Collector Nicholas Baume, a curator with a 3-D collection in every room
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Show Us Your Walls
By Hilarie M. Sheets
“I think I’m the opposite of a collector,” Nicholas Baume, the director and chief curator of the nonprofit Public Art Fund in New York, said, chatting in his airy Greenwich Village apartment. “By temperament I’m a minimalist. That said, I have some works of art that mean a lot to me and are emblematic of relationships.” Mr. Baume, whose Public Art Fund project with Anselm Kiefer just opened at Rockefeller Center, lives with an array of pieces that reflect his career trajectory and collaborations with artists over the years. Mr. Baume’s apartment also hosts wall pieces by Sam Durant, Christian Jankowski and Francis Alÿs, all of whom he worked with on exhibitions at the Wadsworth Atheneum. [More]
Show Us Your Walls
By Hilarie M. Sheets
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| The curator Nicholas Baume sitting before Sol LeWitt’s subtly colored “Wall Drawing #85.” Ugo Rondinone’s “Small Yellow Mountain” is on the table.Credit2018 The LeWitt Estate Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York; Daniel Dorsa for The New York Times |
