Art curator
Art Gallery of Guelph seeks nominations for young curator award
The call is on for nominations for next year’s Middlebrook Prize for Young Canadian Curators.
The Art Gallery of Guelph has been giving the award out since 2012 to “an emerging Canadian curator who is under 30 with the aim to foster social innovation and curatorial excellence in Canada.”
The winner gets a $5,000 honorarium, as well as mentorship to develop an exhibition at the Art Gallery in Guelph, to be held from September to December 2024.
“The Middlebrook Prize has a powerful impact for not only the applicants, but the cultural sector more broadly,” AGG director Shauna McCabe said in a news release. “Supporting young professionals at a critical point in their careers, the winners are among the country’s best and brightest emerging curators with a clear sense of the transformative potential of the arts.”
As we close 2024 and read all the year-end wrap-ups of art, music, books, movies, and films, we wondered what would Denver Art Museum curators include on their lists of top arts and culture moments of the year?
Check out the roundup below from five of our curators (arranged in alphabetical order), which spans art and artists across multiple genres from Denver to Dakar.
Darrin Alfred, Curator of Architecture and Design
1. The Denver Art Museum’s Biophilia: Nature Reimagined and the Denver Botanic Gardens’ River’s Voice: Textiles by Alexandra Kehayoglou – Two significant exhibitions this summer highlighted humanity’s bond with nature. At the DAM, Biophilia: Nature Reimagined invited visitors to reconnect with nature through architecture, art, and design, featuring Alexandra Kehayoglou’s newly acquired Bajío (2024), a hand-tufted wool rug reflecting cultural heritage and memory. Meanwhile, the Denver Botanic Gardens’ River’s Voice presented Kehayoglou’s immersive large-scale textiles, creating a culturally rich moment that bridged themes of ecology, design, and identity.
Read more: https://www.denverartmuseum.org/en/blog/dam-curators-top-arts-moments-2024
Dame Rosalind Savill, who was the director of one of the UK’s major art collections for nearly 20 years, has died age 73.
The former Wallace Collection director and art historian died on Friday following a short illness, her family confirmed to the PA news agency.
She began her career as an assistant in the ceramics department of London’s Victoria And Albert Museum, before moving to the Wallace Collection.
Dame Rosalind was first appointed as an assistant in 1974 and became an assistant director of the London fine art attraction in 1978.
On Saturday 16 November 2024 a new exhibition opened in the Gregynog Gallery at the National Library of Wales, which combines his substantial collection with items from the National Art Collection at the National Library of Wales for the first time in order to tell this important story.
Peter Lord’s collection of Welsh art and artefacts, many of which are on public display for the first time, looks at the allegation made by Griffith in 1950, and upheld by many others afterwards. His belief is that pictures should be valued not only visually but for what they say about the story of the nation.
The exhibition is a unique opportunity to view and enjoy over 250 works of art of national significance. With a central narrative running throughout, the story starts with the visual world of the gentry, middle classes and common people and moves on to various depictions of Welsh identities. Through this, it reveals the richness of Wales’ visual culture as well as Wales’ social and political history.
Read more: https://www.artdependence.com/articles/there-s-no-welsh-art-a-new-exhibition-challenges-the-myth/
