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| Arts Club of New York | |
|---|---|
| Name | Arts Club of New York |
| Established | 1916 |
| Location | 14 West 64th Street, Manhattan, New York City |
| Type | Private members' arts club |
Arts Club of New York The Arts Club of New York is a private arts organization founded in 1916 that has functioned as a social hub and exhibition venue for visual artists, writers, musicians, and patrons in Manhattan. It has hosted programs and exhibitions connecting artists associated with Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Marcel Duchamp, Georgia O'Keeffe, and Jackson Pollock to audiences including collectors tied to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. The Club's archives intersect with figures like Gertrude Stein, Alfred Stieglitz, Duchamp, John Sloan, and institutions such as Carnegie Hall, Columbia University, and New York University.
Founded in 1916 by artists and patrons influenced by transatlantic exchanges among Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Paul Cézanne, Amedeo Modigliani, and American modernists like Marsden Hartley and Arthur Dove, the Club emerged amid wartime cultural realignment involving émigrés from Paris, London, and Vienna. Early leadership included figures connected to Alfred Stieglitz, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Peggy Guggenheim, John D. Rockefeller Jr., and collectors associated with Isamu Noguchi and Alexander Calder. Throughout the 1920s and 1930s the Club staged programs that intersected with exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, salons linked to Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, and lectures by expatriates from Paris Salon circles and London salons involving T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf. During World War II and the postwar era the Club fostered connections between émigré artists like Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, and Willem de Kooning and American institutions such as Smithsonian Institution and Whitney Museum of American Art. In late 20th and early 21st centuries the Club collaborated with curators from Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, and benefactors including J. Paul Getty and Andrew W. Mellon.
The Club's mission emphasizes supporting artists, composers, writers, and patrons through exhibitions, readings, and performances featuring artists linked to John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Philip Glass, Elie Nadelman, and Louise Nevelson. It organizes salons and panels involving curators and critics from The New Yorker, The New York Times, Artforum, Frieze, and collectors from Phillips Collection and Sotheby's. Educational outreach has involved partnerships with universities such as Columbia University, New York University, Pratt Institute, Cooper Union, and conservatories including Juilliard School and Manhattan School of Music.
Housed at 14 West 64th Street near Central Park, the Club occupies a townhouse in proximity to cultural sites like Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, Metropolitan Opera, and residences tied to The Dakota. The building's interiors have hosted installations from artists associated with Donald Judd, Dan Flavin, Anish Kapoor, Yayoi Kusama, and Richard Serra. Architectural features and renovations have engaged architects and firms connected to Frank Lloyd Wright, I. M. Pei, Philip Johnson, Robert A. M. Stern, and preservation entities linked to New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission and Historic House Trust.
Membership has historically included painters, sculptors, composers, writers, collectors, and patrons such as Georgia O'Keeffe, Edward Hopper, Joseph Cornell, Marcel Duchamp, Aaron Copland, and philanthropists connected to Andrew Carnegie, Rockefeller Foundation, and Ford Foundation. Governance is overseen by a board reflecting trustees and directors with ties to The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum, Tate, and corporate patrons including representatives from Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and foundations like Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Membership categories have included life, artist, patron, and student classes with nomination and election procedures mirroring clubs connected to Century Association and Beverly Hills] ] institutions.
The Club presents solo and group exhibitions, panels, readings, and concerts featuring artists and performers related to Marina Abramović, Louise Bourgeois, Jeff Koons, Cindy Sherman, Robert Rauschenberg, Tracy Emin, Ai Weiwei, and composers tied to Steve Reich and John Adams. Exhibition programming has collaborated with curators and institutions such as MoMA PS1, New Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Guggenheim Museum, The Frick Collection, and galleries like Gagosian Gallery, Pace Gallery, and David Zwirner. Public programs have included talks with critics and historians linked to Clement Greenberg, Harold Rosenberg, Rosalind Krauss, and scholars from Harvard University, Yale University, and Princeton University.
The Club has produced catalogues, bulletins, and exhibition essays involving writers and editors from Artforum, The Burlington Magazine, Apollo (magazine), The New Yorker, and scholars associated with Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, Courtauld Institute of Art, and Getty Research Institute. Collaborative projects have included partnerships with Tate Britain, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Fondation Beyeler, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, and academic programs at Columbia University School of the Arts and Yale School of Art.
Notable members and alumni encompass a wide range of practitioners and patrons including Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Marcel Duchamp, Georgia O'Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, Edward Hopper, Joseph Cornell, Louise Bourgeois, Marina Abramović, Ai Weiwei, Jeff Koons, Cindy Sherman, Robert Rauschenberg, Philip Glass, Aaron Copland, Merce Cunningham, John Cage, Isamu Noguchi, Alexander Calder, Alexander McQueen, Diane Arbus, Walker Evans, Man Ray, E. E. Cummings, T. S. Eliot, Gertrude Stein, Peggy Guggenheim, Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, Alfred Stieglitz, J. P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller Jr., Nelson Rockefeller, Mick Jagger, Andy Warhol, David Hockney, Tracey Emin, Takashi Murakami, Yayoi Kusama, Donald Judd, Dan Flavin, Richard Serra, Anish Kapoor, Marcel Broodthaers, Willem de Kooning, Max Ernst, Salvador Dalí, Piet Mondrian, Paul Cézanne, Édouard Manet, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Henri Rousseau.
Category:Arts organizations based in New York City