Author: MuseumViews

The Life of the House: How Rooms Evolve, Lady Henrietta Churchill

Lady Henrietta Spencer-Churchill is not your average European aristocrat whose mere presence entices people to open up their pockets to make charitable contributions. She is one of the leading, and exceptionally talented, interior designers in the world. In a field that is populated with individuals whose primary professional pedigree is their ability to hold entertaining […]

The Oxford Don-Keys – A Tale of Middle Eastern Corruption in the Heart of Academia

American art historian and museologist Homa Taj Nasab began her doctoral research at the Oriental Institute, University of Oxford, in 2004. Prior to joining the OI, she had been awarded three graduate degrees from Harvard University (Extension), Courtauld Institute of Art and the Department of History of Art at the University of Oxford… Today, Nasab, […]

Marli Guzzetta on McQueen’s Savage Beauty & Mortality & the Sublime

By Guest Contributor: Marli Guzzetta The 40-minute wait to see “Savage Beauty,” the Metropolitan Museum’s superb presentation of Alexander McQueen’s visionary genius, is proof even before seeing the exhibit that it is something remarkable. The exhibit begins with two dresses from McQueen’s VOSS collection — one crafted from ostrich feathers and glass medical slides painted red, to evoke […]

Jewish and Goyish in Berlin

Last weekend, as per the recommendation of my friend Prof. Michal Bodemann, I visitedRadical Jewish Culture at the Jewish Museum Berlin (Jüdisches Museum Berlin). In fact, I accompanied Prof. Bodemann, the author of a number of critical texts on Jewish cultural history in Germany – including Jews, Germans, Memory. Reconstructions of Jewish Life in Germany – on my first visit […]

Homa Taj on The FRICK’s Symposium on Collecting Italian Renaissance Art

On November 12th and 13th, The Frick Collection’s Center for the History of Collecting in America held its eighth symposium A Market for Merchant Princes: Collecting Italian Renaissance Paintings in America. The over-subscribed event bespoke of immense interest in the history of collecting, a burgeoning new field of study, especially in the United States. It also attested to […]

Homa Taj In Conversation with The MET’s Maryan Ainsworth on Jan Gossart’s Renaissance

I met with Dr. Maryan Ainsworth, the Curator of European Paintings at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, on the twelfth hour of my visit to her most recent exhibition which is on view until the 17th of January, 2011. No, my stay at Man, Myth, and Sensual Pleasures: Jan Gossart’s Renaissance was not an exhibitionary marathon but […]

Homa Taj In Conversation with The Mauritshuis’ Quentin Buvelot on The Van Otterloo Collection

In Conversation with Dr. Quentin Buvelot, the Senior Curator at the Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis (Het Koninklijk Kabinet van Schilderijen, in The Hague on the outstanding collection of Rose-Marie and Eijk van Otterloo. The couple, originally from the Netherlands and Belgium, has put together a magnificent collection of Dutch and Flemish Old Master paintings: all are of outstanding quality and on a […]