2012
March 20
Wanda Corn, Robert and Ruth Halperin Professor Emerita in Art History, Stanford University
Portraiture and the Making of Gertrude Stein
October 16
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
2011
March 10
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
November 9
Bernhard Jussen, Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main
A Plea for an Iconology of Historical Research
2010
May 7
Professor David Joselit, Kirk Varnedoe Visiting Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University;
Carnegie Professor, History of Art, Yale University
WITNESS: Spectatorship in Action
March 2
Speakers: James Cuno,
President and Eloise W. Martin Director of The Art Institute of Chicago. Philippe de Montebello,
Fiske Kimball Professor in the History and Culture of Museums, Institute of Fine Arts,
Director Emeritus, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Moderator:
Alexander Nagel, Professor of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts
Museums Then and Now: A Conversation with James Cuno and Philippe de Montebello
November 18
R. R. R. Smith, Oxford University &
Project Director, NYU Excavations at Aphrodisias
The Blue Horse:
Some Reflections on Classical Antiquity and Visual History
December 2
Alex Potts, Kirk Varnedoe Visiting Professor; and Tom Crow, Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art
Experiments in Modern Realism