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Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art
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Colorful, blocky street scene by Beauford Delaney.
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Join Phillips curator Adrienne Childs as she charts American painter Beauford Delaney’s humanist vision, love of color, and evolving visual languages that navigated the aesthetics and cultures of transatlantic modernism.
March 28
Collage of two artworks, one of a outline of a black face, the second a depiction of a party.
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Join scholar Richard J. Powell as he rethinks the art of Cubism through the historical and aesthetic lens of African American art.
Richard J. Powell
July 10, 2024
Collage of modern art works in red, green, and orange tones against black background
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Join scholar Charles W. Haxthausen as he explores the variety of artist Paul Klee’s practice and reflects on its art-historical implications.
Charles W. Haxthausen
December 15, 2022
Rogue magazine cover with a drawn woman in a red scarf with a black and white checkerboard skirt.
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Mina Loy, better known as a poet than an artist, was born in London and led a peripatetic life, settling variously in Paris, Florence, and New York. This lecture explores the ways her works of art, poetry, and other writings interrelate.
Dawn Ades
November 15, 2022
Pencil sketch from Picasso's notebook.
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In his inaugural talk at The Met, scholar Neil Cox explores Picasso’s Sketchbook No. 26, which the artist kept until his death. Deciphering written notes and Cubist drawings, Cox reveals Picasso’s drawing processes and explores connections with his other sketchbooks, paintings, drawings, and sculptures from around 1913.
Neil Cox
October 25, 2022
Professor Pepe Karmel waits to start his lecture on Cubism in front of a full bookcase.
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New York University Professor Pepe Karmel explores the evolution of Cubism and its continuing influence in the art world.
Pepe Karmel
December 16, 2021
Black and white interior of the Durand-Ruel Gallery with many Impressionist paintings.
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Between 1850 and 1950, when art collecting in France stalled due to the devastating effects of two world wars, revolution, and economic uncertainty, it accelerated internationally, gaining interest from foreign collectors. In this discussion, curators, scholars, and experts in provenance research consider the historical market for modern art as the root of the globalized art world of today.
Christel Force, Jennifer Thompson, Yaëlle Biro, Vérane Tasseau, MaryKate Cleary, Frances Fowle, Julia May Boddewyn, and Michael FitzGerald
June 11, 2021
Cover of the book Company I Keep by Leonard Lauder with Leonard Lauder in a suit.
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Join Leonard A. Lauder as he reflects on his deep connection with museums, the arts, and New York City in a conversation with Met Director Max Hollein.
January 28, 2021
White room with the walls decorated in Cubist paintings belonging to George Costakis
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Explore Cubism's international reach through the lens of Douglas Cooper's landmark exhibition The Cubist Epoch (1970–71) with Nicholas Sawicki.
Nicholas Sawicki
April 30, 2019
Sketch of an underground subway in Moscow from1935 by Nikolai Ladovsky.
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Part 3 of 3 in The Leonard A. Lauder Lecture Series on Modern Art– Art x Architecture: Russian Intersections 1917–37.
Jean-Louis Cohen
March 12, 2019