About the Gala

Join your favorite artists and art world friends at Artists Talk On Art's 50th Anniversary Gala celebration, Monday, May 20th from 6pm to 9pm at the SoHo Photo Gallery, 15 White Street in the Tribeca neighborhood of Manhattan. Live music, great food and delicious wines. Be with us as we honor Liza Kirwin, deputy director emerita of Archives of American Art of the Smithsonian Institution, presented by ATOA president and the evening's MC, Douglas I. Sheer and to honor Gail Levin, CUNY distinguished professor and biographer of Edward & Jo Hopper, Judy Chicago and Lee Krasner, presented by retired Pollock-Krasner House director, Helen Harrison. Presentations and speeches given at 7pm. ATOA has presented and recorded over 1,100 panels and dialogues featuring over 9,000 diverse artists, critics, curators, art writers and museum staff.

About the Auction - Last Call

We request that you honor ATOA for its 50 years of dedication to you and your fellow artists by donating your art (we already have 84 lots!) or something from your collection, to our spring online auction event hosted by BidSquare. The auction is due to be active online beginning in early May and to continue for about three weeks ending at 12 noon on Thursday, May 30th. Use our handy JotForm page to enter one piece at a time including uploading up to three images of that piece, its dimensions, suggested value, reserve/minimum, type of art (painting, drawing, collage, photograph, medium, whether framed or not, etc). Any work from a $500 reserve/minimum or better is acceptable. Proceeds will go to our 501C3 not-for-profit ongoing aesthetic artist's forum as well as a 2025/26 legacy book project. Join Joan Snyder, Neal Slavin, Mary Frank, Donald Elder, Colette, Leon Golub, Ginnie Gardiner, Yale Epstein, Salvatore Romano, Jacqueline Sferra Rada, Mark Kostabi, Penny Dell, George Ortman, Kathy Goodell, Kathy Carrachio, Robert Wiegand, Ellen Koment, Veronique Sabban, Barry Kostrinsky, Marcia C. Sheer, Amy Ernst, Francine Tint, Vernita Nemec, Knox Martin, Jerelyn Hanrahan, Dorothea Marcus, Charles Meyers, Mel Bochner, Irene Christiansen, Jackie Battenfield, James Rosenquist, Leemour Pelli, George Rada, Donna Marxer, Despo Magoni, Colette Lumiere, Mark Forman, Joan Giordano, Mike Cockrill, Elisa Pritzker and over 50 more.