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Lectures & Symposia
Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art
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Angels carved out of stone from a building
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Join Frederic Schwartz as he examines the little-known early ventures of major German author Peter Weiss.
April 3
Book discussion announcement for 'The Fine Art of Persuasion' with author Gennifer Weisenfeld at Duke University. Features speakers John Carpenter and Jilly Traganou. Event date: November 13, 2025. Cover art is visually divided with bold text and abstract imagery.
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Reading Modern Art is a new series featuring lively discussion about a new book, with the author and experts in the field.
Gennifer Weisenfeld
November 13, 2025
A green background features two artworks: on the left, a stylized poster of a lamp with elegant, curved lines; on the right, a detailed pencil sketch of an elderly man seated, conveying a calm, contemplative mood.
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In our inaugural event for our new series, Reading Modern Art, Christopher Green
Christopher Green
October 24, 2025
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.
Adrienne L. Childs
March 28, 2025
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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Deciphering written notes and Cubist drawings, scholar Neil 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