Art dealer Berthe Weill was a staunch supporter of women artists in early 20th century Paris—she fought for their success in the avant-garde and beyond. In this spirit, the Grey presents a talk by Dr. Lauren Jimerson, author of Painting Her Pleasure: Three Women Artists and the Nude in Avant-Garde Paris (Manchester University Press, 2023), […]

Make Way for Berthe Weill explores how one woman art dealer helped establish the market for what we now call modern art. Join us for a conversation on women and the modern art economy with Dr. Véronique Chagnon-Burke, co-founder of Women Art Dealers Digital Archives and co-editor of Women Art Dealers: Creating Markets for Modern […]

This is a live, virtual course, presented by 92nd Street Y and hosted by Roundtable Course overview Berthe Weill was a pioneering art dealer who focused exclusively on emerging artists, including Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Diego Rivera, and Amedeo Modigliani. Operating her Parisian gallery from 1901 to 1941, she championed the works of avant-garde artists […]

Join Lynn Gumpert, co-curator of Make Way for Berthe Weill and director of the Grey Art Museum, for a guided tour of the exhibition. Visitor Access Please register to attend this event. NYU’s Grey Art Museum provides reasonable accommodations to people with disabilities. Requests for accommodations should be submitted at least two weeks in advance. […]

Berthe Weill was a trailblazing art dealer who exhibited works by emerging artists in her Parisian gallery from 1901 to 1941. Even though many of them went on to become key avant-garde figures, Weill’s role has been omitted from most historical accounts of 20th-century modernism. In this presentation, Lynn Gumpert, a co-curator of the first […]

Join Tyler Spencer, Graduate Curatorial Assistant at the Grey Art Museum and Ph.D. candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, for a guided walkthrough of Make Way for Berthe Weill: Art Dealer of the Parisian Avant-Garde. Visitor Access & Registration Event is at capacity—registration closed. NYU’s Grey Art Museum provides reasonable accommodations to people […]

When Jewish art dealer Berthe Weill opened her gallery in 1901, the infamous Dreyfus affair was calling attention to an alarming growth of antisemitism in France, dividing the nation and the Parisian art world alike into two opposing camps. This lecture, by Dr. Maurice Samuels, Professor of French at Yale University and the author of […]

Join Lynn Gumpert, co-curator of Make Way for Berthe Weill and director of the Grey Art Museum, for a guided tour of the exhibition. Visitor Access Event is at capacity—registration closed. NYU’s Grey Art Museum provides reasonable accommodations to people with disabilities. Requests for accommodations should be submitted at least two weeks in advance. Please […]

Paris, 1901: A makeshift gallery opens in Montmartre run by Berthe Weill, a Jewish woman with a spectacular eye, abundant courage, and little by way of formal education, family money, or social connections. Against all odds, in the face of antisemitism and sexism, Weill became one of the first to exhibit the avant-garde art of […]

Please join us for the opening reception of the exhibition MAKE WAY FOR BERTHE WEILL ART DEALER OF THE PARISIAN AVANT-GARDE Monday, September 30, 7:00–9:00 pm Grey Art Museum, NYU · 18 Cooper Square, New York, NY 10003 All are welcome—no RSVP required. Exhibition on view October 1, 2024–March 1, 2025 Make Way for Berthe […]

POWarts and Pen + Brush are pleased to invite Lynn Gumpert, Director of the Grey Art Gallery and editor of "Pow! Right in the Eye! Thirty Years behind the Scenes of Modern French Painting," a memoir of the provocative Parisian art dealer Berthe Weill at the heart of the 20th-century art world, to have a discussion with Veronique Burke, Co-Founder of Women Art Dealers Digital Archives. In-person event.

Hauser & Wirth Southampton is pleased to invite you to a special book event celebrating the recently released memoir "Pow! Right in the Eye!" by provocative Parisian art dealer Berthe Weill, now available in English for the first time. The event will feature a conversation between the book’s editor and director of NYU’s Grey Art Gallery, Lynn Gumpert, and Senior Director at Hauser & Wirth Southampton, Madeline Warren. Copies of the book will be available for purchase during the event. Free, reservations and proof of vaccination required.

Presented by 192 Books and Paula Cooper Gallery, this live virtual event will celebrate the newly translated memoir of Berthe Weill, a provocative Parisian art dealer at the heart of the twentieth-century art world. Lynn Gumpert (Director, Grey Art Gallery) joins Pepe Karmel (Associate Professor of Art History, New York University) to discuss Weill's "Pow! Right in the Eye! Thirty Years behind the Scenes of Modern French Painting" (University of Chicago Press, June 2022).

The memoir of a provocative Parisian art dealer at the heart of the twentieth-century art world is available in English for the first time. In celebration of Berthe Weill's Pow! Right in the Eye! Thirty Years behind the Scenes of Modern French Painting (University of Chicago Press, June 2022), Lynn Gumpert (Director, Grey Art Gallery) joins Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn (curator, art advisor, gallerist, and activist) and Carlo McCormick (curator and critic) for a special conversation at the Rizzoli Bookstore in NYC.