0083 Introduction

Glenn Adamson is the Director of the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) in New York City. He was, until Autumn 2013, Head of Research at the Victoria and Albert Museum(V&A)/Royal College of Art, where he was active as a curator, historian and theorist. His publications include Thinking Through Craft (2007), The Craft Reader (2010), Invention of the Craft (2013), and Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970 to 1990 (2011). He is also the co-founder and editor of the triannual Journal of Modern Craft.