Past Duncan Phillips Lectures

Past Duncan Phillips Lectures

• 25 Feb 1987       Sir Lawrence Gowing, art historian
  Self Consciousness in Art: Cezanne's Self Portraits
   
• 13 May 1987      David Hockney, artist
  Painting's Photography: Printing and Seeing
   
• 20 Oct 1987      John Rewald, art historian, author 
  Visits with Artists in Europe
   
• 2 Mar 1988        Walter Hopps 
  Private Collecting and a Public Place: The Modern Pioneers in America
   
• 25 May 1988      Kirk Varnedoe 
  Symbolism and Science: Redon, Seurat, Gauguin et al
   
• 4 Oct 1988        Carlos Fuentes, author
  Art and Literature: The Spanish Image
   
• 6 Mar 1989        Rand Castile     
  What They Sought: Japan, the West, and the Arts
   
• 25 May 1989      Marcia Tucker, founder, New Museum of Modern Art, New York
  Hide and Seek: A Brief History of Vision, Representation, and Control in Contemporary Art
   
• 3 Oct 1989        John Elderfield
  Abstraction/Representation
   
• 27 Feb 1990       Nancy Graves, sculptor
  Recent Work: The Relationship Between Painting and Sculpture
   
• 9 May 1990        Michael Graves, architect 
  Figurative Architecture: Problems with the Recent Past
   
• 22 Oct 1990      Robert Hughes, art critic
  Rebellion and Tradition
   
• 20 Feb 1991       John Walsh
  Building a New Museum: An Approach for the 20th Century
   
• 5 Jun 1991         Robert Herbert, art historian
  American Painting in the Belle Epoque
   
• 31 Oct 1991      Christopher Green, art historian
  The Magician and the Child:Two Metaphors for the Artist in Modernism
   
• 4 Mar 1992        Michael Kimmelman, art critic
  The Modern Museum at a Time of Social Change
   
• 13 May 1992      Helen Frankenthaler, artist           
  Helen Frankenthaler: Slides with Q. and A.
   
• 20 Oct 1992      Wayne Thiebaud, artist   
  A Personal View of Drawing and Painting
   
• 3 Mar 1993        Roger Shattuck, linguist and critic
  The Fig Leaf and the Naked Eye: Traditions of Forbidden Knowledge in the Visual Arts
   
• 12 May 1993      Charles S. Moffett
  The Boating Party and Other Icons of Impressionism
   
• 20 Oct 1993      Nicholas Fox Weber     
  Patron Saints: Five Rebels Who Opened America to a New Art in the 1930s
   
• 16 Mar 1994      William Christenberry, artist
  A Southern Perspective: 1961-1994
   
• 25 May 1994      Mark Helprin, author
  Against the Dehumanization of Art
   
• 1994                 Susan Rothenberg, artist
  John Richardson, art historian, author
  Vicki Goldberg, art historian, author,photography critic
   
• 6 Nov 1995        Eugenia Parry Janis
  Dark Object: A Crime Album and Its Stories
   
• 7 Mar 1996        Paul Goldberger
  Is There Still a Reason for Cities?
   
• 8 May 1996        Martin Puryear, sculptor
  Puryear on Puryear

• 20 Nov 1996      Richard R. Brettell, art historian
  The Seine: Its Image in French Writing and Painting in the Age of Impressionism (or Leisure and Lust along the Seine)
   
• 12 Mar 1997      Jack Flam, art historian
  Matisse and the Language of Signs
   
• 16 Apr 1997      Joel Meyerowitz
  Re: Vision; Tradition and Contemporary Photographic Values
   
• 13 Nov 1997      Wanda Corn, art historian
  Why Don't We Laugh at Art? 

• 11 Feb 1998       John Szarkowski, art historian, curator, photographer
  Stieglitz at his Best

• 13 May 1998      Deborah Butterfield, sculptor
  Butterfield: Horses

• 5 Nov 1998        George Shackelford, art historian, curator
  The Mind and the Eye of Impressionism:  Edgar Degas and Claude Monet

• 17 Mar 1999      Adam Gopnik, art critic
  A Wild Exactitude:  The Continuity of American Art

• 28 Apr 1999      Bill Viola, artist
  Viola on Viola 

• 17 Nov 1999      Arlette Sérullaz, art historian, museum director
  Chopin and Delacroix

• 29 Mar 2000      Dore Ashton, art critic
  Has the Center Held?

• 3 May 2000        Malcolm Morley, artist     
  Paintings with Objects
   
• 15 Nov 2000      Hilton Kramer, art critic
  Minimalism as History
   
• 18 Apr 2001      Dorothy M. Kosinski
  Our Narratives of Modern Art
   
• 16 May 2001      Elizabeth Murray, artist
  Murray on Murray
   
• 7 Nov 2001        Douglas Druick
  Still Life, the Sunflower, and the Studio of the South
   
• 6 Mar 2002        Ned Rifkin
  A Curatorial Work in Progress: Ten Years of Conceiving an Exhibition
   
• 22 May 2002      Howard Hodgkin, painter
  Hodgkin on Hodgkin
   
• 31 Mar 2004      David Bates, painter and sculptor
  Bates on Bates

• 19 May 2004      Simon Schama, historian
  British Land Art

• 20 Oct 2004      Raymond D. Nasher, collector
  Modern Sculpture in an Urban Environment: The Nasher Sculpture Center

• 9 Mar 2005        Terry Teachout, critic     
  Multiple Modernisms: What a Novice Collector Learned From Duncan Phillips

• 18 Oct 2005      Sean Scully, painter         
  Scully on Scully
   
• 22 Feb 2006       Richard Thomson, art historian
  Renegotiating Narrative in the 1890s: Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec, Vallotton, Vuillard
   
• 26 Apr 2006      Jed Perl, critic, painter
  Authority and Freedom: Toward a Theory of Artistic Experience
   
• 21 Feb 2007       June Leaf, artist
  June Leaf on June Leaf
   
• 11 Apr 2007      Ann Hamilton, artist
  Ann Hamilton on Ann Hamilton

• 6 Dec 2007        Robert Storr, critic and curator
  The Modern Museum and the Challenge of 'Post-modern' Art
   
• 15 May 2008      Kerry James Marshall, artist         
  Kerry James Marshall on Kerry James Marshall
   
• 16 Oct 2008      Christo and Jeanne-Claude, artists
  Over the River: Two Works in Progress
   
• 16 Jul 2009        Eric Fischl, artist
  The Death of Painting

• 9 Oct 2009        Adam Gopnik, writer/critic
  Van Gogh's Ear and the World's Attention
   
• 3 Oct 2010        Alfredo Jaar, artist
  “Alfredo Jaar on Alfredo Jaar”
   Keynote to the International Forum weekend
  
  
• 17 Mar 2011        Peter Doig, artist
  “Peter Doig on Peter Doig”
  Special installation – One on One: Peter Doig/Georges Braque
  
  
• 11 Nov 2011        Penelope Curtis, Tate Britain director
  Penelope Curtis on Tate Britain 
  Keynote to the International Forum weekend 

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