relief, if only for a little while?</span></span></div><div><span face="europa, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="europa, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">After the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, the Purchase College class I had begun the week before, Thursday, September 6, 2001, corresponded through email to affirm our mutual decision to carry on. We must continue the class, which met weekly at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. We had to be together, resist fear of public spaces, support art, and support each other as we faced the unknown. That week, we couldn't even imagine being alive today. We only worried about getting through each day and tomorrow. </span></span></div><div><span face="europa, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="europa, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">At that time, art helped us persevere because we decided to remain together and enjoy our Thursdays at the Met together. We had each other and we had the treasures in this extraordinary cultural institution guiding us out of the darkness and into the light of historical proof that humankind carries on, producing beauty despite all the setbacks imposed by our fellow humans or Mother Nature herself.</span></span></div><div><span face="europa, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="europa, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">Take care, my dear friends - use art to escape from your sorrows, use art to heal. Take a moment to forget the painful truth of our present world crises as you stand in front of wondrous creativity. </span></span></div><div><span face="europa, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="europa, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">Later this week, I will post on this blog a calendar of exhibitions that I hope bring you comfort and joy.</span></span></div><div><span face="europa, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="europa, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">With love and hugs,</span></span></div><div><span face="europa, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">Beth</span></span></div><div><span face="europa, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><br /></span></span></div><div><span face="europa, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 20px;">Director/owner</span></span></div><div><span face="europa, sans-serif" style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-size: 20px;"><a href="https://www.nyarts-exchange.com/index.html" target="_blank">New York Arts Exchange,</a> LLC</span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>nyarts-exchangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15281059731332887468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493721968757194427.post-67892900357079670512023-09-04T12:14:00.000-07:002023-09-04T12:14:01.678-07:00Best Wishes for Labor Day 2023<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAbDfvpd7wOoUe235KBlMU3Z_anSrjhzlvMQGgavVWu75pzjTSslspGgkjEU5rH5NhrL5OP3EpdhXBTklSUqh-IHfpevRgu8WNNGTsRtpqsi--6GYOGSLQy6ab57ix8H9VLElkWzdDn1J-sEWFYG-bbOKX7-_vfimLZHmC5sQO3JEnJB6fWWD_WfWc_laC/s1000/Millet,%20Jean-Francoise,%20Noonday%20Rest,%201866,%20Boston%20Museum.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="704" data-original-width="1000" height="450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAbDfvpd7wOoUe235KBlMU3Z_anSrjhzlvMQGgavVWu75pzjTSslspGgkjEU5rH5NhrL5OP3EpdhXBTklSUqh-IHfpevRgu8WNNGTsRtpqsi--6GYOGSLQy6ab57ix8H9VLElkWzdDn1J-sEWFYG-bbOKX7-_vfimLZHmC5sQO3JEnJB6fWWD_WfWc_laC/w640-h450/Millet,%20Jean-Francoise,%20Noonday%20Rest,%201866,%20Boston%20Museum.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Jean-François Millet, <i>Noonday Rest</i>, 1866</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Boston Museum of Fine Arts</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnrUgCZVA6IbFa80nRgRZSdC6TiWZPOO4gcq7btUoX1Pc0BrZ39ieoDsEd87oSDccgKbGN_DtS3moNW2TU0ViVjQ0dYShV4vSddMOqD_wyEI-6PGhUZ6UGC_XbgQL9XXMEJvNZFaytrefTety0fZZmKjJnrmUrMlNt0Sl0qYMApvdWpquGDaW9cw2MODBl/s4336/van%20Gogh,%20Noon,%20Rest%20After%20Work,%201890-1,%20St.%20Remy%20after%20Millet.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3413" data-original-width="4336" height="504" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgnrUgCZVA6IbFa80nRgRZSdC6TiWZPOO4gcq7btUoX1Pc0BrZ39ieoDsEd87oSDccgKbGN_DtS3moNW2TU0ViVjQ0dYShV4vSddMOqD_wyEI-6PGhUZ6UGC_XbgQL9XXMEJvNZFaytrefTety0fZZmKjJnrmUrMlNt0Sl0qYMApvdWpquGDaW9cw2MODBl/w640-h504/van%20Gogh,%20Noon,%20Rest%20After%20Work,%201890-1,%20St.%20Remy%20after%20Millet.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Vincent van Gogh, <i>Noon, Rest After Work </i>(After Millet), St. Rémy, 1890-91</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Poppins; font-size: large;"><b>Best wishes for Labor Day 2023</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Poppins; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Poppins; font-size: large;"><b>to you and your family.</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Poppins; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Poppins; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Poppins; font-size: large;"><b>With hugs and love,</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Poppins; font-size: large;"><b>Beth and the New York Arts Exchange</b></span></div><span style="color: #3d85c6; font-family: Poppins; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p>nyarts-exchangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15281059731332887468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493721968757194427.post-28626405664679731892023-08-24T22:06:00.026-07:002023-08-25T10:40:02.639-07:00Last Call: Van Gogh's Cypresses, MAD's Paper Dresses and Funky Art, MCNY "Home" - closing August 27<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxz27uw2JGVdJZL_s8aogNPGpSjr-nyZJUPBQ3QsnLtUvmTmY2_BVHQSAvpZp-69ibuUE5DlZtnR9saFVq_1z-HXsVbfUVtfAzRFPg5V2esl9U3pveekUoS6aA1iQviEUCedb40Bj8ESTHKrYjKmBQcZz1Ey1O5wiG4Mz8KcZGRaoSk6YeuH2mJ2PPKzJi/s1200/van%20Gogh,%20Cypresses,%20late%20June%201889.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="952" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxz27uw2JGVdJZL_s8aogNPGpSjr-nyZJUPBQ3QsnLtUvmTmY2_BVHQSAvpZp-69ibuUE5DlZtnR9saFVq_1z-HXsVbfUVtfAzRFPg5V2esl9U3pveekUoS6aA1iQviEUCedb40Bj8ESTHKrYjKmBQcZz1Ey1O5wiG4Mz8KcZGRaoSk6YeuH2mJ2PPKzJi/w508-h640/van%20Gogh,%20Cypresses,%20late%20June%201889.jpg" width="508" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Vincent van Gogh, <i>Cypresses</i>, late June 1889</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Metropolitan Museum of Art</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Dear Friends,</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Summer is coming to an end - at least our sense of "summer" when schools are closed and the days are long. Although Labor Day is over a week away, many museums will close their spectacular Summer Season exhibitions this <b><span style="color: red;">Sunday, August 27th.</span></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Here are 5 shows you don't want to miss:</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVugU6xc_43lf9SLVobVglyUUq49IJRVwR8GGKVxU9nOx8ZIsN5WOfndhORRjJSyuI-DHlUUY97mhTBIBG8hFJBH0IAz555-DIa6j7BVWYUQdKKlGReKvkhyubexP2-HpeOstDIfDxObdhceuIjICMmdv1ifaSifCEEfQhDElNpNlRRcPsjF8SCYY7FJ1e/s800/van%20Gogh,%20Starry%20Night,%201888.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="633" data-original-width="800" height="506" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVugU6xc_43lf9SLVobVglyUUq49IJRVwR8GGKVxU9nOx8ZIsN5WOfndhORRjJSyuI-DHlUUY97mhTBIBG8hFJBH0IAz555-DIa6j7BVWYUQdKKlGReKvkhyubexP2-HpeOstDIfDxObdhceuIjICMmdv1ifaSifCEEfQhDElNpNlRRcPsjF8SCYY7FJ1e/w640-h506/van%20Gogh,%20Starry%20Night,%201888.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Vincent Van Gogh, <i>The Starry Night,</i> June 1889</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Museum of Modern Art</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium; font-weight: bold;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwHOVBLB5xToLin4oQGh7rXbl2C8y3MmSjJkDRZ7IurbzNVdMJ1VODqvfKwUkxgj-PY7D-hqAy6tZlTgccao5Qo98CHnd4swfwT-OHurTAGeDXs2MRQz7WB55AqB7IABeSJ-vOfnLFQsKoyNOk29xqAS3WD-t95AavqYOXfmJKULdGcBk47R3O0wCb4zsY/s600/van%20Gogh,%20The%20Little%20Stream,%20October%201889.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="438" data-original-width="600" height="468" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwHOVBLB5xToLin4oQGh7rXbl2C8y3MmSjJkDRZ7IurbzNVdMJ1VODqvfKwUkxgj-PY7D-hqAy6tZlTgccao5Qo98CHnd4swfwT-OHurTAGeDXs2MRQz7WB55AqB7IABeSJ-vOfnLFQsKoyNOk29xqAS3WD-t95AavqYOXfmJKULdGcBk47R3O0wCb4zsY/w640-h468/van%20Gogh,%20The%20Little%20Stream,%20October%201889.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> Vincent van Gogh, <i>The Little Stream</i>, October 1889<br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span>Star Insurance Companies</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/van-gogh-cypresses" target="_blank"><i>Van Gogh's Cypresses </i>at the Metropolitan Museum of Art</a></b>, closing Sunday. Hours on Friday and Saturday from 10-9; Sunday 10-5. <u>You must sign up for the virtual wait line when you arrive.</u> So, don't forget to scan the QR code on the sign next to the Admission Desk. You will use your cell phone. Then you fill in the form online and check your texts for notification. If all this sounds confusing and complication, don't worry. Ask the Admissions cashier or a MMA guard for help. Also, please brush up on your VVG using <a href="https://smarthistory.org/van-gogh-the-starry-night/" target="_blank">Smarthistory</a> and read this wonderful article "The Dark Side of van Gogh's Cypress Trees," on <a href="https://hyperallergic.com/838381/the-dark-side-of-van-goghs-cypress-trees/" target="_blank">the meaning of cypresses</a>, which Daniel Larkin noted was missing on the text panels - great catch, Mr. Larkin.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjIZpsk_N7pY_0fiKFYz60f9FDlQZO1HuMBXXuT6pKsjjZ_Xrbz-4LPxQuOvxS5i6hCNUhWSrm2eT4Vii37prScvLpdAp5c_SGCY0tPbEgmxH9ZNaE3RW7AayKwCGEoEkL8WBnqmpHWBcpgKMIotaiBbZxZdyMFUa8TAGg8S5A3vKO7RxbcomF_dVnkAwf/s1231/MAD%20Paper%20Dresses%20Summer%202023%20-%208.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi35Q4yEDvEOoOMOCazbRFzmXxXnYZ7jHxOPRFcWBVbyneJrH93A_dC6nsv1VXw6RqjZJVLklKgrhiOtAJeyaufv9b0jvc_dEk67TrLH1LzHguxf0ICYrQzgeYQL2LZXYUohkQAF8dT1cYtoNOdf-4LlVyy8EyVaKiwZe_QsfgaoJ8bB_4pzzrE_apSVytd/s923/MAD%20Paper%20Dresses%20Summer%202023%20-%207.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="923" data-original-width="692" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi35Q4yEDvEOoOMOCazbRFzmXxXnYZ7jHxOPRFcWBVbyneJrH93A_dC6nsv1VXw6RqjZJVLklKgrhiOtAJeyaufv9b0jvc_dEk67TrLH1LzHguxf0ICYrQzgeYQL2LZXYUohkQAF8dT1cYtoNOdf-4LlVyy8EyVaKiwZe_QsfgaoJ8bB_4pzzrE_apSVytd/w480-h640/MAD%20Paper%20Dresses%20Summer%202023%20-%207.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="text-align: left;">(Photos taken by BGN.)</span></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.madmuseum.org/exhibition/generation-paper" target="_blank"><i>Generation Paper: A Fashion Phenom of the 1960s</i>, Museum of Art and Design</a>, Columbus Circle, NYC. closing on Sunday. A welcome trip down Memory Lane of the 1960s, when clothes designer Mary Quant, hair stylist Vidal Sassoon, and models Jean Shrimpton and Twiggy were all the rage in the fashion world. An absolutely fab exhibition that should have received more publicity. You'll escape into your recollection of Beatles songs, while Swifties groove on <a href="https://madmuseum.org/exhibition/taylor-swift-storyteller" target="_blank">Taylor Swift</a> music playing throughout an exhibition of her clothes on the second floor (closing March 24, 2024). Learn about the history of the paper dress and its demise with<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8EzMZOvfH8" target="_blank"> this video</a>.</span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCmt_esO3ijvDN_TbKUplHl6TNTM79xRkvo4yg94W1Xq-gGQmBh3ra2ns2Vw3rJTSOXh7NEjHGqda3MVuwWPEmYdwYyDMD2GRn9Dv7Wh8owfRslf-TTiPc1Oz7nWKa42fBQaMP6Shwl9VyRc3AVB5eieslIz1IBRGauvRyPS-WBYvwADkqJmoK7CyUeSSY/s1231/MAD%20Funk%20exhibit%20Summer%202023%20-%201.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="923" data-original-width="1231" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCmt_esO3ijvDN_TbKUplHl6TNTM79xRkvo4yg94W1Xq-gGQmBh3ra2ns2Vw3rJTSOXh7NEjHGqda3MVuwWPEmYdwYyDMD2GRn9Dv7Wh8owfRslf-TTiPc1Oz7nWKa42fBQaMP6Shwl9VyRc3AVB5eieslIz1IBRGauvRyPS-WBYvwADkqJmoK7CyUeSSY/w640-h480/MAD%20Funk%20exhibit%20Summer%202023%20-%201.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXEKFCWftk9uC5Sbv92oriJZS-jn3GkzeGD-BMQE_Ln1U59IIqKa3i29W0WuYsHrFBYLVGDwlmqYcNOiKrgXPUpMYY9-o09UAiGiSPqgAWm02KGVqkF-FYeFjEHRs03sQ4R9b2tWJPBshMjvYGDG2YiaRFBncEBCZUqLAt6G4c-qv_HS28XsL1SLteUApW/s923/MAD%20Funk%20exhibit%20Summer%202023%20-%202.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="923" data-original-width="692" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXEKFCWftk9uC5Sbv92oriJZS-jn3GkzeGD-BMQE_Ln1U59IIqKa3i29W0WuYsHrFBYLVGDwlmqYcNOiKrgXPUpMYY9-o09UAiGiSPqgAWm02KGVqkF-FYeFjEHRs03sQ4R9b2tWJPBshMjvYGDG2YiaRFBncEBCZUqLAt6G4c-qv_HS28XsL1SLteUApW/w480-h640/MAD%20Funk%20exhibit%20Summer%202023%20-%202.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Gallery Installations of <i>Funk You Too! </i>(Photos taken by BGN)</div><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Also at MAD - <i><a href="https://www.madmuseum.org/exhibition/funk-you-too" target="_blank">Funk You Too! Humor and Irreverence in Ceramic Sculpture</a>,</i> closing on Sunday. Not as exciting as <i>Generation Paper </i>or <i>Craft Front and Center,</i> but worth a giggle or two when you walk through the show. Let me know what you think of it, if you decide to visit.</span></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii-1aibviK_GrXLlyWF1IEgb4FCM0MwYe9GnCJ8bE-6nKcH_CxShMEhsBzL_43z7qyUEyd-C_sG6SdZ6YptWnwETKKwaOWwnT4jACbPmz51ZNjGljIFgn668fVmeIQItmtM43SRvz-2G2qNv8I4MSIv_9hpUrAgaRyc-r2ihJX4UZAoorqx1tE6ZUlFy1p/s2400/MAD%20Craft%20Front%20and%20Center%20Summer%202023%20-%20Jan%202024.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1601" data-original-width="2400" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii-1aibviK_GrXLlyWF1IEgb4FCM0MwYe9GnCJ8bE-6nKcH_CxShMEhsBzL_43z7qyUEyd-C_sG6SdZ6YptWnwETKKwaOWwnT4jACbPmz51ZNjGljIFgn668fVmeIQItmtM43SRvz-2G2qNv8I4MSIv_9hpUrAgaRyc-r2ihJX4UZAoorqx1tE6ZUlFy1p/w640-h426/MAD%20Craft%20Front%20and%20Center%20Summer%202023%20-%20Jan%202024.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p style="text-align: center;">Gallery Installation of <i>Craft Front and Center </i>(Photo courtesy of MAD)</p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.madmuseum.org/exhibition/craft-front-center-0" style="text-align: left;" target="_blank"><i>Craft Front and Center: Exploring the Permanent Collection</i></a><span style="text-align: left;">, continues through January 14, 2024, and I am so glad it does. I can't wait to return for a longer, more intensely focused visit with these extraordinary artworks. You will find enormous imagination here. I could not select my favorite - I loved each and every piece. A must!</span></span></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguo4LZosaBqR9rv_1g39_w0X4OyKO4gen8xr5JnX08t9GV7i-bvybG6EnlI3P7d58AAyvcm2lqfhzeMYiiQFghTUbl4yGLormLLRrhxMMVE34SDremxnx0TjANe3jRSVyBgiWQoNU4doCpOBMfSiHV_v0LE_K3kKFZAaXhFJT8xt-96uPeZLtRqzD_P_9F/s1920/Museum_of_the_City_of_New_York_1220_Fifth_Avenue_from_west.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1061" data-original-width="1920" height="354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguo4LZosaBqR9rv_1g39_w0X4OyKO4gen8xr5JnX08t9GV7i-bvybG6EnlI3P7d58AAyvcm2lqfhzeMYiiQFghTUbl4yGLormLLRrhxMMVE34SDremxnx0TjANe3jRSVyBgiWQoNU4doCpOBMfSiHV_v0LE_K3kKFZAaXhFJT8xt-96uPeZLtRqzD_P_9F/w640-h354/Museum_of_the_City_of_New_York_1220_Fifth_Avenue_from_west.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><a href="https://www.mcny.org/exhibition/new-york-now-home" target="_blank">New York Now: Home, The Photography Triennial </a>a</i>t the Museum of the City of New York, Fifth Avenue between 103rd and 104th Streets, NYC. Great photos of our great city that celebrate our diversity and particular aesthetics.</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Best wishes for the Labor Day Weekend Holiday,</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Beth</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Beth S. Gersh-Nesic, PhD</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;">Director and owner, <a href="https://www.nyarts-exchange.com/index.html" target="_blank">New York Arts Exchange</a>, LLC</span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>nyarts-exchangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15281059731332887468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493721968757194427.post-69866605236674897752023-07-16T13:11:00.003-07:002023-07-16T13:36:59.738-07:00Last Call: Karl Lagerfeld and Juan de Pareja at the Met<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRKzeThqkVlwpcjSoEMwNKvVKXoTwhdmDrO9itVqqBDckKDxZxUo1XmpBW7HHfmi1NzMXvkbzxGzSva5bZKQ8t6RW4uo2U_njUd5OMaUgZBNTvAqhCmyUObBFowJEGyRBtfqOVR_8YbQ3yYoIgds11hUem7S4nJ8shCOFfuYldL8MmtKAqvaGIBjiCSK9G/s856/Lagerfeld%20Met%202023%20-%20Young%20Girl%20in%20a%20Forest%20black%20and%20white%20dress%20Fendi.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="856" data-original-width="642" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRKzeThqkVlwpcjSoEMwNKvVKXoTwhdmDrO9itVqqBDckKDxZxUo1XmpBW7HHfmi1NzMXvkbzxGzSva5bZKQ8t6RW4uo2U_njUd5OMaUgZBNTvAqhCmyUObBFowJEGyRBtfqOVR_8YbQ3yYoIgds11hUem7S4nJ8shCOFfuYldL8MmtKAqvaGIBjiCSK9G/w480-h640/Lagerfeld%20Met%202023%20-%20Young%20Girl%20in%20a%20Forest%20black%20and%20white%20dress%20Fendi.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Karl Lagerfeld, for House of Chanel, 2016-17, inspired by Aubrey Beardsley</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Photographed by Beth Gersh-Nesic</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Dear friends,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Today is July 16th - National Ice Cream Day - and just about midpoint for our Summer 2023 Art Season. Which exhibitions have you visited so far? </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty, </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">closes July 16h</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Have you visited the<a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/perspectives/videos/2023/4/exhibition-promo-karl-lagerfeld" target="_blank"> <i>Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty</i> exhibition</a> at the Met? I hope so. It closes today at 9 pm, thanks to the special Sunday evening hours added for just this show.<b> Please note that the "virtual line" closes at 7:30 pm</b>. This is a new system that requires scanning a QR square, filling in the form on your cellphone, and then receiving a time slot that allows you to go into the exhibition. The Admissions Desk will explain this to you as you receive your admission ticket and sticker. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Just in case you haven't seen the show (or want to relive it), here are the links on the Met's website and with video tour:</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/a-line-of-beauty/selected-images" target="_blank">Exhibition</a> - Photographs of the clothes</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/a-line-of-beauty" target="_blank">Video Tour</a> (scroll down to see these videos)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/a-line-of-beauty/Premieres" target="_blank">Atelier interviews</a> (scroll down to see these videos)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>Additional features on the Met's website for the Lagerfeld show:</b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Wendy A. Grossman's <a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/perspectives/articles/2022/9/mode-au-congo" target="_blank">essay</a> on Congolese hats donated by Lilly Daché to the Met and Man Ray's photos of his muse Adrienne Fidelin for <i>Harper's Bazaar,</i> 1937.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">(And here is my interview with <a href="https://bonjourparis.com/history/the-first-black-model-in-a-major-american-fashion-magazine-was-french/" target="_blank">Wendy A. Grossman </a>about Adrienne Fidelin in <i>Bonjour Paris</i>.)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">For a bit of fun, Lagerfeld merch in the Met's shop. The doll in a leather jacket is hilarious. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3zOQGagqBV7HRZIezOsluZVLfTxbPzmr44ho7Wl7h_8VNOxqu5NmIGDF3iE7V9gw4mWH490sntYdeFkQWR-11l5TI5_0KENFZ8wD-oQqz0prHNjVmfR03vLmdXP7G5UOjvHe6sCx1Sor3wnQcecx5vhJIm1QhXB-NxoTwFPUlRc-T9oWKhP_y8fjE8Ic-/s4032/Lagerfeld%20Met%202023%20-%20display%20in%20the%20Met%20shop.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3zOQGagqBV7HRZIezOsluZVLfTxbPzmr44ho7Wl7h_8VNOxqu5NmIGDF3iE7V9gw4mWH490sntYdeFkQWR-11l5TI5_0KENFZ8wD-oQqz0prHNjVmfR03vLmdXP7G5UOjvHe6sCx1Sor3wnQcecx5vhJIm1QhXB-NxoTwFPUlRc-T9oWKhP_y8fjE8Ic-/w480-h640/Lagerfeld%20Met%202023%20-%20display%20in%20the%20Met%20shop.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq0H4nOkBkbOF9J7QyNwZWpvGPG0sVSj-5SSFyJWSZSL9iFnbfTteZnQKaW3IFPAoIbfn0tn7ObtukOvFZ7DIJQ7iPcknHPxcPNG627j8p6vVii0JKSjR3PFKnwLPmUoT6DzkLaS4i9yDarDFngrRgRsF2wcJ6O7xN5W2ul0LHZ7yPR8snL5AlX5uT1aq5/s1065/Lagerfeld%20Met%202023%20-%20Met%20Merch%20with%20Lagerfeld%20doll.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="799" data-original-width="1065" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiq0H4nOkBkbOF9J7QyNwZWpvGPG0sVSj-5SSFyJWSZSL9iFnbfTteZnQKaW3IFPAoIbfn0tn7ObtukOvFZ7DIJQ7iPcknHPxcPNG627j8p6vVii0JKSjR3PFKnwLPmUoT6DzkLaS4i9yDarDFngrRgRsF2wcJ6O7xN5W2ul0LHZ7yPR8snL5AlX5uT1aq5/w640-h480/Lagerfeld%20Met%202023%20-%20Met%20Merch%20with%20Lagerfeld%20doll.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">Juan de Pareja: Afro-Hispanic Painter, </span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;">closing July 16th</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijRe-zcs8C80n9IJYKv6fUIAY5WVCoPUzbXv4x-tkECfQAKHk_su4hCFb1AnNiYJBGv6xWN7Hys48cgv8Rsp1vCiDtUmtPtrIl9HHCz0vYroOe6hoppJFYJuMEtgdco6bvg2svcRhgIZedSoiGB2SmkI-77rAXqbkg1TGCxmhr670oZKn3xzLksF7XSZs3/s973/Velazquez,%20Diego,%20Juan%20de%20Paraja,%201649-50,%20Met.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="973" data-original-width="800" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijRe-zcs8C80n9IJYKv6fUIAY5WVCoPUzbXv4x-tkECfQAKHk_su4hCFb1AnNiYJBGv6xWN7Hys48cgv8Rsp1vCiDtUmtPtrIl9HHCz0vYroOe6hoppJFYJuMEtgdco6bvg2svcRhgIZedSoiGB2SmkI-77rAXqbkg1TGCxmhr670oZKn3xzLksF7XSZs3/w526-h640/Velazquez,%20Diego,%20Juan%20de%20Paraja,%201649-50,%20Met.jpg" width="526" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Diego Velázquez, <i>Portrait of Juan de Pareja</i>, 1649-50</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection</div><p style="text-align: left;">Also closing today, the excellent exhibition of works by and works of the Baroque artist <a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/juan-de-pareja" target="_blank">Juan de Pareja: Afro-Hispanic Painter</a>, which will close at 5 pm. The <a href="https://store.metmuseum.org/juan-de-pareja-afro-hispanic-painter-in-the-age-of-velazquez-80057212?utm_source=mainmuseum&utm_medium=metmuseum.org&utm_campaign=met-pubs&utm_term=03152023&utm_content=juan-de-pareja-afro-hispanic-painter-in-the-age-of-velazquez-80057212&_gl=1*11nelvk*_ga*MjExNjc0MzA4OS4xNjEyNzQ5NjY0*_ga_Y0W8DGNBTB*MTY4OTUzMDUyOS4xMjAuMS4xNjg5NTM3NTI3LjAuMC4w" target="_blank">catalogue</a> is $50 or $45 for members. Juan de Pareja's relation to Velázquez has always been a bit murky. The curators make an effort to follow the dots and explain it coherently to you.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrJ_MoNKyQB9oMo7Hek7NbsQJIYS8PfrfQLYkDsBGyPchMceiYjE4PP_ymU0xvU07UVMLyNAaQwvA-qVpEhDHBoctv3SsvlW2UXEzCxwZIDqDEhKMNR4E1qv2-pv687vKXIfkHCfgdmHQYm10tyuqSEW7qHjiJklYXwIK7DdkVpeTMNeApmnaPAEcpYjpO/s600/Juan%20de%20Pareja,%20Calling%20of%20St.%20Matthew,%201661.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="418" data-original-width="600" height="446" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjrJ_MoNKyQB9oMo7Hek7NbsQJIYS8PfrfQLYkDsBGyPchMceiYjE4PP_ymU0xvU07UVMLyNAaQwvA-qVpEhDHBoctv3SsvlW2UXEzCxwZIDqDEhKMNR4E1qv2-pv687vKXIfkHCfgdmHQYm10tyuqSEW7qHjiJklYXwIK7DdkVpeTMNeApmnaPAEcpYjpO/w640-h446/Juan%20de%20Pareja,%20Calling%20of%20St.%20Matthew,%201661.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Juan de Pareja, <i>The Calling of St. Matthew</i>, 1661</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Museo National del Prado, Madrid</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">To learn more about this exceptional artist and his unusual journey from slave to freedom as an artist, please listen to the podcasts located on the Met's webpage for this exhibition (<a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/juan-de-pareja" target="_blank">located here </a>- scroll down).</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Van Gogh's Cypresses</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>closes August 27th</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><br /></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPTGzEIlA4GFdfgkDumFjcovgc8uOJynGdQ1_tsYdG_aL-lkis5b8gBnnw7JCdOnVEg0Sti8fMg-i6OtS2GfG50aCSIDexCKUGtJGPNRP0QE0LOQ79nKv-uz6FPdiCZjqIGtyu6nHaWnPquOF44t1CWu1LtVBn0aHrH8Xjq8tSVSOZJV04CFxOZlJ_vW6l/s500/van%20gogh%20starry%20night%201889.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="398" data-original-width="500" height="510" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPTGzEIlA4GFdfgkDumFjcovgc8uOJynGdQ1_tsYdG_aL-lkis5b8gBnnw7JCdOnVEg0Sti8fMg-i6OtS2GfG50aCSIDexCKUGtJGPNRP0QE0LOQ79nKv-uz6FPdiCZjqIGtyu6nHaWnPquOF44t1CWu1LtVBn0aHrH8Xjq8tSVSOZJV04CFxOZlJ_vW6l/w640-h510/van%20gogh%20starry%20night%201889.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Vincent van Gogh, <i>The Starry Night,</i> 1889</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Museum of Modern Art, NYC</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">By the way, <i>Van Gogh's Cypresses </i>closes at the end of August, so please make a note to visit this exhibition soon. The QR "virtual waitline" also applies. Ask the Met Admission staff for help in order to reserve your place asap when you receive your admission sticker. The "virtual queue" reservations end at 3:30 pm on Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday; at 7:30 pm on Friday and Saturday.</div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> <p></p>nyarts-exchangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15281059731332887468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493721968757194427.post-3561235523124004112023-06-12T20:36:00.001-07:002023-06-12T20:36:58.805-07:00Summer Pleasures - Museum Mile on Tuesday, June 13, 6 - pm<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY1HczN913vbtYauWiqH076gHME1T0Ak5DAK1sRSB1yKuk2NSI2uquWejpoawZM53zwHVaR7E2lBM2slZ3effa6NIpms9SrdgK6XdMnJJN0ZdvQNN__JwgP8_sAQmnHm9jiJRQkhAQzOCQF91r4B5UK0dkUTRt45yW_EivELlbyNKA48bDB5TEsWo9ew/s620/Museum%20Mile%20photo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="372" data-original-width="620" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgY1HczN913vbtYauWiqH076gHME1T0Ak5DAK1sRSB1yKuk2NSI2uquWejpoawZM53zwHVaR7E2lBM2slZ3effa6NIpms9SrdgK6XdMnJJN0ZdvQNN__JwgP8_sAQmnHm9jiJRQkhAQzOCQF91r4B5UK0dkUTRt45yW_EivELlbyNKA48bDB5TEsWo9ew/w640-h384/Museum%20Mile%20photo.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"><b>It's that time of year - </b></span></p><p><span style="color: red; font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"><b>Museum Mile, Tuesday, June 13, 6 - 9 pm</b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-large;"><b>Free admission to:</b></span></p><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; margin: 0px;"><a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/events/programs/met-celebrates/festivals-and-special-programs/museum-mile-festival-2023?&eid=A001_%7bAD8B5DFD-FD46-4672-9A04-AE4E198E4F26%7d_20230417122252" rel="nofollow" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #005d8f; margin: 0px;" target="_blank">Metropolitan Museum of Art</a>: </span><span style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #111111; margin: 0px;">Juan de Paraja, Lagerfeld, Van Gogh's Cypresses, and more . . . </span></b></span><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #111111;"><br /></span><a href="https://www.guggenheim.org/event/45th-annual-museum-mile-festival" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #005d8f; margin: 0px;" target="_blank">Guggenheim Museum</a>: Gego, Sarah Sze, and "Young Picasso in Paris"</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /><a href="https://thejewishmuseum.org/calendar/events/2023/06/13/museum-mile-festival-061323" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #005d8f; margin: 0px;" target="_blank">Jewish Museum</a>: The Sassoons and After "the Wild": Contemporary Art from the Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation Collection</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /><a href="https://www.mcny.org/museummile" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #005d8f; margin: 0px;" target="_blank"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px;">Museum of the City of New York</span></a>: Centennial Celebration!</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /><a href="https://www.neuegalerie.org/programs" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #005d8f; margin: 0px;" target="_blank">Neue Galerie</a>; "Woman in Gold" (The <i>Portrait of Adele Boch-Bauer </i>in context)</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /><a href="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/event/2023-museum-mile-festival-06-13-2023/" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #005d8f; margin: 0px;" target="_blank">Cooper Hewitt</a>: "Give Me A Sign" and "Designing Peace"</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /><a href="https://www.elmuseo.org/event/museum-mile-festival-at-el-museo-del-barrio/" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #005d8f; margin: 0px;" target="_blank">El Museo del Barrio</a>: "Something Beautiful: Reframing La Colección"</b></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><b><br /><a href="https://www.theafricacenter.org/events/museum-mile-festival/" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #005d8f; margin: 0px;" target="_blank">Africa Center</a>: A<span style="background-color: white;"> musical performance by West African Band Kakande, art-making workshops with </span><a href="https://illustra8.co/" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; opacity: 1; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: opacity 0.24s ease-in-out 0s; visibility: visible;">iLLUSTRA8</a><span style="background-color: white;"> and a first look at the </span><a href="https://blackfuturenewsstand.com/" style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; opacity: 1; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: opacity 0.24s ease-in-out 0s; visibility: visible;">Black Future Newsstand</a><span style="background-color: white;">, an interactive installation created by The Black Thought Project and Media 2070.</span> </b></span></div>nyarts-exchangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15281059731332887468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493721968757194427.post-81876768382092000662023-05-14T09:07:00.002-07:002023-05-14T09:10:03.016-07:00A Conversation about Cubism and Trompe l'Oeil with Co-Curator Elizabeth Cowling and Beth Gersh-Nesic, May 25 on Zoom<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start;">Please join us for a conversation with co-curator of <a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2022/cubism-trompe-loeil" style="border-bottom: 1px solid var(--tec-color-link-accent); box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: var(--tec-transition-color);"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Cubism and the Trompe L’Oeil Tradition</em></a>, and one of the world’s leading experts on Picasso, <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Elizabeth Cowling</span>, Professor Emerita, Edinburgh University, and art historian <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Beth S. Gersh-Nesic, </span>whose translations of André Salmon’s art criticism touch on this aspect of Picasso’s work. They will discuss how this exhibition came about, from concept to installation, and the various themes presented in the exhibition which help us understand the relationship between Cubism and <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">trompe l’oeil</em> still life paintings and decoration. They will also discuss how this exhibition relates to Dr. Cowling’s extensive body of work on Picasso.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Elizabeth Cowling</span> is Professor Emerita in the History of Art and Honorary Fellow at the University of Edinburgh. She has published widely on European Modernism and specialised in the work of Picasso. Publications include <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Picasso: Style and Meaning</em> (2002), <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Visiting Picasso: The Notebooks and Letters of Roland Penrose</em> (2006), and <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Picasso Portraits </em>(2016). She has co-curated major exhibitions, including <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Dada and Surrealism Reviewed </em>(ACGB, 1978), <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">On Classic Ground: Picasso, Léger, De Chirico and the New Classicism, 1910-1930</em> (Tate, 1990), <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Picasso: Sculptor/Painter</em> (Tate, 1994), <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Matisse Picasso</em> (Tate; Grand Palais, Paris; MOMA, New York, 2002-3), and <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Picasso Looks at Degas</em> (Clark Art Institute, Williamstown; Museum Picasso, Barcelona, 2010-11). <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Cubism and the Trompe l’Oeil Tradition</em>, which she curated with Emily Braun, ran at the Metropolitan Museum, New York, between October 2022 and January 2023.</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Dr. Gersh-Nesic</span> specializes in the history of Cubism and the Cubist critics, most notably the poet/critic André Salmon who published the first history of Cubism in his book <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">La Jeune Peinture française</em> (1912). This exhibition illustrates his chapter on collage in <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">La Jeune Sculpture française</em> (written in 1914 and published in 1919, after World War I). Dr. Gersh-Nesic translated both books, published together in <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Andr%C3%A9-Salmon-French-Modern-Art/dp/0521856582/ref=sr_1_3?crid=1U52Z2GOHEN1F&keywords=andre+salmon+beth+gersh-nesic&qid=1676144818&sprefix=andre+salmon+beth+gersh-nesic%2Caps%2C77&sr=8-3&ufe=app_do%3Aamzn1.fos.18ed3cb5-28d5-4975-8bc7-93deae8f9840" style="border-bottom: 1px solid var(--tec-color-link-accent); box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: var(--tec-transition-color);"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">André Salmon on French Modern Ar</em></a><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">t </em>(Cambridge University Press, 2005). A revised translation of <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">La Jeune Peinture française</em> is now available in <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Pablo-Picasso-Salmon-French-Painting/dp/1950191028/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1U52Z2GOHEN1F&keywords=andre+salmon+beth+gersh-nesic&qid=1676144778&sprefix=andre+salmon+beth+gersh-nesic%2Caps%2C77&sr=8-1" style="border-bottom: 1px solid var(--tec-color-link-accent); box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: var(--tec-transition-color);"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Pablo Picasso, André Salmon and “Young French Painting”</em></a> (Za Mir Press, 2022), which features an introduction by renowned Salmon expert Dr. Jacqueline Gojard, Professor Emeritus of Literature, University of Paris III (Sorbonne Nouvelle), and her numerous additions to Dr. Gersh-Nesic’s original annotations. Their previous collaboration focusses on the relationship between Picasso and Salmon:<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Pablo-Picasso-Andr%C3%A9-Salmon-Portraits/dp/195019101X/ref=sr_1_2?crid=1U52Z2GOHEN1F&keywords=andre+salmon+beth+gersh-nesic&qid=1676144818&sprefix=andre+salmon+beth+gersh-nesic%2Caps%2C77&sr=8-2" style="border-bottom: 1px solid var(--tec-color-link-accent); box-sizing: border-box; text-decoration-line: none; transition: var(--tec-transition-color);"><em style="box-sizing: border-box;"> Pablo Picasso and André Salmon: The Painter, the Poet, and the Portraits</em></a> (Za Mir Press, 2019).</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Above image:</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Juan Gris, Spanish, Madrid 1887–1927 Boulogne-sur-Seine<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Still Life with a Guitar, 1913<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Oil on canvas 26 × 39 1/2 in. (66 × 100.3 cm)<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 1998<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC</p><p style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #3f3f3f; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; line-height: inherit; margin-bottom: 20px; margin-top: 0px; text-align: start;"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">This event will be in English and is on Zoom and free for all Alliance Française members, AATF members, and invited guests of the presenters or publicist. Non-members or persons who have no AF chapter nearby can purchase tickets ($10). Please click <span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: red;"><a href="http://events.constantcontact.com/register/event?llr=4tqgfgnab&oeidk=a07ejnjc73b3362826b" rel="noopener" style="border-bottom: 1px solid var(--tec-color-link-accent); box-sizing: border-box; color: red; text-decoration-line: none; transition: var(--tec-transition-color);" target="_blank">here</a></span> to register.</span></p></div><p><br /></p>nyarts-exchangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15281059731332887468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493721968757194427.post-56437855512563226612023-02-11T08:19:00.001-08:002023-02-11T08:19:16.161-08:00The Language of Love: Poetry and Prose in New Paltz and Zoom: Ann Lauinger, David Appelbaum, and Violet Snow - Feb.15th<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="ydp4d49c272yiv8393498472ydpd760c04dyiv9959064993ydp96910950yiv5964856970ydpf4b201cayiv1213440430ydp54abec3cyiv5408672815ydp8c0a4d66yiv6902656168templateContainer" style="background-color: #f2f2f2; border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px; color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="ydp4d49c272yiv8393498472ydpd760c04dyiv9959064993ydp96910950yiv5964856970ydpf4b201cayiv1213440430ydp54abec3cyiv5408672815ydp8c0a4d66yiv6902656168templateHeader" style="background-color: white; border-bottom: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; border-top: 0px; min-width: 100%; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td class="ydp4d49c272yiv8393498472ydpd760c04dyiv9959064993ydp96910950yiv5964856970ydpf4b201cayiv1213440430ydp54abec3cyiv5408672815ydp8c0a4d66yiv6902656168headerContainer" colspan="1" rowspan="1" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="ydp4d49c272yiv8393498472ydpd760c04dyiv9959064993ydp96910950yiv5964856970ydpf4b201cayiv1213440430ydp54abec3cyiv5408672815ydp8c0a4d66yiv6902656168mcnBoxedTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="ydp4d49c272yiv8393498472ydpd760c04dyiv9959064993ydp96910950yiv5964856970ydpf4b201cayiv1213440430ydp54abec3cyiv5408672815ydp8c0a4d66yiv6902656168mcnBoxedTextBlockOuter"><tr><td class="ydp4d49c272yiv8393498472ydpd760c04dyiv9959064993ydp96910950yiv5964856970ydpf4b201cayiv1213440430ydp54abec3cyiv5408672815ydp8c0a4d66yiv6902656168mcnBoxedTextBlockInner" colspan="1" rowspan="1" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="ydp4d49c272yiv8393498472ydpd760c04dyiv9959064993ydp96910950yiv5964856970ydpf4b201cayiv1213440430ydp54abec3cyiv5408672815ydp8c0a4d66yiv6902656168mcnBoxedTextContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="padding: 9px 18px;"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" class="ydp4d49c272yiv8393498472ydpd760c04dyiv9959064993ydp96910950yiv5964856970ydpf4b201cayiv1213440430ydp54abec3cyiv5408672815ydp8c0a4d66yiv6902656168mcnTextContentContainer" style="background-color: #e7e4cb; border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="ydp4d49c272yiv8393498472ydpd760c04dyiv9959064993ydp96910950yiv5964856970ydpf4b201cayiv1213440430ydp54abec3cyiv5408672815ydp8c0a4d66yiv6902656168mcnTextContent" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="color: #f2f2f2; font-family: Lora, Georgia, "New serif"; font-size: 18px; line-height: 18px; padding: 18px; text-align: center;" valign="top"><h3 class="ydp4d49c272yiv8393498472ydpd760c04dyiv9959064993ydp96910950yiv5964856970ydpf4b201cayiv1213440430ydp54abec3cyiv5408672815ydp8c0a4d66yiv6902656168null" style="color: rgb(96, 96, 96) !important; font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 18px; letter-spacing: -0.5px; line-height: 22.5px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: lato, helvetica neue, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #ff3399;"><span style="font-size: 19px;">Promoting Literary Love! Next Year's Words!</span></span><br clear="none" /><span style="color: #666699; font-size: medium;">at </span></span><span style="color: #666699; font-size: 17px;"><span style="background-color: inherit; font-family: lato, helvetica neue, helvetica, sans-serif;">Elting Memorial Library</span></span><span style="color: #666699; font-family: lato, helvetica neue, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;"> on Wednesday, February 15, 2023.</span></h3></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="ydp4d49c272yiv8393498472ydpd760c04dyiv9959064993ydp96910950yiv5964856970ydpf4b201cayiv1213440430ydp54abec3cyiv5408672815ydp8c0a4d66yiv6902656168mcnImageBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody class="ydp4d49c272yiv8393498472ydpd760c04dyiv9959064993ydp96910950yiv5964856970ydpf4b201cayiv1213440430ydp54abec3cyiv5408672815ydp8c0a4d66yiv6902656168mcnImageBlockOuter"><tr><td class="ydp4d49c272yiv8393498472ydpd760c04dyiv9959064993ydp96910950yiv5964856970ydpf4b201cayiv1213440430ydp54abec3cyiv5408672815ydp8c0a4d66yiv6902656168mcnImageBlockInner" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="padding: 9px;" valign="top"><table align="left" border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="ydp4d49c272yiv8393498472ydpd760c04dyiv9959064993ydp96910950yiv5964856970ydpf4b201cayiv1213440430ydp54abec3cyiv5408672815ydp8c0a4d66yiv6902656168mcnImageContentContainer" style="border-collapse: collapse; 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width: 264px;"><tbody><tr><td class="ydp4d49c272yiv8393498472ydpd760c04dyiv9959064993ydp96910950yiv5964856970ydpf4b201cayiv1213440430ydp54abec3cyiv5408672815ydp8c0a4d66yiv6902656168mcnTextContent" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="color: #606060; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22.5px;" valign="top"><br clear="none" /><span style="font-size: 17px;">What better way to spend the day after Valentine's Day than at Next Year's Words? 💗 Live at <span style="color: #ff3399;">Elting Memorial Library</span> and on <span style="color: #ff3399;">Zoom</span>, February 15 2023, at 7:30 pm. Listen to lovely language from<span style="background-color: inherit; color: dimgrey;"> </span><span style="background-color: lavender; color: darkgreen;"> </span><strong><span style="color: #ff6699;"><span style="background-color: lavender;">Ann Lauinger, David Appelbaum,</span></span></strong><span style="background-color: lavender; color: darkgreen;"> </span><span style="background-color: inherit; color: dimgrey; font-size: 18px;"><span style="background-color: aliceblue;"> </span>and</span><span style="background-color: inherit; color: #003399;"> </span><span style="color: #ff3399;"><span style="background-color: lavender;"><strong>Violet Snow</strong></span></span><span style="color: #003399;">.<span style="background-color: inherit; color: dimgrey;"> Let the intoxication of words warm you!</span></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="ydp4d49c272yiv8393498472ydpd760c04dyiv9959064993ydp96910950yiv5964856970ydpf4b201cayiv1213440430ydp54abec3cyiv5408672815ydp8c0a4d66yiv6902656168mcnTextBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; 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max-width: 100%; min-width: 100%; width: 100%px;"><tbody><tr><td class="ydp4d49c272yiv8393498472ydpd760c04dyiv9959064993ydp96910950yiv5964856970ydpf4b201cayiv1213440430ydp54abec3cyiv5408672815ydp8c0a4d66yiv6902656168mcnTextContent" colspan="1" rowspan="1" style="color: #606060; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px; line-height: 15px; padding: 0px 18px 9px;" valign="top"><h4 class="ydp4d49c272yiv8393498472ydpd760c04dyiv9959064993ydp96910950yiv5964856970ydpf4b201cayiv1213440430ydp54abec3cyiv5408672815ydp8c0a4d66yiv6902656168null" style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128) !important; font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Poet and Professor Emerita <strong><span style="color: #996600;">Ann Lauinger</span></strong> masters rhyme, meter and subtle humor in this (Valentine's Day appropriate) dark homage to "To his Coy Mistress"—</span></h4><blockquote style="margin: 0px; padding: 8px;"><span style="font-family: lora, georgia, times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><em><span style="color: dimgrey;">Sweetheart, if we had the time, <br clear="none" />A week in bed would be no crime.<br clear="none" />I’d light your Camels, pour your Jack;<br clear="none" />You’d do shiatsu on my back.<br clear="none" />When you got up to scramble eggs,<br clear="none" />I’d write a sonnet to your legs,</span></em></span><br clear="none" /><span style="font-size: 12px;"><em><span style="color: dimgrey;">.</span></em></span> <span style="color: dimgrey;"><span style="background-color: inherit; font-family: lora, georgia, times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><em> —from </em>Marvell Noir</span></span></span></span></blockquote><h4 class="ydp4d49c272yiv8393498472ydpd760c04dyiv9959064993ydp96910950yiv5964856970ydpf4b201cayiv1213440430ydp54abec3cyiv5408672815ydp8c0a4d66yiv6902656168null" style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128) !important; font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Poet and Professor <span style="color: #996600;"><strong>David Appelbaum </strong></span>explores the familial and emotional lives of characters amidst an alive and omnipresent rural island landscape—</span></h4><blockquote style="margin: 0px; padding: 8px;"><span style="font-family: lora, georgia, times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><em><span style="color: dimgrey;">Rain or shine, her dresses<br clear="none" />hang from the clothesline, lofting or sagging<br clear="none" />the way her life airs out, always washed,<br clear="none" />folded, pressed flat, starched<br clear="none" />as though their cleanliness brought pleasure<br clear="none" />enough to sail through the week on a light raft.<br clear="none" />You learn stains aren’t the end of the world.<br clear="none" />All manners of things can be made new again.</span></em></span><br clear="none" /><span style="color: dimgrey;"><span style="background-color: inherit; font-family: lora, georgia, times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><em> —from </em>Clothesline</span></span></span></span></blockquote><h4 class="ydp4d49c272yiv8393498472ydpd760c04dyiv9959064993ydp96910950yiv5964856970ydpf4b201cayiv1213440430ydp54abec3cyiv5408672815ydp8c0a4d66yiv6902656168null" style="color: rgb(128, 128, 128) !important; font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", sans-serif; font-size: 16px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 20px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 14px;">Fiction writer, memoirist, and freelance journalist <span style="color: #996600;"><strong>Violet Snow</strong></span> imagines the lives of ancestors affecting and caught up in historical currents—</span></h4><blockquote style="margin: 0px; padding: 8px;"><span style="font-family: lora, georgia, times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><em><span style="color: dimgrey;">On the sidewalk, several people looked at her with concern, but she strode past them, trying to catch her breath and pat her hat and disheveled hair into place. She didn't look back to see if Charles was watching from the front stoop. By the time she reached the streetcar stop, the mix of fear and rage had turned entirely to rage. She remembered she had no money for the car, since Charles had taken her bag. Without bloomers to cover her legs, there was no point in going back for her bicycle.</span></em></span></span><br clear="none" /><span style="font-family: lora, georgia, times new roman, serif;"><span style="color: dimgrey;"><span style="background-color: inherit; font-family: lora, georgia, times new roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><em> —from </em>To March or To Marry</span></span></span></span></blockquote></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td align="center" colspan="1" rowspan="1" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" id="ydp4d49c272yiv8393498472ydpd760c04dyiv9959064993ydp96910950yiv5964856970ydpf4b201cayiv1213440430ydp54abec3cyiv5408672815ydp8c0a4d66yiv6902656168templateBody" style="background-color: white; border-bottom: 0px; border-collapse: collapse; border-top: 0px; min-width: 100%; width: 600px;"><tbody><tr><td class="ydp4d49c272yiv8393498472ydpd760c04dyiv9959064993ydp96910950yiv5964856970ydpf4b201cayiv1213440430ydp54abec3cyiv5408672815ydp8c0a4d66yiv6902656168bodyContainer" colspan="1" rowspan="1" valign="top"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="ydp4d49c272yiv8393498472ydpd760c04dyiv9959064993ydp96910950yiv5964856970ydpf4b201cayiv1213440430ydp54abec3cyiv5408672815ydp8c0a4d66yiv6902656168mcnImageBlock" style="border-collapse: collapse; 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font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;" /></div>nyarts-exchangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15281059731332887468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493721968757194427.post-90485330360857483992023-01-20T12:24:00.016-08:002023-01-22T09:01:52.458-08:00Last Call: Cubism and the Trompe L'Oeil Tradition at the Met, closing January 22<div><br /></div><p></p><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFiuJfJGXvGsMgXKMAJeD5-gcWBCUdk4IKv21SI5bCeKFW4TRk1C8TJNQsxbWsvfYjI2961AweU79VS4liLdqLW00dRKQ4DwzZDwLcgEXvL68qSzo9ng-teovP_hq_TJOti6AsN5IAal1Q1z_-Ze3BRMqxjsH301-QLYLDXd0x5lZD8V2v2UzJmiZ5Lw/s4032/Cubism%20Met%202022%20-%20Georges%20Braque_Violin%20and%20Sheet%20Music%20Petit%20Oiseau.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFiuJfJGXvGsMgXKMAJeD5-gcWBCUdk4IKv21SI5bCeKFW4TRk1C8TJNQsxbWsvfYjI2961AweU79VS4liLdqLW00dRKQ4DwzZDwLcgEXvL68qSzo9ng-teovP_hq_TJOti6AsN5IAal1Q1z_-Ze3BRMqxjsH301-QLYLDXd0x5lZD8V2v2UzJmiZ5Lw/w477-h640/Cubism%20Met%202022%20-%20Georges%20Braque_Violin%20and%20Sheet%20Music%20Petit%20Oiseau.jpg" width="477" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Georges Braque, French, Argenteuil 1882–1963 Paris </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Violin and Sheet Music: "Petit Oiseau."</i> Paris, early 1913 </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Oil and charcoal on canvas 28 × 20 1/2 in. (71.1 × 52.1 cm) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Promised Gift from the Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Collection</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;">"<i>Because of his family's background, the painter Georges Braque . . . belongs to that class of rich artisans and great entrepreneurs. His family painted, or had others paint for them, almost all the interior walls erected in Le Havre at the end of the last century. I am convinced that Georges Braque owes to this ancestry some of his most brilliant qualities.</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>One day he was discussing with Picasso the inimitable in painting, a favorite theme of modern artists. If one paints a gazette in the hands of a personage, should one take pains to reproduce the words PETIT JOURNAL or reduce the task to neatly gluing the gazette onto the canvas? They went on to praise the skillfulness of housepainters who extract so much precious marble and wood from imaginary quarries and forests.</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Naturally, Georges Braque provided useful explanations, not sparing the juicy details of the craft.</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>He went on to say that a certain steel comb that helps housepainters achieve false marble and false wood can be run along a painted surface to achieve a simulation of veins and marbling.</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>We might smile at the seriousness brought to this type of discussion, because we might harbor the faintest prejudice and would not want to heed certain benefits that the artist finds, as he leans toward the beauties of the artisan's work. . . . </i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>In short, Picasso and his guests agreed on the use of the housepainter's comb, but note that no one intended, however, to imitate these skillful artisans.</i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><br /></i></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>This is of extreme importance. An artist grows thinking about many things. He may even desire equipment that seduces him, but that's enough. He does not have to appropriate either the tool or the process. It is better to do what one of his own did (the painter <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Marcoussis" target="_blank">[Louis] Marcoussis</a>) - imitate the imitation</i>."</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">--André Salmon, "The Fable of the Tin Fish," in <i>Young French Sculpture</i> (written in 1914 and published in 1919), translated into English by Beth S. Gersh-Nesic in <i>André Salmon on French Modern Art</i> (Cambridge University Press, 2005)</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUvQpUc2l5IoIFoHZz24SvNQOyd6HnyF7SoDqQo4bUYSyEry12uH8OPkzHbUldwYINwFnS3KfSNxWqP7sqWjyR2NzU_Vnp7l1pCsmkgvOuuYpBLfACtGH3PVEWwH0E66Qg7swhuayRxYehcZAKde9aiF1xH4oG8llhRMJmLHJWn0QzOqw6-vToac0B-g/s5964/Cubism%20Met%202022%20-%20Pablo%20Picasso_Pipe%20and%20Sheet%20Music.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4574" data-original-width="5964" height="490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUvQpUc2l5IoIFoHZz24SvNQOyd6HnyF7SoDqQo4bUYSyEry12uH8OPkzHbUldwYINwFnS3KfSNxWqP7sqWjyR2NzU_Vnp7l1pCsmkgvOuuYpBLfACtGH3PVEWwH0E66Qg7swhuayRxYehcZAKde9aiF1xH4oG8llhRMJmLHJWn0QzOqw6-vToac0B-g/w640-h490/Cubism%20Met%202022%20-%20Pablo%20Picasso_Pipe%20and%20Sheet%20Music.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Pablo Picasso, Spanish, Malaga 1881–1973 Mougins, France </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Pipe and Sheet Music,</i> 1914 </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Cut-and-pasted printed wallpapers, wove papers, gouache, graphite, and chalk on paper </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">20 1/2 × 26 1/2 in. (52.1 × 67.3 cm) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Maurice McAshan (69.11)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Dear friends,</div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">The Metropolitan Museum's groundbreaking exhibition <i>Cubism and the Trompe l'Oeil Tradition</i>, on view since October 20, 2022, will close on Sunday, January 22, 2023. It's a revelation, and it's beautiful! Moreover, no reproductions can equal the experience or the impact of this extraordinary curatorial effort that explains one of the least understood and most significant aspects of the Cubist movement, especially its collage. In essence, we learn that one of the oldest ways of judging artistic merit, the ability to copy nature to the degree that it fool's the eye (in French, tromper - to deceive; l'oeil - the eye), played a significant role in the Cubist works by Pablo Picasso, Georges Braque and Juan Gris. Since most of us look upon Cubism as the threshold to abstraction, the opposite of verisimilitude, the news that these Cubists assiduously studied and parodied trompe l'oeil may come as a shock. In the hands of the two brilliant art historians and curators Emily Braun, Distinguished Professor of Art History, CUNY Graduate Center and Hunter College, and Elizabeth Cowling, Professor Emerita, Edinburgh University, with the previous collaboration of the former curator of the Leonard A. Lauder Collection, Rebecca Rabinow, currently the director of The Menil Collection in Houston, Texas, we learn that Picasso, Braque and Gris (art dealer Daniel-Henri Kahnweiler's principal stable of artists) invented this peculiar visual language larded with visual jokes, puns, and codes to delight each other as it stoked their competitive natures.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgovoybU_VW9MW8mlNDuhJpqemsdD1tElE-LXPrScGfYnSXOj6TCqSmFti3yHWFhudNrLCry9jzNzj8y_620TgSTRyPnF0FqBrABEbYDcAsua1QH1ostx_KmarTF02JwHMq2Y-C9aZ6nMxwjwyX2IL6Qw7i4ECzoIJ7_7VP9EIROZXpwBjHGL2f-zIvbg/s4157/Cubism%20Met%202022%20-%20Georges%20Braque_Fruit%20Dish,%20Ace%20of%20Clubsolin%20and%20Engraving.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4157" data-original-width="3110" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgovoybU_VW9MW8mlNDuhJpqemsdD1tElE-LXPrScGfYnSXOj6TCqSmFti3yHWFhudNrLCry9jzNzj8y_620TgSTRyPnF0FqBrABEbYDcAsua1QH1ostx_KmarTF02JwHMq2Y-C9aZ6nMxwjwyX2IL6Qw7i4ECzoIJ7_7VP9EIROZXpwBjHGL2f-zIvbg/w478-h640/Cubism%20Met%202022%20-%20Georges%20Braque_Fruit%20Dish,%20Ace%20of%20Clubsolin%20and%20Engraving.jpg" width="478" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Georges Braque, French, Argenteuil 1882–1963 Paris </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Fruit Dish, Ace of Clubs,</i> 1913 </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Oil, gouache, and charcoal on canvas </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">31 7/8 × 23 5/8 in. (81 × 60 cm) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Gift of Paul Rosenberg, 1947</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD14uJsRlft0gcAPC-ZA94SiOn6Zwz1NSTiKWRHeZFcohnbu_kZomkPm5Tu03iW7fM4jtt8asXnGfUVAsclcaE6SDm1JoBLqXPAUmvtaeW0GoOKD0UNt_QYhYGekx57q5XPY4pxOWW4WJrwTLwkeTgg40b0YYRFLTGUb-nP4Xab6kSdxTq-9NRBpO04Q/s640/Cubism%20Met%202022%20-%20Juan%20Gris_The%20Bottle%20of%20Banyuls,%20faithful%20colors.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="598" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjD14uJsRlft0gcAPC-ZA94SiOn6Zwz1NSTiKWRHeZFcohnbu_kZomkPm5Tu03iW7fM4jtt8asXnGfUVAsclcaE6SDm1JoBLqXPAUmvtaeW0GoOKD0UNt_QYhYGekx57q5XPY4pxOWW4WJrwTLwkeTgg40b0YYRFLTGUb-nP4Xab6kSdxTq-9NRBpO04Q/w598-h640/Cubism%20Met%202022%20-%20Juan%20Gris_The%20Bottle%20of%20Banyuls,%20faithful%20colors.jpg" width="598" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Juan Gris, Spanish, Madrid 1887–1927 Boulogne-sur-Seine </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Bottle of Banyuls 1914 </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Cut-and-pasted printed wallpapers, newspaper, wove papers, transparentized paper, printed packaging, oil, crayon, gouache, and graphite on newspaper mounted on canvas </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">21 5/8 × 18 1/8 in. (55 × 46 cm) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Hermann und Margrit Rupf-Stiftung, Kunstmuseum Bern (Ge 024)</div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div>From my perspective, we experience three overlapping exhibitions at once. </div><div><br /></div><div>At the entrance to the exhibition, we review the legendary tale about the rivalry between 5th century BC artists Zeuxis and Parrhasius as told by the ancient Roman naturalist and philosopher Pliny the Elder in his <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_History_(Pliny)" target="_blank">Natural History</a> (published in 77 AD). The story claims that Zeuxis and Parrhasius challenged each other to a painting duel, each trying to out fox the other with their skills of verisimilitude. Zeuxis unveiled his painting of grapes that were so faithfully rendered, birds flew down to peck at these counterfeits. Parrhasius then showed Zeuxis his handiwork, whereupon this renowned artist, born on the southern tip of today's Italy which was then part of Magna Grecia, attempted to pull back the "curtain" he believed covered his rival's work. He was mistaken. Thus, Zeuxis fooled the birds with his meticulous copy of nature, his trompe l'oeil (deceiving the eye), but Parrhasius fooled the artist Zeuxis by making him believe the depicted curtain was a real one. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc5ZBOdSu55-66xRWVt1_eMrv_V7M1-Cr-8c2Xnt8ISFUAxY67SrxVxEUh5jhgXQcABdetDIxmO5YPM1RNvJEkANxIdyQ82iTqsahhYIkW8s2Y5GQvBgT78fPFod-KJPOXMoDGs4GngXo8EMx2Uu7FuKAgzFDnRpvkYg1NJSfhwozuUfcnyCrTqAALmQ/s4032/Cubism%20and%20Trompe%20L'Oeil%20Installation%20Shot%20-%20entrance%20Beth%20Gersh-Nesic.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhc5ZBOdSu55-66xRWVt1_eMrv_V7M1-Cr-8c2Xnt8ISFUAxY67SrxVxEUh5jhgXQcABdetDIxmO5YPM1RNvJEkANxIdyQ82iTqsahhYIkW8s2Y5GQvBgT78fPFod-KJPOXMoDGs4GngXo8EMx2Uu7FuKAgzFDnRpvkYg1NJSfhwozuUfcnyCrTqAALmQ/w640-h480/Cubism%20and%20Trompe%20L'Oeil%20Installation%20Shot%20-%20entrance%20Beth%20Gersh-Nesic.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"> Installation photograph by Beth S. Gersh-Nesic</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div>What does this anecdote tell us? Early on in art history, the ability for an artist to copy nature faithfully, if not flawlessly, measured an artist's mettle for his contemporary audiences and his peers. It was the true proving-ground for an artist's self-worth. After this introductory text, we view and learn about the history of trompe l'oeil in fine and applied art, and its connection to still life, through various examples juxtaposed to Cubist works throughout the entire exhibition. </div><div><br /></div><div>It's a fascinating story told briefly in the exhibition galleries and at length in Elizabeth Cowling's excellent essay in the catalogue (please buy the catalogue!). The exhibition "fleshes" out the written narrative. Trompe l'oeil had it heyday in the 17th and 18th centuries and then suffered from a decline in its critical reception toward the end of the 18th century (evident in Diderot's review of the Salon of 1763). It went downhill from there, well into the twentieth century, when it was associated with craft (housepainter's faux marble and wood) rather than art, an "intellectual" activity. The industrialization of trompe l'oeil on wallpaper seemed to seal the deal on that score. However, Picasso and Braque saw its value differently. Braque's decorative arts background and fine art painter's mind brought a new perception to trompe l'oeil techniques and execution, which in turn ignited Picasso's curiosity. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk7c2q9A-VDnabPsHRQE-gacvFp1NcSCIKVsmIWymfT3-PEQu9TLcOhCg2_H1uwEAewiKeCtp-uT-vvaMW5UUV7boBtxjtUqMlIwV57-OOx8h64ZMwS8NtCCwAeZHd8SttGlgb1HOCk5WfC2gEN4f61T-XieWZxeQEcQf7cfN9WYKHGcvxqpQVUoIyeg/s11558/Cubism%20and%20Trompe%20L'Oeil%20Installation%20Shot%20-%20First%20Room.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="7358" data-original-width="11558" height="408" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk7c2q9A-VDnabPsHRQE-gacvFp1NcSCIKVsmIWymfT3-PEQu9TLcOhCg2_H1uwEAewiKeCtp-uT-vvaMW5UUV7boBtxjtUqMlIwV57-OOx8h64ZMwS8NtCCwAeZHd8SttGlgb1HOCk5WfC2gEN4f61T-XieWZxeQEcQf7cfN9WYKHGcvxqpQVUoIyeg/w640-h408/Cubism%20and%20Trompe%20L'Oeil%20Installation%20Shot%20-%20First%20Room.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.90802001953125" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="84.7199859619141" x="204.926010131836" y="-529.510009765625">Installation view of <i>Cubism and the Trompe l'Oeil Tradition</i>, on view October 20, 2022-January 2023, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Photo by Paul Lachenauer, courtesy of The Met</text></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_bZ_N9j39W9sdzgOlkmU5BZvcY6ATNxhkKU8qM_TLzKfS5SJSWIx3o3UnYIDPFcT5mH-8Ycb2tm0SU2a_8_2ysQe3cX31l9149hCWZTuHs6RAi9gZ8kXVH65kTjaOXkA3MIl-4KoBNt8yIgBAhGjkzpbAglPWKYZIl_NLyNp_AcicWPhJRKB-AQq2hQ/s4176/Cubism%20Met%202022%20-%20Juan%20Fern%C3%A1ndez,%20El%20Labrador_Still%20Life%20with%20Four%20Bunches%20of%20Grapes.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2980" data-original-width="4176" height="456" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_bZ_N9j39W9sdzgOlkmU5BZvcY6ATNxhkKU8qM_TLzKfS5SJSWIx3o3UnYIDPFcT5mH-8Ycb2tm0SU2a_8_2ysQe3cX31l9149hCWZTuHs6RAi9gZ8kXVH65kTjaOXkA3MIl-4KoBNt8yIgBAhGjkzpbAglPWKYZIl_NLyNp_AcicWPhJRKB-AQq2hQ/w640-h456/Cubism%20Met%202022%20-%20Juan%20Fern%C3%A1ndez,%20El%20Labrador_Still%20Life%20with%20Four%20Bunches%20of%20Grapes.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Juan Fernández, "El Labrador", Spanish, documented 1629–1657 </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Still Life with Four Bunches of Grapes,</i> ca. 1636 </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Oil on canvas 17 11⁄16 × 24 in. (45 × 61 cm) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid (P7904)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYRcUZc4XmZFwFmbkf2IKwngOLtERtCGG0FSElGTqnyTbKqTu9SCVySy5XO128nF3ge9mSp5vk9tpWZ2grDl7NXUgdMiRGBThkg38U-tcPO445oCP13U4yKIodJ5Jo-Onbuf_cohiI5RSE0T5Jgzh3VVXypQiDFRvP4Gtg538wGMPifjVK-WWZJVPMAg/s4500/Cubism%20Met%202022%20-%20J.%20S.%20Bernard_Still%20Life%20with%20Violin,%20Ewer,%20and%20Bouquet%20of%20Flowers.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3614" data-original-width="4500" height="514" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgYRcUZc4XmZFwFmbkf2IKwngOLtERtCGG0FSElGTqnyTbKqTu9SCVySy5XO128nF3ge9mSp5vk9tpWZ2grDl7NXUgdMiRGBThkg38U-tcPO445oCP13U4yKIodJ5Jo-Onbuf_cohiI5RSE0T5Jgzh3VVXypQiDFRvP4Gtg538wGMPifjVK-WWZJVPMAg/w640-h514/Cubism%20Met%202022%20-%20J.%20S.%20Bernard_Still%20Life%20with%20Violin,%20Ewer,%20and%20Bouquet%20of%20Flowers.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">J. S. Bernard, probably French, active 1650s–1660s </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Still Life with Violin, Ewer, and Bouquet of Flowers, </i>1657 </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Oil on canvas 32 x 39 1/2 in. (81.3 x 100.3 cm) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Gift of the Christian Humann Foundation (2008.55) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div><br /></div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis6MlZdP9MP7dlIarIESIxxVjhm5-tBpNYbcjZpKOEW2OEad25TNjz6BZtFQ7dd0VQmLq8Pjb_6cF3HrKaEfbtddgln_q6oYADhvpNGFunjQnf8Q4PW2NEYvUPhSsVB9ZPLLLHUkpIAm1N1hx_zZRgZafSfClWK31rY4GITPREDk4paXvU6xghzT2Qyg/s12227/Cubism%202022%20Met%20-%20Cornelius%20Norbertus%20Gijsbrechts_The%20Attributes%20of%20the%20Painter.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="12227" data-original-width="10024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEis6MlZdP9MP7dlIarIESIxxVjhm5-tBpNYbcjZpKOEW2OEad25TNjz6BZtFQ7dd0VQmLq8Pjb_6cF3HrKaEfbtddgln_q6oYADhvpNGFunjQnf8Q4PW2NEYvUPhSsVB9ZPLLLHUkpIAm1N1hx_zZRgZafSfClWK31rY4GITPREDk4paXvU6xghzT2Qyg/w525-h640/Cubism%202022%20Met%20-%20Cornelius%20Norbertus%20Gijsbrechts_The%20Attributes%20of%20the%20Painter.jpg" width="525" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">Cornelius Norbertus Gijsbrechts, Flemish, 1625/29–after 1677 </div><div style="text-align: center;"><i>The Attributes of the Painter,</i> 1665 </div><div style="text-align: center;">Oil on canvas 51 3/16 × 41 13/16 in. (130 × 106.2 cm) </div><div style="text-align: center;">Musée des Beaux-Arts de Valenciennes (P.46.1.111)</div><div><br /></div></div><div><br /></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM7_V-5EsLJoiryI3nMmgO8mkG-z-dBWSh5-QDKpRoC3q0pFqbIgMEc86y7T2sSLCbZI1F5bu6wjMFNl06RYMSJa03wSMtW9a9XzUjw3xRH04SqgFaw_sSyg3yNsPQ0RBr04LnyOa2RH_upGjM0q71aQ3sgOMlUD-TUM02l1ECbQlEtTLr8tUPwcy6xQ/s5547/Cubism%20Met%202022%20-%20Edward%20Collier_A%20Trompe%20l%E2%80%99Oeil%20of%20Newspapers,%20Letters,%20and%20Writing%20Implements%20on%20a%20Wooden%20Board.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5547" data-original-width="4414" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgM7_V-5EsLJoiryI3nMmgO8mkG-z-dBWSh5-QDKpRoC3q0pFqbIgMEc86y7T2sSLCbZI1F5bu6wjMFNl06RYMSJa03wSMtW9a9XzUjw3xRH04SqgFaw_sSyg3yNsPQ0RBr04LnyOa2RH_upGjM0q71aQ3sgOMlUD-TUM02l1ECbQlEtTLr8tUPwcy6xQ/w510-h640/Cubism%20Met%202022%20-%20Edward%20Collier_A%20Trompe%20l%E2%80%99Oeil%20of%20Newspapers,%20Letters,%20and%20Writing%20Implements%20on%20a%20Wooden%20Board.jpg" width="510" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Edward Collier, Dutch, Breda ca. 1640?–after 1707 London or Leiden</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <i>A Trompe l’Oeil of Newspapers, Letters, and Writing Implements on a Wooden Board,</i> 1699 </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Oil on canvas 23 1⁄8 × 18 3⁄16 in. (58.8 × 46.2 cm) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Tate. Purchased 1984 (T03853)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div><br /></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="6206" data-original-width="5740" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgO36I9qIPsDw_5elCqeZB2S_qDZndRRSxqoKTADI2y7buFY3Eb8In5xAL12T7MT8ewRwVyCSSSKobvOOCTMjrxPRFrezxJECgTXJxjN2sMxedXRerEr9r9mAM7bRvsC_5MTYcXat8XZNXES_GcTPldS0rsto0FbXTSaYBl6v_oMqWtqg0xqIwcHWN9vA/w592-h640/Cubism%20Met%202022%20-%20Wilhelm%20Robart_Trompe%20l%E2%80%99Oeil.jpg" style="text-align: left;" width="592" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Wilhelm Robart, Dutch, active 18th century, <i>Trompe l’Oeil</i> 1770s</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> Ink, ink wash, watercolor, and chalk on paper 15 3/8 × 14 3/16 in. (39.1 × 36 cm) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">RISD Museum, Providence, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Barnet Fain (2001.93.2)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGmXwL2uJWqwW7MvOTtp91dPVAkzujL991qKz62szILbSVUCfJ6BXrum-9EunsjJAKyz9iHFV9f-9nO-PohdGjflcOpOaSs-35LHoEJoyvZPs4lkynenQtJ00Xh85RpcGnGYwAi6w_QHCLm-2eJrRwdt5QXLljPp7eJspv1JdoBoXo4yEozlZarulOZQ/s5400/Cubism%20Met%202022%20-%20Louis%20L%C3%A9opold%20Boilly_Trompe%20l%E2%80%99Oeil.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5400" data-original-width="5400" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGmXwL2uJWqwW7MvOTtp91dPVAkzujL991qKz62szILbSVUCfJ6BXrum-9EunsjJAKyz9iHFV9f-9nO-PohdGjflcOpOaSs-35LHoEJoyvZPs4lkynenQtJ00Xh85RpcGnGYwAi6w_QHCLm-2eJrRwdt5QXLljPp7eJspv1JdoBoXo4yEozlZarulOZQ/w640-h640/Cubism%20Met%202022%20-%20Louis%20L%C3%A9opold%20Boilly_Trompe%20l%E2%80%99Oeil.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Louis Léopold Boilly, French, La Bassée 1761–1845 Paris </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Trompe l’Oeil</i> ca. 1799-1804 </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Oil on marble with wood trim Diameter: 22 3/4 in. (58 cm) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Private collection, Canada</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEEiL6Fqln0lmvGcvj6d07ok6ML0lTZ8dG-6UVZisoRw0K2XFLU3cNGmixQ_Bt_XWgAklMxtVbJNLrGZBJTyYv-BIUBTRfuf3v9bdTU37Fg0BBhk6_CNU958tvAm08DkqrylvxPq0OKWLZ14GLx7O_NAuCtrDH0ynEojTRkrHF_QiREzogpk7SrbZjgQ/s3000/Cubism%20Met%202022%20%20-%20John%20Haberle_Imitation.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2143" data-original-width="3000" height="458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEEiL6Fqln0lmvGcvj6d07ok6ML0lTZ8dG-6UVZisoRw0K2XFLU3cNGmixQ_Bt_XWgAklMxtVbJNLrGZBJTyYv-BIUBTRfuf3v9bdTU37Fg0BBhk6_CNU958tvAm08DkqrylvxPq0OKWLZ14GLx7O_NAuCtrDH0ynEojTRkrHF_QiREzogpk7SrbZjgQ/w640-h458/Cubism%20Met%202022%20%20-%20John%20Haberle_Imitation.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">John Haberle, 1856–1933 <i>Imitation</i> 1887 Oil on canvas 10 × 14 in. (25.4 × 35.6 cm) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (1998.96.1</div><p><br /></p><div><br /></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZuPcQB7L9hMXUC2vLa3MHbulE_5W_U-fm-qtPWvwF4hVsYiKKQlB_BkPa73wtOpROHYUh6fgTi7wwgHABTTIwXjF8iwE5s3t_kSm_hEToTH6Gzm5oJopF_Amoze1yqSfC1bOK78f4xv9XxTMM04U6-7YftryROowfc-0VDzA4lphdWbhqyV_qn1ke6Q/s5809/Cubism%20Met%202022%20-%20William%20Michael%20Harnett_Still%20Life%E2%80%94Violin%20and%20Music.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="5809" data-original-width="4423" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZuPcQB7L9hMXUC2vLa3MHbulE_5W_U-fm-qtPWvwF4hVsYiKKQlB_BkPa73wtOpROHYUh6fgTi7wwgHABTTIwXjF8iwE5s3t_kSm_hEToTH6Gzm5oJopF_Amoze1yqSfC1bOK78f4xv9XxTMM04U6-7YftryROowfc-0VDzA4lphdWbhqyV_qn1ke6Q/w488-h640/Cubism%20Met%202022%20-%20William%20Michael%20Harnett_Still%20Life%E2%80%94Violin%20and%20Music.jpg" width="488" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">William Michael Harnett, 1848–1892, <i>Still Life—Violin and Music </i>1888</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> Oil on canvas 40 x 30 in. (101.6 x 76.2 cm) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Collection, Wolfe Fund, 1963</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div>The exhibition's history of Picasso, Braque and Gris' paintings and collages features their visual conversations with popular trompe l'oeil trends and subject matter, as well as among themselves. Thankfully installed in informative relation to each other, we readily see how well they spoke to each other through their inventive depictions and compositions. Together, they referenced and subverted conventional academic art practice and trompe l'oeil cliché as if commenting on the imposition of ubiquitous industrial decoration and trends in vogue during this new modern age. (I consider Cubism the original Pop Art.) </div><div><br /></div><div>One particularly exciting gallery pairs Picasso's first collage <i>Still Life with Chair Caning</i> (1912), which incorporates a glued piece of manufactured oil cloth bearing a faux chair-caning print onto an oval canvas framed by a real rope, with his 1912 faux collage <a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/857010" target="_blank"><i>The Scallop Shell:</i> <i>Notre Avenir Est Dans L'Air</i></a>.<i> Still Life with Chair Caning </i>belongs to the Musée Picasso in Paris, and <i>The Scallop Shell</i> belongs to the Met. What a treat to see these two contemporary works from different museums side by side! And, to add more sparkle to this exciting happenstance, we find their predecessor, Georges Braque's early Cubist painting <i>Violin and Palette</i> (1909), which belongs to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, right across the room from Picassos' landmark oval canvases. </div><div><br /></div><div>In<i> Violin and Palette</i>, Braque seems to enlist trompe l'oeil for the nail inside the palette's hole and its shadow falling on the palette form. Art historians explain that the "realistic" nail and shadow at the top of the composition references the Cubists' departure from one-point perspective in the rest of the composition, drawing attention to the interplay between the two realities depicted in art. We can also glean a reference to the direction of the light falling on the objects arranged in this still life (a necessary ingredient for the artist bent on fooling the eye into imagining three dimensions on a two-dimensional surface).</div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqrXzale-hM6pgkV5-HJIc3edQEocaoY3QIFUPkgGwmFszyfa1T_T3coaKxX-Y2XtyQCCTjhrcBc7LqnKGX5PCkcfU8wjvuPyFbn5RDJXLGh7uzsDl_KxcFLlruEwYcvgGBnb5Fitr49nNmHQn9P9VtBQXvGirLwa3pD147KL-YL04KREFHzlMwhr9gA/s8871/Cubism%20Met%202022%20-%20Pablo%20Picasso_Still%20Life%20with%20Chair%20Caning.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="7097" data-original-width="8871" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqrXzale-hM6pgkV5-HJIc3edQEocaoY3QIFUPkgGwmFszyfa1T_T3coaKxX-Y2XtyQCCTjhrcBc7LqnKGX5PCkcfU8wjvuPyFbn5RDJXLGh7uzsDl_KxcFLlruEwYcvgGBnb5Fitr49nNmHQn9P9VtBQXvGirLwa3pD147KL-YL04KREFHzlMwhr9gA/w640-h512/Cubism%20Met%202022%20-%20Pablo%20Picasso_Still%20Life%20with%20Chair%20Caning.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div> Pablo Picasso, Spanish, Malaga 1881–1973 Mougins, France </div><div><i>Still Life with Chair Caning</i> 1912 Oil and printed oilcloth on canvas edged with rope</div><div> 11 7/16 × 14 9/16 in. (29 × 37 cm) </div><div>Musée National Picasso-Paris, Dation Pablo Picasso, 1979 (MP 36)</div><div><br /></div></div></div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><div><i><br /></i></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx8WIH_WpaZjhP0OP2tqxRTYgag-CltMteZ9P8dPlnsOjBRKFjdzMPHp5ICjgGUDNKeEaKACiNFqc9uXIEUK1K_yBDq5-mEQ9HcalEE5aXJx1K8x8n0gGZ5-DO2jDlDpKxIM5u7PR0PBEZjZm4zJu1WUS9SwKTZoq98ojvbznYj0CGqg71lGEo9bBgUw/s4032/Cubism%20and%20Trompe%20L'Oeil%20Installation%20Shot%20-%20BGN%20Chair%20Caning%20and%20Avenir%20dans%20L'Air.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhx8WIH_WpaZjhP0OP2tqxRTYgag-CltMteZ9P8dPlnsOjBRKFjdzMPHp5ICjgGUDNKeEaKACiNFqc9uXIEUK1K_yBDq5-mEQ9HcalEE5aXJx1K8x8n0gGZ5-DO2jDlDpKxIM5u7PR0PBEZjZm4zJu1WUS9SwKTZoq98ojvbznYj0CGqg71lGEo9bBgUw/w640-h480/Cubism%20and%20Trompe%20L'Oeil%20Installation%20Shot%20-%20BGN%20Chair%20Caning%20and%20Avenir%20dans%20L'Air.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Installation photograph by Beth S. Gersh-Nesic</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3i49wGxVMj_ejMKeTTvgZ3wa7SD4ZGIisaHxbwP52bsKBS5E_mzvCTyVNk1DjAhbifD0T7GYYDrNcrpI7ZalDsequanhXJbiNBdrr6FM7QxkW03MAkU7Cm-mOODup8DvGbJ7PRmPfGmZxNuCvqClRYBhQxhAMEQ4N1l8HSHsV4oeQMPoB1ug32pLn8g/s2048/Cubism%20and%20Trompe%20L'Oeil%20Installation%20Shot%20-%20Picasso%20Still%20Life%20with%20Chair%20Caning.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1283" data-original-width="2048" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj3i49wGxVMj_ejMKeTTvgZ3wa7SD4ZGIisaHxbwP52bsKBS5E_mzvCTyVNk1DjAhbifD0T7GYYDrNcrpI7ZalDsequanhXJbiNBdrr6FM7QxkW03MAkU7Cm-mOODup8DvGbJ7PRmPfGmZxNuCvqClRYBhQxhAMEQ4N1l8HSHsV4oeQMPoB1ug32pLn8g/w640-h400/Cubism%20and%20Trompe%20L'Oeil%20Installation%20Shot%20-%20Picasso%20Still%20Life%20with%20Chair%20Caning.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVwCBHMN9SJkgvv47cdiR_X0JPdOjW-9uSSX25GwdizWxZBFsMlC9h_7KgavPjEIP8lw3YqswsKGJJGGXd-FMuKsl6kC49-jHKvO6ZoS1Qw87hL56_UVjA8UNIZB42pn4UZNz7U1yQ4y5DmTY-6fS_MTy_XTUIRJFb7bMUE33nnHEP6sOWhiNLvpfuKg/s4692/Cubism%20Met%202022%20-%20Georges%20Braque_Violin%20and%20Palette.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4692" data-original-width="2256" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjVwCBHMN9SJkgvv47cdiR_X0JPdOjW-9uSSX25GwdizWxZBFsMlC9h_7KgavPjEIP8lw3YqswsKGJJGGXd-FMuKsl6kC49-jHKvO6ZoS1Qw87hL56_UVjA8UNIZB42pn4UZNz7U1yQ4y5DmTY-6fS_MTy_XTUIRJFb7bMUE33nnHEP6sOWhiNLvpfuKg/w309-h640/Cubism%20Met%202022%20-%20Georges%20Braque_Violin%20and%20Palette.jpg" width="309" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Georges Braque, French, Argenteuil 1882–1963 Paris </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Violin and Palette,</i> 1909 </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Oil on canvas 36 1/8 × 16 7/8 in. (91.8 × 42.9 cm) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (54.1412)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div><br /></div><div>We also have Braque's first experiments with pasting faux wood wallpaper and painting faux wood on one canvas, hung next to each other on one wall: <i>Fruit Dish and Glass,</i> 1912 (Metropolitan Museum of Art) and <i>Glass, Bottle, and Newspaper</i>, 1912 (Metropolitan Museum of Art). These two works are accompanied by one earlier painting that includes stencil lettering (<i><a href="https://www.moma.org/collection/works/116275" target="_blank">Homage à J.S. Bach</a></i>, 1911-12) and a later painting that emulates faux wood wallpaper (<i style="text-align: center;">The Guitar: “Statue d’Épouvante,”</i><span style="text-align: center;"> 1913)</span>. As a whole, this gallery supports the saga of Braque's discovery of faux wood wallpaper during the summer of 1912, when he and Picasso vacationed in Sorgues. <b>After </b>Picasso left Sorgues, Braque bought the faux wood wallpaper and began his first series of papier collés (glued papers), the first of this kind of collage in Cubism. That Braque chose to wait until Picasso was no longer around indicates their collaborations and mutual support did not suppress their ardent desire to outdo each other whenever the opportunity presented itself - Juan Gris included.</div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifwad3m8XhT3UyV5NlI7_J4OVdXmuFNXupnILGdUoKpcKjloegYtaW5OdETrtsyUMY8Z8vtLBOwZeTTo2AcnsTpJXQNYz1RNcmlcKCQczXQ_D4MgFfrZk4_AATBfatiMT8kk93bxZV8MvDKPHQWm9Jq_EPkfnHKxeJjNWzW8U3--w_kgQdtigvoIcIHA/s4032/Cubism%20and%20Trompe%20L'Oeil%20Installation%20Shot%20-%20BGN%20Braque%20faux%20bois%202%20collages.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifwad3m8XhT3UyV5NlI7_J4OVdXmuFNXupnILGdUoKpcKjloegYtaW5OdETrtsyUMY8Z8vtLBOwZeTTo2AcnsTpJXQNYz1RNcmlcKCQczXQ_D4MgFfrZk4_AATBfatiMT8kk93bxZV8MvDKPHQWm9Jq_EPkfnHKxeJjNWzW8U3--w_kgQdtigvoIcIHA/w640-h480/Cubism%20and%20Trompe%20L'Oeil%20Installation%20Shot%20-%20BGN%20Braque%20faux%20bois%202%20collages.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Installation photograph by Beth S. Gersh-Nesic</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBsPR86Bg3NxfpVuWAnUkkJq_hXkX64VTVBtqLJRyVQHZeNYqYPg2MROEnbGBcw4U3vKSazErUWWdfFMPiAzEyUsjGrOofei-M_2f1WY470keaSN9Mivdd673YTscgzlz5uSGc9tZ5AJx6gHNY9YqM_89PY6AwdWpEfqwep1oEOVFviM_SOMzjK_0NFg/s4032/Cubism%20and%20Trompe%20L'Oeil%20Installation%20Shot%20-%20BGN%20Braque%20faux%20bois%203%20collages.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiBsPR86Bg3NxfpVuWAnUkkJq_hXkX64VTVBtqLJRyVQHZeNYqYPg2MROEnbGBcw4U3vKSazErUWWdfFMPiAzEyUsjGrOofei-M_2f1WY470keaSN9Mivdd673YTscgzlz5uSGc9tZ5AJx6gHNY9YqM_89PY6AwdWpEfqwep1oEOVFviM_SOMzjK_0NFg/w640-h480/Cubism%20and%20Trompe%20L'Oeil%20Installation%20Shot%20-%20BGN%20Braque%20faux%20bois%203%20collages.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Installation photograph by Beth S. Gersh-Nesic</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt64MW_GH99gTdjtFytG47AhIp9GEkrylqoddab7XJsMIz4L5Wc1byTxGJs7ingERxXxyR6RqXubQCecJivyxaFv2f-QemoHgGIDwnTl2ZuCwqAmqerp6M20zQHTV46XX9dZzZkuK_qiDnFrhHAXA66q2dD8gVF6VNngLlsSsPs1wtlQc8-MbkoE4xhQ/s2813/Cubism%20Met%202022%20-%20Georges%20Braque_The%20Guitar%20Statue%20d%E2%80%99%C3%89pouvante.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="2813" height="466" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgt64MW_GH99gTdjtFytG47AhIp9GEkrylqoddab7XJsMIz4L5Wc1byTxGJs7ingERxXxyR6RqXubQCecJivyxaFv2f-QemoHgGIDwnTl2ZuCwqAmqerp6M20zQHTV46XX9dZzZkuK_qiDnFrhHAXA66q2dD8gVF6VNngLlsSsPs1wtlQc8-MbkoE4xhQ/w640-h466/Cubism%20Met%202022%20-%20Georges%20Braque_The%20Guitar%20Statue%20d%E2%80%99%C3%89pouvante.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Georges Braque, French, Argenteuil 1882–1963 Paris </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>The Guitar: “Statue d’Épouvante,”</i> 1913 </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Cut-and-pasted laid, wove, and printed papers, printed wallpapers, charcoal, and gouache on canvas 28 3/4 × 39 3/8 in. (73 × 100 cm) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Musée National Picasso-Paris, Dation Jacqueline Picasso, 1990 (MP 1990-381) </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div></div><div><br /></div></div></div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">And what about Juan Gris? If nothing else, the sheer number and selection of Gris works could have been an exhibition on its own: an "Homage to Juan Gris." For here, alongside the better-known artists Picasso and Braque, the various iterations of Gris' collages and faux collages sing out with strength and fervor, not only due to their size but also their resplendent colors. I would suggest going through the exhibition a few times in order to savor Gris' exciting inventiveness and sensual applications of paint performed within a rigorous geometric composition. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbU8mW2nc-2_d2-T6YF4fRddTjmohUa2RW7R94s8PmHbIHeYeSmMoajhjX2umRVWxCvDH7cS2ULs2GMIQVkEkh_v7GkCyA73Fo_prMlfE1MGEmhAdFuJd2YpW-gXsEh5FgJMQN_suz6SFLFLoCCActpMTsIjc8MKo97qFlPmk9wNKSZUI2zM1Wq3AJAA/s4032/Cubism%20and%20Trompe%20L'Oeil%20Installation%20Shot%20-%20BGN%20Juan%20Gris%20wall.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbU8mW2nc-2_d2-T6YF4fRddTjmohUa2RW7R94s8PmHbIHeYeSmMoajhjX2umRVWxCvDH7cS2ULs2GMIQVkEkh_v7GkCyA73Fo_prMlfE1MGEmhAdFuJd2YpW-gXsEh5FgJMQN_suz6SFLFLoCCActpMTsIjc8MKo97qFlPmk9wNKSZUI2zM1Wq3AJAA/w640-h480/Cubism%20and%20Trompe%20L'Oeil%20Installation%20Shot%20-%20BGN%20Juan%20Gris%20wall.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Three Juan Gris Works</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Installation photograph by Beth S. Gersh-Nesic</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsuZXN67Z8c-sxevlzIil1QbD_28ZAiFQaW0qxPU_eDJoO8P1vLh3UhZ0fSioq3SbOq_tPwb00twS_mzttRj7SQo7xXQw0uqw0slL3yL8Fegf9qwQnRwM7UksZPcK-rkbt9vQ4w-gpWsX4C1alVtcxvZwdV8iAFGKF-XrN0kJ18kry4BVknTLOTAtOKg/s7115/Cubism%20Met%202022%20-%20Juan%20Gris_Violin%20and%20Engraving.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="7115" data-original-width="5468" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsuZXN67Z8c-sxevlzIil1QbD_28ZAiFQaW0qxPU_eDJoO8P1vLh3UhZ0fSioq3SbOq_tPwb00twS_mzttRj7SQo7xXQw0uqw0slL3yL8Fegf9qwQnRwM7UksZPcK-rkbt9vQ4w-gpWsX4C1alVtcxvZwdV8iAFGKF-XrN0kJ18kry4BVknTLOTAtOKg/w493-h640/Cubism%20Met%202022%20-%20Juan%20Gris_Violin%20and%20Engraving.jpg" width="493" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Juan Gris, Spanish, Madrid 1887–1927 Boulogne-sur-Seine </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Violin and Engraving,</i> 1913 </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Oil, sand, collage on canvas 25 5/8 × 19 5/8 in. (65.1 × 49.8 cm) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Leonard A. Lauder Cubist Collection, Purchase, Leonard A. Lauder Gift, 2022 </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div><br /></div><div><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQoxIjGSagcFSTSml0btclbglW48At1AdHDNM-upcAEraEgs4Nq1HYn7TaPp8FER65r1oe9GcFhvwhFtHwdFjgWdc-NPYfFOtLzfmHt5gn6py3s9PF0IKQCpvG7bpOMrFE-5LPQKWphTzljweCeg3Buzzl3Gavhi7J940YQYRAMNOKenIQl79g1O557g/s5930/Cubism%20Met%202022%20-%20Juan%20Gris_Still%20Life%20with%20a%20Guitar.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3804" data-original-width="5930" height="410" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQoxIjGSagcFSTSml0btclbglW48At1AdHDNM-upcAEraEgs4Nq1HYn7TaPp8FER65r1oe9GcFhvwhFtHwdFjgWdc-NPYfFOtLzfmHt5gn6py3s9PF0IKQCpvG7bpOMrFE-5LPQKWphTzljweCeg3Buzzl3Gavhi7J940YQYRAMNOKenIQl79g1O557g/w640-h410/Cubism%20Met%202022%20-%20Juan%20Gris_Still%20Life%20with%20a%20Guitar.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Juan Gris, Spanish, Madrid 1887–1927 Boulogne-sur-Seine </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Still Life with a Guitar, </i>1913 </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Oil on canvas 26 × 39 1/2 in. (66 × 100.3 cm) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, 1998</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA8fcK0iSiHad8wdfGSi8skJbPHN3rF7eIsqcEdvm_WOPfsvGUQu8Z18XnjrP_jlewQF8vgiBTYsfvdEVPG_Y2PMWF0LJwnHQGhZ8Sydz-bvIxbdtQUJXID2fslaADm_X6huYfZjtRTl8h-fXdF1zjQI3JTr3Gksk5VTlRDrOwIT-_YPxF7TLajmUxfw/s3226/Cubisim%20Met%202022%20-%20Juan%20Gris_Breakfast.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3226" data-original-width="2378" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA8fcK0iSiHad8wdfGSi8skJbPHN3rF7eIsqcEdvm_WOPfsvGUQu8Z18XnjrP_jlewQF8vgiBTYsfvdEVPG_Y2PMWF0LJwnHQGhZ8Sydz-bvIxbdtQUJXID2fslaADm_X6huYfZjtRTl8h-fXdF1zjQI3JTr3Gksk5VTlRDrOwIT-_YPxF7TLajmUxfw/w472-h640/Cubisim%20Met%202022%20-%20Juan%20Gris_Breakfast.jpg" width="472" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Juan Gris, Spanish, Madrid 1887–1927 Boulogne-sur-Seine </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Breakfast,</i> 1914 </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Cut-and-pasted printed wallpaper, newspaper, transparentized paper, white laid paper, gouache, oil,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> and wax crayon on canvas </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">31 7/8 × 23 1/2 in. (80.9 × 59.7 cm) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">The Museum of Modern Art, Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest (248.1948) </div></div><div><br /></div></div></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">I also appreciated the organization of themes, such as this wall that demonstrates the relevance of Picasso's and Braque's frequent depiction of violins, a favorite subject among trompe l'oeil and still life painters. The curators also organized galleries that highlighted a single series by each artist, providing an opportunity to study in person several works of art that belong to different collections all over the world. Below are a few examples:</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAdMOQ004maFbANSS3aSYQtR_zCJfB1Wmvz0gT5nP6Pz_RmaA5mJTWztrwL5x1374pA-2fPkH5YHnSekbPKx0OBKBr__r7-SlUae-kREfr6Kg-8igdDf5rMl6rFwsT1HpJpriUSU0kh5cDC-or2wCREfYpXVp65aSWQnvFXoppWdnJVugJ7Uz7YLGsrw/s11579/Cubism%20and%20Trompe%20L'Oeil%20Installation%20Shot%20-%20Picasso%20and%20Harnett%20violins.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="7068" data-original-width="11579" height="390" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhAdMOQ004maFbANSS3aSYQtR_zCJfB1Wmvz0gT5nP6Pz_RmaA5mJTWztrwL5x1374pA-2fPkH5YHnSekbPKx0OBKBr__r7-SlUae-kREfr6Kg-8igdDf5rMl6rFwsT1HpJpriUSU0kh5cDC-or2wCREfYpXVp65aSWQnvFXoppWdnJVugJ7Uz7YLGsrw/w640-h390/Cubism%20and%20Trompe%20L'Oeil%20Installation%20Shot%20-%20Picasso%20and%20Harnett%20violins.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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color: #1e1919;" textlength="40.4879913330078" x="204.926010131836" y="-500.710021972656">Photo by </text><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.79998779296875" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="75.7320098876953" x="248.48600769043" y="-500.710021972656">Paul Lachenauer</text><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.90798950195312" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="95.7720031738281" x="324.981994628906" y="-500.710021972656">, courtesy of The Met</text></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.90798950195312" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="95.7720031738281" x="324.981994628906" y="-500.710021972656"><br /></text></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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color: #1e1919;" textlength="37.4519958496094" x="204.494003295898" y="-515.109985351562">October </text><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.47601318359375" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="4.79998779296875" x="244.478012084961" y="-515.109985351562">2</text><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.47601318359375" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="32.7359924316406" x="250.130004882812" y="-515.109985351562">0, 2022</text><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="3.53997802734375" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="4.739990234375" x="283.630004882812" y="-515.109985351562">–</text><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.36798095703125" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="36.3000183105469" x="289.149993896484" y="-515.109985351562">January </text><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.47601318359375" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="10.3200073242188" x="328.138000488281" y="-515.109985351562">22</text><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.47601318359375" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="26.3999938964844" x="339.261993408203" y="-515.109985351562">, 2023 </text><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.90802001953125" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="162.899993896484" x="368.662017822266" y="-515.109985351562">at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. </text><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.79998779296875" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="40.4879913330078" x="204.926010131836" y="-500.710021972656">Photo by </text><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.79998779296875" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="75.7320098876953" x="248.48600769043" y="-500.710021972656">Paul Lachenauer</text><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.90798950195312" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="95.7720031738281" x="324.981994628906" y="-500.710021972656">, courtesy of The Met</text></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.90798950195312" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="95.7720031738281" x="324.981994628906" y="-500.710021972656"><br /></text></span></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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color: #1e1919;" textlength="37.4519958496094" x="204.494003295898" y="-515.109985351562">October </text><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.47601318359375" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="4.79998779296875" x="244.478012084961" y="-515.109985351562">2</text><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.47601318359375" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="32.7359924316406" x="250.130004882812" y="-515.109985351562">0, 2022</text><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="3.53997802734375" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="4.739990234375" x="283.630004882812" y="-515.109985351562">–</text><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.36798095703125" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="36.3000183105469" x="289.149993896484" y="-515.109985351562">January </text><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.47601318359375" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="10.3200073242188" x="328.138000488281" y="-515.109985351562">22</text><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.47601318359375" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="26.3999938964844" x="339.261993408203" y="-515.109985351562">, 2023 </text><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.90802001953125" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="162.899993896484" x="368.662017822266" y="-515.109985351562">at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. </text><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.79998779296875" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="40.4879913330078" x="204.926010131836" y="-500.710021972656">Photo by </text><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.79998779296875" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="75.7320098876953" x="248.48600769043" y="-500.710021972656">Paul Lachenauer</text><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.90798950195312" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="95.7720031738281" x="324.981994628906" y="-500.710021972656">, courtesy of The Met</text></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.90798950195312" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="95.7720031738281" x="324.981994628906" y="-500.710021972656"><br /></text></span></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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color: #1e1919;" textlength="4.79998779296875" x="244.478012084961" y="-515.109985351562">2</text><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.47601318359375" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="32.7359924316406" x="250.130004882812" y="-515.109985351562">0, 2022</text><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="3.53997802734375" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="4.739990234375" x="283.630004882812" y="-515.109985351562">–</text><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.36798095703125" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="36.3000183105469" x="289.149993896484" y="-515.109985351562">January </text><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.47601318359375" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="10.3200073242188" x="328.138000488281" y="-515.109985351562">22</text><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.47601318359375" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="26.3999938964844" x="339.261993408203" y="-515.109985351562">, 2023 </text><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.90802001953125" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="162.899993896484" x="368.662017822266" y="-515.109985351562">at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. </text><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.79998779296875" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="40.4879913330078" x="204.926010131836" y="-500.710021972656">Photo by </text><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.79998779296875" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="75.7320098876953" x="248.48600769043" y="-500.710021972656">Paul Lachenauer</text><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.90798950195312" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="95.7720031738281" x="324.981994628906" y="-500.710021972656">, courtesy of The Met</text></span></div><div><br /></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK5_iElsOWLoAjfR2bNyfLgcNTw8AlVcIx9kvyXLibLk1EI0KnNuPY2xKhfa1dBAD7kklbRYwsJzDFIYD7BXnKBw-ec7HzuLpMN5b5ZEsfAHxEWmw4LioEdOEfMcMysQ9bZCH3L9KiGKhuMLulox4H129romRamwvY9kEOnQtfS92h--yQE5sWdszzYA/s11573/Cubism%20and%20Trompe%20L'Oeil%20Installation%20Shot%20-%20Traditional%20Trompe%20L'oeil.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="7597" data-original-width="11573" height="421" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiK5_iElsOWLoAjfR2bNyfLgcNTw8AlVcIx9kvyXLibLk1EI0KnNuPY2xKhfa1dBAD7kklbRYwsJzDFIYD7BXnKBw-ec7HzuLpMN5b5ZEsfAHxEWmw4LioEdOEfMcMysQ9bZCH3L9KiGKhuMLulox4H129romRamwvY9kEOnQtfS92h--yQE5sWdszzYA/w640-h421/Cubism%20and%20Trompe%20L'Oeil%20Installation%20Shot%20-%20Traditional%20Trompe%20L'oeil.jpeg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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color: #1e1919;" textlength="37.4519958496094" x="204.494003295898" y="-515.109985351562">October </text><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.47601318359375" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="4.79998779296875" x="244.478012084961" y="-515.109985351562">2</text><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.47601318359375" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="32.7359924316406" x="250.130004882812" y="-515.109985351562">0, 2022</text><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="3.53997802734375" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="4.739990234375" x="283.630004882812" y="-515.109985351562">–</text><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.36798095703125" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="36.3000183105469" x="289.149993896484" y="-515.109985351562">January </text><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.47601318359375" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="10.3200073242188" x="328.138000488281" y="-515.109985351562">22</text><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.47601318359375" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="26.3999938964844" x="339.261993408203" y="-515.109985351562">, 2023 </text><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.90802001953125" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="162.899993896484" x="368.662017822266" y="-515.109985351562">at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. </text><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.79998779296875" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="40.4879913330078" x="204.926010131836" y="-500.710021972656">Photo by </text><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.79998779296875" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="75.7320098876953" x="248.48600769043" y="-500.710021972656">Paul Lachenauer</text><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.90798950195312" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="95.7720031738281" x="324.981994628906" y="-500.710021972656">, courtesy of The Met</text></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.90798950195312" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="95.7720031738281" x="324.981994628906" y="-500.710021972656"><br /></text></span></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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color: #1e1919;" textlength="75.7320098876953" x="248.48600769043" y="-500.710021972656">Paul Lachenauer</text><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.90798950195312" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="95.7720031738281" x="324.981994628906" y="-500.710021972656">, courtesy of The Met</text></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.90798950195312" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="95.7720031738281" x="324.981994628906" y="-500.710021972656"><br /></text></span></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh4Yt8aiwmzlKZOSj-6HuC5ZOiixRfq8dd3S3impWP0M1_v3SdrA7YiKXJSl4XiHSEYeqyiA0MhEXKPxljVkDM6_aIgASWLD6jMUE9GB8xlTvqINZHEVg5WPv0qy1JN1sH-bRE-VbVIqkmXdmICpTRJ3HxcxDgBug1j7vZOmv7Jq3vHDg5pHBE6Eanacw/s11588/Cubism%20and%20Trompe%20L'Oeil%20Installation%20Shot%20-%20Vitrine%20with%20tool%20drawings.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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color: #1e1919;" textlength="26.3999938964844" x="339.261993408203" y="-515.109985351562">, 2023 </text><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.90802001953125" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="162.899993896484" x="368.662017822266" y="-515.109985351562">at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. </text><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.79998779296875" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="40.4879913330078" x="204.926010131836" y="-500.710021972656">Photo by </text><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.79998779296875" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="75.7320098876953" x="248.48600769043" y="-500.710021972656">Paul Lachenauer</text><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.90798950195312" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; 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color: #1e1919;" textlength="36.3000183105469" x="289.149993896484" y="-515.109985351562">January </text><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.47601318359375" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="10.3200073242188" x="328.138000488281" y="-515.109985351562">22</text><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.47601318359375" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="26.3999938964844" x="339.261993408203" y="-515.109985351562">, 2023 </text><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.90802001953125" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="162.899993896484" x="368.662017822266" y="-515.109985351562">at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. </text><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.79998779296875" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="40.4879913330078" x="204.926010131836" y="-500.710021972656">Photo by </text><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.79998779296875" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="75.7320098876953" x="248.48600769043" y="-500.710021972656">Paul Lachenauer</text><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.90798950195312" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="95.7720031738281" x="324.981994628906" y="-500.710021972656">, courtesy of The Met</text></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.90798950195312" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="95.7720031738281" x="324.981994628906" y="-500.710021972656"><br /></text></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.90798950195312" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="95.7720031738281" x="324.981994628906" y="-500.710021972656"><br /></text></span></div><div><br /></div></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;">Also, while you are walking around the galleries, please pay attention to the exhibition designers' trompe l'oeil painted around the text panels. Such fun! Their humor caught me by surprise as I turned to re-read a text. And don't forget to look at the final text panel before you exit. I noticed that some people walk directly through the final door without looking back. Just in front of the exit you find Picasso's famous quote "art is a lie that makes us realize truth" accompanied by a playful trompe l'oeil flourish to send you out into the Met's magnificent hall of sculptures. </div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.90798950195312" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="95.7720031738281" x="324.981994628906" y="-500.710021972656"><br /></text></span></div><div><span style="font-family: inherit;"><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.90798950195312" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="95.7720031738281" x="324.981994628906" y="-500.710021972656"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg8nyHNe7QX3vDGqN3hJV7RbpahmEi0sk60xtoT7J7Nb3itSiNXHOPS8ckXpo7NRIrBPBqrBqhLAyGxBy6y0IxN2opgdSQAR1nI2kuuCKGgFy0Wxz8UcEZZewJWE0aXB9Dy0Xi-HNBh5iWWQhwNMXkKLb4rpHsQ0MwjPNAKrXNTerYn-V7A_P4iSZ1Tg/s4032/Cubism%20and%20Trompe%20L'Oeil%20Installation%20Shot%20-%20BGN%20Exit%20text%20with%20Picasso%20quote.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg8nyHNe7QX3vDGqN3hJV7RbpahmEi0sk60xtoT7J7Nb3itSiNXHOPS8ckXpo7NRIrBPBqrBqhLAyGxBy6y0IxN2opgdSQAR1nI2kuuCKGgFy0Wxz8UcEZZewJWE0aXB9Dy0Xi-HNBh5iWWQhwNMXkKLb4rpHsQ0MwjPNAKrXNTerYn-V7A_P4iSZ1Tg/w480-h640/Cubism%20and%20Trompe%20L'Oeil%20Installation%20Shot%20-%20BGN%20Exit%20text%20with%20Picasso%20quote.jpg" width="480" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: black;">Installation photograph by Beth S. Gersh-Nesic</div><br style="color: black;" /><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.90798950195312" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" textlength="95.7720031738281" x="324.981994628906" y="-500.710021972656"><br /></text></text></span></div></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div>I have only one caveat, not a criticism. The history of Cubism exhibitions continues to inform and surprise. Professors Braun and Cowling heroically researched and developed a valuable method of analyzing Cubist paintings and collages. Their work benefits from all their previous publications and so many others who contributed to the realization of this show and other exhibitions on Cubism. Each contribution in turn has opened our eyes to new ways of understanding this radical movement, its artistic innovations and its commentaries on contemporary life. Therefore, we must bear in mind that there are many ways to analyze a Cubist work. Here, in this wonderful show, we acquire yet another one, but not the only one.</div><div><br /></div><div>Please buy the exhibition catalogue <i>Cubism and the Trompe l'Oeil Tradition</i> (published by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and distributed by Yale University Press). It includes excellent essays by the curators, art historian Claire Le Thomas, and Rachel Mustalish, conservator at the Met, as well as a valuable bibliography of sources that broaden our vision when it comes to the study of Cubism, its art and its artists. Fortunately, the images and evidence in this generous book will remain after the exhibition becomes a distant memory. </div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghk2xOaEzKluSaDH0C-r39rEsAmgKB0cJQDy0tBioeXHkKpM3-tIcnCNKGnWFYRhwO_YXvEnjXPKTCt5Z3qTLcF6fNgSZPnuxdaU_TlhgmqK63NcZlPYeEKHGHz3-ynpE0fT6O876xayuPz0HmcU2t8ToXMNJBTCaSJABGWCbdJZJpDf0Rk30709Yt1w/s4664/Cubism%20Met%202022%20-%20Pablo%20Picasso_Fruit-Dish%20with%20Grapes.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4664" data-original-width="4053" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghk2xOaEzKluSaDH0C-r39rEsAmgKB0cJQDy0tBioeXHkKpM3-tIcnCNKGnWFYRhwO_YXvEnjXPKTCt5Z3qTLcF6fNgSZPnuxdaU_TlhgmqK63NcZlPYeEKHGHz3-ynpE0fT6O876xayuPz0HmcU2t8ToXMNJBTCaSJABGWCbdJZJpDf0Rk30709Yt1w/w557-h640/Cubism%20Met%202022%20-%20Pablo%20Picasso_Fruit-Dish%20with%20Grapes.jpg" width="557" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Pablo Picasso, Spanish, Malaga 1881–1973 Mougins, France </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Fruit-Dish with Grapes,</i> 1914 </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Cut-and-pasted printed wallpaper, laid and wove papers, gouache, and graphite on laid paper</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> 18 7/8 × 16 3/4 in. (47.9 × 42.5 cm) Private collection</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYgc-FbjIRVvf_p4bJEgLK2-hM0UzvGasx25Jx8CUeDOP9QAwiizKGdAlIbFz5ZLhrDSkcn7YKj_IkZjLFf_TVPzpWdN61GVoWTG4j5t_dJufLQsKgjIL47toUp4bzUn_Iqdfk2VlJIKmHm8W3mCNUqKfk2F6BQKt6Pa7op2ySpLukeAJN1PMmjBuL4g/s3634/Cubism%20Met%202022%20-%20Pablo%20Picasso_Dice,%20Packet%20of%20Cigarettes,%20and%20Visiting-Card.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2292" data-original-width="3634" height="405" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYgc-FbjIRVvf_p4bJEgLK2-hM0UzvGasx25Jx8CUeDOP9QAwiizKGdAlIbFz5ZLhrDSkcn7YKj_IkZjLFf_TVPzpWdN61GVoWTG4j5t_dJufLQsKgjIL47toUp4bzUn_Iqdfk2VlJIKmHm8W3mCNUqKfk2F6BQKt6Pa7op2ySpLukeAJN1PMmjBuL4g/w640-h405/Cubism%20Met%202022%20-%20Pablo%20Picasso_Dice,%20Packet%20of%20Cigarettes,%20and%20Visiting-Card.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Pablo Picasso, Spanish, Malaga 1881–1973 Mougins, France </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Dice, Packet of Cigarettes, and Visiting-Card,</i> 1914 </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Cut-and-pasted laid and wove papers, charcoal, graphite, printed commercial label, and printed calling card on laid paper </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">5 1/2 × 8 1/4 in. (14 × 21 cm) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Transfer from the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas Collection, Yale Collection of American Literature (1980.130)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div><div><br /></div><div>Needless to day, as we walk through the galleries, we must not lose sight of the sheer beauty the Old Master still life paintings and Cubist works bring to this landmark occasion. Yes, the first visit to this show may narrow your view, drawing you into the remarkable technical prowess of trompe l'oeil and the Cubists' fun playing with their specialized tools. A second visit might yield another meditation, perhaps on the shared subject matter or the distinct personalities each artist brought to their shared enterprise. And the third, well - the third should focus on the joy of looking, savoring and memorizing what these real objects accomplish that reproductions never can. Therein lies a precious "truth" which Picasso's refers to in the statement printed on the final wall of the show. </div><div><br /></div><div>During this challenging period of navigating so-called facts and evident fabrications, an exhibition that studies the artists' preoccupation with truth in fakery comes at a timely moment for us all. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><text class="_textbox_1gl8y_17" data-test="textbox" direction="ltr" height="7.90798950195312" lengthadjust="spacingAndGlyphs" style="background-color: #f7f5f2; color: #1e1919;" textlength="95.7720031738281" x="324.981994628906" y="-500.710021972656"><br /></text></span></div></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjXUZITi--cN8lv6YFZzhnvRrH7zAXLp0ssZAbl8EXNs-dgwmqQ3J3I7H5CgXE9IqlJh2Trf0Il32Qm6xPSVmXo1ZttGl4Rio2xrgroNylLVHOZvZpJMwH3zQxvfeaEfo31PrV0R6Tlr7LtAazft3FViLGfVn9Jfgh3CBT7BPkhkc8TQC9CrfWLHyCnw/s3316/Cubism%20Met%202022%20-%20Pablo%20Picasso_Still%20life%20with%20Compote%20and%20Glass.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2682" data-original-width="3316" height="518" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjXUZITi--cN8lv6YFZzhnvRrH7zAXLp0ssZAbl8EXNs-dgwmqQ3J3I7H5CgXE9IqlJh2Trf0Il32Qm6xPSVmXo1ZttGl4Rio2xrgroNylLVHOZvZpJMwH3zQxvfeaEfo31PrV0R6Tlr7LtAazft3FViLGfVn9Jfgh3CBT7BPkhkc8TQC9CrfWLHyCnw/w640-h518/Cubism%20Met%202022%20-%20Pablo%20Picasso_Still%20life%20with%20Compote%20and%20Glass.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Pablo Picasso, Spanish, Malaga 1881–1973 Mougins, France </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Still life with Compote and Glass, </i>1914-1915
Oil on canvas
25 × 31 in. (63.5 × 78.7 cm) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Columbus Museum of Art, Gift of Ferdinand Howald (1931.087)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_2SPzCtUrW-8WyJdV2Zc7XYRFMSdlyDvQKPjvKdmchv2JKPAohcuw3NSHMmbU08XAGGCNpKPth3-WexW8WtQ5Bz6RD2HYz0VnHoiCWjAYHiPgSd4RewIM1ekce1sYFrCwHqJQxenvj-Ts6dUnyx1NOqkEi85TXZ_LGzzsKEN5M95-Zp2ednOj8ht1Nw/s7000/Cubism%20Met%202022%20-%20Pablo%20Picasso_Glass,%20Newspaper,%20and%20Die.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="7000" data-original-width="5555" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_2SPzCtUrW-8WyJdV2Zc7XYRFMSdlyDvQKPjvKdmchv2JKPAohcuw3NSHMmbU08XAGGCNpKPth3-WexW8WtQ5Bz6RD2HYz0VnHoiCWjAYHiPgSd4RewIM1ekce1sYFrCwHqJQxenvj-Ts6dUnyx1NOqkEi85TXZ_LGzzsKEN5M95-Zp2ednOj8ht1Nw/w509-h640/Cubism%20Met%202022%20-%20Pablo%20Picasso_Glass,%20Newspaper,%20and%20Die.jpg" width="509" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Pablo Picasso, Spanish, Malaga 1881–1973 Mougins, France </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i>Glass, Newspaper, and Die,</i> 1914 </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Oil, painted tin, iron wire, and wood 6 7/8 × 5 5/16 × 1 3/16 in. (17.4 × 13.5 × 3 cm) </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Musée National Picasso-Paris, Dation Pablo Picasso, 1979 (MP 45)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Wishing you a pleasant weekend and New Moon in Aquarius,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Beth</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Beth S. Gersh-Nesic, PhD</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Director/owner</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">New York Arts Exchange, LLC</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Editor and manager of the official André Salmon <a href="https://andresalmon.org/index.html" target="_blank">website</a> and <a href="https://andresalmon-poet.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">blog</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div></div>nyarts-exchangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15281059731332887468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493721968757194427.post-38963109656514998912023-01-09T15:37:00.003-08:002023-01-09T15:39:40.402-08:00Happy New Year! Best wishes for 2023<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrlAWIL69-GNcPUTx2LJApLSrAFKdfrIMELauLYopODqUiG9GYZtqt1268Z_IdKw_azhU4eOCCMXw5K6XeAZmEJUWdaqnfDQD2bfLj-sZZmm45JM5FIuOGJMcmIIJ5lak4R_eKPq0sUlARDpzGJkRhfgZG1B1wJaL3Ac7s3xiF93GT8K6cVFarnJEL3g/s3722/Greek,%20Girl%20with%20Dove,%20mid%205th%20century%20BC%20Met%20Museum.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3722" data-original-width="2978" height="419" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrlAWIL69-GNcPUTx2LJApLSrAFKdfrIMELauLYopODqUiG9GYZtqt1268Z_IdKw_azhU4eOCCMXw5K6XeAZmEJUWdaqnfDQD2bfLj-sZZmm45JM5FIuOGJMcmIIJ5lak4R_eKPq0sUlARDpzGJkRhfgZG1B1wJaL3Ac7s3xiF93GT8K6cVFarnJEL3g/w335-h419/Greek,%20Girl%20with%20Dove,%20mid%205th%20century%20BC%20Met%20Museum.jpg" width="335" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Ancient Greek, <i>Girl with Dove</i>, Marble Stele, c. 450-50 BC</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Metropolitan Museum of Art</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia; font-size: x-large;"><i>Wishing you peace and joy in 2023!</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">With love,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Beth and the <a href="https://www.nyarts-exchange.com/index.html" target="_blank">New York Arts Exchange</a></div><br /><p></p>nyarts-exchangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15281059731332887468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493721968757194427.post-37152970035957076552022-12-24T20:59:00.000-08:002022-12-24T20:59:09.050-08:00Merry Christmas 2022!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;">Georges de la Tour, <i>Nativity</i>, c. 1645</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Musée du Louvre, Paris</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b style="color: red; font-family: "Pinyon Script";"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Merry Christmas -</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Pinyon Script; font-size: x-large;"><b>Wishing you comfort and joy at Christmas and always -</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Pinyon Script; font-size: x-large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Pinyon Script; font-size: x-large;"><b>And may peace prevail among us</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: Pinyon Script; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>With love,</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: red; font-family: arial; font-size: large;"><b>Beth and the New York Arts Exchange</b></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><p></p>nyarts-exchangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15281059731332887468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493721968757194427.post-39619875242056897432022-12-18T13:12:00.007-08:002022-12-22T14:55:18.771-08:00Judith and the Fifth Day of Hanukah - an oldie but goodie<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYOw-l207qHhzmCpTQ_fiAfABfjjrUvVHl-nNDR_CnxD4TF6E6WoANvSkdZQ_NmWOF7wTl5RFH8OoYE6tqT8hpIXbuKcfgHEVNfnIuZrbvbiUI3s1u9Spq0J9fvdGVBhXWgLchTt9nitlbRRhwrUgRYL-wcsCHm_RyoBh2Kk82Yj1FsLRCThS1-7JV0g/s1200/Hanukah%20-%202022.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="667" data-original-width="1200" height="223" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYOw-l207qHhzmCpTQ_fiAfABfjjrUvVHl-nNDR_CnxD4TF6E6WoANvSkdZQ_NmWOF7wTl5RFH8OoYE6tqT8hpIXbuKcfgHEVNfnIuZrbvbiUI3s1u9Spq0J9fvdGVBhXWgLchTt9nitlbRRhwrUgRYL-wcsCHm_RyoBh2Kk82Yj1FsLRCThS1-7JV0g/w400-h223/Hanukah%20-%202022.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><p></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Poppins;">Dear Friends, </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Poppins;">Happy Hanukah! It's the fifth night of this 8-day celebration. Below is an "oldie" (a previous blog post) on the connection between Judith and Hanukkah - </span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Poppins;">May we all be inspired to advocate for peace in anyway we can, as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Judith">Judith</a> demonstrated around 6th century BCE.</span></span></p><p><span style="background-color: white; font-size: large; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Poppins;">Wishing you a joyous and peaceful celebration, and whether you are Jewish or not, indulge in potato pancakes (latkes) and/or jelly donuts (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sufganiyah" target="_blank">sufganiot</a>) - be part of this delicious tradition.</span></span></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmg-bIMOhmjfxjGA3RKxtKxHC9uPdqRjsS_vG6ZjRn65QlYRinh13OdDx-ufM_l4VpkyKbmqgy29vkXE0PVN731l7BI2PyxK9mdK0tMU6htvJnuU61Fvh21akMhW6xTHItgJXNsWq3vwXm/s1600/Gentileschi+judith+and+maidservant%252C+1612-13.jpg" style="color: #2288bb; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmg-bIMOhmjfxjGA3RKxtKxHC9uPdqRjsS_vG6ZjRn65QlYRinh13OdDx-ufM_l4VpkyKbmqgy29vkXE0PVN731l7BI2PyxK9mdK0tMU6htvJnuU61Fvh21akMhW6xTHItgJXNsWq3vwXm/s400/Gentileschi+judith+and+maidservant%252C+1612-13.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="327" /></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;">Artemisia Gentileschi, <i>Judith and her Maidservant</i>, 1612-3</div><br /><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: medium;">A</span><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: medium;">nd, once again, the retelling of <a href="http://newyorkarts-exchange.blogspot.com/2014/12/judith-and-hanukkah.html" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">Judith and Holofernes</a> in art. Judith is celebrated on the fifth night of Hanukah, because she too saved the Jews (like the Maccabees) during the Neo-Babylonian Era under <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebuchadnezzar_II" target="_blank">Nebuchadnezzar II.</a></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: medium;"><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; 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box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="291" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;">Alessandro Botticelli, <i>Judith and Her Maidservant</i>, 1472</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1_j_V7cgfM2JffIMDYsL7seStlgd5ymFgTesCGavRHWWjssKfCSkI4ZKuViAjj1q8KZcd_Np9EiMSntwnHT7luJbTRw-hnYsLEY7qoI6supmLbQ8D9qt7w2nDvpIVrjbHEHt4_fYUE_y5/s1600/Caravaggio_Judith_Beheading_Holofernes,+1598-99.jpg" style="color: #2288bb; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="296" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1_j_V7cgfM2JffIMDYsL7seStlgd5ymFgTesCGavRHWWjssKfCSkI4ZKuViAjj1q8KZcd_Np9EiMSntwnHT7luJbTRw-hnYsLEY7qoI6supmLbQ8D9qt7w2nDvpIVrjbHEHt4_fYUE_y5/s1600/Caravaggio_Judith_Beheading_Holofernes,+1598-99.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;">Caravaggio, <i>Judith Slaying Holofernes</i>, 1598-99</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1gsaT53OgsvHgYV7DNXwSYsvZDXxXl_kZK0eydT7juWsfKooIlsICWl9WA-8ucUl7QhbdTu14KPz7yp4xgBs0xZq_3OG5Sxbd5eFcGi9yPmBKr6ZclESErVRtmklMjmUJCPeyF5GgfDRt/s1600/Cristofano+Allori,+Judith_with_the_Head_of_Holofernes,+1613.jpg" style="color: #2288bb; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj1gsaT53OgsvHgYV7DNXwSYsvZDXxXl_kZK0eydT7juWsfKooIlsICWl9WA-8ucUl7QhbdTu14KPz7yp4xgBs0xZq_3OG5Sxbd5eFcGi9yPmBKr6ZclESErVRtmklMjmUJCPeyF5GgfDRt/s1600/Cristofano+Allori,+Judith_with_the_Head_of_Holofernes,+1613.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="332" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;">Cristofano Allori, Judith and the Head of Holofernes, 1613</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; 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margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgF5FVz1H8DELSFURQHupWNLOq_FeWm8nwD-MdrLNJNG94LAPDmla-aR7fVHtULLUPBtcVgTRJnKwpraXoJ-gRnFMVcLA5KFJvqfXeDMiJommsHfTrxVeAHvjJvFFdYoNvCGN5TAIfr0lIw/s1600/Dontello+Judith+and+Holofernes,+1460.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="257" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;">Donatello, <i>Judith and Holofernes</i>, 1460</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="266" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;">Johann Adam Boller, <i>Hanukkiah</i>, c. 1705-32, </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;">Jewish Museum, NY, gift of Frida Schiff Warburg</div><div><br /></div></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: medium;">And here is a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhR-hWyGOeU" target="_blank">video </a>created by the Jewish Museum in NY that tells the story of Hanukah.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #666666;"><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: medium;"><div><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: medium;">Best wishes/Chag Sameach,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: medium;">With love and hugs,</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: medium;">Beth</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Poppins;">Beth S. Gersh-Nesic, Ph.D.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: medium;">Director/owner</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: medium;">New York Arts Exchange, LLC</span></div><div><a href="http://www.nyarts-exchange.com/" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;"><span style="font-family: Poppins; font-size: medium;">www.nyarts-exchange.com </span></a></div><div style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /></div></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div>nyarts-exchangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15281059731332887468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493721968757194427.post-6500040559931154772022-11-27T11:11:00.000-08:002022-11-27T11:11:03.013-08:00Holiday Season Museum Exhibitions Suggestions<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8qucgR0S-rA8gqUeIzqUvPMNcV9TOIcKNcnV9EVDYwHDK6kvybAdVqbuPeBq7cOUm17sTX5FMNdIjavD4Uzb_meKabeooX0hLNYlRYY4Ps3VCFtqFBt6obkdPqUGf0qITcTAv8c9GXf1BVoY_4AAk-9A7vdOHfpA_hbol0R0ZANLLriJAy58aXcyb7Q/s756/NYU%20-%20Mostly%20New%20Fall%202022%20-%20Peter%20Hujar,%20Ethyl%20Eichelberger%20as%20Nefertiti%20ii%201981.jpg" style="color: #2288bb; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="756" data-original-width="752" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8qucgR0S-rA8gqUeIzqUvPMNcV9TOIcKNcnV9EVDYwHDK6kvybAdVqbuPeBq7cOUm17sTX5FMNdIjavD4Uzb_meKabeooX0hLNYlRYY4Ps3VCFtqFBt6obkdPqUGf0qITcTAv8c9GXf1BVoY_4AAk-9A7vdOHfpA_hbol0R0ZANLLriJAy58aXcyb7Q/w398-h400/NYU%20-%20Mostly%20New%20Fall%202022%20-%20Peter%20Hujar,%20Ethyl%20Eichelberger%20as%20Nefertiti%20ii%201981.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="398" /></a></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="background-color: white;">Peter Hujar, </span><i style="background-color: white;">Ethyl Eichelberger as Nefertiti (II)</i><span style="background-color: white;">, 1981</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">,</span><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><span style="background-color: white;"> </span><a href="https://greyartgallery.nyu.edu/exhibition/mostly-new-selections-from-the-nyu-art-collection/sec/images/" style="background-color: white; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Mostly New, from the Permanent Collection</span></a></span><a href="https://greyartgallery.nyu.edu/exhibition/mostly-new-selections-from-the-nyu-art-collection/sec/images/" style="background-color: white; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">,</span></a><a href="https://greyartgallery.nyu.edu/exhibition/mostly-new-selections-from-the-nyu-art-collection/sec/images/" style="background-color: white; color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"> </a><span style="background-color: white;">Grey Art Gallery, NYU, </span><span style="background-color: white;">September 6, 2022 </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #666666;">- </span><b style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: red;">December 17, 2022</span></b></span></p><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Dear Friends,</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Happy Thanksgiving Weekend! The Holiday Season is already underway with bushels of bounty that may overwhelm your list of "to-dos." To help you plan, here are several excellent exhibitions in order of their closing dates, highlighted in <span style="color: red;">red.</span> Hopefully, these recommendations will help you plan your Museum Holiday Visits with your favorite art companions.</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Best wishes for <span style="color: #38761d;">Holiday Season</span> 2022 - </i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>With love,</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Beth</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i><br /></i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: medium;"><b><i>Beth S. Gersh-Nesic, PhD, Director, <a href="https://www.nyarts-exchange.com/index.html" target="_blank">New York Arts Exchange</a>, LLC</i></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvjKjVA07GQdmRSJYNFUwOE6uDKepILu6L78vsl5XvuvegxcXaW5BTukkYUy8cuNSvUUCDF8vsU13X25EThuZMS_A9yuNo7zkCbf6un2EVM4nrfzjdhCG0mOHcoSy2zUWEp9gGquVTcDAxHXfAT_zjRbqBXzqdaoa7NaOn0w2C_XG3zrONukGQhNp6WQ/s1800/FIT%20Shoes%20exhibition%20poster.jpg" style="color: #2288bb; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="740" data-original-width="1800" height="264" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhvjKjVA07GQdmRSJYNFUwOE6uDKepILu6L78vsl5XvuvegxcXaW5BTukkYUy8cuNSvUUCDF8vsU13X25EThuZMS_A9yuNo7zkCbf6un2EVM4nrfzjdhCG0mOHcoSy2zUWEp9gGquVTcDAxHXfAT_zjRbqBXzqdaoa7NaOn0w2C_XG3zrONukGQhNp6WQ/w640-h264/FIT%20Shoes%20exhibition%20poster.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><a href="https://www.fitnyc.edu/museum/index.php" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Shoes: Anatomy Identity Magic</span></a></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">FIT Museum, September 1<span style="color: #666666;"> - </span><b><span style="color: red;">December 31, 2022</span></b></span></div><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUwFj2DWb4sNtYzIUxyrWEuRwZeUEcXtV4QMAI0KCUwlUPujtIYp91ABo6Df0JhSPcIyMWy7_4WRS9OOKe0N3DSXEkBLoLGURLyKVJecRR8Gh9TfhqPsG9tpW-h96_0M1rYxm2hjp8RkAS-dpWgDMTBjfV_KDvWunQG0lCVg5DOJ6ZrRXK98Pt_kk7Yg/s1200/Gingerbread%20Bake%20Off,%20Museum%20of%20the%20City%20of%20NY,%20thru%20January%208%202023.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="630" data-original-width="1200" height="336" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUwFj2DWb4sNtYzIUxyrWEuRwZeUEcXtV4QMAI0KCUwlUPujtIYp91ABo6Df0JhSPcIyMWy7_4WRS9OOKe0N3DSXEkBLoLGURLyKVJecRR8Gh9TfhqPsG9tpW-h96_0M1rYxm2hjp8RkAS-dpWgDMTBjfV_KDvWunQG0lCVg5DOJ6ZrRXK98Pt_kk7Yg/w640-h336/Gingerbread%20Bake%20Off,%20Museum%20of%20the%20City%20of%20NY,%20thru%20January%208%202023.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #2b00fe;"><a href="https://www.mcny.org/exhibitions" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;" target="_blank"><b><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Museum of the City of New York</span>,</b></a><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: large;"> </span></span><span style="color: red; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">through January 8, 2023</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">plus: </span><i style="font-size: large;">Food in New York</i><span style="font-size: large;">, through September 30, 2023</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><u>And many other exciting exhibitions for the holiday season and beyond</u></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtkc26mEeIjVRpNZRqdb62iGHEHw_b2TQTdlj9Q2xqQBkT99LoG3dYsijAGKf8sBCCwFlD6JGcLDQnmS6TOZ_tDhVvJfK5uuJLCj8RAODmWDynFXelx8Q0FeQA-33TXTzBSkgbqvgd7Bc8lMo2dB96h4FBoukdt1uIi8cQdcJtiQlWmxn318ZmsqnjjQ/s1200/Tudor%20at%20Met%20-%20Gheeraerts%20the%20Younger,%20Marcus,%20Ellen%20Maurice,%201597.jpg" style="color: #2288bb; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="992" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtkc26mEeIjVRpNZRqdb62iGHEHw_b2TQTdlj9Q2xqQBkT99LoG3dYsijAGKf8sBCCwFlD6JGcLDQnmS6TOZ_tDhVvJfK5uuJLCj8RAODmWDynFXelx8Q0FeQA-33TXTzBSkgbqvgd7Bc8lMo2dB96h4FBoukdt1uIi8cQdcJtiQlWmxn318ZmsqnjjQ/w530-h640/Tudor%20at%20Met%20-%20Gheeraerts%20the%20Younger,%20Marcus,%20Ellen%20Maurice,%201597.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="530" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger,<i> Ellen Maurice,</i> 1597</span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2022/tudors/exhibition-objects" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England</span></a></i></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Met Museum, October 10, 2022<span style="color: #666666;"> - </span><span style="color: red;">January 8, 2023</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; 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clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Marjorie Strider, <i>Girl with Radish</i>, 1963</span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #0d00ff; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://thejewishmuseum.org/exhibitions#current" target="_blank"><i>New York: 1962 - 1962</i></a></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The Jewish Museum, July 22, 2022<span style="color: #666666;"> - </span><b><span style="color: red;">January 4, 2023</span></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; 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clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Kwame Brathwaite, <i>Sikolo Brathwaite, </i></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><i>African Jazz-Art Society and Studio (AJASS), Harlem</i>, c. 1968,</span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"> Courtesy of the artist and Philip Martin Gallery, LA</span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.nyhistory.org/exhibitions/black-is-beautiful-the-photography-of-kwame-brathwaite" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Black is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brathwaite</span></a></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">New York Historical Society, August 19, 2022 -<span style="color: red;"><b> January 15, 2023</b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: red;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: red;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="color: red;"><b><br /></b></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; 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font-size: medium;">Met Museum, October 20, 2022<span style="color: #666666;"> - </span><span style="color: red;">January 22, 2023</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/view/theaster-gates-young-lords-and-their-traces" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Theaster Gates: Young Lords and Their Traces</span></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">New Museum, November 10, 2022 - <span style="color: red;">February 5, 2023</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; 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font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The Little Prince: Taking Flight</span></a></i></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The Morgan Library and Museum, October 14, 2022<span style="color: #666666;"> - </span><b><span style="color: red;">February 5, 2023</span></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Mallica "Kapo" Reynolds, Roberta Flack, 1970</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5078" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces</span></a></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Museum of Modern Art, October 9, 2022 - <span style="color: red;"><b> February 18, 2023</b></span></span></div><br /><span style="color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Sumerian, <i>Marriage of Inanna and Dumuz</i>i, (not in the show)</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="views-field views-field-title" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: center;"><span class="field-content letter-spacing-tight" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><i><a href="https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/she-who-wrote" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">She Who Wrote: Enheduanna and Women of Mesopotamia, ca. 3400–2000 B.C.</span></a></i></span></div><div class="views-field views-field-field-exhibition-date" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: start;"><div class="field-content" style="box-sizing: border-box; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">October 14, 2022 through <b><span style="color: red;">February 19, 2023</span></b></span></div></div></div><span style="font-family: inherit; 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Weber Collection</span></a></i><span style="color: #666666;"> -</span> Met Museum, June 7, 2022<span style="color: #666666;"> -</span><span style="color: red;"> </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="color: red;">February 20, 2023</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Juan Francisco Elso: Por America</span></a></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Museo del Barrio, October 27, 2022 - <span style="color: red;"><b>March 26, 2023</b></span></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1AYINATqlr6FfCXIxvsNCom7HQV0QCmW6N5mb-IRCFQNXdlQQPgggxCQqO9SStUbdA6VYnfEgS9wRYzRcHpMym0hbIfrRddNwTtGchbNYqZ_oFg6vye7IEYeeD-G5fbI569Esl63v0OAINRjs_2ZBVWUL8Zh9yAmYMM1bpqlMEsX_jOsQp17bdrH6zg/s2568/Reynier%20Leyva%20Novo,%20Methuselah,%20digital%20photos,%20Museo%20del%20Barrio.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Misla, <i>El Comedor</i>, 2019</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.elmuseo.org/domesticanx" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Domesticanx</span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Museo del Barrio, October 27, 2022 - <span style="color: red;"><b>March 26, 2023</b></span></span></div><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="959" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdVgGDJGgC5ifgjjrYoju2WCvobBJO31zL0eKYmBaDaBiob7DO8EnVEJFoEyW5RT-itBnR3jVV1VHhdLk7VLOgjCu0r4bdIMGubfJp3zAbxDrtsmlM5CNvHnZQ_bckOXCb85ykbn5Ls0H5z2zP_XDudQAZepzFc1YDC4BKl5t_bFloDhXoNosTPr8rxw/w512-h640/Mayan,%20Maize%20God%20Emerging%20from%20a%20Flower,%207%20-%209th%20century,%20MMA%20exhibition.jpg" width="512" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Mayan, Maize God Emerging from a Flower, c. 7th - 9th centuries</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2022/gods-divinity-maya-art/exhibition-objects" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Mayan Art</span></a></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 21, 2022 -<span style="color: red;"><b> April 2, 2023</b></span></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1025" data-original-width="1024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTHfz3e62Y6c9cgScnF-M6_GbXsv_ngUX5TLoOVdmafRTyuyDpYqCCxIWK51EjXmStQ79A0tqMI0pE1lwvKIVrhcXZSvBLLXn0tqWfve0b9ofGoMPXZYQZ0RVg_xJeCxcVRi3GQcUl1P9ELRbtMSPyC_Bt1w8Nf471zW7iYaA3qNkvPYBpXpWzkqifEQ/w400-h400/Leighton,%20Frederic%20Lord,%20Flaming%20June,%201895.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Marquee Frederic, Lord Leighton, <i>Flaming June</i>, 1895</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><i><a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2022/ponce-loans" style="text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Victorian Masterpieces from the Museo de Arte Ponce, Puerto Rico</span></a></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Met Museum, October 8 <span style="color: #666666;">- </span><b><span style="color: red;">February 2024</span></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px;"><br style="font-size: 13.2px;" /></div></div><div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div>nyarts-exchangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15281059731332887468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493721968757194427.post-86917582132155575672022-11-13T20:05:00.002-08:002022-11-13T20:05:49.282-08:00Beth's next lecture: Proust and Art on Zoom, November 15 at 5 pm, hosted by Alliance Française de Greenwich and Byram Shubert Library<p> </p><div class="yiv0691695878ydp3b2c1c25yiv6176064712ydpb542aca8separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #1d2228; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJfPXgI2SrB2ZJjLwBXkAeWMDNvUGeyMidrKHm5Zblum5LjZZviOWldUjk6ji2s-tusFN1o2AFHo2Rfy1h1Q0oLjq198KgTgnSE6-KnxfTlskHmmFfIBwxDsVvdcwJRBBsxpkyK_WJ-OHR3e3msQ4sSuntTCoxvk9rVlK0ntXt3p6HPL-EOuMC4fse1A/s599/Proust,%20Marcel,%20by%20Jacques-Emile%20Blanche,%201892.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="599" data-original-width="492" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJfPXgI2SrB2ZJjLwBXkAeWMDNvUGeyMidrKHm5Zblum5LjZZviOWldUjk6ji2s-tusFN1o2AFHo2Rfy1h1Q0oLjq198KgTgnSE6-KnxfTlskHmmFfIBwxDsVvdcwJRBBsxpkyK_WJ-OHR3e3msQ4sSuntTCoxvk9rVlK0ntXt3p6HPL-EOuMC4fse1A/w329-h400/Proust,%20Marcel,%20by%20Jacques-Emile%20Blanche,%201892.jpg" width="329" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Jacques-Emile Blanche, Portrait of Marcel Proust, 1892</div><br /><div class="yiv0691695878ydp3b2c1c25yiv6176064712ydpb542aca8separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #1d2228; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div class="yiv0691695878ydp3b2c1c25yiv6176064712ydpb542aca8separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #1d2228; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div class="yiv0691695878ydp3b2c1c25yiv6176064712ydpb542aca8separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #1d2228; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Beth Gersh-Nesic on "Proust and Art"</b></span></div><div class="yiv0691695878ydp3b2c1c25yiv6176064712ydpb542aca8separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #1d2228; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>hosted by the Alliance Française de Greenwich and Byram Shubert Library</b></span></div><div class="yiv0691695878ydp3b2c1c25yiv6176064712ydpb542aca8separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #1d2228; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>at Byram Shubert Library, on Zoom</b></span></div><div class="yiv0691695878ydp3b2c1c25yiv6176064712ydpb542aca8separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #1d2228; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Please register <a href="https://greenwichlibrary.libcal.com/event/9722060" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="color: #2288bb;" target="_blank">here</a></b></span></div><div class="yiv0691695878ydp3b2c1c25yiv6176064712ydpb542aca8separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #1d2228; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="yiv0691695878ydp3b2c1c25yiv6176064712ydpb542aca8separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #1d2228; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Please just us!</b></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;"><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;"><div><div class="yiv0691695878ydp9de15ccdyiv6902988495ydpc73937a6yiv7719436838ydp66f51307yiv0853736622shell" dir="ltr" lang="en-US" style="color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Dear Friends,</div><div class="yiv0691695878ydp9de15ccdyiv6902988495ydpc73937a6yiv7719436838ydp66f51307yiv0853736622shell" dir="ltr" lang="en-US" style="color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><b>You do not have to read, or have read, Marcel Proust's <i>In Search of Lost Time</i> (1913-1927) </b>to understand this lecture. I will try to give you a quick intro to the text and the author, presenting artwork as illustrations. I will place the novel within the period of art history contemporary to its story. Then I will go into how the writer uses art to describe characters, places and taste. And, finally, I will describe Proust's meditation on art, time and "truth," which concerned the avant-garde artists of the early twentieth century.</div><div class="yiv0691695878ydp9de15ccdyiv6902988495ydpc73937a6yiv7719436838ydp66f51307yiv0853736622shell" dir="ltr" lang="en-US" style="color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><br clear="none" /></div><div class="yiv0691695878ydp9de15ccdyiv6902988495ydpc73937a6yiv7719436838ydp66f51307yiv0853736622shell" dir="ltr" lang="en-US" style="color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">I hope you will join me - and please bring questions/comments for our Q and A.</div><div class="yiv0691695878ydp9de15ccdyiv6902988495ydpc73937a6yiv7719436838ydp66f51307yiv0853736622shell" dir="ltr" lang="en-US" style="color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Warm wishes,</div><div class="yiv0691695878ydp9de15ccdyiv6902988495ydpc73937a6yiv7719436838ydp66f51307yiv0853736622shell" dir="ltr" lang="en-US" style="color: #26282a; font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;">Beth</div></div><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;">Beth S. Gersh-Nesic, PhD</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;">Director/owner</div><div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2228; font-family: arial; font-size: 16px;"><a href="https://www.nyarts-exchange.com/index.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">New York Arts Exchange, LLC</a></div>nyarts-exchangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15281059731332887468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493721968757194427.post-73148571297957958482022-10-30T13:24:00.008-07:002022-10-31T18:56:44.576-07:00A Book to Honor Breast Cancer Awareness Month (October) created by artist Wilhelmina Grant-Cooper<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6Sq5OyP_rz_xRUL4Zhn5cgy6ejWh6ccBHWFaVDMlXn7wGOdyIXPzMgV-XfHtirSYi0D3UYpDSvt2L9Z8tFczmiqpu3K4BRdpDsl4Z-hF_qqsCPj59DDabblp4JLttyKTZAJPSUIGSzQGJVtLlCBWvybHp0m5iRMjo6gX5CZGGSj-v5QUAUpA_CX7NiQ/s499/Wilhelmina%20Grant%20-%20Cover%20of%20Nieces%20and%20Aunties%202022.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="333" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6Sq5OyP_rz_xRUL4Zhn5cgy6ejWh6ccBHWFaVDMlXn7wGOdyIXPzMgV-XfHtirSYi0D3UYpDSvt2L9Z8tFczmiqpu3K4BRdpDsl4Z-hF_qqsCPj59DDabblp4JLttyKTZAJPSUIGSzQGJVtLlCBWvybHp0m5iRMjo6gX5CZGGSj-v5QUAUpA_CX7NiQ/w268-h400/Wilhelmina%20Grant%20-%20Cover%20of%20Nieces%20and%20Aunties%202022.jpg" width="268" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Dear friends,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">As we close out October 2022, we also end a month that is dedicated to <a href="https://www.nationalbreastcancer.org/about-breast-cancer/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff00fe;"><b>breast cancer awareness</b></span></a>. In 2017, I curated <i><a href="https://bosombodies.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff00fe;"><b>Bosom Bodies</b></span></a>: An Exhibition in Honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month (October)</i> at the SIA Gallery in Peekskill, NY (thank you, Nadine Gordon-Taylor!) of artworks that honor the beauty of the female breast and the need to address breast cancer every day: through education, proactive examinations, support for survivors, and more research for better treatment. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW6TAzLkSW_Vh6BVsb7DP9Z6AnvivIB_2g8XmGMFK6VkE-AED0tZOHzSRjpHHDBwxKYjB6LuEGNP3200u0a5kUv8FryJRDNyCOWsQ0iPY8bJPoYX9hskaEzG34Cx1btuTZ3-5ydLaTsvg7JnwoDBN1bPxMCop7r1sZjS1sH5j2rYH0JTBPWLftf36QxQ/s635/Wilhelmina%20Grant%20photo.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="635" data-original-width="348" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgW6TAzLkSW_Vh6BVsb7DP9Z6AnvivIB_2g8XmGMFK6VkE-AED0tZOHzSRjpHHDBwxKYjB6LuEGNP3200u0a5kUv8FryJRDNyCOWsQ0iPY8bJPoYX9hskaEzG34Cx1btuTZ3-5ydLaTsvg7JnwoDBN1bPxMCop7r1sZjS1sH5j2rYH0JTBPWLftf36QxQ/w219-h400/Wilhelmina%20Grant%20photo.jpg" width="219" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Wilhelmina Obatola Grant-Cooper</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">My inspiration came from the brilliant artist Wilhelmina Obatola Grant-Cooper, who survived breast cancer twice, and founded<a href="https://sistaah.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff00fe;"><b> SISTAAH</b></span></a> (Survivors Inspiring Sisters Through Art and Advocacy for Health). This past year she dedicated her energies to a beautiful project, pairing teenage girls with breast-cancer survivors in recent years ("The Covid Era"). The title of the book<b><i> Uplifting Cancer Survivors in the Covid Era: Expressions of Kindness and Inspiration Between Aunties and Nieces</i></b> says it all. The exchanges here in letters accompanied by <a href="https://sistaah.org/art-gallery" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Wilhelmina's magnificent collages</span></a> and photographs of the bracelets the teens (the "nieces") made for women they didn't know (their "aunties") are absolutely gorgeous. If ever you worry about the future of this planet, read these letters for reassurance that kindness and love remain in abundant supply. You just have to know where to look. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">So, give yourself and others the joy of reading these heartwarming letters and<b> <span style="color: #ff00fe;">support <a href="https://sistaah.org/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">SISTAAH</span> </a>too</span>. </b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">And congratulations to Wilhelmina for receiving an excellent review in the <i><a href="https://www.manhattantimesnews.com/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Manhattan Times</span> </a></i>two weeks ago. Here is the <a href="https://www.manhattantimesnews.com/warrior-work-obras-de-guerreras/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">link</span></a> to the review.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">You can order the book directly from the<a href="https://sistaah.org/shop/ols/products/uplifting-cancer-survivors-in-the-covid-era-expressions-of-kindness-and-inspiration-between-aunties-and-nieces" target="_blank"> <span style="color: #ff00fe;">SISTAAH website</span></a> (and receive a signed copy too!)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Or from<span style="color: #ff00fe;"> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Uplifting-Cancer-Survivors-COVID-Era/dp/B0BFR4VSJL" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff00fe;">Amazon</span></a> </span>(in print and for Kindle)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Wishing you all excellent health and great happiness, always - </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Love,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Beth </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Beth S. Gersh-Nesic, PhD</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Director/owner</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">New York Arts Exchange, LLC</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><p></p>nyarts-exchangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15281059731332887468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493721968757194427.post-78383788076585356872022-10-09T09:31:00.001-07:002022-10-09T09:31:49.657-07:00Autumn in New York - Outstanding Fall 2022 Exhibitions<p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPEvbchwrKb9Opag7AHhaFka1ku3C0tKs_Xe71qvE29qZg6XmupuxEH_6sIv3TcTLGTk1QxQwPrjTosj8MYfQydaLRQ4yoTcAWOejYa8fhxNtDe3xnajhzdI-1HGrzmGcqqvwXfjDwocebVv0RkvIrGSQY1r_kgoZJsJkY4WLs4pm71oi9QmAXpzYMMg/s3897/Kimono%20Exhibition%20Met%202022%20-%20Book%20with%20kimono%20pattern.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2824" data-original-width="3897" height="290" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgPEvbchwrKb9Opag7AHhaFka1ku3C0tKs_Xe71qvE29qZg6XmupuxEH_6sIv3TcTLGTk1QxQwPrjTosj8MYfQydaLRQ4yoTcAWOejYa8fhxNtDe3xnajhzdI-1HGrzmGcqqvwXfjDwocebVv0RkvIrGSQY1r_kgoZJsJkY4WLs4pm71oi9QmAXpzYMMg/w400-h290/Kimono%20Exhibition%20Met%202022%20-%20Book%20with%20kimono%20pattern.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i>Book of Painted Kosode Patterns</i>, 17th century, Japan, MMA collection</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2022/kimono-style">Kimono Style: The John C. Weber Collection</a></i> - Met Museum, June 7, 2022 - February 20, 2023</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTHfz3e62Y6c9cgScnF-M6_GbXsv_ngUX5TLoOVdmafRTyuyDpYqCCxIWK51EjXmStQ79A0tqMI0pE1lwvKIVrhcXZSvBLLXn0tqWfve0b9ofGoMPXZYQZ0RVg_xJeCxcVRi3GQcUl1P9ELRbtMSPyC_Bt1w8Nf471zW7iYaA3qNkvPYBpXpWzkqifEQ/s1025/Leighton,%20Frederic%20Lord,%20Flaming%20June,%201895.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1025" data-original-width="1024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTHfz3e62Y6c9cgScnF-M6_GbXsv_ngUX5TLoOVdmafRTyuyDpYqCCxIWK51EjXmStQ79A0tqMI0pE1lwvKIVrhcXZSvBLLXn0tqWfve0b9ofGoMPXZYQZ0RVg_xJeCxcVRi3GQcUl1P9ELRbtMSPyC_Bt1w8Nf471zW7iYaA3qNkvPYBpXpWzkqifEQ/w400-h400/Leighton,%20Frederic%20Lord,%20Flaming%20June,%201895.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Marquee Frederic, Lord Leighton, <i>Flaming June</i>, 1895</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2022/ponce-loans" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">Victorian Masterpieces from the Museo de Arte Ponce, Puerto Rico</span></a></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Met Museum, October 8 - February 2024</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtkc26mEeIjVRpNZRqdb62iGHEHw_b2TQTdlj9Q2xqQBkT99LoG3dYsijAGKf8sBCCwFlD6JGcLDQnmS6TOZ_tDhVvJfK5uuJLCj8RAODmWDynFXelx8Q0FeQA-33TXTzBSkgbqvgd7Bc8lMo2dB96h4FBoukdt1uIi8cQdcJtiQlWmxn318ZmsqnjjQ/s1200/Tudor%20at%20Met%20-%20Gheeraerts%20the%20Younger,%20Marcus,%20Ellen%20Maurice,%201597.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="992" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtkc26mEeIjVRpNZRqdb62iGHEHw_b2TQTdlj9Q2xqQBkT99LoG3dYsijAGKf8sBCCwFlD6JGcLDQnmS6TOZ_tDhVvJfK5uuJLCj8RAODmWDynFXelx8Q0FeQA-33TXTzBSkgbqvgd7Bc8lMo2dB96h4FBoukdt1uIi8cQdcJtiQlWmxn318ZmsqnjjQ/w331-h400/Tudor%20at%20Met%20-%20Gheeraerts%20the%20Younger,%20Marcus,%20Ellen%20Maurice,%201597.jpg" width="331" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger,<i> Ellen Maurice,</i> 1597</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2022/tudors/exhibition-objects" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England</span></a></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Met Museum, October 10, 2022 - January 8, 2023</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">William Michael Harnett, <i>Still Life - Violin and Museum</i>, 1888</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2022/cubism-trompe-loeil" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">Cubism and the Trompe l'Oeil Tradition</span></a></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Met Museum, October 20, 2022 - January 22, 2023</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgieRpCVGxXsaqZrNiidG9CTZajLmLLwhGo3ejuhT-SIjrfG9-iUEHJdQ3tCGEYqg_coE2SY5G8Z2aahNUHoMKg0w-R1nUh2-a-J2s90t55W8eug9ZXy7U9jqMh65JPljqaXiJUWnsPpDxLMW7PriO6MUG6Q56MTlQhTnif2ryaWFd9Yx1u1gr-72xOVw/s1170/Nick%20Cave,%20Wall%20Installation,%20in%20Forothermore,%20Gugg%202022-23.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="658" data-original-width="1170" height="360" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgieRpCVGxXsaqZrNiidG9CTZajLmLLwhGo3ejuhT-SIjrfG9-iUEHJdQ3tCGEYqg_coE2SY5G8Z2aahNUHoMKg0w-R1nUh2-a-J2s90t55W8eug9ZXy7U9jqMh65JPljqaXiJUWnsPpDxLMW7PriO6MUG6Q56MTlQhTnif2ryaWFd9Yx1u1gr-72xOVw/w640-h360/Nick%20Cave,%20Wall%20Installation,%20in%20Forothermore,%20Gugg%202022-23.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Nick Cave, Wall Installation in <i><a href="https://www.guggenheim.org/exhibition/nick-cave-forothermore" target="_blank">Forothermore</a></i>, Guggenheim, November 18, 2022 - April 10, 2023</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA-59QYufaXL7tBbyqKtKP4sTHp37CAQHM56Dw8UcGiSQ1jfgG-S327uVsfrO0oXml3dtnZMF5FfGMUzXkbIrZ8lMZ1Me20J4s46qW8mxGptVSPbxfHBJnfwuCsgqJ6zNRQ6rEzX6BajDsRVyev0RYc-qBgdg5L3d3v8HOTWlFSPAEG6pR6vvcjJfPXg/s392/Meret%20Oppenheim,%20Object%20Dejeuner%20en%20fourrure,%201936%20MoMA.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="254" data-original-width="392" height="414" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjA-59QYufaXL7tBbyqKtKP4sTHp37CAQHM56Dw8UcGiSQ1jfgG-S327uVsfrO0oXml3dtnZMF5FfGMUzXkbIrZ8lMZ1Me20J4s46qW8mxGptVSPbxfHBJnfwuCsgqJ6zNRQ6rEzX6BajDsRVyev0RYc-qBgdg5L3d3v8HOTWlFSPAEG6pR6vvcjJfPXg/w640-h414/Meret%20Oppenheim,%20Object%20Dejeuner%20en%20fourrure,%201936%20MoMA.png" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Meret Oppenheim, <i>Object</i> (<i>Luncheon in Fur</i>), 1936</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><a href="https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/5368" target="_blank">Meret Oppenheim: My Exhibition</a></i>, Museum of Modern Art, October 30, 2022 - March 4, 2023</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://www.fitnyc.edu/museum/index.php" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">Shoes: Anatomy Identity Magic</span></a></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">FIT Museum, September 1 - December 31, 2022</span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh00To5bWtx-f_RhYzcWqNtDyNlbO33_ee2fTHsxilU_KMxEOUBszsSmddKqNyXT3DlsZb88K8PQ0ucjIE7eIiwU7ER1W49IhjCZeoZaGlLHgjG3JGrGwMD2LLfDcTwuIXFvUllemR9E3L3MB5a0eOJh8JGOcQnxR3Z3LM5N69pvDJ58vAipO-de39xXA/s768/Balkan%20at%20NYU%20-%20Earring%20from%20Sofia,%20Bulgaria%20250-200%20BCE.jpeg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="288" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh00To5bWtx-f_RhYzcWqNtDyNlbO33_ee2fTHsxilU_KMxEOUBszsSmddKqNyXT3DlsZb88K8PQ0ucjIE7eIiwU7ER1W49IhjCZeoZaGlLHgjG3JGrGwMD2LLfDcTwuIXFvUllemR9E3L3MB5a0eOJh8JGOcQnxR3Z3LM5N69pvDJ58vAipO-de39xXA/w240-h640/Balkan%20at%20NYU%20-%20Earring%20from%20Sofia,%20Bulgaria%20250-200%20BCE.jpeg" width="240" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Earring, 250-200, National Museum of History, Sofia, Bulgaria</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i><a href="https://isaw.nyu.edu/exhibitions/ritual-and-memory" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: medium;">Ritual and Memory: The Ancient Balkans and Beyond</span></a></i></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">September 21, 2022 - February 19, 2023</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-hCkUI9eIyuLPgViAM6cgebuCkzAI606dfdNkka5FX8KGbomXTFOBxymhviNngvQ_OA9i0cLAeLVd3V1MeboOTR4iMESabXAlswKCZSmqRYuFf3FQnSpj1FUW4QJbibWV0O5UvI700uldN9ZzvpB6e7VPt4dmDgmVhdVoTzd7mW2wyPhJ415mtYhNLw/s633/Beardsley,%20Aubrey,%20The%20Artist's%20Bookplate,%201897%20-%20at%20Groliers.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="633" data-original-width="403" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-hCkUI9eIyuLPgViAM6cgebuCkzAI606dfdNkka5FX8KGbomXTFOBxymhviNngvQ_OA9i0cLAeLVd3V1MeboOTR4iMESabXAlswKCZSmqRYuFf3FQnSpj1FUW4QJbibWV0O5UvI700uldN9ZzvpB6e7VPt4dmDgmVhdVoTzd7mW2wyPhJ415mtYhNLw/w408-h640/Beardsley,%20Aubrey,%20The%20Artist's%20Bookplate,%201897%20-%20at%20Groliers.jpg" width="408" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Aubrey Beardsley, "Artist's Bookplate," </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">from Aubrey Beardsley, <i>A Book of Fifty Drawings,</i></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">London: Leonard Smithers, 1897</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The Goliers Club, September 8 - November 12, 2022</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Irina Adams,<i> Kurt Cobain,</i> 2022</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><a href="https://www.olfactoryartkeller.com/exhibitions/portraits-in-scent" target="_blank">Portraits in Scents</a></i>, Olfactory Art Keller</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">25B Henry Street, NYC</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">September 8 - October 15, 2022</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8qucgR0S-rA8gqUeIzqUvPMNcV9TOIcKNcnV9EVDYwHDK6kvybAdVqbuPeBq7cOUm17sTX5FMNdIjavD4Uzb_meKabeooX0hLNYlRYY4Ps3VCFtqFBt6obkdPqUGf0qITcTAv8c9GXf1BVoY_4AAk-9A7vdOHfpA_hbol0R0ZANLLriJAy58aXcyb7Q/s756/NYU%20-%20Mostly%20New%20Fall%202022%20-%20Peter%20Hujar,%20Ethyl%20Eichelberger%20as%20Nefertiti%20ii%201981.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="756" data-original-width="752" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8qucgR0S-rA8gqUeIzqUvPMNcV9TOIcKNcnV9EVDYwHDK6kvybAdVqbuPeBq7cOUm17sTX5FMNdIjavD4Uzb_meKabeooX0hLNYlRYY4Ps3VCFtqFBt6obkdPqUGf0qITcTAv8c9GXf1BVoY_4AAk-9A7vdOHfpA_hbol0R0ZANLLriJAy58aXcyb7Q/w398-h400/NYU%20-%20Mostly%20New%20Fall%202022%20-%20Peter%20Hujar,%20Ethyl%20Eichelberger%20as%20Nefertiti%20ii%201981.jpg" width="398" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Peter Hujar, <i>Ethyl Eichelberger as Nefertiti (II)</i>, 1981</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://greyartgallery.nyu.edu/exhibition/mostly-new-selections-from-the-nyu-art-collection/sec/images/" target="_blank">Mostly New, from the Permanent Collection, </a>Grey Art Gallery, NYU</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">September 6, 2022 - December 17, 2022</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>nyarts-exchangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15281059731332887468noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493721968757194427.post-52618814374037946922022-10-08T21:12:00.005-07:002022-10-09T12:36:52.797-07:00Autumn in New York - Fall 2022 Beth's Lectures<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9JRInTdyhoBzUk6w1UyInLP84BXZRG8Lz4pXxjVaYuh5e3x7yh1iJL3nP6qUpLWhtEhiCcuc7-nCBhFyC1xqSCWzEtIh-vDrnskfBF_doMj4D4yiHu8-O_u39TI3rX2SrXuxbHlgN78IxgJcN059ks3CIKDQDdKco5vPMZuh9AJ8UsLhbRWk9NieuaQ/s499/Sandra%20Smith%20-%20Master%20of%20Souls%202022.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="499" data-original-width="321" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9JRInTdyhoBzUk6w1UyInLP84BXZRG8Lz4pXxjVaYuh5e3x7yh1iJL3nP6qUpLWhtEhiCcuc7-nCBhFyC1xqSCWzEtIh-vDrnskfBF_doMj4D4yiHu8-O_u39TI3rX2SrXuxbHlgN78IxgJcN059ks3CIKDQDdKco5vPMZuh9AJ8UsLhbRWk9NieuaQ/w258-h400/Sandra%20Smith%20-%20Master%20of%20Souls%202022.jpg" width="258" /></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Dear Friends,</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Please join me for these lectures this fall -</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Gersh-Nesic</span><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-uavHtQno7qBSwfyw4zYRCiaJWUcXfEiXO2XqdrcLYwT2pA0L8ztrzrKGGejcd6VOHkg2Zsc__QBWmnmcwrrouf_g8ZpwY0ievrcgSsdDtVl1f5_U1vVP49tjKg5jDtJWUJ-Mdc74SHnwNEHHCjXws24dV_O5qiwrPqc7osjGlCLZgxTMT0uXGnk1uA/s1359/Mantegna,%20Judith%20and%20Holofernes,%201490s.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1359" data-original-width="800" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj-uavHtQno7qBSwfyw4zYRCiaJWUcXfEiXO2XqdrcLYwT2pA0L8ztrzrKGGejcd6VOHkg2Zsc__QBWmnmcwrrouf_g8ZpwY0ievrcgSsdDtVl1f5_U1vVP49tjKg5jDtJWUJ-Mdc74SHnwNEHHCjXws24dV_O5qiwrPqc7osjGlCLZgxTMT0uXGnk1uA/w235-h400/Mantegna,%20Judith%20and%20Holofernes,%201490s.jpg" width="235" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Andrea Mantegna,<i> Judith and her Maidservant,</i> 1490s</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Beth Gersh-Nesic on "Judith and Hanukah"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Wednesday, October 26 - at 10:30 am</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">hosted by Learning in Retirement</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Temple Beth El, Stamford, CT</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>in person, $10 </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Please register <a href="https://lir.gosignmeup.com/public/Course/browse?courseid=2807" target="_blank">here</a></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZPIURsUVk88wVL1vxpkFjkBzL3UojsH3kwnZrqJ8KekRJ6isglANsnDMZuZaHk0XaEDipdtq8Vve4YwEPqjT21CwFVFXSqNwRLky-NckGu9iMAAmc17sjzsqRcX9RvVhy0r5d53KGZOInHkiP_sQ6rTYSM1GGfCt0k0qLFw9TiXToAaSXaIFkRZQXuw/s1168/Proust,%20Marcel%20by%20Otto%20Wegener,%20c.%201896.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1168" data-original-width="1000" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZPIURsUVk88wVL1vxpkFjkBzL3UojsH3kwnZrqJ8KekRJ6isglANsnDMZuZaHk0XaEDipdtq8Vve4YwEPqjT21CwFVFXSqNwRLky-NckGu9iMAAmc17sjzsqRcX9RvVhy0r5d53KGZOInHkiP_sQ6rTYSM1GGfCt0k0qLFw9TiXToAaSXaIFkRZQXuw/w343-h400/Proust,%20Marcel%20by%20Otto%20Wegener,%20c.%201896.jpg" width="343" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Otto Wegener, <i>Marcel Proust</i>, c. 1895</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Beth Gersh-Nesic on "Proust and Art"</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Tuesday, November 15, 2022 at 5 pm</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">hosted by the Alliance Française de Greenwich and Byram Shubert Library</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Byram Shubert Library, 21 Mead Ave, Greenwich, CT</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>on Zoom, no charge</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Please register <a href="https://greenwichlibrary.libcal.com/event/9722060" target="_blank">here</a></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>Looking forward to seeing you there - </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>With love and warm wishes for Fall 2022 and 5783</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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Gersh-Nesic, PhD</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Director and owner</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">New York Arts Exchange, LLC</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><br /><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Remembering Michael Rolando Richards, </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Who Perished on September 11, 2001 </b></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>in the World Trade Center Attack</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; 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clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"><i style="font-size: small;">The Tar Baby vs. St. Sebastian</i><span style="color: #666666; font-size: x-small;">, 1999</span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0fqmOsa2tj0kcgCHVPwxVjHYEwiKD6Z1Q8Wo34gMISUXSB7OElGYIYi3cQ5idUmEJm72rZSzuGEHPQguUG70aZWbtSoqp-6PAP2229n2rK4hBfAOB1adxuAjK3xrzZQCCCNR3Z7IoTds/s1600/michael-rolando-richards.jpg" style="color: #888888; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="385" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0fqmOsa2tj0kcgCHVPwxVjHYEwiKD6Z1Q8Wo34gMISUXSB7OElGYIYi3cQ5idUmEJm72rZSzuGEHPQguUG70aZWbtSoqp-6PAP2229n2rK4hBfAOB1adxuAjK3xrzZQCCCNR3Z7IoTds/w400-h385/michael-rolando-richards.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.098) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;">Michael Richards (August 2, 1963 - September 11, 2001)</div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;">It is a very sad week. We lost a formidable monarch, Queen Elizabeth II and ended an era in history. Today we remember the victims of 9/11 - those who perished on that day and those who died from exposure to the toxic air and ash in the aftermath. I will honor the memory of Queen Elizabeth II in another post. Today, we honor those we lost 21 years ago today. Here is an updated version of a post from September 11, 2013:</span></i></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;"><span style="line-height: 18px; text-decoration: inherit;">Sculptor Michael Rolando Richards died in the attack on September 11, 2001. At the time, he was enjoying a fellowship with World Views, an artist-in-residence program sponsored by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. He had been hard at work on his project, </span><em style="line-height: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;">The Tuskegee Airmen</em><span style="line-height: 18px; text-decoration: inherit;">, dedicated to the memory of the African-American air force who were segregated during World War II.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjch5Gv-3kc1DxMHoiyo_2SOr1ukiZLlgGM4Gu_p4jpYZ63a1XWIzER3ocJoP4CjeTpbpib7eQyeta5d58oDex1CuNYkfqpgixktaL0ymN9PJIbte4DhkPFRjTYbebvqf5wblnZDuTJfbV67Z-Hs3EbKfpp8oACrLc3LRvcgitlgGElNQvj5albCkhqsQ/s384/Michael%20Richards,%20Free%20F'All,%201997.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="384" data-original-width="288" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjch5Gv-3kc1DxMHoiyo_2SOr1ukiZLlgGM4Gu_p4jpYZ63a1XWIzER3ocJoP4CjeTpbpib7eQyeta5d58oDex1CuNYkfqpgixktaL0ymN9PJIbte4DhkPFRjTYbebvqf5wblnZDuTJfbV67Z-Hs3EbKfpp8oACrLc3LRvcgitlgGElNQvj5albCkhqsQ/w480-h640/Michael%20Richards,%20Free%20F'All,%201997.jpg" width="480" /></a></div></div><div class="cap" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Michael Richards (American, 1963-2001). <i>Free Fall,</i> 1997.</span></div><div class="cap" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;"> Fiberglass and resin with iron oxide. 72 x 24 x 19 in. (182.9 x 61 x 48.3 cm). </span></div><div class="cap" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">Contemporary Art. Anonymous gift in honor of Michael Richards. </span></div><div class="cap" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 13px; margin-bottom: 0.5em; max-width: 100%; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: x-small;">I<span style="line-height: 13px; text-decoration: inherit;">mage courtesy Brooklyn Museum</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: inherit;">Michael had attended an opening at the Grey Art Gallery on September 10, 2001 and then decided to head for his WTC studio on the 92nd floor in Manhattan to work. Living in Rosedale, Queens at the time, he skipped the long commute home in favor of staying overnight in order to continue working into the wee hours of the morning. When the planes struck at 8:45 a.m., he might have been getting ready to go to work at</span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: inherit;"> </span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: inherit;">the Bronx Museum of the Arts, where he was a freelance preparator.</span></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE727xEEkt27VXjUSYUlOvPCi_wW2JXTKEPr-Bavecx038r7xk-Bp8elDhT5EwsjsTPW64zxDT7Re11eRqNjoGgipu4Nf7IQ8tIC4C5WlbWzNRM1rUtbE2h2BL4xzr7QLNRiJms4_tdvF4iCL0S1ra7DUhTd11PLtRFyuNekOqxgbG5GKZCQeOhW86cA/s1024/MIchael%20Richards,%20Winger,%201999.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="682" data-original-width="1024" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgE727xEEkt27VXjUSYUlOvPCi_wW2JXTKEPr-Bavecx038r7xk-Bp8elDhT5EwsjsTPW64zxDT7Re11eRqNjoGgipu4Nf7IQ8tIC4C5WlbWzNRM1rUtbE2h2BL4xzr7QLNRiJms4_tdvF4iCL0S1ra7DUhTd11PLtRFyuNekOqxgbG5GKZCQeOhW86cA/w640-h426/MIchael%20Richards,%20Winger,%201999.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><i>Winged</i>, 1999</div><br /><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">That Richards was killed by an airplane piercing the body of a tall, trim tower seems eerily coincidental and almost mystical. Richards' well-known sculpture <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;">Tar Baby vs. St. Sebastian,</em>1999, features the artist's own tall, trim body as the full-length male figure standing straight and lifted off the floor by a slender pole. The gold resin body, clad in a military uniform, bears numerous small airplanes driven into the torso, their noses piercing the surface like the arrows buried into St. Sebastian's flesh as he became a martyr to his Christian faith.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"><h3 class="post-title entry-title" itemprop="name" style="font-size: 22px; font-stretch: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal; margin: 0.75em 0px 0px; position: relative;"><br /></h3><div class="post-body entry-content" id="post-body-9074477258445948637" itemprop="description articleBody" style="line-height: 1.4; position: relative; width: 546px;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzBVds0gR_2MVW9ZCY02uZKRdlUSophBVvyA1hBfp2-m24XeeX1Ix2i9RLKBTffpxalskBpePXKWqN0nxYWxboNi_4838ccy1QrVeJlg6Vj0yOUbvFcdg-J6y6KB0o3PXgbj1aE8-_yW46xn6i3TVI9Q6jwVqxoeCtsO-Jmrv7vBmJaER4w6sAlDuy-A/s1024/Michael%20Richards,%20exhibition%20on%20Governors%20Island,%20Summer%202016.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="683" data-original-width="1024" height="426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzBVds0gR_2MVW9ZCY02uZKRdlUSophBVvyA1hBfp2-m24XeeX1Ix2i9RLKBTffpxalskBpePXKWqN0nxYWxboNi_4838ccy1QrVeJlg6Vj0yOUbvFcdg-J6y6KB0o3PXgbj1aE8-_yW46xn6i3TVI9Q6jwVqxoeCtsO-Jmrv7vBmJaER4w6sAlDuy-A/w640-h426/Michael%20Richards,%20exhibition%20on%20Governors%20Island,%20Summer%202016.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-size: 13.2px; text-align: center;">Michael Richards Retrospective on Governor's Island, Summer 2016</div><div style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration: inherit;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Michael Richards' faith was in humankind. He truly believed that our better angels would prevail - even in the face of political turmoil, bigotry, racism and injustice. Curator Jorge Daniel Veneciano, who organized Richards' exhibition at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 1996, pointed out that the artist's reference to flight worked on two levels: the flight away from repression and the flight toward redemption.</span></div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">In <i>Free Fall</i>, his 1997 sculpture of a male figure carrying a parachute pack on his back, the artist seems to speak of that dual experience. Here a Tuskegee Airman prepares for flight, focused on the mission and his survival. He willingly accepts the risk while he relies on his experience, skill and a parachute (a metaphor for community of support?) to see him through. And yet, there is exhaustion in these faces and bodies. Their patriotism may take them physically into the skies, but their souls remain grounded in despair. When will tolerance replace hatred and war?</span></div><div style="font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; padding: 0px; text-align: center; text-decoration: inherit;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieDz8OIUtcuPMsKZrHcSNtTygaCusT0FFRK6DIknQtTaGy64fJNjlEXoXKa2xlymvQdTA3gzmIP2FRk4e2GKWZY0yfo7yY568KvicN9Np1UvinpMxuDPFHApcn8TLtwCe1qIdPtqM6i6O0/s1600/Michael+Richards,+Are+You+Down++Franconia+Sculpture+Park,+2012.jpg" style="color: #2288bb; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><img border="0" height="306" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieDz8OIUtcuPMsKZrHcSNtTygaCusT0FFRK6DIknQtTaGy64fJNjlEXoXKa2xlymvQdTA3gzmIP2FRk4e2GKWZY0yfo7yY568KvicN9Np1UvinpMxuDPFHApcn8TLtwCe1qIdPtqM6i6O0/w640-h306/Michael+Richards,+Are+You+Down++Franconia+Sculpture+Park,+2012.jpg" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(238, 238, 238); box-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.1) 1px 1px 5px; padding: 5px; position: relative;" width="640" /></a></div>Michael Richards, <i>Are You Down?</i>, Franconia Sculpture Park, 2000</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #666666; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Richards' life hardly touched Tuskegee, Alabama. Born in Brooklyn on August 2, 1963 to a Costa Rican mother and Jamaican father, Michael Richards lived in Kingston, Jamaica during his childhood. He graduated with honors from Excelsior High School and then returned to New York to pursue his undergraduate degree at Queens College, which he completed with distinction in 1985. He went on to earn a Master's Degree in Arts from <a href="http://arthistory.about.com/od/namesrr/a/Michael-Rolando-Richards.htm#" id="_GPLITA_0" in_rurl="http://i.tracksrv.com/click?v=VVM6MzM5NDA6MTMwNDpuZXcgeW9yayB1bml2ZXJzaXR5IGluOmU5YjU5OTM5YWI5MGM1OGVhY2Y2NGU1YzE0YzE0YzFjOnotMTUzMC0zMDk5NzM6YXJ0aGlzdG9yeS5hYm91dC5jb206MzQxOTg6YWMwNmFjNDdmN2I4NDY4MTZhMDMyMWEyZDg2NTllYjI6MTM3ODkwMTcyMzU3MQ" style="color: #3366cc; cursor: pointer; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Click to Continue > by saveshare">New York University in</a> 1991. While at NYU, Richards worked as a preparator at the university's Grey Art Gallery.</span></div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">In 1993, Richards participated in the highly-coveted Whitney Museum Independent Study Program, followed by an Artists-in-the-Marketplace Program at the Bronx Museum of the Arts in 1994.</span></div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">From 1995 to 1996, he participated in the Artist-in-Residence program at the Studio Museum of Harlem and The Space Program, run by The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation in Colorado Springs, Colorado.</span></div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">In 2000, Richards received the Franconia Sculpture Park/Jerome Fellowship. Today, his project for the part <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;">Are You Down?</em> is on display in this Minnesota park and has become the Michael Richards Memorial. It consists of three airmen (cast from Richards' body) sitting in a circle surrounding a target, facing outward. Originally created in fiberglass, Franconia hopes to raise enough money to cast the work in bronze in order to preserve the work in perpetuity. A film about the project can be found <a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1405850678/are-you-down-tribute-to-artist-michael-richards-fr" style="color: #2288bb; text-decoration-line: none;">here</a>. </span></div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The Tuskegee Airmen series highlights a squadron of African-American pilots in World War II--formally called the 332nd Fighter Group in the U.S. Army Air Corps--who were segregated from the other Army units. Despite this racist slight, the squadron excelled in its service to this country. Some sources have said that no airmen lost their lives on a mission during the war. This assertion has been challenged since 2006. However, in Richards' day, the reputation of the Tuskegee Airmen remained almost mythic--as Richards' works tend to be.</span></div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The name Tuskegee also brings up the association with the notorious syphilis experiment conducted by the U.S. Public Health Service from 1932 to 1972. Infecting African-American sharecroppers, the scientists wanted to observe this horribly destructive disease. Another example of racism in the United States, this experiment withheld penicillin (which became available in 1929) from its subjects. During the course of this experiment the wives and children of the subjects were infected, too.</span></div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Clearly, Tuskegee resonated with Michael Richards for a number reasons.</span></div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">At the time of his death, Richards was working on <em style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;">Fallen Angel</em>, a life-size piece based on his own torso that was meant to be positioned on the floor. Wings were attached to the back with one wing broken off and left on the floor. Today it serves as a metaphor for the artist’s life and death.</span></div><div style="line-height: 18px; margin-bottom: 1.5em; margin-top: 1.5em; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Executive Director of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in 2001, Liz Thompson noted that "He was so promising. He was on a tear." So true.</span></div><div style="color: #666666;"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: inherit; font-size: medium; line-height: 18px; text-decoration: inherit;">Today, we remember him for all that he was and all that he was meant to be. And we mourn the loss of a great artist and equally wonderful friend. A memorial was held at the Studio Museum of Harlem on September 23, 2001. </span></div><div style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="color: #666666;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Click on this link to see photos of <a href="https://mocanomi.org/michael-richards-are-you-down/" style="font-style: inherit;" target="_blank">"Art You Down?,"</a><span style="color: #333333; font-style: inherit; text-decoration-line: inherit;"> a retrospective, North Miami Museum of Contemporary Art, April 21 - October 10, 2021. Videos about Michael Richards and a curators' tour are also on this website page. Please scroll down to find this recordings.</span></span></div><div style="color: #666666;"><span style="color: #333333; font-style: inherit; text-decoration-line: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="color: #666666;"><span style="color: #333333; font-style: inherit; text-decoration-line: inherit;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Other Exhibitions:</span></span></div><ul style="line-height: 18px; margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; text-decoration: inherit; z-index: 0;"><li style="font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Governor's Island, Summer 2016</span></li><li style="font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Grey Art Gallery, New York University , New York</span></li><li style="font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC</span></li><li style="font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Aldrich Contemporary Museum, Ridgefield, CT</span></li><li style="font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Studio Museum of Harlem, New York</span></li><li style="font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Bronx Museum of Arts, New York</span></li><li style="font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Miami Art Center, Miami, Florida</span></li><li style="font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Franconia Sculpture Park, Franconia, Minnesota</span></li><li style="font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, New York</span></li><li style="font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC</span></li><li style="font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL</span></li><li style="font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">The Debeyard Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands</span></li><li style="font-style: inherit; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px 0px 0px 18px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">Artists' Space, New York</span></li></ul><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #666666; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit; font-size: medium;">We still miss you, Michael.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; color: #666666; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="background-color: white; clear: both; color: #666666; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", Trebuchet, Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 13.2px; line-height: 18px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div></div>nyarts-exchangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15281059731332887468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493721968757194427.post-75572701752786703682022-07-29T08:00:00.002-07:002022-07-29T08:05:52.526-07:00Last Call - Winslow Homer, at the Met through Sunday, July 31st.<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1ZgS-4kqkL9AwmcDDw0JJwPSGs2fZZAZmSAwAfTkSs4CwsOEE_rCWDz4VShKf73kicrWUl9OY7eJo-mc0lRcr72GYlRggZomwe0biaRw1n4PKiwEuwiDFsj-e-PL1a7LZaODSJGpcrRkbsdJuu7y8s9zN6-Dp8Fvn8ymbMwdZuN37kCFWk_HuhzqwDg/s537/Winslow%20Homer,%20Snap%20the%20Whip,%201872.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="313" data-original-width="537" height="234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1ZgS-4kqkL9AwmcDDw0JJwPSGs2fZZAZmSAwAfTkSs4CwsOEE_rCWDz4VShKf73kicrWUl9OY7eJo-mc0lRcr72GYlRggZomwe0biaRw1n4PKiwEuwiDFsj-e-PL1a7LZaODSJGpcrRkbsdJuu7y8s9zN6-Dp8Fvn8ymbMwdZuN37kCFWk_HuhzqwDg/w400-h234/Winslow%20Homer,%20Snap%20the%20Whip,%201872.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Winslow Homer, <i>Snap the Whip</i>, 1872</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snap_the_Whip" target="_blank">Info in Wikipedia</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>Winslow Homer: Crosscurrents</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>Metropolitan Museum of Art</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>April 11-July 31, 2022</b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2022/winslow-homer" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: large;"><b>Exhibition Page</b></span></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/perspectives/videos/2022/4/homer-tour" target="_blank"><b><span style="font-size: medium;">Tour on on Met Website and YouTube</span></b></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;">Metropolitan Museum of Art</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/11130" target="_blank">Info on Met website</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Dear Friends,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">If you have time, please visit the Winslow Homer exhibition this weekend before it closes on Sunday. Fridays and Saturdays are late nights for the Met and very comfortable indeed - I highly recommend spending summer evenings at the Met.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAnaMvMroZQpGScto2iJ2jMPbYjEKH2tumjnU_g4Vq7pzTbZVYLrBVj2sCtsHOiWru7USgD83TMygw1yEj7oSLVlpKlwfka6khDZX4dMvucXCQdWostI7BbjuC7T8a_Ryl-JzTE6Dh_tlzJFxKB73IPpZ4XbFEN4cS05QVLkbo9L0hCW93d-ZAjfHmMw/s2560/Winslow%20Homer,%20Gulf%20Street%201899.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1537" data-original-width="2560" height="384" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAnaMvMroZQpGScto2iJ2jMPbYjEKH2tumjnU_g4Vq7pzTbZVYLrBVj2sCtsHOiWru7USgD83TMygw1yEj7oSLVlpKlwfka6khDZX4dMvucXCQdWostI7BbjuC7T8a_Ryl-JzTE6Dh_tlzJFxKB73IPpZ4XbFEN4cS05QVLkbo9L0hCW93d-ZAjfHmMw/w640-h384/Winslow%20Homer,%20Gulf%20Street%201899.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Winslow Homer, <i>Gulf Stream</i>, 1899, reworked in 1901 or 1906?</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Metropolitan Museum of Art</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/11122" target="_blank">Info on Met website</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">Winslow Homer in the Met Collection, Spring 1982</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.metmuseum.org/art/metpublications/Winslow_Homer_at_The_Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art_The_Metropolitan_Museum_of_Art_Bulletin_v_39_no_4_Spring_1982" target="_blank">PDF</a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Hoping you are all well and enjoying!</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Warm wishes,</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Beth</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Beth S. Gersh-Nesic, PhD</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">Director/owner</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">New York Arts Exchange, LLC</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;">www.nyarts-exchange.com</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><br /></div></div><p><br /></p>nyarts-exchangehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15281059731332887468noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8493721968757194427.post-35999034875486950622022-06-19T10:06:00.003-07:002022-06-19T10:08:38.499-07:00Happy Father's Day, Happy Juneteenth, Happy Summer Celebrations!<p> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLxP1YLSRu_o0rXfdCfyz3jYyp-WE02LiG1-tUsRvsD_3Byi8KRy6A376fsuJYFlUauTPJRtgYyupx1PMT4o1xrDioUBhHslXlWCgmlpEG_Y1LqgfYFTKgMOrn0LZcq-8VxwL52zqU9oqemCwHeL4pJbeucbbb6RaZyOtpeIWtI2CT_hK0RfTMR40ZJQ/s880/Cbabi%20Bayoc,%20365%20Days%20With%20Day,%202013.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="542" data-original-width="880" height="246" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLxP1YLSRu_o0rXfdCfyz3jYyp-WE02LiG1-tUsRvsD_3Byi8KRy6A376fsuJYFlUauTPJRtgYyupx1PMT4o1xrDioUBhHslXlWCgmlpEG_Y1LqgfYFTKgMOrn0LZcq-8VxwL52zqU9oqemCwHeL4pJbeucbbb6RaZyOtpeIWtI2CT_hK0RfTMR40ZJQ/w400-h246/Cbabi%20Bayoc,%20365%20Days%20With%20Day,%202013.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;">Cbabi Bayoc, "Never Letting Go," Day 111 of <i><a href="https://cbabibayoc.com/365" target="_blank">365 Days of Dad</a></i></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: Abril Fatface; font-size: large;"><b>Happy Father's Day</b></span></p><p style="text-align: center;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_6WU-LHW-NrsJtzXYRnR3FPCilA1OIL0ohznAEUoCHkgMxyv9X_mYmwLit3U791cOo1Ap8nwG_5ISXSNrnyeJiw4FhvPaNHwUqLqmxsT7PX73XjXB97B61x68r7DXjUQyVicDRSQj7H20dqd90Yd8lz0by0yI_P_7Q4kb7rBEJQB2qK9kxrxL5p2vUA/s500/Juneteenth%20The%20First%20Day%20of%20Freedom,%20Angela%20Johnson%202014%20A%20Different%20Now%20book%20cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; 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