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Conversations in Modern European Art

Conversations in Modern European Art, a new initiative launching in Spring 2026, aims to foster spirited dialogue about modern art and culture in Europe. The series will host lectures, conversations, and other events — roughly four per year — and is open to all interested publics.

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Upcoming Lectures

October 9, 2026, 10am-4pm

Workshop on Sculpture and Becoming
Keynote Lecture: Mark Antliff, "Sculpting Prefiguration: Henri Bergson, Affinity, and the Insurrectionary Avant-Garde”

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Sculptor carving a stone head sculpture with chisel and mallet in studio.
Walter Bennington, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska Carving the Hieratic Head of Ezra Pound, ca. April 1914.

November 5, 2026

Linda Nochlin Lecture co-sponsored by
Conversations in Modern European Art
Bridget Alsdorf will lecture on her new book on love and collaboration in Scandinavian modernism.

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Vintage film production still showing an actress, a seated man, and film crew with a tripod-mounted camera.
Urban Gad and Asta Nielsen, Studio Babelsberg, Feb. 1912

April 13, 2027

Rachel Silveri, "Voilà la femme: Gabrielle Buffet's & Germaine Everling's Writings on Dada.”

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Dadaist drawing by Francis Picabia titled 'Le Fidèle', featuring a mechanical frame with pink and blue geometric panels and French handwritten text.
Francis Picabia,Gabrielle Buffet (Elle corrige les moeurs en riant), 1915.

Past Lectures

April 22, 2026

Anne Lafont, Africaneries, or, Stylistic Dismemberment

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Hand-painted ceramic tiles showing two figures in traditional or ceremonial dress with feathered headdresses and spears.

April 21, 2026

Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen,
Camille Claudel’s Distaff Gospels

Fifteenth Annual Robert Rosenblum Lecture at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
In honor of the late Robert Rosenblum, Henry Ittleson, Jr. Professor of Modern European Art at the Institute of Fine Arts

Profile photograph of a woman in a dark Victorian-style dress and feathered hat, holding a gun, posed against patterned curtains.
Camille Claudel with a pistol, ca. 1892

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