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2013


February



Friday, February 1, 2013 – Saturday, February 2, 2013
Duke House: A Case Study in Architecture, Decoration, and Art History
We are no longer accepting RSVPs for the Duke House symposium. This event is filled to capacity. A live video stream will be available here during the conference.

Wednesday, February 6, 2013, 6:00 PM
Judith Praska Professorship Public Lecture
Christine Frohnert, Judith Praska Distinguished Visiting Professor in Conservation and Technical Studies, Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Power On: The Conservation of Electronic Media Art
We are no longer accepting RSVPs for the Judith Praska Professorship Public Lecture. This event is filled to capacity.  If you would like to placed on the wait list, please email conservation.events@nyu.edu.



Thursday, February 7, 2013, 5:30 PM
Current Trends in Medieval Art History
Beatrice Kitzinger, 2012-2014 Mellon Fellow for Scholarship in the Humanities, Stanford University 
The Instrumental Cross and the Work of the Gospels in Carolingian Manuscript Illumination
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservations click here.



Friday, February 8, 2013, 2:30 PM
In-house IFA-Frick Symposium
Please visit this page for more information.
Open only to IFA students and faculty only.



Monday, February 11, 2013, 5:30 PM
Mellon Research Initiative
IFA Student Reading Group
For more information about the group click here.
Open only to current IFA students.



Tuesday, February 12, 2013, 6:00 PM
The Daniel H. Silberberg Lecture Series
Christiane Gruber, Associate Professor of Islamic Art, University of Michigan
Violence's Vestiges: The Martyrs' Museum in Tehran
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservations click here.



Wednesday, February 13, 2013, 5:00 PM
Alumni Careers Panel
Open only to the IFA community.



Thursday, February 14, 2013, 6:00 PM
New York Renaissance Consortium
Machtelt Israëls Researcher, History of Renaissance and Early Modern Art, University of Amsterdam
(Re)Constructing Piero della Francesca's Altarpieces for Borgo San Sepolcro
Open to the public; no reservations necessary
Please note: This lecture will be held at 612 Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia University



Friday, February 15, 2013, 6:00 PM
IFA Alumni Reunion
Open only to IFA alumni.



Tuesday, February 19, 2013, 6:30 PM
Artists at the Institute
Agnes Denes
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservations click here.



Friday February 22, 2013, 6:30 PM
The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
Karen Polinger Foster, Professor, Yale Universit
The Adornment of Aegean Boats with Comparanda from Ancient to Modern Times
Open to the public.



Friday, February 22, 2013, 6:00 PM
The China Project Workshop
Nicholas Grindley
Moderated by Jonathan Hay, Institute of Fine Arts
Open to the public, RSVP required.  For reservations click here.



Monday, February 25, 2013, 6:00 PM
Samuel H. Kress Annual Lecture
Claire Barry, Director of Conservation, Kimbell Art Museum
Sleight of Hand: Comparing the painting techniques in Caravaggio's Cardsharps and La Tour's Cheat with the Ace of Clubs at the Kimbell Art Museum 
Please check back for RSVP information.

Tuesday, February 26, 2013, 6:00 PM
Latin American Forum sponsored by the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art
Monica Kupfer, Independent Researcher and Curator, Bienal de Arte de Panama 
On the Map: Art in Central America since 1990
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservations click here.

Thursday, February 28, 2013, 5:30 PM
Current Trends in Medieval Art History
Holger Klein, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
Spirited Matter and the Rhetoric of Enshrinement
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservations click here.



March



Friday, March 1, 2013, 6:00 PM
The China Project Workshop
Alain Thote, École pratique des hautes études, Paris
Moderated by Lilian Tseng, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
Early Chinese Manuscripts in Archaeological Context
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservations click here.



Monday, March 4, 2013, 5:30 PM
Mellon Research Initiative
IFA Student Reading Group
For more information about the group click here.
Open only to current IFA students.



Thursday, March 7, 2013 – Friday, March 8, 2013
Mellon Research Initiative
Mapping: Geography, Power, and the Imagination in the Art of the Americas 
For more information about this conference, please click here.
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservations click here.

Tuesday, March 12, 2013, 6:30 PM
Artists at the Institute
Haim Steinbach
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservations click here.



Thursday, March 14, 2013, 5:30 PM
Current Trends in Medieval Art History
Kirk Ambrose, Associate Professor, Art History Late Antique and Medieval Art, University of Colorado Boulder
An (Il)Legible Capital from Moutiers-Saint-Jean
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservations click here.



Friday, March 22, 2013, 6:30 PM
The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier, Professor, former director of the German Archaeological Institute in Athens
The oracle sanctuary of Apollon of Abai/Kalapodi: cult continuity from the Mycenaean times to the Roman Imperial period in one of the most important sanctuaries of Ancient Greece
Open to the public.



Tuesday, March 26, 2013, 6:00 PM
Seminar on Greek and Roman Art and Architecture
Tonio Hölscher, Professor of Classical Archaeology, University of Heidelberg
The Trojan War in Archaic Greek Art: A Chapter on Greek Pessimism
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservations click here.



Thursday, March 28, 2013, 6:00 PM
Colloquium on Art in Spain and Latin America
Ronda Kasl, Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture before 1800, Indianapolis Museum of Art
Virtue Exemplified: Sovereignty and Salvation at the Cartuja de Miraflores
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservations click here.



April



Wednesday, April 3, 2013, 6:00 PM
Archaeological Research at Abydos
David O’Connor, Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Ancient Egyptian Art; Co-Director, Yale University-University of Pennsylvania-Institute of Fine Arts, NYU Excavations at Abydos
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservation click here.



Thursday, April 4, 2013, 6:00 PM
Seminar on Greek and Roman Art and Architecture
François Lissarrague, Professor, L'École des hautes études en sciences sociales (ÉHESS), Paris
Attic Vase-inscriptions: the Verbal and the Visual
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservations click here.



Friday, April 5, 2013, 6:00 PM
The China Project Workshop
Denise Leidy, Curator, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Extreme Practices: Shakyamuni and other Ascetics in Buddhist Art 
Moderated by Hsueh-man Shen, Institute of Fine Arts
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservations click here.



Monday, April 8, 2013, 5:30 PM
Current Trends in Medieval Art History
Jeffrey Hamburger, Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and Culture, Harvard University
Script as Image
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservations click here.



Tuesday, April 9, 2013, 6:00 PM
The Daniel H. Silberberg Lecture Series
Richard Clay, Senior Lecturer in the History of Art and Co-Director of the Heritage and Cultural Learning Hub, University of Birmingham (U.K.)
Iconoclasm and Violence in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1795
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservations click here.



Wednesday, April 10, 2013, 6:30 PM
The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
Gerald Cadogan, Professor, British School at Athens
M & M’s. Myrtos and Malia: Middle Minoan entente cordiale? Or unitary state?
Open to the public.

Thursday, April 11, 2013, 6:00 PM
Colloquium on Art in Spain and Latin America
Richard Kagan, Professor, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University
The Spanish Craze: America Discovers and Displays Spanish Art, 1890-1930
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservations click here.       



Friday, April 12, 2013 – Saturday, April 13, 2013
Mellon Research Initiative
Archaeology, Heritage, and the Mediation of Time
For additional information about this conference please click here.
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservations click here.      



Monday, April 15, 2013, 6:00 PM
Celebrating the Conservation of York Minster
Sarah Brown and Dr. Kate Giles 
"Preserving the Heavenly Jerusalem: Stone and Glass Conservation and Research at York Minster"
Open to the public, RSVP required.  For reservations click here.

Tuesday, April 16, 2013, 6:00 PM
Latin American Forum sponsored by the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art
Krista Thompson, Associate Professor, Northwestern University
"I was here, but I disappear”: Ivanhoe Martin and the Effect of Photographic Disappearance in Jamaica
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservations click here.



Wednesday, April 17, 2013, 6:00 PM
Judith Praska Professorship Public Lecture
Carol Mancusi-Ungaro, Judith Praska Distinguished Visiting Professor in Conservation and Technical Studies, Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Cues From Cy Twombly
Seating for this event is now full.



Thursday, April 18, 2013, 5:30 PM
Current Trends in Medieval Art History
Achim Timmerman, Associate Professor, Department of History of Art, University of Michigan  
Vain Labors: Late Medieval Didactic Imagery in the French Maritime Alps
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservations click here.



Friday, April 19, 2013, 3:00 PM
IFA-Frick Symposium
For more information please click here.
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservations click here.




Tuesday, April 30, 2013, 6:00 PM
New York Renaissance Consortium
Scott Nethersole, Lecturer, The Courtauld Institute of Art
"My pain is ever before you": The Flagellation of Christ in fifteenth-century Florence.
Open to the public.



May




Friday, May 3, 2013, 6:00 PM
The China Project Workshop
Joe Scheier-Dohlberg, Assistant Curator, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Moderated by Lulu Brotherton, SUNY, New Paltz
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservations click here.



Tuesday, May 7, 2013, 6:00 PM
The Daniel H. Silberberg Lecture Series
Robert Hayden, Professor of Anthropology, Law and Public & International Affairs and Director, Russian and East European Studies, University of Pittsburgh
Intersecting Religioscapes: A Comparative Approach to Trajectories of Change, Scale, Competition, Sharing and Violence in Religious Spaces
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservations click here.



Thursday, May 9, 2013, 6:00 PM
Seminar on Greek and Roman Art and Architecture
Elizabeth Bartman, President, Archaeological Institute of America 
Henry Blundell and His Classical Marbles
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservations click here.



Tuesday, May 14, 2013, 6:30 PM
Artists at the Institute
Julie Mehretu
This event is at capacity and we are no longer accepting RSVPs.



The Following event takes place at NYU's Cantor Film Center, 36 East 8th Street
Saturday May 18, 2013, 11:00 AM to 6:00 PM
Vermeer's Daughter?
Speakers include: Benjamin Binstock, Anthony Grafton, Linda Nochlin, Chuck Close, James Elkins, Vincent Desiderio, Rachel Cohen, Ulrich Baer
Open to the Public
http://nyihumanities.org/event/vermeers-daughter


Tuesday, May 21, 2013, 11am
Institute of Fine Arts Graduation
Live broadcast available here.

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