The Lost Generation: Then and Now pairs Abstract Expressionist titans such as Pollock, Krasner, Willem and Elaine de Kooning, and Motherwell with exciting figures in Contemporary Abstraction including Cecily Brown, Rashid Johnson, Julie Mehretu, Elizabeth Neel, Eddie Martinez, Aaron Garber-Maikovska, and more. Summer Figuration highlights the ascent of Black Figurative artist and how they have redefined the art canon, featuring art world superstars including Amy Sherald, Amoako Boafo, Christina Quarles, Arcmanoro Niles, Miles Greenberg, Tschabalala Self, and others. Both shows are on view through September 30th.

There's a word Evanly Schindler keeps returning to: urgency. It's the invisible thread connecting the abstract expressionists of the 1940s and • 50s
to the artists making work right now, and it's the force behind BlackBook Art Gallery's 2026 season in Southampton.

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'The emotional temperature is eerily similar,· Schindler says of the parallels between the postwar moment and the present. Where artists like Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner were building meaning from the rubble of collapsed Old World structures­political. spiritual. aesthetic-today's artists are navigating something equally unsettling: multiple wars, digital saturation, political polarization, the erosion of shared reality. The answer, both times, is the same-reinvention.

The Gallery’s summer presentation includes two topical shows, continuing the brand's legacy of telling popular-culture stories through art. Both shows feature blue-chip and emerging talent, from primary and secondary markets, private collections, estates, foundations, and institutions. The exhibitions also showcase local artists from the East End of Long Island. Both exhibitions are viewing and selling shows; they include select loans from generous collectors and institutions, while the majority of works are available for acquisition.

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Our show Mother Nature in the Bardo closes at the end of December. It opened in Chelsea NYC Spring 2025 and traveled to the Hamptons for the Summer and Fall. It is in collaboration with UNESCO, and has included exciting events in partnership with artists Dustin Yellin, Serge Attukwei Clottey, and Daniel Heidkamp, as well as the Hamptons International Film Festival and Ruinart Champagne. We are also thrilled to announce the acquisition of our Salvador Dalí painting, Landscape with Telephone on a Plate (1939), by the Detroit Institute of Arts. The work was featured in our Chelsea exhibition, and is included in our corresponding art book

We’re thrilled to share that this quietly uncanny Dalí painting - Landscape with Telephones on a Plate, 1939 - has been placed by BlackBook Art Gallery into the Detroit Institute of Arts permanent collection. It was featured in our exhibition this Spring, Mother Nature in the Bardo, in Chelsea NYC.

In collaboration with the Hamptons International Film Festival, BlackBook Art Gallery presented an evening celebrating the intersections of cinema, art, nature, and spirit.

BlackBook Art Gallery has released one of the most stunning and comprehensive art books ever published, Mother Nature in the Bardo, in collaboration with UNESCO’s Global Education Monitoring  Report.

The landmark book explores the intersections of art, culture, nature, and spirituality, tracing how some of the most noted artists have responded to shifting cultural and environmental paradigms over centuries.

Daniel Heidkamp walks us through his painting Day at Grey Gardens and his painting process - on view in Mother Nature in the Bardo.

After traveling to more than 30 cities worldwide, Ai Weiwei’s “Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads: Gold” (2010) has returned to New York, the city where it first debuted. The celebrated sculptures are now on view at Mother Nature in the Bardo, a group exhibition presented by BlackBook in Southampton through September 31.

On World Art Day, Ghanaian artist Serge Attukwei Clottey shares the story behind his work and the deeper meaning of the objects he transforms, tracing the journey of everyday containers from the West to Africa and their powerful symbolism in the climate conversation.

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Dustin Yellin shares his connection to exploring the many textures, cultures, and ways of being in and inspired by the natural world as part of his contribution to Mother Nature in the Bardo.

A playful and provocative look at female sexuality is the focus of a Sotheby’s selling exhibition. ‘A Woman’s Right to Pleasure’, created in collaboration with BlackBook and inspired by the tome of the same name, traces female experience over the last century in a reframing of traditional narratives.