Museum lecturers, educators, graduate students, and occasionally curators lead talks in the collection and special exhibitions daily at 11:30 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Audiences learn about the historical context and significance of modern and contemporary artworks through a process of looking and exchanging ideas with a lecturer.

Critics and scholars discuss the influence of geography and culture on Brice Marden’s work through individual presentations and a discussion moderated by Gary Garrels.

“The New York School”
Richard Shiff, Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art, The University of Texas at Austin

“China and the East”
John Yau, poet and author of Paradiso Diaspora (2006), Ing Grish (2005), Borrowed Love Poems (2002), and Brice Marden: Drawings and Paintings 1964–2002 (2003), among many others

“The Mediterranean, the Classical, and the Renaissance”
Jean-Pierre Criqui, art historian, critic, and editor of Les Cahiers du Musée national d’art moderne of the Centre Pompidou

In conjunction with the exhibition Brice Marden: A Retrospective of Paintings and Drawings

Sign language–interpreted Gallery Conversations are held every fourth Sunday of the month at 1:30 p.m. FM headsets for sound amplification are available for all talks. Lectures are free with Museum admission. Groups are limited to twenty-five. Group stickers are distributed ten minutes prior to each Gallery Talk.

Tickets ($10, members $8, students and seniors $5) can be purchased at the lobby information desk and the Film desk, or online at www.ticketweb.com.