“When the Berlin Wall came down, I understood it was a historical moment, but not really,” New Museum curator Massimiliano Gioni said over the phone last week. “I didn’t have the alertness to jump on a train and go see.” Mr. Gioni, now 37 and director of exhibitions at the New Museum, was a teenager Read More
When The Observer profiled him last year, Massimiliano Gioni was described by others in the art world as an extremely ambitious, socially gifted curator who at just 35 years old had risen to prominence in his profession with impressive speed.
The New Museum announced last night that Massimiliano Gioni, who has worked there since Read More
On Saturday, March 27, Mary Boone premiered a new video by the artist Barbara Kruger in her Chelsea gallery. The work, titled The Globe Shrinks, ran on a loop across four large screens. Clocking in at about 13 minutes, it consisted of about a half-dozen short segments, including one in which a skeptical journalist interviewed Read More
Massimiliano Gioni knows how to get what he wants. This is a skill that has served him well over the past few months in his capacity as the curator overseeing the artist Urs Fischer’s takeover of the New Museum. Putting together Mr. Fischer’s logistically treacherous installations, which will open as a show called Read More
