An exhibition at The Baltimore Museum of Art pays tribute to the first woman to head a major metropolitan museum. She helped the museum acquire Matisse, Cassatt, Cézanne and Van Gogh masterpieces.
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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 long time coming,” Vassell told Artnet News. “I felt it was the most logical next step in the journey of my professional life.”
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Kat Lister
, May 17th, 2021 09:49
In our monthly subscribers only essay, Kat Lister discusses how finishing her first book and a year of being locked down alone steered her towards buying a typewriter, only to discover these machines are going through something of a reversal of fortunes. Homepage photograph: the author s portrait of her own Olivetti Valentine
Kat Lister
When I was a child I would often fall asleep to the sound of metal typebars hammering on paper. The
clack clack clack of words in motion. A cacophony of heavy blows and jabs that ricocheted from wall to wall like linguistic bullets; scudding and darting, banging and crashing in the room next door to mine. Space was scarce in the small terrace house where my family and I lived in the late 1980s. Consequently, my father s writing bureau was lodged in the only quiet nook he could find: the postage stamp-sized workstation was sandwiched tightly between the far corner of my parents bedroom and the wooden frame of th