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2012:
January 5th - April 15th, 2012
Field Season - Photographs for the IFA's Excavations at Abydos, Egypt
P
hotographers Greg Maka, Amanda Kirkpatrick and Gus Gusciora will be showing a selection of work from the past three years. Curated by Ileana Selejan. [view invitation PDF]
January 27, 2012
In-house IFA/Frick Symposium
Open to IFA students and faculty only.
January 31, 2012
The Daniel H. Silberberg Lecture Series
Stanley Abe, Associate Professor of Art History, Duke University
The Modern Moment of Chinese Sculpture
February 2, 2012
Artists at the Institute
Peter Halley
Work and Play
Watch this lecture online.
February 3, 2012
Mellon Research Initiative
IFA Student Reading Group meeting
February 9, 2012
Colloquium on Spanish and Latin American Art and Visual Culture
Jesús Escobar, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Art History, Northwestern University
Madrid, Urbs Regia: The Seventeenth-Century City and Its Representation
February 10, 2012
The China Project Workshop
Hsueh-man Shen, Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Between One and Many: Interpreting Large Numbers in the Buddhist Art of China
February 17, 2012
The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
Elizabeth Boaretto, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
February 18, 2012
Leonardo da Vinci - Recent Technical Findings and Discoveries
Wood Auditorium, 113 Avery Hall, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, Columbia University.
February 21, 2012
The 6th Annual Kirk Varnedoe Lecture Series
Okwui Enwezor, 2012 Kirk Varnedoe Visiting Professor
Episodes in Contemporary African Art Setting the Stage: Contemporary African Art, From Postcolonial Utopia to Postcolonial Realism
Watch this lecture online.
February 23, 2012
Colloquium on Modern and Contemporary Art from the Middle East and South Asia
Walid Raad, Associate Professor of art, Cooper Union
Scratching on Things I Could Disavow
February 28, 2012
The Daniel H. Silberberg Lecture Series
Zainab Bahrani, Edith Porada Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Art and Archaeology, Columbia University
The Double: Difference and Repetition in Ancient Art
March 1, 2012
Mellon Research Initiative
IFA Student Reading Group meeting
March 6, 2012
The Daniel H. Silberberg Lecture Series
Michelangelo Sabatino, Associate Professor (and History-Theory Coordinator) at the Gerald D. Hines College of Architecture, University of Houston
PRIDE IN MODESTY: Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy
March 8, 2012
Colloquium on Spanish and Latin American Art and Visual Culture
John Loomis, Director of the School of Art and Design of San Jose State University
Revolution of Forms, Cuba's Forgotten Art Schools
March 16, 2012
The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
Susan Ferrence, Institute for Aegean Prehistory Academic Press
March 20, 2012
Director’s Extracurricular Seminar
Wanda Corn, Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor Emerita in Art History, Stanford University
Portraiture and the Making of Gertrude Stein
March 22, 2012
Artists at the Institute
Carroll Dunham
Carroll Dunham Speaks About His Recent Work
Watch this lecture online.
March 23, 2012
The China Project Workshop
Sarah Laursen, Visiting Research Scholar, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University
March 27, 2012
The Daniel H. Silberberg Lecture Series
Francesco de Angelis, Associate Professor in the Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
Looking for Justice: Space, Images, and Attention in the Forum Augustum in Rome
March 29, 2012
The 6th Annual Kirk Varnedoe Lecture Series
Okwui Enwezor, 2012 Kirk Varnedoe Visiting Professor
At Home in the World: The Art of El Anatsui and William Kentridge
Watch this lecture online.
March 30-31, 2012
Mellon Research Initiative
Conference: Comparativism
April 3, 2012
The Daniel H. Silberberg Lecture Series
Michael Leja, Professor of Art History, University of Pennsylvania
Cubism in Bondage: Morgan Russell's Synchromism
April 5, 2012
Colloquium on Spanish and Latin American Art and Visual Culture
Juanjosé Lahuerta, Professor of the History of Art, School of Architecture, Barcelona; Senior Curator, Museu Picasso, Barcelona; Juan Carlos I Professor, New York University (Spring 2012)
Dalí and Architecture: Anachronic Modernism
Watch this lecture online.
April 13, 2012
The China Project Workshop
J.J. Lally, Owner, J.J. Lally & Co.
April 17, 2012
Mellon Research Initiative
IFA Student Reading Group meeting
April 19, 2012
New Faces from Egypt: Hellenistic Panel Paintings and their European Consequence
Co-sponsored by NYU Abu Dhabi
April 20, 2012
The Institute of Fine Arts-Frick Collection Symposium on the History of Art
Hosted by the Institute of Fine Arts
Watch this symposium online.
April 26, 2012
The 6th Annual Kirk Varnedoe Lecture Series
Okwui Enwezor, 2012 Kirk Varnedoe Visiting Professor
Disrupted and Disarticulated: Body Politic and the work of Marlene Dumas and Wangechi Mutu
Watch this lecture online.
April 27, 2012
The Forum on Forms of Seeing
Annual Symposium
April 28-29, 2012
Mellon Research Initiative
Conference: Image & Ontology in Comparative Perspective
May 4, 2012
The China Project Workshop
Lihong Liu, Ph.D. Candidate, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
The Path in Mid-Sixteenth Century Suzhou Landscape Painting
May 11, 2012
The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
Dimitri Nakassis, Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Toronto
Individuals in Linear B
September 10, 2012
Architecture and the Experience of Music: A Conversation around "Site and Sound" at the Institute of Fine Arts
Moderators: Marvin Trachtenberg and Jean-Louis Cohen
Panelists: Victoria Newhouse, Ricardo Scofidio, Carl Rosenberg, and Raphael Mostel
September 13, 2012, 5:30 PM
Current Trends in Medieval Art History
Aden Kumler, Assistant Professor, University of Chicago
Surplus & Blankness: Medieval Art, de factis
September 14, 2012
The China Project Workshop
Dorothy Ko, Professor of History, Barnard College, Columbia University
Body,Text, and Stone: The Crafting and Connoisseurship of Inkstones in Eighteenth-Century China
September 18, 2012
The Daniel H. Silberberg Lecture Series
Wendy Bellion, Associate Professor of American Art, University of Delaware
The Afterlife of Iconoclasm: Sculpture in Early New York
September 19, 2012
Mellon Research Initiative
IFA Student Reading Group meeting
September 20, 2012
Colloquium on Art in Spain and Latin America
Timothy Barringer, Paul Mellon Professor, History of Art, Yale University
Art History vs Victorian Jamaica
September 27 – Saturday, September 29, 2012
Mellon Research Initiative
Beyond Representation: An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Nature of Things
This event is jointly sponsored by Bard Graduate Center and the IFA’s Mellon Research Initiative, and organized by Jaś Elsner, Finbarr Barry Flood, and Ittai Weinryb.
October 5, 2012
The China Project Workshop
Judith Zeitlin, Professor of Chinese Literature, University of Chicago
Yuhang Li, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Grinnell College
Performing Images: Opera in Chinese Visual Culture
October 9, 2012
The Daniel H. Silberberg Lecture Series
Andrew Herscher, Associate Professor of Architecture, University of Michigan
Envisioning Exception: Satellite Imagery, Human Rights Advocacy and Techno-Moral Witnessing
October 11, 2012
Current Trends in Medieval Art History
Jacqueline Jung, Assistant Professor, History of Art, Yale University
Moving Pictures on the Gothic Screen
October 12, 2012
The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
Thomas G. Palaima, Raymond F. Dickson Centennial Professor of Classics, University of Texas at Austin
October 16, 2012
Director’s Extracurricular Seminar
Anton Schweizer, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2012-2014, Institute of Fine Arts - NYU
A Guardian for Sendai: urban, iconographic, and rhetoric spaces of shrine building in seventeenth-century Japan
October 16, 2012
Paragone Revisited: The Reunification of the Berlin Painting and Sculpture Collections
Julien Chapuis, Deputy Director, Sculpture Collection and Museum of Byzantine Art, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin.
Respondents: Luke Syson, Curator in Charge of the Department of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Joe Rishel, Senior Curator of European Painting before 1900, Philadelphia Museum of Art
October 18, 2012
Mellon Research Initiative
Publishing and the PhD
A public workshop on the art history publication in relation to the dissertation
Thursday, October 18, 2012, 6:30 PM
Artists at the Institute
Wade Guyton
October 22, 2012
2012 Ettinghausen Memorial Lecture
Eloïse Brac de la Perrière, Paris-Sorbonne University, Maître de conférences, Histoire de l'art et archéologie du monde islamique
Critical Perspectives on a pre-Mughal Koranic Manuscript: Research on the Gwalior Koran from the Aga Khan Collection
October 24, 2012
Latin American Forum sponsored by the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art
Dawn Ades, Professor of the History & Theory of Art, University of Essex and Independent Curator
Surrealism & the Surrealists in Mexico 1940-1947
October 25, 2012
Colloquium on Art in Spain and Latin America
Robert Davidson, Associate Professor of Spanish and Catalan, University of Toronto
The Revolution’s Hilton: The Havana Hilton Hotel from Burt Glinn to Ramón Serrano
November 9, 2012
The China Project Workshop
Linda Lin, Object conservator, Fellow, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Talk on Liao dynasty amber Moderated by François Louis (Bard Graduate Center)
November 13, 2012
Mellon Research Initiative
IFA Student Reading Group meeting
November 14, 2012
Walter W. S. Cook Annual Lecture
Nicholas Adams, Mary Conover Mellon Professor in the History of Architecture, Vassar College
Gunnar Asplund's Courthouse Extension in Gothenburg (1913-1936): The Ironies of its History
November 15, 2012
Colloquium on Art in Spain and Latin America
Michele Greet, Associate Professor of Art History, George Mason University
The Artists of the Bulletin de l’Effort Moderne: Latin Americans in Paris
November 16, 2012
Pinta Art Fair Panel: Curating Latin American Art in a Changing Environment
Panelists: Ilona Katzew (LACMA), Mary Schneider Enriquez (Fogg Museum, Harvard), Vanessa Davidson (Phoenix Art Museum), Rachel Mohl (Museum of Fine Arts Houston)
Moderator: Edward Sullivan
November 16, 2012
The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
Janice Crowley, Independent Scholar
November 20, 2012
Greek and Roman Seminar
Olga Palagia, Deputy Head of the Faculty of History and Archaeology, University of Athens
The Boscoreale Frescoes as Reflections of Macedonian Funerary Paintings
November 27, 2012
The Daniel H. Silberberg Lecture Series
Melissa Chiu, Museum Director and Senior Vice President, Global Arts and Cultural Programs, Asia Society
Art + Politics in Chinese Contemporary Art
November 28, 2012
NYRAC (New York Regional Association for Conservation)
Public Lecture
Julie Martin, Conservator, The Story of E.A.T.
November 29, 2012
Archaeological Research at Selinunte 2012
Clemente Marconi, Director of Excavations at Selinunte and James R. McCredie Professor in the History of Greek Art and Archaeology, Institute of Fine Arts
November 30 – Saturday, December 1, 2012
Mellon Research Initiative
Digital Art History conference
Organized by Jim Coddington
December 4, 2012
Archaeological Research at Aphrodisias in 2012
Roland R.R. Smith, Director, Excavations at Aphrodisias; Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art, University of Oxford; Research Professor, Institute of Fine Arts
December 6, 2012
Greek and Roman Seminar
Ioannis Mylonopoulos, Assistant Professor, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
Poseidon and His Youths on Cape Sounion: The Archaic Sanctuary, the Colossal Kouroi, and Political Dedications in Early-Sixth-Century Attica
December 7, 2012
China Project Workshop
Wen-shing Chou
Discussion on the problems of structuring a book on the visionary landscape of Wutaishan Moderated by Denise Leidy (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
December 7, 2012
The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
Yannis Galanakis, Harvard University Center for Hellenic Center Studies, Washington DC
Open to the public.
2011:
January 20, 2011
Samuel H. Kress Lecture
Petria Noble, Head of Paintings Conservation, Mauritshuis, The Hague
Reconstructing Original Formats: Technical Examination of Rembrandt
January 25, 2011
The Daniel H. Silberberg Lecture Series
Susan Stewart,
Professor of English, Princeton University
In View of Ruins
January 28, 2011
In-House Symposium
Lelia Packer, Lillian Stoner, and Rachel Kaplan
Presentations of current research by IFA students.
February 1, 2011
Silberberg Lecture Series
Christopher Heuer,
Assistant Professor of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University
Dürer's Folds
February 3, 2011
The 5th Annual Kirk Varnedoe Memorial Lectures
Wu Hung,
Spring 2011 Kirk Varnedoe Visiting Professor
Reading Absence: Three Moments in Chinese Art History
1644: Where Is the Broken Stele?
Watch this lecture online.
February 7, 2011
The 5th Annual Kirk Varnedoe Memorial Lectures
Wu Hung,
Spring 2011 Kirk Varnedoe Visiting Professor
Reading Absence: Three Moments in Chinese Art History
1860: Photography Defines China
Watch this lecture online.
Friday, February 11, 2011
The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
Richard Janko
From Bronze Age to Iron Age: Linguistic Continuities and Discontinuities in the Aegean
Reservations required. To reserve email ifa.events@nyu.edu with “Aegean 2.11” in subject line.
February 15, 2011
The 5th Annual Kirk Varnedoe Memorial Lectures
Wu Hung,
Spring 2011 Kirk Varnedoe Visiting Professor
Reading Absence: Three Moments in Chinese Art History
1985: Absence as Contemporaneity
Watch this lecture online.
February 17, 2011
Colloquium on Spanish and Latin American Art and Visual Culture
Daniel Haxall, Assistant Professor, Department of Fine Arts, Kutztown University
Esteban Vicente, Abstract Expressionism, and the Spanish Legacy of Collage
February 22, 2011
The Daniel H. Silberberg Lecture Series
Carol Mancusi-Ungaro,
Founding Director, Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art, Harvard Art Museums; Associate Director of Conservation and Research, Whitney Museum of American Art
The Elusive Original
Watch this video online.
February 24, 2011
Artists at the Institute
Rachel Harrison
March 1, 2011
Artists at the Institute
Marina Abramovic
The Artist is Present
Watch this lecture online.
March 3, 2011
Colloquium on Spanish and Latin American Art and Visual Culture
Diana Fane, Curator Emerita, Arts of the Americas, Brooklyn Museum
From Feather Shields to Coats of Arms: Iconographies of Place and Power in 16th Century Mexico
March 8, 2011
The Daniel H. Silberberg Lecture Series
Matthew Canepa, Assistant Professor of Art and Archaeology of Ancient Iran, Hellenistic Asia, and the late Roman Empire, University of Minnesota
Performances of Power and Topographies of Memory: Theorizing Competing Visual, Spatial and Ritual Technologies of Power in Hellenistic and Iranian Western Asia
March 10, 2011
Director's Extracurricular Seminar
Professor Wu Hung, Kirk Varnedoe Visiting Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History, East Asian Languages & Civilizations at the University of Chicago ; Director of the Center for the Art of East Asia, University of Chicago.
On the Verge of Absence
March 11, 2011
The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
Maria Iakovou
Copper routes, ports of export and regional gateways: Late Cypriot Settlement Histories and the loss of memory
March 19, 2011
Symposium in conjunction with the exhibition: Passion in Venice, Crivelli to Tintoretto and Veronese (The Man of Sorrows in Venetian Art) at the Museum of Biblical Art
New Perspectives on the Man of Sorrows: Art and Devotion in Renaissance Venice and the North
This event has been organized by IFA alumni William Barcham and Catherine Puglisi, co-curators of the exhibition.
For further information, please go to http://arthistory.rutgers.edu/sorrows/index.html
March 25-26, 2011
Symposium: Photo Archives and the Photographic Memory of Art History, Part III
March 28th, 2011
A Special Seminar by Roberto Nardi
Monastery of Saint Catherine in Sinai: the Conservation of the Mosaic of the Transfiguration.
This event is not open to the public.
Click here for information about Dr. Nardi's upcoming Lecture at the Metropolitan Museum, and a video about the project.
April 1, - April 2, 2011
Symposium: Contemporary Transatlantic Dialogues: Art History, Criticism, and Exhibition Practices in Spain and the United States
April 5, 2011
The Daniel H. Silberberg Lecture Series
Dana Leibsohn, Priscilla Paine Van der Poel Associate Professor of Art, Smith College
Trading Histories: Foreign Things in Manila and in Mexico
April 7, 2011
Artists at the Institute
Mika Rottenberg
April 12, 2011
Colloquium on Modern and Contemporary Art from the Middle East and South Asia
Iftikhar Dadi, Professor of Art History at Cornell University and Artist
Inaugural Lecture: Between Global Media and the Urban Subaltern.
April 15, 2011
The Institute of Fine Arts-Frick Collection Symposium on the History of Art
To be held at the Institute of Fine Arts
April 15, 2011
The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
Panagiota Pantou
April 16, 2011
The Institute of Fine Arts-Frick Collection Symposium on the History of Art
To be held at the Frick Collection.
April 21, 2011
Colloquium on Spanish and Latin American Art and Visual Culture
James Oles,
Senior Lecturer, Art Department and Adjunct Curator of Latin American Art, Davis Museum, Wellesley College
The Cézanne Effect in Latin America: From Rivera to Soto
April 26, 2011
Faculty Inaugural Lecture: Philippe de Montebello
A la recherche...d'un autre temps.
April 28, 2011
2011 Ettinghausen Memorial Lecture
Dr. Barbara Brend, Muhammad Juki's Shahnamah of Firdausi in Persia and India.
May 13, 2011
The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
Speaker and lecture title to be determined.
Reservations required. To reserve email ifa.events@nyu.edu with “Aegean 5.13” in subject line.
September 9, 2011
The China Project Workshop
Jonathan Hay, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
The center of Beijing and its imperial monuments ca. 1450: How did the urban and palace landscape differ from what we can still see today?
September 23, 2011
The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
Stephanie Budin, Lecturer, Rutgers University
Woman and Child Imagery from the Bronze Age Aegean
October 5th, 2011
Dr. Gabriela Siracusano, Academic Director of the Centre of Production and Research in Artistic and
Bibliographic Conservation and Restoration of the Universidad Nacional de San Martín (Argentina)
Pigments and Power in the Andes Materials for the Sacred: Cultural and Historical Approaches to South American Colonial
Artistic Productions
October 6, 2011
Colloquium on Spanish and Latin American Art and Visual Culture
Stella Nair, Assistant Professor, University of California, Riverside
Architectural Paradigms of the Conquest: The Incas, the Spanish and the Church of Nuestra Senora de Montserrat
October 11, 2011
The Daniel H. Silberberg Lecture Series
Andreas Huyssen, Villard Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Columbia University
Urban Miniatures and the Feuilleton in Kracauer and Benjamin
October 13, 2011
Archaeological Research at Selinunte 2011
Clemente Marconi, Director of Excavations at Selinunte & James R. McCredie Professor in the History of Greek Art and Archaeology, Institute of Fine Art, New York University
October 14, 2011
The China Project Workshop
Jeehee Hong, Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Music Histories, Syracuse University
Commonalities between tombs and Buddhist sutra repositories during the 10th-14th centuries
October 14, 2011
The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
Michael Cosmopoulos, Professor, University of Missouri
October 18, 2011
Artists at the Institute
Paul Chan
October 27, 2011
Shifting Challenges in the Protection of Archaeological Heritage
A panel discussion organized by the American Federation of Arts in association with the Institute of Fine Arts–New York University and the Association of Art Museum Directors with generous funding from Michael J. Steinhardt, the Leon Levy Foundation, the Malcolm Hewitt Wiener Foundation, and the Hazen Polsky Foundation.
To view the a recording of the webcast visit: http://media.rampard.com/afa/20111027/default.html
November 1, 2011
Director’s Extracurricular Seminar
Jennifer Raab, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Fine Arts, 2011-2013
The Art and Science of Detail: Frederic Church and Nineteenth-Century Landscape Painting
November 3, 2011
Artists at the Institute
Teresita Fernandez
Blind Landscapes
November 5, 2011
"Presentism" workshop.
Click here for a full description and list of speakers.
November 9, 2011
Director’s Extracurricular Seminar
Lecture by Bernhard Jussen (Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main)
A Plea for an Iconology of Historical Research
November 10, 2011
Colloquium on Spanish and Latin American Art and Visual Culture
Javier Bonnin, Bonnin Orozco Arquitectos
The Intersection of Architecture and Expressions of Identity in Ponce, Puerto Rico
November 11, 2011
Panel discussion: Agustin Fernandez: New Voices Interpret an Artistic Voyage from Cuba
to Paris to New York
Panelists: Susan Aberth (Associate Professor of Art History, Bard College); Rocio Aranda (Curator, El Museo Del Barrio); Elizabeth Cerejido (Independent Curator); Abby McEwen (Assistant Professor of Art History & Archaeology, University of Maryland, College Park); Discussant: Edward Sullivan (Helen Gould Sheppard Professor in the History of Art; Institute of Fine Arts and College of Arts and Sciences)
For more information please visit: www.agustinfernandez.net and http://www.pintaart.com.
November 11, 2011
The China Project Workshop
Bruce Rusk, Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University
Reignmakers: Ming Imperial Production and Its Imitators
November 15, 2011
The Daniel H. Silberberg Lecture Series
William Sherman, Professor of Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, University of York
The Reader's Eye: Renaissance Marginalia Between Illustration and Annotation
November 17, 2011
The Walter W.S. Cook Annual Lecture
A.A. Donohue, Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College
Contradictions in Greek Naturalism
November 18, 2011
The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
Georgia Flouda, Visiting Research Fellow, Princeton University
December 1, 2011
Colloquium on Spanish and Latin American Art and Visual Culture
Luis Castañeda, Assistant Professor of Art History, Syracuse University
Museum, Monument, City: Archaeologies of Power in Modern Mexico
December 6, 2011
The Daniel H. Silberberg Lecture Series
Alicia Walker, Associate Professorof History of Art, Bryn Mawr College
Inscribing Sacred Space: Pseudo-Arabic and Holy Power at the Church of Hosios Loukas
December 8, 2011
Archaeological Research at Aphrodisias in 2011
Roland R.R. Smith, Director, Excavations at Aphrodisias; Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology & Art, University of Oxford; Research Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
December 9, 2011
The China Project Workshop
Colin Mackenzie, Senior Curator of Early Chinese Art, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
The renovation of the Chinese galleries at the Nelson-Atkins
December 16, 2011
The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
Thomas Tartaron, Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania
2010:
January 21, 2010
Colloquium on Spanish and Latin American Art and Visual Culture
Luis Pérez-Oramas, The Estrellita Brodsky Curator of Latin American Art, MoMA
Alejandro Otero, Abstraction as Lightning: Quae Pingi Non Possunt
January 22, 2010
In-House Symposium
Presentations of current work by IFA students.
February 4, 2010
The 4th Annual Kirk Varnedoe Memorial Lectures
David Joselit, 2010 Kirk Varnedoe Visiting Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, Carnegie Professor, History of
Art, Yale
States of Form: Against Meaning
Watch this lecture online.
February 5, 2010
Silberberg Lecture Series
Anne Dunlop, Associate Professor, History of Art and Renaissance
Studies, Yale University
The Mongols and Early Italian Painting
February 11, 2010
The New York Regional Association for Conservation (NYRAC) Lectures
Kate Moomaw, Postgraduate Fellow in Conservation, Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden
A Condition Survey Methodology & Database for Plastic Objects at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
and
Roger Griffith, Associate Conservator, The Museum of Modern Art and
Margo Delidow, Sculpture Research Fellow, The Museum of Modern Art
Turn it On: Turn it Off---Lighting in MoMA’s Collection of Architecture and Design
February 16, 2010
The 4th Annual Kirk Varnedoe Memorial Lectures
David Joselit, 2010 Kirk Varnedoe Visiting Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, Carnegie Professor, History of
Art, Yale
States of Form: Governing Images
Watch this lecture online.
February 18, 2010
Colloquium on Spanish and Latin American Art and Visual Culture
Edward Sullivan, Helen Gould Sheppard Professor in the History of Art, Institute of Fine Arts
Hatian Art after ca. 1945: A Trans-Continental Context
February 19, 2010
Silberberg Lecture Series
Martin Powers, Professor of Art History, University of Michigan
The Cultural Politics of the Brushstroke
February 26, 2010
Silberberg Lecture Series
Christopher Heuer, Assistant Professor of Art History, Princeton University
Dürer's Folds
March 3, 2010
The 4th Annual Kirk Varnedoe Memorial Lectures
David Joselit, 2010 Kirk Varnedoe Visiting Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, Carnegie Professor, History of
Art, Yale
States of Form: Plug-ins
Wacth this lecture online.
March 6, 2010
"Tout art s’apprend par art”
A Symposium in Honor of the Fiftieth Year of Colin Eisler’s Career at the Institute of Fine Arts
This event has been made possible through the generous support of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and the Florence Gould Foundation.
March 12, 2010
Silberberg Lecture Series
Andrés Zervigón, Assistant Professor of Art History, Rutgers
People Who Disliked Photographs. The Curious Case of Die Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung
March 31, 2010
Artists at the Institute
Andrea Zittel
April 5th, 2010
Nikos Hadjinikolaou, Professor of Art History at the University of Crete
El Greco’s View and Plan of Toledo: a Reconsideration
This lecture is open to the public. Seating will be on a first-come, first-served basis.
This lecture has been generously sponsored by the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA).
April 15, 2010
Colloquium on Spanish and Latin American Art and Visual Culture
Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro, Director, Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
The Reinvention of European Abstraction in Argentina 1944-1950
April 16, 2010
The Institute of Fine Arts-Frick Collection Symposium on the History of Art
To be held at the Institute of Fine Arts.
April 17, 2010
The Institute of Fine Arts-Frick Collection Symposium on the History of Art
To be held at the Frick Collection.
April 20, 2010
Faculty Inaugural Lecture
Alexander Nagel, Professor of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts
Orientations in pre-European Art
Watch this video online.
April 23, 2010
Silberberg Lecture Series
Romy Golan, Professor of Art History, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Mirror Images/Eclipses: Italian Art in the 1960s
May 7, 2010
The Director’s Extracurricular Seminar
Professor David Joselit, Kirk Varnedoe Visiting Professor, Institute of Fine Arts
Carnegie Professor, History of Art, Yale University
WITNESS: Spectatorship in Action
September 23, 2010
Colloquium on Spanish and Latin American Art and Visual Culture
Laura Bass,
Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies, Tulane University
"Picturing Baroque Madrid: Social Geographies and Urban Curiosities"
September 28, 2010
"Anachronic Renaissance: a conversation with the authors"
Speakers: Alexander Nagel, Professor of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts, New York
University Christopher S. Wood, Professor of History of Art, Yale University
Moderators: Patricia Rubin, Judy and Michael Steinhardt Director, Institute of Fine
Arts
Marvin Trachtenberg, Edith Kitzmiller Professor of the History of Fine Arts,
Institute of Fine Arts
October 7, 2010
The Walter W.S. Cook Annual Lecture: Gary M. Radke,
Dean's Professor of the Humanities, Syracuse University
"As will please the ladies": Planning Choirs, Kitchens, and Latrines in
Fifteenth-Century Venetian Convents.
October 14, 2010
Colloquium on Spanish and Latin American Art and Visual Culture
Jo Labanyi,
Director, King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center at NYU and Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, NYU
"Noir Visuality in Spanish Cinema of the Early Franco Dictatorship: Complicating Regime Ideology”
October 15, 2010
Institute of Fine Arts' Conservation Center 50th Anniversary Symposium: Flashlight on Five Decades
October 19th, 2010
Silberberg Lecture Series
Boris Groys, Global Distinguished Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies, New York University; Professor of Art History, Philosophy and Media Theory, Staatliche Hochschule fur Gestaltung, Karlsruhe
"Rules of Repetition: Reflection of the Medium in the Time-Based Art"
Watch this lecture online.
November 2, 2010
Silberberg Lecture Series
Dietrich Neumann, Royce Family Professor for the History of Modern Architecture and Urban Studies, Brown University
"A Skyscraper for Mussolini: Mario Palanti and Urban Planning in Fascist Rome"
Watch this video online.
November 6, 2010
Symposium in Honor of Marvin Trachtenberg, Edith Kitzmiller Professor of the History of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts.
Click here for a complete program.
November 9, 2010
Colloquium on Spanish and Latin American Art and Visual Culture
Nuno Senos,
Resident Director, CIEE Study Center Lisbon and Associate Researcher, Centro de História de Além-Mar FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
"Counter-curved Walls and National Identity in Brazil"
November 18, 2010
Archaeological Research at Aphrodisias 2010
Presented by Roland R.R. Smith, Director, Lincoln Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford, Research Professor, Institute of Fine Arts;
and Esen Ogus, Field Director, Senior Research Scholar, Institute of Fine Arts
November 23, 2010
Silberberg Lecture Series
Pamela Smith, Professor, History Department, Columbia University
"Art, Science, and Techne: Practical Knowledge and the Written Word in Early Modern Europe"
December 2, 2010
Beat Brenk, Visiting Professor, Williams College
"Rhetoric, Ambition and the Function of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo"