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Mariet Westermann’s Dickey Center lecture - Liberal Arts Vision in a Global Age
Liberal Arts Vision in a Global Age: Romance or Reality?
Mariët Westermann
Great Issues Lecture, The John Sloan Dickey Center for International Understanding,
In collaboration with the Hopkins Center for the Arts, The Hood Museum of Art, and The Leslie Center for the Humanities.
Dartmouth College, 2 February 2012
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Mariet Westermann,
Vice President of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Former Provost of the New York University, Abu Dhabi
Prior to taking up her position at the Foundation, she was provost and chief academic officer of New York University Abu Dhabi, having started the development of the campus in 2007. At NYU, she was also director of the Institute of Fine Arts for six years, after serving as associate director of research and academic programs at the Clark Art Institute in Massachusetts, and as assistant and associate professor at Rutgers University. A historian of European art, she is the author of several books, including A Worldly Art: The Dutch Republic 1585-1718 (ranked a Notable Book of the Year by the New York Times), The Amusements of Jan Steen: Comic Painting in the 17th Century, Rembrandt: Art and Ideas, and Anthropologies of Art. Collaborating frequently with museums, she wrote theRijksmuseum Dossier: Johannes Vermeer and served as guest curator of the exhibition Art and Home: Dutch Interiors in the Age of Rembrandt (Newark Museum and Denver Art Museum). Her current research concerns the medium of painting as a resource of European culture and the Garden of Eden in the imagination of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Westermann received her B.A. magna cum laude in history from Williams College, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in the history of art at NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts.
