found: Wikpedia, September 18, 2018(Karole Vail; Karole P. B. Vail (born 1959) is an American museum director, curator and writer; since 2017, she has been the director of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice and Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation Director for Italy; prior to this appointment, she worked on the curatorial staff at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York for 20 years; Vail is the daughter of Michael Cedric Sindbad Vail (1923-1986) and Margaret "Peggy" Angela Vail (née Yeomans; died 1988); Vail grew up in Europe and spent 12 years in Florence, Italy; she received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Durham University in England and a Diploma in Art History from the New Academy for Art Studies in London; before joining the Guggenheim, Vail was an archivist and researcher at the arts publishing house Centro Di in Florence and worked as an assistant curator on independent projects; she is a co-founder and co-director of Non-Objectif Sud, a not-for-profit artist residency and exhibition program in the south of France; Vail is a member of the Guggenheim family; her great grandfather was Benjamin Guggenheim, who died in the sinking of the Titanic, and her paternal grandparents were Peggy Guggenheim and Laurence Vail, a poet and sculptor whose works are represented in the Peggy Guggenheim Collection; Solomon R. Guggenheim was her great grand uncle)
