Healing Arts: Reimagining Healthcare Healing Arts at Art Basel in Basel 2024, June 12, 6:30 pm
Untitled (1986) by Keith Haring in the lobby of NYC Health + Hospitals/Woodhull. Photo by Nicholas Knight and Arts in Medicine at NYC Health + Hospitals.
Opening Remarks:
Noah Horowitz, CEO, Art Basel
Panel:
Christopher Bailey, Co-Director, Jameel Arts & Health Lab / Arts & Health Lead, WHO
Dr. Nisha Sajnani, Co-Director, Jameel Arts & Health Lab / Assoc. Professor, Steinhardt School, New York University
Stephen Stapleton, Co-Director, Jameel Arts & Health Lab / CEO, Culturunners (Moderator) Nathalie Bondil, Museum and Exhibitions Director, Institut du Monde Arabe
(Further panelist to be announced soon)
Recent evidence has uncovered the profound potential of the arts to help us live longer, fuller, and healthier lives. This milestone conversation brings together artists, gallerists, researchers and policymakers to explore the transformative potential of artistic expression to improve our physical, mental and social health and wellbeing. This event marks the launch of a global healing arts initiative between the Jameel Arts & Health Lab, and the World Health Organization at Art Basel in Basel 2024.
Noah Horowitz returned to Art Basel as CEO on November 7, 2022, having held the post of Director Americas from 2015 to 2021. He joined the organization from Sotheby’s where he served as Worldwide Head of Gallery & Private Dealer Services. In this capacity, he steered Sotheby’s business strategy and managed relationships with the international dealer community. Previously, he held a four-year tenure as Executive Director of The Armory Show in New York, after directing the first ever online-only fair, VIP Art Fair, from 2010 to 2011. He has a PhD in art history from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, and is the author of Art of the Deal: Contemporary Art in a Global Financial Market (Princeton University Press, 2011). His writings and commentary on art and economics have appeared in publications including The New York Times, Financial Times, Texte zur Kunst, and The Art Newspaper, among others. Horowitz is a member of the Manhattan Chapter of Young Presidents Organization, and lives in New York City with his wife, Louise, and children, Sif and Leo.
Christopher Bailey is the Arts & Health Lead at WHO Headquarters and Founding Co-Director of the Jameel Arts & Health Lab. Educated at Columbia and Oxford Universities and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, after a career as a professional actor and playwright, Christopher joined the Rockefeller Foundation as its Research Manager. From there he was recruited by WHO, where he led its health informatics work, and later its online communications team, before starting the Arts & Health programme. Bailey has performed original pieces such as Stage 4: Cancer and the Imagination, and The Vanishing Point: A journey into Blindness and Perception. The message of his work is to amplify the WHO definition of health, which states
that health is not merely the absence of disease and infirmity but the attainment of the highest level of physical, mental, and social wellbeing.
Dr. Nisha Sajnani is and Associate Professor and Director of the NYU Program in Drama Therapy, Chair of the Creative Arts Therapies Consortium at NYU Steinhardt, founder of the Arts + Health @ NYU and a founding Co-Director of the Jameel Arts & Health Lab where she co-leads the Lancet Global Series on the Health Benefits of the Arts together with Nils Fietje, Technical Officer, WHO Europe.
Stephen Stapleton is a British-Norwegian artist and social entrepreneur working at the intersection of culture, education, and international diplomacy. Following an artist road trip across the Middle East in the aftermath of 9/11, Stephen founded Edge of Arabia as a platform for creative collaboration between the Middle East, Europe and the United States; and in 2015, launched Culturunners at MIT to develop artists-led initiatives that accelerate implementation of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. In 2023, Stephen co-founded the Jameel Arts & Health Lab in collaboration with the World Health Organization, New York University, and Community Jameel.
The Healing Arts panel discussion will take place in the Auditorium, Hall 1 ground floor. Book your free place here.
This panel discussion is free and open to the public, booking is recommended. Doors will open 10 min before the event.
Please save the event to your calendar to receive a reminder and access your free ticket on the Art Basel app. You are also welcome to join on a first come first serve basis onsite.
After the event, a recording of the Healing Arts panel discussion will be available on Art Basel’s website here and their YouTube channel here. Art Basel can be found on Instagram, X, Facebook, more information about Hauser & Wirth, please visit their site. The gallery can also be found on Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, and X.
