Matthew McKelway

Matthew McKelway is a professor of Japanese art history at Columbia University. Having taught Art Humanities at Reid Hall, Columbia's Global Center in Paris, he proposed as an Alliance visiting professor at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (spring 2019) a graduate seminar centered on the direct study of Japanese paintings in Paris collections such as the Musée Guimet and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, examining materials, techniques and insights from recent conservation alongside primary documents and current research.