Victoria Lautman
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Victoria Lautman | |
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| Education | George Washington University
University of New Mexico Merton College at Oxford University |
| Occupation(s) | Journalist, writer, and lecturer |
Victoria Lautman is an American journalist, writer, and lecturer. She is based in Los Angeles and she focuses on art and culture, including architecture, design, and literature, particularly those of India.
Education[edit]
Lautman received a master's degree in Art History from George Washington University and a bachelor's degree in Anthropology and Art History from the University of New Mexico.[1] She attended Merton College at Oxford University for archaeological field training.[2] Following graduate school, Lautman was employed by the Smithsonian Institution's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.[3]
Career[edit]
Lautman started her career as a weekly arts reviewer in 1984 on WBEZ, a National Public Radio outlet in Chicago. During the next two decades, she founded and published a long-running arts and culture magazine, Artistic License, and then went on to be an interviewer and contributor to the station.[4] In 2004, she moved to WFMT radio and created the Chicago author-interview series, Writers on the Record with Victoria Lautman, with authors including Junot Diaz, Edward P. Jones, Elizabeth Strout, Louise Erdrich, Frank McCourt, Michael Cunningham, Augusten Burroughs, Edwidge Danticat, Peter Carey, Anne Lamott, Martin Amis, Russell Banks, Richard Price, and Mary Gaitskill.[5] Lautman's interviews with Jonathan Lethem, Lady Antonia Fraser, Amitav Ghosh, and others have also been heard at the Chicago Humanities Festival.[6]
As a print journalist, Lautman has written for a wide array of publications and was formerly the Chicago editor for the magazines Metropolitan Home, Art+Auction, Architectural Record, and House & Garden.[7]
Books[edit]
Lautman became fascinated with the ancient subterranean step-wells of India after encountering one on her first trip to the country in the early 1980s.[8] Decades later she pursued her interest in earnest, spending several months each year finding and photographing the dilapidated structures throughout the country. This collection of research culminated in the release of The Vanishing Stepwells of India by Merrell Publishers in 2017. Subsequent exhibitions of her stepwell photographs were mounted at the Fowler Museum at UCLA in 2019 and at the RMIT University Gallery in Melbourne in 2018.[9] Lautman has lectured widely on the topic throughout the United States and India.[8][10][11][12][13][14]
Lautman's earlier non-fiction book, The New Tattoo, was published by Abbeville Press in 1994 and included photography by Vicki Berndt.[15]
External links[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ "Town Hall Celebrity Lecture/Luncheon Series". University of Michigan. 16 May 2017. Retrieved 12 October 2023.
- ^ "Victoria Lautman | Bio". victorialautman.com. Retrieved 2023-12-29.
- ^ "Victoria Lautman | Bio". victorialautman.com. Retrieved 2023-12-29.
- ^ Isaacs, Deanna (27 September 2001). "Less Than She Asked For". Chicago Reader. 30 (52).
- ^ "Lit 50: Who really books in Chicago 2009 | Newcity Lit". 2009-06-03. Retrieved 2022-09-11.
- ^ Reid, Kerry (11 January 2015). "Audrey Niffenegger Tells Scary Stories". Chicago Tribune.
- ^ Lautman, Victoria (March 2021). "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). victorialautman.com. Retrieved 5 March 2024.
- ^ a b "Subterranean Ghosts: India's Vanishing Stepwells with Victoria Lautman – Adventurers Club". Retrieved 2022-09-11.
- ^ "water + wisdom Australia India | Exhibitions". RMIT Gallery. Retrieved 2022-09-11.
- ^ "Armchair Travel Lecture: Victoria Lautman | Santa Barbara Museum of Art". www.sbma.net. Retrieved 2022-09-11.
- ^ TRUE. "Speaker Series: Victoria Lautman presents "Subterranean Ghosts: India's Vanishing Stepwells"". The Ebell of Los Angeles. Retrieved 2022-09-11.
- ^ "Live Online: Subterranean Ghosts: India's Vanishing Stepwells". SparkOC.com - The happening place for Arts happenings in the O.C. Retrieved 2022-09-11.
- ^ "Recent Opportunities | Society of Architectural Historians". Default. Retrieved 2022-09-11.
- ^ ajay (2018-02-07). "CSPA launches two new Lecture Series – "INSPIRATIONS:..." Chitkara University. Retrieved 2022-09-11.
- ^ "The New Tattoo". WorldCAT. Retrieved 12 October 2023.