Author Archives: Nicholas Burkhalter

Sustaining a Creative Life for Artists

Lise Soskolne is an artist and core organizer of Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.), a New York-based activist organization whose mission is to establish sustainable economic relationships between artists and the institutions that contract their labor, and to introduce mechanisms for self-regulation into the art field that collectively bring about a more equitable distribution of its economy. An… Read More

Grants and Foundations

Matthew Deleget hosts a conversation with Kay Takeda, Vice President, Grants & Services, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and Heather Pontonio, Director, Art Program, Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation Matthew Deleget is an abstract painter, curator, and arts worker. He has exhibited his work nationally and internationally, including solo and group exhibitions in the US, Europe, and Australasia. Matthew has received awards… Read More

The Artist-Gallery Relationship

“The Artist-Gallery Relationship” a talk with Kristen Becker, Marianne Boesky Gallery Kristen Becker works for Marianne Boesky Gallery as the Director of Museum Engagement, a position she created to help bridge the gap between the commercial and non-profit worlds. She travels domestically and internationally to arts organizations, art fairs, and related events to facilitate more transparency amongst her peers and… Read More

Artist Talk: Duncan Hannah

DUNCAN HANNAH was born in Minneapolis in 1952. He attended Bard College from 1971 to 1973 and Parsons School of Design from 1973 to 1975. In the seventies, he became associated with New York’s avant-garde and glam and punk rock scenes, acted in a number of underground movies, and showed several of his figurative portraits in 1980’s infamous Times Square… Read More

Bonnie Dewitt (8/11/1983-10/1/2017)

Bonnie DeWitt (MFA 2007) left us on October 1, 2017. Bonnie loved and breathed art. She worked with the unique medium of gouache to create thoroughly considered compositions, ripe with subtle and overt symbolism, and mark making that invigorated the image with energy and delight despite the often dark subject matter. Her work was published, and included in exhibitions both… Read More

Academy Alumni Panel

  ALI BANISADR Neither fully abstract nor definitively figurative, Ali Banisadr’s richly allusive paintings are as arresting as they are disconcerting. In their conflation of multiple temporalities and narrative dimensions, the paintings might be better understood as “world landscapes” (to borrow a phrase from early Netherlandish scholarship) than as landscapes or abstract compositions. Rather, they reprise art-historical conventions to subtly… Read More

In Conversation with Independent Curators

A talk with Independent Curators: who are they and how we do we have access? Sharon Louden talks with Bartholomew Ryan, Claire Schneider and Mitra Khorasheh.   BARTHOLOMEW RYAN is an independent curator based in Minneapolis. He served briefly as Milton Fine Curator at the Andy Warhol Museum. Previously he was Assistant Curator at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis,… Read More

Eileen Cooper of the Royal Academy

EILEEN COOPER was born 1953 in Glossop, in the Derbyshire Peak District. She studied at Goldsmiths College from 1971-1974 being in the cohort of students who were selected by Jon Thompson. Senior members of staff at that time included Bert Irvin RA, Basil Beattie RA and Michael Craig Martin RA. She went on to study Painting at the Royal College… Read More