{"id":275545,"date":"2025-10-03T21:34:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T21:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/275545\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T21:34:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T21:34:16","slug":"white-cube-appoints-jessie-washburne-harris-as-global-director-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/275545\/","title":{"rendered":"White Cube Appoints Jessie Washburne-Harris as Global Director in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/t\/white-cube\/\" id=\"auto-tag_white-cube\" data-tag=\"white-cube\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">White Cube<\/a> has appointed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/t\/jessie-washburne-harris\/\" id=\"auto-tag_jessie-washburne-harris\" data-tag=\"jessie-washburne-harris\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jessie Washburne-Harris<\/a> as a global director, strengthening its senior leadership in the United States. She will be based in New York and formally takes up the role in October 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWashburne-Harris arrives from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/t\/pace\/\" id=\"auto-tag_pace\" data-tag=\"pace\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pace<\/a> Gallery, where she served as senior vice president, and brings experience from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/t\/marian-goodman\/\" id=\"auto-tag_marian-goodman\" data-tag=\"marian-goodman\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marian Goodman<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artnews.com\/t\/gagosian\/\" id=\"auto-tag_gagosian\" data-tag=\"gagosian\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gagosian<\/a>, Petzel, and Sotheby\u2019s. She also cofounded the gallery Harris Lieberman. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tHer appointment coincides with the two-year anniversary of White Cube\u2019s first permanent New York space, located in a former 1930s bank on the Upper East Side. Since opening in 2023, the gallery has staged exhibitions there for Tracey Emin, Theaster Gates, Antony Gormley, Ilana Savdie, and others.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tRelated Articles<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-lazy-image__img lrv-u-background-color-grey-lightest lrv-u-width-100p lrv-u-display-block lrv-u-height-auto\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GettyImages-2188941601.jpg\" data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/GettyImages-2188941601.jpg\" alt=\"View of a fireworks display of mostly orange and yellow against a grey sky.\" data-lazy- data-lazy- height=\"\" width=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\t\u201cWhite Cube played a pivotal role in shaping an entire art movement in the 1990s, something few commercial galleries can claim as part of their DNA,\u201d Washburne-Harris said in an email. \u201cI feel like this legacy continues to define how the gallery operates today: artist-centered, fostering experimentation, and creating the conditions where art history is made.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWhite Cube chief executive Sam Johnson described the hire as part of a long-term US strategy. \u201cThe US has always been at the core of White Cube\u2019s global outlook,\u201d Johnson said, adding that \u201cthis is the right moment to deepen our leadership capacity in the US.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tFounded in London in 1993, White Cube has expanded across three continents, with spaces in London, Paris, Hong Kong, and Seoul in addition to the New York one. The gallery seemed to indicate that it was doubling down on its US focus this month when it participated in the Armory Show for the first time in more than three decades, devoting its booth to the Croatian duo TARWUK. White Cube will also take part in Art Basel Miami Beach in December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ a-font-body-m     \">\n\tUpcoming programming at White Cube New York includes a Sylvia Snowden show opening in November and a Marguerite Humeau show opening in January.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"White Cube has appointed Jessie Washburne-Harris as a global director, strengthening its senior leadership in the United States.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":275546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[648,1032,1033,171,142515,142516,142517,38430,67,132,68,139033],"class_list":{"0":"post-275545","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-design","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-gagosian","13":"tag-jessie-washburne-harris","14":"tag-marian-goodman","15":"tag-pace","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us","19":"tag-white-cube"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115312385411500891","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=275545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/275545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/275546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=275545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=275545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=275545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}