The ALIX Experience

02/01/2024

This year The ALIX Experience Tour presents 'TRAVELING THE PATH OF THE IMPRESSIONISTS AND BEYOND, PARIS AND NORMANDY'.

2024 marks the 150th anniversary of the Impressionist Art movement which began in 1874. The ALIX Experience Tour will begin and end in Paris, where the museums are filled with some of the most important examples of Impressionists art.

Our museum stops will include: Musée d'Orsay, Musée de l'Orangerie, Musée Marmottan Monet, Musée Rodin and more.

Join us as we engage with signature works by the Impressionists, in the city where the movement was born!

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06/03/2023

Up Up and Away
We were picked up at our hotel at 5:10 in the morning and drove to the desert to a series of tents with coffee and light breakfast fare. Watching the balloons at first lying flat against the landscape then coming to life was a beautiful sight to behold. Once boarded in our basket compartments, the quiet of being in the air, seeing other balloons in flight, the land dotted with other settlements, Marrakesh in the distance and the winding river was all beyond thrilling!

06/02/2023

Camel and Desert Dinner
During the fourth day of our tour we took a trip to the Agafay desert where we rode on camels - a first for many of us! We also had cocktails and dinner under the stars at Scarabeo.

05/30/2023

As many of you may know, ALIX has just returned from a wonderful tour, Embracing the Magic of Marrakech. We wanted to share with you some highlights from the trip.

Our First Dinner at El Fenn
We gathered together over a lovely and very lively dinner on the rooftop of El Fenn. Lots of laughs, wine and brought new and familar friends together!

The next day we toured the exterior walls and historic gates surrounding the Medina.

03/22/2023

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I am so proud to say that I serve on the board of the Alliance for Young Artists and Writers (https://www.artandwriting.org) which recognizes and celebrates talented high-school teens across the country in the visual and literary arts through the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards. 2023 is our 100th Anniversary! This morning Tracey Reese spoke on the Today Show!

Please have a look and support this extraordinary organization.
https://interland3.donorperfect.net/weblink/weblink.aspx?name=E4286&id=3

Thank you!

“This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Scholastic Art & Writing Awards! Fashion designer Tracy Reese, who won the award as a student in 1981, joins us live to celebrate the anniversary.”

02/24/2023

Art Exhibitions in Paris
Closing Soon: Ending January 27th

Any amount of time in Paris is a gift and Suzanne spent 5 days soaking up art and making some new discoveries.

Over the course of the next week or so,we will share some of the special moments with our friends as we spanned centuries and disciplines. If you can’t make it to Paris- treat yourself to the catalogues!

NOT TO BE MISSED!!!
Claude Monet and Joan Mitchell: “Monet - Mitchell”
Fondation Louis Vuitton - Paris, France
https://www.fondationlouisvuitton.fr/en/events/claude-monet-joan-mitchell

“The exhibitions "Monet - Mitchell" create an unprecedented "dialogue" between the works of two exceptional artists, Claude Monet (1840-1926) and Joan Mitchell (1925-1992).
The "Monet - Mitchell" exhibitions present each artist’s unique response to a landscape and nature, illustrated in a particularly immersive manner. In his last paintings, the Water Lilies, Monet aimed to recreate in his studio the motifs he observed at length on the surface of his water lily pond in Giverny. Joan Mitchell, on the other hand, would explore a memory or a sense of the emotions she felt while in a particular place that was dear to her, perceptions that remained vivid beyond space and time. She would create these abstract compositions at La Tour, her studio in Vétheuil, a small French village.”

Also the major Joan Mitchell Retrospective is on to provide a full day of glorious art!

01/25/2023

Major Exhibitions in Philadelphia - Modigliani and Matisse Closing January 29th

We had the pleasure of doing an art-filled day trip to the Barnes Foundation to see the Modigliani Up Close and then Matisse in the 1930’s at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Each show was breathtaking and presented an overview and moment of each artist's work that we had not seen before.

Seeing Modigliani sculptures “read” against the painting, the technical analysis of paintings to reveal layers of earlier paintings and seeing his brush strokes, was such a gift. For Matisse - seeing his use of photography to document the process of a painting - seeing intense charcoal drawings that lead to series of pen and ink drawings and then seeing him working on the mural commissioned by Dr. Barnes……magical!

We urge you to catch these exhibitions before they close.

Amedeo Modigliani: Modigliani Up Close
Barnes Foundation
https://www.barnesfoundation.org/whats-on/exhibitions/modigliani-up-close

Henri Matisse: Matisse in the 1930s
Philadelphia Museum of Art
https://philamuseum.org/calendar/exhibition/matisse-1930s

01/05/2023

Happy New Year!! Want to share with you an Exhibition Not to be Missed!!

Jeffrey Gibson: THIS BURNING WORLD
ICA San Francisco
October 1, 2022–March 26, 2023
https://www.icasf.org/exhibitions/2-this-burning-world

Institute of Contemporary Art San Francisco (ICASF) is a recently re-established non-collecting art museum that is an addition to the growing art scene in the City's Dogpatch district, an area that includes Minnesota Street Project and McAvoy Foundation.

The artist’s states “THIS BURNING WORLD speaks to the urgency and importance of our collective relationship to the planet. It places the earth under the ICA SF building in dialogue with video of the natural world beyond these walls…..The openings in the floor are an opportunity for the earth to breathe and serve as a portal for us to speak, give thanks, and apologize to the land for our treatment of “them.” The hundreds of videos, shot mostly in the Hudson Valley, capture the seasonal and evolving natural environments where I live and work.”

The immersive installation captured the layers of beauty of our land and enriched by the voice of Joan Henry as she speaks and sings to the earth.

A MacArthur Genius recipient, the foundation has stated that Jeffrey Gibson is a multi-disciplined artist melding indigenous North American materials and forms with those of Western contemporary art to create a new hybrid visual vocabulary and prompting a shift in how Native American art is perceived and historicized.” He is a citizen of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians and is half Cherokee.

12/21/2022

Don’t Miss These Important Shows Before They Close on December 23rd!
Before you head off for the holidays, we urge you to take a few moments to see these wonderful shows in Chelsea in NYC.

Angel Otero: Swimming Where Time Was
Hauser & Wirth
https://vip-hauserwirth.com/gallery-exhibitions/angel-otero-swimming-where-time-was/

Pat Steir: Blue River and Rainbow Waterfalls
Hauser & Wirth
https://vip-hauserwirth.com/gallery-exhibitions/pat-steir-blue-river-and-rainbow-waterfalls/

Kerry James Marshall: EXQUISITE CO**SE: This Is Not The Game
Jack Shainman Gallery
https://jackshainman.com/exhibitions/kjm-exquisite-corpse-2022

Anslem Kiefer: Exodus
Gagosian
https://gagosian.com/exhibitions/2022/anselm-kiefer-exodus-new-york/

12/15/2022

Don’t Miss These Important Shows Before They Close on December 17th
Before you head off for the holidays, we urge you to take a few moments to see these wonderful shows in Chelsea, NYC.

Betty Woodman: Conversations on the Shore, Works from the 1990s
David Kodansky Gallery
https://www.davidkordanskygallery.com/exhibitions/betty-woodman4

Joan Mitchell: Paintings,1979-1985
David Zwirner Gallery https://www.davidzwirner.com/exhibitions/2022/joan-mitchell-paintings-1979-1985

William Eggleston: The Outlands
David Zwirner Gallery https://www.davidzwirner.com/exhibitions/2022/william-eggleston-the-outlands

11/03/2022

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10/26/2022

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10/21/2022

NEW DATE for Rockefeller Legacy Day Trip! ONLY A COUPLE SPOTS REMAINING

Join ALIX on Thursday October 27th for this wonderful day trip just outside of New York. We will be visiting Kykuit, the Rockefeller Family Estate to celebrate the extraordinary cultural legacy. We will then take a short drive over to Stone Barns for a farm-fresh lunch and a tour of the grounds.

Have your cameras ready! The changing fall leaves will be an amazing sight!

RSVP today for The Rockefeller Legacy Day Trip. Link in bio or click on the link
https://www.thealixexperience.com/new-page-3

10/06/2022

ALERT: ONLY A COUPLE SPOTS REMAINING

Join ALIX on Wednesday October 19th for this wonderful day trip just outside of New York. We will be visiting Kykuit, the Rockefeller Family Estate to celebrate the extraordinary cultural legacy. We will then take a short drive over to Stone Barns for a farm-fresh lunch and a tour of the grounds.

Have your cameras ready! The changing fall leaves will be an amazing sight!

RSVP today for The Rockefeller Legacy Day Trip. Link in bio or click on the link
https://www.thealixexperience.com/new-page-3

09/14/2022

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Join the ALIX Experience and George Smart, founder of USModernist, for Modernism Week in Palm Springs, CA, February 17th - 21st 2023. There's no other place in America with as many mid-century Modern houses per square mile - hundreds if not thousands of Modernist houses and buildings.

For more information click on the link below
https://www.thealixexperience.com/george-smart-2023