2024-2025 AGAS Lecture Series | Courtney Wilder

Image: Printed cotton textile samples pasted into sample books and sewn as a quilt, ca. 1800-1850; Britain and France.  The Metropolitan Museum of Art (quilt)

2023-2024 AGAS Lecture Series | Rachel Silveri

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2023-2024 AGAS Lecture Series | Nina Rowe

Banner artwork: Nero and the Doctors, in a World Chronicle manuscript, southern Germany, 1402. (Image: New York, New York Public Library, Spencer MS 38, fol. 343r.)

2022-2023 AGAS Lecture Series | Margaret Samu

Artwork on promotional banner: Ivan Kramskoi, The Mermaids, 1871, oil on canvas, 34.6 x 51.9 inches. Tretyakov Gallery. Image courtesy Wikimedia Commons.

Rusalka: Slavic Folklore, Supernatural Women, and the Ukrainian Other

2022-2023 AGAS Lectures Series: James A. van Dyke

Dr. James van Dyke is a current Associate Professor and the Director of Graduate Studies at the University of Missouri.

2021-2022 AGAS LECTURE SERIES, Making Up Materials: Donatello and the Cosmetic Act

Throughout his career, Donatello (1383/6–1464) produced a number of sculptures with surfaces that simulated a more precious material than the one underneath.

2021-2022 AGAS Lecture Series, Forming Abstraction: Art and Institutions in Postwar Brazil

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In the Vortex of Art and Identity: The Black Female as Object and Subject

Dr. Adrienne Childs: “In the Vortex of Art and Identity: Black Female as Object and Subject”

AGAS Lecture: Dr. Linda Merrill

"Translating the Ten O'Clock"

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Dr. Amanda Hellman AGAS Lecture

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The China Trade and Emerging Imperial Aesthetics in Federal America

Immediately after the Revolution, American ships embarked for China, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, and other destinations.

The Gothic Body: Hands, Touch and the Formation of Presence in Thirteenth-Century French and German Sculpture

The sculpted bodies that confront visitors to Gothic cathedrals – on portals, screens, and interior walls – represent a wide swath of characters.