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Art + Impact is our ongoing social and cultural series that explores pressing contemporary issues and global conversations, through art. ART + IMPACT

BlackBook is an award winning arts & culture brand, founded in 1996 by Evanly Schindler as a print magazine, publishing and media company. Since its inception, BlackBook has been a point of convergence for social impact, culture, and art. Known for

its creative collaborations, the print magazine worked with leading brands and talent, serving as a launching pad for then-emerging names that have now become leaders in the arts and culture and entertainment fields. BlackBook debuted their Art+Impact initiative–an immersive series that includes exhibitions, books, podcasts, and events–that looks at the most pressing contemporary cultural issues through the lens of art. The series builds on BlackBook’s original ethos: to create a space where the world’s most influential artists and writers can address–and change–the cultural tides. BlackBook is also a full-service art advisory, and has partnered with some of the world's largest institutions, galleries, and collectors to exhibit and sell art.

23/10/2025

On view now at BlackBook Art Gallery, The Hamptons. Childhood, solitude, rebellion. Yosh*tomo Nara’s world walks the line between innocence and defiance.

In Red Kitty (1999), Dancing Alone (2003), Soldier (2003), and Untitled (Who Snatched the Babies) (2001–02), his figures confront the vastness of the world with quiet resistance and unguarded emotion. “They are all self-portraits in a way,” Nara once said, “but the emotions I feel can, of course, be universal.”
Each work whispers of its own making — strips of paper, faint shadows, and pencil ghosts bleeding through the surface, reminders that Nara’s tenderness is built from the very materials of imperfection.
The artist has reflected that many of his drawings emerge “on found materials… like slips of paper or envelopes,” capturing fleeting thoughts and raw emotion.

23/10/2025

On view now at BlackBook Art Gallery, The Hamptons.
Childhood, solitude, rebellion. Yosh*tomo Nara’s world walks the line between innocence and defiance.

In Red Kitty (1999), Dancing Alone (2003), Soldier (2003), and Untitled (Who Snatched the Babies) (2001–02), his figures confront the vaHow is this for Nara caption for tomorrow: On view now at BlackBook Art Gallery, The Hamptons. Childhood, solitude, rebellion. Yosh*tomo Nara’s world walks the line between innocence and defiance. In Red Kitty (1999), Dancing Alone (2003), Soldier (2003), and Untitled (Who Snatched the Babies) (2001–02), his figures confront the vastness of the world with quiet resistance and unguarded emotion. “They are all self-portraits in a way,” Nara once said, “but the emotions I feel can, of course, be universal.”
Each work whispers of its own making — strips of paper, faint shadows, and pencil ghosts bleeding through the surface, reminders that Nara’s tenderness is built from the very materials of imperfection.
The artist has reflected that many of his drawings emerge “on found materials… like slips of paper or envelopes,” capturing fleeting thoughts and raw emotion.

21/10/2025

“My work is concerned with inhabiting the body, what it is to be alive in the world.” - Rachel Kneebone

On view now in Mother Nature in the Bardo at BlackBook Art Gallery, The Hamptons: Spirals of flesh, vine and porcelain. In Salmacis (2016) by Rachel Kneebone, we witness myth fused with mortality: limbs, tendrils and petals swirl into one androgynous form, where transformation is everything. Behind the porcelain’s pristine white surface lies tension: “I work around in-between states… transformation and metamorphosis, beginnings and endings, and each work embodies forces acting in multiple directions at once.” (Kneebone in Elephant Magazine). As she observes, the material itself becomes part of the narrative; it changes, cracks, rebels.

Here, myth isn’t distant, it’s immediate. Salmacis becomes an avatar of flux, of being undone and remade. The body becomes both subject and landscape, space and event.

20/10/2025

Ed Ruscha, PRESIDENTS, 1968–72
In a 1972 letter to Leo Castelli, Ruscha noted he was donating PRESIDENTS to a Pace Gallery fundraiser for George McGovern’s presidential campaign. Nixon won—but with each new president, the painting takes on new meaning.

On view at BlackBook Art Gallery, Hamptons, Long Island
Exhibition: Mother Nature in the Bardo

Famous for urban and built-environment imagery—gas stations, parking lots, labels—Ruscha frames these scenes within change, loss, and land-use transformation. Reflecting on Los Angeles, he said: “It’s a r**e of land for profit these days. It’s fairly sick. Southern California is all just one big city now.”

Now focused on environmental conservation, Ruscha collaborates with Flamingo Estate, using his citrus grove near his studio. 100% of profits go to the Mojave Desert Land Trust, supporting land protection, habitat restoration, and native seeds.

He served on the board of Desert X but resigned in 2019 when a potential collaboration with Saudi Arabia arose, calling it “like inviting Hi**er to a tea party”—a statement on ethics, cultural legitimacy, and engagement versus isolation in the art world.

16/10/2025

Joan Mitchell (1925–1992) broke through a male-dominated New York art world with fearless, emotive abstraction. Her Untitled (1958) is a stunning, spontaneous composition, made even more special by its provenance: It was first purchased by famed American artists Wolf Kahn and Emily Mason, who admired Mitchell’s work and bought the painting directly from Mitchell in her Paris studio. It was eventually passed down to their daughter, Cecily Kahn.

On view at BlackBook Art Gallery, Hamptons, in Mother Nature in the Bardo.

09/10/2025

Tonight at BlackBook Art Gallery — we’re thrilled to welcome guests of the Hamptons International Film Festival for an evening celebrating art, film, and shared stories.

Join us as we honor filmmaker Paige Bethmann and her documentary Remaining Native, presented alongside our exhibition Mother Nature in the Bardo, featuring works by Nicholas Galanin, Joan Mitchell, Ed Ruscha, Alexander Calder, Ai Weiwei, Yosh*tomo Nara, and others

An evening of creativity, conversation, and connection — where art and film meet in the spirit of change and transformation.

07/10/2025

In collaboration with the Hamptons International Film Festival, BlackBook Art Gallery presents an evening celebrating the intersections of cinema, art, nature, and spirit.

Following the screening of Remaining Native, Paige Bethmann’s moving documentary on Ku Stevens, a 17-year-old Native American runner and artist, join us for a night of art, music, film, cocktails, and conversation.

Our exhibition speaks to nature, culture, and spirituality, and this special event will highlight how these topics are being addressed in the art and film worlds. We look forward to welcoming you!

BlackBook Art Gallery
245 County Rd 29, Southampton, NY, 11968

25/04/2025

On view until Wednesday: Jean Dubuffet in Mother Nature in the Bardo at through April 30.

“L’homme à la toque” (1956) is one of many works from the exhibition in which artists breathe new life into waste, debris, or recycled material, transforming them into art objects. Dubuffet used an impasto thickened by natural materials such as sand, tar and straw, and used elements of collage by recycling different discarded papers and other ephemera.

Mother Nature in the Bardo is an art exhibition and book created by in collaboration with ’s that explores the convergence of art, culture, the environment, and spirituality. The exhibition is a viewing and selling show, with a portion of the proceeds donated to environmental organizations. With over 70 works spanning the last 250 years, the exhibition examines how artists address nature through their practice, and the ways in which art, social themes, and culture impact and influence each other.

📸: Jean Dubuffet, L’homme à la toque, 1956, Oil and collage on canvas, 51 ½ x 33 ½ in.

22/04/2025

Wishing everyone a very happy Earth Day with Doug Aitken’s “Earth Plane” (2015), on view in Mother Nature in the Bardo, an exhibition honoring and exploring the environment. This work is on view at through April 30. Aitken is a contemporary multimedia artist known for his bold sculptures and works that explore the relationship between evolution and ecology. Aitken often creates “living artworks,” that combine nature and technology, building installations that evolve through both environmental and artistic intervention. “Earth Plane” is a sprawling sculpture layered with a luminous image of a quarry. The deep, ancient beauty of exposed stone — shaped by millions of years of geological activity — is juxtaposed with the small-scale machinery poised to extract it. The piece offers a powerful meditation on the complex relationships between humanity and the planet’s resources.

Mother Nature in the Bardo is an art exhibition and book created by in collaboration with ’s that explores the convergence of art, culture, the environment, and spirituality. The exhibition is a viewing and selling show, with a portion of the proceeds donated to environmental organizations. With over 70 works spanning the last 250 years, the exhibition examines how artists address nature through their practice, and the ways in which art, social themes, and culture impact and influence each other.

📸: Doug Aitken, Earth Plane, 2015, Aluminum lightbox, LED lights, UV-cured pigment ink on acrylic, 94 x 88 1/4 x 7 in., Edition 4 of 4. Courtesy of the artist and 303 Gallery, New York.

21/04/2025

In honor of earth day tomorrow, Mother Nature in the Bardo, an exhibition celebrating the environment, looks to the impressionists - Paul Signac, Claude Monet, and Alfred Sisley - who in response to the Industrial Revolution went outside to paint en plain air. All three are featured in our show at through April 30.

Mother Nature in the Bardo is an art exhibition and book created by in collaboration with ’s that explores the convergence of art, culture, the environment, and spirituality. The exhibition is a viewing and selling show, with a portion of the proceeds donated to environmental organizations. With over 70 works spanning the last 250 years, the exhibition examines how artists address nature through their practice, and the ways in which art, social themes, and culture impact and influence each other.

📸: Paul Signac, Pilote de la Meuse, 1924, Oil on canvas, 19 ¾ x 25 ⅝ in.
📸: Claude Monet,Hiver à Giverny, 1886, Oil on canvas, 23 ⅝ x 32 ¹⁄₁₆ in.
📸: Alfred Sisley, Le Lavoir de Billancourt, 1879, Oil on canvas, 19 ¹³⁄₁₆ x 25 ¹³⁄₁₆ in.

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