Based at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City, the Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art is a leading center for scholarship on modern art that aims, through its various programs, to make critical contributions to the study of 20th-century art. Each year, The Metropolitan Museum of Art offers two full-time research fellowships in the Research Center to scholars studying modern art:
- One position is intended for a predoctoral candidate who is embarking on his or her dissertation;
- The other fellowship is reserved for a qualified postdoctoral scholar at any stage of his or her career.
The Lauder Research Center uses the term ‘modern art’ inclusively to refer to architecture, drawing, design (including exhibition, graphic, interior and stage design), film, painting, performance, photography, printmaking, sculpture, and textiles in the period from the last third of the nineteenth century through to the 1960s, from any country region or culture.