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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.

Upcoming 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.

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.

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

Around Town: Affiliated Events

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

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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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