Aimée Froom

Aimée Froom has been the curator of art of the Islamic worlds at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, since fall 2014. In 2015, she expanded and reinstalled the permanent galleries and the al-Sabah collection. Formerly Hagop Kevorkian Associate Curator of Islamic Art at the Brooklyn Museum, Froom has published articles and books and lectured widely on the topic of Islamic art. She has acted as a consultant to leading museums, including the Aga Khan Museum in Toronto, the British Museum in London, and the Réunion des Musées Nationaux in Paris. Recent book publications include The Legacy of Persian Art (2017) and Arts of Islamic Lands: Selections from The al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait (2016). She is a member of the American Association of Museum Curators, College Art Association and Historians of Islamic Art Association.

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Jul 2018

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