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Abstract paintings in an art gallery with wooden floors and white walls.
Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946–1962 at Grey Art Museum, NYU. Photo: David Heald Americans in Paris: Artists Working in Postwar France, 1946–1962 at Grey Art Museum, NYU. Photo: David Heald
Wednesday, May 8, 2024 at 6:00PM

Discussion and Exhibition Walkthrough | "Americans In Paris": Al Held and Galerie 8

Grey Art Museum, NYU, 18 Cooper Square, New York, NY 10003   |  Free

Join Debra Bricker Balken, guest curator of Americans in Paris, and Daniel Belasco, Executive Director of the Al Held Foundation, for a discussion and exhibition walkthrough highlighting Held’s gestural painting in postwar Paris and the bustling circle of American expat artists who exhibited at the cooperatively run Galerie Huit (1950–1956).

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Event is at capacity—registration closed.

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