Fathers in Art in Honor of Father's Day 2014

Edgar Degas, Place de la Concorde (Vicomte Ludovic Lepic and his daughters), 1875

oil on canvas, The Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg

Balthus, Joan Miró and His Daughter Dolores, 1937-38

oil on canvas, Museum of Modern Art, NY

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, Ugolino and his Sons, 1865-67

marble, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Hellenistic, Laocoön and His Sons, 27 BC-67 AD

marble, Vatican Museum, Vatican City

Berthe Morisot, Eugène Manet and His Daughter Julie at Bougival, 1881

oil on canvas, Musée Marmottan Monet

Paul Cézanne, The Artist's Father Reading “L’Événement, 1866
oil on canvas, National Gallery, Washington, DC

 Norman Rockwell, Father and Son: Homework, 1962
Four Seasons Calendar, oil on canvas, 
Collection of George Lucas, © Brown and Bigelow

Max Ferguson, Father on Fifth Avenue, 2011
oil on panel, Courtesy of Max Ferguson

Best wishes to fathers, grandfathers, god-fathers and uncles everywhere - (Click on the titles for more information about the works.)

Beth New York

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

Director

New York Arts Exchange

www.nyarts-exchange.com 

This Week: Museum Mile on June 10 and LIGHT³ at Fridman Gallery opening June 12

Tuesday, June 10 from 6 - 9 pm, Museum Mile Festival 2014.  Manhattan puts on one of its biggest and best block parties on Fifth Avenue, from 82nd Street to 103rd Street (Metropolitan Museum of Art to the Museum of the City of New York).  Free admission to exhibitions, musical performances and much, much more.   Please look for the map and schedule of events on the Museum Mile Festival website.

Stephen Dean, Black Ladder, 2013

Thursday, June 12 from 6 - 8 pm: LIGHT³  with artists Stephen Dean, Ethan Ryman  and Jan Tichy.  Curated by Lilly Wei.   June 12 - July 11, 2014  at  Fridman Gallery, 287 Spring Street, NYC



Be there or be square,
Beth New York

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

Remembering Maya Angelou and Her Wisdom

And her final tweet:

"Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God."

2:43 PM - 23 May 2014

We will miss you, Ms. Angelou - rest in peace.

Last Call: Hera Gallery Celebrates its 40th Birthday in Westerley, RI through May 31, 2014

Hera Gallery is celebrating its 40th anniversary with an outstanding exhibition that features artists' works past and present - an excellent opportunity to stroll down memory lane with one of the few all-women cooperatives that began during the dawn of the Feminist Movement - and is still in existence. 

Today Hera Gallery accepts male artists too, but the majority of the members are still women - very talented women.

Alexandra Broches, former president and one of the original members, curated this magnificent array of artworks: paintings, prints, collages, photographs, sculptures, installation, and quilts - as well as memorabilia. 

The founding members in the exhibition are: Frances Powers, Roberta Richman, Marlene Malik, Connie Greene, Merle Barnett, Elena Jahn, and Bernadette Hackett.  Their work and/or statements are included in the anniversary exhibition as well as work from so many other longstanding members, such as Alexandra Broches, Claudia Flynn, Jeannette Jacobs, Jill McLaughlin, Barbara Pagh, Troy West, etc. (48 in all). 

If you are not able to attend the gallery in person, please purchase the 2010 catalog in order to support this wonderful and historic part of art history. 

Hera Gallery is located in Wakefield, Rhode Island, but this celebration is taking place in the beautiful Westerley Public Library - and will end on Saturday.

Place: Hoxie Gallery, Westerley Public Library, 44 Broad St., Westerley, RI

Dates: May 7 - 31, 2014

Days and Hours: Monday-Wednesday, 9-8; Thursday - Friday, 9 - 6; Saturday, 9-4. 

Westerley is only 2 hours from Westchester; about 3 hours from Manhattan - take the train from Penn Station.

Photograph by Judy Gelles, 1982

Happy Birthday, Hera,

Beth New York

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

Director

New York Arts Exchange

www.nyarts-exchange.com

Memorial Day - Remembering Duchamp-Villon and Henri Doucet

Raymond Duchamp-Villon (1876-1918), Horse, 1914

The second of the Duchamp siblings - Jacques Villon (born Émile Méry Gaston Duchamp, 1875-1963), Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) and Suzanne Duchamp (1889-1963) -  Raymond Duchamp-Villon was born on November 5, 1876.  He is best known for his participation in the Cubist movement as one of its leading sculptors.  During World War I, he volunteered to serve as an auxiliary doctor (he had completed two years of medical school and dropped out after he fell ill from rheumatic fever).  In late 1916, he contracted typhoid fever and eventually succumbed on October 9, 1918. 

Henri Doucet, Blanche Albane, 1908

Born on December 16, 1883, Henri Doucet had a promising career as a member of the burgeoning Cubist movement that grew out of the abbaye de Créteil group (Georges Duhamel, Charles Vildrac, Albert Gleizes, Jean Metzinger, etc.). The actress Blanche Albane was married to Duhamel. Doucet was also friends with Amedeo Modiglilani and introduced the Italian artist to Dr. Paul Alexandre, his first patron. When the Great War broke out, Doucet enlisted with his friend Vildrac.  He was killed at Hooge, on March 4 or 5, 1915.

Best wishes for the Memorial Day Weekend,

Beth New York

Aka

Beth S. Gersh-Nesic, Ph.D.

Director

New York Arts Exchange

www.nyarts-exchange.com 

La Fete du Muguet - Wishing You Good Fortune on May Day 2014

Happy May Day – 
Porter Bonheur (Good Luck)

and

Best Wishes on
International  Workers' Day

International Workers' Day commemorates
The Haymarket Riot, May 4, 1886 
published in Harper's Magazine, May 14, 1886

Wishing you good luck today and always,

Beth New York

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

Director

New York Arts Exchange

Passover and Easter Greetings

The Big Egg Hunt, #119

 donated by HRH The Prince of Wales and HRH The Duchess of Cornwall:

T'is the Paschal Season, when somber prayers and sacred rituals accompany massive feasts abundant with eggs.   Passover and Easter seem to revolve around these ovoid symbols for birth, rebirth and Spring!

Have you taken in the Big Egg Hunt 2014 yet?  Previously strewn around the 5 boroughs, these enormous artistic creations are now on view at Rockefeller Center through April 25th for their final bow.

They will be auctioned off at Sotheby's on April 22.   

Maggie Norris Couture Egg 040

If you do not have time to see all or most of these eggs-cellent creations in person, please visit The Big Egg Hunt website or buy the book at various locations.  

Mary Mattingly, "We Are the Egg," 2014

The event is sponsored by Fabergé, and is 100% charitable, raising money for the Studio in a School in NYC and conservation efforts for Elephant Family. 

Happy Big Egg Hunting - 

With best wishes for Passover and Easter -

Beth New York

aka Beth S. Gersh-Nesic

Director

New York Arts Exchange