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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