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

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

Zooming into Fall with Lectures, Online Articles and Museum Appointment Info

 

Vincent van Gogh, Tree Roots, 1890

Dear friends of the New York Arts Exchange,

September is here with the promise of refreshing autumn breezes. And yet, confusion still reigns over the New York area as we continue to grapple with the Covid-19 pandemic.  Whom do we trust?  Where should we go without concern for our health?  Should I make an appointment with a museum or wait a bit until the museums test their new procedures?  

I prefer prudence and will continue to Zoom my classes at Mercy College and at other venues this fall.  

Here is Beth's Fall Schedule on Zoom.  Click on the titles to find the website and register with the specific organization.

Wednesday, September 23rd at 7 pm: "Vincent van Gogh's Auvers Period: Considering the Latest Revelations."  Hosted on Zoom by the Greenwich Arts Council

Free for Members of GAC; $15 for non-members.  Register through the GAC

Tuesday, October 13th at 10 am: "Three Important Contemporary Black Artists: Kara Walker, Kehinde Wiley and Yinka Shonibare."  Hosted by Learning in Retirement. 

Fee: $5.  Register through LIR.

Wednesday, October 21st at 7 pm: "Recycled and Refashioned: The Art of Ruby Silvious." Hosted by the Greenwich Arts Coucil.  This is an interview with Ruby Silvious with plenty of time for a Q and A.  Mark your calendars - not to be missed! 

Free to member of the GAC. $15 for non-members.  Register through the GAC

Thursday, November 12th at 7 pm: "Andy Warhol and the Pop Revolution." Hosted by Byram Shubert Library, Greenwich, CT.  Free.  Register through BSL.

James Tissot, Seaside (Portrait of Kathleen Kelly NewtonP, 1878

People often ask: What are you up to these days?  Well, I am ashamed to admit, I didn't "Marie Kondo-ize" my house, as I promised myself back in March  Instead I wrote articles on art, because this is my #1 passion.  Here are a few examples on the New York Arts Exchange blog: Lester Rapaport, Fereshteh Priou, Chizuru Morii Kaplan, and Ruby Silvious.

Jacqueline Marval, Les Odalisques, 1903

Here are my articles in Bonjour Paris articles since April 2020:

"The Marvelous Madame Marval: A Woman Artist Among the Fauves," April 7, 2020.

"Museum Musing for the Mother's Day in France: A Quiz," June 3, 2020.

"Man Ray's Muse and Model Adrienne Fidelin: An Interview with Wendy Grossman," July 6, 2020.

"Vincent van Gogh: The Last Painting in Auvers-sur-Oise," August 10, 2020.

"James Tissot: The Painter of 19th Century Modern Life," August 25, 2020.

And finally, museums are beginning to open again.

You have to make appointments, which at first seems strange until you discover that you don't miss navigating through the midday mobs.

Here are the websites for reservations in NYC:

Metropolitan Museum of Art: https://engage.metmuseum.org/admissions/tickets/

Museum of Modern Art: https://buy.acmeticketing.com/orders/198/calendar?eventId=5ef36ac25eeba32ee256c78d&cart 

Whitney Museum of American Art: https://visit.whitney.org/ga/ticketing.aspx?node_id=540044#/step1

New York Historical Society: https://tickets.nyhistory.org/?date=2020-9-11

Museum of the City of New York: https://35948.blackbaudhosting.com/35948/page.aspx?pid=196&tab=2&txobjid=ed762206-14a8-4ff2-b199-f89d6eaa8cf9

NB:

El Museo del Barrio has posted guidelines, but does not require reservations:

https://www.elmuseo.org/visitor-guidelines/

Farther afield:

Hudson River Museum, Yonkers: https://www.hrm.org/plan-your-visit/

Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah: https://katonahmuseum.simpletix.com/e/55816?aff=HomePageLink

Il Magazzino, Cold Springs: https://www.magazzino.art/booking

Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT: https://brucemuseum.org/site/visit_us_detail/admission_reservations

Storm King Art Center, New Windsor, NY: https://stormking.org/visit/

Best wishes for your Labor Day Weekend,

Beth

Beth S. Gersh-Nesic, Ph.D.

Director and owner

New York Arts Exchange

www.nyarts-exchange.com

nyarts.exchange@verizon.net 

Beth's lecture on January 7th - Last Call for January and the Winter Holidays!

Félix Vallotton, La Paresse (Laziness), 1896

Greetings, Friends and Happy New Year!

Today is Three Kings Day, "Little Christmas" and Christmas Eve for members of the Christian Eastern Orthodox churches. Thank you, Hyperallergic, for providing the list and a great source to keep us up to date on art happenings and issues. If you haven't subscribed to Hyperallergic, yet, please make that your New Year's resolution.  Thank you, Hrag Vartanian, for a great online art magazine that is absolutely free!

Félix Vallotton's print, Laziness, is part of a wonderful exhibition of this Swiss artist's paintings and prints at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, through January 26th.  The show is located in the Lehman Wing, so it's a small selection of his work - not too taxing for the weary.

Also, Vallotton and other non-French artists will be featured during my lecture at the Byram Shubert Library, Greenwich, CT on Tuesday, January 7th - that's tomorrow - at 5 pm.

The title is "When Modern Art Came to Paris: Immigration and Assimilation." The talk will highlight the great artists who came to Paris and contributed to modern art when this "City of Light" was the mecca for all aspiring artists. Those who stayed, the immigrants like Vallotton, belong to our concept of "French art."  Vincent van Gogh, Pablo Picasso, Sonia Delauney, and Amedeo Modigliani were other immigrants who established their careers in France and became part of the French avant-garde during their respective lifetimes.  On January 24, 2020, we honor the 100th anniversary of the  death of Modigliani. 

I hope you will be able to join us at the Byram Shubert Library at 5 pm - it's free and open to the public.

Other exhibitions that are closing:

Metropolitan Museum of Art: 

Vija Celmins, through January 12 (at the Met Breuer).

The Cloisters: The Colmar Treasures: A Medieval Jewish Legacy, through January 12.  

The Last Knight closed on January 5th - here is the exhibition page to view online.

Museum of Modern Art:

Michael Amitage, through January 20

Energy, through  January 26

Betye Saar: The Legends of a Black Girl's Window, closed January 4 - here is the exhibition page to view online.

Guggenheim Museum: 

Artistic License: Six Takes on the Guggenheim Collection, through January 12.

New Museum:

Hans Haacke: All Connected, through January 26

Morgan Library and Museum: 

John Singer Sargent: Portraits in Charcoal, through January 12

New York Historical Society:

Beyond Midnight: Paul Revere, through January 12

Katonah Museum of Art:

Abstract Expressionist Women of 9th Street Show, through January 26

Museum of Art and Design:

Vera Neumann (Vera scarves), through January 26

Anna Sui, through February 23

Wishing you a happy and healthy 2020 -

Beth

Beth S. Gersh-Nesic, Ph.D.

Director and owner

New York Arts Exchange

www.nyarts-exchange.com 

On Twitter: @bethnewyork

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