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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
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Paul Klee was unrivaled among his contemporaries in his wide-ranging experimentation with materials and unconventional techniques. Join scholar Charles W. Haxthausen as he explores the variety of Klee’s practice and reflects on its art-historical implications.
Charles W. Haxthausen
November 29, 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 Adès
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
Collage of two photos; Left: Closeup of colorful silk painting; Right: Photo of two people holding up a silk paining panel against wood floor
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Watch part one of the Department of Asian Art's day-long symposium with speakers from Japan, China, Great Britain, and the U.S.
Keisuke Sugiyama, Pengzhu Lou, and Meejung Kim-Marandet
June 1, 2019
Photo collage of two flower paintings; Left: Blue flower on gold background painting; Right: Black and white photo of painting on left
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Watch part two of the Department of Asian Art's day-long symposium with speakers from Japan, China, Great Britain, and the U.S.
Yukio Lippit, Hyonjeong Kim Han, and Marco Leona
June 1, 2019
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
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