Public Programs
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2025 Calendar
Sept
Series: New Directions in Photography
Thursday, September 4, 2025, 6:00-8:00pm
Matthew Biro, University of Michigan
Black Jews, Jewish Photographers: Photography, Fluidity, and Distinctiveness
Series: China Project Workshop
Friday, September 12, 2025 6:00-8:00pm
Fosca Maddaloni-Yu, Washington and Lee Art Museum
Setting China: Mounted Porcelain and the Transgeographic Atelier in Early Modern Eurasia
Series: South-East Asian Connections: Art, History and Archipelagos
Thursday, September 25, 2025, 6:30pm
Mirjam Shatanawi
Indonesia’s Islamic heritage and the aftermath of colonialism
Tuesday, September 30, at 6:00 PM
Jennifer Kim, Alayna Bone, Hsiang Ting Hung, Alexander Ranger, Elizabeth Torres
Summer Projects Day I
Oct
Series: China Project Workshop
Friday, October 3, 2025 6:00-8:00pm
Jenny So (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) will present “Understanding a New Type of Inscription from Early China: Numbers on Late Eastern Zhou Jades.”
The discussion will be moderated by Roderick B. Campbell (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU).
In-person
Series: Ancient Seminar
Wednesday, October 8, 2025 *POSTPONED
Mark Wilson Jones
The Pantheon in Rome: decoding an enigma
Series: Close Reading: Authors at the IFA
Monday, October 20, 2025 at 6:00 pm
Thomas Crow
Making Sense of Marat
Series: Sam Wagstaff Photography Lecture
Tuesday, October 21, 2025, 6:00pm
Oluremi C. Onabanjo, Peter Schub Curator of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art
Photographic Portraits, Political Imagination
Series: Walter W.S. Cook Annual Lecture
Friday, October 24, 2025, at 6:00pm
Anne Umland, Former Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Senior Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art
Meret Oppenheim’s Fur Cup on Display: The Clover-Leafed Napkin and Other Telling Tales
By invitation only.
Series: Midday Matters
Thursday, Oct 30, 12:30pm (lunch provided)
Pamela N. Corey, associate professor of art history in the Art and Media Studies program, Fulbright University Vietnam
Mekong and Metaphor: Contemporary Art and Regional Imaginaries in Mainland Southeast Asia
East Basement Seminar Room
In-person only, for IFA faculty, students, and staff.
Series: Ancient Seminar
Thursday, October 30, 2025, 6:30pm
Susanne Ebbinghaus, George M.A. Hanfmann Curator of Ancient Art and head, Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art, Harvard Art Museums
Approaching Celtic Art Across the Atlantic
Nov
Series: Pre-Columbian Society of New York
Monday, November 3, 2025, 6:00 pm
Lisa Trever, Columbia University
Pulling at the Thread of Pañamarca’s
Hall of the Moche Imaginary
Series: China Project Workshop
Friday, November 7, 2025, 6:30pm
Liu Shi (Zhejiang University) will present "Seeking Panni tartarici: Silk on the Silk Road during the Mongol Period"
The discussion will be moderated by Eiren Shea (Grinnell College)
Online only.
Series: NYU String Studies Chamber Music Concert Series
Saturday, November 8, 2025
Doors will open at 1:30 PM
Concert will begin at 2:00 PM in the Lecture Hall
Series: The Kirk Varnedoe Visiting Professor Lecture
Tuesday, November 11, 2025, 6:00pm
Mary McLeod, Columbia University
The “Ordinary Made Extraordinary!”: Robert Venturi from Rome to Nantucket — Tradition, Vernacular Architecture, and the Shingle Style
Series: The Great Hall Exhibitions
Wednesday, November 12 at 6:00pm
Acaye Kerunen: 1246 Days Around the Sun
Exhibition Opening
Series: South-East Asian Connections: Art, History and Archipelagos
Thursday, November 13, 2025, 6:30pm
Teren Sevea and Faizah Zakaria
Love, Desire, and Death: Charms from Islamicate Southeast Asia
Saturday, November 15, 2025, 9:45am - 6:30pm
A symposium in honor of Michele Marincola, Sherman Fairchild Distinguished Professor of Conservation
The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, on the occasion of her retirement.
Series: Great Hall Exhibitions
Monday, November 17, 2025, 6:00pm
Acaye Kerunen, artist, Kessie Alexandre, Assistant Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis at NY, and Serubiri Moses, curator and author
Coiling a New Cycle: A Conversation on Art and Ecology
Series: Korea Initiative
Tuesday, November 18, 2025, 2:00-4:00pm
Architectural Curating Workshop with Hyungmin Pai, Professor of Architecture, University of Seoul
Curating Uncertainty: North Korea to Climate Change
In-person only, open to the IFA community, NYU Department of Art History students, and area graduate students.
Series: Linda Nochlin Lecture
Tuesday, November 18, 2025, 6:00pm
May Adadol Ingawanij
A City Fluctuates, A Swarm Echoes: Rhythm and Southeast Asian Contemporary Artist Cinema
Series: Korea Initiative
Wednesday, November 19, 2025, 6:00pm
Hyungmin Pai, University of Seoul
Fragments and Networks: Narratives for Modern Architecture in Korea
Made possible by The Korea Foundation.
Series: Midday Matters
Thursday, November 20, 2025, 12:30-1:30pm
Thomaï Serdari on art and commerce
East Basement Seminar Room
In-person only, open to the IFA community
Series: Summer Projects
Thursday, November 20, 2025, 6:00pm
Summer Projects Day II
The Institute of Fine Arts invites you to an evening of presentations from current conservation students on their summer 2025 work projects.
Dec
Tuesday, December 2, 2025, 11:00am
MA Program Prospective Student Information Session
Series: Annual Aphrodisias Lecture
Monday, December 8, 2025, 6:00pm
Roland R. R. Smith, Director, Excavations at Aphrodisias;
Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art Emeritus,
University of Oxford; Research Professor, the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
New Research and Discoveries at Aphrodisias in 2025
Tuesday, December 9, 2025
Annual Praska Lecture
Wednesday, December 10, 2025
Annual Selinunte Lecture
Series: China Project Workshop
Friday, December 12, 2025 6:00-8:00pm
December 12
Peter Sturman (UC Santa Barbara) will present “Xu Wei and the Spatial Dimensions of Talent.”
The discussion will be moderated by Jonathan Hay (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University).
In-person
Find out more about our annual lecture series.
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