Founders & Directors
Team
Board of Trustees
  • Maria H. Loh

    Maria H. Loh

    Maria H. Loh is a Professor in the School of Historical Study at Institute for Advance Study in Princeton, USA. She holds a BA in History from McGill University (1993), a Certificat des Études from the École Régionale des Beaux Arts in Rennes (1995), a Licence in Art History from the Université de Rennes II (1996), and her MA/PhD in Art History from University of Toronto (2003). She was a predoctoral fellow at the Getty Research Institute (2000-2002), the Joanna Randall-MacIver Junior Research Fellow at St Hilda’s College Oxford (2003-2004), the recipient of a Philip Leverhulme Prize (2007-2009), the Willis F. Doney Member at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (2012-2013), Robert Lehman Visiting Professor at Villa I Tatti / Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies (2018), and a NEH Public Scholar (2021-2022). Prior to joining CUNY, she taught in the Department of History of Art at University College London for over a decade. She is the author of three books—Titian Remade. Repetition and the Transformation of Early Modern Italian Art (Getty Research Institute, 2007); Still Lives. Death, Desire, and the Portrait of the Old Master (Princeton, 2015); and Titian’s Touch. Art, Magic, & Philosophy (Reaktion, 2019)—and the editor of two special issues of the Oxford Art JournalEarly Modern Horror (Oxford, 2011) and Mal’occhio: Looking Awry at the Renaissance (co-edited with Patricia Rubin, Oxford, 2009). She is a regular contributor to Art in America and has also written on: portraiture and loss; “special affect” in early modern painting and sculpture; melancholia and the Renaissance in Ottocento Italy; remakes in Chinese cinema; repetition in Hitchcock’s Vertigo; and the work of Sherrie Levine. Her fourth book Liquid Sky will explore visual representations of the early modern sky. She lives and works in New York and London.

  • Maitreyi Maheshwari

    Maitreyi Maheshwari

    Maitreyi Maheshwari is Head of Programme at FACT, Liverpool where she is responsible for overseeing their programme of exhibitions, residencies and events. Previous to this Maitreyi was Programme Director at Zabludowicz Collection in London.  Maitreyi has also previously worked on the interaction programme at Artangel and the youth programme at Tate Modern. 

  • Paul Smith

    Paul Smith

    Paul Smith is a musician best known as the singer for the British indie rock group Maxïmo Park. He attended Newcastle University completing a BA and MA. Maxïmo Park released their debut album on Warp Records in 2005 and Smith continues to perform and record with the band. Away from the band, he has collaborated with poet Lavinia Greenlaw, composed a cappella piece of music for Great North Run Culture, released and toured his debut solo album Margins, published Thinking In Pictures, guest edited The Mays XIX and was an artistic advisor for the 2013 Festival Of The North East. In 2014 Smith teamed up with Field Music singer Peter Brewis to record an album, 'Frozen By Sight'.