This year, the 92nd Street Y Art Center turns 75. And next Monday, December 5, we’re celebrating with a benefit and award dinner hosted by novelist Walter Mosley, who has been taking ceramics classes here for years. Art historian Leo Steinberg will be one of our very special guests.

One of the deans of American art criticism, Steinberg is the author of a number of texts: Jasper Johns (1963), The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion (1983) and Leonardo’s Incessant Last Supper (2001). Along the way, he’s also had a distinguished academic career.

His lectures are legendary, and luckily some of the ones he gave in the 1960s at MoMA are available online in a collection that includes everyone from Marcel Duchamp to Jack Nicholson.