Brice Marden, artist, in conversation with Harry Cooper, curator and head of the department of modern and contemporary art, National Gallery of Art

Brice Marden continues to make some of the most surprising and ravishing paintings of our time. Born in 1938 in Bronxville, New York, he received his B.F.A. from Boston University in 1961 and his M.F.A from Yale University’s School of Art and Architecture in 1963. Marden had his first solo exhibition in 1966 at the Bykert Gallery in New York, where he showed matte, monochromatic oil-and-beeswax paintings inspired in part by the art of Jasper Johns. Marden’s work grew in complexity in the 1970s, often involving multiple monochrome panels, and his palette broadened. In 1984 a visit to an exhibition of Japanese calligraphy triggered a dramatic shift of style, culminating in a masterful series of gestural paintings and drawings entitled Cold Mountain. Since that time, through several further changes in vocabulary, Marden has continued to explore linear networks as the basis for ambitious, all-over abstractions. In 2006 he was the subject of a major retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Five paintings and two drawings, representing a cross section of Marden's oeuvre, are currently on view in the exhibition The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: Selected Works.

Book signing of The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: Selected Works and Plane Image: A Brice Marden Retrospective follows

In anticipation of high attendance, this event will be simulcast in the East Building Concourse, Small Auditorium. Please arrive early for the program as seating is available on a first-come, first-seated basis.

Brice Marden, artist, in conversation with Harry Cooper, curator and head of the department of modern and contemporary art, National Gallery of Art
This event was originally recorded on November 22 in the East Building Auditorium

Keith Christiansen, Jayne Wrightsman Curator of European Paintings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Keith Christiansen is internationally recognized for his many contributions to the study of European painting. He has written on artists as diverse as Gentile da Fabriano and Caravaggio, Andrea Mantegna and El Greco, Orazio Gentileschi and Giambattista Tiepolo. He has also lectured widely and is the recipient of a number of awards for his writing and work on exhibitions. A curator at the Metropolitan Museum since 1977, he has taught at Columbia University, Smith College, and Vassar College, and is currently adjunct professor at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.

Keith Christiansen was educated at the University of California, Santa Cruz (B A); the University of California, Los Angeles (M A); and Harvard University (PhD). It was at Harvard that he studied with Professor Sydney J. Freedberg.

Richard J. Powell, John Spencer Bassett Professor of art and art history and professor of African and African American studies, Duke University

Illustrated lectures by noted scholars including Graham Bader, Yve-Alain Bois, Harry Cooper, Eric de Chassey, and Sarah K. Rich

Toni Morrison, Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus; special consultant to the director of the Princeton Atelier; and lecturer with the rank of professor in the Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University

In conjunction with Robert Bergman: Portraits, 1986–1995

Toni Morrison, Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities, Emeritus; special consultant to the director of the Princeton Atelier; and lecturer with the rank of professor in the Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton University
This event was originally recorded on November 1st in the East Building Auditorium

In conjunction with Robert Bergman: Portraits, 1986–1995

John Brewer, Eli and Eyde Broad Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology

Book signing of The American Leonardo: A Tale of Obsession, Art and Money follows

Sally Shelburne, lecturer, National Gallery of Art

Steven F. Ostrow, professor and chair of the department of art history, University of Minnesota

P. Adams Sitney, professor and director of the program of visual arts, Princeton University

Margaret Morgan Grasselli, curator and head of the department of old master drawings, National Gallery of Art

Book signing of Renaissance to Revolution: French Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, 1500–1800 follows

Peter M. Lukehart, associate dean, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art

John Brewer, Eli and Eyde Broad Professor in Humanities and Social Sciences, California Institute of Technology

David Alan Brown, curator of Italian and Spanish paintings, National Gallery of Art

Sara Taylor, art and archaeology editor, Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection