Meredith Martin

Professeur d’histoire de l’art à l’Université de New York.

Meredith Martin is associate professor of art history at NYU and the Institute of Fine Arts and a founding editor of Journal18. A specialist in early modern French art and architecture, she is the co-author (with Gillian Weiss) of The Sun King at Sea : Maritime Art and Gallery Slavery in Louis XIV’s France (Getty Research Institute Publications, 2022). She is also the author of Dairy Queens : The Politics of Pastoral Architecture from Catherine de’ Medici to Marie-Antoinette (Harvard University Press, 2011), and a co-author of Meltdown : Picturing the World’s First Bubble Economy (Harvey Miller/Brepols, 2020), which is related to an exhibition that she co-curated on the 1720 Mississippi and South Sea bubbles for The New York Public Library. Together with the choreographer and activist Phil Chan, Martin has reimagined and restaged a lost French ballet from 1739 known as the Ballet des Porcelaines, or The Teapot Prince, which will tour the U.S. and Europe in 2022.