ABOUT US
Cynthia Nachmani, Ph.D. Art tours was founded in the 1990s as an educational entity, to instruct people about art and art history through on site visits to galleries and museums in the New York area, through trips to different cities (London, Paris, Rome, Sicily, Northern Italy, Berlin/Dresden, Moscow/St. Petersburg, Madrid/Bilbao/Granada, for example) and in the last few years through Zoom lectures and dialogues about theoretical problems and specific issues of scholarship in the history of art and cinema.
As museums and galleries reopen post-Covid and many exhibitions planned but not installed during the epidemic come to fruition, various cultural and social issues are raised through art: the nature of a museum, which populations do they serve, what canon of art should be rethought. There is a move away from the blockbuster model where one is more overwhelmed than informed to the new paradigm of the show dealing with fewer artists who have often been marginalized for a renewed look at what can constitute a new canon.
For example, this academic year 2022-2023 at the Jewish Museum we shall see "New York: 1962-1964" a new look at both the early days of the critical decade in art, culture and the place of this museum in exhibiting "the new" in art. The Metropolitan Museum is showing "The Tudors, Art and Majesty in Renaissance England" and at the opposite end of the spectacle, the exhibition, "Cubism and the Trompe l'Oeil Tradition" which will offer new insights into the development of that ism. The work of Wolfgang Tillmans and Meret Oppenheim will be at MoMA, which our groups can visit, while the New Museum will concentrate on an early retrospective of the practice of Theaster Gates. We shall also visit the usual galleries in Chelsea, midtown East side, and the lower East side. Join us!
CYNTHIA NACHMANI
Cynthia Nachmani received all of her degrees from New York University, her BA cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, and her MA and PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts at NYU in the fields of 19th and 20th Century art and architecture and Greek and Roman art. Her dissertation was on a nineteenth century British architect for which she received a Fulbright scholarship for study in the UK.
Education was her choice and thus she taught at Rutgers University, New York University, CUNY, and Finch College. After that she was program coordinator for school programs in the Department of Education at MoMA for ten years; strengthening her knowledge of teaching and twentieth century art by aiding curators in writing brochures for exhibitions and delivering public lectures.
JANE ROYAL
After beginning her college career thinking that she would grow up to be a physician, Jane Royal’s life was forever changed after that first Art History class, and she ultimately earned a BA in Art History (with a minor in Biology) from Davidson College, NC. Jane went on to receive a Graduate Certificate in Museum Studies from the Harvard University Extension School and a MEd from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education.
From the start, Jane has been more interested in using her interest in Art History to pursue educational rather than curatorial goals and has worked in Departments of Education in both administration and educator positions as well as spending time as a middle school classroom teacher. She has worked and taught in some of the most diverse collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Reynolda House Museum of American Art, and the Jewish Museum, among others. Throughout her career, she has been particularly interested in finding ways to integrate visual material culture as a means of teaching and exploring History as well as visual literacy and critical thinking for all audiences.