Marina Alandra Vaizey, Lady Vaizey CBE

Order of the British Empire

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 is an art critic

Art critic

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 and author based in the United Kingdom

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Marina Alandra Vaizey is a broadcaster, exhibition curator and journalist. She was educated at Harvard University

Harvard University

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 and Girton College, Cambridge

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. She was formerly Art Critic for the Financial Times

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and Sunday Times

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and editor of the Art Quarterly and Review. She has written several books on art. She now lectures including at the National Gallery

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 and British Museum

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. She was a founding Trustee of the Geffrye Museum

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 and has also been a trustee of the Imperial War Museum

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 and the South Bank

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. She is a current trustee of ACE Foundation

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. She has also been a judge for the Turner Prize

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Lady Vaizey was born in New York

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 and moved to Britain in 1959. She married the economist, John Vaizey, Lord Vaizey

John Vaizey, Baron Vaizey

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 who died in 1984. Their son is Ed Vaizey, the Conservative

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 Member of Parliament and columnist.

She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours.

Works

• 100 Masterpieces of Art.
• The Artist as a Photographer.
• Art – The Critics Choice.
• A Lustrous Art. ISBN 1-902721-02-0.
• Great Women Collectors, Charlotte Gere & Marina Vaizey. ISBN 0-85667-503-2.

External links

• ACE Study Tours information