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61st Venice Biennale
61st Venice Biennale, In Minor Keys, 2026 International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, conceived by Koyo Kouoh and realized by her team after her death; jury resigned April 2026, prizes replaced by Visitors' Lions; EU withdrew €2 million grant over Russia's return.
Ann Warner
Ann Williams Warner (born 1944, Franklinton, Louisiana) was an American oil painter of landscapes, still lifes, and portraits; distinct from the Cincinnati novelist and the ICRW executive of the same name.
Anne de Zogheb
Anne de Zogheb, also known as Anne Anka, was an Egyptian-American fashion model and art collector. She married Paul Anka in 1963 and modeled for Elliott Hundley in 2014.
Artist collective
Artist collective: a durable group of artists with shared authorship and shared decision-making, also called art collectives or artist cooperatives. Roots in Futurism, Dada, Situationists; 2021 Turner Prize shortlist was all collectives; ruangrupa curated documenta 15.
Artsy
Artsy is a New York-based online marketplace for discovering and buying fine art, founded in 2009 by Carter Cleveland and known for its Art Genome Project classification system.
Barbara Jakobson
Barbara Joan Jakobson, née Petchesky (1933–2025), was an American art collector and Museum of Modern Art trustee for fifty-one years, known for helping acquire Rauschenberg's Bed.
Bellosguardo Foundation
The Bellosguardo Foundation is a nonprofit that owns Bellosguardo, a 24-acre oceanfront estate in Santa Barbara built in 1937 by Anna Clark and bequeathed by her daughter Huguette Clark.
Betsy Wyeth
Betsy Wyeth (Betsy Merle James Wyeth, 1921–2020), American art manager, archivist, and designer; wife and career director of painter Andrew Wyeth; named his paintings, built the Maine island environments, and helped create the Brandywine Museum.
Biennale
Biennale (Italian; English: biennial): a large recurring exhibition of contemporary art held every two years, begun with the Venice Biennale in 1895. Covers national pavilions, documenta, Manifesta, and the global spread to over 300 biennials.
Charles Saatchi
Charles Saatchi, Iraqi-British advertising executive and mega-collector, co-built Saatchi & Saatchi and M&C Saatchi, founded the Saatchi Gallery in 1985, and popularized the Young British Artists through the 1997 Sensation exhibition.
Chris Appleton
Chris Appleton is a British celebrity hairstylist known for signature "glass hair" looks. He has styled Jennifer Lopez and Kim Kardashian, and won the Daily Front Row Celebrity Hair Stylist of the Year.
Christopher Gibbs
Christopher Henry Gibbs (1938–2018), also 'Chrissie' or 'Dibbley', was a British antiques dealer and tastemaker who opened his first Islington shop in 1958, created the distressed-bohemian English country house look, advised Mick Jagger and John Paul Getty II, and died in Tangier on his 80th birthday.
Comic book convention
Comic book convention (comic con): organized public fan gatherings for comics and pop culture, begun in 1964; San Diego Comic-Con (founded 1970, ~135,000 attendees) is the flagship, with cosplay, artist alley, panels, and global licensed editions.
Dak'Art
Dak'Art, the Biennale de l'Art Africain Contemporain de Dakar, is a state-organized biennial of contemporary African art held in Dakar, Senegal, established by decree in 1989 and the first art biennial created in sub-Saharan Africa.
Dark Horse Comics
Dark Horse Comics, founded 1986 by Mike Richardson in Milwaukie, Oregon, is an American comic publisher known for Hellboy, Sin City, licensed Star Wars and manga lines, now owned by Embracer Group.
DeviantArt
DeviantArt (dA), founded August 7, 2000 by Scott Jarkoff, Matthew Stephens, and Angelo Sotira, is an online art-sharing community that began as a skins site, was acquired by Wix in 2017 for $36 million, hosts over 650 million artworks, and launched the DreamUp AI generator in 2022.
Elizabeth Sackler
Elizabeth Sackler is an American public historian and philanthropist who serves as Board Chair of the Brooklyn Museum. She founded the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art.
First Impressionist Exhibition
First Impressionist Exhibition (Première exposition impressionniste), held April 15–May 15, 1874 at Nadar's studio, 35 Boulevard des Capucines, Paris; organized by the Société Anonyme, showed about 200 works, drew 3,500 visitors, and gave rise to the name impressionism.
Forbes list of the world's highest-paid models
Forbes list of the world's highest-paid models: annual pretax earnings ranking published 2003 to 2018, dominated by Gisele Bündchen (record $47 million, 2014) and ended with Kendall Jenner at $22.5 million in December 2018.
Fur Affinity
Fur Affinity (FurAffinity, furaffinity.net), founded 16 January 2005 by Alkora, is the furry fandom's largest art, music, and story community; owned by IMVU from 2015, independent under Dragoneer from 2021 until his 2024 death.
George Washington Vanderbilt II
George Washington Vanderbilt II (1862–1914), youngest son of William Henry Vanderbilt, art collector and builder of the Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina; married Edith Dresser, father of Cornelia, died after an appendectomy.
Gladstone Gallery
Gladstone Gallery, founded by Barbara Gladstone in 1980 in New York, is a contemporary art gallery with spaces in Manhattan, Brussels, and Seoul, representing over 70 artists and estates including Matthew Barney, Keith Haring, and Robert Mapplethorpe, now led by partners Max Falkenstein, Gavin Brown, Caroline Luce, and Paula Tsai.
Gold medal
Gold medal: a first-prize medal of gold or gold color, from 1851 world's fairs and Paris Salon juries to Olympic art medals (1912–1948) and today's AIA, ACC, and Scholastic awards.
Harriet Primrose, Countess of Rosebery
Harriet Primrose, Countess of Rosebery, born Harriet Clapham, is a British art adviser who married Harry Primrose, 8th Earl of Rosebery, in 2022, becoming countess in 2024.
Hoor Al-Qasimi
Hoor Al-Qasimi (حور القاسمي, born 1980), Emirati curator and daughter of Sharjah's ruler; President and Director of Sharjah Art Foundation (founded 2009) and Sharjah Biennial director since 2003; ArtReview Power 100 first place 2024; Aichi Triennale 2025 and Sydney Biennale 2026.
House of Fabergé
House of Fabergé, Russian jewellery firm founded in Saint Petersburg in 1842 by Gustav Fabergé, famed under Peter Carl Fabergé for the Imperial Easter Eggs (about 50 made, 43 survive); nationalised in 1917, the brand survives under later owners including SMG Capital since 2025.
Instituto Torcuato Di Tella
The Instituto Torcuato Di Tella was a private research and cultural institute in Buenos Aires, founded in 1958, whose art centers made it the hub of the 1960s Argentine avant-garde.
Irving Blum
Irving Blum (born 1930) is a New York-born art dealer who ran Los Angeles' Ferus Gallery from 1958, staged Warhol's first Soup Cans show in 1962, and later founded BlumHelman.
Isabella Stewart Gardner
Isabella Stewart Gardner (1840–1924), American art collector and founder of Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Fenway Court, opened 1903); Berenson-advised collection, strict will, and site of the unsolved 1990 art theft.
Jay Jopling
Jay Jopling (Jeremy Michael Jopling, born 1963) is the English art dealer who founded London's White Cube gallery in 1993 and made household names of the Young British Artists, including Damien Hirst and Tracey Emin, expanding to New York, Paris, Hong Kong, and Seoul.