Past Lectures
2010
Lincoln Perry: Back to the Future: Stealing from the Old Masters
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Lincoln Perry speaks about his Luddite frustration with technology, and his retreat into 15th century media.
As a painter and sculptor, Mr. Perry has found aid and comfort in carefully looking at his tradition with an eye not to the superficial "look" of the old masters, but to their deeper structural, metaphorical thinking. As T.S. Eliot suggested, we engage in a conversation with our predecessors, taking and transforming their gift to us.
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2009
Comix 101: Art Spiegelman
Art Spiegelman has almost single-handedly brought comic books out of the toy closet and onto the literature shelves. In 1992, he won the Pulitzer Prize for his masterful Holocaust narrative Maus— which portrayed Jews as mice and Nazis as cats. Maus II continued the remarkable story of his parents’ survival of the Nazi regime and their lives later in America. His comics are best known for their shifting graphic styles, their formal complexity, and controversial content. In his lecture “Comix 101" Spiegelman takes his audience on a chronological tour of the evolution of comics, all the while explaining the value of this medium and why it should not be ignored. He believes that in our post-literate culture the importance of the comic is on the rise, for “comics echo the way the brain works."
2008
Warren Adelson, Scholar
2007
Phyllis Lambert, Founding Director and Chair of the Board of Trustees, Canadian Centre for Architecture
2006
Burt Glinn, Photographer, former president, Magnum Photos
2005
James Cuno, President and Eloise W. Martin Director, Art Institute of Chicago
2004
Nicholas B.A. Nicholson, Scholar
2001
Andrew Stevovich, Artist
2000
Elizabeth Catlett, Sculptor, printmaker, educator
1999
Robert Hughes, Art Critic, TIME
1997
Susan Kuretsky, Professor, department of art, Vassar College
1996
Peter Marzio, Director, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
1995
Robert P. Bergman, Director, Cleveland Museum of Art
1994
John Wilmerding, Professor, department of art and archaeology, Princeton University
1993
Paul Miller, Associate curator, The Preservation Society of Newport County
1992
Charles C. Moffet, Director
The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
1991
Philip Pearlstein, Artist and educator
1991
Peter C. Sutton, Curator, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1989
George T.M. Shackelford, Curator, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
1988
Vincent Scully, Professor, department of art history, Yale University
1987
J. Kirk Varnedoe, Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
1986
Sam Hunter, Professor, department of art and archaeology, Princeton University
1985
John Julius Norwich, Author, lecturer, broadcaster