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Benjamin Genocchio
Born (1969-04-28) 28 April 1969 (age 55)
Sydney
NationalityAustralian
EducationNewington College
University of Sydney
OccupationArt critic
TitleEditor-in-chief of Artnet News
SpouseMelissa Chiu

Benjamin Giorgio Genocchio (born 28 April 1969) is an Australian-born non-fiction writer, art critic and editor, now residing in New York. He formerly worked for The New York Times as an art critic, then as the editor-in-chief of Art+Auction magazine, Modern Painters magazine, and the website Artinfo.com. He is currently editor-in-chief of the art world news website Artnet News. He is the author and editor of seven books.

Education

Genocchio was born in Sydney, New South Wales and attended Newington College (1981–86). He studied Arts/Law at the University of Sydney and later completed a Ph.D in art history.

Career

In late December 2002 Genocchio moved to New York to begin writing for The New York Times. In 2008 Genocchio published Dollar Dreaming, an exposé of corruption and double-dealing in the $500-million trade in Aboriginal art in Australia and abroad.

In early 2010 he became editorial director at Louise Blouin Media, and editor-in-chief of Art+Auction magazine, Modern Painters and artinfo.com. He left the post at Modern Painters in 2011.

Genocchio left Blouin Media in January 2015 and joined Artnet, where he was made editor-in-chief of Artnet News, a 24-hour art news website. He said he had resigned, but Louise Blouin said that he had been fired.

Italian government lawsuit

In April 2002, Genocchio received international attention when, as the art critic for The Australian, he was threatened with a $50-million lawsuit by the Italian government for his blunt front-page critique of a visiting exhibition of Italian old master paintings at the National Gallery of Australia, which then sued the newspaper for defamation.

Personal life

Genocchio is married to curator Melissa Chiu. The two co-authored Asian Art Now.

Publications

  • Dollar Dreaming: The Rise of the Aboriginal Art Market
  • Fiona Foley: Solitaire
  • The Art of Persuassion, Australian Art Criticism
  • Simeon Nelson, Passages
  • (ed.) What is Installation?
  • Asian Contemporary Art
  • (ed.) Contemporary Asian Art, A Critical Reader

References

  1. ABC Melbourne
  2. The Drum – ABC
  3. Newington College Register of Past Students 1863-1998 (Syd, 1999), pp. 71.
  4. Il Globo - How to fight the art hype (and win)
  5. Steve Dow, “Rising high in the art world”, The Sun Herald (Sydney, Australia), 18 July 2010, p. 8.
  6. "Art critic hopes to educate others on Aboriginal art and the people, lives behind it", Daily Bruin.
  7. "Dollar Dreaming lifts the lid on Aboriginal art industry", Courier Mail.
  8. Louin Artinfo
  9. "Benjamin Genocchio To Lead Art Net's Global Art Market Newswire: Artnet News". Media Wired Daily. January 2014.
  10. Vogel, Carol (12 December 2013). "Artnet Plans More News". The New York Times.
  11. Kelly, Keith J. (11 February 2014). "Blouin Media loses staff to rival art startup". New York Post.
  12. Artnet - Lawsuit threatened for art critic
  13. ABC Melbourne
  14. "Melissa Chiu Named Head of Hirshhorn Museum". Artnet.com. 15 June 2014. Retrieved 11 August 2015.
  15. "Hiroshi Sugimoto in Conversation with Melissa Chiu". http://asiasociety.org/. Retrieved 11 August 2015. {{cite web}}: External link in |publisher= (help)
  16. "Dollar Dreaming", National Library of Australia (NLA) Catalogue
  17. "Fiona Foley: solitaire", National Library of Australia Catalogue
  18. University of Illinois Press - What is Installation

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