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Antiquity has provided a standard by which all subsequent periods have tended to be judged. The Jenkins Venus was thought during the neoclassical period to be the embodiment of love and beauty, so fundamental to contemporary ideas of art appreciation.

Here at Christie’s Education you’re not just taught by in-house staff and art historians.  On a weekly basis you get to meet practitioners from the art world, people like artists, curators, critics, auction house specialists and conservators who come in to Christie’s Education and lead talks and discussions, interact with you and teach you about their professional practice. Here at Christie’s Education you’re not just taught by in-house staff and art historians.  On a weekly basis you get to meet practitioners from the art world, people like artists, curators, critics, auction house specialists and conservators who come in to Christie’s Education and lead talks and discussions, interact with you and teach you about their professional practice. Here at Christie’s Education you’re not just taught by in-house staff and art historians.  On a weekly basis you get to meet practitioners from the art world, people like artists, curators, critics, auction house specialists and conservators who come in to Christie’s Education and lead talks and discussions, interact with you and teach you about their professional practice. Here at Christie’s Education you’re not just taught by in-house staff and art historians.  On a weekly basis you get to meet practitioners from the art world, people like artists, curators, critics, auction house specialists and conservators who come in to Christie’s Education and lead talks and discussions, interact with you and teach you about their professional practice.

Visiting Lecturers

Susan Aberth

Assistant Professor

Art History, Bard College; B.A., University of California, Los Angeles; M.A., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; Ph.D., The Graduate Center, City
University of New York

Kevin Avery

Associate Curator

Department of American Paintings and Sculpture, Metropolitan Museum of Art; B.A., Fordham University; M.A. and Ph.D., Columbia University

Ágnes Berecz

Adjunct Assistant Professor

Fashion Institute of Technology, Department of the History of Art; B.A.ELTE
University, Budapest, Hungary; M.A.ELTE University, Budapest, Hungary; Ph.D Universite Paris I/ Pantheon-Sorbonne, France

Patricia G. Berman

Professor of Art

Wellesley College; B.A. Hampshire College; M.A., Cert. of Museum Training, and Ph.D. Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

Martha Buskirk

Associate Professor of Art History and Criticism

Montserrat College of Art; B.A., Oberlin College; Ph.D., The Graduate Center,
City University of New York Barbara Dayer Gallati Curator Emerita, American
Art, Brooklyn Museum; B.A. and M.L.S., State University of New York at Albany; PhD., Graduate Center of the City University of New York

Dorothea Dietrich

Chair,Academic Studies and Associate Professor of Art History

Corcoran College of Art and Design; Ph.D., M.Phil, M.A. and B.A. Yale University

Elizabeth Easton

Director

Center for Curatorial Leadership; B.A. Connecticut College; M.A., M.Phil., and
Ph.D., Yale University

Michael Findlay

Director

Acquavella Galleries, Member of Christie’s Education Academic Advisory Committee. Former International Director of Fine Arts and member of the Board of Directors for Christie’s Inc

Tracy Fitzpatrick

Assistant Professor in Art History

Purchase College, State University of New York; B.A., Tufts University; M.A., The George Washington University; Ph.D. Rutgers University

Romy Golan

Professor, History of Art Department

City University of New York; M.A. and Ph.D., Courtauld Institute

Kathryn Heleniak

Associate Professor of Art History

Fordham University; B.A. University of Michigan; M.A. University of Minnesota; Ph.D. Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

Anne Higonnet

Professor, Department of Art

History and Archaeology Barnard College; B.A., Harvard College; Ph.D., Yale University

Suzanne Hudson

University of Iowa

Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern Art at the Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.; B.A. University of California, Los Angeles; M.Phil. Princeton University; Ph.D. Princeton University

Yukie Kamiya

Freelance Curator

Sura Levine

Professor of Art History

Hampshire College (Amherst, MA); B.A. University of Michigan; M.A. and Ph.D., University of Chicago

Michael Lobel

Director

M.A. Program in Modern and Contemporary Art, Criticism, and Theory,
Purchase College, State University of New York; B.A. Wesleyan University; M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D., Yale University

Robert Lubar

Associate Professor of Fine Arts

Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; B.A., State University of New York, Stony Brook; M.A. and Ph.D., Institute of Fine Arts, New York University

Brian Lukacher

Associate Professor of Art History

Vassar College; B.A., History of Art, New College, University of South Florida; M.A., Williams College; Ph.D., University of Delaware

Patricia Mainardi

Professor of Art History

City University of New York: The Graduate Center and Brooklyn College; B.A.,
English Literature and Anthropology, Vassar College; M.A., Art History, Hunter
College, CUNY; Ph.D., Art History, Graduate Center, City University of New York

Caterina Pierre

Assistant Professor of Art History

Kingsborough Community College; B.A. City University of New York at
Brooklyn College; M.A. City University of New York at Hunter College

Shelley Rice

Associate Arts Professor

Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, member of the Graduate Faculty at the School of Visual Arts; B.A., SUNY Stonybrook; M.A. Institute of
Fine Arts, New York University

Jonathan Rendell

Deputy Chairman

Christie’s Americas. International Head of Print Department, Christie’s Inc

Jane M. Roos

Professor

Hunter College and The Graduate Center of CUNY; B.A. College of New Rochelle; Ph.D. Columbia University

Irving Sandler

Professor Emeritus

Department of Art History, State University of New York at Purchase; B.A., Temple University; M.A., University of Pennsylvania; Ph.D., Institute of
Fine Arts, New York University

Kenneth E. Silver

Professor of Modern Art

Department of Art History, New York University; Adjunct Curator, Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut B.A., New York University, M.A., Yale University, Ph.D Yale University

Lisa Small

Associate Curator

Dahesh Museum of Art; B.A., Colgate University; M.A. New York University; M.Phil. The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Paul Sternberger

Associate Professor of Art History

Rutgers University; Newark; B.A. University of Rochester; M.A., M.Phil. and
Ph.D., Columbia University

Sarah Warren

Assistant Professor of Art History

Purchase College, State University of New York, School of Humanities; B.A.
Oberlin College; M.A. University of Iowa; Ph.D. University of Southern California