October 2012 Newsletter: Beth's Fall Tours Begin On Wednesday

Dear friends,

Mother Nature has already crowned the treetops in Duchess County and Upper Westchester with spangles of red, orange and gold.  If you live in New York City, please visit us "upstate" before the great rains of November wash this beauty away.

Two important shows in Westchester just opened this weekend:
"Peekskill Project V," Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, through July 28, 2013.

"Witness: The Art of Jerry Pinkney," Hudson River Museum, through January 13, 2013.

Manhattan also has much to keep you busy before the New Year:
"Regarding Andy Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years," Metropolitan Museum, through December 31, 2012.
"Picasso Black and White," Guggenheim Museum, October 5-January 23, 2013. 
Medieval Manuscripts from the Bodeleian Library, Oxford, England at The Jewish Museum
"Mantegna to Matisse," Frick Museum, through January 27, 2013.
"Conceptual Abstraction,"  Hunter College Gallery, October 5-November 10, 2012.
"Toxic Beauty: The Art of Frank Moore," The Grey Art Gallery, through December 8, 2012.
"Matisse: In Search of Painting," Metropolitan Museum, December 4 through March 27, 2013.
"Malcolm MacDougall III: Microscopic Landscape" in Union Square, through January 2013.
"Malcolm MacDougall III: Parallel Worlds," 287 Spring, November 10 - December 15, 2012.
(Please join us for the gala opening on Friday, November 9 at 6 pm.)

And many others listed among our tours.

Fall Tours:

Dr. Paul Werner's Tours 
at the Metropolitan Museum of Art:
Places still available:
"Art through the Ages," Tuesdays, September 11 through December 18, 10 am
"Bernini, Sculpture in Clay," October 3 through January 6, 2012 - schedule TBA

To reserve a place, please contact Dr. Werner at werner@theorangepress.com
For further information, please visit the events page at www.theorangepress.com  
Syllabi and information about fees for each course can be found on The Orange Press website.
No one will be turned away.


Dr. Beth Gersh-Nesic's Museum Tours 
(NB revisions in bold type)
Wednesdays at 1 - 3 pm
October 3 -  "The Duchamps" at Francis Naumann; Sally Mann at Edwynn Houk
October 10 - Andy Warhol, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
October 17 - "Toxic Beauty: Art of Frank Moore," The Grey Art Gallery
October 24 - Ruth Abrams, Yeshiva University Museum
October 31 - Rosemary Trockel, The New Museum
November 7 - Caribbean Art, El Museo del Barrio
November 14 -Picasso, Black and White, at the Guggenheim.
November 28 -Georges Bellows, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
December 5  - A studio visit with artist Ellen Levy
December 12 - Matisse, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Series of 10: $500; $60 a la carte
Reservations: nyarts.exchange@verizon.net

Gallery tours on Saturday have been cancelled.  

Best wishes for Halloween - 
Beth

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

September 2012 Newsletter - Fall Tours

Dear friends,

The chill of fall is just beginning to cool our mornings and evenings.  Labor Day Weekend has past and it is time to plan for an exciting Fall Art Season in New York.

Please note that a few summer shows are still running through September.

Closing this month:
Edouard Vuillard, The Jewish Museum, through September 23.
"Ghosts in the Machine,"  Artists romance with technology in art, New Museum, through September 30.
Alighiero Boetti, Museum of Modern Art, through October 1.

Fall Tours:

Dr. Paul Werner's Tours 
at the Metropolitan Museum of Art:
"Art and the American Revolution," Thursdays, September 13 and 20, 1:30 pm
"Art through the Ages," Sundays, September 9 through December 16, 2 pm
"Art through the Ages," Tuesdays, September 11 through December 18, 10 am
"European Art," Sundays, September 9 and 16, 11 am
"European Art," Tuesdays, September 11 and 18, 1 pm
"Bernini, Sculpture in Clay," October 3 through January 6, 2012 - schedule TBA

To reserve a place, please contact Dr. Werner at werner@theorangepress.com
For further information, please visit the events page at www.theorangepress.com  
Syllabi for each course is also located on The Orange Press website.
Fees are pay you wish.  Everyone is welcome.

Dr. Beth Gersh-Nesic's Museum Tours 
Wednesdays at 1 - 3 pm
October 3, The Bodleian Medieval Manuscripts and contemporary art, The Jewish Museum
October 10, Andy Warhol, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
October 17, "Toxic Beauty: Art of Frank Moore," The Grey Art Gallery
October 24, Ruth Abrams, Yeshiva University Museum
October 31, Rosemary Trockel, The New Museum
November 7, Caribbean Art, El Museo del Barrio
November 14, Hudson River School, New York Historical Society
November 28, Georges Bellows, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
December 5, A studio visit with artist Ellen Levy
December 12, Matisse, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Series of 10: $500; $60 a la carte
Reservations: nyarts.exchange@verizon.net

Beth's Gallery Tours and Excursions
Saturdays, 1 - 3 pm:
October 6 - Chelsea
October 13 - Midtown
October 27 - Upper Eastside
November 3 - Hispanic Society
November 10 - Brooklyn Museum
November 17 - SoHo

Series of 6: $300; $60 a la carte; $20 each with museum series of 10.
Reservations: nyarts.exchange@verizon.net 

Dr. Kim de Beaumont's Tours of 18th century art 
at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
January 2013 - 2 tours for $100 or $60 a la carte. Specific dates TBA
Reservations: nyarts.exchange@verizon.net

We look forward to sharing this bountiful fall season with you.

With best wishes for the fall holidays,
Beth

Beth S. Gersh-Nesic
Director
New York Arts Exchange

June 2012 Newsletter - June Tours

Dear friends,


Please join us for a Cindy Sherman and Post Exhibition Schmooze on Friday, June 8 at the Museum of Modern Art, at 1 pm.  This is not a tour.  
We will  meet in the exhibition in the Museum of Modern Art on Friday at 1 pm in the exhibition, followed by coffee in the cafe at Trump Tower, Fifth Avenue between 56th and 57th Street.  At the Trump cafe we will schmooze about the show, current identity issues and the "Pictures Generation" - which produced Sherman et al.   This  event is just for fun (no charge).


Museum Mile will take place on Tuesday, June 12 this year.   Please check out the website for a full list of participating venues and activities during this exciting evening on Fifth Avenue:
Museum Mile 2012 Website





Late Spring Tours: Wednesdays and Thursdays at 1 pm Tour prices:  Series of 4: $200; or $60 a la carte


Thursday, June 7 - Vuillard at the Jewish Museum
Wednesday, June 13 - Francesca Woodman and Abstraction, Guggenheim
Wednesday, June 20 - Bellini, Titian and Lotto at the Met.
Wednesday, June 27 - French Drawings at the Grey Art Gallery, NYU: 
                                 Max Ferguson at HUC.


Please reserve a place as soon as possible:  nyarts.exchange@verizon.net


Closing Soon:
The Stein Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, through June 3.  
                                    Review on Beth New York
Cindy Sherman; Museum of Modern Art, through June 11 
Picasso/Gilot: Gagosian, 980 Madison Ave, through June 30.



Best wishes for all your happy June occasions,
Beth


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

May 2012 Newsletter - Tours in May and June

Dear friends,
The Spring art fairs are upon us this weekend
Frieze New York on Randall's Island are still available.  (You must pay in advance.)    
Verge Art Fair 2012 is at 159 Bleecker Street, where we visited the Brucenniel.
Pulse 2012 is at 125 West 18th Street.  


The art fairs continue through Monday, May 7.  


Closing Soon:
Renoir, Impressionism and Full-Length Painting, Frick Museum, through May 13
Diego Rivera, Museum of Modern Art, through May 14.
Rembrandt and Degas: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, MMA, May 20 
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum, through May 27 
The Stein Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, through June 3.
Cindy Sherman; Museum of Modern Art, through June 11


Spring Tours, Wednesdays at 1 pm


Each tour: $60
May  9 - Soho, meeting at the Broken Kilometer 393 West Broadway
May 16 - Chelsea, meeting at Metro Pictures on West 24th Street.
May 23 -  Late 19th Century Art in the American Wing, Met Museum


May 30 - Picasso and Gilot at Gagosian Gallery, 980 Madison Avenue
Gagosian Gallery has requested small groups of no more than 6 people.  Therefore, please reserve in  advance for either  12:30 and 2 pm.  
This tour: $50.  
Please write to me at: nyarts.exchange@verizon.net   
Thank you.


Late Spring Tours: Wednesdays and Thursdays at 1 pm Tour prices:  Series of 4: $200; or $60 a la carte


Thursday, June 7 - Vuillard at the Jewish Museum
Wednesday, June 13 - Francesca Woodman and Abstraction, Guggenheim
Wednesday, June 20 - Midtown Galleries: Martin Puryear, Will Cotton, etc.
Wednesday, June 27 - Fashion, Cloud City and Renaissance Italian Masters


Dr. Paul Werner - events around NYC
(also look on The Orange Press website: www.theorangepress.com)

Wednesday, May 9 - Tour of Byzantium and Islamic exhibit, Met Museum at 1:30.  Tour fee: pay-what-you-like
Thursday, May 10 - Lecture on Art and Capital, Brecht Forum, 451 West Street.  Tickets are $6/$10/$15 


Dr, Habiba Boumlik - presentations at Jacob Burns Film Center 
on contemporary Arabic cinema
Saturday, May 12, 7:30 - Free Men
Sunday, May 13, 4:00 - The Disappearance of Soad Hosni




Recommended - Exhibition in Greenwich, CT:
Sharon Shisler and Elizabeth Vazquez, Byram Mead Library, 1 Mead Street,  May 5-25.


Best wishes for the lovely month of May,
Beth


Beth S. Gersh-Nesic, Ph.D.
Director
New York Arts Exchange

Biennial Blues - Last chance for Brucennial and "The Ungovernables"

Dear friends,

The Whitney Biennial is not very good this year - I am sorry to say.  If you have time today, Friday, April 20, please visit the Brucennial, the Bruce High Quality Foundation's alternative to the Whitney Bi.  It is fabulous and free: 159 Bleecker Street, between Thompson and Sullivan.  10 - 6.

And at the New Museum, on The Bowery at Prince Street, please check out "The Ungovernables," closing on Sunday, April 22 at 6 pm.

Also closing soon - next weekend - "Rembrandt's World" at the Morgan Library, April 29.

Spring Tours:
Our next tour will be Midtown Galleries, meeting at 24 West 57th Street in the lobby at 1 pm.
The remaining Spring Tours are:

April 25 - Midtown Galleries 
May 2 - Uptown Galleries 
May 9 - Soho Galleries 
May 16 - Chelsea Galleries 


I am giving a tour for Alliance Francaise of Greenwich of the Stein Collection at the Met Museum on Tuesday, April 24 at 11 am.
Please write to me at nyarts.exchange@verizon.net , if you would like to join us.


Highly Recommended:
Rembrandt and Degas: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, MMA, May 20.
Renoir, Impressionism and Full-Length Painting, Frick Museum, through May 13
The Stein Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, through June 3.
Cindy Sherman; Museum of Modern Art, through June 11
Diego Rivera, Museum of Modern Art, through May 14.
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum, through May 27


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

March Madness and Spring Tours

Dear friends,

March Madness is upon us - and I don't mean the NBA.  From March 8 through March 11, the major art fairs will invade NYC, forcing glassy-eyed art hunters to wander through the caverns of booths in various venues until they drop dead with exhaustion.  Warning: enter at your own peril and wear very comfortable shoes:
The Armory Show
Volta
Scope

Just in: The Stein Collection at the Met is HUGE - we will have to dedicate more than one day to this exceptional exhibition.   Please note that on March 14, the Rembrandt/Degas exhibition, which is quite small, will last only 45 minutes.  We will spend the remaining hour or so in the Stein Collection for an orientation and an introduction to the collection.  The March 28 tour will briefly summarize the previous tour and continue through the exhibition.  Please be aware that this exhibition needs several visits to adequately absorb this once-in-a-lifetime experience.  The Stein Collection rivals the Barnes and Cone Collections - and may well be far superior in its taste.



Spring Tours on Wednesdays, meeting at 1 pm:

March 7 - Italian Renaissance Portrait at the Met
March 14 - Rembrandt/Degas; intro to the Stein Collection, Met Museum
March 21 - no class*
March 28 - Gertrude, Leo and Michael Stein's Collection, Met Museum
April 4 - The reopened American Wing galleries, Met Museum
April 11- Chelsea Galleries
April 18 - The Whitney Biennial
April 25 - Midtown Galleries
May 2 - Uptown Galleries
May 9 - Soho Galleries
May 16 - Chelsea Galleries

*Dr. Paul Werner will accept NYAE members into his March 21 tour at the Met at 1:30 pm.  He will lecture on Italian Baroque.  Dr. Werner has graciously offered to accept reservations through NYAE - and will not charge for this lecture.   (Thank you, Paul - you are terrific!)   Dr. Werner will offer a full lecture series in the late spring.

Reservations at nyarts.exchange@verizon.net
$500 for the series of 10; $60 per tour 


Faculty News:

Dr. Paul Werner will sell autographed copies of The Red Museum and other The Orange Press publications at the Left Forum 2012 conference at Pace College, City Hall Campus, New York, Friday,Saturday and Sunday, March 16 through 18.

Dr. Habiba Boumlik will lecture on the film Summer at La Goulette  at Purchase College on March 12 at 7 pm   Alliance Francaise de Greenwich.

Dr. Beth Gersh-Nesic will lecture on Picasso and Francoise Gilot at the Women's Club, Greenwich on Tuesday, March 27, at 1:30, through Alliance Francaise de Greenwich


Closing in March:
Infinite Jest, Metropolitan Museum of Art, through March 4.
Mark Podwal: Sharing the Journey, Forum Gallery, 730 Fifth Avenue, through March 7
Tom Friedman: New Work, Luhring Augustine, 521 W 24 St., through March 17
Eric Fischl: Portraits, Mary Boone Gallery, 745 Fifth Ave. and 541 W. 24 St, through March 17
Italian Renaissance Portraits, Metropolitan Museum of Art, through March 18.
Yinka Shonibare: Addio Del Passato, James Cohan Gallery, 533 West 26 St., through March 24.
Soto: Paris and Beyond, Grey Art Gallery, NYU, Washington Square East, through March 30.

Highly Recommended:

Rembrandt and Degas: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, MMA, May 20.
The Ronald Lauder Collection, Neue Galerie, Fifth Ave, through April 2.
Rembrandt's World, The Morgan Library and Museum, through April 29.
Renoir, Impressionism and Full-Length Painting, Frick Museum, through May 13
The Stein Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, through June 3.
Cindy Sherman; Museum of Modern Art, through June 11
Diego Rivera, Museum of Modern Art, through May 14.
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum, through May 27

Happy Spring, Happy Purim and Happy St. Patrick's Day, 


Beth

Beth S. Gersh-Nesic, Ph.D.
Director
New York Arts Exchange

Spring Tours 2012 - Revising the Revision

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Skaters in the Bois de Boulogne, 1889

Dear friends,

Thank you so much for responding to my last newsletter. I am happy to return to the original plan, except for the Cindy Sherman show.   I love her work and would be happy to get together for fun, but there is not need to tour this show. It's self-explanatory.

Looking forward to sharing this wonderful art season with you,

Beth

Director, New York Arts Exchange

http://www.nyarts-exchange.com/ 

See schedule below

Our Winter Sale continues through February 14: Series of 10 tours at $450

 (a savings of $100 for the series and $150 a la carte)

 After February 14: $500 for 10 tours; $60 a la carte

 Tours on Wednesdays begin in March:

• March 7 - Italian Renaissance Portrait at the Met
• March 14 - Rembrandt and Degas at the Met
• March 21 - no class 
• March 28 - Gertrude and Leo Stein's Collection, Met Museum
• April 4 - The reopened American Wing galleries, Met Museum
• April 11- Chelsea Galleries - instead of Cindy Sherman at MoMA
• April 18 - The Whitney Biennial
• April 25 - Midtown Galleries
• May 2 - Uptown Galleries
• May 9 - Soho Galleries
• May 16 - Chelsea Galleries

Tours meet at 1 pm; reservations at nyarts.exchange@verizon.net