Seminar: Artists and Curators – Can they be happy together?
Speaker: Alistair Hicks
Date: January 6, 2022 Time: 6:00-7:30 pm
Venue: Digital Platform, Zoom
Artists and Curators – Can they be happy together?
Alistair Hicks uses his experience of buying and commissioning works of art for Deutsche Bank, his role as an art critic for Newspapers and Magazines, and as curator of exhibitions and spaces, to explore whether artists and curators can be happy together.
About Alistair Hicks
Alistair Hicks is the author of the survey of 21st century contemporary art, Global Art Compass. In 2019 he has curated two exhibitions, The Time Needs Changing at the Pera Museum, Istanbul, and The Crime of Mr Adolf Loos at the Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp. He has been an art critic for such diverse publications as The Spectator, The Times and Vogue. He wrote School of London (Phaidon, 1989) and New British Art in the Saatchi Collection, (Thames & Hudson,1989). The book Chateau LaCoste’s: Art and Architecture in Provence by Robert Ivy and Alistair Hicks was published last year. He is currently working on two other books on Francis Bacon and İstanbul by its artists.