This Week's Major Events: Holiday House NYC, The American Art Fair, Jasper Johns, & More
November 15 - 21, 2016
NEW YORK
- Paris Forino’s room in the 2015 Holiday House. Photo courtesy of Alan Barry.
November 17, 2016 – January 8, 2017
11:00am - 5:00pm; closed Mondays
Thursday cocktail hours until 8:00pm
Opening Night Party November 16, 6:30 - 9:30pm
The Sullivan Mansions, 40-50 Sullivan Street, New York, NY
212.472.3313; @HolidayHouseNY
Holiday House was founded in 2008 by Iris Dankner, an interior designer and ardent supporter of breast cancer research. Dankner felt there was a lack of high-profile design events in the New York City area benefitting women’s issues. Since its inception, Holiday House, which supports the Breast Cancer Research Foundation, has invited leading interior designers to transform the historic Academy Mansion on the Upper East Side using striking modern and contemporary furniture, decorative objects, and fine art. This year, for its ninth iteration, Holiday House will head to two adjacent, state-of-the-art mansions in Soho, which are part of the 10 Sullivan development. Robert Couturier and Geoffrey Bradfield are design chairs and featured interior designers include Campion Platt, Patrick Mele, Harry Heissman, Fernando Santangelo, and Joyce Silverman. In addition to an exciting new location, Holiday House will welcome Incollect.com as the exclusive presenting sponsor for the first time. Holiday House Soho will kick off with an Opening Night Gala on November 16 from 6:30 - 9:30pm. Attend extended hours from 5:00 - 8:00pm every Thursday evening while Holiday House is open and enjoy a complimentary cocktail as you tour the rooms. Holiday House will run from November 17, 2016 to January 8, 2017 and is located at 40-50 Sullivan Street, New York, NY.
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- Frederick Carl Frieseke (1874–1939), Women with Parasols (Pollard Willows), 1921. Oil on canvas, 25-1/2 x 31 inches. Image courtesy of Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc.
The American Art Fair
November 18-21, 2016
Bohemian National Hall
321 East 73rd Street, New York, NY
The American Art Fair, inaugurated in 2008, marks the beginning of American Paintings Week in New York. It is the only fair that focuses on American nineteenth and twentieth century works, and features hundreds of landscapes, portraits, still lifes, studies, and sculpture exhibited by 17 premier specialists. Among the returning exhibitors are Avery Galleries, Debra Force Fine Art, Driscoll Babcock Galleries, Godel & Co. Fine Art, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, and Thomas Colville Fine Art. New participants include D. Wigmore Fine Art, and TAYLOR | GRAHAM. One of the fair’s founders, Thomas Colville, is optimistic about the timing of this year’s event. Following on the heels of the Presidential election, he believes the fair “will help direct attention to the enduring values—as well as the breadth and depth—of American culture.” In celebration of American Paintings Week, two lectures will be presented in the Bohemian National Hall’s ground floor theater: Kathleen A. Foster of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, will preview her forthcoming exhibition there, Inside the American Watercolor Movement, on November 18 at 2 p.m. Art historian Karen Wilkin will discuss Stuart Davis on November 19 at 2 p.m. Admission to the American Art Fair is free.
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- Pair of candelabra Gilt bronze by Pierre Gouthière after a design by FrançoisJoseph Bélanger, 1782. One hard-paste vase, Meissen factory, ca. 1720; the other, a later replacement 17⅛ × 6⅞ × 6⅞ inches. The Frick Collection, New York, gift of Sidney R. Knafel, 2016; photo: Michael Bodycomb.
Pierre Gouthière: Virtuoso Gilder at the French Court
November 16, 2016 – February 19, 2017
The Frick Collection
1 East 70th Street, New York, NY
This is the first-ever exhibition focused on Pierre Gouthière, the great French master bronze chaser and gilder who created highly coveted works of art for Louis XV and Louis XVI. Gouthière used specialized tools to create patterns and textures on the surface of cast metal before gilding. His talent and work was so exceptional that it commanded amounts equal to — sometimes greater than — those asked by the era’s most famous painters and sculptors. Twenty-one of Gouthière’s finest works will be on view, from firedogs, wall lights and door knobs, to elaborate mounts for rare Chinese porcelain and precious hardstone vases. Pierre Gouthière: Virtuoso Gilder at the French Court will shed new light on his production, life, and workshop, and will transform our understanding of one of the greatest artists of 18th-century France.
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- John Marin, Sail Boat and Sea, Maine, 1938. Oil on canvasboard. Exhibited by Debra Force Fine Art, Inc, at Just Off Madison.
Just Off Madison
Monday, November 21, 2016
10am – 2pm at participating galleries
www.justoffmadisongalleries.com
Just Off Madison is a select group of American Art dealers who will host a collective open house on the Upper East Side during New York’s American Art week. The event coincides with the American art auctions at Sotheby’s and Christie’s. Locations of participating galleries span a dozen blocks of Madison Avenue, giving clients, colleagues, and art enthusiasts an opportunity to stroll leisurely along the Avenue, visit galleries and view museum-quality offerings in intimate spaces. Galleries include Avery Galleries, Conner - Rosenkranz, LLC, Debra Force Fine Art, Inc., TAYLOR | GRAHAM, MME Fine Art, and other fine dealers who will be offering a rich and diverse selection of American paintings, sculpture, and works on paper from the 19th century through the mid-20th century.
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MASSACHUSETTS
- Courtesy of The M-Geough Company, designed by Leslie Fine Interiors, photographed by Michael J. Lee.
Boston Home Décor Show
Gala Preview: November 17, 2016, 5:30 - 8:30pm
November 17-20, 2016
Friday 1pm - 8pm, Saturday 11am - 8pm, and Sunday 11am - 5pm
The Cyclorama at the Boston Center for the Arts
539 Tremont Street, Boston, MA
Incollect is thrilled to be one of the sponsors of the 2016 Boston Home Décor Show, the only show of its kind in New England. The show launched last year to critical acclaim with the goal of capturing the evolution of the collecting and design market, from antiques to the finest in today’s home décor. On Friday, November 18 at 1:00pm, Dakota Jackson, American furniture designer and designer-in-residence for Steinway & Sons, will deliver his Keynote presentation, “Hearing, Lighting...Seeing Sound: Designing with All Our Senses.” He will discuss the magic of full sensory engagement in designing spaces. On Saturday from 2 - 3pm, Kathryn M. Ireland, a preeminent British interior designer known for her worldly and chic-without-trying style, will make a special appearance. The talented exhibitors participating in this year’s show include Glen Leroux Antiques, Inc., Joan R. Brownstein, Village Braider Antiques, The M-Geough Co., Fountain Street Fine Art, and many more. At the Gala Preview on Thursday, November 17, guests will gain exclusive access to a vast array of historic, modern and contemporary furnishings, fine art, decorative arts, and home décor. All proceeds from the Gala benefit two incredible HIV/AIDS-combatting organizations: Design Industries Foundation Fighting AIDS (DIFFA), and the Community Research Initiative of New England (CRI). Admission to the Show is $15 at the door.
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- Sebastian Errazuriz, “The Golddigger,” “The Heartbreaker,” and “The Boss,” from the “12 Shoes for 12 Lovers” collection, 2013. 3D-printed acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene polymer, resin, and acrylic. Museum purchase, 2015, Peabody Essex Museum. © 2016 Peabody Essex Museum. Photography by Kathy Tarantola.
Shoes: Pleasure and Pain
November 19, 2016 – March 12, 2017
Peabody Essex Museum, East India Square, 161 Essex Street, Salem, MA
- Zaha Hadid, for United Nude, “Nova,” 2013. Rubber, fiberglass, and leather. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
This week, the Peabody Essex Museum presents Shoes: Pleasure and Pain, an exhibition that explores the range of creativity in footwear from around the world. More than 300 pairs of shoes will be featured, ranging from an ancient Egyptian sandal decorated in pure gold leaf, to futuristic-looking form-pressed “Nova” shoes designed by the late Zaha Hadid with an unsupported 6.2-inch heel. Shoes worn by high profile figures such as Elton John, Queen Victoria, David Beckham and more will be on view. Extraordinary examples of historic footwear range from lotus shoes made for bound feet and 16th-century chopines to men’s shoes with extremely long toes and noisy slap-sole shoes worn in Europe during the 17th century. This exhibition considers the cultural significance and transformative capacity of shoes. Organized by the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the exhibition will make its debut in the US at the Peabody Essex Museum on November 19.
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VIRGINIA
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.jpg "Edvard Munch, Self-Portrait between the Clock and the Bed, 1940–43. Oil on canvas, 58 7⁄8 x 47 1⁄2 in. (149.5 x 120.5 cm). Munch Museum.")
Jasper Johns and Edvard Munch: Love, Loss, and the Cycle of Life
Through February 20th, 2017
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
200 N. Boulevard, Richmond, VA
www.vmfa.museum
A groundbreaking exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Art examines Norwegian Expressionist Edvard Munch's work as an inspiration for Jasper Johns as he moved from his abstract imagery to expressions of love, sex, and death. Many important works by the two artists are shown side-by-side for the first time, tracing the route Johns traveled to find what he needed in Munch’s works. The exhibition is divided into sections that trace Johns’ career from his abstraction to his mounting tension between formalism and emotion, proposing important new ideas about connections between the two artists involving shadows and ghosts. While showing how Johns used Munch’s motifs to open up his own work to greater expressiveness, the exhibition also demonstrates a circularity between influence, interpretation, and appropriation.
