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FRIENDS OF MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART
Archive 2007-2009 Calendar of Events
May 19, 2009
Artalk
7:30 p.m.
Bloomfield Hills
$25 per person
This Friends of Modern and Contemporary Art Artalks series, a benefit of membership in FMCA, provides a unique opportunity for dynamic dialogue while viewing some of the area's most important collections. Join other avid art lovers, share in casual conversation and learn from collectors as they discuss their collecting philosophies and personal art experiences.
African art has served as an inspiration to European and American artists for more than a century. This collection includes museum quality examples of African art interspersed with iconic works of contemporary art. The collection's affinities between old and new, ethnographic traditions and contemporary ideas are highlighted, includes significant works by Elizabeth Murray, Magdalene Odundo, George Segal, Ursula Von Rydingsvard, Roy Lichtenstein and Mark di Suvero. The discussion will explore the collectors' choices when forming their large and notable collection.
Must be a member of DIA and FMCA to participate.
Individual FMCA membership: 1 attendee; Family and above: 2 attendees
Participation is based on a first-come, first-served basis
OUR HOSTS WILL OPEN THEIR HOMES BEGINNING AT 7:15PM
PROGRAM 7:30 PM
ONLY ONE EVENT PER PERSON
PLEASE CALL TO CANCEL, THERE IS A WAITING LIST
For further information contact Kim Fischer at 248.227.3677
Written confirmation, with location details will be provided 1-2 weeks before each event.
Please make checks payable to Friends of Modern and Contemporary Art. No refunds made 4 days before tours.
This Artalk is completely sold out.
June 11, 2009
Artalk
Bloomfield Hills
$25 per person
This Friends of Modern and Contemporary Art Artalks series, a benefit of membership in FMCA, provides a unique opportunity for dynamic dialogue while viewing some of the area's most important collections. Join other avid art lovers, share in casual conversation and learn from collectors as they discuss their collecting philosophies and personal art experiences.
Collecting from both the past and present has created an interesting ongoing dialogue among contemporary and historic objects. Most works are by close associates or friends of the collectors, and each comes with interesting stories. Included are works by John McQueen, Heather McGill, Yun Dong Nam, Sandra Brownlee, Jane Lackey and Olof Nordal, installed in a mid-century modern lakeside home designed by Detroit architect, William Kessler.
Must be a member of DIA and FMCA to participate.
Individual FMCA membership: 1 attendee; Family and above: 2 attendees
Participation is based on a first-come, first-served basis
OUR HOSTS WILL OPEN THEIR HOMES BEGINNING AT 7:15PM
PROGRAM 7:30 PM
ONLY ONE EVENT PER PERSON
PLEASE CALL TO CANCEL, THERE IS A WAITING LIST
For further information contact Kim Fischer at 248.227.3677
Written confirmation, with location details will be provided 1-2 weeks before each event.
Please make checks payable to Friends of Modern and Contemporary Art. No refunds made 4 days before tours.
This Artalk is completely sold out.
May 29, 2009
FMCA Private Viewing of “Time and Place: Art of Detroit’s Cass Corridor from the Wayne State University Collection”
6:00 to 7:30 p.m.
$15 per person
Elaine L. Jacob Gallery
480 W. Hancock Street
Detroit, MI 48202
313.993.7813
Refreshments and presentations from three Cass Corridor artists.
Enjoy WSU's collection of art from Detroit's Cass Corridor and learn about the hip and heady arts culture that began in 1963 and continues today through first hand accounts by artists Robert Sestok, Kathryn Brackett Luchs and Shaun Bangert, reflections from art historians Dora Apel and Dennis Nawrocki and conversations with curators Lisa Baylis Gonzalez and Sandra Schemske. This exhibition features the generous gifts of James Pearson Duffy to Wayne State University.
Free parking is available in Wayne State University Lot 54. Lot 54 is at the corner of Second and Warren, directly behind Old Main. The parking lot entrance is at 4840 Second. Second is a one-way street heading north. Once parked take the brown double doors located to the right of the loading dock in the new (Old Main annex) building. After you enter the stairwell, take the double doors on the right, turn left and proceed through the next set of double doors. Go straight until you see the Elaine L. Jacob gallery on your right.
Must be a member of DIA and FMCA to participate.
Review of the show in The Detroit News
http://www.detnews.com/article/20090512/ENT01/905120302/Art-&-the-inner-city--Gallery-highlights-Cass-Corridor-artists-movement
R.S.V.P. By May 25th for the evening to Tarya Stanford at 313.833.4020 or tstanford@dia.org. No refunds after May 22nd.
For more information, please call Tarya Stanford at 313.833.4020 or email at tstanford@dia.org
March 17, 2009
William Kentridge Lecture
6:00 pm - Reception for the artist
7:00 pm - Artist lecture
8:00 pm - Dinner
Hosts: Janis and Bill Wetsman, Andrew and Gayle Camden, Dede and Oscar Feldman, Stanley and Marilyn Finkel Brown
Internationally acclaimed South African artist William Kentridge combines political history, music, and philosophy in his work that includes animated films, drawings and prints. With South African history and the legacy of colonialism as a point of departure, Kentridge strives to make an art that mixes divergent traditions into an art of cultural authority. In this melding he offers moral measure of our time and invites the viewer to draw their own conclusions.
Lecture free/ Reception and dinner by subscription.
This event was sponsored by Janis and William Wetsman.
January 14, 2009
Contemporary Art Market: Buy, Hold, Sell
6:00 pm – Cocktail Reception and Strolling Supper
7:00 pm - Panel Discussion
Hosts: Heather Jones, Amy Kantgias, and Evie Wheat
Join Ruth Rattner, Detroit based art advisor and appraiser, Rhona Hoffman, Chicago based gallerist, and Josh Baer, private dealer and publisher of The Baer Faxt in a discussion about contemporary art collecting. Adjunct curator Mark Rosenthal will moderate this panel.
Lecture free/ Reception and dinner by subscription.
This event was sponsored by Mark and Molly Valade.
December 4 – December 7, 2008
Art Basel, Miami Beach FL
Meet DIA curators Mark Rosenthal and Becky Hart at ArtBaselMiamiBeach2008, the most important contemporary art show in the United States. The trip also includes an exclusive tour of the renowned collection of Norman and Irma Braman, and a preview of “The Possibility of an Island” at MOCA’s Goldman Warehouse. On the evening of December 4, please join Sandy Seligman and Suzy Farbman for cocktails.
By subscription only
November 19, 2008
Stars at Dusk: Contemporary Artists Discuss their Work
Artist talks and a strolling supper
6:00 pm
Hosts: Lila Silverman, Barbara Kratchman, Wendy Silverman, and Janice Steinhardt
Artists Howard Ben Tré, Jim Pallas, Judy Pfaff, Philip Moulthrop, and Matt Moulthrop will discuss their work in the museum’s collection. This is a unique opportunity for museum patrons to learn about the contemporary collection in the artists’ own voice. The evening includes cocktails, strolling supper and artist talks.
By subscription only
This evening was sponsored by Lila and Gilbert Silverman and James Pearson Duffy.
October 15, 2008
Jane Hammond: Paper Work
6:00 pm – Cocktail reception
7:00 pm – Artist Lecture
8:00 pm – Dinner
Hosts: Kim and Rob Fischer and Judy Weiner
Jane Hammond’s unique works on paper draw inspiration from her lexicon of 276 pre-selected elements that she began collecting in the late 1980s. Over the past fifteen years, she has arranged and rearranged these images. These new associations open dialogues between the elements and offer new inscriptions of meaning.
Lecture free/ Reception and dinner by subscription
This evening was co-sponsored by Forum for Prints, Drawings, and Photographs and Friends of Modern and Contemporary Art
September 24, 2008
FMCA Annual Meeting and Curatorial Discussions
5:30 pm
DIA curators Mark Rosenthal and Becky Hart will discuss Alexander Calder’s Young Woman and Her Suitors. The 77th Annual Meeting of FMCA will follow. The evening will end with our curators discussing the recent acquisition What Will Come by William Kentridge in the contemporary galleries. The Friends acquisition fund supported this important purchase.
Open to the public
FRIENDS OF MODERN AND CONTEMPIORARY ART
Archive 2007-2008 Calendar of Events
FMCA ANNUAL MEETING
Thursday, September 20, 2007
5:30pm –7:30pm
Whitney Restaurant
Event Chair: Marc Schwartz
Formal Introduction of Mark Rosenthal, Adjunct Curator, The James Pearson Duffy Department of Contemporary Art to FMCA Membership; Election of FMCA Board Members; Review of 2006-2007 FMCA Programs and Department of Contemporary Art Acquisitions.
Mark Rosenthal served as adjunct curator for the Menil Collection and head of contemporary art at the National Gallery. He curated such influential exhibitions as The Surreal Calder, Joseph Beuys : Actions, Vitrines, Environments, Continental Drift: Installations by Joan Jonas, Ilya and Emilia Kabakov, Juan Munoz, Yinka Shonibare, Picasso: The Early Years, 1892 – 1906, and Anselm Kiefer. Rosenthal has written a plethora of books and articles on contemporary art history and theory.
MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE: Public Art in Detroit
Saturday, September 29, 2007
10:30am –3:00pm
Co-Chairs: Ruth Rattner, Carol Roberts
While downtown Detroit’s Spirit of Detroit and Memorial to Joe Louis are well known sculptures to Detroiters, Gomidas and Step of the Dance nearby are not exactly household acquaintances. Come explore, on foot and by private coach, some of the FAMILIAR and LESS FAMILIAR denizens of Detroit’s public spaces. Led by art historian Dennis Nawrocki who is working on a revised/updated edition of his essential 1999 Art in Detroit Public Places, this excursion, with a quintessential Detroit lunch in a downtown favorite will also feature Belle Isle, Wayne State University, and the newly minted Josephine Ford Sculpture Garden at College for Creative Studies. With its abundant examples of modern and traditional sculpture, Detroit’s heritage of fine art will be on full and constant view during this revelatory tour.
MARK ROSENTHAL DINNER LECTURE
Baselitz, Beuys, Kiefer, Polke & Richter: The German Moment
Wednesday, October 17, 2007 - Rattlesnake Club
6:00 cocktails & dinner; lecture at 7:30 pm
Co-Chairs: Jeff Antaya, Janis Wetsman, Ruth Rattner
With Joseph Beuys’s artistic breakthrough of the early 1960s, German art took a great leap onto the international stage. He was quickly joined by Georg Baselitz, Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, and Anselm Kiefer, all of who forged a powerful and alternative point of view to America, in the content, mission, and making of art. Join Mark Rosenthal, new adjunct curator of contemporary art, as he discusses the importance of these renowned artists in 20th century art.
JULIE MEHRETU LECTURE
Tuesday, October 30, 2007 – Detroit Film Theatre 7:30
With Cocktails/Light Supper at 5:30
Co- Hosted with Friends of African and African American Art and Founder Junior Council
Co-Chairs: Molly Valade, Carole Harris, Doris Rhea (FAAAA), Nicole Wagner (FJC)
As a prelude to the exhibition Julia Mehretu: City Sitings, the artist will discuss her working process with focus on the recent paintings that will be featured at the DIA.
Julie Mehretu: City Sitings, the inaugural exhibition for the opening of the DIA, brings together twelve of the artist’s monumental paintings. Mehretu’s compelling canvases re-envision urban experience and rewrite narratives of exclusion, reconciling divergent histories through her expansive, dynamic compositions. Inspired by community, history and the built environment, Mehretu created new paintings for this exhibition that engage viewers in her vision of metropolitan landscape.
Julie Mehretu’s work evokes highly personalized, yet distinctly universal themes that draw on her experiences as a citizen of the world and of the city. Born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, raised in Michigan and now a resident of New York City, she employs a dynamic visual vocabulary that combines maps, urban grids, and architectural renderings to articulate complex social and geopolitical structures. The immense proportions, organic layering, and careful detail convey the complexities of the urban environment. Mehretu queries what impact an individual can have, and what one person contributes to the construction of a larger narrative. The interplay between the individual and larger community finds form in the compositional structure of Mehretu’s canvases: one must experience them both up close and from a distance to activate the dynamics of local empowerment within a more sweeping story.
GALLERY TOURS: The New Contemporary Galleries
January 23, 2008
6:00-8:30 p.m.
DIA Woodward Entrance
Come learn about our new acquisitions and the new contemporary art galleries at the DIA; join Graham Beal, Mark Rosenthal, Jennifer Czajkowski, and Rebecca Hart from the DIA staff and Michael Stone-Richards (College for Creative Studies) and Vince Carducci (CCS, Cranbrook and critic at large) in discussions on the new, the familiar, and the choices made in our grand re-installation.
VIRGINIA HECKERT: “Schools” of German Photography
Wednesday, February 6, 2008 - 7:30 p.m.
Cocktails / Dinner at 5:30
Chair: Marc Schwartz
Photography is one of the hottest markets in Contemporary Art and German photographers from the Düsseldorf School of Photography – artists who studied with Bernd and Hilla Becher at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1976 to 1996 - lead the field. Heckert will provide an overview of Becher’s most successful students including Andreas Gursky, Candida Hofer, Thomas Ruff and Thomas Struth; revisit the work of German photographers from the 1920s and 1930s that set the stage for the Bechers and their students; and show works by “next generation” photographers working in Germany today.
PAMELA KORT LECTURE: German Expressionism into Contemporary Art
Wednesday, March 12, 2008 - DIA Lecture Hall 7:30
Cocktails/Dinner at 5:30
Co-Chairs: Ruth Rattner, Margaret Demant
Co-sponsored with European Paintings Council and Forum for Prints, Drawing and Photographs
Pamela Kort is an independent curator and art historian specializing in 20th and 21st Century Art in German-speaking Europe. For her Detroit lecture Dr. Kort will discuss the history of expressionism, with its many twists and turns, and draw parallels between Kirchner's paintings and those of Immendorff and Baselitz for example. She has written extensively on modern and contemporary European artists, including Paul Klee, Jorg Immendorff, Joseph Beuys and Markus Lupertz. Holding MA and PhD degrees in Art History from UCLA, Kort has served as Associate Curator, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt and Associate Curator, Neue Galerie New York. She lives in Berlin.
GERHARD RICHTER/ NEO RAUCH: Painting Media
German Art Lecture by Charles W. Haxthausen
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
5:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Co-Chairs: Rebecca and Alan Ross
In 1961, the Iron Curtain became a reality with the erection of the Berlin Wall. That year Gerhard Richter, one of the most influential painters to emerge from post-WWII Germany, left for West Germany; and the painter Neo Rauch, born in 1960, remained in the Communist East. Tracing the origins of their training to Socialist Realism, Haxthausen makes a provocative case study of historical change in the East-West political and artistic landscape of post-WWII Germany by looking closely at each painter’s dogged commitment not only to sustain but to reinvigorate the painting medium in their respective eras: Richter in the 1960s and Rauch in the 1990s.
This event is sponsored by Rebecca and Alan Ross.
COLLECTOR’S FORUM: Lisa Roumell
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
7:30 p.m., DIA Lecture Hall
Cocktails/Dinner at 5:30 p.m.
Chair: Andrea Roumell Dickson
Lisa Roumell, Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer of the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, will discuss her personal experiences as a collector. Roumell is regarded as an adventuresome collector who is willing to take risks when she and her husband purchase work by cutting edge artists. Their collection, a testament to foresight and daring, is esteemed worldwide. Ms. Roumell will present a lecture on her collection.
BLACK WHITE & GRAY: A Celebration of Sam Wagstaff
Reception, film screening (“Black, White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe”) and panel discussion
Wednesday May 21, 2008 - 5:30 p.m.
Co-chairs: Michelle Perron and Susanne Hilberry
Yale-educated and born with a silver spoon in his mouth, Sam Wagstaff’s transformation from innovative museum curator to Robert Mapplethorpe’s lover and patron is intensively probed in Black White + Gray. During the heady years of the 1970s and 1980s, the New York City art scene was abuzz with a new spirit, and Mapplethorpe would be at the center of it. Wagstaff pulled him from his suburban Queens existence, gave him a camera and brought him into this art world that seemed to be waiting for him, creating the man whose infamous images instilled emotions ranging from awe to anger. In turn, Mapplethorpe brought the formerly starched-shirt preppie to the world of drugs and gay S-and-M sex, well-documented in his still-startling photographs. Twenty five years separated the lovers, but their relationship was symbiotic to its core, and the two remained together forever. The film also explores the relationship both men had with musician/poet Patti Smith, whose 1975 debut album “Horses” catapulted her to fame.
Curators like Wagstaff and the Metropolitan Museum’s Henry Geldzahler, Andy Warhol’s aesthetic adviser, acted more like artists during this time. At Hartford’s Wadsworth Atheneum and later the Detroit Institute of Arts, Wagstaff’s exhibitions, such as “Continuity and Change” and “Black, White and Gray” garnered national attention. Wagstaff was among the first to recognize the oncoming collision of art and fashion, music and clublife and he was a champion of Minimalism, Andy Warhol, and a coterie of forward thinking artists like Tony Smith, Richard Tuttle, James Lee Byars, Agnes Martin, Michael Heizer, Ad Reinhardt, Frank Stella and Ray Johnson.
Panel discussion follows screening. Panelists: artist Richard Tuttle, curator and author Gordon Baldwin, gallerist Susanne Hilberry; moderator: Mark Rosenthal
This event is co-sponsored by Friends of Modern and Contemporary, AIDS Partnership Michigan, and Affirmations.
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