Aimee Ng

Last updated
Aimee Ng
Alma mater
Occupation Art curator
Employer Frick Collection

Aimee Ng is a specialist in Italian Renaissance art, curator at The Frick Collection, writer and podcaster.

Contents

Career

Ng is a curator at The Frick Collection specializing in Italian Renaissance art. [1] [2] She graduated from the Queen's University at Kingston, and received her PhD in art history from the Columbia University. [3] Prior to her curatorial career, she worked for the Morgan Library and Museum and was a lecturer on art history at Columbia University. [4] [5] Her curatorial debut was as a guest curator of the exhibition "The Poetry of Parmigianino's 'Schava Turca'" at the Frick Collection in 2016. She was later appointed by the museum as an associate curator and subsequently as a curator. [6] Along with Chief Curator Xavier F. Salomon, Ng oversaw the 2021 installation of the collection at the Frick Madison. [7] [8] [9]

She is a contributor to The Brooklyn Rail , writing mainly about old master paintings. [10]

Cocktails with a Curator and Travels with a Curator

From April 2020 to July 2021, [11] Ng co-hosted the online program "Cocktails with a Curator" with chief curator Xavier F. Salomon, which examined artwork at the Frick. [12] [13] [14] In this program, they provided virtual museum tours and lectures, while drinking cocktails. [14] [13] [15] [16] [17] The Wall Street Journal characterized the program as "immensely popular" and "reaching an enormous audience". [18] The program had 66 episodes, which are available on YouTube. [19] Jason Farago of The New York Times wrote that their show "became appointment viewing at Friday martini hour". [14] In 2021, Cocktails with a Curator was named an Honoree in the 25th Annual Webby Awards from the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences for Best Virtual & Remote Experiences: Arts & Culture and jointly awarded a Global Fine Arts Award for Best Digital Exhibition or Online Education Program. [20]

Ng also co-hosted "Travels with a Curator", [12] [13] which had 20 episodes and ran from April 2020 to September 2020. They are also available on YouTube. [21]

In 2022, the book Cocktails with a Curator, by Salomon with Ng and assistant curator of sculpture Giulio Dalvit, was published by Rizzoli Electra. [22]

Publications

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Frick Collection</span> Art museum in New York City

The Frick Collection is an art museum on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. Established in 1935 to preserve the art collection of the industrialist Henry Clay Frick (1849–1919), the museum consists of European paintings from the 14th to the 19th centuries, as well as European fine and decorative arts. The museum is located at the Henry Clay Frick House, a Beaux-Arts mansion designed for Henry Clay Frick. The Frick also houses the Frick Art Reference Library, an art history research center established by Frick's daughter Helen Clay Frick in 1920, which contains sales catalogs, books, periodicals, and photographs.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Giovanni Battista Moroni</span> Italian painter

Giovanni Battista Moroni was an Italian painter of the Mannerism. He also is called Giambattista Moroni. Best known for his elegantly realistic portraits of the local nobility and clergy, he is considered one of the great portrait painters of the Cinquecento.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Carnegie Museum of Art</span> Art museum in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

The Carnegie Museum of Art is an art museum in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The museum was originally known as the Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute and was formerly located at what is now the Main Branch of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. The museum's first gallery was opened for public use on November 5, 1895. Over the years, the gallery vastly increased in size, with a new building on Forbes Avenue built in 1907. In 1963, the name was officially changed to Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute. The size of the gallery has tripled over time, and it was officially renamed in 1986 to "Carnegie Museum of Art" to indicate it clearly as one of the four Carnegie Museums.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Haus der Kunst</span> Art museum in Munich, Germany

The Haus der Kunst is a museum for modern and contemporary art in Munich, Bavaria. It is located at Prinzregentenstraße 1 at the southern edge of the Englischer Garten, Munich's largest park.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Frick Art Reference Library</span> Research library for Western art history

The Frick Art Reference Library is the research arm of the Frick Collection. It is typically located at 10 East 71st Street on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. As of 2021, the library's reference services have temporarily relocated to 945 Madison Avenue.

<i>The Brooklyn Rail</i> Journal of arts, culture and politics

The Brooklyn Rail is a publication and platform for the arts, culture, humanities, and politics. The Rail is based in Brooklyn, New York. It features in-depth critical essays, fiction, poetry, as well as interviews with artists, critics, and curators, and reviews of art, music, dance, film, books, and theater.

Thomas Patrick Campbell is the director and CEO of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, overseeing the de Young and Legion of Honor museums. He served as the director and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art between 2009 and 2017. On 30 June 2017, Campbell stepped down as director and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art under pressure and accepted the Getty Foundation's Rothschild Fellowship for research and study at both the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles and at Waddesdon Manor, in the UK.

<i>The Polish Rider</i> Painting by Rembrandt

The Polish Rider is a seventeenth-century painting, usually dated to the 1650s, of a young man traveling on horseback through a murky landscape, now in The Frick Collection in New York. When the painting was sold by Zdzisław Tarnowski to Henry Frick in 1910, there was consensus that the work was by the Dutch painter Rembrandt. This attribution has since been contested, though those who contest it remain in the minority.

<i>Portrait of Philip IV in Fraga</i> 1644 painting by Velázquez

The Portrait of Philip IV in Fraga is a mid-length portrait of Philip IV of Spain by Velázquez. It was painted over the course of three sessions in June 1644 in Fraga, where Philip IV had moved the royal court as part of the "Jornada de Aragón" which resulted in the recovery of Lérida from France, which had occupied the city earlier during the Reapers' War. The portrait was gifted by Philip V to his son, the future Philip, Duke of Parma, and the painting left Spain along with him in 1748. In 1911 it was acquired by the Frick Collection, where it is currently on display.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Janet Cox-Rearick</span> American art historian (1930–2018)

Janet Cox-Rearick was an American art historian, Distinguished Professor of Art History at the City University of New York.

Colin Barry Bailey is a British art historian and museum director. Bailey is currently the Director of the Morgan Library & Museum in New York City. He is a scholar of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French art, specifically on the artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

Edgar Joseph Munhall was an American art historian and Curator Emeritus of the Frick Collection.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Met Breuer</span> Defunct art museum in New York City

The Met Breuer was a museum of modern and contemporary art at Madison Avenue and East 75th Street in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. It served as a branch museum of the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 2016 to 2020.

Stephen K. Scher is an American art historian and the former chairman of the art department, Brown University. He is a leading collector of portrait medals and in 2016 announced the gift of his collection to the Frick Collection.

Xavier F. Salomon is a British art critic and both Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator at the Frick Collection in New York.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">945 Madison Avenue</span> Museum building in New York City

945 Madison Avenue, also known as the Breuer Building, is a museum building in the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. The Marcel Breuer-designed structure was built to house the Whitney Museum of American Art; it subsequently held a branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art followed by the temporary quarters to the Frick Collection. In 2024 the Frick will relocate and the building will become headquarters to the international auction house Sotheby's.

Salman Toor is a Pakistani painter based in the United States. His works depict the imagined lives of young men of South Asian-birth, displayed in close range in either South Asia and New York City fantasized settings. Toor lives and works in New York City.

<i>Portrait of a Man in a Red Cap</i> Painting by Titian

Portrait of a Man in a Red Cap, also known as Man with a Red Cap, is an oil painting by the Venetian painter Titian, made in about 1516. It is part of the Frick Collection in New York City.

Charles Simonds is an American contemporary artist and sculptor based in New York. He is best known for his sculptural series titled Dwellings, small clay constructions the artist has been installing in buildings across the world since the 1970s.

References

  1. ↑ "Aimee Ng". The Frick Collection. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
  2. ↑ Libbey, Peter (July 25, 2018). "Unheralded Renaissance Painter to Have Major Exhibition at the Frick". The New York Times . Retrieved 24 February 2021.
  3. ↑ Stein, Sadie (2014-05-16). "From Her Palace". The Paris Review . Retrieved 2021-02-10.
  4. ↑ "Aimee Ng (BFA '05) | Fine Art (Visual Art) Program". Queen's University. Retrieved 2021-10-01.
  5. ↑ "Weekly Shuffle: Changes at Frieze and More". artnet News . 2014-09-30. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
  6. ↑ Miller, M.H. (2014-09-16). "Frick Names Aimee Ng Associate Curator". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
  7. ↑ Yablonsky, Linda (March 17, 2021). "Beauty in the Brutalist beast: a critic's view of the Frick Madison". The Art Newspaper . Retrieved 28 August 2021.
  8. ↑ "The Frick to Reopen in Early 2021 at 'Frick Madison'". ArtfixDaily. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
  9. ↑ "Frick Collection opens in Marcel Breuer-designed temporary new home, Frick Madison" Archinect News. Retrieved 5 May 2021.
  10. ↑ Ng, Aimee (2020-10-06). "Embarrassment of Edges". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 2021-02-10.
  11. ↑ "Final YouTube Episode," July 16, 2021
  12. 1 2 Wilkin, Karen (July 4, 2020). "The Staying Inside Guide: Raise a Glass to Art History". The Wall Street Journal .
  13. 1 2 3 Marius, Marley (May 1, 2020). "How Art Galleries and Museums Are Bringing Their Collections to Virtual Audiences". Vogue . Retrieved 24 February 2021.
  14. 1 2 3 Farago, Jason (February 25, 2021). "The Frick Savors the Opulence of Emptiness". The New York Times. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
  15. ↑ Smee, Sebastian (May 6, 2020). "4 portals to creative greatness — all from the comfort of your couch". The Washington Post . Retrieved 24 February 2021.
  16. ↑ "Keep calm during Covid, Museums and meditation at home". Artblog. 2020-05-20. Retrieved 2021-02-11.
  17. ↑ Litt, Steven (January 17, 2021). "Leery about visiting galleries, museums, in a pandemic? Check out online possibilities recommended by local arts leaders". Cleveland.com. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
  18. ↑ Wilkin, Karen (2020-12-13). "How Art Lovers Weathered the Coronavirus Pandemic in 2020". Wall Street Journal. ISSN   0099-9660 . Retrieved 2021-02-10.
  19. ↑ "Cocktails with a Curator". YouTube. The Frick Collection. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
  20. ↑ "Frick's Cocktails with a Curator Honored by the Webby Awards and Global Fine Arts Awards". Arts & Architecture Quarterly. May 21, 2021. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
  21. ↑ "Travels with a Curator". The Frick Collection. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
  22. ↑ Ajudua, Christine (October 14, 2022). "Bottoms Up, Bronzino! The Frick Has a New Book Pairing Classic Cocktails With Masterpieces From Its Collection". ArtNet . Retrieved 12 December 2022.
  23. ↑ Editorial Staff (January 28, 2021). "Constable's 'White Horse' Subject of Latest Frick Book". New York Almanack. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
  24. ↑ Bailey, Colin B. (May 13, 2021). "Masterpieces Unmediated". The New York Review of Books . Retrieved 28 August 2021.
  25. ↑ Schaap, Rosie (December 2, 2022). "Excuse Me, What Cocktail Would You Suggest With This Monet?". The New York Times . Retrieved 12 December 2022.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.