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Nicola Vassell. Photo courtesy of Nicola Vassell. Nicola Vassell has been a leading tastemaker in the New York art world for more than a decade. She’s held director roles at Pace Gallery and Deitch Projects, and helped music producer Swizz Beatz and his wife, Alicia Keys, build a world-class art collection and an art fair, No Commissions, where artists take home 100 percent of their sales. Now, the curator, writer, and art advisor is at last opening her own gallery. “This has been a lon...

Though the city is lifting many coronavirus restrictions today, some safeguards will remain, and you'll still need to keep a mask handy.

/ What would Turner think? Would he even have recognised the artist collectives nominated for this year’s prize in his name as art? His own concerns were for the luminosity and possibilities of paint, how it could be moved around the canvas to convey a fleeting moment, the changing weather, the turbulence of skies, the great storms out at sea, what it felt like to be part of this physical, sentient world. He even (probably apocryphally) lashed himself to the mast of a ship in the centre of a...

Nicola Vassell. Image courtesy Nicola Vassell. Photo: Luigi Cazzaniga. Few people in the art world have had a career as complex as Nicola Vassell’s. After leaving Jamaica for New York in the late ’90s to pursue a career as a fashion model and culture writer, Vassell landed some of the art industry’s most coveted roles, including directorial positions at Deitch Projects and Pace gallery, two New York art-world institutions. While at Deitch, Vassell worked with then-emerging artists such as...