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Lectures & Symposia
Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art
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Collage of modern art works in red, green, and orange tones against black background
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Paul Klee: "In the Magic Kitchen" | MetSpeaks
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: From Rogue to Rags
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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A Picasso Sketchbook: Fantasy and Reality
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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Essential Cubism: The Missing Chapters
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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The Market for Modernism | MetSpeaks
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
White room with the walls decorated in Cubist paintings belonging to George Costakis
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International Impulses: Douglas Cooper's The Cubist Epoch
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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Art x Architecture: Russian Intersections 1917–37, Part 3
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
Black and white hand-drawn sketch of a Svoboda workers' club in Moscow from around 1927.
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Art x Architecture: Russian Intersections 1917–37, Part 2
Part 2 of 3 in The Leonard A. Lauder Lecture Series on Modern Art– Art x Architecture: Russian Intersections 1917–37.
Jean-Louis Cohen
March 5, 2019
Two building sketches by Leonid Alexander and Viktor Vesnin for the Palace of Labor in Moscow in 1922.
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Art x Architecture: Russian Intersections 1917–37, Part 1
Part 1 of 3 in The Leonard A. Lauder Lecture Series on Modern Art– Art x Architecture: Russian Intersections 1917–37.
Jean-Louis Cohen
February 26, 2019
Inside spread of a catalogue from the First International Dada Fair in 1920 featuring a Dada painting.
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Cubism Under Dada Scrutiny
Leonard A. Lauder Distinguished Scholar Adrian Sudhalter reflects on the achievements of Dada and how Dada and photography critique Cubism.
Adrian Sudhalter
December 13, 2018