Recent and Upcoming Programming

From June 11-15, Patrons and select invited guests will travel to the Berkshires, a picturesque region characterized by rolling hills and lush forests located in western Massachusetts. A particular highlight for the group will be an invitation to the opening of the exhibition, Guillaume Lethière and his Worlds at the Clark Art Institute. Co-organized with the Musée du Louvre, this unprecedented exhibition highlights the largely overlooked Lethière, a contemporary of Jacques Louis David, who was born in Guadeloupe in 1760 to a government official and plantation owner and a formerly enslaved woman of color. Lethière was a key figure in French art of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and a favorite of the Napoleon family. While in the Berkshires, the group will also receive exclusive access to other museums—including MASS MoCA—and private collections in the area.

Later this year, International Council and Chairman’s Circle members’ annual trip to Paris will take place from October 6-10 and will feature dazzling visits and receptions, including an exclusive dinner at the Louvre itself.

Earlier this spring, our Young Patrons Circle and members held two events in New York City. In April, we were invited to Christie’s after hours for a private tour of A Park Avenue Collection. This remarkable private collection included hundreds of works comprising a rich array of 18th-century French furniture, Old Master paintings and drawings, and Chinese works of art acquired over 40 years of passionate collecting. Guests were led through the salon-style installation and discussed highlights with Christie’s specialists, including work by François Boucher, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, and Elisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun.

After receiving VIP access to Frieze New York, Young Patrons and friends attended a private viewing and tour with artist Chris Watts of his recent solo exhibition, Integration, at Galerie Lelong. Drawing upon four of the artist’s ongoing series, the exhibition highlighted Watts’s practice of creating spaces for introspection, remembrance, and meditation through his use of abstraction and subtle subversions of art historical conventions.