Jenny Lin, pianist, and Roger Reynolds, University Professor, University of California, San Diego
This program is held in collaboration with the John Cage Centennial Festival, Washington.

Mary Morton, curator and head, department of French paintings, National Gallery of Art

Judith Brodie, curator and head, department of modern prints and drawings, National Gallery of Art
Book signing of Shock of the News follows.

Ksenya Gurshtein, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow, National Gallery of Art, and Sarah Kennel, associate curator, department of photographs, National Gallery of Art

Harry Cooper, curator and head, department of modern and contemporary art, National Gallery of Art
Book signing of Roy Lichtenstein: A Retrospective follows.

Gregory Jecmen, associate curator, department of old master prints and drawings, National Gallery of Art
Book signing of Imperial Augsburg: Renaissance Prints and Drawings, 1475–1540 follows.

Wendy Cooper, Lois D. and Henry S. McNeil Senior Curator of Furniture, Winterthur Museum

Judith Brodie, curator and head, department of modern prints and drawings, National Gallery of Art

Ksenya Gurshtein, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow, National Gallery of Art

David Alan Brown, curator of Italian and Spanish paintings, National Gallery of Art

Rosamond Mack, independent scholar

Lindsay Harris, exhibition research assistant, department of photographs, National Gallery of Art

Illustrated lectures by noted scholars, including David Curry, Adam Greenhalgh, David Lubin, Carol Troyen, David C. Ward, Mark White, Sean Wilentz, and Rebecca Zurier

This program is held in collaboration with the Columbus Museum of Art.

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Joel Shapiro, artist

Joel Shapiro will present a lecture on his nearly 50-year career as part of the Diamonstein-Spielvogel Lecture Series at the National Gallery of Art. Shapiro has become one of the most widely exhibited American sculptors. His work, from early minimal objects to increasingly expansive and complex forms, has always dealt with such central issues of the sculptural tradition as size and scale, balance and imbalance, figuration and abstraction. He believes that all sculpture is a projection of thought into the world, and he strives to create intimacy and vitality in all his projects.

Born in 1941 in New York City, Shapiro received BA and MA degrees from New York University. Since his first exhibition in 1970, his work has been the subject of many solo exhibitions and retrospectives, and can now be found in numerous public collections in the United States and abroad. Prominent commissions include the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, and the Consulate General of the United States in Guangzhou, China, for the Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies. Among other distinctions, Shapiro was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1998 and the French Ministry of Culture awarded him the medal of Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2005. He lives and works in New York City. The Gallery owns 16 works by the artist, including drawings, prints, and sculptures.