The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art, a leading research organization dedicated exclusively to the study of modernism, has announced its 2019–20 academic year appointments.
Two scholars have been selected to pursue research projects at the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center this year and will hold the title Distinguished Scholar: Dawn Ades, Professor Emerita of the History and Theory of Art at the University of Essex, and Professor of the History of Art at the Royal Academy (residency November 2019); and Charles W. Haxthausen, Robert Sterling Clark Professor of Art History, Emeritus, Williams College (residency October 2019–May 2020).
Additionally, four Leonard A. Lauder Fellows have been selected to undertake research at the Center: Giovanni Casini (Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2018–20), Meghan Forbes (Postdoctoral Fellowship 2019–21), Raphael Koenig (Postdoctoral Fellowship 2019–20), and Hilary Whitham, University of Pennsylvania (Pre-doctoral Fellowship, 2018–20).
"We are pleased that such distinguished colleagues will join the Research Center this year,” says Stephanie D’Alessandro, Leonard A. Lauder Research Center Curator in Charge. “Each brings a great knowledge of their subject along with enthusiasm to share with colleagues in both the Research Center and The Met as a whole. We are delighted to support their research projects."
About the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center
Founded in April 2013, The Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art is a leading center for scholarship on modern art, with a special focus on Cubism. The first such institution dedicated exclusively to the study of modernism within an encyclopedic museum, the Research Center makes critical contributions to scholarship through its fellowships for emerging as well as senior scholars and its robust program of exhibitions, lectures, publications, research projects, and workshops.
Each year, the Research Center awards Leonard A. Lauder Fellowships for pre- and post-doctoral candidates. Recent awards have supported the work of scholars focused on Art Brut, Czech modernism, Dada, Brazilian modern art, interwar European Abstraction, Russian Constructivism, and Surrealism, in addition to the agents, dealers, and reception of Cubism. The institution also supports the invited residencies of senior scholars of modern art, who pursue their own studies while participating in the activities of the Research Center.
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November 18, 2019
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