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Mary and Michael Jaharis Curator Emerita of Byzantine Art | Metropolitan Museum of Art
Helen C. Evans is Mary and Michael Jaharis Curator Emerita of Byzantine Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. She is an expert on both the history of art and the curation of art, particularly the sacred art of eastern Christianity. She curated the major, internationally-acclaimed exhibitions, The Glory of Byzantium (1997), Byzantium: Faith and Power (2004), Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition (2012), and Armenia! (2018). She is a former president of both the International Center of Medieval Art (ICMA) and the Association of Art Museum Curators (AAMC). She is a fellow of the Medieval Academy of America. In July 2025, she was awarded an Hon. Doc. Litt. honoris causa by the Courtauld Institute of Art, the University of London.
