The Museum of Fine Arts,Houston (MFAH),is an art museum located in the Houston Museum District of Houston,Texas. With the recent completion of an eight-year campus redevelopment project,including the opening of the Nancy and Rich Kinder Building in 2020,it is the 12th largest art museum in the world based on square feet of gallery space. The permanent collection of the museum spans more than 6,000 years of history with approximately 70,000 works from six continents.
David Kehr is an American museum curator and film critic. For many years a critic at the Chicago Reader and the Chicago Tribune, he later wrote a weekly column for The New York Times on DVD releases. He later became a curator within the department of film at the Museum of Modern Art.
Matthew D. Teitelbaum is a Canadian art historian,who is currently the director of Museum of Fine Arts in Boston,Massachusetts.
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.
Mahrukh Tarapor is an Indian museum professional and art consultant,known for her scholarship in museum art,especially Islamic art. She was honoured by the Government of India,in 2013,by bestowing on her the Padma Shri,the fourth highest civilian award,for her contributions to the field of art.
Edgar Joseph Munhall was an American art historian and Curator Emeritus of the Frick Collection.
The Vow of Louis XIII is an 1824 painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres,now in Montauban Cathedral. The oil painting shows a vow to the Virgin Mary by Louis XIII of France.
Anne Litle Poulet is a retired American art historian. Poulet is an expert in the area of French art,particularly sculpture. In her career,she organized two major monographic exhibitions on the French sculptors Clodion and Jean-Antoine Houdon,respectively.
Philippe Vergne is a French curator who has been serving as director of the Serralves Contemporary Art Museum since 2019.
Elizabeth A. T. Smith is an American art historian,museum curator,writer,and presently the executive director of the Helen Frankenthaler Foundation. She has formerly held positions as a curator at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA),the chief curator and deputy director of programs at the Museum of Contemporary Art,Chicago,and the executive director,curatorial affairs,at the Art Gallery of Ontario. She is the author of numerous books on art and architecture,including Blueprints for Modern Living:History and Legacy of the Case Study Houses;Lee Bontecou:A Retrospective,Helen Frankenthaler:Composing with Color,1962–63,and many others.
Jennifer Iris Rachel Montagu is a British art historian with emphasis in the study of Italian Baroque sculpture.
Charlotte Nalle Eyerman is an American museum director and curator and expert in 19th century French art. She was appointed Director and Chief Curator of the JPMorgan Chase art collection in 2017. She is a member of the board of trustees at Accountability Lab. Eyerman has also served as Director and chief executive officer of the Monterey Museum of Art (2010–2013),and as Director of the Gagosian Gallery,Beverly Hills.
Joseph J. Rishel was a curator at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and a specialist in the art of Paul Cézanne. He retired in May 2016 and was a curator emeritus of European Painting.
Olivier MeslayOAL is a Moroccan-born French art historian and curator. A scholar of British art,Meslay is the fifth director of the Clark Art Institute.
Quentin Bajac is a French museum curator and art historian specialising in the history of photography. He is the director of the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris.
Sir John Leighton is a British art historian,curator and museum director. He is currently Director-General of the National Galleries of Scotland.
Katharine Lee Reid was an American art historian,curator,and museum director. She was a director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and the Cleveland Museum of Art and deputy director of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Richard Robson "Rick" Brettell was an American art historian and museum director recognized for his transformative impact on the arts in Dallas,Texas. Noted for his prowess as a curator,fundraiser,and institution-builder,he was hailed in the Dallas Morning News as a "rainmaker extraordinaire" and "the most culturally 'important' man in Dallas."
Tim Griffin is an American writer,curator and former editor. He served as the director and chief curator of the Kitchen. He was editor-in-chief of Artforum from 2003 to 2010.
