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Victoria Lautman | |
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| Education | George Washington University University of New Mexico Merton College at Oxford University |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, writer, and lecturer |
Victoria Lautman is an American journalist, writer, and lecturer. Her work focuses on Indian art and culture.
Lautman received a master's degree in Art History from George Washington University and a bachelor's degree in Anthropology and Art History from the University of New Mexico. [1] She attended Merton College at Oxford University for archaeological field training. [2] [ better source needed ]
Following graduate school, Lautman was employed by the Smithsonian Institution's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. [3] Lautman started her career as a weekly arts reviewer in 1984 on WBEZ, a National Public Radio outlet in Chicago. During the next two decades, she founded and published a long-running arts and culture magazine, Artistic License, and then went on to be an interviewer and contributor to the station. [4] In 2004, she moved to WFMT radio and created the Chicago author-interview series, Writers on the Record with Victoria Lautman, with authors. [5] Lautman's interviews with Jonathan Lethem, Lady Antonia Fraser, Amitav Ghosh, and others have also been heard at the Chicago Humanities Festival. [6]
As a print journalist, Lautman has written for a wide array of publications and was formerly the Chicago editor for the magazines Metropolitan Home, Art+Auction , Architectural Record, and House & Garden. [7]
Lautman produced the collection of research culminated in the release of The Vanishing Stepwells of India (with Divay Gupta) by Merrell Publishers in 2017. [8]
Subsequent exhibitions of her stepwell photographs were mounted at the Fowler Museum at UCLA in 2019 and at the RMIT University Gallery in Melbourne in 2018. [9] Lautman has lectured widely on the topic throughout the United States and India. [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15]
Lautman's earlier non-fiction book, The New Tattoo, was published by Abbeville Press in 1994 and included photography by Vicki Berndt. [16]
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