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11.8.22 Artnet News
Spotlight: Dusti Bongé and Betty Parsons’s Artist-Gallerist Relationship Forms the Heart of a New Exhibition at Hollis Taggart
"Kinship: Dusti Bongé and Betty Parsons," currently on view at Hollis Taggart, highlights the personal and professional relationship between two women who shaped 20th-century American art.

Spotlight: Dusti Bongé and Betty Parsons’s Artist-Gallerist Relationship Forms the Heart of a New Exhibition at Hollis Taggart
11.4.22 Artsy
Why Secondary Market Galleries Appeal to New and Established Collectors Alike
If you dream of collecting work by a modern or contemporary master, secondary-market galleries can be great places to start your search. 
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Why Secondary Market Galleries Appeal to New and Established Collectors Alike
10.24.22 Antiques Trade Gazette
News in Brief: Southern US artists show
An exhibition on the relationship between southern US artist Dusti Bongé (1903-93) and gallerist and artist Betty Parsons (1900-82) has opened in New York City. Running until November 12, Kinship takes place at Hollis Taggart and comprises 35 works by Bongé and 15 by Parsons as well as photographs of the two women travelling.
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News in Brief: Southern US artists show
10.10.22 Forbes
New York’s Top October Art Exhbitions Have A Southern Flavor​
The name Betty Parsons (1900–1982) will be familiar to NYC art hounds. Her eponymous gallery opened in Manhattan in 1946 and would represent the likes of Jackson Pollock, Robert Rauschenberg, Mark Rothko, Lee Krasner, Hedda Sterne and Clyfford Still. And Dusti Bongé (1903–1993).
By Chadd Scott

New York’s Top October Art Exhbitions Have A Southern Flavor​
10.5.22 Garden & Gun
Mississippi’s Modernist Painter Who Thought New York Had Nothing on Biloxi
The new show Kinship: Dusti Bongé and Betty Parsons celebrates an art friendship that extended across the country
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By GABRIELA GOMEZ-MISSERIAN


​Mississippi’s Modernist Painter Who Thought New York Had Nothing on Biloxi
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7.18.22 Hollis Taggart
​Hollis Taggart will present 
Kinship: Dusti Bongé and Betty Parsons, an expansive exhibition on the illustrious but lesser-known career of artist Dusti Bongé and her devoted friendship with legendary gallerist and artist Betty Parsons. On view from October 13 to November 12, 2022, the exhibition is the first to examine Bongé's close personal and professional ties with Parsons and the ways in which their relationship shaped Bongé's career.
https://www.hollistaggart.com/exhibitions/166-kinship-dusti-bonge-and-betty-parsons/

8.19.21 Hollis Taggart 
Hollis Taggart Announces Representation of the Estate of Trailblazing Modernist Artist Dusti Bongé.
Hollis Taggart to Feature Bongé’s Work in the Upcoming 2021 Edition of The Armory Show.
Also Announces Forthcoming Exhibition on the Decades Long Friendship Between Bongé and Iconic Gallerist Betty Parsons


https://www.hollistaggart.com/news/604-hollis-taggart-announces-representation-of-the-estate-of/


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4.13.21 Artnet News
She Was a Trailblazing Modernist Painter and a Close Friend of Betty Parsons. So Why Don’t More People Know Dusti Bongé?

A career retrospective shines a long-overdue spotlight on an artist
who refused to make compromises.

​By Katie White



https://news.artnet.com/art-world/dusti-bonge-1958656
3.16.21 Mississippi Free Press
"Piercing the Inner Wall: Sweeping Exhibition Gives Gulf Coast Artist Dusti Bongé Her Due"

​​Exhibition review by Sherry Lucas
https://www.mississippifreepress.org/10286/piercing-the-inner-wall-sweeping-exhibition-gives-gulf-coast-artist-dusti-bonge-her-due/
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March 2021, Smithsonian Magazine
2.23.21 Smithsonian Magazine, online edition 

"A New Exhibition Brings Artist Dusti Bongé into the Light"
Exhibition review by Amy Crawford
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/exhibition-dusti-bonge-180977001/
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2.21.21 Ideel Art Magazine 
"Dusti Bongé, A Force of Abstract Expressionism"
Exhibition review by Phillip Barcio
https://www.ideelart.com/magazine/dusti-bonge
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2.20.21 ArtDaily
​"Major Exhibition by Pioneering Artist Dusti Bongé Opens at The Mississippi Museum of Art"
MMA Press Release announcing exhibition
https://artdaily.cc/news/133171/Major-exhibition-by-pioneering-artist-Dusti-Bong--opens-at-The-Mississippi-Museum-of-Art#.YEkLiy1h18g
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 1.6.21 ArtfixDaily
​"Major Exhibition of Work by Pioneering Artist Dusti Bongé Travels to Mississippi Museum of Art"
MMA Press Release announcing exhibition
https://www.artfixdaily.com/artwire/release/8926-major-exhibition-of-work-by-pioneering-artist-dusti-bongé-to-be-p
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8.6.19 ArtDaily.com
​"Dusti Bongé Art Foundation announces new publication"
DBAF Press release announcing book
http://artdaily.com/news/115833/Dusti-Bong--Art-Foundation-announces-new-publication#.XUm0n5NKhLA
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7.15.19 ARTFIXdaily
​"Dusti Bongé Art Foundation announces new publication: 'Dusti Bongé, Art and Life: Biloxi, New Orleans, New York"
DBAF Press release announcing book 
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http://www.artfixdaily.com/artwire/release/9588-dusti-bong%C3%89-art-foundation-announces-new-publication-dusti-bong%C3%89-?fbclid=IwAR2s4tKym9tikNWnyfNZcvw5hjUSkW5yNZNrxyOTm6_t7zQkEHF-dq6C_o0.
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7.7.19 The Clarion Ledger
"Dusti Bongé's art, life finally celebrated"
Book review by William Dunlap
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7.24.19 Lemuria Books
"Finally art, life of Mississippi's Dusti Bongé celebrated in lushly illustrated biography"
Book review by William Dunlap

www.lemuriabooks.com

http://lemuriablog.com/wdcl-dusti-bonge-art-and-life/
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10.2.19 Jackson Free Press
"'Dusti Bongé, Art and Life:' Remembering Mississippi's First Abstract Expressionist"
Book review by Jenna Gibson
http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2019/oct/02/dusti-bonge-art-and-life-remembering-mississippis-/

6.24.19 Forbes
​“New Discoveries Around Every Corner Inside New Orleans Ogden 
Museum
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Exhibition review by Chadd Scott
https://www.forbes.com/sites/chaddscott/2019/06/24/new-discoveries-around-every-corner-inside-new-orleans-ogden-museum-of-southern-art/#60ed4ea87221
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5.13.19 The Gambit
"Mississippi's first modern artist, Dusti Bonge, at Ogden Museum of Southern Art"
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Exhibition review by D. Eric Bookhardt
https://www.theadvocate.com/gambit/new_orleans/events/art_previews_reviews/article_c8ead8e2-71bb-11e9-a9e1-ab22381bcf5c.html

5.7.19 NOLA.com
"Dream catcher: Dusti Bongé brings personal vocabulary to abstract art"
Exhibition review by John D'Addario
https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/arts/article_867be741-a2ff-5b61-9ec0-fbdc5ce5c754.html

NOLA Art Insider
Exhibition review by D. Eric Bookhardt
"Dusti Bongé at Ogden Museum"
http://www.insidenola.org/2019/05/dusti-bonge-at-ogden-museum.html

3.7.19 Wall Street International
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Piercing the Inner Wall"
Ogden Museum of Southern Art Press Release announcing exhibition
https://wsimag.com/art/50960-piercing-the-inner-wall?fbclid=IwAR3jbDcDiFwRfmaZK10XKLa1aZJRE_DJTg3ghit-QIyk0fLMLWL3DckEYbQ

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