Karol Wight | |
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 Wight at the Italy-U.S. Memorandum of Understanding Fifteen Years of Heritage Protection and Cultural Cooperation, 2016 | |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of California Los Angeles |
| Occupation(s) | Art historian, museum director |
| Known for | Glass art and artifacts |
Karol B. Wight is a museum administrator and is currently the president and executive director of The Corning Museum of Glass. She specializes in the field of ancient glass.
Wight received her PhD from the University of California Los Angeles in art history. [1] Her doctoral thesis was on the topic of "Mythological beakers and Roman glass production in the first century A.D." [2]
In 2011, Wight was appointed executive director of The Corning Museum of Glass, a museum with a collection of 45,000 glass objects that represent the history, science and art of glass. In 2015 she was appointed president and executive director of the museum. [3] [1] Prior to this appointment, she was senior curator of antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Malibu, California. [3] She is also curator of ancient and Islamic glass at the museum. [4] Prior to that she held the position of senior curator of antiquities at the J. Paul Getty Museum's Getty Villa in Malibu, California. Over a period of 26 years she held various positions at the Getty. [1]
In 2017, President Barack Obama appointed Wight to an advisory post on the Cultural Property Advisory Committee of the U.S. Department of State. [5]
Wight has published articles [6] and books on ancient glass objects and glass making techniques. [7] Among them are the book, Molten color: glassmaking in antiquity. [8]
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Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule III was an American scholar of ancient art and curator of classical art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, from 1957 to 1996. He was also well known as a numismatist. He also used the pseudonyms Wentworth Bunsen, Isao Tsukinabe and Northwold Nuffler.
The Corning Museum of Glass is a museum in Corning, New York in the United States, dedicated to the art, history, and science of glass. It was founded in 1951 by Corning Glass Works and currently has a collection of more than 50,000 glass objects, some over 3,500 years old.
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Marion True was the former curator of antiquities for the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California. True was indicted on April 1, 2005 by an Italian court, on criminal charges accusing her of participating in a conspiracy that laundered stolen artifacts through private collections and creating a fake paper trail; the Greeks later followed suit. The trial brought to light many questions about museum administration, repatriation, and ethics.
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Dr Robert Brill is in the field of archaeological science, best known for his work on the chemical analysis of ancient glass. Born in the United States of America in 1929, Brill attended West Side High School in Newark, New Jersey, before going on to study for his B.S. degree at Upsala College. Having completed his Ph.D. in physical chemistry at Rutgers University in 1954, Brill returned to Upsala College to teach chemistry. In 1960, he joined the staff of the Corning Museum of Glass as their second research scientist
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