CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 11/2/2023

Rizzoli Bookstore presents Dani Levinas and Amy Cappellazzo on 'The Guardians of Art'

Thursday, November 2 at 6 PM, Rizzoli Bookstore presents Washington, DC-based collector and author Dani Levinas in conversation with noted art and auction authority Amy Cappellazzo, to celebrate the launch of The Guardians of Art: Conversations with Major Collectors, published by La Fábrica. PLEASE NOTE: RSVPs are encouraged but not required. Seating is limited and will be first come, first served. Doors open at 5:30 PM. Click here to register.

In The Guardians of Art, DC-based collector Dani Levinas brings together 34 of the most outstanding names in contemporary art collecting, embracing a diverse range of characters who talk with him about the motivations behind their drive to collect and about their ways of sharing their passion for art with the wider public. In his conversations with the Rubells, Dakis Joannou, Martin Z. Margulies and many others, Levinas, himself a major collector who has served on the boards of the Phillips Collection, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the Reina Sofía, emerges as a brilliant interlocutor and an authoritative collector of collectors.

Featured collectors include: Alain Dominique Perrin, Rosa de la Cruz, Helga de Alvear, Lia Rumma, Lekha Poddar, Dakis Joannou, Aaron and Barbara Levine, Giorgio Spanu, Jan Mulder, Sheikha Al Mayassa, Teixeira de Freitas, Jarl Mohn, Mitchell Rales and Emily Wei Rales, Susana Lloret, Don and Mera Rubell, Eugenio López Alonso, José Darío Gutiérrez, Armando Martins, Ernesto Poma, Thomas Kaplan, Jonathan Ruffer, Juan Carlos Maldonado, Anita Zabludowicz, Eddie and Sylvia Brown, Grazyna Kulczyk, Estrellita Brodsky, Alain Servais, Elena Rueda, Marcos and Rafael Martín, Javier Lumbreras, Martin Z. Margulies, Rafael Tous, Harald Falckenberg, J. Tomlinson Hill and Han Nefkens.

Dani Levinas was born in Buenos Aires in 1948. He moved with his family to Washington DC in 1980, and founded a publishing company. He is Chair Emeritus of the Board of Trustees of The Phillips Collection, the Unites States’ earliest modern art museum, created in 1921 with the collection of Duncan Phillips. He is currently a member of the boards of the Fundación Museo Reina Sofía, Madrid, and the The Orchestra of the Americas Group. Prior to this, he served on the Board of Trustees of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington DC.

Levinas has taken part in countless symposiums and conferences on collecting and trends in the contemporary art world. He is also a guest lecturer at Universidad Europea de Madrid, where he teaches a course on the art industry; a contributor to the El País newspaper, writing about art and patronage; and has organized exhibitions, including Argentina In Focus: Cristian Segura / Sergio Vega at the Art Museum of The Americas, in Washington DC, as well as one by artist León Ferrari at the Arlington Art Center in Virginia.

Levinas collects international contemporary art, with a specific focus on Latin American artists. In 2020, he and his wife Mirella were distinguished by Fundación ARCO with its “A” Prize for collecting.

Portrait by Timothy Greenfield-Sanders.

Amy Cappellazzo is the Founding Partner Art Intelligence Global. She has spent nearly three-decades operating at the highest level of the fine art market. Most recently, she was Chairman of the Fine Art Division of Sotheby’s. She came to Sotheby’s when her advisory firm, Art Agency Partners was acquired by the auction house in 2016. The firm filled a significant need in the art market for a client-oriented combination of industry knowledge, financial sophistication, and discretion. Cappellazzo previously served as a market leader in the field of contemporary art at Christie’s, where she rose to the post of Chairman of Post-War & Contemporary Development over thirteen years. Cappellazzo began her career as an art advisor and curator, and was a key figure in the establishment of Art Basel in Miami Beach.

Rizzoli Bookstore
Dani Levinas and Amy Cappellazzo on 'The Guardians of Art'
Thursday, November 2 at 6 PM
1133 Broadway
New York, NY 10010
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