Emily Wei Rales

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Emily Wei Rales
Emily Wei Rales in 2018
Emily Wei Rales at the dedication of Glenstone in 2018
Born1976
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Other namesEmily Wei
Alma materWellesley College
OccupationCurator
OrganizationGlenstone
Spouse(s)
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(m. 2008)​

Emily Wei Rales is a Canadian-born art curator. Rales is the director and chief curator of Glenstone, a museum she maintains along with her husband, Mitchell Rales.[1][2]

Early life[]

Rales was born as Emily Wei in Vancouver, British Columbia. Rales's parents are Chinese immigrants.

Education[]

Rales became interested in art while studying at Wellesley College, eventually graduating as an art history and Chinese studies major.

Career[]

Rales's art career began as an intern at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Rales then worked at Barbara Gladstone's gallery and the J.J. Lally & Co gallery in New York, where she specialized in Chinese antiquities. Rales also ran a small non-profit called "Hudson Clearing", which produced small exhibitions in temporary spaces.[3]

Personal life[]

Rales was introduced to Mitchell Rales in 2005, and began to work for him soon after they began dating. They married in 2008, and reside at their home on the campus of Glenstone in Potomac, Maryland.[4]

Rales's approach to curation is deliberate, methodical, and well-researched. She told The Wall Street Journal in 2017 that she "believe[s] in connoisseurship...there is a way to differentiate between good, better, and best."[3]

As of 2020, Rales is a director of the New York non-profit Foundation for Contemporary Arts.[5]

References[]

  1. ^ Sussman, Anna Louie (25 September 2018). "Inside the $200 Million Expansion of America's New Must-See Museum". Artsy. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
  2. ^ Moynihan, Colin (6 September 2018). "Contractor Sues Glenstone Museum Foundation for $24 Million". The New York Times. Retrieved 8 March 2019.
  3. ^ a b Lipsky-Karasz, Elisa (2017-11-29). "The Most Influential Art Collectors You've Never Heard Of". Wall Street Journal Magazine. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2019-03-11.
  4. ^ Edgers, Geoff (2018-09-24). "Meet the very wealthy, very private couple behind Washington's most original museum". Washington Post Magazine. Retrieved 2019-03-10.
  5. ^ "ARTnews in Brief: Foundation for Contemporary Arts Establishes New Painting Prize Named for Helen Frankenthaler—and More from January 6, 2020". ARTnews.com. 2020-01-06. Retrieved 2020-01-07.

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