Madison Avenue galleries to host art open house

Ahead of major art fairs including Frieze and Art New York, Madison Avenue’s galleries are coming together to give consumers a firsthand look at their collections.

The third annual Madison Avenue Gallery Walk, presented by ArtNews and organized by the Madison Avenue Business Improvement District, will see a series of talks and tours along the corridor. This gives galleries an opportunity to connect with collectors, while giving art enthusiasts the space and invitation to visit the street's art dealers.

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Almost 50 galleries are participating in the event, being held on April 27 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Among the highlights are a showcase of Keith Haring paintings at Van de Weghe Fine Art and highlights from Karl Lagerfeld’s photography work at Galerie Gmurzynska.

Andy Warhol’s women such as Edie Sedgwick will be the subject at Levy Gorvy, while the Mnuchin Gallery will be centering its displays on De Kooning.

 

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Warhol Women is an exhibition devoted exclusively to Andy Warhol’s portraits of women from the early 1960s through the 1980s! . Covering the full scope of Warhol’s career, this exhibition invites the viewer to ponder the artist’s complex and often contradictory relationship to myths and ideals of femininity, beauty, and power. Whether intimate or monumental in scale, each canvas embodies the ambiguities that animate Warhol’s oeuvre. Forever undecidable, these portraits offer up both the glittering surface and the raw humanity of Warhol’s art, which pulses with the evidence of his halftone silkscreen process and, in works of his later years, fluid strokes of synthetic paint. Through paintings riotous and defiant, vulnerable and demure, Warhol Women sheds fresh light on both the artist’s oeuvre and our present moment, wherein questions of female empowerment and the construction of identity through images are as urgent as ever. . On view April 25 - June 15 at Levy Gorvy in New York. . #LevyGorvy #WarholWomen #AndyWarhol #JackieO #ArethaFranklin #BrigitteBardot #DebbieHarry #JudyGarland #DollyParton #LadiesandGentlemen . © 2019 The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc. / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. @warholfoundation @artistsrightssociety

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Adding a new layer to the overlap between the fashion and art worlds, the Madison Avenue Business Improvement District recently brought an accessories-focused showcase to its high street.

Along with Hearst's Marie Claire and the School of Visual Arts, Madison Avenue BID presented “Obsessorize,” a series of installations of fashionable sculptures by the college's students. In a panel discussion on Oct. 9, moderated by Accessories Council president Karen Giberson and hosted by Marie Claire, speakers from Marie Claire and SVA explained the relationship between fashion design and the creation of art (see story).