ICFF NYC 2018

Glenn Adamson

CURATOR


Glenn Adamson is a curator, writer and historian who works at the intersection of craft and contemporary art. Currently Senior Scholar at the Yale Center for British Art, he has previously been Director of the Museum of Arts and Design; and Head of Research at the V&A. Adamson’s publications include Art in the Making (2016, co-authored with Julia Bryan Wilson); Invention of Craft (2013); Postmodernism: Style and Subversion (2011); The Craft Reader (2010); and Thinking Through Craft (2007). Most recently Adamson was the curator of Beazley Designs of the Year, at the Design Museum in London (2017). His new book Fewer Better Things: The Hidden Meaning of Objects will be published by Bloomsbury in August 2018. www.glennadamson.com

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