Barbara Veith

Barbara Veith, Guest Curator

Barbara Veith came to the Brooklyn Museum to assist Dr. Barry R. Harwood, Curator of Decorative Arts, with Modern Gothic: The Inventive Furniture of Kimbel and Cabus, 1863-82; she is honored to have completed the project in his memory. From 2010 to 2017, Veith was adjunct faculty at the Cooper-Hewitt/Parsons MA Program in the History of Design. She guest-curated Aesthetic Ambitions: Edward Lycett and Brooklyn’s Faience Manufacturing Company, an exhibition that originated at the University Museums, University of Richmond, Virginia, in 2011. From 1999 to 2009, she was a research associate in the American Wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and contributed to exhibitions that included Women China Decorators in the Metropolitan Museum of Art (2001) and Louis Comfort Tiffany at Laurelton Hall: An Artist’s Country Estate (2005).