Art and Artists Past Readings

2026

    • Deborah Davis, John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X
    • Olivia Lang, Funny Weather: Art in an Emergency
    • Zara Anishanslin, The Painter’s Fire
    • Special Collections Visit
    • Laura Cumming, The Vanishing Velasquez: A Nineteenth Century Bookseller’s Obsession with
      a Lost Masterpiece
    • Sue Prideaux, Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin
    • Susan Owens, The Story of Drawing: An Alternative History of Art

2025

    • Peggy Guggenheim, Out of this Century: Confessions of an Art Addict
    • Adam Brookes, Fragile Cargo: The World War II Race to Save the Treasures of China’s Forbidden City
    • Sebastian Smee, Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism
    • Allain de Botton and John Armstrong, Art as Therapy
    • Sue Roe, In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse, and the Birth of Modernist Art
    • Alex Beam, Winslow Homer at Prout’s Neck
    • Sally Mann, Hold Still
    • Theodor Vrettos, The Elgin Affair: The True Story of the Greatest Theft in History
    • The Great Nadar: The Man Behind the Camera

2024

    • Patrick Bringley, All the Beauty in the World: the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
    • Sebastian Smee, The Art of Rivalry
    • Anka Muhlstein, Camille Pissarro: The Audacity of Impressionism
    • Ai Weiwei, 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoire
    • Michael Finkel, The Art Thief
    • Tom Wolfe, The Painted World
    • Roe Sue, In Montparnasse: The Emergence of Surrealism in Paris, from Duchamp to Dali
    • Alex Danchev, Magritte, a life
    • Ai Weiwei, 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoire
    • Thomas Hoving, Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art
    • Laura Cumming, Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death