Collection curator

Dale Carolyn Gluckman is a renowned art historian, lecturer and author specializing in Asian textile and dress.

She holds BA and MA in art history from the University of California, and has travelled extensively across Asia and lived in Japan.

She served as Curator of Costumes and Textiles at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) from 1982 until retiring as department Head in 2005. From 2006 to 2019 she acted as a Consultant at the Queen Sirikit Museum of Textiles (QSMT) on the grounds of the Grand Palace, Bangkok.

Ms. Gluckman was the lead curator and author of the multiple award-winning exhibition and publication When Art Became Fashion: Kosode in Edo-Period Japan (1992) and the co-organizer and moderator of Dress, Art, and Society in Edo-Period Japan, an international symposium held in conjunction with the exhibition. She also curated an exhibition of Chinese rank badges at the Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA, and on Indian and Pakistani embroidery at the Textile Museum of Canada, Toronto. She acted as the Lead Curator for the exhibition A Royal Treasure: The Javanese Batik Collection of King Chulalongkorn of Java, r. 1868-1910, accompanied by a 320-page catalogue.

In 2008-09 Ms. Gluckman curated Kimono as Art: The Landscapes of Itchiku Kubota, for the San Diego Museum of Art, and authored a fully-illustrated catalogue, which accompanied this exhibition.

Dale Gluckman is a distinguished lecturer. She spoke on Japanese textiles and the work of Itchiku Kubota at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, and the Musée Guimet, Paris. She also gave the keynote address at a conference organized by the National Museum of Indonesia, UNESCO and the Ministry of Tourism, Art and Culture, Denpasar, Bali (1999) and the biannual IAAS conference, Leiden University (2020).

Ms Gluckman was appointed as Lead Curator of the Kubota Collection in January 2024.