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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
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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. 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 By GABRIELA GOMEZ-MISSERIAN Mississippi’s Modernist Painter Who Thought New York Had Nothing on Biloxi |
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/ |
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/ |
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/ |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 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. |
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/ |
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"
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
5.13.19 The Gambit
"Mississippi's first modern artist, Dusti Bonge, at Ogden Museum of Southern Art"
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
"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