Lectures

  • Gertrude Stein and Picabia. New York Academy of Art, October 24, 2012

  • Surrealist Masculinity. La Maison Francaise, November 6, 2008.

  • The Voyeurism of Courbet. The National Arts Club, September 18, 2008.

  • Memorializing vs. Documenting a Traumatic Event: The French Exodus of 1940. Carleton University School of Journalism and Communication, March 13 and 14, 2008.

  • Reinventing Allegory. School of Visual Arts, April 12, 2007.

  • The Cone Sisters and The Art of Their Time. The National Arts Club, May 16, 2006.

  • The American Enemy by Philippe Roger. The National Arts Club, September 19, 2005.

  • The Dani Karavan Memorial in PortBou or "Walter Benjamin's Last Passage". Bryn Mawr College, Fall 2003; also College Art Association Annual Conference, February 2001.

  • The Destruction of 19th Century French Bronze Statuary during World War II. School of Visual Arts panel, March 21, 2002.

  • Hitler equals de Gaulle in a May '68 poster. Royal Academy, London, symposium on Paris Capital of the World, 1900-1968, March 16, 2002; also NYU, luncheon seminar October 19, 2001; also New School Symposium on May '68, October 1, 1998.

  • Pierre Restany and friends. Columbia University, Maison Francaise, February 21, 2002.

  • 20 decorators of the 40s. Bard Center for Graduate Studies in The Decorative Arts, April 19, 2001.

  • The Writing of History and The Physiognomy of Dates. the XXXth International Congress of the History of Art in London, September 2000.

  • Soutine in Vichy France. The Jewish Museum, May 5, 1998.

  • Decadence and Renewal of The Decorative Arts during Vichy, Bard Graduate Center for the Study of Decorative Arts, October 28, 1997.

  • Painting with the Enemy. The Channel Four (London) broadcast with Cone as consultant and participant, presented at Maison Française of Columbia University, April 7, 1997.

  • Lefebvre, the Situationists, and the New Realists. Yale University Conference on the French Fifties, September 13, 1997; also round table, Maison Française of New York University on the Quotidian in Postwar French Culture, March 27, 1997.

  • The Freud/Breton Missed Rendez-vous. Henry Peyre Symposium, the Graduate Center of City University, November 12, 1993.

  • On the Use of Bataille's Theory of Potlach vis-a-vis Art against Excess. College Art Association Annual Conference, Seattle, February 6, 1993.

  • Bleu-Blanc-Rouge Painting in Vichy France. French Institute Alliance Française, New York, March 1, 1993.

  • A Modernist Canon against Decadence. Painting in France under The Vichy Regime. College Art Association Annual Conference, New York, February 1990.

  • Abstraction as a Veil: The Case of Tricolor Painting in Vichy France. SUNY Stony Brook, November 28, 1990.

  • Artistic Reception during Vichy. World Sociology Congress, Madrid, 1990; also French Studies Colloquium, University of Iowa, 1990.

  • The Vichy regime, the German Occupation and Art Criticism. XVIIe Congres International d'Histoire de l'Art (Strasbourg), 1989; also Northwestern University, Department of Art History, 1989.

  • Art and Politics in France from the Revolution of 1789 to Vichy. Institute of French Studies, NYU, summer course, 1989.

  • Picasso, Desnos et Girodias, trois comparses de fortune. Paris, Sorbonne-Jussieu symposium on Robert Desnos, 1987.