Virtual Classes & Schedule
Want the comfort of your home while learning about contemporary art? I continue to have a regular schedule of virtual classes, held over Zoom.
These classes offer an overview of what is happening in contemporary art today and allow the freedom to discover new artists and dialogue about what artists are doing and why their work is essential in the context of global culture today. Established and emerging artists are given equal attention as we “visit” galleries, collections, and museums—focusing on the vast diversity of art created and exhibited in the New York Metropolitan area.
If you are interested in a customized virtual class, please see the custom tours page.
To see a list of recorded past virtual classes available for purchase click here.
Virtual classes offered this spring:
Rashid Johnson: A Poem for Deep Thinkers
The Guggenheim Museum, January 29th
Rashid Johnson is a scholar of art history, a mediator of Black popular culture, and a leading creative force in contemporary art. The 90 art pieces displayed range from black-soap paintings and spray-painted works to large-scale sculptures, film, and video. They fill the Guggenheim’s Rotunda from top to bottom, creating an exuberant viewing and walking experience.
Wifredo Lam: When I Don’t Sleep I Dream
MoMA, February 19
Of Chinese and African descent, Cuban-born Wifredo Lam declared his art as an “act of decolonization.” As early as the 1930s, Lam created a meaningful space for the beauty and depth of Black diasporic culture, merging his political convictions and commitment to modernism. His experiments with figurative and landscape painting, combined with his affinity for poetry, allowed him to disrupt and overcome the colonial structures he encountered in art as well as in life. This is the first retrospective in the U.S. to feature the whole trajectory of Lam’s remarkable vision.
Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective
MoMA, March 5
Featuring 300 artworks, Ruth Asawa: A Retrospective charts the artist’s lifelong explorations of materials and forms in a vast array of mediums. Asawa transformed materials and objects into subjects of contemplation, unsettling distinctions between abstraction and figuration, figure and ground, and negative and positive space. The exhibition encourages close looking; it reveals the integrated art practice cultivated by Asawa, for whom all acts held a creative potential with no separation between living and making art.
Man Ray: When Objects Dream
The Metropolitan Musem of Art, April 9
In 1921, Man Ray pioneered the “rayograph” – his term for a new type of photograph made without a camera. Instead, he placed objects on or near a sheet of light-sensitive paper, exposed it to light, and developed it, turning recognizable subjects into mysterious compositions. The exhibition will be the first to situate this signature accomplishment in relation to Man Ray’s larger (and more familiar) body of work of the 1910s and 1920s, during the period between Dada and Surrealism.
Contemporary Spring Exhibitions
December 4th
As we do every season: we will take an insider’s look at the exciting shows of the Spring season and see what new artists are being featured. Chelsea, the Lower East Side, TriBeCa, Long Island City—who knows (yet) where we will go!
Virtual Classes Schedule & Prices:
Four Thursdays, 11 - 12:30 pm
September 11, October 16, November 20, December 4
5 classes: $175
Individual: $40