Amy Cappellazzo
CO-FOUNDER, ART INTELLIGENCE GLOBAL
WHAT’S ONE BOOK, WORK OF ART, ALBUM, OR FILM THAT GOT YOU THROUGH AN IMPORTANT MOMENT IN YOUR LIFE?
The Woman Destroyed by Simone de Beauvoir and Sula by Toni Morrison helped frame gender early on. Albert Camus’s The Stranger and Joan Didion’s Slouching Towards Bethlehem helped me understand the aesthetic direction of the modern world. Pier Paolo Pasolini’s films, especially Accattone and Comizi d’Amore, helped me understand the range of being Italian.
WHAT’S SOMETHING PEOPLE GET WRONG ABOUT YOU?
That I’m only interested in the high end of the art market.
“Young women starting out in the industry often tell me I am a role model for them. I’m probably not deserving of this accolade, but I’m flattered by it. Recently, I heard this from a young man, and that was good, too.”
WHAT DO YOU THINK IS YOUR BIGGEST CONTRIBUTION TO CULTURE?
Young women starting out in the industry often tell me I am a role model for them. I’m probably not deserving of this accolade, but I’m flattered by it. Recently, I heard this from a young man, and that was good, too.
NAME AN INFLUENCE OF YOURS THAT MIGHT SURPRISE PEOPLE.
Despite our occasional screaming matches on the telephone over the years, Larry Gagosian has really transformed our industry. Not everyone has welcomed this change—the art world is no longer a quaint, rarefied, clubby world. But the disruption was inevitable and Larry has really been a renegade. He has conjured bravery in me at times.
in your life?
