Old World Splendor for New World Magnates: Collecting Tapestry in America
The Flint Institute of Arts is hosting the 22nd annual Thompson Lecture with Guest Lecturer Thomas P. Campbell, Director of Metropolitan Museu
Thomas P. Campbell
Director, Metropolitan Museum of Art,
New York City
m of Art, New York City, on October 22 at 6p in the FIA Theater. This is a members-only event. Look for your invitation soon.
Since becoming the ninth director of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2009, Thomas P. Campbell has pursued an agenda that focuses on scholarship and accessibility. These priorities maintain the museum’s excellence in its exhibitions, publications, acquisitions, and permanent collections, while encouraging new thinking about the visitor experience. Prior to his appointment, Campbell was a curator for 14 years in the Metropolitan’s Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts where he organized two major exhibitions on Renaissance and Baroque tapestry.
Dr. Campbell has lectured and taught extensively on European court patronage and the relation of tapestries to the other arts. He has also published extensively
on the subject of historic European textiles and their relationship to other art forms of their periods. He has been the recipient of awards and fellowships, including the Iris Foundation Award (Bard Graduate Center) for a scholar in mid-career deserving of recognition for outstanding contributions to the study of the decorative arts (2003).
Born in Singapore and raised in Cambridge, England, Campbell received his B.A. in English language and literature from the University of Oxford in 1984, followed by a Diploma from Christie’s Fine and Decorative Arts course, London, in 1985. He received a Master’s degree in 1987 and a Ph.D. in 1999 from the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London.
The Thompson Lecture was established in 1991 by Dr. and Mrs. Jack W. Thompson to enable the Flint Institute of Arts to present a distinguished speaker in the arts or humanities each year. The Thompson Lecture is one of the Institute’s few members- only events and was established, in part, to attract new members to the FIA.
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