Join us online to hear the leading minds and rising voices of their fields as our current Met fellows explore new avenues of research in art history, visual culture, education, and cultural heritage preservation in live presentations.

Free, though advance registration is required for the online sessions on Zoom.

Paul Klee was unrivaled among his contemporaries in his wide-ranging experimentation with materials and unconventional techniques. Join scholar Charles W. Haxthausen as he explores the variety of Klee's practice and reflects on its art-historical implications. 

Mina Loy, better known as a poet than an artist, was born in London and led a peripatetic life, settling variously in Paris, Florence and New York. In Italy she was affiliated with the Futurists, and in New York belonged to the avantgarde circle in New York centred on the little magazine Rogue, which segued into the proto-Dada episode of Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain. She painted, made lampshades and other objects, and from the 1940s constructed assemblages using rubbish picked up in the streets of the Bowery where she lived. These included human figures, some life size, admired by Duchamp as “Poems in 2 ½ dimensions”. This lecture will discuss the ways her works of art, poetry and other writings interrelate. 

In his inaugural lecture as Head of the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art, Neil Cox explores Picasso’s Sketchbook no.26, which the artist kept until his death. Deciphering written notes as well as cubist drawings, this lecture will open up Picasso’s drawing processes and explore connections with his other sketchbooks as well as paintings, drawings and sculptures from the period around 1913. 

Chiriac’s book won this year’s De Gruyter’s Open Access Book Anniversary competition. It examines the reach of modernism in design and performance in Romania between the two world wars, focusing on several remarkable Jewish avant-garde artists located in Bucharest. Based on extensive new research, it shows how Romania's capital was connected to Berlin, Riga and Chicago through modern design and experimental Yiddish theatre, highlighting the contribution of Jewish cultural production to avant-garde movements in Europe and beyond.