Wall Street Journal Article. A headline of the same name was published later in the
Frieze Magazine. In
The Guardian, he was called “Giant of the Art World” while
The New York Times coined Enwezor “the Curator Who Remapped the Artworld”, and the “Curator Who Shaped a Global View of Contemporary Art”. The list goes on.
Suffice it to say, Okwui Enwezor, a poet, art critic, art historian and curator, was a man of astonishing and global influence an art world giant, whose legacy has not, and probably will not, be forgotten for many years to come.
Born on 23 October 1963 in Calabar, a port city in the South of Nigeria, Enwezor was part of an affluent Igbo family. The reality of the Biafran war (1967-70) meant that much of his childhood was spent moving around to avoid conflict; the family eventually settled in the eastern Nigerian city of Enugu.
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The collectors Peter and Jill Kraus in their apartment with Pope.L s Sunny Day White Power. Speculative buyers are flocking to crypto art while blue-chip collectors are holding back, fearing legal gray areas and copyright issues. Via Peter Krauss via The New York Times.
by Zachary Small
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- A handful of auctions this month testing the appetite for a type of investment known as NFTs seemed likely to prolong the nascent fad for ownership of works that exist only in the digital world. Missing from those transactions, however, were the blue-chip collectors who typically drive the art markets sales. Industry experts have observed a growing wedge between a new generation of digital speculators and an older school of art collectors who say their concerns about the quality, ownership and authenticity of NFTs have gone unresolved, even as their fears of legal challenges grow. More than a dozen collectors interviewed for this