# Cecilia Alemani

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The Art World: In Other Words, Curating, with Cecilia Alemani & Ingrid Schaffner

How do curators find art, and decide to show it? Joining our host Charlotte Burns for a conversation about the future of biennials, triennials and other group shows are Cecilia Alemani (director and chief curator of High Line Art and the artistic director of Art Basel Cities) and Ingrid Schaffner (…

How Surrealist Artist Leonora Carrington Carved Her Space in a Male-Dominated World

Despite being among the most-celebrated surrealists of the last century, British born artist Leonora Carrington is still overlooked as compared to her male counterparts, some of whom were close friends and collaborators. One surrealist was even her husband for a time—the famous painter Max Ernst. B…

Marguerite Humeau: *sk*/ey- / Institute of Contemporary Art Miami

ICA Miami presents “sk/ey-,” a solo exhibition by Marguerite Humeau, showcasing her exploration of alternative worlds through newly commissioned sculptures and video. This marks her first large-scale U.S. institutional show, focusing on themes of climate change and post-human existence where noma…

165. Cecilia Alemani

Cecilia Alemani is an Italian curator based in New York City who is currently at work curating the 12th SITE SANTA FE International, titled Once Within a Time and opening in June 2025.  Since 2011, she has been the Donald R. Mullen, Jr. Director & Chief Curator of High Line Art, the public art prog…

Ep 3: Elisa Giardina Papa on Sicilian myth and the Venice Biennale

We are in conversation with Sicilian artist and scholar Elisa Giardina Papa whose practice explores subjects that resist definition. Elisa lives and works between New York and Sant’Ignazio, Sicily, and teaches Modern Culture and Media at Brown University. She was one of the artists invited by cura…

Arthur Jafa and Mark Leckey, Cecilia Alemani on SITE Santa Fe, Trisha Brown and Robert Rauschenberg

An exhibition opens this weekend at Conditions, the low-cost studio programme for artists in Croydon, on the outskirts of south London, featuring two of the great works of art of recent decades: Mark Leckey’s Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (1999) and Arthur Jafa’s Love is the Message, the Message is Dea…

Daily Art Download — 2025-06-28

Show notes for today's episode of The Daily Art Download — your ten minute crash course in today's art world news. Artnet News - Louvre Launches Design Contest for $400 Million Expansion, Including a New Room for ‘Mona Lisa’: https://news.artnet.com/art-world/louvre-launches-design-contest-for-400…

Episode 5: January 2026

(00:00:00) Introduction (00:02:15) Marina Abramović’s eightieth birthday (00:14:20) A touch of La Biennale at the Winter Olympic Games (00:15:58) Davide Iodice’s Pinocchio. What Is a Person? (00:20:29) Biennale Magazine 3/25: Antony Hamilton (00:27:26) Save the Dates 2026: Horoscope (00:32:30) Clas…

What Artists Can learn from the Venice Biennale Curator

This is the world's longest running, large scale survey of contemporary art. It is looked to locally and internationally to discover the next new great artist. The curator is Cecilia Alemani, and I went to hear her share her insights about the exhibition. She went into detail about how she made the…

What Artists Can learn from the Venice Biennale Curator

This is the world's longest running, large scale survey of contemporary art. It is looked to locally and internationally to discover the next new great artist. The curator is Cecilia Alemani, and I went to hear her share her insights about the exhibition. She went into detail about how she made the…