Marina Alandra Vaizey, Lady Vaizey CBE (born 16 January 1938) is an art critic and author based in the United Kingdom.
Marina Alandra Vaizey (née Stansky) is a broadcaster, exhibition curator and journalist. She was educated at the Brearley School, Putney School, Radcliffe College, and Girton College, Cambridge. She was formerly Art Critic for the Financial Times and Sunday Times and editor of the Art Quarterly and Review. She has written several books on art. She now lectures including at the National Gallery and British Museum. She was a founding Trustee of the Geffrye Museum and has also been a trustee of the Imperial War Museum and the South Bank. She is a current trustee of ACE Foundation. She has also been a judge for the Turner Prize.
Lady Vaizey was born in New York, daughter of Lyman Stansky, a lawyer. She moved to Britain in 1959. In 1961, she married the economist John Vaizey, Lord Vaizey, who died in 1984. One of their sons is Ed Vaizey, the Conservative Member of Parliament and columnist.
She was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2009 New Year Honours.
John Golding, Paintings and Drawings, Kettle's Yard Gallery, Cambridge (1975).
The St. Michael’s Guide to Famous Paintings, Marks & Spencer Ltd (1979)
Andrew Wyeth, Royal Academy of Arts(1980).
The Artist as a Photographer, Sidgwick and Jackson, Sep. (1982). ISBN 9780283987397
Peter Blake London: Weidenfield and Nicholson, Chicago: Academy Publishers (1986). ISBN 0297787357
Steve Buck, New Sculpture Observed, Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham (1990)
Christo (20th Century Artists Series), Rizzoli International Pub. (1990). ISBN 9780847812394
Jørgen Haugen Sørensen, Kunstbogklubben, Forlaget Søren Fogtdal, Copenhagen, 1994.
À La Rencontre De 100 Peintures Célèbres (French), Chantecler (1997), ISBN 9782803427826
Picasso’s Ladies, Jewelry by Wendy Ramshaw (co-authored with Paul Greenhaulgh and Eric Turner), Merrell Pub. Ltd (1998). ISBN 9781858940656
Art: The Critics’ Choice, Watson and Guptill (1999). ISBN 9780823002603
Sutton Taylor: A Lustrous Art, UK, Hart Gallery (1999). ISBN 9781902721026
Great Women Collectors (co-authored with Charlotte Gere), UK: P. Wilson. USA: H. Abrams (1999). ISBN 9780810963931
Max Couper: The Plot, Booth-Clibborn Editions (2002). ISBN 9781861541239
Smile, British Museum Press (2002). ISBN 9780714127811
Colin Rose: Edge to Edge, Black Dog Publishing Ltd (2003). ISBN 9781901033922
Art - The Critics Choice: 150 Masterworks of Western Art Selected and Defined by the Experts, New Line Books (2005). ISBN 9781597640459
Lucian Freud, Mapping the Human, CV Publications (2012). ISBN 9781908419538
Figure to Ground: Five Painters, Cv Publications (2012). ISBN 9781908419477
David Hockney and the Yorkshire Landscape (co-authored with James Cahill, Michael Lovell-Plank and edited by Nicholas James), CV Publications (2012). ISBN 9781908419262
Photography and Art: Documents and Dreams (co-authored with Anne Blood), CV Publishing (2013). ISBN 9781908419408
