Lecture Abstracts Archive
Offered in conjunction with National Gallery exhibitions and special lecture series.
Sights and Sounds of Eighteenth-Century Venice (April 2011)
Truth to Nature: British Photography and Pre-Raphaelitism (January 2011)
The Early Modernists and America (November 2010)
Symposium: Robert Frank and The Photographic Book, 1930–1960 (January 2009)
More Than Ninety Miles Away: A Dialogue about Cuban Art (June 2008–October 2011)
Symposium: En Plein Air: Representing Landscape in Nineteenth-Century France and Britain (May 2008)
The Fifty-seventh A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts 2008: Bosch and Bruegel: Parallel Worlds (April–May, 2008)
Symposium: The Art of the American Snapshot, 1888–1978 (November 2007)
Wyeth Lecture in American Art, Ground Swell: Edward Hopper in 1939 (October 2007)
History and the New Photography (June 2007)
The Fifty-Sixth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Last Looks, Last Books: The Binocular Poetry of Death (April–May, 2007)
Jasper Johns: The First Decade (April 2007)
Diamonstein-Spielvogel Lecture Series: "Theory of Boundaries": A Conversation with Mel Bochner (March 2007)
Elson Lecture: Persistence and Style, Sean Scully (March 2007)
An Inside Look at Netherlandish Diptychs (December 2006)
The Fifty-Fifth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Really Old Masters: Age, Infirmity, and Reinvention (November–December, 2006)
An Expanding Vision: Constable and the Transformation of Landscape (October 2006)
Rediscovering Venetian Renaissance Painting (September 2006)
Charles Sheeler: Across Media (June 2006)
Cézanne's Provence (May 2006)
The Fifty-Fourth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: "Great Work": Terms of Aesthetic Experience in Ancient Mesopotamia (April–May, 2005)
The Edgar P. Richardson Symposium: Gilbert Stuart (April 2005)
On the Place Pigalle: Art at the Heart of Montmartre (April 2005)
Diamonstein-Spielvogel Lecture Series: Andy Goldsworthy (January 2005)
The Dutch Interior (January 2005)
Gerard ter Borch: Contemplating the Interior (November 2004)
Artistic Exchange on the Mediterranean Rim: Islamic, Byzantine, and European Art (October and November 2004)
Dan Flavin: A Retrospective (October 2004)
Sanford Gifford (September 2004)
The Fifty-Third A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: More Than Meets the Eye (April–May 2004)
New Discoveries in the Art of the Ancient Maya (April 2004)
Diamonstein-Spielvogel Lecture Series: The Intelligence of Picasso (December 2003)
A Day in the Life (November 2003)
Portraiture in the 18th Century (May 2003)
The Fifty-Second A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts: Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art since Pollock (April–May 2003)
The Art of Darkness: Frederic Remington's Nocturnes (April 2003)
Vuillard (February 2003)
Goya's Images of Women (March 2002)
Henry Moore (November 2001)
Beauty Adorns Virtue: Renaissance Portraits of Women (October 2001)
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