Helen C. Evans

Helen C. Evans
Nationality	United States of America

Helen C. Evans is an American art historian and curator specializing in Byzantine art.

She has worked for the Metropolitan Museum of Art since 1991 and was co-curator along with William D. Wixom of the 1997 Byzantine exhibition there. She became a scholar devoted to the documentation of Byzantine art because according to her, "Byzantine art is underrepresented because Byzantine history slowly disappeared from the way we look at the world. The empire ended at roughly the same moment that Columbus found the New World. When we do an exhibition like Interwoven Globe at the Met, it starts at 1500 and we don't look at the fact that Byzantium was on one of the great trade routes of the previous millennium and a half—or several millennia in fact. Until Columbus, you did not reach the spices of the orient; you did not reach the silks of China, without crossing the Eastern Mediterranean. ...When most academic scholarship really begins, Byzantium has been subsumed in the Ottoman Empire."

In 2018 she curated the exhibition "Armenia!". In 2019 Helen C. Evans was awarded by Friendship Order by the president of Armenia for representing the Armenian Culture to the World in a distiguished way, as well as for the significant contribution to the strengthening and development of the Armenian-American friendly relations.

External links

• The Glory of Byzantium: Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era, A.D. 843–1261, online version of 1997 catalog and reference work
• 2018 book award
• 2014 book award
• September 2016 interview of Evans as expert in Armenian art, and Mary Carruthers as authority on medieval literature & rhetoric, by Richard Schneider, professor in Hermeneutics and Liturgical Art at Saint Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary