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

The Last Weekly Tour on Wednesday, May 6: Triennial at the New Museum

The New York Arts Exchange's last weekly tour - the end of offering weekly tours - will take place at the New Museum on Wednesday, May 6th. We will meet at 2 pm and end at 4 pm.

Triennial: Surround Audience at the New Museum focuses on the self and identity, the individual and the social, the present and the future. Surveillance, gender identity, popular culture, the environment and physical awareness are among the themes.  It's a curious show - "entertaining," one of my students offered in his critique. I'll take it: "entertaining."  But not exciting.  It's good, but not great.
So it goes. . . . .

Here are a few of the standouts:

Frank Benson, Juliana, 2015

Aleksandra Domanovic, SOHO (Substance of Human Origin, (2015)

Antoine Catala, Distant Feel (2015)

Nadim Abbas (born and lives in Hong Kong), Chamber 665 "Spielberg," 2014-15

To join the last tour, please make a reservation at nyarts.exchange@verizon.net.
Price of tour: $60 per person.  

Triennial: Surround Audience, New Museum, closes on Sunday, May 24th. 

Best wishes and please keep in touch,

Beth New York

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

Director, New York Arts Exchange

www.nyarts-exchange.com 

Last Tours: Chelsea on April 30 and New Museum on May 6, 2015

Alma Thomas: Moving Heaven and Earth, Paintings and Works on Paper, 1958-78

Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, through May 16th

All good things must come to an end and the New York Arts Exchange's weekly tours will end this Spring on Wednesday, May 6th.

Therefore only 2 tours remain:

Wednesday, April 30: Alma Thomas at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, Joyce Kozloff at DC Moore and other galleries in this part of Chelsea.

Joyce Kozloff, Revolver, 2008

And next Wednesday, May 6th: the New Museum's Triennial

Please join me for these glorious shows.  The Alma Thomas retrospective should not be missed!

As always - $60 per tour; we meet at 1 pm at Michael Rosenfeld Gallery on April 30th and at the New Museum on May 6th.

Please reserve your place at nyarts.exchange@verizon.net

Happy May Day!

Beth New York

aka  Beth S. Gersh-Nesic, Ph.D.

Director

New York Arts Exchange

www.nyarts-exchange.com 

Last Call: Impressionism, Fashion and Modernity closes on Monday, May 27; New York 1993 closes at the New Museum on Sunday, May 26

Gustave Caillebotte (French, 1848–1894) 

Paris Street; Rainy Day, 1877 

Oil on canvas; 83 1/2 x 108 3/4 in. (212.2 x 276.2 cm) 

The Art Institute of Chicago, Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is about to close one of its best Impressionism exhibition in years.  That says a lot - as the Met owns some of the most outstanding examples of Impressionism on the planet, thanks to Louisine Havemeyer, whose buddy Impressionist Mary Cassatt gave her an insider's advantage.

However, Impressionism, Fashion and Modernity is something else entirely. Here the curators added display cases full of clothing and accessories from the era, as well as the fashion magazines oozing with au current fashion terminology.  It's all toute Paris among the gauzy muslims and embroidered piqués.  Most of the clothes are similar to the ones depicted in the paintings. One dress, in Albert  Bartholomé's  In the Conservatory (Madame  Bartholomé), c. 1881, is on view.

            

Albert Bartholomé (French, 1848–1928) 

In the Conservatory (Madame Bartholomé), ca. 1881 

Oil on canvas; 91 3/4 x 56 1/8 in. (233 x 142.5 cm) 

Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Gift of the Société des Amis du Musée d'Orsay, 1990

Summer Day Dress Worn by Madame Bartholomé in the Painting In the Conservatory 

French, 1880 

White cotton printed with purple dots and stripes 

Musée d'Orsay, Paris, Gift of the Galerie Charles and André Bailly, 1991

Above all, the exhibition brings together some of the most beloved Impressionist works within a hop-skip-and-jump from each other: Gustave Caillebotte's Paris Street: Rainy Day (1877); Claude Monet's Camille (1866) and Jean-Frédéric Bazille's Family Reunion (1867).  These works from Paris, Boston, Chicago, Copenhagen, Bremen, and London join with the Met's collection, including a few Havemeyer donations. 

If you are unable to catch the show before it closes on Monday, you might schedule a trip to the Art Institute of Chicago, the next venue on this grand tour (June 26 through September 22, 2013).

NB:  The Met's Holiday Mondays will end on Memorial Day Weekend.  As of July 1st, the Met will be open all 7 days of the week,  from Monday through Sunday, except on Thanksgiving and Christmas. This new policy follows on the heels of the Museum of Modern Art's, which switched to 7-days of the week on May 1st.  Way to go NYC museums.  Very tourist friendly - and we like that!

The New York Arts Exchange will tour Impressionism, Fashion and Modernity on Wednesday, May 22, beginning at 1 pm in the Grand Hall.  We will also tour the Punk show and view James Nares' video The Street (2011)  Please confirm your reservation at nyarts.exchange@verizon.net

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Closing on Sunday (and never open on Monday), the New Museum's exhibition New York 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star may be this Winter's sleeper.  (That's "may," not "is.")  Typical of the New Museum's art fare, it's a bit edgy in a hipster way (if I understand what "hipster" means - anyone care to help me with that?)  Catch New York 1993 before it's gone and save room for one of those gigantic pastries in the Birdbath Café.

A bientôt,

Beth New York

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

Director

New York Arts Exchange

www.nyarts-exchange.com

November 2012 Newsletters: Thanksgiving Greetings

Dear friends,

We have much to be thankful for during this Thanksgiving and Holiday Season.  For many, it's is having electricity and heat after lengthy power outages due to Hurricane Sandy and Nor'Ester Athena.

However, many people still suffer from losses incurred by these storms and other serious reverses.
While we celebrate our good fortune, please consider those who have lost so much.  Here is a link to a list of several organizations that need our help.

As you know, the New York Arts Exchange had to postpone two tours, because of the storms.
Our next tour will be on Wednesday, November 28:
"Caribbean Art," El Museo del Barrio, 1230 Fifth Avenue at 104th St,  We meet a 1 pm.  $60 per tour.

Our remaining tours for the Fall Season:
November 28 - El Museo del Barrio
December 5 - Private studio visit with Ellen K Levy
December 12 - Matisse at the Met.
December 19 - Bellows and Bernini at the Met
December 26 - Brooklyn Museum

Closing Soon:
The Duchamps, Francis Naumann Fine Arts, closing Friday, November 23.
This show is a must-see this season.  Here is the New York Times review
"Martha Rosler's Meta-Monumental Garage Sale," Museum of Modern Art, through November 30.

Closing in December:
Malcolm  D. MacDougall III, 287 Spring Gallery, through December 8
"Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years," Metropolitan Museum, through December 31

Closing in January:
Saika Hoisu, Japan Society, through January 6.
The Quay Brothers, Museum of Modern Art, through January 7
Rosemarie Trockel, New Museum, through January 20
Picasso Black and White, Guggenheim Museum, through January 23
"Mantegne to Matisse: Drawings from the Courtauld," Frick Museum, through January 27
"Faking It: Manipulated Photos before Photoshop," Met Museum, through January 27
Lin Tianmaio, Asia Society, through January 27.


Opening Thursday, December 13: Masako Inkyo's recent work at Onishi Gallery.
Look for an invitation soon.

Best wishes for the Holiday Season,
Beth

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