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The New Breed of Curator-Party Promoters

October 20, 2010 by Marion Maneker

The Independent tries to skewer Victor Restoin-Roitfeld along with Vito Schnabel, Alex Dellal and Tyrone Wood by branding them ‘It’ curators. Someone could have done a better job packaging that one:

Restoin-Roitfeld is far from the only young dealer on the circuit with a preposterously glitzy Rolodex. Patricia Bickers, editor of Art Monthly, is only too familiar with the new breed. “There are two main types of curator,” she explains. “There is the artist/curator, who is usually impecunious and often begins by showing his/her own contemporaries. Then there is the commercial curator/dealer, who usually has some financial backing. If both types hang around long enough, they tend to merge.” But, Bickers says, “the celebrity or It curator is a sub-species of the latter and tends not to stick around”.

The It curators: A new breed of young socialites are selling art (The Independent)

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