Art Institute of Chicago Lectures

Curator Kathleen Bickford Berzock traces the history of African Art at the museum from the 1920s to the present, introdu... Read more

David Ekserdjian, Professor of Art History at the University of Leicester, speaks on the draughtman's transformation of ... Read more

David Levering Lewis, New York University professor and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, discusses his new book. The auth... Read more

On February 14 the Sustaining Fellows gathered for a recap of the previous year and also hear some news of things to com... Read more

Painstakingly restored, three relief panels from the left wing of the Gates of Paradise and sections of the door's friez... Read more

Langdon Hammer, professor at Yale University, draws on his recent book, Hart Crane: Complete Poems and Selected Letters,... Read more

Art historian T. J. Clark, University of California at Berkeley, looks at the period when Cézanne and Pissarro painted s... Read more

Hal Foster, Princeton University, looks at avant garde art with a focus on the mimetic excess found in Dada and its prog... Read more

Center for Creative Photography Curator Britt Salvesen discusses the contents of the Harry Callahan Archive, some of the... Read more

Scholar Helen Vendler, Harvard University, discusses the poet Robert Lowell at the end of his career, when he viewed gre... Read more

Adrienne Mayor, Stanford University, cites the Art Institute's Mithradates coin as she unwinds the treacherous tale of R... Read more

David Raskin, School of the Art Institute, explores the relationship of Baltz' photographs to Object Theory, Picture The... Read more

In celebration of the 400th birthday anniversary of Rembrandt, art historian Stephanie Dickey describes the young genius... Read more

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Art Institute's acquisition of this masterpiece by El Greco, art historian Ric... Read more

This engaging day devoted to Pop and Conceptual artist Ed Ruscha, which kicked off the exhibition Ed Ruscha and Photogra... Read more

Irish-born poet Paul Muldoon, professor at Princeton University and poetry editor of the New Yorker, reads selections fr... Read more

Joan Arenberg moderates a panel discussion with collector Curt Conklin, artist and critic Michelle Grabner, and galleris... Read more

Matthew Affron, University of Virginia Art Museum, spoke on "The Dynamics of Modern Drawing." The symposium "The Gray Co... Read more

Katherine Bussard discusses how photography has been both an inspiration and a source of discovery for this seminal Pop ... Read more

The exhibition Jasper Johns: Gray examines for the first time this acclaimed and influential artist's use of the color g... Read more