Fall Courses 2015 and New Blogs

Michael Pupin's Birth Place in Idvor, Serbia

Happy end of summer and best wishes for the Labor Day Weekend.   I hope you all had wonderful experiences and enjoyed every minute of summer pleasures.

Please send me your list of art adventures.  Did you see "China" and Sargent at the Met?  Van Gogh and Whistler’s Mother at the Clark?

Hans Hofmann and "Pride" at the Bruce Museum?  "Alice" at the Morgan?

Did you see "Storylines" and Doris Salcedo at the Gugg?  Lots of old friends there (including a few from the New Museum Triennial we saw last May).  The Salcedo show is among my favorites this summer.

There is still time to catch them all.

This semester I won’t be able to give tours.  I agreed to give 3 courses at Purchase:

• Pop Art, Mondays and Wednesdays, 4 – 5:45 pm at RCC campus (starts today)
• Picasso, Thursdays, 6:30-9:50 pm, Purchase College campus (starts tomorrow)
• Museum History and Fundamentals, Tuesdays, 6:30-9:30 pm, Purchase College campus (starts Sept. 15) – this is for the certificate program in Museum Studies.

You are welcome to register for the credit class with Friends of Humanities – only $65 per course: https://www.purchase.edu/Departments/AcademicPrograms/LAS/Humanities/friendsofhumanities.aspx - if you are 60 years young or 60+.

If you would like to join the Museum Studies course, please let me know. This is a non-credit course and may not accept the Friends of Humanities privileges. Nevertheless, it's a great way concentrate on museum culture and have your say during our lively conversations.

Also – I started two blogs (in addition to this NY Arts Exchange blog):

"Summer in Serbia" http://summerinserbia.blogspot.com/    where I will add my pictures taken this summer, one batch at a time.

And Postmodern Mom: http://postmodernmother.blogspot.com/    where I post personal essays that have been rolling around in my brain for a while (inspired by the "Envy" exhibition at the Hudson River Museum).

I am sharing these blogs on Facebook, so if you are not on FB (or have not friended me on FB) and would like to receive these posts separately, please sign up to follow the blogs.  Many thanks!

I also started the Museum of Kindness on Facebook and have a blog for that too.

Please, please send me information that might contribute to this virtual museum. I would greatly appreciate it.

Please stay in touch – WRITE, CALL, TEXT!   I would love to hear from you.

And, please feel free to drop in to my classes. 

Love and hugs,

Beth

Beth S. Gersh-Nesic, Ph.D.

Director

New York Arts Exchange

www.nyarts-exchange.com

Marcy B. Freedman, Performance Artist and Art Historian, at Purchase College June 30th

Chloe Bass' Tea Will Be Served at Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY on March 5

Chloe Bass. Tea Will Be Served, at Apage Enterprise, December 18, 2011 

Performance Artist, Chloe Bass will mediate her work Tea Will be Served at the Neuberger Museum on Wednesday, March 5, 4:30 to 6:30 pm. To participate, please contact the Neuberger Museum at nma.education@neuberger.org

Ms. Bass explains: "Tea Will Be Served primarily addressed the relationship between expectations and reality. Through a series of relatively normal behaviors turned on their heads, the performance explored how making strange can illuminate both the moment itself and our understanding of the everyday. The performance also aimed to make guests, rather than the artist, the central featured performers, generating the “watched” content for themselves as they experienced it. The artist served only as mediator and guide."

Who wouldn't want to have a cuppa with the lovely Ms. Bass and company?  A rare opportunity to be part of a performance piece.  Bravo!

Here is a video of the December 2011 performance: 

Chloe Bass' Tea Will Be Served

See you there,

Beth New York

aka Beth S. Gersh-Nesic, Ph.D.

Director

New York Arts Exchange 

www.nyarts-exchange.com 

Hanukah Greetings and Last Call for Israeli Exhibition at Neuberger Museum, through December 1

Adi Nes, Untitled (from the Soldiers series), 1999 

I refuse to use that "Thanksgiving-whatchamacallit" to usher in The Festival of Lights. Tonight Jews will light the first candle for Hanukah. It's not Thanksgiving yet - I'll send you Thanksgiving Greeting separately.  Thank you very much!

But first, a quick reminder to catch The Compromised Land: Recent Photography and Videos from Israel at the Neuberger Museum, which will close on Sunday, December 1st. The museum is open today, 12 - 5 pm. Closed on Thanksgiving and open again Friday, Saturday and Sunday (even though the students are on vacation).

Curated by Senior Curator of Contemporary Art Helaine Posner and art critic Lilly Wei, this fabulous show is well worth the schlep up Anderson Hill Road and to Purchase College campus drive all the way to the parking lot, then up the stairs to the campus plaza. Oy!  The photogrtaphs are terrific, but the videos take a while. Be prepared to stay at least two hours.  My favorites are Dana Levy's The Fountain, 2011 and Shahar Marcus, Sabich 2006.

Plus the museum's gift shop has many wonderful items you might like to purchase for your special someones.

Happy Hanukah  for now - 

With my best wishes for a delicious celebration,

Beth New York

aka Beth S. Gersh-Nesic
Director
New York Arts Exchange
www.nyarts-exchange.com 

Malcolm D. MacDougall III: Parallel Worlds, extended to January 12

Malcolm D. MacDougall III, Rhizomes, 2010

Stainless Steel and Cast Bronze, 84" x 48" x 24"

Courtesy of the Artist

Today, 287 Spring Gallery and Performance Space announced that their current exhibition, Malcolm D. MacDougall III: Parallel Worlds, has been extended to Saturday, January 12, 2013.  A closing reception will take place on Friday, January 11 from 6-9 pm.  
Address: 287 Spring Street, NYC 10013 (between Varick and Hudson Streets).

Malcolm D. MacDougall III, Parallel Worlds of Truth and Illusion, 2009

Cast Bronze and Steel, 42" x 26" x 16"

Courtesy of the Artist

MacDougall's enormous Microscopic Landscape, 2010, remains on view through January 2013.
(Seen here on Purchase College campus.)

For more information about MacDougall's work, please read my review of his work posted on About.com: Art History.  Or, better yet, purchase the exhibition catalog.  It's $20, available at 287 Spring Gallery. (I wrote the catalog essay and curated the show.)  

Please contact curator Ivan Savvine to order a copy by mail: info@287spring.com

Also visit Malcolm MacDougall's website, where you will see more of his fabulous sculptures and an exciting video about his process.

Beth New York

aka Beth Gersh-Nesic, Ph.D.

Director

New York Arts Exchange

www.nyarts-exchange.com