Noah Charney
- Writer
Dr Noah Charney is the internationally best-selling author of more than a twenty books, translated into fourteen languages, including The Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art, which was nominated for the 2017 Pulitzer Prize in Biography, and Museum of Lost Art, which was the finalist for the 2018 Digital Book World Award.
He is a professor of art history specializing in art crime, and has taught for Yale University, Brown University, American University of Rome and University of Ljubljana. He is founder of ARCA, the Association for Research into Crimes against Art, a ground-breaking research group (www.artcrimeresearch.org) and teaches on their annual summer-long Postgraduate Program in Art Crime and Cultural Heritage Protection. He writes regularly for dozens of major magazines and newspapers, including The Guardian, the Washington Post, the Observer and The Art Newspaper.
He writes regularly for TED, including numerous TED Ed videos with millions of views among them. He is a frequent television talking head and presenter, with appearances for History, National Geographic, Discovery, BBC, ITV and more. He presented the BBC series "China's Stolen Treasures" and fronted an influencer campaign for Samsung's The Frame. His video courses are available on Wondrium. He has written numerous scripts, including some commissioned by HBO Europe. His article in The Atlantic, "Cracking the Sitcom Code," has become a definitive go-to source for those interested in writing scripts.
He lives in Slovenia with his wife, children and their hairless dog, Hubert van Eyck.
He is a professor of art history specializing in art crime, and has taught for Yale University, Brown University, American University of Rome and University of Ljubljana. He is founder of ARCA, the Association for Research into Crimes against Art, a ground-breaking research group (www.artcrimeresearch.org) and teaches on their annual summer-long Postgraduate Program in Art Crime and Cultural Heritage Protection. He writes regularly for dozens of major magazines and newspapers, including The Guardian, the Washington Post, the Observer and The Art Newspaper.
He writes regularly for TED, including numerous TED Ed videos with millions of views among them. He is a frequent television talking head and presenter, with appearances for History, National Geographic, Discovery, BBC, ITV and more. He presented the BBC series "China's Stolen Treasures" and fronted an influencer campaign for Samsung's The Frame. His video courses are available on Wondrium. He has written numerous scripts, including some commissioned by HBO Europe. His article in The Atlantic, "Cracking the Sitcom Code," has become a definitive go-to source for those interested in writing scripts.
He lives in Slovenia with his wife, children and their hairless dog, Hubert van Eyck.
