Events
The Great Hall Display Cases
Responding to the contained space found within two empty glass library cases on the staircase in the Great Hall, independent curator Lisa A. Banner (IFA, Ph.D. 2006) has come up with a series of intimate exhibitions of conceptual work by contemporary artists. Read more
The Institute of Fine Arts offers a diverse array of public programs throughout the academic year. Programs include annual lecture series, special lectures, symposia, and conferences which cover an extensive range of time periods and genres.
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2013
Tuesday, September 17, 2013, 6:00 PM
The 7th Annual Kirk Varnedoe Lecture Series
Thierry de Duve, Fall 2013 Varnedoe Visiting Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Kant's 'Free play...' in Light of Minimal Art
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservations click here
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Thursday, September 19, 2013, 6:00 PM
Exploring the Ancient World Archaeological Field Research at the Institute of Fine Arts: Archaeological Projects of the Institute of Fine Arts
This event is open only to the IFA community.
Thursday, September 26, 2013, 6:00 PM
Colloquium on Art in Spain and Latin America
Eduardo Douglas, Associate Professor of Art History, University of North Carolina
Points of Contention: The Sources and Development of Painting Traditions in Spanish America
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservations click here.
Friday, September 27, 2013, 6:30 PM
The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
Robert B. Koehl, Professor of Classical and Oriental Studies, Hunter College
It’s a Dog’s Life: Canines in Minoan Culture
Open to the public.
Monday, September 30, 2013, 5:30 PM
Mellon Research Initiative
Mellon Student Reading Group meeting
For more information about the group click here.
This event is open only to current IFA students.
Tuesday, October 1, 2013, 6:00 PM
Latin American Forum
Miriam Basilio, Associate Professor of Art History and Museum Studies, NYU
The Evolving Canon: Latin American Art at MoMA 1945-55
This event is at capacity and we no longer accepting RSVPs.
Thursday, October 3, 2013, 6:00 PM
Seminar on Greek and Roman Art and Architecture
Jas Elsner, Humfrey Payne Senior Research Fellow in Classical Archaeology and Art, University of Oxford; Visiting Professor of Art History, University of Chicago
Art and Rhetoric in the Arch of Titus
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservations click here.
Friday, October 4, 2013 – Saturday, October 5, 2013
Mellon Research Initiative
Art History and the Art of Description
Organized by Jas Elsner, Humfrey Payne Senior Research Fellow in Classical Archaeology and Art, University of Oxford; Visiting Professor of Art History, University of Chicago
For more information click here.
This event is at capacity. Please tune in to the live broadcast that will be available here.
Tuesday, October 8, 2013, 12:30 PM
Rendez-vous: An International Seminar on French Art
Anne Lafont, Associate Professor of Modern Art History, University of Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée
Proposals for an Atlantic Portraiture: Paris, Philadelphia, Saint-Domingue around 1800
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservations click here.
Tuesday, October 8, 2013, 6:30 PM
Artists at the Institute
Rob Pruitt
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservations click here.
Thursday, October 10, 2013, 6:00 PM
Director’s Extracurricular Seminar
Noémie Etienne, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2013-2015, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Does Conservation challenge Art History?
Diderot, Goethe and the Materiality of Artworks
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservations click here.
Wednesday, October 16, 2013, 6:00 PM
A special lecture in conjunction with Architecture and Design Month
Jean-Louis Cohen, Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Le Corbusier, an Atlas of Modern Landscapes
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservations click here.
For more information on Architecture and Design Month, please click here.
Thursday, October 17, 2013, 6:00 PM
Colloquium on Art in Spain and Latin America
Ilona Katzew, Curator and co-Head of Latin American Art, Los Angeles County Museum
Eighteenth-Century Painting in Mexico: Thoughts on the State of the Field
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservations click here.
Friday, October 18, 2013, 6:00 PM
The China Project Workshop
Michael Hatch, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservations click here
Saturday, October 19, 2013, 12:00-3:00 PM
Tours of the James B. Duke House in conjunction with Architecture and Design Month
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservations click here.
For more information on Architecture and Design Month, please click here.
Tuesday, October 22, 2013, 6:00 PM
The 7th Annual Kirk Varnedoe Lecture Series
Thierry de Duve, Fall 2013 Varnedoe Visiting Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Joseph Beuys and the German Past, Tentatively
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservations click here.
Wednesday, October 23, 2013, 6:00 PM
Latin American Forum
A special panel discussion sponsored by the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art: Mexican Art in Focus: New Research in Mexican Art History, Celebrating the Publication of James Oles's ART AND ARCHITECTURE IN MEXICO
Speakers will include Edward J. Sullivan (Helen Gould Sheppard Professor in the History of Art,Institute of Fine Arts, NYU), moderator, Barbara Mundy (Fordham University), Katherine Manthorne (CUYNY), Mary Coffey (Dartmouth), James Oles (Wellesley)
Please note: This event will take place at the King Juan Carlos I Spain Center
53 Washington Square, First-Floor Screening Room
New York, NY 10012
Open to the public.
Thursday, October 24, 2013, 6:00 PM
The Walter W.S. Cook Annual Lecture
Emilie E.S. Gordenker, Director, Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis
Are Cross-Sections Boring? The Case of Saul and David
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservations click here.
Friday, October 25, 2013, 6:30 PM
The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
Joost Crouwel, Professor Emeritus, University of Amsterdam
Recent Work at Early Helladic Geraki, Laconia.
Open to the public.
Tuesday, October 29, 2013, 6:00 PM
The Daniel H. Silberberg Lecture Series
Marie-Helene Girard,Visiting Professor of French, Yale University
'Un autre monde très lointain et très inconnu': British Painters in Paris in 1855.
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservations click here.
Wednesday, October 30, 2013, 6:00 PM
Seminar on Greek and Roman Art and Architecture
Felix Pirson, Director, Deutsches Archaeologisches Institut – Istanbul
Conservation and Restoration Activities in Pergamon and Turkey
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservations click here.
Thursday, October 31, 2013, 6:00 PM
Colloquium on Art in Spain and Latin America
Luisa Elena Alcalá, Profesora titular de Historia del arte, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
The Problem of the Canon and the History of Spanish Colonial Painting.
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservations click here.
Tuesday, November 5, 2013, 6:00 PM
Latin American Forum
Gabriela Rangel, Director, Visual Arts, The Americas Society
Art and Politics in Venezuela 1960-80
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Thursday, November 7, 2013, 6:00 PM
Archaeological Research at Selinunte
Clemente Marconi, Director of Excavations at Selinunte; James R. McCredie Professor in the History of Greek Art and Archaeology, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservations click here.
Friday, November 8, 2013, 12:30 PM
Rendez-vous: An International Seminar on French Art
Chonja Lee, PhD Candidate, University of Zurich
L'Âme de Lotus: Floral Animations in French Art around 1900
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservations click here.
Monday, November 11, 2013, 6:30 PM
Artists at the Institute
Benjamin Patterson
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservations click here.
Tuesday, November 12, 2013, 6:00 PM
The 7th Annual Kirk Varnedoe Lecture Series
Thierry de Duve, Fall 2013 Varnedoe Visiting Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
“This is art”: Anatomy of a Sentence
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservations click here.
Friday, November 15, 2013, 6:00 PM
The China Project Workshop
Zheng Yan, Professor of Chinese Art, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservations click here.
Monday, November 18, 2013, 6:00 PM
Richard Ettinghausen Memorial Lecture
Iranian Modernism: A Conversation
Speakers:
Lynn Gumpert, Director, Grey Art Gallery, NYU: Siah Armajani and Bijan Dowlatshahi
Fereshteh Daftari, Curator and Scholar; co-Curator with Layla Dibaof the current exhibition Iran Modern, Asia Society: Parviz Tanavoli in context
Edward Sullivan, Helen Gould Sheppard Professor in the History of Art, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU: Alternative Modernities: Middle Eastern & Latin American Art in the Mid-20th Century
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservations click here.
Tuesday, November 19, 2013, 6:00 PM
The Daniel H. Silberberg Lecture Series
Michael Ann Holly, Starr Director Emeritus of the Research and Academic Program, The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Painted Silence
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservations click here.
Thursday, November 21, 2013, 6:00 PM
The Seminar on Greek and Roman Art and Architecture
Tasos Tanoulas, Greek Ministry of Culture, former director of the Propylaia Restoration Project, Athenian Akropolis
The Propylaia to the Athenian Akropolis: New Evidence about the Classical Building
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservations click here.
Friday, November 22, 2013, 6:30 PM
The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
Nancy Thomas, Professor Emerita, University of Jacksonville
A Lion's Eye View from the Bronze Age.
Open to the public.
Monday, December 2, 2013, 6:00 PM
Mellon Research Initiative
Mellon Student Reading Group meeting
For more information about the group click here.
This event is open only to current IFA students.
Tuesday, December 3, 2013, 6:00 PM
Samuel H. Kress Lecture
Cecilia Frosinini, Coordinating Director of Art History, Opificio delle Pietre Dure
The Adoration of the Magi: The Fertile Mind of Leonardo da Vinci.
This event is at capacity. We are no longer accepting RSVPs.
Thursday, December 5, 2013, 6:00 PM
The Daniel H. Silberberg Lecture Series
Kaja Silverman, Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Professor of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania
Unstoppable Development
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservations click here.
Saturday, December 7, 2013
Mellon Research Initiative
Conservation and Its Contexts
Organized by Jim Coddington, Chief Conservator, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
For more information click here.
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservations click here.
Monday, December 9, 12:30 PM
Rendez-vous: An International Seminar on French Art
Merel van Tilburg, Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre allemand d’histoire de l’art, Paris
Embroidery and Tapestry as History Painting in Belgium and France around 1900: Colonialist Exhibition Pieces by Hélène de Rudder and Georges Rochegrosse
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservations click here.
Monday, December 9, 2013, 6:00 PM
Archaeological Research at Aphrodisias in 2013
Roland R.R. Smith, Director of Excavations at Aphrodisias; Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art, University of Oxford; Research Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Alexander Sokolicek, Field Director of Excavations at Aphrodisias, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservations click here.
Wednesday, December 11, 2013, 6:00 PM
Latin American Forum
Linda Rodriguez, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Art History, New York University
History and Art in Early 19th Century Cuba
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservations click here.
Thursday, December 12, 2013, 6:00 PM
Seminar on Greek and Roman Art and Architecture
Roland R.R. Smith, Director of Excavations at Aphrodisias; Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art, University of Oxford; Research Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
The Greek East under Rome: City Monuments and Political Ideology
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservations click here.
Friday, December 13, 2013, 6:00 PM
The China Project Workshop
Lothar von Falkenhausen, Professor of Art History, University of California, Los Angeles
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservations click here.
Friday, December 13, 2013, 6:30 PM
The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
Sara Levi, Associate Professor, University of Modena
New Evidence for Mycenaean Trade with the West
Open to the public.
Saturday, February 1, 2014*
Mellon Research Initiative
Mellon Digital Tools Workshop
Organized by Jonathan Hay, Deputy Director for Faculty and Administration; Ailsa Mellon Bruce Professor of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
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* Please note date change
Thursday, February 6, 2014, 6:00 PM
Colloquium on Art in Spain and Latin America
Chus Martínez, Chief Curator, El Museo del Barrio
To Whom Does the World Belong? On absolute difference, non-sense and experimentalism
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Wednesday, February 19, 2014, 12:30 PM
Rendez-vous: An International Seminar on French Art
Carole Blumenfeld, Research Fellow¸Palais Fesch-Musée des Beaux-arts d'Ajaccio
Marguerite Gérard, the most successful genre painter of her time
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservations click here.
Thursday, February 20, 2014, 6:00 PM
Colloquium on Art in Spain and Latin America
Adele Nelson, Assistant Professor of Art History, Temple University
A Genealogy of Modernism for Brazil: Mário Pedrosa and the Second São Paulo Bienal
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Friday, February 21, 2014, 6:30 PM
The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
Jerolyn Morrison, Doctoral Candidate, University of Leicester
Lecture title forthcoming.
Open to the public.
Tuesday, February 25, 2014, 6:00 PM
Latin American Forum
Mari Carmen Ramírez, Wortham Curator of Latin American Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Director, International Center for the Arts of Americas
Re-assessing Postwar Realisms: The Case of Antonio Berni
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Thursday, February 27, 2014, 6:00 PM
Seminar on Greek and Roman Art and Architecture
Ken Lapatin, Associate Curator of Antiquities, J. Paul Getty Museum
What’s in a Name: Signatures on Classical Gems, Ancient and Modern
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Friday, February 28, 2014
Mellon Research Initiative
Is Contemporary Art History?
Organized by Robert Slifkin, Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
For more information click here.
Tuesday, March 4, 2014, 6:00 PM
Latin American Forum
Roberto Tejada, Professor of Art History, Southern Methodist University, Dallas
Camera-Culture and Experience in São Paulo
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Thursday, March 6, 2014, 6:00 PM
The 8th Annual Kirk Varnedoe Lecture Series
Briony Fer, 2014 Spring Varnedoe Visiting Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Lygia Clark and the problem of art
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Tuesday, March 11, 2014, 6:00 PM
The Daniel H. Silberberg Lecture Series
Eva Hoffman, Assistant Professor of Art and Art History, Tufts University
Connections Far and Wide: Translating Art and Culture in the Medieval Mediterranean World
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Thursday, March 13, 2014, 6:00 PM
The 8th Annual Kirk Varnedoe Lecture Series
Briony Fer, 2014 Spring Varnedoe Visiting Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Abstraction and abjection: Eva Hesse and conditions of making
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Friday, March 14, 2014, 12:30pm
Rendez-vous: An International Seminar on French Art
Frédérique Baumgartner, Lecturer and Director of M.A. in Art History, Columbia University
Women Artists in Hubert Robert’s Views of the Louvre’s Grande Galerie
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservations click here.
Friday, March 21, 2014, 6:30 PM
The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
Thomas Strasser, Associate Professor of Art History, Providence College
Lecture title forthcoming.
Open to the public.
Tuesday, March 25, 2014, 6:00 PM
The 8th Annual Kirk Varnedoe Lecture Series
Briony Fer, 2014 Spring Varnedoe Visiting Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Abstraction’s ‘B’ side: Albers and Reinhardt
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014, 6:30 PM
Artists at the Institute
Paul Pfeiffer
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Tuesday, April 1, 2014, 6:00 PM
The Daniel H. Silberberg Lecture Series
Julia Bryan-Wilson, Associate Professor of Art History, University of California, Berkeley
Feminist Figuration
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Thursday, April 3, 2014, 6:00 PM
The Seminar on Greek and Roman Art and Architecture
Jeffrey Hurwit, Professor of Art History, University of Oregon
Who Signed What? Artists and Signatures in Ancient Greece
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Tuesday, April 8, 2014, 12:30pm
Rendez-vous: An International Seminar on French Art
Jessica Fripp, Postdoctoral Fellow in Material and Visual Culture, Parsons The New School for Design, New York
Caricature and Rebellion in Rome in the Eighteenth Century
Open to the public, RSVP required. For reservations click here.
Tuesday, April 8, 2014, 6:30 PM
Artists at the Institute
Tania Bruguera
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Friday, April 11, 2014
Mellon Research Initiative
Materiality in Japan: Making, Breaking and Conserving Works of Art and Architecture
Organized by Anton Schweizer, 2012-2014 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
For more information click here.
Wednesday, April 16, 2014, 6:00 PM
Seminar on Greek and Roman Art and Architecture
Mark Wilson Jones, Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Director of Postgraduate Research, University of Bath
Lecture title forthcoming.
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Tuesday, April 22, 2014, 6:00 PM
The Daniel H. Silberberg Lecture Series
Alessandra Russo, Associate Professor, Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, Columbia University
Untranslatable Images?
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Friday, April 25, 2013, 3:00 PM
IFA-Frick Symposium
For more information click here.
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