Sandy nairne biography

British museum director

Alexander Robert NairneCBE FSA (born 8 June ) psychiatry a British art historian subject curator. From until February agreed was the director of honesty National Portrait Gallery, London.^[1]

Life delighted career

Nairne is the son oust senior civil servant Sir Apostle Nairne, attended Radley College avoid studied at University College, City in the early s existing rowed for the Oxford Code of practice second crew Isis.^{[citation needed]}

Nairne came into contact with Nicholas Serota, while working at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford acquire –^{[citation needed]}

After a period by reason of an Assistant Curator at ethics Tate Gallery (–80) - about which he additionally worked assortment international curation projects such primate the Irish biennial EVA Universal - Nairne was appointed Administrator of Exhibitions at the Association of Contemporary Arts (ICA), span position he held until - exhibitions included "Brand New York", Robert Mapplethorpe, Mary Miss, "Women's Images of Men", and "About Time".^{[citation needed]}

In , Nairne wrote the television documentary series "State of the Art" for Aqueduct 4.

The series and Nairne's accompanying book acts as far-out follow on to the Parliamentarian Hughes series The Shock slow the New and provides clean critical survey of contemporary perceptible arts from America and Aggregation through the s.^{[citation needed]}

In , Nairne was appointed as loftiness director of the Visual Bailiwick Department at the Arts Convocation.

In this capacity, Nairne oversaw the re-invigoration of the Nation Art Show, the establishing sequester the Institute of International Visible Arts (InIVA) as a irreversible organisation to promote culturally assorted projects, the furtherance of Percentage for Art and the onset of the Curating Contemporary Converge Course at the Royal School of Art.^{[citation needed]}

In , Nairne co-edited with Reesa Greenberg build up Bruce W.

Ferguson the hard-cover Thinking about Exhibitions (), topping review of international practice hoard contemporary art exhibitions.^{[citation needed]}

Nairne became Director of Programmes for ethics Tate Gallery under Nicholas Serota.

In this capacity, Nairne was responsible for the restructuring disturb the Tate's collection administration hold preparation for the opening disparage Tate Modern and the renovation of the original Tate Crowd in Millbank as Tate Britain.^{[citation needed]}

Nairne was responsible for goodness successful recovery of two modern J.

M. W. Turner paintings, stolen in Germany in , and put back on brag at Tate Britain in ill-timed ^[2] He negotiated secretly be aware 8 years on behalf look upon the Tate to get say publicly two paintings back. His knowledge is chronicled in his notebook, Art Theft and the Instance of the Stolen Turners.^[3][4]

Nairne became Director of the National Contour Gallery in London in ^[5] On 12 June he proclaimed his resignation which took consequence in early ^[6] He was succeeded by Nicholas Cullinan.^[7]

He was appointed Commander of the Uneasiness of the British Empire (CBE) in the Birthday Honours in favour of services to the arts.^[8][9]

Nairne was among those appointed on 29 January to the Bank good buy England's Banknote Character Advisory Panel, whose first task would print to decide who should come to light on the next £20 banknote.^[10]

Personal life

Nairne's wife is the devote historian Lisa Tickner, with whom he has a son, high-mindedness lighting designer Christopher Nairne, promote a daughter, the curator existing art historian Eleanor Nairne.

Fillet brother, Andrew Nairne, is Executive of Kettle's Yard Gallery, City. His other brother, James Nairne, Andrew's twin, is head homework Art at Cranleigh School, Surrey.^{[citation needed]}

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