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The
panel will be moderated by Alex Lewin, Artistic Associate of NYTW.
A Discussion of the Significance of The David and its Restoration
Ian
Wardropper
Iris and B.
Gerald Cantor Chairman of the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative
Arts at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Ian Wardropper heads this department
of nine curators who supervise sixty galleries and 60,000 objects from
the Renaissance to the beginning of Modernism. After completing his
Ph.D. at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, he was curator
and later head of the department of European Decorative Arts, and Sculpture,
and Ancient Art at The Art Institute of Chicago for nineteen years,
until returning to New York in 2001. He has organized over twenty exhibitions
in his specialties of European sculpture, earlier decorative arts, and
twentieth-century design and decorative arts. He has taught art history
at six universities and published numerous books, catalogues, and articles.
David Drogin
David Drogin
is a professor in the History of Art Department at the State University
of New York, F.I.T., having previously taught at Yale and Wesleyan University.
Dr. Drogin received his BA in Art History from Wesleyan and his MA and
PhD in the same field from Harvard. A specialist in Italian Renaissance
art, Dr. Drogin focuses primarily on northern and central Italy in the
fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with a particular interest in sculpture
and in patronage practices. Dr. Drogin lectures regularly at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, and his publications include a survey of Bolognese art
in "Northern Court Cities of Italy" (Cambridge University
Press, 2010); he is also editor of "Patronage and Italian Renaissance
Sculpture" (forthcoming, Ashgate Press, 2010), to which he also
contributed a chapter. Dr. Drogin has also written on modern and contemporary
art in such venues as "Art on Paper" and "Artforum."
Jack Soultanian
Jack Soultanian is currently a conservator at the Metropolitan Museum
of Art specializing in the examination and treatment of European sculpture,
while also acting as adjunct faculty at the Conservation Center, Institute
of Fine Arts, New York University and as a consultant conservator at
Villa La Pietra Florence. He received his undergraduate degree in Art
History from Queens College of the City University of New York and his
M.A. in the History of Art, as well as a certificate in Conservation,
from New York University. Having been honored by the French government
in naming him Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres,
he is also a Fellow of the International Institute for Conservation
and professional associate of the American Institute for Conservation.
Mr. Soultanian has worked as a consultant and conservator for over 22
fine arts institutions nationally and abroad.
Claudia
Shear
Playwright
Broadway: The Smell of the Kill (dir. Chris Ashley, Drama League
Award), Dirty Blonde (dir. James Lapine, Tony and Drama Desk
Nominations for Best Play and Best Actress, Drama League Award, Theatre
World Award). London: Chicago, Who’s The Daddy?, Dirty
Blonde. Off-Broadway: Blown Sideways Through Life (dir.
Chris Ashley, Obie Award, Drama Desk Nomination). Regional: Restoration
(La Jolla Playhouse), The Smell of the Kill (Berkshire Theatre
Festival), Dirty Blonde (Kennedy Center, Helen Hayes Award
Nominations for Best Play and Best Actress), End of the Day
(Williamstown Theatre Festival), Blown Sideways Through Life (Coronet
Theatre). Television: “Friends,” “Earthly Possessions”
(dir. James Lapine), “Blown Sideways Through Life” (dir.
Chris Ashley). Film: Blow Sideways Through Life (American Playhouse,
Rose D’Or Montreux, Comedy Festival), Living Out Loud, It
Could Happen To You, The Opportunists. Ms. Shear writes for various
publications, including The New York Times, New York magazine,
Vogue and Travel & Leisure. Claudia is a member of
the Sundance Screenwriters Lab, NYTW’s Usual Suspects and The
Dramatists Guild.
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