Victoria Lautman
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Victoria Lautman | |
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| Education | George Washington University
University of New Mexico Merton College at Oxford University |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, writer, and lecturer |
Victoria Lautman is an American journalist, writer, and lecturer. Her work focuses on Indian art and culture.
Education
[edit]Lautman received a master's degree in Art History from George Washington University and a bachelor's degree in Anthropology and Art History from the University of New Mexico.[1] She attended Merton College at Oxford University for archaeological field training.[2][better source needed]
Career
[edit]Following graduate school, Lautman was employed by the Smithsonian Institution's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.[3] Lautman started her career as a weekly arts reviewer in 1984 on WBEZ, a National Public Radio outlet in Chicago. During the next two decades, she founded and published a long-running arts and culture magazine, Artistic License, and then went on to be an interviewer and contributor to the station.[4] In 2004, she moved to WFMT radio and created the Chicago author-interview series, Writers on the Record with Victoria Lautman, with authors.[5] Lautman's interviews with Jonathan Lethem, Lady Antonia Fraser, Amitav Ghosh, and others have also been heard at the Chicago Humanities Festival.[6]
As a print journalist, Lautman has written for a wide array of publications and was formerly the Chicago editor for the magazines Metropolitan Home, Art+Auction, Architectural Record, and House & Garden.[7]
Books
[edit]Lautman produced the collection of research culminated in the release of The Vanishing Stepwells of India (with Divay Gupta) by Merrell Publishers in 2017.[8]
Subsequent exhibitions of her stepwell photographs were mounted at the Fowler Museum at UCLA in 2019 and at the RMIT University Gallery in Melbourne in 2018.[9] Lautman has lectured widely on the topic throughout the United States and India.[10][11][12][13][14][15]
Lautman's earlier non-fiction book, The New Tattoo, was published by Abbeville Press in 1994 and included photography by Vicki Berndt.[16]
External links
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Town Hall Celebrity Lecture/Luncheon Series". University of Michigan. 16 May 2017. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
- ^ "Victoria Lautman | Bio". victorialautman.com. Retrieved 2023-12-29.
- ^ Waterman Alumnae website, 2016-2017 Town Hall Celebrity Lecture Series
- ^ Isaacs, Deanna (27 September 2001). "Less Than She Asked For". Chicago Reader. 30 (52).
- ^ "Lit 50: Who really books in Chicago 2009 | Newcity Lit". 2009-06-03. Retrieved 2022-09-11.
- ^ Reid, Kerry (11 January 2015). "Audrey Niffenegger Tells Scary Stories". Chicago Tribune.
- ^ Lautman, Victoria (March 2021). "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). victorialautman.com. Retrieved 5 March 2024.
- ^ GoodReads website, Victoria Lautman
- ^ "water + wisdom Australia India | Exhibitions". RMIT Gallery. Retrieved 2022-09-11.
- ^ "Subterranean Ghosts: India's Vanishing Stepwells with Victoria Lautman - Adventurers Club". Retrieved 2022-09-11.
- ^ "Armchair Travel Lecture: Victoria Lautman | Santa Barbara Museum of Art". www.sbma.net. Retrieved 2022-09-11.
- ^ TRUE. "Speaker Series: Victoria Lautman presents "Subterranean Ghosts: India's Vanishing Stepwells"". The Ebell of Los Angeles. Retrieved 2022-09-11.
- ^ "Live Online: Subterranean Ghosts: India's Vanishing Stepwells". SparkOC.com - The happening place for Arts happenings in the O.C. Retrieved 2022-09-11.
- ^ "Recent Opportunities | Society of Architectural Historians". Default. Retrieved 2022-09-11.
- ^ ajay (2018-02-07). "CSPA launches two new Lecture Series - "INSPIRATIONS:..." Chitkara University. Retrieved 2022-09-11.
- ^ "The New Tattoo". WorldCAT. Retrieved 12 October 2023.