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Stingel (described by Roberta
Smith as ‘the best-looking’ show she
had ever seen at the Whitney). The
next 12 months look equally good.
First up is De Salvo’s retrospective
Donna De Salvo,
of Lawrence Weiner, opening this
Shamim Momin &
month, while the 2008 Whitney
Biennial, curated by Henriette
Chris Kennedy Chrissie lles
Huldisch together with Momin, will
Category: Art fair Category: Curators again be one of the big events in the
Nationality: American Nationality: Amer/Amer/British art calendar. With a focus on recent
Last Year: New Last Year: 30 American art, it’s primed to send
waves through every aspect of the
Chris Kennedy is president of various antiques and design shows, The three curators at the Whitney contemporary artworld.
the Chicago-based Merchandise and property such as the Washington Museum of Art make up one of the
Marts Properties, Inc, a trade-show Design Center in Washington, DC, most respected curatorial teams at
producer, which this year entered and the Architects & Designers present: Donna De Salvo, named
into a partnership with the Armory Building in New York. Kennedy, the Whitney’s first chief curator and
Show, New York’s major art fair, and who is based in Chicago and is one associate director for programmes in
purchased VOLTAshow, a satellite of eleven of Robert F. Kennedy’s 2006, Shamim M. Momin, associate
fair for younger galleries that occurs children, has been president of curator at the Whitney and branch
during Art Basel and Art Basel Merchandise Marts since 2000. director and curator of its Altria off-
Miami Beach. Merchandise Marts site space, and Chrissie Iles, who has
already manages Art Chicago, the been a curator at the Whitney since
annual Chicago art fair, which it is 1997, and who is widely praised for
reviving from near-insolvency in her efforts in building the museum’s
2006; it is hoped that it will help collection of artists’ film.
to turn around the Armory as well, This year’s successes at the
which has lost major galleries in Whitney have included emerging
recent years. Merchandise Marts is names such as Mark Grotjahn and
a major presence in Chicago, and Terence Koh (his first American
their move into the artworld is being museum show, curated by Iles), as
tracked closely. It also manages well as stars such as Gordon Matta-
Inheritor of the Jumex fortune of his time when not in Mexico. In Hans Ulrich Obrist’s arrival last power station. This year the pavilion
(the company that bottles juice in 2005 he received the prize for best year as co-director of exhibitions is co-designed by artist Olafur
Mexico), Eugenio López is a key international collection at the ARCO and programmes at the Serpentine Eliasson and houses a season of
player in the field of contemporary fair in Madrid; more recently, he Gallery as well as director of talks, film screenings and concerts.
art in Latin America. With a announced plans for another Jumex international projects confirmed With that kind of reputation, one
collection worth more than $80 art space to be built in Mexico City Julia Peyton-Jones’s ambitious can see why Matthew Barney would
million, in 2001 López opened by 2008, this time in the plush and approach to institutional expansion. be the autumn’s star exhibition.
up La Colección Jumex, housed more central district of Polanco. She has overcome the Serpentine’s
within the Jumex factory compound inability to expand physically
in the suburbs of Mexico City. – the 1934 Neoclassical building in
López has proven his dedication Hyde Park is protected – through
to contemporary art by donating constructing an annual summer
millions of dollars to emerging pavilion, which Obrist has taken J
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artists and initiating a programme of to like a curatorial duck to water.
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to institutions within and outside not leave Hyde Park entirely? In 48, J
of Mexico. He is a trustee of the October 2006 Obrist and Peyton- berle (
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