September 25, 2025
Evelyn Lincoln, Brown University (emerita)
Kress-Beinecke Professor
Wood Work: The Parasole Woodblock Carvers in Early Modern Rome

October 23, 2025
Sarah Gould, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
William C. Seitz Senior Fellow
Painting with Steam: Pollution and Visual Culture in 19th-Century Britain

November 20, 2025
Dario Donetti, Università di Verona
Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow, fall 2025
Drawing by Emulation in Renaissance Rome: A Study of the Morgan Library’s Codex Mellon

December 4, 2025
Megan E. O’Neil, Emory University
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, fall 2025
Investigating the Market in Mesoamerican and Central American Antiquities, 1930s–1970s

January 15, 2026
Suzanne Preston Blier, Harvard University
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow
Igbo Ukwu to Igbo Landing: How Medieval African Objects Speak

February 12, 2026
Ünver Rüstem, Johns Hopkins University
Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow
Turkish Habits: Ottoman Costume and the Art of Self-Representation

February 26, 2026
Sinclair Bell, Northern Illinois University
Samuel H. Kress Senior Fellow, spring 2026
Aethiopians in Roman Art and Society: Race, Representation, and Social Practice

March 19, 2026
David W. Penney, Washington, DC
Paul Mellon Senior Fellow
Indigenous Land/American Landscape: Indigenous Dispossession and American Landscape Painting of the Mid-19th Century

April 16, 2026
Kristina Kleutghen, Washington University in St. Louis
Ailsa Mellon Bruce Senior Fellow, spring 2026
Lens onto the World: Optical Devices, Art, Science, and Society in China

April 23, 2026
Roland Betancourt, University of California, Irvine
Andrew W. Mellon Professor, 2024–2026
Art and Automation

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