Alice Rawsthorn
| Alice Rawsthorn OBE |
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|---|---|
| Born | Manchester |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Design critic, journalist |
| Website | alicerawsthorn |
Alice Rawsthorn OBE (born 1958 in Manchester) is a British design critic, who writes on design in the international edition of The New York Times. She also writes the "By Design" column for Frieze magazine. A trustee of the Whitechapel Gallery and the Michael Clark Company, the contemporary dance group, she is chair of the board of trustees at the Chisenhale Gallery in London.
After graduating in art and architectural history from Cambridge University, Rawsthorn secured a place on the graduate trainee journalism scheme of the Thomson Organisation, then became media editor of Campaign magazine. In 1985, she joined the staff of the Financial Times, where she worked as a foreign correspondent in Paris before becoming architecture and design critic in 2000.
During her career at the Financial Times, Rawsthorn became a member of the Design Council and a trustee of the Design Museum. In 2001, she was appointed director of the Design Museum. During this period, the museum launched the Designer of the Year award, and mounted the Great Design Quest in collaboration with the BBC. She resigned in February 2006 reportedly over differences with the museum's founder, Sir Terence Conran, concerning the future direction of the institution.
Rawsthorn has since been active in the arts on a pro-bono basis. A trustee of Arts Council England from 2007 until 2013, she was previously its lead adviser on the visual arts for four years and chair of the Turning Point review of the contemporary visual arts, which resulted in a record increase in public funding. She has served on many arts juries including the Turner Prize for contemporary art, the Stirling Prize for architecture, the British Council's selection panel for the Venice Architecture Biennale, the PEN History Book Prize, the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, the Buckminster Fuller Challenge the BAFTA film and television Awards and the Museum of the Year prize run by the Art Fund. A former chair of the British Council's Design Advisory Group, she was also a member of the British government's advisory panel on the BBC Charter Review.
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