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A painting of a man and woman seated indoors in fine, black-and-white attire. A painting of a reclining nude hangs above the mantel behind them, on a wall otherwise covered in decorative wallpaper or a textile. An ornate cloth covers the table to their right.

Lectures The Art of the Paper Trail: Provenance Research in the 21st Century

Thursday, April 24, 2025, 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
A sculpture of a woman seated with her legs out in front and her feet flexed against a thin vertical surface. A textile wraps around that surface and runs the length of the woman’s legs. She is nude from the waist up and holds a nursing infant. Her eyes open to hollow recesses, and her face shows patina.

Lectures Living Cloth: Textiles and Society in Indonesia

Thursday, September 25, 2025, 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
A watercolor of an elaborate architecture, glimpsed over a moat and wall in the foreground. A structures rises tall in the left middle ground, with an open, upstairs space at its center. There, an attendant fans an enthroned man in lavish, purple robes. At right, the architecture features various exterior and threshold spaces populated by figures, beneath a pale blue sky with clouds.

Lectures Four Scholars, Four Paintings

Thursday, October 9, 2025, 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
A landscape painting. In the left foreground, a palm stands alongside other trees, all draped in vines or ivy. Low built structures stand on a hill at center, seen from a considerable distance. Further hills rise at right and into the background, toward a blue sky. Those in the distance become cloaked by clouds.

Lectures A Landscape Examined: Jamaica’s Role in the Making of Empire

Thursday, October 23, 2025, 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm
A stone sculpture depicting a human figure. A small, squarish head rises from a broad, blockish body. The figure appears to hold their hands at their chest. The surface of the stone is tannish-gray and appears rough or perhaps worn.

Lectures Provenance Research, Restitution, and Relationship Building 

Friday, November 14, 2025, 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm
A painting of a man from the chest up, holding a painter’s palette. His gray hair is long and curly. He wears a brown jacket, and a white ruffle or scarf unfolds at his sternum. The man’s body appears in three-quarter view, while he turns his head slightly toward the viewer. His eyes address the viewer directly, and he holds his mouth very slightly open. The brushwork is loose.

Lectures Art and Truth: William Hogarth and the English Enlightenment

Thursday, February 12, 2026, 5:30 pm – 6:30 pm

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