NSA Past Speakers
Updated: Apr 5
Garrels, Gary
Elise S. Haas Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
"The New SFMOMA and the Fisher Collection"
3/29/2017
Greenough, Sarah
Senior Curator of Photographs, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
2/22/2017
Mazow, PhD, Leo G.
Louise B. and J. Harwood Cochrane Curator and Head of the Department of American Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
"Thomas Hart Benton and Edward Hopper: Versions of the West"
1/25/2017
Markonish, Denise
Curator, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
"Contemporary Art + Wonder at Mass MoCA"
11/30/2016
Knox, Tim, FSA
Director and Marlay Curator, Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
"Richard, 7th Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion and Sir John Soane: Two Regency Collectors and their Museums"
10/26/2016
Culp, Brandy S.
Brandy S. Culp and Associates
"An Eye for Opulence: The Art and Architecture of Colonial to Antebellum Charleston"
9/28/2016
Pollock, Lindsay
Editor-in-Chief of Art in America and Author
"Why Contemporary Art Matters….From Warhol to Wiley"
4/18/2016
Bailey, PhD, Collin
Director, The Morgan Library and Museum
"History of the Morgan"
3/23/2016
Mulder, PhD, Stephennie
Associate Professor of Islamic Art & Archaeology, University of Texas, Austin
"A Heritage in Peril: Saving the Past in the Cradle of Civilization"
2/24/2016
Foster, Carter E.
Steven and Ann Ames Curator of Drawing, Whitney Museum of American Art
"Edward Hopper: Drawing, Painting, Memory, Imagination"
1/27/2016
Hartley, PhD, Cody
Director of Curatorial Affairs, Georgia O'Keeffe Museum
"Behind the Black Door: Understanding O'Keeffe's Abstractions"
11/18/2015
Aquin, Stéphane
Chief Curator, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC
"The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden: A View on the Art of Our Times from The National Mall”
10/21/2015
Rishel, PhD, Joseph J.
The Gisela and Dennis Alter Senior Curator of European Paintings, Philadelphia Museum of Art
"Discovering the Impressionists: Paul Durand-Ruel and the New Painting"
9/30/2015
O'Connor, Anne Marie
Author and Correspondent
"The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt’s Masterpiece and the Restitution Battle that Shocked the World"
4/13/2015
Jones, PhD, Kimberly A.
Curator of Nineteenth-Century French Paintings, National Gallery of Art
3/18/2015
Bomford, David
Chief Conservator, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
"Technique of Impressionists"
2/18/2015
Adamson, Glenn
Director, Museum of Arts & Design, New York
"The Present and Future: Art Glass in the 21st Century"
1/21/2015
Allen, PhD, Brian T.
Director, Museum Division, New York Historical Society
"Thomas Cole's Course of American Politics in the 1830's"
11/19/2014
Cooper, PhD, Harry
Curator of Modern Art, National Gallery of Art
"What Was Cubism?"
10/15/2014
Child, PhD, Fred
"Performance Today" In Honor of William Hennessay, Director, Chrysler Museum of Art 1997-2014
"Driving People to Music and to Museums"
9/24/2014
Fiori, Pamela
Former Editor, Town & Country Magazine
“Spirited Places: Capri, St. Barths, Palm Beach”
4/22/2014
Tschirch, John
Director of Museum Affairs, The Preservation Society of Newport County
“Great Estates Revisited: Renaissance Villas to the Great Estates of Virginia”
3/26/2014
Wolbers, PhD, Richard
Conservator/Lecturer, University of Delaware
“Conservation Challenges of Modern Visual Arts: The City as a Canvas”
2/26/2014
Braun, PhD, Emily
Curator, The Leonard Lauder Collection Distinguished Professor, Hunter College and Graduate Center, CUNY
“Collecting Cubism: The Leonard Lauder Cubist Trust”
1/29/2014 (Canceled due to weather)
Walker, PhD, Andrew
Director, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth
“The Amon Carter Museum of Art's Guide to Building a World-Class Collection in Fifty Years”
11/20/2013
Bolger, PhD, Doreen
Director, The Baltimore Museum of Art
“The Baltimore Museum - Art for the 21st Century”
10/23/2013
Reynolds, Jock
Director, The Yale University Art Gallery
“Yale Art Gallery's Recent Expansion and Reinstallation”
9/25/2013
Mayes, Frances
Award Winning Author
“Under the Tuscan Sun”
4/16/2013
Wright, PhD, Karol
Director, Corning Museum
"Telling the World Glass: 60 Years of Collecting, Teaching & Demonstrating at The Corning Museum of Glass"
3/27/2013
McClure, Ian
Chief Curator, Conservation Department, Yale University
"Surprises in Store - Recent Discoveries at Yale University Art Gallery"
2/27/2013
Scorca, Mark
President/CEP, OPERA America
"Why Opera Matters"
1/23/2013
Zugazagoitia, PhD, Julian
Director, Nelson-Adkins Museum
"From the Fridge to the Oven"
11/28/2012
Kornhauser, PhD, Betsy
Senior Curator of American Painting, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Mabel Brown Lecture - "A Curator's Perspective on the New American Painting & Sculpture Galleries at the Met"
10/24/2012
Shiner, Eric
Director, Andy Warhol Museum
"Andy Warhol: Consumption x Production"
9/12/2012
Bacigalupi, PhD, Don
Director, Crystal Bridges Museum
"Crystal Bridges: An American Art Museum for the 21st Century"
4/17/2012
Pocobene, Gainfranco
Chief Conservator, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
"Conservation Today at the Venerable Isabelle Stewart Gardner Museum"
3/28/2012
Gordon, PhD, Alden Rand
Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of Fine Arts, Trinity College
"Public vs. Private: The Patronage of Madame de Pompadour in 18th Century France"
2/22/2012
Heinrich, PhD, Christoph
Director, Denver Art Museum
"Embrace: 17 Artists Take Over the Libeskind Building"
1/25/2012
Prescott-Walker, Christina
Senior Vice President, Sotheby's, Department Director Chinese Works of Art, European Ceramics & Chinese Export Porcelain
"Oriental Lowestoft to 'Chinese Export': Trends in Collecting Chinese Export"
11/30/2011
Morton, PhD, Mary
Curator and Head of Department of French Paintings, National Gallery, Washington, DC
Mabel Brown Lecture - "Gauguin's Myths"
10/26/2011
Kosinski, PhD, Dorothy
Director, Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
"The Phillips Collection: 90 Years of New"
9/28/2011
Campbell, Tom
Director, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
"Discovering History: The Met and the Ancient World"
4/5/2011
McClintock, T. K.
Conservator, Director, T. K. McClintock Studio / Chief Advisor, World Monuments Fund
"The Conservation of Juanqinzhai: The Qianlong Emperor's Lodge in the Forbidden City"
2/23/2011
Lowry, Glenn
Director, Museum of Modern Art, New York
"MOMA in the 21st Century"
1/26/2011
Ferber, Linda
Vice President & Museum Director, New York Historical Society
"In Search of National Landscape: The Art of William T. Richards"
12/1/2010
Yount, Sylvia L.
Chief Curator, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Mabel Brown Lecture - "Most Intimately Connected: American Art and the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts"
10/27/2010
Benjamin, Brent
Director, St. Louis Art Museum
"The Saint Louis Art Museum: Past, Present and Future"
9/22/2010
Stamberg, Susan
Nationally-known NPR Broadcast Journalist and Author
"Why Museums are Necessary"
4/27/2010
Poulet, Anna L.
Director, The Frick Collection
"A Gallery of Worthies: Thomas Jefferson and Jean-Antoine Houdon"
3/24/2010
Prescott-Walker, Christina
Senior Vice President, Sotheby’s, Department Director Chinese Works of Art, European Ceramics & Chinese Export Porcelain
"Fashion Fakes and Finds: Fifty Years of Fluctuation in the Market for English Ceramics"
2/24/2010
Teitelbaum, Matthew
Michael & Sonja Koerner Director and CEO, Art Gallery of Ontario
"Creating the New Art Gallery of Ontario: Why a Building is Not Just a Building"
1/27/2010
Bruno, Lisa
Head Conservator of Objects, Brooklyn Museum of Art
"To Live Forever: Highlights of Conservation Treatments"
11/18/2009
Price, Mary Sue Sweeny
Director, The Newark Museum of Art
Mabel Brown Lecture - "The New Museum in the 21st Century"
10/28/2009
de Montebello, Philippe
Director Emeritus, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
"The Hidden Met"
9/23/2009
Dawes, Nicholas
Antiques Dealer, Author, Parsons School of Design Faculty, frequent appraiser on "Antiques Roadshow", "The Foremost Expert on Lalique"
"The Art of Rene Lalique"
4/22/2009
Pollock, Lindsay
Author, Journalist with Bloomberg
"The Girl with the Gallery: The Story of Edith Halpert"
3/25/2009
Leighton, John
Director General, National Galleries of Scotland
"Tartan Art: Collecting for the National Galleries of Scotland"
2/25/2009
Williams, Don
Senior Furniture Conservator, Smithsonian Institution
"How to Read a Piece of Antique Furniture"
1/28/2009
Perl, Jed
Author, Art Critic
"Antoine's Alphabet: Watteau & His World"
12/3/2008
Pulitzer, Emily Rauh
Founder & Chair, The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis
"The Pulitzer Foundation for Arts: A Unique Institution"
11/19/2008
Rub, Timothy
Director, The Cleveland Museum of Art
Mabel Brown Lecture - "The Cleveland Museum of Art: Past, Present and Future"
10/22/2008
Rockwell, Peter
Artist / Sculptor
"Norman Rockwell Paints a Post Cover"
9/24/2008
Dubin, Tiffany
Author/Founder, Sotheby's Fashion Report
"Collecting"
4/22/2008
Bacigalupi, PhD, Don
President, Director/CEO, Toledo Museum of Fine Art
"The Glass Pavilion & Art-Glass Collection"
3/26/2008
Hiebert, PhD, Fredrik
Archeologist, National Geographic Fellow
"Afghanistan, Rediscovered Treasurers"
2/27/2008
Perl, Jed
Art Critic for The New Republic and Lecturer
"New Art City: Manhattan at Mid-Century"
1/23/2008
Cannadine, David FBA, LittD
Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother Professor of History - Institute of Historical Research, University of London
"Andrew W. Mellon: Collector & Benefactor"
11/28/2007
Davis, Deborah
Author
"The Secret Lives of Frames"
11/7/2007
Curry, David Park
Senior Curator of American and Decorative Arts - Baltimore
Mabel Brown Lecture - "William Merritt Chase"
10/24/2007
Christenberry, William
Photographer, Sculptor, Painter
"Southern Views"
9/26/2007
Sheraton, Mimi
Author, Restaurant Critic
"The Art of Food" in conjunction with exhibit "Feast"
5/17/2007
Wallace, PhD, William
Barbara Murphy Bryant Distinguished Professor of Art History, Chair, Department of Art History & Archaeology, Washington University
"Hammer of God: A Life of Michelangelo"
4/18/2007
Sloane, Jeanne
Christie's Silver Department
"All that Glitters is Not Old: Detecting Forgeries in Antique Silver"
3/28/2007
Nash, PhD, Steven
Director, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas
"The Making of a Masterpiece: The Nasher Collection of Modern Sculpture"
2/28/2007
Podany, Jerry
Department Chair, Conservation, Getty Museum of Art
"Opening a Villa: Renovation of the Getty Villa & Restoration of Getty Antiquities"
1/24/2007
Troyen, Carol
John Moore Cabot Curator of Paintings, Museum of Fine Arts Boston
"Edward Hopper"
11/29/2006
Broun, Betsy
Director, American Art Museum, Smithsonian
Mabel Brown Lecture - "American Art in the 21st Century"
10/25/2006
Shapiro, PhD, Michael
Director, High Museum
"From Richard Meier to Renzo Piano: Expanding the High Museum"
9/27/2006
Davis, Deborah
Author
“Party of the Century: The Fabulous Story of Truman Capote and His Black and White Ball"
5/2/2006
Hawley, Anne
Director, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Mass.
"Isabella Stewart Gardner: An Eye for Collecting"
3/22/2006
Norris, Debbie Hess
Chair, Department of Art Conservation, University of Delaware
"Don't Leave Grandma in the Attic"
2/22/2006
Barratt, Carrie Rebora
Senior Curator of American Art and Sculpture, Metropolitan Museum Manager, The Henry R. Luce Center for the Study of American Art
"Gilbert Stuart at Home and Abroad"
1/25/2006
Cuno, James
Director and President, The Art Institute of Chicago
"Likeness and Life Likeness: On Manet's Paintings and Figures"
11/30/2005
Kimball, Roger
Editor, The New Criterion
Mabel Brown Lecture
10/26/2005
Govan Michael
Director, Dia Art Foundation
"Thirty Years of Artists' Projects: Introduction to the Dia Art Foundation"
9/26/2005
Stein, Susan
Curator, Monticello
“Thomas Jefferson & His Art”
4/26/2005
Phillips, PhD, Sandra
Senior Curator, Photography, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
“Diane Arbus – Photographer”
3/23/2005
Adelson, Warren
President, Adelson Galleries, New York, NY
“Sargent Impressionism”
2/23/2005
Clearwater, Bonnie
Director and Chief Curator of Contemporary Art, MOCA North Miami
“Rothko”
1/26/2005
Wayne, PhD, Ken
Curator of Modern Art, Albright Knox Gallery, Buffalo
“Modigliani Reconsidered”
11/17/2004
Vikan, Dr. Gary
Walters Art Museum
10/27/2004
Penny, PhD, Nicholas Beaver
Senior Curator, Sculpture, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
“Misinterpreting the Renaissance: Reflections on 16th Century Renaissance Paintings”
9/22/2004
Allen, Armin
President, Preservation Society of Newport County, RI
“Historic Houses of Newport County”
4/27/2004
Gates, Jay
Director, Phillips Collection
“The Phillips Collection”
3/24/2004
Rothe, Andrea
Conservator, Getty Museum
“A Painting by Titan Revealed”
2/25/2004
Baumgarten, Linda
Curator of Textiles, DeWitt Wallace Decorative Arts Museum, Colonial Williamsburg
“Foundation Clothing in the 18th Century”
1/21/2004
Shackelford, George T. M.
Chairman, Art of Europe, Museum of Fine Art, Boston
“Gaugin in Tahiti”
11/19/2003
Sharp, Lewis
Director, Denver Art Museum
“The Denver Art Museum's Expansion and Treasures”
10/22/2003
Herrera, Hayden
Author
“Frida Kahlo - Her Art and Life”
9/24/2003
Madden, Chris Casson
Author & Host of HGTV's Interiors by Design
“A Designer's Journey: From Oprah's Grounding Room to a Vermont Getaway”
4/29/2003
Potts, Dr. Timothy
Director, Kimbell Art Museum
“The Treasures of the Kimbell”
3/26/2003
Schroder, Dr. Timothy
Curatorial Consultant for the Victoria and Albert Museum
“The Art Market Between the Wars”
2/26/2003
Stoner, Dr. Joyce Hill
Paintings Conservator, Winterthur Museum
“The Conservator's Challenge: From Peale to Pollock to the Wyeth’s”
1/22/2003
Tre, Howard Ben
Sculptor
“Taking the Personal Vision from the Privacy of the Studio into the Public Space”
11/20/2002
Marzio, Dr. Peter
Director, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
“The Art Museum: For Profit? Non-Profit?”
10/23/2002
Provost, Dr. Paul R.
Sr. VP & International Business Director, Christie's
“Painting America: National Identity & National Spirit in American Art”
9/25/2002
Tomlinson, Janis
Art Historian and Scholar
“Goya's Images of Women”
3/27/2002
Bowman, Leslie
Director and CEO, Henry Francis Dupont Winterthur Museum
“The Treasures of Winterthur”
2/27/2002
Lowenthal, Constance
Director, Commission for Art Recovery, World Jewish Congress
“Nazi Art Theft: The Challenges of Recovery”
1/23/2002
Daniel, Malcolm
Associate Curator and Administrator, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
“More Than Photographs: The Art of Roger Fenton”
11/28/2001
Kelly, Franklin
Curator of American and British Paintings, National Gallery of Art
“Art for the Nation: Collecting American Paintings at The National Gallery of Art, 1991-2001”
10/24/2001
Sachs II, Samuel
Director, The Frick Collection
“Fakes, Forgeries, and Other Deceptions”
9/26/2001
Warner, Dr. Malcolm
Senior Curator of Paintings, Yale Center for British Paintings
“The Lady of Shalott by William Holman Hunt”
3/27/2001
Murray, Elizabeth
Artist
“Elizabeth Murray: Paintings and Drawings”
1/31/2001
Tinterow, Dr. Gary
Curator, Metropolitan Museum of Art
“Reinstallation of The Nineteenth Century Collection or Gericault”
1/24/2001
Whitehouse, Dr. David
Director of The Corning Museum of Glass
“Reinstallation of The Corning Glass Collection”
11/15/2000
Rollins, Tim
KOS Kids
“Kids of Survival”
10/4/2000