The National Arts Club - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for The National Arts Club. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Chellis Baird “The Touch of Red”
For the exhibition The Touch of Red, Chellis Baird explores the complex significance of the color red, expanding upon her signature techniques of sculpture, painting and textiles within the spectrum of...More »
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Marcia Grostein “Brighton Beach Project - The World as it Should Be”
Marcia Grostein’s Brighton Beach Project stands as a testament to the possibility of harmonious coexistence between diverse populations. Comprised of intimate yet unabashed beachgoer portraits, the series...More »
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SaySay.Love “Water”
Art uses water as a mirror for the interplay between abstraction and reality. Whether at rest or in motion, colorless or iridescent – the nature of water triggers emotions. Water widens our view to the...More »
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“The Fifth Annual National Arts Club Will Barnet Student Show”
The National Arts Club presents the Fifth Annual Will Barnet Student Show. The show honors Will Barnet’s contributions to the NAC and his lifelong dedication to arts education. This dynamic exhibition...More »
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Irving Petlin Exhibition
In cooperation with Kent Fine Art, The National Arts Club presents the exhibition A Tribute To Irving Petlin . Irving Petlin’s engagement with the world of art spans over seven decades, beginning...More »
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“Early Magnum In & On New York” Exhibition
Magnum Photos launches its 70th-anniversary program in New York City in tandem with this year’s AIPAD fair with an exhibition of photographs taken during the early years of the agency in the city in 1947-60....More »
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“Accessible Art Fair New York”
MvVO ART presents Brussels’ acclaimed artist-led Fair in New York City this November. A leading international art fair, Accessible Art Fair New York will showcase 60 rising contemporary artists from...More »
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“Professional Women Photographers: Structure in the City” Exhibition
Trask Gallery Professional Women Photographers (PWP) presents a show celebrating the feats of architecture and engineering. Structure in the City portrays buildings and bridges of various ages and...More »
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Elsa Mora “Timeline”
Gregg Gallery The National Arts Club presents acclaimed Cuban-born artist Elsa Mora in a exhibition of new works. Challenged by a family history of poverty, mental illness and dysfunction, Mora...More »
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“Sweet Sixteen: The 25th Annual National Arts Club Roundtable Exhibition”
Marquis Gallery This annual exhibition brings together established and emerging artists, offering them an opportunity to share their aesthetic explorations and latest accomplishments with a new audience....More »
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Joe Zucker “Armada”
W. H. Auden observed “how the sea represents a “state of barbaric vagueness and disorder out of which civilization has emerged.” As pirates, whalers, and slave traders recur in his undulating imagery,...More »
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Jerry Uelsmann “Alchemy and Imagery”
Gregg Gallery Jerry Uelsmann is an iconic figure of Mid-Century American photography. His innovative use of photographic techniques in the 1950s and 1960s foreshadowed the era of computer technologies...More »
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Rodrigo Franzão “KATHARSIS”
Marquis Gallery The National Arts Club is pleased to present the New York debut exhibition of Brazilian artist Rodrigo Franzão. Born in Sao Paulo in 1982, Franzão is one of the most dynamic and provocative...More »
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Robert Wilson Exhibition
Grand Gallery While widely known for creating highly acclaimed theatrical pieces, Robert Wilson’s work is firmly rooted in the fine arts. His drawings, paintings and sculptures have been presented around...More »
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“NAC MODERN: Contemporary Masters in The National Arts Club’s Permanent Collection” Exhibition
Gregg & Marquis Galleries The beautifully presented and preserved works of art by National Arts Club Life Artist Members that decorate the public rooms of the Club represent only a fraction of the...More »
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“The Pastel Society of America’s 43rd Annual Exhibition: Enduring Brilliance!”
Grand Gallery 183 pastel paintings, including 15 by foreign artists from Canada, China, Finland, Hong Kong, Philippines, Russia, and Spain, along with 168 by US artists, will be hung modified-salon-style...More »
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“ARTiculate: The 24th Annual National Arts Club Roundtable Exhibition”
Gregg Gallery This annual exhibition brings together established and emerging artists, offering them an opportunity to share their esthetic explorations and latest accomplishments with a new audience....More »
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Carlos Quintana “Recent Works”
Grand Gallery Carlos Quintana is one of the most important artists working in Cuba today. Born in Cuba in 1966, Quintana attended the famed San Alejandro Academy of Art and lived and worked in Madrid...More »
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Michael Halsband “Halsband Portraits”
The National Arts Club and its Fine Arts Committee presents a survey of portraiture by the renowned American photographer, Michael Halsband. Halsband’s 1985 iconic portrait of Jean-Michel Basquiat...More »
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“Portraits of Ancient Linen: Gail Rothschild - Recent Works” Exhibition
Marquis Gallery Her capacious Portraits of Ancient Linen series marks the sculptor Gail Rothschild ‘s return to painting. Rothschild began the series in response to years of creating site-specific installations...More »
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“Dali: The Golden Years - Drawings and Prints of Salvador Dali, 1930s-70s” Exhibition
Grand Gallery Described as “one of the most significant and instructive graphical displays of Dali’s genius,” Dali: The Golden Years arrives at The National Arts Club after a triumphant showing at the...More »
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“New and Vintage: Frank Gimpaya - Photography” Exhibition
Gregg Gallery “Like sculptors who are said to draw in space, Mr. Gimpaya seems to paint with light…” - Vivien Raynor, The New York Times In a career that spans nearly forty years, Frank Gimpaya continues...More »
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Francisco de Goya y Lucientes “Los Caprichos”
Grand Gallery Goya’s Los Caprichos are major masterworks from the Age of Enlightenment. Published in 1799, the album of eighty prints in etching and aquatint is Goya’s critical testament to the wave...More »
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“Outside The Lines: Modernist Drawings” Exhibition
Gregg & Trask Galleries Drawings have for centuries offered viewers the most immediate and intimate glimpse of an artist’s perception and sensitivity. From the great preparatory outlines of Renaissance...More »
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Kiki Valdes “Riding Dualism”
The National Arts Club presents new paintings by Kiki Valdes that explore the phenomenon of dominance and the translation of experience into image and form. Continuing his inquiry into the evaluation...More »
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Ilya and Emilia Kabakov Exhibition
ARTnews named Ilya Kabakov one of the world’s 10 greatest artists. He and his wife Emilia, work together and are widely recognized as the most important Russian artists to have emerged in the late 20th...More »
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“The Pastel Society of America’s 42nd Annual Exhibition”
The Pastel Society of America (PSA) once again fills the Grand Gallery of The National Arts Club with the best examples of the art of pastel by artists from North America and all over the world. With each...More »
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Mark DeMuro “News Pictures Series”
A familiar figure in the Manhattan art world since the mid 1980’s, Mark deMuro is celebrated for his rich imagination and his unique celebration of his working material in diverse media. In advance of...More »
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“Meeting Mythology: An Eternal Source” Exhibition
The myths of ancient Greece (and subsequently ancient Rome) have remained unrivaled in the Western world as sources of imaginative and compelling ideas. Artists from ancient times to the present have derived...More »
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“Mississippi Rising: Emerging Artists” Exhibition
- Media: Painting - Photography - Prints - Sculpture - Ceramics - Media Arts
- 2014-06-09 - 2014-06-27
Gregg Gallery The Mississippi aesthetic is a mysterious concoction equal parts beauty, truth, and whimsy. Mississippi Rising is an open invitation to explore that aesthetic in the works of today’s emerging...More »
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“Collectively Independent: The Exhibit of Young Russian-American Artists” Exhibition
Trask Gallery In celebration of the 12th Annual Russian Heritage Month®, the Russian American Foundation in collaboration with COJECO BluePrint fellowship program presents the exhibit of 5 emerging...More »
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“From Primitivism to Propaganda: Russia’s Modern Masters” Exhibition
Unseen Works from Private Collection of Marina and Nikolay Shchukin On View at The National Arts Club. Thirty-five works on paper by some of Russia’s most notable modern artists from the private collection...More »
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“Interior Lives” Exhibition
Trask Gallery Interior Lives is a group exhibition of photographic works by members of Professional Women Photographers (PWP). In any space that we inhabit, live, or work, each of us arranges it...More »
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“From Rembrandt to Rosenquist: Works on Paper from the NAC’s Permanent Collection” Exhibition
Gregg and Marquis Galleries Celebrating seldom seen treasures of the Permanent Collection, FROM REMBRANDT TO ROSENQUIST will feature works in a wide variety of media and styles that confirm the diversity...More »
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“Inspiring Arts Education Summit: Featuring Art by Young Artists” Exhibition
Grand Gallery For one week in May, The National Arts Club will celebrate Young Artists, including Inocente Izucar, students of The Rudolf Steiner School, Marta Valle High School and Broome Street Academy...More »
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“Fresh Talent from the Lower East Side” Exhibition
Marquis Gallery The National Arts Club invites you to the thirteenth annual exhibition of artwork by the students of Marta Valle High School. Come meet these talented and dedicated New York City public...More »
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“It’s an Invasion” Exhibition
“It’s An Invasion” is an ode to the concept that after introducing something foreign to a new environment, both entities will never be the same again. This show will clear the cobwebs from the National...More »
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“23 Prime: The 23rd Annual National Arts Club Roundtable Exhibition”
This annual exhibition brings together established and emerging artists, offering them an opportunity to share their esthetic explorations and latest accomplishments with a new audience. Traditionally...More »
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Marcus M. Reidenberg “Flower Portraits”
Gregg Gallery In time for Spring, photographer and NAC member Marcus Reidenberg will share with us twenty four of his remarkable Flower Portraits from 2011. A perfect compliment to the Arbor Day...More »
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“The National Arts Club Will Barnet Student Show”
Grand Gallery Over his long rich lifetime Will Barnet dedicated himself to arts education. In his honor The National Arts Club has re-established its Annual Student Exhibition, one of Will’s favorite...More »
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“Arbor Day - A Celebration in Art” Exhibition
Marquis and Trask Galleries The acclaimed American landscape painter and NAC Artist Life Member John F. Carlson advised his Woodstock students in the late 1920’s to “Know your trees……understand that...More »
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Carolyn Chesney “A Private World”
Trask Gallery The National Arts Club pays tribute to Carolyn Chesney with an intimate exhibition celebrating her life and works as a visual artist. Well known for her career in the publishing world,...More »
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“115th Annual Exhibiting Artist Members” Exhibition
Grand Gallery In 1906 The National Arts Club celebrated its new headquarters on Gramery Park with an exhibition of American paintings belonging to member and collector William T. Evans. A successful businessman...More »
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Peter Bogardus Exhibition
Trask Gallery Peter Bogardus is a photographer and book artist who works in New York City. His books are made by hand, employing photographic images printed from copper photogravure plates juxtaposed...More »
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Pablo Picasso “The Printmaker: An Intimate View”
Marquis Gallery The National Arts Club collaborates with the John Szoke Gallery in presenting an intimate exploration of Pablo Picasso as a printmaker. Regarded as the most significant printmaker since...More »
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Fabrizio Arrieta Exhibition
The National Arts Club presents a preview of the work of Fabrizio Arrieta, the NAC Artist-in-Residence who will be with us through August of this year. Born in 1982 in San Jose, Costa Rica, Arrieta is...More »
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Romare Bearden Exhibition
Marquis Gallery Romare Bearden (September 2, 1911 – March 12, 1988) was an African-American artist and writer. He experimented with many different mediums and artistic styles. He is best known for his...More »
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Tim Okamura Exhibition
Gregg Gallery Tim Okamura’s works, comprising life-sized paintings depicting soulful New York City women, are a compelling exploration of street chic beauty re-imagined within the genre of royal portraiture....More »
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“Selections from The Permanent Collection” Exhibition
Trask Gallery Although the Permanent Collection’s holdings in photography are modest, they span a wide range of history from the Mexican master Manuel Alvarez Bravo to the current work of Duane Michaels....More »
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“Daughters of Provincetown” Exhibition
Grand Gallery Anne and her daughter Cynthia are from a family of gifted artists. Home is Provincetown, an idyllic seaside retreat at the tip of Cape Cod peninsula—a windswept land of clapboard houses...More »
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“Society of Scribes” exhibition
In committing to an Annual Members Exhibition, the Society of Scribes strives to foster an appreciation for calligraphy in the wider community. We wish to present a wide range of calligraphic work — from...More »
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“The Silverpoint Exhibition” exhibition
The first silverpoint exhibition in this country, The Fine Line: Drawing with Silver in America, was organized by Bruce Weber at the Norton Gallery and School of Art, in 1985. In its catalog, he wrote,...More »
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“New York Society of Etchers (NYSE)” Exhibition
At our annual exhibition, the New York Society of Etchers will present a special exhibition of etchings by NYSE board members, and guest etchers from the Chicago Printmakers Collaborative. We are pleased...More »
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Mary Whyte Exhibition
Although I have painted almost all of my life, I consider myself a late bloomer. My early years were spent painting a shopping list of different subjects: landscapes, nudes, flowers, still life, commissioned...More »
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“Allied Artists of America 2013 Annual Juried Exhibition” Exhibition
Allied Artists of America was established in 1914 and throughout the past 100 years has upheld the tradition of showcasing and promoting American art in an annual juried exhibition. The intent of the founders...More »
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“Contemporary Masters in the Permanent Collection” Exhibition
The beautifully presented and preserved works of art by National Arts Club Life Artist Members that decorate the public rooms of the Club represent only a fraction of the Permanent Collection. A recent...More »
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Chen Chi “Ink - Chinese Dream”
While much attention and press coverage has been given to contemporary Chinese art using western-style oil and other materials, little has been available on traditional Chinese ink works. This dramatic...More »
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Jeff DiCicco “The City Beautiful”
In commemoration of the centennial anniversary of the New York Public Library, Jeff DiCicco has created a series of renderings depicting architectural details from the library’s classically designed façade....More »
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“East Berlin: Film, Fashion, Fotography” Exhibition
This 5-day festival will showcase current film, fashion, and photography by ten contemporary German artists who have a background with the former DDR and who are inspired by present-day Berlin. Today...More »
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Dashi Namdakov “The Nomad, Memory of the Future”
The Russian American Foundation presents The Nomad, Memory of the Future, the largest exhibition in the United States of works by Dashi Namdakov, a renowned Buryat artist and sculptor. Curated by Marina...More »
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Nahum Tschacbasov Exhibition
The Russian American Foundation presents a retrospective of work by Russian-born American artist Nahum Tschacbasov (1899-1984). Curated by Marina Kovalyov, the exhibition includes over fifty paintings...More »
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"114th Annual Exhibiting Artist Members’ Exhibition"
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"Two Steps Ahead: Sculpture and Drawings by Katherine Taylor" Exhibition
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"Body Politic" Exhibition
Gowanus Ballroom resident curators Courtney Jordan and Kristin Kunc have stormed the gates of the National Arts Club, the oldest art club in America! "Errrrr, more like the National Arts Club powers-that-be...More »
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"Allied Artists of America" Exhibition
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"I Love You So Much That Even When You Are Lying Next To Me I Miss You" Exhibition
Painting never dies. It may be rounded upon with each evolution at the frontline of the artistic landscape but it doesn’t succumb. Interventions, performances and installations explode around it but the...More »
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Seena Donneson Exhibition
This is an exhibit of bronze and handmade paper sculpture by Seena Donneson. This will be Donneson’s first solo show at the National Arts Club. Inspired by what she calls “fragments lost in time,” Donneson’s...More »
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"Four Etchers" Exhibition
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"Vestigial" Exhibition
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Jason Michael Blair "Passages & Explorations"
A solo exhibition of limited edition photographs To schedule a viewing of the exhibit on Saturday or Sunday call The National Arts Club 212.475.3424. More »
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Hisako Kobayashi Exhibition
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Shirley Ayn Choi "Andy Warhol: A Life in iMAGES"
New York Multimedia artist, Shirley Ayn Choi's Andy Warhol: A Life in iMAGES will be on exhibition at The National Art Club's Gregg Galleries. More »
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"Terence Koh" Art Performance and Lecture
Critically-acclaimed contemporary artist Terence Koh will make his debut appearance at The National Arts Club by giving a lecture on the history of art as an original art performance entitled "Art History:...More »
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Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club Exhibition
The Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club, one of the oldest women's art clubs in the country, was founded in 1896 in honor of Miss Wolfe, a prominent New York philanthropist and art collector. She was the...More »
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Joe Burns Exhibition
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"Hard/Soft" Exhibition
Hard/Soft is the first installment of The National Arts Club’s Pop Icon Series. The Pop Icons Series is a three-part exhibition series in which guest co-curators from Fashion, Music and Film are invited...More »
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Paul Fusco "Talk and Book Signing"
Join Magnum photographer Paul Fusco for a discussion on his illustrious career coinciding with the release of Paul Fusco: RFK (Aperture, September 2008), published on the fortieth anniversary of Robert...More »