Artangel s Co-Directors James Lingwood and Michael Morris to step down in 2022
Michael Morris and James Lingwood. Photo: Julian Abrams.
LONDON
.-Artangels Co-Directors James Lingwood and Michael Morris have announced their decision to step down from the organisation which they have led for 30 years.
Since they became Co-Directors in 1991, Artangel has generated some of the most widely discussed art of recent times and is one of the most consistently admired cultural organisations, respected by artists and audiences alike in Britain and beyond.
Since 1991, James and Michael have produced over 125 projects including Rachel Whitereads House, Michael Landys Breakdown, Jeremy Dellers The Battle of Orgreave, Gregor Schneiders Die Familie Schneider, Francis Alyss Seven Walks and Roger Hiornss Seizure, and drawn audiences to a wide range of places from the empty Reading Prison to the Palace of Westminster, the west coast of Iceland and the island of Portland, downtown D
Artangel Co-Directors James Lingwood and Michael Morris To Step Down
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The collector Eugenio López Alonso, heir to the Grupo Jumex empire in Mexico, at home in Los Angeles, April 27, 2021. López divides his time between Los Angeles and Mexico, filling both homes with paintings and sculpture. Michelle Groskopf/The New York Times.
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