From the time of Zola and Baudelaire, critics have been the king makers in art and, after them, follow the collectors and the museums. Is there an objective standard of quality in art? How is the new explained? Curator Franklin Hill Perrell presents a three-part series that explores the role of critics, journalists, poets and others from the literary world, including Gertrude Stein on to Clement Greenberg who became linked with the careers of artists such as Manet, Monet, Lautrec, Picasso, Matisse, Gris, Miro, Pollock, De Kooning and others.

Join us for an intimate evening with artist, Red Grooms as he discusses his art, his career, his life, with our own, Constance Schwartz in a relaxed, unceremonious atmosphere that will grant the audience unique access into an informal conversation. A very limited number of tickets will be sold to this once in a life time opportunity. In addition, audience members will have the chance to purchase signed exhibition posters depicting his famed piece, The Easter Parade.

Admission is $20 members; $25 nonmembers RESERVE NOW

Inspired by our new exhibition, which includes Red Grooms’ “art about art” installation juxtaposing the Cubists of Paris with the Abstract Expressionists of New York, Curator Franklin Hill Perrell discusses how The School of Paris — Matisse, Picasso, Gris and Légér — changed art forever and how The School of New York —Pollock, de Kooning and their successors — added their own twists, their own ways to bring new, unprecedented techniques to painting and sculpture.

Admission is $10 members, $15 nonmembers