Come meet and interact with Dr. Susan Beningson, the collector of the exhibits featured in When Gold Blossoms: Indian Jewelry from the Susan L Beningson Collection.

Dr. Beningson teaches Asian art history at the City University of New York. She is a well-published author on Asian art and has lectured widely. She received her doctorate in Chinese art from Columbia University, where her dissertation focused on Buddhist cave-temples at Dunhuang in northwest China.