Lisa and Bernard Selz Senior Curator of Asian Art, Brooklyn Museum
Joan Cummins is the Lisa and Bernard Selz Senior Curator of Asian Art at the Brooklyn Museum. Prior to arriving at Brooklyn in 2007, she was assistant curator of Indian, Himalayan, and Southeast Asian Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. A specialist in the art of India, she is the author of Vishnu: Hinduism’s Blue-Skinned Savior (2011), and Indian Painting: From Cave Temples to the Colonial Period (2006). She received her doctorate in Art History from Columbia University.