Sandy Nairne

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Full Name	Sandy Nairne
Occupation	Historian
Date Of Birth	Jun 8, 1953(1953-06-08)
Age	71
Birthplace	England
Country	United Kingdom
Horoscope	Gemini

Sandy Nairne Biography

Sandy Nairne is one of the most popular and richest Historian who was born on June 8, 1953 in England, United Kingdom. Alexander Robert “Sandy” Nairne CBE FSA (born 8 June 1953) is an English curator and historian. From 2002 to February 2015 he was director at the National Portrait Gallery, London.

in 1987 Nairne produced the TV documentary “State of the Art” for Channel 4. The show and the accompanying book serves as a sequel to The Robert Hughes series The Shock of the New and gives an in-depth analysis of the contemporary visual art that originate from America and Europe throughout the 1980s.

Nairne was responsible for the successful recovery of two late J.M.W. Turner paintings, stolen in Germany in 1994, and put back on display at Tate Britain in early 2003. He negotiated secretly for 8 years on behalf of the Tate to get the two paintings back. His experience is chronicled in his 2011 book, Art Theft and the Case of the Stolen Turners.

In 1996, Nairne co-edited with Reesa Greenberg and Bruce W. Ferguson the book Thinking about Exhibitions (1996), a review of international practice in contemporary art exhibitions.

After a brief stint as an Assistant Curator for the Tate Gallery (1976-80) – where he was also involved on international curation projects , such those of EVA International, the Irish annual EVA International – Nairne was appointed Director of exhibitions in the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in the year 1976. This position that he held until 1984. exhibits featured comprised “Brand New York,” Robert Mapplethorpe, Mary Miss, “Women’s Images of Men,” and “About Time.”

Sandy Nairne Net Worth

Sandy Nairne is one of the richest Historian from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Sandy Nairne 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Nairne is the child of a senior civil servant, Sir Patrick Nairne, attended Radley College and then studied in University College, Oxford in the early 1970s . He also was a rower in Oxford University’s Oxford University the second team Isis.

Nairne met Nicholas Serota, while working at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford between 1974 and 1976.

In 1988, Nairne was appointed as the director of the Visual Arts Department at the Arts Council. In this capacity, Nairne oversaw the re-invigoration of the British Art Show, the establishing of the Institute of International Visual Arts (InIVA) as a permanent organisation to promote culturally diverse projects, the furtherance of Percent for Art and the creation of the Curating Contemporary Art Course at the Royal College of Art.

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Sandy Ranked on the list of most popular Historian. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Sandy Nairne celebrates birthday on June 8 of every year.