Meet the women museum directors changing the way we think about art In celebration of International Women’s Day, we profile seven museum directors who are showcasing new artists, restoring reputations, and deploying art as a force for change Sheikha Al Mayassa is at the heart of Qatar’s nation-building programme. Photo: Harry Cory Wright/The Interior Archive
Sheikha Al Mayassa, Qatar Museums, Doha
Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, one of the most familiar faces of Qatar’s ruling Al Thani family, is also the chair of Qatar Museums. In that role she has an annual budget that makes her a major player on the global art stage arguably, even,
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For Catherine, as for the green-fingered FitzGerald women before her, the castleâs garden is a place in which to work her horticultural magic. Itâs like something out of a fairytale â and the family history of debt, debauchery, triumph and romance reads like one, too.
There are colourful characters â brave knights such as Edmund, 14th Knight of Glin, who bellowed, âI am virile, my wife is fertile and there are plenty more where we came from!â when his son was taken hostage by British troops and tied to the mouth of a cannon during the Siege of Glin in 1601. Naught