I walked into the Provincetown Public Library to see if I could secure a reading for Eliot’s book and I met a grown up Fearless Flying Fannie. The assistant director of the library calls herself Library Girl. Courtney Francis has the moxie that we wish for all girls and boys in the future. She shows her power by helping others. We will announce the events we are planning together very soon. Thank you Gail Williams for telling me not to miss seeing the inside of this historic establishment.
If you want to expand your horizons in the art world, listen to this episode of Art Lovers Forum. I am speaking to Dianne Beal, an independent curator and private art dealer in Washington D.C., Paris, and Miami. Dianne is a good friend of mine.
She is absolutely a well-known specialist of non-conformist art. Let’s put it this way, the bipartisan political power couple, Mary Matalin and James Carville, are just two of her celebrity status clientele.
Dianne has developed an excellent reputation for promoting intellectually challenging projects in Washington, Paris and most recently, Miami. During the pandemic, she created an online artist interview series Square Dose and spends time now organizing diverse exhibitions with impactful curatorial themes. After operating galleries in Washington, DC in the early part of her career and then founding Galerie Blue Square in Paris in 2007, Dianne continues to focus on art projects that link local and international concerns. She has collaborated with American university art museums as well as major museums, including the Louvre Museum and Museum of Modern Art in Paris.
Curatorial exhibitions include The Color of Light (2021-22) featuring five international artists and three venues in Latvia and France; Riga Photography Biennale (2018); Tribute -Yves Ullens (2017) Mark Rothko Art Centre, Riga, Latvia; RED!!! Russian American XXI c. Visions (2017) George Mason University; Crude – Andrei Molodkin (2013) American University; and Russian Constructivist Roots: Present Concerns (1997-98), University of Maryland, University of New Hampshire, Dickinson College, and The World Bank which traced the legacy of the Russian avant-garde movement of the 1920s and 1930s through the works of 13 leading contemporary Russian artists.
From 2011 – 2014, Dianne served as a consultant to UBS bank, acting as a private guide to its top Private Wealth clients at Art Basel Miami Beach. Galerie Blue Square hosted a booth of its artists at Art Paris Art Fair at the Grand Palais for several years.
Dianne has been invited to give interviews and has delivered lectures at leading universities and has served as guest curator and juror for various public and private exhibitions. In 2010, she contributed to a book published by the National Center for Contemporary Art in Moscow about émigré artists. Dianne earned a Bachelor of Arts in Russian and East European Studies from the University of Michigan and a Master of Arts in International Affairs from the George Washington University. She speaks French and Russian.
Fearless Flying Fannie is in the front window of East End Books Ptown. This is a true honor. Thank you Jeff G. Peters.
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Siblings unite to see how they can help their feathered friends. These children now live in our coop apartment in NYC since we moved out. The circle of life. Photo by @aviador143 Sharon Marantz.
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A delicious dinner at Debbie and Derik’s. DDDD, Joan, Al, Maddie, Don, Eliot and me. Four hours of non stop food and talking. Missing Gail and Dawn.
Welcome To Art Lovers Forum. Tomas Redrago is one of the youngest gallery owners in the United States. He became a gallerist in his homeland of Buenos Aires during the pandemic because he felt it was a period in all of our lives when we could try new things. He was just starting his career in foreign affairs when the world went into lockdown. He couldn’t travel so he turned to his love of art. Tomas was friendly with a number of artists who he really admired so he started representing them. He was only in his early 20s.
Today Tomas is a full-fledged gallerist working in both Miami and Buenos Aires. He explains that Miami is like a second home to people who live in Buenos Aires. They go back and forth all the time. The TOMAS REDRA-DO ART gallery is now located in Little Haiti, Miami. Address is 224 NW 71 Street.
Tomas feels his art business is very experimental. The gallery of tomorrow will not be what it is today. Collectors travel around more than ever before so you just can’t sit around in one spot and wait for clients to come to you. There are a lot of new opportunities for gallerists to show their collections. He talks a lot about that during our interview.
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