And her final tweet:
We will miss you, Ms. Angelou - rest in peace.
Thursday, May 29, 2014
Tuesday, May 27, 2014
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
Monday, May 26, 2014
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
Director
New York Arts Exchange
www.nyarts-exchange.com Thursday, May 1, 2014
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
Porter Bonheur (Good Luck)
and
Best Wishes on
International Workers' Day
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
Saturday, April 19, 2014
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
Monday, March 31, 2014
Last Call: Brucennial through Friday, April 4
Gerri Davis, When We Kiss, 2013
Forget about the Whitney Biennial this year - such a drag. Feast on The Last Brucennial for fun, fulfillment and freedom from trying to like it. It's just a free-for-all show: free admission, free-forum curating, and free from male artists.
But hurry! The Last Brucennial closes this Friday. Be there or be square.
Check out this video for a preview:
Two big shout-outs to Tayo Heuser and Clarity Haynes, whose works are in The Last Brucennial!
Please say it isn't so, Bruces - we love you!
Beth New York
aka Beth S. Gersh-Nesic, Ph.D.
Director
New York Arts Exchange
Friday, March 21, 2014
Last Call: Rachel Mica Weiss "In Place" at Fridman Gallery through March 22
Installation View: An Unnecessary Gesture, Plane of Imminence
Installation View: Plane of Imminence, Untitled
Installation View: Untitled, Gold Cloak (for Sisyphus)
Installation View: Portrait #1, Portrait #2, Portrait #3
Installation View: Portrait #3, An Unnecessary Gesture
Photographs Courtesy of Fridman Gallery
The is an unexpected power and grace in Rachel Mica Weiss' current exhibition at Fridman Gallery. She aims to create conflicts and tensions between perception and expectations. What appears strong is soft. What appears flat is bumpy. Strings, ropes, cords and yarn resist the laws of gravity. Obsessively neat wrapping competes with loosely dangling forms. "In place" of or set "in place" for . . . . contradict each other here and there. Above all, the mighty centerpiece of the exhibition, Plane of Imminence (not Eminence, as its lofty presence seems to infer), takes control of the entire space, guarding the smaller pieces as they remain steadfastly in place (not budging an inch).
"In Place expands Weiss’s inquiry into the interplay between physical and psychological spaces, between inhabitation and inhibition. The centerpiece of the exhibition is a lurching architectural intervention composed of over 50,000 yards of gleaming tensile thread. As the viewer navigates the imposition of this bold blockade, it gives way to porosity; the threads shift, casting the viewer’s shadow onto the wall’s threaded bars of light and opening a new world beyond this threshold."
Here, most happily, is the boldness and riskiness that seems missing in this year's Whitney Biennial. Hopefully Ms. Weiss will be included next time.
Fridman Gallery, 287 Spring Street, between Varick and Hudson Streets. Gallery hours: 12 noon to 6 pm.
Hurry - closing on Saturday, March 22.
Beth New York
aka Beth S. Gersh-Nesic
Director
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