Bobbye Tigerman

Bobbye Tigerman is a curator of design, craft, and architecture and has served as the Marilyn B. and Calvin B. Gross Curator, Decorative Arts and Design at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art since 2006. Her mission is to connect with museum audiences by communicating the relevance of design and craft to everyday life and to provide a platform to underrepresented designers. She has written for a wide variety of popular and scholarly publications and her past exhibitions include Scandinavian Design and the United States (2022), Beyond Bling: Jewelry from the Lois Boardman Collection (2016), and California Design, 1930–1965: Living in a Modern Way (2011). She has earned degrees from Harvard University, the Courtauld Institute of Art, and the University of Delaware/Winterthur Program in Early American Culture.

Articles by Bobbye Tigerman

Gerd Rothmann, Die Goldene Nase Nosepiece, 1988, cast from Lois Boardman's nose, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, gift of Lois and Bob Boardman (M.2013.221.28), © Gerd Rothmann, photo © Museum Associates / LACMA. The German expression “eine goldene Nase Verdienen," which translates directly as “to earn a golden nose,” means to make a small fortune or to make a killing, and that is the meaning behind this piece.

Radical Adornment

Remembering Lois Boardman
Scroll to Top