Our regular guest speakers and visiting lecturers include expert specialists from Sotheby’s auction house, gallery directors, artists, critics, scholars, dealers, art lawyers,marketing and public relations specialists and practitioners from major art institutions and museums. Their experience and active engagement in the art marketplace imparts an immediacy to the learning process.

Recent Guest Speakers and Lecturers:

Bruce Altshuler – Director, Museum Studies Program, New York University
Richard Armstrong – Director, Guggenheim Museum
Col. Matthew Bagdanos – U.S. Army, Iraqi art and restoration investigator
Chuck Close – Artist
Dana Birnbaum – Artist
James Cohan – Gallery Owner
Katelijne De Backer – Executive Director, The Armory Show, NYC
Bob Forbes – Forbes Collection
Charles Gaines – Artist
Dan Graham – Artist
Thomas Hoving – Director and Curator, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Chrissie Iles – Curator, Whitney Museum
Leigh Keno – Owner of Leigh Keno Antiques
Leslie Keno – Senior Vice President and Specialist - Sotheby’s
Susan Kriete – New York Historical Society
Kristy MacLear – Director, Glass House Museum
Malcolm Morley – Artist
Gabriel Perez-Barreiro – Curator/Academic
Diana Phillips – Executive Vice President, Sotheby’s Worldwide Press
Peter Plagens – Art Critic
David Rago – Auction House Owner
Charles Renfro – Architect
Andres Serrano – Artist
Katherine Sweeny Singer – Director, Winter Antiques Show, NY
Simon Starling – Artist
Barbara Steveni - Artist
Glenn Wharton – Conservator
Richard Wright – Auction House Owner