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Distinguished Lecture Series Archive

The following scholars and professionals were invited to participate in our "Distinguished Lecture Series". We thank the anonymous donor's family, supporting this series, for their continued generosity.

Art History

April 12, 2022
Eugene Y. Wang, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art at Harvard University
How Was Art Electrified? The Formation of the Global Brain in China

February 6, 2020
Steven Nelson, Professor of African American Art, UCLA and Andrew W. Mellon Professor at the Center for Advanced Study of the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art 
"Mark Bradford: Counterfeit Abstraction"

March 19, 2019
Krista Thompson, Mary Jane Crowe Professor of Art History, Northwestern University
"'Disregard': Tom Lloyd and the Art Workers' Coalition"
April 9, 2018
Mabel O. Wilson, Art Historian
"Building Race and Nation-Slavery's Influence on American Civic Architecture"
October 13, 2016
Elizabeth Boone, Art Historian, Alumna '70
"Spatial Grammars: The Union of Art and Writing in the Painted Books of Aztec Mexico"
January 28, 2016
Timothy Morton, Chair, English Department, Rice University
"X-Existence"
April 2, 2015
Walter Benn Michaels, Art Critic
"The Art of Inequality"

April 10, 2014
Michael Fried, Art Critic
"Orientation in Painting: Caspar David Friedrich"

April 4, 2013
Therese O'Malley, Associate Dean,  Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, National Gallery, Washington, D.C. "In the Park: Lewis Miller and Mid-19th Century American Landscape"/ Related Article
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April 5, 2012
Peter Galassi, Art Historian
"Pathways of Modern Photography"

April 22, 2011
Charles W. Haxthausen, Williams College
"The Cathedral of Cinema: Fritz Lang's Metropolis"

Studio Art

October 31, 2022
Sam Chung, Ceramicist 
"A Journey in Clay"

March 18, 2021
Zena Howard, Architect (Perkins&Will)

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October 25, 2018
Ann Gale, Painter
"Ann Gale Paintings"

 October 19, 2017
Stanley Lewis, Painter
"Drawing from Claude Lorrain"

January 31, 2017
Thomas Demand, Photographer, Sculptor

September 15, 2015
Michael Simon, Ceramicist
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March 18, 2015
Duane Michals, Photographer
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October 7, 2013
Jerome Witkin, Contemporary Figurative Painter
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January 28, 2012
William Tate, Professor, James Madison University, Architect
"u: Building Puccini: architecture, memes, education + landers"
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November 16, 2011
James McGarrell, Painter
"The Rules of the Game"
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