Andrew Graham-Dixon
Born in London in 1960, Andrew Graham-Dixon is one of the leading art critics and presenters of arts television in the English-speaking world. He has presented numerous landmark series on art for the BBC, including the acclaimed A History of British Art, Renaissance and Art of Eternity, as well as numerous individual documentaries on art and artists. He has written a number of acclaimed books, on subjects ranging from medieval painting and sculpture to the art of the present.
— Robert Hughes, former art critic of Time Magazine
Featured Publications
- Caravaggio: A Life Sacred And Profane (2009)
- Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel (2008)
- In the Picture: The Year Through Art (2002)
Dr. Jay Xu
Dr. Jay Xu has served as director and CEO of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco since 2008, and he is the first Chinese American director at a major American art museum. Xu is committed to deepening understanding of Asian art and culture in the global context, and to advocating the art museum as an essential platform for cross-cultural understanding. His vision for the Asian Art Museum is to embrace and explore interconnectivity between artistic ideas in Asia and in the rest of the world, and between traditional and contemporary art.
Xu earned his MA and PhD in early Chinese art and archaeology at Princeton University, and has had more than thirty years of extensive international museum experience as a research scholar, curator, and museum director. He has held administrative and curatorial positions at the Shanghai Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), Seattle Art Museum, and Art Institute of Chicago.
