Dr Stefano Carboni with Guy Grey-Smith’s Horseshoe Range 1958-1961 (detail); State Art Collection, Art Gallery of Western Australia © Susanna Grey-Smith and Mark Grey-Smith
Stefano Carboni is used to dealing with crisis; he’s used to presenting a case to counter negative perceptions.
The Art Gallery of Western Australia’s Director – formerly Curator of Islamic Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art in New York (1992-2008) – was transporting an exhibition of rare Islamic glass from the Corning Museum of Glass (USA) for an exhibition he’d co-curated, when 9/11 happened.
