Zoom Art Lecture on Queen Esther, Monday, January 10th at 10 am - Free

 

Jan Victors, The Feast of Queen Esther and King Ahasuerus, 1640

Please join me for my art history slide lecture:

"Queen Esther in Art: Racism, Religion and Resistance"

hosted by the Shames JCC on the Hudson

Monday, January 10th at 10 AM

on Zoom

Your zoom link is located here

I look forward to seeing you then -

Beth

Beth S. Gersh-Nesic, Ph.D.

Director and owner

New York Arts Exchange, LLC

Fall 2019 - Closings, Openings and Beth's Public Lectures

Amy Sherald, Sometimes the king is a woman, 2019

It's been a spectacular fall weather-wise and art-wise: The Museum of Modern Art reopened on Monday, October 21st, the Felix Vallotton will open this Monday, October 29th at the Met (closing January 26, 2020) and the elegant TEFAF  art fair will fill the Park Avenue Armory November 1st - 5th.

This weekend two exciting exhibitions will close:

Saturday, October 26th, Amy Sherald the heart of the matter, Hauser & Wirth, 548 West 22nd. St. 

(Ms. Sherald is best known for her portrait of Michelle Obama in the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC.) 

Alicja Kwade, Parapivot, 2019

Sunday, October 27th, Alicja Kwade, Parapivot, Metropolitan Museum of Art, roof installation

Also - IFPDA Fine Art Print Fair is still on at Jacob Javits Center, closing Sunday, October 27th.

Please join us at Beth's Public Lectures and Panels this fall:

Amadeo Modigliani, Portrait of Max Jacob, 1916

Monday, October 28th - "When Modern Art was 'Jewish': The Anti-Semitic Campaign Against Cubism and the School of Paris," Shames JCC, Tarrytown, 10 - 11:30 am.

 Ann Cefola   

   Ann Launger         

Beth Gersh-Nesic

Translation for Writers - Workshops

Saturday, November 2nd - "Translation for Writers," with poets Ann Cefola, Ann Lauinger and art historian Beth Gersh-Nesic at Desmond-Fish Library, Garrison, NY, 1:30-3 pm. 

Sunday, November 10th - Sunday Afternoon with George: "Translation for Writers," with poets Ann Cefola and Ann Lauinger and art historian Beth Gersh-Nesic at Shames JCC in Tarrytown, NY, 1:30 - 3:30 pm.

Georgia O'Keeffe, Blue and Green Music, 1919

Monday, November 4th - "American Women Artists," late 19th-20th century, Learning in Retirement, Temple Beth El, Stamford, CT, 1 - 3 pm.

Monday, November 11th - "20th Century European Women Artists," Learning in Retirement, Temple Beth El, Stamford, CT, 1 - 3 pm

Monday, December 9th - "Was André Salmon a Feminist?,"  André Salmon Colloquium, University of Turin, Turin, Italy.

More News:  The Launch of Za Mir Press

Our first publication is Professor Jacqueline Gojard's book Pablo Picasso and André Salmon: The Painter, the Poet and the Portraits (Za Mir Press, 2019), available on Amazon. 

As for  teaching art history, some of you know that I retired from Purchase College and joined the faculty of the College of New Rochelle last fall as an adjunct.  CNR closed in August and Mercy College, which took over CNR, hired me back.  I taught at Mercy on and off from 1994-2013.

Please keep in touch and let us know if you have exciting exhibitions, books or other events that you would like to announce through the New York Arts Exchange.  Write to Beth at nyarts.exchange@verizon.net

Happy Halloween!  Shanah Tovah!  

Hoping to see you this fall -

Beth 

Beth Gersh-Nesic, Ph.D.

Director and owner

New York Arts Exchange

Fall is Here! And so is 5779 too! Closings and Openings to Ring in the New Year

Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination

Metropolitan Museum of Art through October 8th

At The Cloisters (above) and on Fifth Avenue

Fall is finally here and the crisp, clean winds are blowing away the heavy rain Hurricane Florence dumped on our region.  Ah - what a relief!  Our hearts and prayers to out to North Carolina, South Carolina and Virginia, which sustained enormous damage and lost so many lives due to the storm.

Therefore, we must be thankful for one challenging day in New York and be grateful for all our bounty, especially the exciting exhibitions on view this past summer.  I hope you were able to see Giacometti at the Guggenheim and Chaim Soutine: Flesh at the Jewish Museum before these exhibition closed earlier this month.  My July newsletter listed the shows ending during the summer.

Please note that the Met Museum decided to keep their Costume Institute exhibition  Heavenly Bodies on view through October 8th.  The Cloisters has a fabulous portion of Heavenly Bodies on view, as you can see in the photo selected our blog post today.  At the Met Breuer, Obsession: Nudes by Klimt, Picasso and Shiele will close on October 7th.

 

Ann Cefola and I will join George Kraus, poet Filippo Naitana, and his translator Ann Lauinger for Poetry in Translation, Sunday, September 30, 1:30 - 3:30 PM, at Shames JCC on Hudson, 371 South Broadway, Tarrytown, NY.  Free for members of the JCC; $10 for non-members.  Ann will read from her translations of  Hélène Sanguinetti's poetry (including her most recent publications) and I will read excerpts from André Salmon's long poem Peindre (Painting), 1921. 

Other New York Arts Exchange opportunities down the pike:

• The Scarsdale Woman's Club, Wednesday, September 26, 2 pm: "Art after WWI: Surrealism."
• Learning in Retirement, Temple Beth El, Stamford,  Wednesday, October 4, 1 pm: "Andy Warhol and Alex Katz at the Neuberger Museum."
• Learning in Retirement, Wednesday, October 10, 1 pm-2 pm; 2 pm-3 pm: Tours of the Neuberger Museum.
• Alliance Française de Greenwich and Byram Shubert Library, at BSL, Tuesday, October 9, 5:15 pm: "Delacroix in Context" (preparing for the exhibition at the Met).

As usual, New York has an extraordinary amount of excellent exhibitions this fall.

A full list of recommendations will be in the next blog post.

Best wishes for Fall Art Season 2018 -

Beth New York

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

Director and Owner

New York Arts Exchange, LLC

www.nyarts-exchange.com