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PRESS RELEASE<br>NYU’s Grey Art Museum Director Lynn Gumpert to Retire

Gumpert raised the profile of the museum by presenting innovative exhibitions and leading its move to a larger space at Cooper Square. [Download Press Release] (NEW YORK, NY, November 15, 2024)—Lynn Gumpert, who has served as director of New York University’s Grey Art Museum since 1997, will retire in mid-April 2025. During her tenure, the […]

Make Way for Berthe Weill: Feature<br>“The Forgotten Dealer Who Discovered Picasso and Matisse”<br>The New York Times, September 29, 2024

A show at the Grey Art Museum re-establishes Berthe Weill as a guiding light of the Parisian avant-garde. Her rediscovery has been led by women. By Hilarie M. Sheets “A collection of paintings isn’t like a stock portfolio,” the Parisian art dealer Berthe Weill declared in her 1933 memoir, “Pow! Right in the Eye!” She was lamenting that novice […]

Make Way for Berthe Weill: Exhibition Review<br>“Who Was Berthe Weill? The Story of the Audacious Parisian Dealer Who Launched Matisse and Modigliani”<br>Artnet News, October 3, 2024

“Make Way for Berthe Weill” at Grey Art Museum in New York brings to light the forgotten legacy of the cutting-edge Parisian dealer By Karen Chernick The paintings would sometimes still be wet when Berthe Weill rushed to show them at her little Parisian gallery. Why wait, she thought, hanging the fresh artworks from a […]