The Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art invites applications for grants supporting publications in the field of modern art and theory, and modern visual culture. Grants are for book-length manuscripts, peer-reviewed edited volumes or, in exceptional cases, peer-reviewed journal articles. Work should be in the field of Modern art broadly conceived but focused on the period from the late-nineteenth-century to around 1960. Grants are open to authors worldwide, normally for English language publications (though other languages may be supported).

The Center will award up to six grants per annum, typically between $4,000 and $7,000, with no single grant more than $12,000 to be awarded. There are two application rounds per year (with deadlines of September 30 and March 31).

Applications for Spring 2023 are now closed. 

Fall 2022: 

Richard Anderson, Head of the Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of Edinburgh, for his richly illustrated book Wolkenbügel (MIT Press) that will show how El Lissitzy’s architectural idea evolved through modern and not so modern communication networks, including the postal system. The grant will support his illustration costs.

Craig Buckley, Associate Professor of Art History at Yale University, for The Street and the Screen: Architectures of Spectatorship in the Age of Cinema (University of Minnesota Press). The book will offer the first global history of cinema architecture, considering how it shaped forms of spectatorship in Paris, Casablanca, Berlin, São Paolo, and New York. The grant will support illustrations and enable him to produce new maps of the cinemas in these cities.

Giovanni Casini, former Fellow in the Research Center and currently Postdoctoral Research Assistant at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, for Léonce Rosenberg’s Cubism: The Galerie L’Effort Moderne in Interwar Paris (Pennsylvania State University Press, Refiguring Modernism Series). The book will examine the constructed nature of the category of Cubism during and after the First World War, rethinking the careers of major artists and offering new perspectives on less known figures. The grant will support his illustration and indexing costs.