Talks

close up view of brown, woven textiles with overlapping strings

MAEP Artist Talk: Amy Usdin

Sunday, January 25, 2026
2:00 pm
Headshot of Morten Spjøtvold

Curator Talk: Filigree and Dragons: An Introduction to 19th-Century Norwegian Silver

Sunday, February 1, 2026
2:00 pm
headshots of Michael Kleber-Diggs and Daniel Slager

Friends Lecture: Michael Kleber-Diggs

Thursday, February 5, 2026
6:00 pm
Chinese bronze sculpture of a horse

Curator Talk: Year of the Horse: In the Wake of the Gallop

Thursday, February 19, 2026
6:30 pm
Two ceramic figures on horses with green and yellow details.

“Year of the Horse: Hoofbeats through Time” Public Tours

Saturday, February 28, 2026
1:00 pm
The image is an abstract painting featuring two faces. Both faces are painted with bold, contrasting colors, mainly greens. The left face is angular and sharp, with exaggerated eyes and cheekbones, while the right face is more rounded, turned in profile.

Curator Talk: The Neue Nationalgalerie: Modern Art and Politics in Berlin

Saturday, March 7, 2026
2:00 pm
guests seated in an auditorium listening to a lecture

Friends Lecture: Clara Osowski

Sunday, March 15, 2026
2:00 pm
Painting of two workers on a dockyard, pulling on ropes, with a ship in the background

Curator Talk: Work for America: Images of Labor and Industry During the Great Depression

Sunday, March 29, 2026
2:00 pm
guests seated in an auditorium listening to a lecture

Friends Lecture: Rachel McGarry

Thursday, April 16, 2026
11:00 am
Three panel huipil; elaborate embroidery encircles the neck; white ground cloth with patterning primarily in green with accents in purple, blue, orange and red; design consists of rows of stylized bird and tree pattern alternating with rows of diamonds

Curator Talk: Weaving Identities: Maya Huipiles from Guatemala

Sunday, April 19, 2026
2:00 pm
guests seated in an auditorium listening to a lecture

Friends Lecture: Max Bryant

Thursday, May 14, 2026
11:00 am
abstract image: layers of bright orange and bright red loops and curlicues over brown circles extending from the upper left across to the lower right of the painting; bright blue, orange, brown, red, and tan squares throughout; horizontal bright blue narrow rectangles almost dance across the image.

Walls of Wonder and Fluttering Forms: Exploring Abstraction in the Works of Yoshida Hodaka and Chizuko

Sunday, May 31, 2026
2:00 pm