Merry Christmas 2022!

 

Geergen tot Sint Jans, The Nativity at Night, x. 1490

National Gallery, London

Sandro Botticelli, The Nativity of Jesus, c. 1473-75

Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC

Georges de la Tour, Nativity, c. 1645

Musée du Louvre, Paris

Merry Christmas -

Wishing you comfort and joy at Christmas and always -

And may peace prevail among us

With love,

Beth and the New York Arts Exchange

Judith and the Fifth Day of Hanukah - an oldie but goodie

 

Dear Friends, 

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 - 

May we all be inspired to advocate for peace in anyway we can, as Judith demonstrated around 6th century BCE.

Wishing you a joyous and peaceful celebration, and whether you are Jewish or not, indulge in potato pancakes (latkes) and/or jelly donuts (sufganiot)  - be part of this delicious tradition.

Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith and her Maidservant, 1612-3

And, once again, the retelling of Judith and Holofernes 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 Nebuchadnezzar II.

Alessandro Botticelli, Judith and Her Maidservant, 1472

Caravaggio, Judith Slaying Holofernes, 1598-99

Cristofano Allori, Judith and the Head of Holofernes, 1613

Valentin de Boulogne, Judith Slaying Holofernes, 1626

Donatello, Judith and Holofernes, 1460

Johann Adam Boller, Hanukkiah, c. 1705-32, 

Jewish Museum, NY, gift of Frida Schiff Warburg

And here is a video created by the Jewish Museum in NY that tells the story of Hanukah.

Best wishes/Chag Sameach,

With love and hugs,

Beth

Beth S. Gersh-Nesic, Ph.D.

Director/owner

New York Arts Exchange, LLC

www.nyarts-exchange.com 

Holiday Season Museum Exhibitions Suggestions

Peter Hujar, Ethyl Eichelberger as Nefertiti (II), 1981, Mostly New, from the Permanent Collection, Grey Art Gallery, NYU, September 6, 2022 - December 17, 2022

Dear Friends,

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 red.  Hopefully, these recommendations will help you plan your Museum Holiday Visits with your favorite art companions.

Best wishes for Holiday Season 2022 - 

With love,

Beth

Beth S. Gersh-Nesic, PhD, Director, New York Arts Exchange, LLC

Shoes: Anatomy Identity Magic

FIT Museum, September 1 - December 31, 2022

Museum of the City of New York, through January 8, 2023

plus: Food in New York, through September 30, 2023

And many other exciting exhibitions for the holiday season and beyond

Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, Ellen Maurice, 1597

The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England

Met Museum, October 10, 2022 - January 8, 2023

Marjorie Strider, Girl with Radish, 1963

New York: 1962 - 1962

The Jewish Museum, July 22, 2022 - January 4, 2023

Kwame Brathwaite, Sikolo Brathwaite, 

African Jazz-Art Society and Studio (AJASS), Harlem, c. 1968,

 Courtesy of the artist and Philip Martin Gallery, LA

Black is Beautiful: The Photography of Kwame Brathwaite

New York Historical Society, August 19, 2022 - January 15, 2023

William Michael Harnett, Still Life - Violin and Museum, 1888

Cubism and the Trompe l'Oeil Tradition

Met Museum, October 20, 2022 - January 22, 2023

Theaster Gates: Young Lords and Their Traces

New Museum, November 10, 2022 - February 5, 2023

The Little Prince: Taking Flight

The Morgan Library and Museum, October 14, 2022 - February 5, 2023

Mallica "Kapo" Reynolds, Roberta Flack, 1970

Just Above Midtown: Changing Spaces

Museum of Modern Art, October 9, 2022 -  February 18, 2023

Earring, 250-200, National Museum of History, Sofia, Bulgaria

Ritual and Memory: The Ancient Balkans and Beyond

NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World 

September 21, 2022 - February 19, 2023

Sumerian, Marriage of Inanna and Dumuzi, (not in the show)

She Who Wrote: Enheduanna and Women of Mesopotamia, ca. 3400–2000 B.C.

October 14, 2022 through February 19, 2023

Book of Painted Kosode Patterns, 17th century, Japan, MMA collection

Kimono Style: The John C. Weber Collection - Met Museum, June 7, 2022 - 

February 20, 2023

Meret Oppenheim, Object (Luncheon in Fur), 1936

Meret Oppenheim: My Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, October 30, 2022 - March 4, 2023

Edward Hopper, The Automat, 1927

Edward Hoppers' New York

Whitney Museum of American Art, October 19, 2022 - March 5, 2023

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Why Born a Slave!, 1869

Fictions of Emancipation: Carpeaux Recast, Metropolitan Museum of Art

March 22, 2022 -  March 5, 2023

Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 5, 2022- March 26, 2023

Juan Francisco Elso: Por America

Museo del Barrio, October 27, 2022 - March 26, 2023

Reynier Leyva Novo: Methuselah

Museo del Barrio, October 27, 2022 - March 26, 2023

Misla, El Comedor, 2019

Domesticanx

Museo del Barrio, October 27, 2022 - March 26, 2023

Mayan, Maize God Emerging from a Flower, c. 7th  - 9th centuries

Lives of the Gods: Divinity in Mayan Art

Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 21, 2022 - April 2, 2023

"I'll Have What She's Having": The Jewish Deli

New York Historical Society, November 11, 2022 - April 2, 2023

Nick Cave, Wall Installation in Forothermore, 

Guggenheim, November 18, 2022 - April 10, 2023

Marquee Frederic, Lord Leighton, Flaming June, 1895

Victorian Masterpieces from the Museo de Arte Ponce, Puerto Rico

Met Museum, October 8 - February 2024

Beth's next lecture: Proust and Art on Zoom, November 15 at 5 pm, hosted by Alliance Française de Greenwich and Byram Shubert Library

 

Jacques-Emile Blanche, Portrait of Marcel Proust, 1892

Beth Gersh-Nesic on "Proust and Art"

hosted by the Alliance Française de Greenwich and Byram Shubert Library

at Byram Shubert Library, on Zoom

Please register here

Please just us!

Dear Friends,

You do not have to read, or have read, Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time (1913-1927) 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.

I hope you will join me - and please bring questions/comments for our Q and A.

Warm wishes,

Beth

Beth S. Gersh-Nesic, PhD

Director/owner

New York Arts Exchange, LLC

A Book to Honor Breast Cancer Awareness Month (October) created by artist Wilhelmina Grant-Cooper

Dear friends,

As we close out October 2022, we also end a month that is dedicated to breast cancer awareness. In 2017, I curated Bosom Bodies: An Exhibition in Honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month (October) 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.  

Wilhelmina Obatola Grant-Cooper

My inspiration came from the brilliant artist Wilhelmina Obatola Grant-Cooper, who survived breast cancer twice, and founded SISTAAH (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 Uplifting Cancer Survivors in the Covid Era: Expressions of Kindness and Inspiration Between Aunties and Nieces says it all. The exchanges here in letters accompanied by Wilhelmina's magnificent collages 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. 

So, give yourself and others the joy of reading these heartwarming letters and support SISTAAH too. 

And congratulations to Wilhelmina for receiving an excellent review in the Manhattan Times two weeks ago. Here is the link to the review.

You can order the book directly from the SISTAAH website (and receive a signed copy too!)

Or from Amazon (in print and for Kindle)

Wishing you all excellent health and great happiness, always - 

Love,

Beth 

Beth S. Gersh-Nesic, PhD

Director/owner

New York Arts Exchange, LLC

Autumn in New York - Outstanding Fall 2022 Exhibitions

Book of Painted Kosode Patterns, 17th century, Japan, MMA collection

Kimono Style: The John C. Weber Collection - Met Museum, June 7, 2022 - February 20, 2023

Marquee Frederic, Lord Leighton, Flaming June, 1895

Victorian Masterpieces from the Museo de Arte Ponce, Puerto Rico

Met Museum, October 8 - February 2024

Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger, Ellen Maurice, 1597

The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England

Met Museum, October 10, 2022 - January 8, 2023

William Michael Harnett, Still Life - Violin and Museum, 1888

Cubism and the Trompe l'Oeil Tradition

Met Museum, October 20, 2022 - January 22, 2023

Nick Cave, Wall Installation in Forothermore, Guggenheim, November 18, 2022 - April 10, 2023

Meret Oppenheim, Object (Luncheon in Fur), 1936

Meret Oppenheim: My Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, October 30, 2022 - March 4, 2023

Shoes: Anatomy Identity Magic

FIT Museum, September 1 - December 31, 2022

Earring, 250-200, National Museum of History, Sofia, Bulgaria

Ritual and Memory: The Ancient Balkans and Beyond

NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World 

September 21, 2022 - February 19, 2023

Aubrey Beardsley, "Artist's Bookplate," 

from Aubrey Beardsley, A Book of Fifty Drawings,

London: Leonard Smithers, 1897

The Goliers Club, September 8 - November 12, 2022

Irina Adams, Kurt Cobain, 2022

Portraits in Scents, Olfactory Art Keller

25B Henry Street, NYC

September 8 - October 15, 2022

Peter Hujar, Ethyl Eichelberger as Nefertiti (II), 1981

Mostly New, from the Permanent Collection, Grey Art Gallery, NYU

September 6, 2022 - December 17, 2022