Talks & Lectures

Two seated women talking with microphones to an out of frame audience, while a pair of people in yellow jumpsuits sit on the floor against a wall and watch them.

Alice Gosti and Laura Hart Newlon in conversation at the Frye Art Museum. Photo: Chloe Collyer

Explore art across eras and cultures with lectures and discussions that connect us globally and locally, including the Art History Lecture Series and talks with exhibiting artists, curators, and scholars.

Two seated women talking with microphones to an out of frame audience, while a pair of people in yellow jumpsuits sit on the floor against a wall and watch them.

Alice Gosti and Laura Hart Newlon in conversation at the Frye Art Museum. Photo: Chloe Collyer

Upcoming

Panel

My Body is a Basket: Artist Conversation

Saturday, November 07

Lecture

Art History Lecture Series | Jeffrey Gibson (Choctaw/Cherokee, b. 1972)

Thursday, November 12

Lecture

Art History Lecture Series | To Light a Single Candle

Thursday, December 10

Artist Talk

Artist Talk: Inside Blake Blanco's Surreal World

Saturday, December 12

Lecture

Art History Lecture Series | The Perseus Myth in Art

Thursday, January 14

Lecture

Art History Lecture Series | Pioneering American Women Photographers

Thursday, February 11

Lecture

Art History Lecture Series | Land Art

Thursday, March 11

Lecture

Art History Lecture Series | The Munich Secession

Thursday, April 08

Lecture

Art History Lecture Series | Madame X Speaks

Thursday, May 13

Past Events

Cinema Divina Film Screening & Contemplative Gazing

October 29, 2026

Art History Lecture Series | Pacific Northwest Coast Basketry

October 08, 2026

Flash Focus: Tom Lloyd

September 19, 2026

Ask Reinhard Anything

September 19, 2026

Art History Lecture Series | The Studio Museum in Harlem

September 10, 2026

Artists At Large: Music and Art with Lonnie Holley

September 03, 2026

By the Book: Readings Inspired by Lotus L. Kang

August 20, 2026

Cinema Divina Film Screening & Contemplative Gazing

July 09, 2026

Stories From the Club: Artist Talk with Chloe King

June 25, 2026

Art History Lecture Series | The Hill House: Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald

June 11, 2026

The Legacy of Tom Lloyd: Panel Discussion

June 07, 2026

Lotus L. Kang and Nour Mobarak in Conversation

June 06, 2026

Art History Lecture Series | A Thousand Flowers: The Unicorn Tapestries in Paris

May 14, 2026

Cadence Video Poetry Screening: ceaseless, of the earth

April 30, 2026

Art History Lecture Series | No, your toddler could not have done that: A Brief History of Abstraction

April 09, 2026