Cocktails with a Curator

About Aimee NgXavier F. Salomon

Xavier F. Salomon is Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator at The Frick Collection. A noted scholar of Paolo Veronese he curated the exhibition on the artist at the National Gallery London (2014). Among the other numerous exhibitions he has curated are those on Guido Cagnacci Antonio Canova Anthony Van Dyck and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. Before joining the Frick staff he was Curator of Southern Baroque in the Department of European Paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Arturo and Holly Melosi Chief Curator at Dulwich Picture Gallery in London. Aimee Ng is a Curator at the Frick Collection and specialist in Italian Renaissance art. She has curated exhibitions on Parmigianino and Giovanni Battista Moroni among others. Previously she held curatorial and academic positions at the Morgan Library & Museum where she was postdoctoral fellow at the Morgan's Drawing Institute in 2014 and at Columbia University. Giulio Dalvit is Assistant Curator of Sculpture at the Frick and a specialist in fifteenth-century Italian art. He has held various lecture and research positions most recently Associate Lecturer at the Courtauld Institute of Art London. Dalvit's writings-on topics spanning the fifteenth through the twentieth century-have appeared in exhibition catalogues and journals. Simon Schama is an English historian specializing in art history Dutch history Jewish history and French history. He is a University Professor of History and Art History at Columbia University New York and has hosted popular BBC series on history and art. Luis Serrano is a Spanish artist whose most recent solo exhibition Bedding was held at the Mario Praz Museum in Rome in 2012.