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Lecture-related events are free and open to the public. Seating is available on a first-come, first-seated basis. Registration is not required.
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
David Gariff, lecturer, National Gallery of Art
Illustrated lectures by noted scholars
Illustrated lectures by noted scholars
The Elson Lecture Series features distinguished contemporary artists whose work is represented in the Gallery's permanent collection. The Honorable and Mrs. Edward E. Elson generously endowed this series in 1992.
Glenn Ligon, artist, with Molly Donovan and James Meyer, associate curators of modern art, National Gallery of Art
Glenn Ligon's intertextual works examine cultural and social identity—often through such sources as literature, Afrocentric coloring books, and photographs—to reveal the ways in which slavery, the civil rights movement, and politics inform our understanding of American society. Born in the Bronx, New York, in 1960, Ligon received a BA from Wesleyan University in 1982 and participated in the Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program in 1985. He lives and works in New York City.
The Gallery owns 16 prints by Ligon, including a suite of four etchings (1992), Runaways (1993), and Condition Report (2000). Last year the Gallery acquired its first painting by the artist. Untitled (I Am a Man) (1988) is a reinterpretation of the signs carried by 1,300 striking African American sanitation workers in Memphis in 1968 and made famous in Ernest Withers' photographs of the march. Proclaiming "I Am a Man," the signs evoke Ralph Ellison's famous line—"I am an invisible man." Approximating the size of these signs, Ligon's roughly made painting combines layers of history, meaning, and physical material in a dense, resonant object. As the first painting in which the artist appropriated text, it is a breakthrough. In subsequent works he would transform texts into fields that fluctuate between abstraction and legibility.
Ligon has received numerous awards, including the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2003) and the Skowhegan Medal for Painting (2006). The midcareer retrospective Glenn Ligon: America, organized by the Whitney, received the International Association of Art Critics Award (2012).
The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts were established in 1949 to bring to the people of the United States the results of the best contemporary thought and scholarship bearing upon the subject of the fine arts.
In anticipation of high attendance, the six lectures in this series will be video recorded. A screening of the recording will be shown the week after each lecture in the East Building Auditorium at 12:00 p.m.
Out of Site in Plain View: A History of Exhibiting Architecture since 1750
Barry Bergdoll, The Philip Johnson Chief Curator of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art, and professor, Columbia University
A reading by Harry Cooper, curator and head, department of modern art, National Gallery of Art, with original slides courtesy of the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation
© Estate of Roy Lichtenstein
Charles W. Haxthausen, Robert Sterling Clark Professor of Art History, Williams College
Alison Luchs, curator of early European sculpture, National Gallery of Art
Tania Bruguera, artist; Tom Finkelpearl, executive director, Queens Museum of Art; and Mierle Laderman Ukeles, artist
Book signing of What We Made: Conversations on Art and Social Cooperation follows.
Charles Ritchie, associate curator, department of modern prints and drawings, National Gallery of Art
Tim Barringer, Paul Mellon Professor of the History of Art and director of graduate studies, Yale University; Jason Rosenfeld, distinguished chair and professor of art history, Marymount Manhattan College; and Diane Waggoner, associate curator, department of photographs, National Gallery of Art
Book signing of Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design follows and the curators of the exhibition Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design, 1848–1900 will be in the galleries for a question-and-answer session.
Mia Fineman, assistant curator, department of photographs, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Book signing of Faking It: Manipulated Photography before Photoshop follows.
Dale Kent, professor emerita of history, University of California, Riverside, and professorial fellow, School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne
Sarah McPhee, Winship Distinguished Research Professor, Emory University
A book signing of Bernini's Beloved: A Portrait of Costanza Piccolomini follows.
Oskar Bätschmann, Samuel H. Kress Professor, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art
Andrew Robison, A.W. Mellon Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings, National Gallery of Art
This lunchtime series highlights new research by Gallery staff, interns, fellows, and special guests. The 30-minute talks are followed by question-and-answer periods.
Joseph Hammond, research associate, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art
Charles W. Haxthausen, Robert Sterling Clark Professor of Art History, Williams College
Jon Frederick, design assistant, department of design, National Gallery of Art
Carol Christensen, senior conservator of paintings, and Gretchen Hirschauer, associate curator, department of Italian and Spanish paintings, National Gallery of Art
Wilford W. Scott, head of adult programs, National Gallery of Art
Jeffrey Mumford, composer-in-residence, National Gallery of Art, and distinguished professor of music, Lorain County Community College
Faya Causey, head of academic programs, National Gallery of Art
Barbara Berrie, senior conservation scientist, scientific research department, National Gallery of Art
Adam Davies, lecturer and media specialist, National Gallery of Art
Carolyn Miner, Robert H. Smith Research Curator, department of sculpture and decorative arts, National Gallery of Art
Lindsay Harris, exhibition research assistant, department of photographs, National Gallery of Art
Shelley M. Bennett, former curator of European art and senior research associate, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens
Notable Lectures give access to special Gallery talks by well-known curators, historians, and authors.
Diamonstein-Spielvogel Lecture Series
The Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art
A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts
Conversations with Artists Series
Conversations with Collectors Series
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