French Moderns Curator Lecture

Join us for a celebration of French Moderns: Monet to Matisse, 1850 – 1950 as Lisa Small, senior curator of European art at the Brooklyn Museum and French Moderns co-curator, discusses the transformations in subject, style, and patronage that defined the key modern art movements emerging in and around 19th- and early 20th-century Paris.

ASL interpretation will be available for this lecture.

Free with membership or admission.

Lisa Small, Senior Curator, European Art, Brooklyn Museum

Lisa Small was appointed senior curator of European art in 2017 after joining the Brooklyn Museum in 2011 as curator of exhibitions. At the museum, she has curated or co-curated the exhibitions It’s Pablomatic: Picasso According to Hannah Gadsby (2023); Jacques-Louis David Meets Kehinde Wiley (2020); Rembrandt to Picasso: Five Centuries of European Works on Paper (2019); The Brooklyn Della Robbia (2018–present); Rodin: The Body in Bronze (2017); Killer Heels: The Art of the High-Heeled Shoe (2014); and the touring exhibition French Moderns: Monet to Matisse, 1850–1950 (2017–21, 2023–26).

She served as a coordinating curator for Brooklyn’s presentations of Frida Kahlo: Appearances Can Be Deceiving (2019), Georgia O'Keeffe: Living Modern (2017), The Rise of Sneaker Culture (2015), The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk (2013), and Jean-Michel Othoniel: My Way (2012). Small has also overseen numerous installations of the museum’s European art collection, including most recently Monet to Morisot: The Real and Imagined in European Art (2022–23). In previous curatorial positions at the American Federation of Arts and the Dahesh Museum, she organized exhibitions including Turner to Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection; Gods and Heroes: Masterpieces from the École des Beaux-Arts; Napoleon on the Nile: Soldiers, Artists, and the Rediscovery of Egypt; and Fantasy & Faith: The Art of Gustave Doré.