Kathryn Calley Galitz is a frequent lecturer at museums and conferences worldwide on a wide range of topics in French and British art of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as contemporary painting and photography. A sampling of past lectures is listed below.
A selection of recorded lectures and presentations is also available by clicking on links below and in the Multimedia section.
Dr. Galitz is also available for lecture bookings. To explore booking her to lecture, please click on Contact/Booking.
PAST LECTURES
“How to Read Portraits,” Artscapades.org, June 2024.
“Beyond Face Value: A Conversation about Portraits,” in conversation with Jeff Rosenheim, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, June 2024.
“How to Read Portraits,” in conversation with David Taylor, National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh, June 2024.
“150th Anniversary of Impressionism,” an American Friends Musées d'Orsay et de l'Orangerie gallery conversation with Flavie Durand-Ruel, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2024.
“Artist Pairings,” in conversation with Joachim Pissarro, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 2023.
“Posers: Group Portraits from Rembrandt to Avedon,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2023.
The Making of a Masterpiece (three-lecture series), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Spring 2022
“Van Dyck’s James Stuart, Duke of Richmond and Lennox”
“Gainsborough’s Mrs. Grace Dalrymple Elliott”
“Picasso’s Gertrude Stein”
“The Many Faces of Portraiture,” Art History Study Group Series, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2021.
“Rediscovering François Gérard,” lecture and conversation with Ian McClure, Yale University Art Gallery, November 2020.
“Monet’s La Grenouillère,” in conversation with Howard Halle, Time Out New York, July 2020.
“Celebrating Art =” a conversation with Kathryn Calley Galitz, Mike Hearn, and Maryam Ekhtiar, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, July 2020.
“Gérard and Me,” The Met Delivered (Patron Series), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2020.
“Caravaggio, Rebel Genius,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2020.
“The Making of a Masterpiece: David’s Death of Socrates,” Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California, January 2020.
“‘Conversations with…’ Dita Amory and Kathryn Calley Galitz on Félix Vallotton: Painter of Disquiet,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 2019.
The Making of a Masterpiece (four-lecture series), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fall 2019
“Courbet’s Woman with a Parrot”
“Cézanne’s Mont Sainte-Victoire and the Viaduct of the Arc River Valley”
“Warhol’s Nine Jackies”
“A Tale of Two Parrots: Courbet, Manet, and the Making of a Rivalry,” Chairman’s Council Dinner, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2019.
Neoclassical Musings (two-lecture series), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Spring 2019
“Selfies and Celebrities: The Portrait from Van Gogh to Warhol,” Art Fair Philippines, Ayala Center, Makati, Philippines, February 2019.
“Brush with Power: François Gérard, Imperial Portraitist,” The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri, January 2019.
The Making of a Masterpiece (four-lecture series), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fall 2018
"Manet's Mademoiselle V ... in the Costume of an Espada"
"Degas's The Dance Class"
"Freud's Naked Man, Back View"
“Masterpiece Musings,” Second Annual Alumni Weekend Lecture, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, October 2018.
"Face Off: A Conversation About Portraiture in France and America," with Stephanie Herdrich, Glasberg Lecture, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2018.
“Brush with Power: François Gérard, Imperial Portraitist,” Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, May 2018.
Crowning Glory: Inside Britain's Royal Collection (two-lecture series), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Spring 2018
“George Collects”
"Victoria Collects"
Interview: “Exploring Late Monet with Art Historian Kathryn Calley Galitz,” metmuseum.org, March 2018.
“Mark Rothko: Inspiration and Influence,” A Conversation between Christopher Rothko and Kathryn Calley Galitz, The New York Studio School, February 2018.
“Cézanne’s People: The Artist, His Wife, Some Card Players, and The Bathers,” Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, February 2018.
“Brush with Power: François Gérard, Imperial Portraitist,” Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Québec, Canada, January 2018.
Impressionist Reflections (five-lecture series), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fall 2017
“Making Waves: Avant-Garde Painting in Normandy”
“Camille Pissarro: From Bales to Boulevards”
“Gustave Caillebotte, Painter and Patron”
The Post-Impressionists (five-lecture series), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fall 2016
"Color and Light: Seurat, Signac, and the Pointillist Experiment"
"Van Gogh / Gauguin"
"The Post-Impressionist Legacy"
"Masterpiece Dialogues: Great Paintings from The Metropolitan Museum of Art," The Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2016; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, December 2016; Perrot Memorial Library, April 2017; Harvard Club of New York City, June 2017.
“Swagger: Portraits of Power,” Ventfort Hall, Lenox, Massachusetts, August 2016.
“Claude Monet and the Fleeting Moment,” Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, April 2016.
Beyond Face Value: The Portrait from Napoleon to Jackie (five-lecture series), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fall 2015
"The Rise of British Painting," Glasberg Lecture, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2015
Rule, Britannia! British Painting from Hogarth to the Pre-Raphaelites (six-lecture series), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Spring 2015
“Hogarth à la Mode and the Taste for English Art”
“Reynolds/Gainsborough: Portrait of a Rivalry”
“Americans in London: History in the Making”
“John Constable and the Rise of the English Landscape”
“J.M.W. Turner”
“Past Perfect: The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood”
“Signs of Power: Bonaparte and the Concordat of 1801,” Political Portraiture in the United States and France (conference), National Portrait Gallery, Washington, D.C., September 2014
Patriots, Pashas, and Peasants: French Painting from Delacroix to Courbet (six-lecture series), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fall 2013
“Drawing Lines: Classicism versus Romanticism”
“Channel Crossings: British Influences in French Painting, 1820-1840”
“Paris 1855: Painting at the Crossroads"
“Gustave Courbet, Artist’s Artist,” Milwaukee Art Museum, November 2013
Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity Scholar’s Day (moderator), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2013
“Becoming Jacques Louis David,” The New York Studio School, March 2013
“A Few Notes on Romantic Painting,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2013
Fraternité: French Artists from Revolution to Romanticism (six-lecture series), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fall 2012
“The Decline of Decadence: Rococo Art on the Eve of Revolution”
“Revolution in Painting: Jacques Louis David and the Neoclassical Ideal”
“Rebels and Rivals in David’s Studio”
“Egalité? Women as Artists and Patrons in an Age of Revolution”
“Napoleon: Painting Power”
“Girodet, Delacroix, and the Stirrings of Romanticism”
The Impressionists: Rebels with a Cause (six-lecture series), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Fall 2011
“Manet and the Challenge of the Avant-Garde”
“The Shock of the New: Painting Modern Life”
“Monet and the Fleeting Moment”
“Degas: Reluctant Impressionist”
“Cassatt and Morisot in a Man’s World”
“1886: The End of Impressionism?”
“Chemistry On Canvas: A Revealing Portrait of Monsieur and Madame Lavoisier,” World Science Festival, New York, June 2011
“Rivals, Rebels and Revolutionaries in Jacques-Louis David’s Studio,” Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, May 2011
“Revisiting Courbet,” Oklahoma City Museum of Art, November 2009
“The Studio Tradition,” commencement address, New York Studio School, May 2009
“Gustave Courbet,” Susquehanna Art Museum, September 2008
“Turner in Venice,” Save Venice Inc., New York, September 2008
“Courbet’s Preparation of the Bride/Dead Girl,” Smith College, April 2008
“Courbet’s Young Ladies of the Village,” co-presentation with Charlotte Hale, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2008
“Nineteenth-Century Painting at The Metropolitan Museum of Art,” Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, February 2007
“Family Matters: The Family in Art from David to Struth,” Symposium in Honor of Robert Rosenblum, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, October 2006
“Zola’s L’Oeuvre,” Gallery Seminar, Metropolitan Museum of Art, March 2006
“A Romantic Rediscovered: Théodore Chassériau,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2003
“Neo-Impressionism and French Cultural Identity,” panel discussion, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, December 2001
Co-chair, “Channel Crossings: Britain, France and the Tradition of Artistic Exchange,” College Art Association, Annual Conference, Chicago, Illinois, February 2001
“Revolutionary Metaphors: The Family in Crisis in French Painting, 1795-1799,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Annual Conference, Notre Dame, Indiana, April 1998
“Breast-Feeding as Propaganda in the French Salons, 1789-1814,” University of Virginia AHGA Symposium, Charlottesville, Virginia, April 1997