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Mike Solomon, the Founding Director of the Alfonso Ossorio Foundation, examines the shared artistic aims and the unlikely affinity between the wealthy, worldly, Harvard-educated Filipino-American artist Alfonso Ossorio and Jackson Pollock, son of an Iowa farm family and high school dropout.

The Art of Relationships is a series of Zoom talks in conjunction with the exhibition “Creative Exchanges: Artists in Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner’s Address Books” on view at the Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center through July 30, 2023.

Date: 06/11/2023

Time: 5:00 pm - 6:00 pm

Please click here to register for this event on Zoom.

It’s been 30 years since Ethel Schwabacher had a proper solo show in New York City. But in the 1950s, she was at the forefront of the Abstract Expressionist movement, showing vibrant canvases with bold colors, fluid brushstrokes, and even snippets of poems at the Betty Parsons Gallery in New York.

“Ethel was a poet as well, so she would put lines of her poetry in her paintings—which for the 1950s was way ahead of its time,” Christine Berry, cofounder of New York’s Berry Campbell Gallery, told Artnet News.

If you’re invited to spend the weekend in Sag Harbor, you’ve just won summer’s golden ticket. This Hamptons hamlet is what getaway dreams are made of. A two-square-mile village on the outstretched fringe of New York City, it was once an international whaling port, a remote place where writers like John Steinbeck could rent solitary bungalows on the cheap to pound out legendary novels on portable typewriters.

A mural for Lima jazz legend Joe Henderson has already been created downtown, and on April 27, Lima schools will add another posthumous honor to add to Henderson’s legacy.

"Artists Choose Parrish: Part 1", featuring Nanette Carter and Frank Wimberley, is listed as one of 29 must-see museum exhibitions to see this Spring and Summer. 

"Artists Choose Parrish: Part 1" at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, NY, April 16-August 6, 2023 & April 30-July 23, 2023.