NYU’s Grey Art Museum celebrates the 25th anniversary of a unique grant created toadvance the careers of women artists In her 1929 essay “A Room of One’s Own,” Virginia Woolf wrote: Indeed, I would venture toguess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. While this line laments the […]
¿Planeas visitar la ciudad neoyorquina? Esta primavera florece sus parques, pero también sus museos con increíbles exposiciones. Estas son nuestras favoritas. [Planning a visit to New York City? This spring, its parks are in bloom, as are its museums, with incredible exhibitions. These are our favorites.] Continue Reading
by Li Mingjie 一所大学文科的底蕴、财力和水准，看看他们的博物馆，一般都能八九不离十。纽约大学有建筑、摄影、服装设计、珍本特藏和古典艺术等领域的展馆，分布在华盛顿广场周边以及第五大道沿线各处，常年都有与教学研究相关的成果展；而位于库珀广场18号的格雷艺术博物馆（Grey Art Museum）则是一家相对综合的美术馆，以中东艺术、战后美国艺术和二十世纪前后的欧洲艺术收藏著称。去年10月到今年3月的特展《给巴黎前卫艺术品经销商贝尔特·韦尔让路》，引发了媒体的普遍关注，很大程度上是因为艺术家的回顾展常有，而推出这些艺术家的经理人却鲜少有同等的台上风光。一旦这些最知道艺术家及其艺术品底细的“狠角色”，被研究者挖掘出来且被推到前台，观赏者大多是会恍然而后大悟的。 [The background, financial resources and level of a university’s liberal arts can generally be roughly understood by looking at its museums. New York University has exhibition halls in the fields of architecture, photography, fashion design, rare collections and classical art, which are distributed around Washington Square and along Fifth […]
NYU’s Grey Art Museum presents work from the first 25 years of the Anonymous Was A Woman grant program. by Siobhán Minerva Anonymity erases authorship from works of art. Without a name, these individuals’ contributions end up forgotten. Throughout history, women visual artists have traditionally been subjected to this erasure. Under patriarchal constructions, women were […]
by Alex Greenberger At New York University’s Grey Art Museum, the head of artist Rona Pondick—a cast of it, anyway—can be seen emerging from a pedestal in the center of one gallery. Her skin is pink, her ear is translucent, her head is bald, and her eyes are closed. It is hard to look away from her […]
by Ekin Erkan Grey Art Museum’s Make Way for Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde is a welcome conspectus of the titular Parisian art dealer and gallerist. In comparison to her Montparnasse male counterparts, such as Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler and Ambroise Vollard, Weill’s promulgation of the nascent School of Paris (among other, unrelated and unaffiliated avant-gardists) […]
A fearless pioneer in the male-dominated art world, Berthe Weill championed avant-garde artists like Picasso and Matisse, shaping the course of modern art. by Abigael Sidi Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, and Émile Charmy. Cubism, Fauvism, Modernism, and Impressionism. Many artists, many styles – but only one art dealer. In New York University’s Grey […]
by Lance Esplund Occasionally an exhibition is as art-historically groundbreaking as it is visually arresting. Rarely, however, will it also force scholars to rewrite the origin story of European modernism. But such is the case with the aptly titled “Make Way for Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde”—an enlightening, beautifully orchestrated show of […]
by Lance Esplund Occasionally an exhibition is as art-historically groundbreaking as it is visually arresting. Rarely, however, will it also force scholars to rewrite the origin story of European modernism. But such is the case with the aptly titled “Make Way for Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde”—an enlightening, beautifully orchestrated show of […]
by Megan Kincaid This exhibition, honoring Parisian art dealer Berthe Weill (1865–1951), constitutes its subject through far-reaching networks of aesthetic trajectories, mirroring her vision for vanguard experimentation and enterprise. Weill has been largely erased from defining accounts of twentieth-century modern art despite her significant contributions. Continue Reading