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Karole Vail

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Karole P. B. Vail (born 1959) is an American museum director, curator and writer. Since 2017, she has been the director of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice and Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation Director for Italy. Prior to this appointment, she worked on the curatorial staff at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York for 20 years.[1][2]

Vail is the younger daughter of Michael Cedric Sindbad Vail (1923–1986) and Margaret "Peggy" Angela Vail (née Yeomans; d. 1988), who married in 1957.[3][4] Vail grew up in Europe and spent 12 years in Florence, Italy; she first became familiar with the Peggy Guggenheim Collection as a child. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Durham University in England[5] and a Diploma in Art History from the New Academy for Art Studies in London.[4][6]

Before joining the Guggenheim, Vail was an archivist and researcher at the arts publishing house Centro Di in Florence and worked as an assistant curator on independent projects. She is a co-founder and co-director of Non-Objectif Sud, a not-for-profit artist residency and exhibition program in the south of France.[6]

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Peggy Guggenheim Collection

Peggy Guggenheim Collection

The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is an art museum on the Grand Canal in the Dorsoduro sestiere of Venice, Italy. It is one of the most visited attractions in Venice. The collection is housed in the Palazzo Venier dei Leoni, an 18th-century palace, which was the home of the American heiress Peggy Guggenheim for three decades. She began displaying her private collection of modern artworks to the public seasonally in 1951. After her death in 1979, it passed to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, which opened the collection year-round from 1980.

Venice

Venice

Venice is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region. It is built on a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by over 400 bridges. The islands are in the shallow Venetian Lagoon, an enclosed bay lying between the mouths of the Po and the Piave rivers. In 2020, around 258,685 people resided in greater Venice or the Comune di Venezia, of whom around 55,000 live in the historical island city of Venice and the rest on the mainland (terraferma). Together with the cities of Padua and Treviso, Venice is included in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area (PATREVE), which is considered a statistical metropolitan area, with a total population of 2.6 million.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation

Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation is a nonprofit organization founded in 1937 by philanthropist Solomon R. Guggenheim and his long-time art advisor, artist Hilla von Rebay. The foundation is a leading institution for the collection, preservation, and research of modern and contemporary art and operates several museums around the world. The first museum established by the foundation was The Museum of Non-Objective Painting, in New York City. This became The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 1952, and the foundation moved the collection into its first permanent museum building, in New York City, in 1959. The foundation next opened the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy, in 1980. Its international network of museums expanded in 1997 to include the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao in Bilbao, Spain, and it expects to open a new museum, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, in the United Arab Emirates after its construction is completed.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, often referred to as The Guggenheim, is an art museum at 1071 Fifth Avenue between 88th and 89th Streets on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It is the permanent home of a continuously expanding collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, early Modern, and contemporary art and also features special exhibitions throughout the year. The museum was established by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation in 1939 as the Museum of Non-Objective Painting, under the guidance of its first director, Hilla von Rebay. The museum adopted its current name in 1952, three years after the death of its founder Solomon R. Guggenheim.

Florence

Florence

Florence is a city in Central Italy and the capital city of the Tuscany region. It is the most populated city in Tuscany, with 383,083 inhabitants in 2016, and over 1,520,000 in its metropolitan area.

Durham University

Durham University

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Exhibitions and writings

Before leaving New York, Vail was preparing an upcoming Alberto Giacometti retrospective for the Guggenheim Museum in New York to be exhibited in 2018. For the New York museum, she previously curated or co-curated such exhibitions as Moholy-Nagy: Future Present (2016), a László Moholy-Nagy retrospective; From Berlin to New York: Karl Nierendorf and the Guggenheim (2008); the museum's 50th anniversary exhibition Art of Tomorrow: Hilla Rebay and Solomon R. Guggenheim, which examined the collaborative relationship between the two founders of the museum (2005–06); and Peggy Guggenheim: A Centennial Celebration (1998).[7][8] She curated the exhibition (and edited the accompanying catalogue) about her grandmother, Peggy Guggenheim, The Last Dogaressa, on view at the Collection in late 2019.[9]

Her publications include Peggy Guggenheim: A Celebration (1998);[3] The Museum of Non-Objective Painting: Hilla Rebay and the Origins of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (2009); Moholy-Nagy: Future Present, which received an Honorable Mention in the 2017 Awards for Excellence of the Association of Art Museum Curators; and Art of Tomorrow: Hilla Rebay and Solomon R. Guggenheim. She also organized exhibitions and wrote catalogue entries about Wassily Kandinsky, Nesuhi Ertegun, Daniel Filipacchi, Robert Mapplethorpe, Lucio Fontana, Richard Pousette-Dart, Gabriele Münter, Pablo Picasso and Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, among others.[6]

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Nesuhi Ertegun

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Daniel Filipacchi

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Robert Mapplethorpe

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Lucio Fontana

Lucio Fontana

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Gabriele Münter

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Pablo Picasso

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Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian

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Personal life and family

Vail is a member of the Guggenheim family. Her great grandfather was Benjamin Guggenheim, who died in the sinking of the Titanic,[8] and her paternal grandparents were Peggy Guggenheim and Laurence Vail, a poet and sculptor whose works are represented in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection. Her great grand uncle was Solomon R. Guggenheim.[7]

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Benjamin Guggenheim

Benjamin Guggenheim

Benjamin Guggenheim was an American businessman, a wealthy member of the Guggenheim family. He died aboard RMS Titanic when the ship sank in the North Atlantic Ocean. His body was never recovered.

Peggy Guggenheim

Peggy Guggenheim

Marguerite "Peggy" Guggenheim was an American art collector, bohemian and socialite. Born to the wealthy New York City Guggenheim family, she was the daughter of Benjamin Guggenheim, who went down with the Titanic in 1912, and the niece of Solomon R. Guggenheim, who established the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation. Guggenheim collected art in Europe and America primarily between 1938 and 1946. She exhibited this collection as she built it; in 1949, she settled in Venice, where she lived and exhibited her collection for the rest of her life. The Peggy Guggenheim Collection is a modern art museum on the Grand Canal in Venice, Italy, and is one of the most visited attractions in Venice.

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Solomon R. Guggenheim

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Source: "Karole Vail", Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, (2022, November 27th), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karole_Vail.

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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation

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László Moholy-Nagy

Hilla von Rebay

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Rudolf Bauer (artist)

Sidney Jonas Budnick

Richard Armstrong (museum director)

Matthew Drutt

List of Guggenheim Museums
References
  1. ^ Barone, Joshua. "The Peggy Guggenheim Collection Names Its New Director", The New York Times, June 8, 2017, accessed July 30, 2017
  2. ^ Harris, Gareth. "Peggy Guggenheim’s granddaughter takes the reins at the late collector’s Venetian museum", The Art Newspaper, June 8, 2017
  3. ^ a b Vail, Karole P. B. Peggy Guggenheim: A Centennial Celebration Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation (1998), p. 78. ISBN 0-8109-6914-9
  4. ^ a b Bucci, Stefano. "Guggenheim, ritorno a Venezia nel segno di mia nonna Peggy", Corriere Della Sera, Italy, June 8, 2017
  5. ^ "Results of Final Examinations Held in June 1980; Final Examination for the Degree of B.A. in General Studies", Gazette, Vol. XXV, no. 2, Supplement, Durham University Archive, 31 January 1981, accessed 1 May 2019, p. 39
  6. ^ a b c "The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation Appoints Karole P.B. Vail to Lead the Peggy Guggenheim Collection", Guggenheim.org, June 8, 2017
  7. ^ a b Durón, Maximilíano. "Karole P.B. Vail Named Director of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection", ArtNews, June 8, 2017
  8. ^ a b Marshall, Lee. "The Collector's Collector", The Independent, September 12, 1998, accessed July 31, 2017
  9. ^ "Peggy Guggenheim, The Last Dogaressa". Peggy Guggenheim Collection. Retrieved January 28, 2020.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
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