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Elizabeth Pergam at the podium

Elizabeth Pergam

Adjunct Faculty

Art and Art Professions

My research and writing focuses on the intersection of the history of collecting, museums, exhibitions, and the art market. 

Selected Publications

“Exhibitions: The Met’s reinstallation of its European Paintings,” Burlington Magazine 166 (April 2024): 392-395.”        

“Review: Buffalo AKG Art Museum,” Burlington Magazine 166 (January 2024): 87-91.

“Review: Designing the V&A: The Museum and a Work of Art (1857-1909); Creating the V&A: Victoria and Albert’s Museum (1851-1861); and Enriching the V&A: A Collection of Collections (1862-1914) by Julius Bryant,” Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide (Autumn 2023): https://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/autumn23/pergam-reviews-three-books-on-the-v-and-a-by-julius-bryant                                

“Behind the scenes at the modern art museum,” Burlington Magazine 165 (August 2023): 882-889.

“Decorative Arts in the Encyclopedic Museum: The Reinstallation of the Annie Laurie Aitken Galleries and the Josephine Mercy Heathcote Gallery of British Decorative Art at The Metropolitan Museum of Art,” Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide (Autumn 2022): https://www.19thc-artworldwide.org/autumn22/pergam-reviews-british-decorative-arts-galleries-the-met-new-york

“Sir John Charles Robinson in 1868: A Victorian Curator’s Collection on the Block,” Journal of Art Historiography [issue edited by Elizabeth Heath, National Portrait Gallery, London], June 2018: https://arthistoriography.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/pergam.pdf

Drawing in the 21st Century: The Politics and Poetics of Contemporary Practice, editor of ten essays and author of “Practice, Purpose, Performance” and “Drawings on Display” (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2015) 

The Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition of 1857: Entrepreneurs, Connoisseurs and the Public (Burlington, VT: Ashgate, May 2011) 

Programs

Visual Arts Administration

Learn how to be a dynamic leader in the visual arts field. Our Visual Arts Administration program was the first in the nation to focus on visual arts management careers in both traditional and alternative contexts.

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