Exhibition Tour – ArtTable

Baltimore | Curator-Led Tour: Recent Acquisitions at The Walters Art Museum

May 17 | 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm

Local to Baltimore or in town for AAM? Reconnect with ArtTable friends between conference sessions at The Walters Art Museum, located less than a mile from the Baltimore Convention Center. This exclusive, 90-minute tour with Lynley Anne Herbert, Robert and Nancy Hall Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts, covers two of her exhibitions: Reflect and Remix: Art Inspiring Artists and New on the Bookshelf: The Creative Power of Women. These exhibitions explore the visual and material resonances between works of art separated by time in the Walters collection, as well as highlighting new acquisitions that celebrate the contributions of women to the book arts.

Admission:

ArtTable Members – $15
Member Guests – $20
Non-Members – $25

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The Walters Art Museum

600 N. Charles St
Baltimore, Maryland 21201 United States + Google Map

San Francisco | Curator-Led Tour of Zanele Muholi: Eye Me at SFMOMA

April 30 | 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Three figurative paintings by Zanele Muholi hang on a light-green gallery wall. — _{Installation view of Eye Me: Zanele Muholi (SFMOMA, 2024); photo: Don Ross}

Meet ArtTable at SFMOMA for a curator-led tour of Zanele Muholi: Eye Me, the photographer’s acclaimed first major exhibition on the West Coast. On this hour-long tour, Sally Martin Katz, SFMOMA’s Curatorial Associate for Photography and a co-curator of Eye Me, will cover major works across more than two decades of Muholi’s career. Read more about this unmissable show in The San Francisco Chronicle’s Datebook and KQED.

About the exhibition: A self-described visual activist, Zanele Muholi (b. 1972, Umlazi, South Africa) uses the camera to explore issues of gender identity, representation, and race. Often photographing their own body or members of their LGBTQ+ community in South Africa, Muholi calls attention to the trauma and violence enacted on queer people while celebrating their beauty and resilience. Activism is central to Muholi’s artistic practice, from their early work contending with the dangers of being queer in South Africa to their more recent work embracing their own blackness and gender expression. This exhibition brings together photographs from 2002 to the present alongside the artist’s latest explorations in painting and sculpture. The first major exhibition of Muholi’s work on the West Coast, it provides the opportunity for Bay Area audiences to experience the full range of the artist’s expansive project. —SFMOMA.org

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Sally Martin Katz is a curator based in San Francisco. Since 2017 she has been working in the photography department at SFMOMA. Concurrently, she is a PhD candidate in Art History, specializing in History of Photography, at the Sorbonne. As an independent curator, she guest curated the Louis Stettner retrospective at the Fundación MAPFRE in Madrid (2023) and Barcelona (2024) and was the editor of the exhibition catalogue, and also guest curated A Moment in Time: Iconic Images by Harry Benson at the Southampton Arts Center, New York (2023). She has co-edited several books, including American Geography: Photographs of Land Use from 1840 to the Present (2021) and snap+share: transmitting photographs from mail art to social networks (2019). In Paris, she worked at the Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson and the Louvre. She received a BA in Art History and French Literature from Brown University, as well as an MA in Art History and MFA in Photography from the Sorbonne.

The Walters Art Museum

600 N. Charles St
Baltimore, Maryland 21201 United States + Google Map

New York | Responsible Transacting in the Art Market with Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

April 30 | 8:30 am – 10:30 am

The art market has undergone exponential growth across the last 10 years, both in terms of volume and value. The old ways of purchasing and selling art via handshakes are now becoming increasingly rare as a wave of new players enter the art market and the value of works skyrockets. Art transactions have consequently become more complex, introducing a range of legal risks and issues which require each party to become equipped with a more thoughtful and better-informed approach to a transaction.

This panel will provide an overview of the channels for purchasing art—at auction, from a gallery, or through a dealer or advisor—and how each comes with its own unique considerations and potential challenges. We will cover the basics of building relationships within the marketplace, understanding how transactions are structured, and issues that may arise on each side of the transaction. Our discussion will also include best practices for conducting due diligence not only for the works themselves but also on the parties engaged in the transaction. This panel will be geared towards private individual collectors, art dealers, and independent advisors in addition to arts professionals working in galleries and museums.

This event will begin with a networking reception including a light breakfast, with Kosher for Passover menu options. We will reserve time at the end for audience questions.

Panelists:

Anne-Laure Allehaut, Counsel, Patterson Belknap
Alana Ricca, Managing Director, Schoelkopf Gallery
Aubrey Catrone, Owner & Consultant, Proper Provenance, LLC
Moderated by Andrea Zorrilla, Founder, AMZ Art Advisory + Appraisals LLC

Please Note: Registration for this event has closed. Thank you for your interest!

Event Admission:

ArtTable Members – $15
Member Guests – $20
Public – $25

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Our sincere thanks to Samantha Anderson of the Art Law Group at Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP and Andrea Zorrilla of AMZ Art Advisory + Appraisals LLC for coordinating this event.

Anne-Laure Alléhaut is Counsel in Patterson Belknap’s Art and Museum Law practice. Anne-Laure started her career at Skadden Arps in M&A before serving as a Senior Vice President of Sotheby’s legal transactional team, negotiating many of the auction house’s most complex and high value transactions while also overseeing Sotheby’s advisory, appraisal and valuation departments.

Anne-Laure brings 18 years of law firm and in-house experience to the art industry and draws on her broad and deep experience to advise her clients with speed and efficiency. Her client base includes private collectors, galleries, estates, start-ups, art dealers, museums, advisors and financial institutions. Anne-Laure is a graduate of Université Paris X, Nanterre and Université Paris II, Panthéon-Assas. She received her J.D. and LL.M. from Cornell University.

Alana Ricca is Managing Drector at Schoelkopf Gallery in Tribeca, a leader in the field of American art from 1875 to the present day. She oversees day-to-day management of the gallery with a focus on sales, business development, and client relationships, and plays a crucial role in the strategic planning and project management of art fairs, exhibitions, and programming. An expert in 20th-century American Art, she holds specific knowledge in works of art created in the late 20th century and has catalogued, researched, and written extensively on post-war art.

Alana holds a B.A. in Russian and Eurasian Studies from Colgate University. She is Uniform Standards of Professional Appraisal Practice-compliant and completes USPAP-compliant appraisals. Alana is a member of ArtTable and speaks Russian, Spanish, and Italian.

Aubrey Catrone is an international art historian, appraiser, and provenance researcher. Aubrey earned an MA in History of Art from University College London, specializing in the documented histories of art objects. With an art gallery and academic research background, Catrone founded Proper Provenance, LLC to provide her clients with the tools, not only to historically contextualize art but also to shed light on attribution and legal title within the international art market.

Catrone has researched artworks paintings, artefacts, works on paper, prints, and sculptures spanning the fourth century B.C.E. to the twenty-first century C.E. She has been cited as a guest expert in ARTnews and on the History Channel. Catrone has also published her scholarship in a variety of publications including RICS Journals and the Journal of Art Crime.

Andrea M. Zorrilla, AAA is the founder of AMZ Art Advisory & Appraisals, a Miami-based appraisal and advisory service dedicated to Modern & Contemporary Latin American fine art in addition to the Latinx and Caribbean diasporas. She is a Certified Member of the Appraisers Association of America, and is distinguished with being one of four Certified Members of AAA specialized in the field of Latin American art in U.S.

Prior to establishing AMZ Art Advisory & Appraisals LLC in 2022, Andrea held the role of VP, Specialist of Latin American Art at Sotheby’s New York. Andrea currently serves on the National Programming Committee of ArtTable. She is also a member of the Young Collectors Board of the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Miami. She is a graduate of Villanova University with a BA in Economics and Spanish Language & Literature and received her Master of Arts with Distinction in Art Business from Sotheby’s Institute of Art, New York / University of Manchester, England.

The Walters Art Museum

600 N. Charles St
Baltimore, Maryland 21201 United States + Google Map

New York | Curator-Led Tour of MAD About Jewelry

May 6 | 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm

ArtTable members and friends are invited on an exclusive curator-led tour of the 2024 edition of MAD About Jewelry, the Museum of Arts & Design’s annual survey and sale of the most exciting contemporary jewelry. At MAD, jewelry is valued as an art form; it is the only museum in the U.S. to dedicate gallery space both to special jewelry exhibitions and to its own collection of modern contemporary jewelry. In addition to furthering MAD’s educational mission, MAD About Jewelry supports the careers and ongoing creative development of the leading creators featured in the exhibition.

Following our tour with Bryna Pomp, Curator of MAD About Jewelry, we will have the opportunity to meet the featured artists, learn about the creative and technical processes that go into their work, and even have the opportunity to acquire our own handcrafted pieces.

Tour Rates, including Museum Admission:

ArtTable Member – $15
Friend of Member – $20
Public – $25

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The Walters Art Museum

600 N. Charles St
Baltimore, Maryland 21201 United States + Google Map

New York | Guided Tours of the Whitney Biennial

April 17 | 11:30 am – 1:30 pm

_{Maja Ruznic, The Past Awaiting the Future/Arrival of Drummers, 2023. Oil on linen, 99 1/2 × 151 1/2 × 2 1/2 in. (252.7 × 384.8 × 6.4 cm). Collection of the artist. © Maja Ruznic. Courtesy Karma. Photograph by Brad Trone.}

ArtTable is thrilled to invite you on a guided tour of the 2024 Whitney Biennial: Even Better Than the Real Thing. Now in its 81st edition, the Biennial—the longest ongoing survey of contemporary American art—shifts the culture and shapes art history with each presentation. Curated by Chrissie Iles and Meg Onli with Min Sun Jeon and Beatriz Cifuentes, the exhibition features 71 artists; the performance program is organized with Taja Cheek and the film program is organized with Korakrit Arunanondchai, asinnajaq, Greg de Cuir Jr, and Zackary Drucker.

Select 11:30 AM ~~or 12:30 PM~~ at the registration link below to sign up for your 60-minute tour with one of the Whitney’s Teaching Fellows. Please Note: 12:30 tickets are now SOLD OUT.

Tour Rates, including Museum Admission:

ArtTable Members – $45
Member Guests – $50
Non-Members – $55

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The Walters Art Museum

600 N. Charles St
Baltimore, Maryland 21201 United States + Google Map

New York | Studio Visit with Heide Fasnacht

April 5 | 6:00 pm – 7:15 pm

_{Heide Fasnacht, “Lake Gloriette” (blue), 2023. Mixed media on wood panel, 48” x 60″. Courtesy of the artist.}

Join ArtTable for a Friday evening tour of Heide Fasnacht‘s Tribeca studio, hosted by the artist. Since starting her career in the late 1970s, Fasnacht has focused her output on a variety of media over the years, focusing on sculpture, photography-based work, and drawing as distinct fields of inquiry and as complementary modes of expressing common themes. Over the past six years, she has returned to her first medium of painting, incorporating photography and collage into mixed-media works that pay special attention to the relationship between the environment and the human body and psyche.

While Fasnacht’s work has long been compared to that of Vija Celmins, Gerhard Richter, and Sigmar Polke, it is distinguished by its translation of two-dimensional sources into sculpture and openness to abstraction in form as well as in meaning. Represented in the collections of the Brooklyn Museum, Detroit Institute of Arts, the High Museum of Art, MFA Boston, and many other institutions, Fasnacht’s next New York exhibition is Anywhere But Here, a four-person exhibition opening May 8 at Project: ARTspace.

This talk is made possible by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, with special thanks to Kelly Cahn for coordinating.

Please note, the studio building does not have elevator access.

Admission:

ArtTable Members – $15
Member Guests – $20
Public – $25

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The Walters Art Museum

600 N. Charles St
Baltimore, Maryland 21201 United States + Google Map

Los Angeles | Private Tour of The Getty Center with Ellen Greenberg

March 15 | 11:00 am – 12:30 pm

In van Gogh's painting Irises, many purple irises - and one white iris - stand on tall green stems, surrounded by leaves. The flowers' height takes up the full canvas. — Vincent van Gogh, *Irises*, 1889; Oil on canvas; The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, 90.PA.20.

Demystify Art at The Getty Center

Enjoy walking through time from the Middle Ages to the early 20th century and “peek behind and beyond the canvas” as Ellen Greenberg, art historian, guides you through the spectacular collection at The Getty Center in Brentwood. You’ll see the highlights of the museum and be wowed and amazed with the stories she’ll tell you about how artists have impacted history and yet still relate to our current, everyday lives. Be titillated by Titian. Baffled by Bernini. Rembrandt revealed. Monet mastered. Van Gogh verified. These are among the groundbreaking artists that will be featured on the tour. In this 90-minute tour, find out why there are so many nudes in Renaissance Art— and so many dead bugs, wilted flowers and skulls in Dutch paintings! And why is the Virgin Mary always depicted wearing red and blue during the Renaissance and Baroque periods? What were the inspirations for Impressionism? You’ll never look at art the same way again!

Your guide will be Ellen Greenberg. Ellen’s interests and expertise have been inspired by interior design, fashion design and production and costume design in her early years to museum touring and unique travel journeys as owner of Quick Culture. Ellen has been an instructor at the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising and has guest lectured at UCLA. She holds Docent Program certificates at both The Getty Center and LACMA—and is the author of Inside Chocolate, a pictorial art book published by Abrams Books (formerly Harry N. Abrams) New York. Notables Ellen has toured range from Merrick Garland, United States Attorney General, to Max Getty, J. Paul Getty’s great-grandson. Her studies continue at The Getty Research Institute.

This tour will depart from the Museum Atrium Entrance.

Please Note: The fee to park at The Getty Center is $25.

Admission:

ArtTable Members – $15
Member Guests – $20
Public – $25

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Special thanks to Jane Glassman for coordinating on behalf of ArtTable.

The Walters Art Museum

600 N. Charles St
Baltimore, Maryland 21201 United States + Google Map

Philadelphia | Tour of (Re)FOCUS: Then and Now at Moore College of Art & Design

March 8 | 3:45 pm – 5:00 pm

A close-up shot of a white gallery wall shows four works of art: two large images of women, with two small images - stacked one atop the other - in between. The large image at left shows a woman dressed similarly to Frida Kahlo. The large image at right shows a nude woman reclining on a green sofa. — _{Installation view of (Re)Focus: Then and Now, with art by Miriam Schapiro, Mary Beth Edelson, Joan Snyder and Alice Neel. Photo: Jack Stawowczyk.}

Celebrate International Women’s Day with a very special curator-led tour of (Re)FOCUS: Then and Now at Moore College of Art & Design in downtown Philadelphia. With Judith K. Brodsky, Judith E. Stein, and Diane Burko, three of the original Focus team, we will explore this two-part installation.:

(Re)FOCUS: Then commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of Philadelphia Focuses on Women in the Visual Arts: FOCUS, a citywide festival highlighting women in the arts which took place across multiple Philadelphia venues in 1974. Curated by Brodsky and Burko, who brought the original FOCUS to life in 1974, (Re)FOCUS: Then reunites works by the 81 artists represented in the original exhibition, including Louise Bourgeois, Lee Krasner, Howardena Pindell, Faith Ringgold, Alma Thomas, and Moore College graduate Alice Neel.

(Re)FOCUS: Now—curated by Gabrielle Lavin Suzenski, Director of the Galleries at Moore; Denise M. Brown, Executive Director of the Leeway Foundation; and Isa Isioma Matisse of The Future is Us Collective—explores themes of social justice, gender identity, equity, and power present in the recent work of Philadelphia-based artists, several of whom are Moore graduates. Over fifteen multidisciplinary visual artists, educators, and performers are represented, including Wit López, Atisha Fordyce, and Moore faculty member Li Sumpter.

Learn more about the exhibition in recent coverage from WHYY News and The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Like the original FOCUS, (Re)FOCUS: Then and Now at Moore College of Art & Design is part of a citywide arts festival: Re(FOCUS) 2024, happening through May 31 at over 30 venues across the Philadelphia area. The Colored Girls Museum, the Free Library of Philadelphia, the Philadelphia Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art are just a few of the institutions hosting Re(FOCUS) 2024 exhibitions and events—we encourage ArtTable members to visit!

Admission:

ArtTable Members – $15
Member Guests – $20
Public – $25

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Our sincere thanks to Judith Stein for coordinating this tour for ArtTable.

The Walters Art Museum

600 N. Charles St
Baltimore, Maryland 21201 United States + Google Map

New York | After-Hours Gallery Tour of Lee Krasner Exhibition at Kasmin

March 6 | 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm

_{Lee Krasner, Number 2, 1951, oil on canvas, 92 1/2 x 132 inches, 235 x 335.3 cm. Jorge M. Pérez Collection, Miami. © 2024 Pollock-Krasner Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Diego Flores. Courtesy of Kasmin, New York.}

Join ArtTable for an after-hours gallery tour of Lee Krasner: The Edge of Color. Geometric Abstractions, 1948–53 at Kasmin, in association with the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. Eric Gleason, Executive Director of Kasmin, will provide an introduction and answer questions about the works on view and their context with Krasner’s oeuvre. The conversation will be followed by refreshments generously provided by the Pollock Krasner Foundation.

Through the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Kasmin has represented Lee Krasner’s work since 2016. Lee Krasner: The Edge of Color. Geometric Abstractions, 1948–53 is Kasmin’s fourth solo presentation of her work. It is the first exhibition to focus on this under-examined period of the artist’s work, which laid the groundwork for several major series of paintings Krasner completed later in her career. Drawing on formative connections with peers in the American Abstract Artists group as well as Piet Mondrian, Krasner’s work in the late forties and early fifties attracted early critical praise. Constrasting rectilinear forms, painted in somber tones with varying thicknesses of brushwork, sometimes appear on repainted canvases. Highlights of this presentation of Krasner’s work include the only two extant paintings from her first solo exhibition, reunited for the first time; Number 3 (Untitled) (1951), on loan from the Museum of Modern Art, and Number 2 (1951), on view in New York for the first time in over 70 years.

Admission:

ArtTable Members – $10
Member Guests – $15
Public – $20

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The Walters Art Museum

600 N. Charles St
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Eric Gleason is Head of Sales at Kasmin Gallery. Since Eric joined the gallery in 2013, he has played a key role in its expansion, which involved the opening of its new flagship gallery and rooftop sculpture garden in New York in 2018. Eric works closely with a number of the prominent contemporary artists at Kasmin, including Diana Al-Hadid, Judith Bernstein, Lyn Liu and Jan-Ole Schiemann, and is the primary representative for several artist estates, notably Barry Flanagan, Lee Krasner, Robert Motherwell, and George Rickey. Eric has spearheaded numerous critically recognized Kasmin exhibitions, including Lee Krasner: The Umber Paintings 1959-1962 (2017–2018) and Lee Krasner: Collage Paintings (2021). Eric has contributed to numerous institutional exhibitions to promote the careers and legacies of the gallery’s artists. Eric represents Kasmin at art world events and participates in the gallery’s domestic and international art fair program. In 2020, Eric joined the Council of the Visual and Performing Arts school at Syracuse University, and in August of 2023, Eric joined the Board of Directors at Artistic Noise, a non-profit offering visual arts and entrepreneurship programs to young people impacted by the juvenile justice system.

Glendale, CA | Curatorial Walkthrough of If Memory Serves: Photography, Recollections and Vision at the Brand Library & Art Center

February 2 | 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

Join Dr. Rotem Rozental, Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Los Angeles Center of Photography, for a walkthrough of the exhibition If Memory Serves: Photography, Recollections and Vision.

Our hard drives may fail. Our phones might break. We may forget an image that was once cemented in our minds. Our relationships with images and devices that hold our memories define how we understand our position in the world. If Memory Serves emerges from the moments those devices fail us, our recollections betray us and our pictures refuse to bring back the people they once captured. This exhibition emerges from the intersection of our haunting pasts, possible futures, and our connections to photographic images, technologies and the systems that ask to speak for our photographs.

The exhibition begins with and honors Aline Smithson, a mentor, photographer and educator, whose work with artists is redefining photographic practice. If Memory Serves celebrates her immense contribution to photography and further comments upon the reach of her stewardship and pedagogy. The participating artists have all been studying with and from her. Seen together, their works offer profound insight into our co-existence with photography, suggesting meeting points between personal experiences and broader societal issues and conflicts – from privacy to grief, from representation to immigration.

Artists: Aurora Wilder Collective (Jennifer Pritchard in collaboration with Patrick Corrigan and DALL-E), Elizabeth Bailey, Dena Elisabeth Eber, Sarah Hadley, Diane Hemingway, Rohina Hoffman, Susan Lapides, Annette LeMay Burke, Annie Omens, Lori Ordover, Safi Alia Shabaik, Aline Smithson, Rosalie Rosenthal

If Memory Serves: Photography, Recollections and Vision | Honoring Aline Smithson

Admission:

ArtTable Members – Free
Member Guests – $5
Public – $10

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The Walters Art Museum

600 N. Charles St
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Rotem Rozental, Ph.D, is the Executive Director of the Los Angeles Center of Photography. Between 2016-2022, she served as Chief Curator at American Jewish University, where she was also Assistant Dean of the Whizin Center for Continuing Education and Senior Director of Arts and Creative Programming. Her upcoming book, Pre-State Photographic Archives and the Zionist Movement was published by Routledge in March 2023, and was named recipient of the Jordan Schnitzer First Book Award by the Association for Jewish Studies.

Rotem is a lecturer at USC Roski School of Art and Design Critical Studies Department. She mentors artists worldwide and contributes regularly to magazines, journals and exhibition catalogues. Her writings about contemporary art and image-based media, as well as Jewish and Israeli art, were published in Artforum.com, Photographies, Jewish Currents, Tablet and Forward, among other outlets.