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CONNOISSEURS CIRCLE EVENTS FROM PRIOR SEASONS

2011- 2012


Private tour of The Renaissance Portrait from Donatello to Bellini at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

with IFA Director Patricia Rubin

Presentation of Dissertation Research
with Connoisseurs Circle Fellows

Visit to the Private Collection of IFA Trustee, Mark Fisch

Curator-led Tour of the Whitney Biennial with Biennial Co-Curator Jay Sanders


2010-2011



Tour of the Private Collection of Thomas Kaplan
with Professor Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann and
Collection Curator, Laurel Dial

Tour of The Cloisters
with IFA Conservation Chairman, Michele Marincola

Tour of de Kooning: A Retrospective
at the Museum of Modern Art
with IFA Professor, Robert Slifkin

Visit to the home of Shelby White
to view her collection of ancient art with Jennifer Chi, IFA alumna and Associate Director for
Exhibitions and Programs at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World

Roy Lichtenstein: The Black-and-White Drawings, 1961-1968
at the Morgan Library & Museum
with Thomas Crow, Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art

The Spanish Manner: Drawings from Ribera to Goya
at The Frick Collection
with Jonathan Brown, Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of Fine Arts

Visit to the Collection of Hester Diamond
with Colin Eisler, Robert Lehman Professor of Fine Arts and
Patricia Rubin, Judy & Michael Steinhardt Director

Tour of MoMA’s Sculpture Conservation Studio at The Museum of Modern Art
with Sculpture Conservator Lynda Zycherman
followed by a reception at the home of Alicia Volk

Architectural Walking Tour of the Duke House and its Neighborhood
with Jon Ritter, Professor of History at New York University
followed by a reception at the IFA with the Connoisseurs Circle Fellows


2009-2010


Cocktail Reception Welcoming New IFA Director, Patricia Rubin

at the home of Judy and Michael Steinhardt

Visit to the Studio of Cai Guo-Qiang

Tour of “The Lost World of Old Europe”
with Jennifer Chi, Associate Director for Exhibitions and Public Programs & IFA alumna
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU

Gabriel Orozco at MoMA
with Edward Sullivan
Helen Gould Sheppard Professor in the History of Art, IFA

The Drawings of Bronzino
with Carmen Bambach
Curator of Drawings and Prints, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Visit to the Studio of Cecily Brown
with Professor Linda Nochlin
Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Modern Art, IFA

Rome after Raphael
with Patricia Rubin
Judy & Michael Steinhardt Director, IFA and
Margaret Holben Ellis
Eugene Thaw Professor of Paper Conservation, IFA
at The Morgan Library & Museum


2008 - 2009


Insider’s Tour of the Museum of Arts & Design

with Holly Hotchner
Director, The Museum of Arts & Design & IFA alumna

The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860 to 1989
with Alexandra Munroe
Senior Curator of Asian Art, Guggenheim Museum, IFA alumna & Board of Trustees member
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Is it a Fake? A Connoisseurship Challenge
with Michele D. Marincola
Interim Director, Institute of Fine Arts & Sherman Fairchild Chairman and Professor of Conservation

The Philippe de Montebello Years: Curators Celebrate Three Decades of Acquisitions with Helen C. Evans
Mary and Michael Jaharis Curator of Byzantine Art & IFA alumna
The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Viewing of Contemporary Art with Professor Thomas Crow
at the home of Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz
October 6, 2008, 6:00 to 8:00 p.m.


2007 - 2008


Take your time: Olafur Eliasson                       

with Roxanna Marcoci
Curator of Photography, Museum of Modern Art & IFA alumna
Museum of Modern Art

Cai Guo-Quiang: I Want to Believe
with Alexandra Munroe
Senior Curator of Asian Art, Guggenheim Museum, IFA alumna, & Board of Trustees member
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Colonial Latin American Art from the Collection of Richard and Roberta Huber
with Roberta Huber, Connoisseurs Circle Member &
Michele Marincola, Sherman Fairchild Chairman of IFA’s Conservation Center

Monumental Miniatures: Engraved Cylinder Seals from the
Ancient Near East, 3500 B.C. - 330 B.C.
with Sidney Babcock, Curator of Seals and Tablets
The Morgan Library and Museum

Modern Paintings From The Si & Victoria Newhouse Collection

The Age Of Rembrandt: Dutch Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum Of Art
with Egbert Haverkamp-Begemann, John Langeloth Loeb Professor Emeritus in the History of Art


2006 - 2007


New Greek And Roman Galleries at The Metropolitan Museum Of Art

with Joan R. Mertens, Curator of Greek and Roman Art & IFA Lecturer
and Katherine Welch, Associate Professor of Fine Arts

A Visit to the Studio of Chuck Close

Caring for Collections in New York City Apartments
with Michele D. Marincola, Sherman Fairchild Chairman &
Professor of Conservation, The Conservation Center at the IFA
At the home of Steve & Patricia Beckwith

Celebrating Rembrandt: Etchings from the Morgan
with Mariët Westermann, Judy & Michael Steinhardt Director & Margaret Holben Ellis, Professor of Conservation
The Morgan Library & Museum

Paintings, drawings, objects and furnishings from the Wiener Collection
with Mariët Westermann, Judy & Michael Steinhardt Director
and Günter H. Kopcke, Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities

Members of the Institute of Fine Arts’ patron group, the Connoisseurs Circle, are invited to exclusive events throughout the year.  Listed here you will find an archive of past events.  For membership information, please visit the Connoisseurs Circle homepage.