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.

Scholars offer their perspectives on the artist's work, placing it in the greater context of art history, Latin American culture (Venezuela in particular), and European avant-garde movements.

John Elderfield, Chief Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture, and organizer of the exhibition, moderates the discussion.

"Armando Reverón: El Castillete, His Dolls and Women"
María Elena Huizi, Independent scholar, Caracas

Luis Pérez-Oramas, The Estrellita Brodsky Curator of Latin American Art, The Museum of Modern Art

"The Home-made World of Armando Reverón"
Susan Stewart, Annan Professor of English, Princeton University; poet; and author of The Open Studio: Essays on Art and Aesthetics (2004)

In conjunction with the exhibition Armando Reverón

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, seniors, and staff of other museums $5) can be purchased at the lobby information desk and the Film desk, or online at www.ticketweb.com.