Beth Susan Gersh-Nesic is the director of the New York Arts Exchange, an arts education service which offers tours, lectures and workshops in various venues, including museums, galleries, artists' studios and arts organizations.
Experience:
Beth has taught art history at Purchase College since 1997. She also teaches art history at other undergraduate programs in New York and will venture into teaching translation from French to English at Manhattanville College during Spring 2008 semester. In the past, Beth has taught at New York University, Simmons College, Rhode Island College and Hartwick College.
Education:
Beth earned her doctorate in art history from the City University of New York's Graduate Center when such luminaries as John Rewald, Milton Brown, Linda Nochlin and Rosalind Krauss were still on faculty. Her dissertation on Picasso's friend, the art critic and poet André Salmon, was completed under the supervision of Rose-Carol Washton Long. Beth continues to write about and translate Salmon's art criticism in collaborate with Jacqueline Gojard, professor emeritus, University of Paris (Sorbonne III) and executor of André Salmon’s literary estate. You may read their work at the André Salmon website.
From Beth Gersh-Nesic:
Favorite period of art: Cubism (hard to believe, but true)Favorite New York museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art (still)
First museum experience: Toledo Museum (age 18 months in my hometown)
Favorite subject in art: Queen Esther
Favorite artist: Impossible to say
Pet Peeve: Museum signage—too small, too much and too inconveniently placed
Favorite indulgence: television
Favorite art book lately: The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade that Gave the World Impressionism by Ross King (2006)
Media Contacts: Email Beth for interviews and possible book reviews.
References:
Publications on André Salmon:
André Salmon on French Modern Art, Cambridge University Press, 2005.
(A translation of, annotations for and introduction to Salmon’s La jeune peinture française, 1912 and La jeune sculpture française, 1919.)
“The Fable of the Little Tin Fish,” from La jeune sculpture française was included in Modern Sculpture Reader, Henry Moore Institute, 2007.
The Early Criticism of André Salmon: A Study of His Thoughts on Cubism, Garland Publishing, 1991.
Other recent publications:
“The Demoiselles d’Avignon Revisited,” for the exhibition “Les Demoiselles Revisited,” Francis Naumann Fine Art, November 16-December 21, 2007.
“One Eye, One Palette, One Heart: The Art of Peccadet,” catalogue essay in Peccadet, Payne Gallery, Moravian College, February-March 2007.
"Pregnancy," "Birth/Childbirth," "Drunkenness/Intoxication,"in the Encyclopedia of Comparative Iconography, Fitzroy-Dearborn, 1998.
Numerous art and book reviews in various publications and online.
