Around the Table Book Group

Virtual | DC Around the Table Book Group – Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama

7pm ET | 6pm CT | 4pm PT

Join ArtTable’s Washington, D.C. Chapter for an Around the Table Book Group. This program is open to all ArtTable members and meets four times a year; participants can join for one book or for all!

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For the second DC Around the Table Book Group of 2021, we will discuss “Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama.”

In 1957, encouraged by Georgia O’Keeffe, artist Yayoi Kusama left Japan for New York City to become a star. By the time she returned to her home country in 1973, she had established herself as a leader of New York’s avant-garde movement, known for creating happenings and public orgies to protest the Vietnam War and for the polka dots that had become a trademark of her work. Her sculptures, videos, paintings, and installations are to this day included in major international exhibitions.

Thank you to Ruth Abrahams, ArtTable DC Committee Member at Large and ArtTable VP of Chapter Leadership for organizing this program.

Image: Infinity Net: The Autobiography of Yayoi Kusama

Virtual | DC Around the Table Book Group with Carolyn Kinder Carr

7pm ET | 6pm CT | 4pm PT

Join ArtTable’s Washington, D.C. Chapter for an Around the Table Book Group. This program is open to all ArtTable members and meets four times a year; participants can join for one book or for all!

Not an ArtTable member? Join today!

How to take part:

Click here to Register for this event.
Following registration you will receive call-in information in the form of a ZOOM link.
Before joining a Zoom meeting on a computer or mobile device, you can download the Zoom app from the Download Center and select the “Zoom Client for Meetings” option. Alternatively, you will be prompted to download and install Zoom when you click a join link.
For further instruction on how to use Zoom, see here.

For the first Around the Table Book Group of 2021, we will discuss “Sara Tyson Hallowell: Pioneer Curator and Art Agent in the Gilded Age” by ArtTable DC member Carolyn Kinder Carr. Carr will be joining us to present her book and take part in engaging conversation.

Sara Tyson Hallowell: Pioneer Curator and Art Agent in the Gilded Age

This biography tells the story of Philadelphia-born Sara Tyson Hallowell (1846-1924). Hallowell made her reputation in Chicago in the 1880’s organizing exhibitions for that city’s Inter-state Industrial Expositions. Impressed with her knowledge of art and the art market, Bertha and Potter Palmer sought her advice. Hallowell’s enthusiasm for the work of Monet, Renoir, Sisley, and Pissarro led them to form one of the earliest collections of French Impressionism in America, notable examples of which are today at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Disappointed that her gender prevented her from becoming director of art at the 1893 World’s Columbian Exhibition, Hallowell nevertheless created a critically successful exhibition for this mammoth fair. Following its close, Hallowell went to live in France. From 1894 to 1914, she selected paintings of American artists living abroad for annual exhibitions at the Art Institute of Chicago. Mary Cassatt and Auguste Rodin were among her many Parisian friends.

Hallowell’s pioneering work as a curator and art advisor provided a model for women seeking to enter these professions previously the prerogative of men.

Carolyn Kinder Carr is the Deputy Director of the National Portrait Gallery and the author of “Gaston Lachaise: Portrait Sculpture” (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1985).

Thank you to Ruth Abrahams, ArtTable DC Committee Member at Large for organizing this program.

Image: “Sara Tyson Hallowell: Pioneer Curator and Art Agent in the Gilded Age” by Carolyn Kinder Carr

Virtual | DC Around the Table Book Group: “Whitewalling: Art, Race, & Protest in 3 Acts” – Aruna D’Souza

7pm ET | 6pm CT | 4pm PT

Join ArtTable’s Washington, D.C. Chapter for an Around the Table Book Group. This program is open to all ArtTable members and meets four times a year; participants can join for one book or for all!

How to take part:

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Following registration you will receive call-in information in the form of a ZOOM link.
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Join us for an in-depth discussion on Aruna D’Souza’s “Whitewalling: Art, Race, and Protest in 3 Acts.” In the book, D’Souza pinpoints three incidents in the long, troubled history of art and race in America and provides critical commentary on those events.

Aruna D’Souza is an author and art historian who examines modern and contemporary art, intersectional feminisms, and the impact of museums on our lives and the way we view our world. She was recently featured in the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s annual lecture series, the Clarice Smith Distinguished Lectures in American Art.

Please make sure to register for this virtual program by November 11 at 5:00 PM EST. A Zoom video call link for the program and other details will be sent to all attendees a day prior to the program.

Thank you to Ruth Abrahams for organizing this program.

Image: “Whitewalling: Art, Race & Protest in 3 Acts” by Aruna D’Souza

AT LOCAL | DC Around the Table Book Group

AT LOCAL virtual programs present opportunities to connect as a local chapter online. This event is for members of ArtTable’s DC chapter. Stay tuned for AT LOCAL events near you!

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This program is for ArtTable members only!

Join us to discuss Art In Sight, by Fanchon Silberstein, ArtTable member and intercultural specialist.

Open to all members. We meet four times a year. Come to one or all.

Thank you to Ruth Abrahams.

VIRTUAL | DC Around the Table book group

In response to our current state of distance, ArtTable is shifting programming online where we can. This event will take place as a live conversation! Registration is required. We hope to see you there!

How to take part!

Register for this event here
Following registration you will receive call-in information in the form of a ZOOM link
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This program is for ArtTable members only!

Join us to discuss Blood Water Paint, by Joy McCullough, who gives voice to Baroque feminist icon Artemisia Gentileschi.

Open to all members. We meet four times a year. Come to one or all.

Thank you to Ruth Abrahams.

SOCAL | BookTable with Author Susan Jaques

Images provided by Susan Jaques

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Join us for a talk by ArtTable member, acclaimed author Susan Jaques, on her book The Empress of Art in the art-filled home of ArtTable member Nancy Adams!

Join ArtTable for a talk by Susan Jaques on The Empress of Art: Catherine the Great and the Transformation of Russia, published in 2016. Ruthless and passionate, Catherine the Great is singularly responsible for the creation of the Hermitage and amassing one of the most awe-inspiring collections of art in the world. She also spearheaded turning St. Petersburg into a magnificent architectural wonder. Jaques’ art-oriented biography brings to life the creation of this captivating woman’s great artistic legacy. As was written in the Library Journal, “Jaques focuses on how Catherine’s prolific art acquisitions transformed Russia into a worldwide cultural powerhouse. As a form of statecraft, Catherine’s collecting conveyed authority and sophistication, making her and Russia a force to be reckoned with among nations… Jaques’s detailed description of Catherine’s passion for art stands on its own as a vivid portrayal of a fascinating ruler…” In 2018, Jaques published yet another monumental cultural history, the book The Caesar of Paris: Napoleon Bonaparte, Rome, and the Artistic Obsession that Shaped an Empire.

Nancy Adams will graciously host us that evening in her Brentwood home, which houses an eclectic collection focussed primarily on figurative work. Among the artists represented in her collection are Alison Saar, Kerry James Marshall, Alice Neel, Odd Nerdrum, Kent Twitchell, Robert Pruitt, Marion Post Wolcott, and Diego Rivera, as well as Old Master drawings and prints.

Refreshments will be served and valet parking will be available. Susan Jaques will be signing copies of The Empress of Art, which will be available for purchase.

For those who wish to read ahead, please note that another BookTable will take place on March 24th at the home of ArtTable member, art consultant Victoria Burns. It will focus on Mary Gabriel’s Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement that Changed Modern Art, published in 2018. A group discussion will follow a brief presentation by Roni Feinstein, who teaches a class on this subject at UCLA Extension.

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With thanks to Roni Feinstein, Nancy Adams, and Susan Jaques.

NY | Book Talk: ‘Unspeakable Acts…’ with Nancy Princenthal

Image: Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art, and Sexual Violence in the 1970s by Nancy Princenthal.

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Join ArtTable for a conversation with Nancy Princenthal on her most recent book, “Unspeakable Acts: Women, Art, and Sexual Violence in the 1970s,” about how artists have made sense (or not) of sexual violence against women. Nancy will be in dialogue with artist Lisa Corinne Davis at the home of Laura Kruger.

Nancy is a former Editor of Art in America had has contributed to Artforum, Parkett , the Village Voice and the New York Times. She has received the 2016 PEN American award for biography, a book on Agnes Martin, and has written catalogue essays in monographs on Louise Fishman, Nancy Rubins, Mark di Suvero, Robert Mangold, Ann Hamilton Shirin Neshat, Joyce Kozloff, Alfred Jaar, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Chuck Close, Deborah Butterfield, and others as well. She has taught at Princeton, Yale and is currently on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts.

“Nancy Princenthal is an award-winning author of many books on important topics in art. In “Unspeakable Acts,” she delves into the links between violence and silence, art and terror, and how pioneering women made them into art… Princenthal is also deft at drawing a roadmap through the political, social and aesthetic divisions of the ‘70s”- Hyperallergic

Lisa Corinne Davis is an artist whose works have been exhibited in museums and galleries across the country. Her works are in numerous public and private collections. She has received numerous awards and grants and has taught art for the past 25 years at Parsons School of Design Cooper Union School of Art, Yale University and is currently a Full Professor at Hunter College. Lisa also writes essays on her own work, that of others and on what it means to be Black in the American Art World today.

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Thank you to Susan Halper, Laura Kruger and Lori Shepard for organizing this program.

DC | Around the Table Book Group

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Join ArtTable DC for our member’s book club focusing on books by artists or about the visual arts. We read a mixture of fiction, memoir, and biography, plus anything else that seems interesting. This book club is open to all members. Please register online in advance.

This month we’ll discuss “The Great Man” by Kate Christensen.

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DC | Around the Table Book Club

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This month we’ll discuss “Agnes Martin: Her Life and Art” by Nancy Princenthal.

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Thank you to Ruth Abrahams for organizing this program.