Installation view of Tony Bechara: An Artist of Many Worlds at the Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY (June 27–November 1, 2026). Photo: Gary Mamay.
Book Launch | Tony Bechara
A Conversation Moderated by Executive Director Mónica Ramírez-Montagut, with Phong Bui and Associate Curator Kaitlin Halloran
September 20, 2 pm - 3 pm
Free for Members | Free for Resident Benefits PassHolders | $25 for Guests of Members | $30 Adults | Free for Students & Children
In conjunction with the exhibition Tony Bechara: An Artist of Many Worlds, on view through November 1, join us for a special conversation moderated by Mónica Ramírez-Montagut, Executive Director, with Phong Bui, Publisher and Artistic Director, The Brooklyn Rail, and Kaitlin Halloran, Associate Curator, to celebrate the launch of the artist’s monograph.
Advance registration is recommended. Limited spaces will be available at the door.
Books will be available for purchase in the Michéle & Steven Pesner Book and Gift Shop.
About the Publication
Published by El Museo del Barrio and KMEC Books, Tony Bechara is a comprehensive look into the New York-based artist’s life and meticulous painting method with an introduction by Patrick Charpenel, in-depth essay by Domitille d’Orgeval, thorough interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist, biography compiled by Patricia Newcomer, and epilogue by Désirée von la Valette.
About Phong Bui
Phong H. Bui is an artist, writer, independent curator, and co-founder, Publisher & Artistic Director of the Brooklyn Rail, Rail Editions, River Rail and Rail Curatorial Projects. Bui has organized nearly one hundred exhibitions since 2000, and is a Board Member of International Association of Art Critics (2007-2019), Anthology Film Archives (2017-2023), Fountain House, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Monira Foundation, Second Shift Studio Space St. Paul, Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, Studio in a School, the Third Rail, the Center for Fiction, the Lynn Art Foundation, among numerous advisory boards and committees. Bui has received the Compassion Award from Con-solatio (2025), the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts (2021), an Honorary Doctorate from University of the Arts (2020), the Jetté Award for Leadership in the Arts, Colby College Museum of Art (2019), The Lunder Fellowship, The Lunder Institute for American Art (2019), The Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation Prize in Fine Art Journalism (2017), among others.
Images: Tony Bechara Publication. Phong H. Bui.
Book Launch | Tony Bechara
A Conversation Moderated by Executive Director Mónica Ramírez-Montagut, with Phong Bui and Associate Curator Kaitlin Halloran
September 20, 2 pm - 3 pm
Free for Members | Free for Resident Benefits PassHolders | $25 for Guests of Members | $30 Adults | Free for Students & Children
In conjunction with the exhibition Tony Bechara: An Artist of Many Worlds, on view through November 1, join us for a special conversation moderated by Mónica Ramírez-Montagut, Executive Director, with Phong Bui, Publisher and Artistic Director, The Brooklyn Rail, and Kaitlin Halloran, Associate Curator, to celebrate the launch of the artist’s monograph.
Advance registration is recommended. Limited spaces will be available at the door.
Books will be available for purchase in the Michéle & Steven Pesner Book and Gift Shop.
About the Publication
Published by El Museo del Barrio and KMEC Books, Tony Bechara is a comprehensive look into the New York-based artist’s life and meticulous painting method with an introduction by Patrick Charpenel, in-depth essay by Domitille d’Orgeval, thorough interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist, biography compiled by Patricia Newcomer, and epilogue by Désirée von la Valette.
About Phong Bui
Phong H. Bui is an artist, writer, independent curator, and co-founder, Publisher & Artistic Director of the Brooklyn Rail, Rail Editions, River Rail and Rail Curatorial Projects. Bui has organized nearly one hundred exhibitions since 2000, and is a Board Member of International Association of Art Critics (2007-2019), Anthology Film Archives (2017-2023), Fountain House, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Monira Foundation, Second Shift Studio Space St. Paul, Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, Studio in a School, the Third Rail, the Center for Fiction, the Lynn Art Foundation, among numerous advisory boards and committees. Bui has received the Compassion Award from Con-solatio (2025), the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Award for Distinguished Service to the Arts (2021), an Honorary Doctorate from University of the Arts (2020), the Jetté Award for Leadership in the Arts, Colby College Museum of Art (2019), The Lunder Fellowship, The Lunder Institute for American Art (2019), The Dorothea and Leo Rabkin Foundation Prize in Fine Art Journalism (2017), among others.
Images: Tony Bechara Publication. Phong H. Bui.
