Neville Wakefield (born 1963) is an art curator.
Life and work
Wakefield was born in
England, United Kingdom
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. He is the
curator
A curator (from la, cura, meaning "to take care") is a manager or overseer. When working with cultural organizations, a curator is typically a "collections curator" or an "exhibitions curator", and has multifaceted tasks dependent on the parti ...
and artistic director of
Desert X
Desert X is a site-specific, contemporary art exhibition that is held in the Coachella Valley in Southern California. The inaugural Desert X was held from February 25 to April 30, 2017, and has held subsequent exhibitions every two years. The nex ...
.
Personal life
He lives and works between the
Isles of Scilly
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and
Harlem, New York
Harlem is a neighborhood in Upper Manhattan, New York City. It is bounded roughly by the Hudson River on the west; the Harlem River and 155th Street (Manhattan), 155th Street on the north; Fifth Avenue on the east; and 110th Street (Manhattan), ...
.
See also
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POSTmatter (magazine)
''POSTmatter'' is a London-based online magazine about contemporary art and culture in the digital age. It was founded in 2010 by Remi Paringaux, Alexander Dellal and Xerxes Cook as an iPad-only magazine named POST. The magazine has been edited by ...
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Helmut Lang (artist)
Helmut Lang (born 10 March 1956) is an Austrian artist and former fashion designer and mentor who lives and works in New York and on Long Island.
Career
In 1986, Lang showed his first Helmut Lang runway collection in Paris at Centre Georges ...
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Destricted
''Destricted'' is a British-American anthology film that explores the line where art and pornography intersect. The UK and US film releases had overlapping but different short art-house erotic films. The film collection won awards at a range of ...
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The Cremaster Cycle
''The Cremaster Cycle'' is a series of five feature-length films, together with related sculptures, photographs, drawings, and artist's books, created by American visual artist and filmmaker Matthew Barney.
''The Cremaster Cycle'' was made over a ...
References
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Living people
1963 births
British art critics
British art curators
Cultural historians