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Morgan O’Hara at Tübingen University

Morgan O’Hara teaches as Invited Artist in Tübingen

Conceptual artist from New York is guest lecturer at the University in the summer of 2019

Conceptual artist Morgan O'Hara teaches in the summer semester of 2019 as an "Invited Artist" at the University of Tübingen.

Morgan O’Hara teaches in the summer semester of 2019 as an “Invited Artist” at the University of Tübingen.

Conceptual artist Morgan O’Hara will work as an “Invited Artist” at the University of Tübingen in the coming weeks. The American offers the workshop “Life and Meaning” for students of all faculties. Every year, the University invites internationally renowned and innovative artists to Tübingen with the “Invited Artist” concept to provide students with insight into the contemporary art of different cultures. The university welcomed O’Hara on Monday with a reception.

Morgan O’Hara, born in Los Angeles and raised in Japan, lives in New York today. As a conceptual artist, she has dedicated herself to performative drawing and social practice. In so-called “live transmissions”, she records movements and sounds simultaneously with both hands in real time, like a seismograph. “Above all, I am interested in the human perception of time and space,” says the artist.

With her first exhibition Morgan O’Hara appeared in 1978 in Switzerland. Today her works are represented in public collections such as the National Gallery of Art in Washington, the British Museum or the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Wall drawings are in Macau (China), Kobe (Japan) and Amsterdam. For her artistic achievements, she has received several awards, including the Lee Krasner Award for her life’s work, named after the American painter Lee Krasner. O’Hara also teaches drawing and the “psychology of creativity” at art schools in the US, Europe and Asia.

Morgan O’Hara is the second artist to come to Tübingen as an Invited Artist. In the summer of 2018, photo artist Mohammad Ghazali from Tehran conducted two workshops with students from Tübingen and designed an exhibition for the museum of the university . Within this framework, the first volume of a new publication series of the university, “Invited Artist” was published. What traces the commitment of Morgan O’Hara in Tübingen leaves, the summer will show.

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James Scott’s Love’s Presentation at the Metrograph

“Love’s Presentation finds the artist at work on his series of etchings, illustrating the homoerotic poetry of the Egyptian writer C.P. Cavafy; David Hockney’s Diaries offers a guided tour through three years of Hockey’s photo diaries, revealing both the inner workings of his compositional approach and portents of projects to come; while Portrait of David Hockney invites the viewer into Hockney’s home and studio, so to better understand the peculiar qualities of light that he seeks to distill in his work.”

These screenings will play as part of the Metrograph’s larger celebration of its new 4K restoration of A Bigger Splash, the 1974 documentary from director Jack Hazan.

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Anita Rogers Gallery Highlighted in Tribeca Citizen

The 11th edition of Tribeca Art + Culture Night is here!

June 18, 2019

Tribeca Art+Culture Night kicks off the summer with its 11th edition tour of neighborhood arts spaces on June 20 from 6 to 9.

The program includes exhibitions, performances, curator-led tours, walkthroughs, talks and workshops, and the event spotlights contemporary art, design, fashion, dance, music and crafts, as well as popular and less well-known locations in Tribeca (including spaces typically closed to the public). At each venue, attendees can interact directly with directors, curators and artists, who are present all evening to introduce their work.

Some highlights:

-150 rarely seen drawings by Leipzig school artist Neo Rauchfeatured in the first ever US exhibition devoted to his works on paper (The Drawing Center)

-David Hockney’s C.P. Cavafy-inspired etchings and screening of his creative process in the film “Love’s Presentation” by James Scott (Anita Rogers Gallery)

Morgan O’Hara Leads Drawing Workshops at the MoMA

Live Transmission Drawing with Morgan O’Hara

Thursday, June 13, 11:00 am & 2:30pm

The Museum of Modern Art

Floor 1, Sculpture Garden

Join artist Morgan O’Hara for Live Transmission, a drawing method in which she tracks the trajectory of movement in real time. For this program, O’Hara will take participants through basic scribble exercises that will prepare them for their own exploration of drawing. No drawing experience is necessary.

Meet in the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden. Rain location is the Agnes Gund Garden Lobby.

This event is free with Museum admission. Space is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. Sign-up begins 30 minutes before each workshop. Designed for adult participants, but children ages 12 and above are welcome if accompanied by an adult collaborator.

Morgan O’Hara. LIVE TRANSMISSION: movement of the Corps de Ballet of the English National Ballet rehearsing Act 2 of Giselle, London studio. 2009.

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Anita Rogers Discusses Childcare with CNN

What it takes to be a $200,000-a-year Nanny

By Anna Bahney – CNN Business

Thursday, June 13, 2019

Child care positions aren’t usually thought of as high-paying jobs. But with wealthier families seeking nannies that are trained in newborn care, child development or languages, it’s becoming more common to see in-home caregivers earning six-figure salaries.

Marly Higgins Driskell is a certified master newborn care specialist in Houston – Courtesy of CNN.

In demand are top-tier, career nannies who have specializations, certifications and loads of experience.

“We’ve seen a lot of requests for Mandarin and French speakers in the nanny role,” says Keith Greenhouse, chief executive of the household staffing company Pavillion Agency. “Lately more than ever people want someone who is tech savvy and nannies who can move into a family assistant role.”

Such nannies work long hours or overnights and may even travel with the family. But they can make between $150,000 to $180,000 a year in places like New York or Los Angeles. Sometimes even more in the Bay Area.

“Families are paying over $220,000 a year in San Francisco,” says Anita Rogers, president and founder of British American Household Staffing. “There’s a value in paying well for your employees, especially in your household.”

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Holly Hager Discusses Gloria Ortiz-Hernández’s Work in Art Zealous

Ask the Collector with Holly Hager

Collecting 101: Why Art? Part II

June 6, 2019 by Holly Hager

Crossings #1 and #2 by Gloria Ortiz-Hernández.

Now take a look at the very same room after the art has been replaced with minimalist drawings by Gloria Ortiz-Hernández. They radically change the ambiance. Now the space says, “Calm down, relax, and rest.” The luscious depth of these drawings is like visual Xanax. The roundness of the forms is soft and comforting. There’s movement in these works, too, but it’s a languid migration that lulls the mind. Contemplating them is like watching the petals of a flower open or tracking the moon across the sky. No matter that there’s still sun pouring in the windows, doesn’t this image make you want to climb into it, lay down on the couch, and take a nap?

Inside Edition Sits Down with Anita Rogers to Discuss Norland Nannies and Baby Sussex

Could One of These Super Nannies Be Hired to Care for Baby Sussex?

12:37 PM PDT, May 6, 2019 – Inside Edition

Mary Poppins meets James Bond?

Known as “Scary Poppins,” these nannies in training are students at Norland College, a prestigious British academy that has a long history of placing its graduates with high-profile clients.

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Could one of them be tasked with looking after Meghan Markle and Prince Harry’s newborn son? After all, that’s what Prince William and Kate Middleton did.

At the school, the nannies learn typical tasks, like cooking and sewing, as well as more atypical ones, such as driving away from the paparazzi and self-defense.

Princes George and Louis and Princess Charlotte are often seen with their Norland nanny, Maria Borrallo, who sports the school’s distinctive brown uniform whenever she’s out on the job.

So should Meghan and Harry hire one?

“These are the creme de la creme of child care providers,” Anita Rogers of British American Household Staffing told Inside Edition. “And they understand everything. In Meghan and Harry’s situation, they are going to need nannies that are looking out for the safety of the children 24/7.”

She added: “Only this kind of nanny works for this kind of household. Hire the one that’s the best fit for your family.”

Virva Hinnemo Receives Pollock-Krasner Foundation 2018-19 Artist Grant

The Pollock-Krasner Foundation announced today it has awarded $3,168,000 to 111 artists and 12 organizations during its 2018-2019 grant cycle. The 124 grants provided invaluable support to national and international artists and not-for-profit organizations. This year’s grantees and award recipients include artists from 18 states, Puerto Rico, and 17 countries. These grants provide critical professional support to artists around the globe, enabling them to create new work, offset living expenses, and prepare for exhibitions. The Foundation has also provided Emergency Relief Grants to artists affected by recent hurricanes and California wildfires. Since its inception in 1985, the Foundation has awarded more than 4,510 grants in 77 countries, for a total of nearly $74 million.

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Virva Hinnemo, Excavation, 2017, Acrylic on canvas, 44″ x 52″

ArtNet News: 22 Unmissable Spring Gallery Shows in New York

Morgan O’Hara has been tracking how she spends each and every minute for the past 47 years, recording daily reports in small notebooks as part of an ongoing series called “Time Studies.” This careful documentation, complete with monthly summaries and annual reports, is being shown with the “Letter Press Editions” she has been making since 1978 and a selection of “Silverpoint Drawings” made on watercolor paper with black gesso. The artist also currently has solo shows in New York at Magdalena Keck through May 13 and at Mitchell Algus Gallery through June 2, collectively presenting six separate bodies of work.

– Caroline Goldstein & Sarah Cascone

George Negroponte Featured on ArtDaily

Solo exhibition of works by George Negroponte on view at Anita Rogers Gallery

April 16, 2019

NEW YORK, NY.- Anita Rogers Gallery is presenting When Love Comes To Town, a solo exhibition of works by George Negroponte. On view are his mixed media paintings completed over the last several years using house paint, spackle, gesso, wallpaper, dirt, enamel, inventory circle labels, and spray paint on canvas, as well as found objects from the surrounding woods. Negroponte’s works on paper, first begun in Sweden in 2008, were set aside for a decade and resumed this past year in collaboration with his wife, Virva Hinnemo. These small and evocative compositions include truncated shapes, veil-like mists, vehement and nuanced marks, unusual color, and punctuated holes. While all the works are marked by an indeterminable amount of paint, some are diptychs with tree fragments and found objects. Negroponte takes pains to tackle the unlikely reconciliation of incongruent parts.

Installation View.

Read more about the exhibition at anitarogersgallery.com.

Anita Rogers

Founder of Anita Rogers Gallery, British American Household Staffing, and British American Talent Management