He Owns Over 1,500 Works of Art. And He Wants You to See Them
Fodor s 9 hrs ago Kasia Dietz © Provided by Fodor s
One of the world’s leading collectors of contemporary art doesn’t consider himself a collector at all. Cyprian-born Dakis Joannou, 80, says he finds it selfish to take the work away from the public and instead chooses to call himself an anti-collector.
Even so, Joannou was named one of the most influential people in the contemporary art world by
ArtReview in 2016, and his contemporary art trove features over 1,500 works and counting, with select artwork in storage or on loan. He’s not far behind Eli and Edyth Broad, whose often touted contemporary art collection includes over 2,000 works.
He Owns Over 1,500 Works of Art And He Wants You to See Them
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Art and Mourning
The latest exhibition at New Yorkâs New Museum presents a searing cross-section of work by Black American artists. Titled
Grief and Grievance, it was the vision of Nigerian curator Okwui Enwezor (1963-2019), a pioneering advocate of modern African art since the early 1990s, known for selecting and arranging works to elicit dialogues with wider themes such as colonialism, apartheid and black liberation. In 2018, under the overtly white-nationalist presidency of Donald Trump, Enwezor was invited to organise a major exhibition at the museum in Manhattan.
Already suffering from cancer, Enwezor was simultaneously preparing a series of talks for Harvardâs Alain LeRoy Locke Lecture Series on the relationship between black mourning and white nationalism, as expressed through contemporary black art. In his lecture drafts â which he was unable to present due to his declining health â Enwezor developed the spine of what would become