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Star curator is the latest to be honored by ICI
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Anthony Haden-Guest at the ICI Gala, in the Imperial Splendor of the Cunard Building
ICI had once stood for Imperial Chemicals Industry, a juggernaut, a kind of a Brit Dow Chemical, until it had been picked apart, the last chunk being sold to a Dutch paint conglomerate in 2008. Then my brain kicked in. Within was the top brass of a quite different ICI—Independent Curators International, the non-profit contemporary art center that organizes, among other things, traveling exhibitions—and an event on the calendar of another empire, arguably a more international one than any other current contender: the Empire of Art. I pivoted (the modish word nowadays) and was let through.
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The Greek collector Dimitris Daskalopoulos is known to be one of the more modest art investors of Hellenic extraction. He doesn’t have a 115-foot superyacht that Jeff Koons designed for him named “Guilty,” for instance—that would be his fellow Athenian, Dakis Joannou. What Mr. Daskalopoulos will have after tonight, though, is a Leo Award, the annual prize handed out to a prominent collector by Independent Curators International (and named, of course, for Leo Castelli). It all goes down at a swank dinner affair, where Agnes Gund will present Mr. Daskalopoulos with the award.
