Helen Frankenthaler: Friends and Affinities

Roundtable discussion by Mary Gabriel, Daniel Zamani and Michael Brenson. Moderated by Douglas Dreishpoon.

September 27, 2024

Conversation on Helen Frankenthaler

Panel discussion by John Elderfield, Carrie Moyer, Eleanor Naire, Robert Slifkin, and Elizabeth Smith.

October 9, 2024

Helen Frankenthaler in Her Time and Now

Talk by Elizabeth Smith at the STPI Creative Workshop & Gallery, Singapore

August 8, 2024

Helen Frankenthaler: Prints 1977-2004

STPI Creative Workshop & Gallery, Singapore

June 29 - August 25, 2024

Expanding Climate Action in the Visual Arts, Frankenthaler Climate Initiative

NYC Climate Week 2023

September 22, 2023

On this Spot - Helen Frankenthaler

Helen Frankenthaler's Late Works: A Conversation

The Museum of Modern Art | Celeste Bartos Theater

September 27, 2022

Opening Lecture celebrating "Helen Frankenthaler and Jo Sandman: Without Limits"

Bowdoin College Museum of Art

September 29, 2022

Observations | Women in Abstraction: Helen Frankenthaler

National Gallery of Victoria

Katy Hessel, Elizabeth Smith & Flora Yukhnovich on Dissolving Realms

Kasmin Gallery

July 25, 2022

The Eye is the First Circle: The Documentary

PBS

Aired March 30, 2022

Frankenthaler Climate Initiative 2022

Next Application Cycle of Frankenthaler Climate Initiative announced

March 4, 2022

Katy Hessel, Matthew Holman, and Eleanor Nairne on Helen Frankenthaler

Gagosian Grosvenor Hill, London

September 8, 2021

Virtual Opening Reception, Helen Frankenthaler: Late Works, 1990–2003

New Britain Museum of American Art

February 11, 2021

In Dialogue: Helen Frankenthaler’s Abstraction

Elizabeth Smith, Executive Director of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation in conversation with Natalie Dupêcher, Assistant Curator of Modern Art at the Menil Collection.

October 6, 2020

Culture and Coffee: The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation

PAFA Museum Director Brooke Davis Anderson in conversation with Elizabeth Smith, Executive Director of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation.

May 1, 2020

Common Ground: New York Painters, Poets, and Musicians During the 1950s

The Helen Frankenthaler Foundation

December 5, 2019

A Vital Legacy: Helen Frankenthaler Prints | Opening Conversation with Kenneth Tyler

September 19, 2019

Artist Amy Sillman, Cameron Martin, and Miranda Lichtenstein on Helen Frankenthaler

Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY

September 13, 2019

"Painting Printing Frankenthaler: The Process of Abstraction."

Talk by Carol Armstrong, Professor of the history of art at Yale University

June 29, 2019

On occasion of a new initiative from Bennington College to fund scholarships,

Dr. Mariko Silver, College President, and Elizabeth Smith, Executive Director of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, discuss Helen Frankenthaler's 1959 work Red Square.

Lecture by Gwen Chanzit, Curator of Modern Art, Denver Art Museum

about her upcoming exhibition, Women of Abstract Expressionism, followed by a discussion with Robert Slifkin, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU.

Making Painting: Helen Frankenthaler and JMW Turner

Walk-through with guest curator James Hamilton during the installation of the exhibition at Turner Contemporary, Margate, U.K.

January 2014

Helen Frankenthaler: Composing with Color, Paintings 1962-1963

A Conversation Between John Elderfield, Chief Curator Emeritus of Paintings and Sculpture, MoMa, and Elizabeth Smith, Executive Director of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, at Gagosian Gallery

September 2014

The New York School, 1969: Henry Geldzahler at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Curator Stewart Waltzer explores and expounds on Henry Geldzahler's historic 1969 exhibition, "The New York School."

January 2015

Helen Frankenthaler at Portland State University, 1972.

A film by Ed Du Vivier and Mel Katz, 1974. © Portland State University, Oregon. Courtesy of Portland State University Library Special Collections.

1972

Helen Frankenthaler in the 1960s and 1970s: A Conversation

Albright Knox Gallery

November 9, 2014