David Zwirner - 2024 ACF Nationals

Question

In 1967, this art dealer’s father co-founded Art Cologne, the oldest contemporary art fair in the world. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this German art dealer whose empire now rivals Larry Gagosian’s. In 2023, he launched an LA gallery with an exhibition of photo-transfered paintings by the Nigerian artist Njideka (“in-jee-DAY-kuh”) Akunyili Crosby.

ANSWER: David Zwirner [accept David Zwirner Gallery]

[10e] Zwirner’s gallery in Chelsea, Manhattan, is near this museum, which hosts a prominent biennial and was founded by a Vanderbilt family patron.

ANSWER: Whitney Museum [or The Whitney; or Whitney Museum of American Art; accept Whitney Biennial; accept Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney]

[10m] Zwirner also has an art gallery in this city, which hosts a museum of visual culture called M+ and the first White Cube gallery outside London. Norman Foster designed a bank in this city with exposed suspension trusses and maintenance cranes that look like cannons.

ANSWER: Hong Kong [or HK, Xiānggǎng, Hoeng gong, Hionggong, or Hēunggóng] (Foster designed the HSBC Building.)

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Summary


2024 ACF Nationals	2024-04-21	Y	20	11.00	70%	35%	5%

Data


Cornell B	Arizona State	0	0	0	0
Berkeley B	Virginia	0	0	10	10
Chicago C	Brown	0	0	0	0
Illinois	Columbia A	0	10	0	10
Waterloo	Columbia B	0	10	10	20
Cornell A	Chicago D	0	10	10	20
NYU	Duke	10	10	10	30
WUSTL B	Georgia Tech	0	10	0	10
Johns Hopkins	Harvard	0	10	10	20
Iowa State	Kentucky	0	10	0	10
North Carolina B	Michigan	0	10	0	10
Minnesota A	Claremont Colleges	0	10	0	10
Rutgers	Minnesota B	0	10	10	20
North Carolina A	Indiana	0	10	0	10
McGill	Ottawa	0	0	0	0
Stanford	Penn	0	10	0	10
Northwestern	Vanderbilt	0	10	0	10
WUSTL A	Chicago B	0	0	10	10
Yale A	Chicago A	0	10	0	10
Yale B	Purdue	0	0	0	0