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.

A Woman’s Right To Pleasure (published in 2020 by BlackBook) anthologised some of the world’s most potent artworks by women explicating, reclaiming, and asserting their sexualities. Nan Goldin, Jenny Holzer, Carrie Mae Weems, Carolee Schneemann, Vaginal Davis and Kathy Acker are among the 77 featured artists and writers all exploring this “unruly” realm and, as Jong says in the foreword, the notion of “pleasure as a metaphor for so much more”... an expression of subjectivity, a declaration of power.

Mystical, delicate, ethereal; bold, brash, satisfied; abstract, symbolic, organic; seductive, whimsical, dangerous; empowering, funny, unsettling; intergenerational, inclusive, intimate; erotic, personal and political — featuring work by pioneering women artists from art history and today, A Woman’s Right To Pleasure offers a radical perspective on what it’s like to be female.

(Translated from the original): There are words in the Newtonian vocabulary that can still cause embarrassment. Bondage and sadomasochism, for example. But just talking about ropes with someone who enjoys being tied up is enough to understand that (almost) everything you think about bondage is wrong. And it's far from being confined to the narrow and unspeakable space of a closet.