Luke Syson
Director at British Museum | Transforming Art Curation Through Technology
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Luke Syson is the Director of the British Museum, where he has pioneered groundbreaking approaches to art curation and visitor engagement. Syson previously served as the Iris and B.
Gerald Cantor Curator in Charge of the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. He has curated major exhibitions on Michelangelo, Raphael, and the Medici family, earning widespread critical acclaim.
Syson's keynotes reveal how emerging technologies like AI and virtual reality are reshaping the museum experience, making art more accessible and meaningful for modern audiences.
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How I learned to stop worrying and love "useless" art
Luke Syson was a curator of Renaissance art, of transcendent paintings of saints and solemn Italian ladies -- Very Serious Art. And then he changed jobs, and inherited the Met's collection of ceramics -- pretty, frilly, "useless" candlesticks and vases. He didn't like it. He didn't get it. Until one day ...
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