EventsThe New Social Environment#669
Mad Women: Kornblee, Jackson, Saidenberg, and Ward on Madison Avenue in the 1960s
Featuring Michael Findlay, Véronique Chagnon-Burke, and Phyllis Tuchman
Friday, October 14, 2022 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific
These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.
Art dealer Michael Findlay and art historian Véronique Chagnon-Burke join Rail Editor-at-Large Phyllis Tuchman for a conversation. We conclude with a poetry reading.
Michael Findlay
Born in Scotland in 1945, Michael Findlay directed one of the first galleries in SoHo, New York City, in the 1960’s and ran his own gallery there from 1969-1977. Findlay is currently a Director of Acquavella Galleries, which specializes in Impressionist and Modern European works of art and post-war American painting and sculpture. His book, The Value of Art – Money, Power, Beauty, was published by Prestel in 2012, and has been translated into German, Spanish, Japanese and Korean. His second book, Seeing Slowly – Looking At Modern Art was published in 2017, and has been translated into Chinese.
Véronique Chagnon-Burke
Throughout her career, Véronique Chagnon-Burke has taught a range of subjects in art market studies and art history at Queens College, Parsons School of Design, among other institutions. Her museum and research positions have included work at MoMA and the College Art Association, and she has also worked at the Hôtel Drouot in Paris. From 2002 to 2021, she was the Director of Christie’s Education in New York, where she taught the history of the art market and art history, more specifically classes on French art and on women artists.
Phyllis Tuchman
Critic and art historian Phyllis Tuchman teaches and writes about art, particularly sculpture. She has taught at Williams College, Hunter College, and the School of Visual Arts. She is an Editor-at-Large for the Brooklyn Rail.
The Rail has a tradition of ending our conversations with a poetry reading, and we're fortunate to have Dao Strom reading.
Dao Strom
Artist Dao Strom works with three “voices”—written, sung, visual—to explore hybridity and the intersection of personal and collective histories. She is the author of Instrument (Fonograf Editions, 2020) and its musical companion Traveler’s Ode (Antiquated Future Records, 2020); a bilingual poetry-art book, You Will Always Be Someone From Somewhere Else (AJAR Press); a memoir, We Were Meant To Be a Gentle People, and song cycle, East/West; and two books of fiction, The Gentle Order of Girls and Boys and Grass Roof, Tin Roof. Born in Vietnam, Strom grew up in the Sierra Nevada foothills of California and lives in Portland, Oregon. She is co-founder of two collective art projects, She Who Has No Master(s), and De-Canon.
We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨