Aimee Ng is a specialist in

Italian Renaissance art Italian Renaissance painting is the painting of the period beginning in the late 13th century and flourishing from the early 15th to late 16th centuries, occurring in the Italian Peninsula, which was at that time divided into many political stat ...

, curator at

The Frick Collection The Frick Collection is an art museum in New York City. Its permanent collection (normally at the Henry Clay Frick House, currently at the Frick Madison) features Old Master paintings and European fine and decorative arts, including works by B ...

, writer and podcaster.

Career

Ng is a curator at

specializing in Italian Renaissance art. She graduated from the Queen's University at Kingston, and received her

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in art history from the

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. Prior to her curatorial career, she worked for the Morgan Library and Museum and was a lecturer on art history at Columbia University. Her curatorial debut was as a guest curator of the exhibition "The Poetry of

Parmigianino Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola (11 January 150324 August 1540), also known as Francesco Mazzola or, more commonly, as Parmigianino (, , ; "the little one from Parma"), was an Italian Mannerist painter and printmaker active in Florence, Rome, B ...

's 'Schava Turca'" at the Frick Collection in 2016. She was later appointed by the museum as an associate curator and subsequently as a curator. Along with Chief Curator

Xavier F. Salomon Xavier F. Salomon (born 1979) is a British art critic and both Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator at the Frick Collection in New York. Born in Rome to an English mother and Danish father, he has British citizenship and is most notab ...

, Ng oversaw the 2021 installation of the collection at the Frick Madison. She is a contributor to ''

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'', writing mainly about old master paintings.

Cocktails with a Curator and Travels with a Curator

From April 2020 to July 2021, Ng co-hosted the online program "Cocktails with a Curator" with chief curator Xavier F. Salomon, which examined artwork at the Frick. In this program, they provided virtual museum tours and lectures, while drinking cocktails. ''

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'' characterized the program as "immensely popular" and "reaching an enormous audience". The program had 66 episodes, which are available on YouTube. Jason Farago of ''

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'' wrote that their show "became appointment viewing at Friday martini hour". In 2021, ''Cocktails with a Curator'' was named an Honoree in the 25th Annual

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from the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences for Best Virtual & Remote Experiences: Arts & Culture and jointly awarded a Global Fine Arts Award for Best Digital Exhibition or Online Education Program. Ng also co-hosted "Travels with a Curator", which had 20 episodes and ran from April 2020 to September 2020. They are also available on YouTube. In 2022, the book ''Cocktails with a Curator'', by Salomon with Ng and assistant curator of sculpture Giulio Dalvit, was published by Rizzoli Electra.

Publications

* * Catalogue accompanying exhibition at the Frick Collectio

* * Catalogue accompanying exhibition at the Frick Collectio

* Salomon, Xavier, with Aimee Ng and Giulio Dalvit (2022). ''Cocktails with a Curator: The Frick Collection''. New York: Rizzoli Electa.

References

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