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The Rubenstein Lecture on Connoisseurship—‘Candy Coated Popcorn...’ with Kerry James Marshall

In this year’s “The Michael and Juliet Rubenstein Lecture on Connoisseurship,” join world-renowned artist Kerry James Marshall in celebrating close looking as a source of inspiration. Known for his large-scale paintings, Marshall uses the process of close looking to critically examine art history and reassert the place of the Black figure within the canon of Western painting. Learn directly from the artist and his unique practice of connoisseurship as he explores objects from The Met collection, and shares his perspective on deliberate intent, creative process, and thoughtful composition building.

This series is made possible by the Michael A. and Juliet van Vliet Rubenstein Fund.


Untitled (Studio), Kerry James Marshall  American, Acrylic on PVC panels
Kerry James Marshall
2014
Woman reaching toward a glass panel with a water pitcher in her left hand.
Video
Explore the beloved seventeenth-century Dutch painter in a talk with Met curator Adam Eaker and writer Ruth Bernard Yeazell, author of Vermeer’s Afterlives.
Adam Eaker
September 27
Profile portrait of a young man wearing a colorful head wrap with grouped tassels trailing off it.
Video
Hear from curators of the exhibition Orientalism to explore notions of “the East” in nineteenth-century art.
Deniz Beyazit, Maryam Ekhtiar, and Asher Miller
September 24
Black-and-white portrait of a man in a white collared shirt and glasses, framed in a circle and surrounded by a magenta background.
Video
Join artist Liu Wei and Met curator Lesley Ma for a conversation about The Genesis Facade Commission: Liu Wei, Speculation, a suite of four large-scale sculptures for The Met Fifth Avenue’s facade.
Lesley Ma
September 22