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2019 was a year of protests and profound change. We look back on what happened, what our guests talked about and what our listeners most responded to. Tune in to hear Ian Alteveer (the Aaron I. Fleischman curator of Modern and contemporary art at the Metropolitan Museum), Julia Halperin (the executive editor of artnet News) and host Charlotte Burns review the year—and to hear snippets from our 2019 shows featuring museum directors Nicholas Serota (formerly Tate and now the head of Arts Council England), and Max Hollein (the Metropolitan Museum of Art), The New York Times co-chief art critic Roberta Smith, artists Catherine Opie, Mickalene Thomas, Derrick Adams and Nari Ward, architect David Adjaye, Ford Foundation president Darren Walker, and more.
Who
Julia Halperin
Executive editor, artnet News
Julia Halperin is executive editor of artnet News, where she oversees editorial operations for the world’s most widely read art news site and manages a staff of editors and writers in London, Berlin, and New York. Previously, she served as museums editor of The Art Newspaper, where she oversaw international coverage of museums and other major art institutions, and as news editor of Art + Auction magazine. Her writing has appeared in WIRED magazine, the New York Observer, and New York magazine. Halperin holds a BA in art history and English literature from Columbia University.
Ian Alteveer
Curator of Modern and contemporary art at the Metropolitan Museum
Ian Alteveer is the Aaron I. Fleischman curator of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s department of Modern and contemporary Art. He organized “Marisa Merz: The Sky Is a Great Space” as well as the recent smash-hit retrospective “Kerry James Marshall: Mastry”, which traveled to LA Moca. He was in charge of the 2015 Roof Garden Commission by Pierre Huyghe and was part of the curatorial team for “Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years” in 2012.
Alteveer also curated “Once Upon a Time and Now”, an exhibition celebrating the reopening of the New York LGBT Community Center in 2015.
Before working at the Met, Alteveer was a graduate curatorial fellow and curatorial assistant at New York University’s Grey Art Gallery.
Charlotte Burns
Executive editor of In Other Words
Charlotte Burns is the editor of In Other Words, our weekly newsletters and podcasts. She was previously the US news and market editor for The Art Newspaper, as well as a regular correspondent for publications such as the Guardian and Monocle. Previously, she worked with the London dealer Anthony d’Offay on special projects. For several years, she was a consultant at the cultural communications agency, Bolton & Quinn. She also worked at Hauser & Wirth in London.
Burns received a Masters degree (with Merit) from the Courtauld Institute in Art and Cultural Politics in Germany, 1890-1945, as well as a first-class B.A. honors degree in English and History of Art from Birmingham University. She moved to New York in 2010.
