The Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts fosters study of the production, use, and cultural meaning of art, artifacts, architecture, urbanism, photography, and film from all places and periods.

We support research in the visual arts from scholars in art and architectural history as well as those in related disciplines. The Center is also committed to broadening areas of research pertaining to visual and architectural worlds while fostering increased participation in academic and arts professions.

Our annual report has been published since 1981 and records the activities and research conducted at the Center during each academic year.

Center 45
Record of Activities and Research Reports
June 2024–May 2025

Produced by the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts and Brand Strategy and Publishing, National Gallery of Art, Washington
© 2025 Board of Trustees, National Gallery of Art, Washington

Series Editor, Peter M. Lukehart
Series Coordinator, Jen Rokoski
Editor, Magda Nakassis

Banner images:
Dean’s Report: Steven Nelson in conversation with Jennifer L. Roberts about her book, Contact: Art and the Pull of Print, September 2024

People: Mary Beard delivers the opening year colloquium, “The Trouble with Museums,” September 2024

Programs: Drew Lynch presents "The Diasporic Archive and the Reimagining of Memory in the Art of Faith Ringgold and Simone Leigh” at the Middle Atlantic Symposium in the History of Art, March 2025

Publications: Glexis Novoa, Art & Histories, Havana-Washington Island (detail), 2024, graphite on travertine marble, 45.7 × 121.9 cm. © Glexis Novoa

Research Reports: Hugo Shakeshaft, A. W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, in the exhibition Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist, April 2025