Keith Christiansen

Keith Christiansen is curator emeritus at the Metropolitan Museum, where he began his career as assistant curator in 1977 before becoming the John Pope-Hennessy Chairman of European Paintings in 2009. During the forty-four years he served at the museum, he collaborated in the organization of over twenty exhibitions. He has taught at Columbia University and the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University and was the Clarence and Ruth Wedgewood Kennedy Professor in Renaissance Studies at Smith College (1999) and a guest professor at Vassar (2006). In addition to the many acquisitions he pursued that have enriched the Met’s collection, he has published widely and is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, conferred by the Ministry of Arts in France.