Marina Alandra Vaizey, Baroness Vaizey, ( Stansky; born 16 January 1938) is an

art critic An art critic is a person who is specialized in analyzing, interpreting, and evaluating art. Their written critiques or reviews contribute to art criticism and they are published in newspapers, magazines, books, exhibition brochures, and catalogue ...

and author based in the

United Kingdom The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Europe, off the north-western coast of the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and North ...

. Vaizey is an Anglo-American broadcaster, exhibition curator and journalist. She was educated at the

Brearley School The Brearley School is an all-girls private school in New York City, located on the Upper East Side neighborhood in the borough of Manhattan. The school is divided into lower (kindergarten – grade 4), middle (grades 5–8) and upper (grades 9 ...

Putney School The Putney School is an independent high school in Putney, Vermont. The school was founded in 1935 by Carmelita Hinton on the principles of the Progressive Education movement and the teachings of its principal exponent, John Dewey. It is a co-ed ...

Radcliffe College Radcliffe College was a women's liberal arts college in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and functioned as the female coordinate institution for the all-male Harvard College. Considered founded in 1879, it was one of the Seven Sisters colleges and he ...

, and

Girton College, Cambridge Girton College is one of the 31 constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge. The college was established in 1869 by Emily Davies and Barbara Bodichon as the first women's college in Cambridge. In 1948, it was granted full college status ...

. She was formerly Art Critic for the ''

Financial Times The ''Financial Times'' (''FT'') is a British daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and published digitally that focuses on business and economic current affairs. Based in London, England, the paper is owned by a Japanese holding company, Nik ...

'' and ''

Sunday Times ''The Sunday Times'' is a British newspaper whose circulation makes it the largest in Britain's quality press market category. It was founded in 1821 as ''The New Observer''. It is published by Times Newspapers Ltd, a subsidiary of News UK, whi ...

'' and editor of the '' Art Quarterly and Review''. She has written several books on art. She now lectures including at the

National Gallery The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London, England. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900. The current Director o ...

and

British Museum The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London. Its permanent collection of eight million works is among the largest and most comprehensive in existence. It docum ...

. She was a founding Trustee of the Geffrye Museum and has also been a trustee of the

Imperial War Museum Imperial War Museums (IWM) is a British national museum organisation with branches at five locations in England, three of which are in London. Founded as the Imperial War Museum in 1917, the museum was intended to record the civil and military ...

and the

South Bank The South Bank is an entertainment and commercial district in central London, next to the River Thames opposite the City of Westminster. It forms a narrow strip of riverside land within the London Borough of Lambeth (where it adjoins Alber ...

. She is a current trustee of ACE Foundation. She has also been a judge for the

Turner Prize The Turner Prize, named after the English painter J. M. W. Turner, is an annual prize presented to a British visual artist. Between 1991 and 2016, only artists under the age of 50 were eligible (this restriction was removed for the 2017 award) ...

. Lady Vaizey was born in

New York New York most commonly refers to: * New York City, the most populous city in the United States, located in the state of New York * New York (state), a state in the northeastern United States New York may also refer to: Film and television * '' ...

, daughter of Lyman Stansky, a lawyer. She moved to Britain in 1959. In 1961, she married the economist John Vaizey, Lord Vaizey, who died in 1984. One of their sons is

Ed Vaizey Edward Henry Butler Vaizey, Baron Vaizey of Didcot, (born 5 June 1968) is a British politician, media columnist, political commentator and barrister who was Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries from 2010 to 2016. A memb ...

, Member of UK Parliament and columnist. She was appointed

Commander of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

(CBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours.

Works

* ''John Golding, Paintings and Drawings,''

Kettle's Yard Kettle's Yard is an art gallery and house in Cambridge, England. The director of the art gallery is Andrew Nairne. Both the house and gallery reopened in February 2018 after an expansion of the facilities. Kettle's Yard galleries, shop and caf ...

Gallery, Cambridge (1975). * ''The St. Michael’s Guide to Famous Paintings,''

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Ltd (1979) * ''

Andrew Wyeth Andrew Newell Wyeth ( ; July 12, 1917 – January 16, 2009) was an American visual artist, primarily a realist painter, working predominantly in a regionalist style. He was one of the best-known U.S. artists of the middle 20th century. In his ...

,''

Royal Academy of Arts The Royal Academy of Arts (RA) is an art institution based in Burlington House on Piccadilly in London. Founded in 1768, it has a unique position as an independent, privately funded institution led by eminent artists and architects. Its purpo ...

(1980). * ''The Artist as a Photographer,'' Sidgwick and Jackson, Sep. (1982). * '' Peter Blake'' London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Chicago: Academy Publishers (1986). * ''Steve Buck,'' New Sculpture Observed, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham (1990) * ''

Christo Christo Vladimirov Javacheff (1935–2020) and Jeanne-Claude Denat de Guillebon (1935–2009), known as Christo and Jeanne-Claude, were artists noted for their large-scale, site-specific art, site-specific environmental art, environmental art i ...

'' (20th Century Artists Series), Rizzoli International Pub. (1990). * '' Jørgen Haugen Sørensen,'' Kunstbogklubben, Forlaget Søren Fogtdal, Copenhagen, 1994. * ''À La Rencontre De 100 Peintures Célèbres'' (French), Chantecler (1997), * ''Picasso’s Ladies, Jewelry by Wendy Ramshaw'' (co-authored with Paul Greenhaulgh and Eric Turner), Merrell Pub. Ltd (1998). * ''Art: The Critics’ Choice,'' Watson and Guptill (1999). * ''Sutton Taylor: A Lustrous Art'', UK, Hart Gallery (1999). * ''Great Women Collectors'' (co-authored with Charlotte Gere), UK: P. Wilson. USA: H. Abrams (1999). * ''Max Couper: The Plot,'' Booth-Clibborn Editions (2002). * ''Smile,'' British Museum Press (2002). * ''Colin Rose: Edge to Edge,'' Black Dog Publishing Ltd (2003). * ''Art - The Critics Choice: 150 Masterworks of Western Art Selected and Defined by the Experts,'' New Line Books (2005). * ''

Lucian Freud Lucian Michael Freud (; 8 December 1922 – 20 July 2011) was a British painter and draughtsman, specialising in figurative art, and is known as one of the foremost 20th-century English portraitists. He was born in Berlin, the son of Jewis ...

, Mapping the Human,'' CV Publications (2012). * ''Figure to Ground: Five Painters,'' Cv Publications (2012). * ''

David Hockney David Hockney (born 9 July 1937) is an English painter, draftsman, printmaker, stage designer, and photographer. As an important contributor to the pop art movement of the 1960s, he is considered one of the most influential British artists o ...

and the Yorkshire Landscape'' (co-authored with James Cahill, Michael Lovell-Plank and edited by Nicholas James), CV Publications (2012). * ''Photography and Art: Documents and Dreams'' (co-authored with Anne Blood), CV Publishing (2013).

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