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- Senior Director of Digital Learning at Sotheby 's Institute Allegra Smith
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- Director, New York
- Director, Sotheby 's Institute of Art - New York
- Fine Art Asset and Design Specialist
Ann-Marie Richard is a fine art asset and design specialist, art historian, curator, author and advisor. Prior to her full-time appointment as Program Director, she was Executive Vice President at the art advisory firm Gurr Johns. She has lectured extensively on the topics of retrospective and emerging art markets, connoisseurship, collecting, conservation, provenance, and the related subtleties of appraising fine and decorative arts and design. Ann-Marie has had speaking engagements at Columbia University, the American Association of Museums, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Fashion Institute of Technology, Pratt Institute and The Aspen Institute. Exhibitions she has curated have been favorably reviewed in national and international publications including Art in America, ArtNews, The New York Times, Art-Times Russia, and Korea Times. She is the author of "The Valuation of Fine Art and Design: A Handbook for Professionals" to be published in 2020.
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- I Exhibition Old Masters Expert
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- Director of Lifelong and Continuing Education, Sotheby 's Institute of Art, London
As Director of Lifelong and Continuing Education, Joe oversees a portfolio that includes Study Abroad, Gap Year, Professional and Executive Education and related programs. He is part of the Management Team for Sotheby's Institute of Art and is involved in new program development and partnerships across the Institute's campuses. Prior to joining Sotheby's Institute in 2019, Joe worked as a creative producer and educator for The National Trust, V&A and The Courtauld Institute of Art.
Joe holds graduate degrees in the history of design and musicology from the University of Oxford and King's College London. The latter was supported by a full bursary awarded by St Paul's Cathedral, London, where Joe was later a member of the Arts Policy and Planning Committee. He has also been a member of the Southbank Centre's Heritage Advisory Group and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
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- Director, Sotheby 's Institute of Art
- Director, Sotheby 's Institute of Art, London
Jonathan's PhD is from the Warburg Institute where he specialized in the cultural history of England, Italy and Europe in the sixteenth century. He has taught at a variety of institutions including the University of Kent, the Victoria and Albert Museum, New York University, Loyola University of Chicago and the University of Oxford, where he was Stipendiary Lecturer in History at Hertford College. He served as Academic Director of the Lorenzo de'Medici Institute in Florence for four years before joining Sotheby's Institute in 2010.
As Director of Semester and Summer Programmes, Jonathan pioneered new educational offerings built around art finance, art crime, art museums and the art and luxury dyad and was instrumental in establishing partnerships with prestigious US universities including Cornell, the University of California and the University of Southern California. Following promotion to Deputy Director in 2014, and appointment as Director in 2019, he has led the Institute's relationships with the University of Manchester, the Quality Assurance Agency and the Office for Students.
He is a Founder and Board Member of TIAMSA, The International Art Market Studies Association, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, and a former British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow. His publications include Padua and the Tudors: English Students in Italy, 1485-1603 (1998), Reassessing Tudor Humanism (2002), and Palgrave Advances in Renaissance Historiography (2004). ‘Renaissance Intersections: The Arts of Italy and Early Tudor Visual Experience' was published in 2019.
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- Exclusive Interview With Artist
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- Marina Abramović Today Performance Artist
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- Art World Marketing Manager