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With the health and safety of our community in mind, the Institute's buildings will reopen this fall only to students, faculty, and staff with classes held for students both remotely and in-person. We look forward to continuing a robust public programming schedule online, welcoming participants from around the globe. We encourage you to explore our virtual programming and archive of past lectures.
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Connect to the latest thinking about the arts from ancient times to tomorrow’s prospects. Become part of the conversation, keep up with our events calendar (further down this page) and choose from our extensive range of lecture series, special lectures, panel discussions, workshops, and conferences. Enjoy our video archive to catch up with previous events. Some of our lectures are broadcast live.
2021 Calendar
- January
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- February
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Tuesday, February 9, 2021 at 6:00pm
Series: Artists at the Institute
Speaker: Patty Chang
LEARN MORE about RSVP REquired for the Artists at the Institute talkDescription: Patty Chang discusses her practice starting from performance, moving through video, expanding to research projects such as the acclaimed exhibition titled Patty Chang: The Wandering Lake 2009-2017 at the Queens Museum in New York, up to her current multichannel project Milk Debt on view at Pioneer Works in Red Hook, Brooklyn from March 5 to May 16, 2021. Chang is an artist working in performance, video, writing, and installation. Her early performance work was influenced by 1960s and '70s performance work, as well as identity politics of the 1980s and '90s. More recently, her work has been focused on site-specific, performative, narrative projects that deal with cultural imaginaries, the environment, and the body. Chang received her BA from the University of California, San Diego. Her work has been exhibited nationwide and internationally at such institutions as the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Guggenheim Museum, New York; New Museum, New York; BAK, Basis voor actuele Kunst, Utrecht; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Fri Art Centre d’Art de Freibourg, Switzerland; Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, England; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the M+ Museum, Hong Kong; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Times Museum in Guangzhou, China; and the Moderna Museet, Stockholm. She has received a Rockefeller Foundation Grant, a Creative Capital Award, a finalist for the Hugo Boss Prize, a Guna S. Mundheim Fellow in the Visual Arts at the American Academy in Berlin, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow, and an Anonymous Was a Woman Grant. She teaches at the University of Southern California. She lives and works in Los Angeles.
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Tuesday, February 16, 2021 at 2:30pm
Title: Jonathan Brown, No solo Velázquez
Speakers: Jordana Mendelson, Director of the King Juan Carlos I Center of NYU; Estrella de Diego, Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid; Robert Lubar Messeri, Associate Professor of Modern Art at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU; Professor Edward Sullivan, the Helen Gould Shepard Professor of the History of Art at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU; Professor Reva Wolf, Professor of Art History at the State University of New York at New Paltz; Dr. Miguel Falomir, Director of the Museo Nacional del Prado; Francisco Chaparro, Professor Brown's last Ph.D. student, and the editor and translator of the volume.
Description: This event will celebrate the publication of Jonathan Brown's new collection of essays, No solo Velázquez (Madrid: Cátedra, 2020).
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The event is co-sponsored by the Institute of Fine Arts and the King Juan Carlos I Center of NYU. Moderated by Jordana Mendelson (Director of the KJCC), with brief introductions by Estrella de Diego (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) and Robert Lubar Messeri (NYU/IFA), four speakers will comment on Professor Brown's texts: Professor Edward Sullivan (NYU/IFA), Professor Reva Wolf (SUNY New Paltz), Dr. Miguel Falomir (Director, Museo del Prado), and Francisco Chaparro (Professor Brown's last Ph.D. student, and the editor and translator of the volume).
A Zoom link will be sent to registered guests the morning of the event.
Estrella de Diego is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid (Spain) and an Academician at the Royal Academy of Arts in Madrid. She has held the King Juan Carlos I Chair of Spanish Culture and Civilization (NYU), the 13th Luis Angel Arango Internacional Chair at the Banco de la República (Bogotá) and theIda Cordelia Beam Distinguished Professorship. She is a widely published author in both fiction and non-fiction focusing and prolific curator. She is columnist for El País and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Prado Museum.
Robert Lubar Messeri is Associate Professor of Modern Art at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU. He served as Director of NYU/Madrid from 2014-2019, and has been a Trustee of the Fundació Joan Miró since 2014. A specialist in modern French, Spanish and Catalan art, he has published widely on Miró, Picasso and Dalí. He is currently co-editing the Edinburgh Companion on the art and visual culture of the Spanish Civil War.
Edward J Sullivan is the Helen Gould Shepard Professor of the History of Art at the Institute of Fine Arts of NYU where he also serves as Deputy Director. He is the author of over thirty books and exhibition catalogs on the visual arts of the Iberian Peninsula, Latin America and the Caribbean from the Early Modern period to today. He has curated many exhibitions in Europe, Latin America and the US. His most recent project was an exhibition and book on the Brazilian garden architect Roberto Burle Marx. He is currently writing a book on exhibitions and collecting of Latin American and Latinx art in New York from the twentieth century to the present and a study of the Catalan-Puerto Rican artist Francisco Oller in Spain and France. Sullivan was the first PhD student of Jonathan Brown at the Institute.
Reva Wolf is Professor of Art History at the State University of New York at New Paltz, where she teaches courses on art of the eighteenth century to the present and on art historical methodology. She has published widely on the artists Goya and Warhol, and on methodological questions. Among her recent publications is the co-edited book, Freemasonry and the Visual Arts from the Eighteenth Century Forward: Historical and Global Perspectives (Bloomsbury Visual Arts, 2020). She has held several fellowships, including at the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, and Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton.
Miguel Falomir (1966) holds a doctorate in art history. Between 1997 and 2015 he was Chief Curator of Italian Renaissance Paintings at the Prado Museum, where he curated, among others, the exhibitions Titian (2003), Tintoretto (2007), The Portrait of the Renaissance (2008), The Furies, political allegory and artistic challenge (2014), Dánae and Venus and Adonis, Titian’s first poesie for Felipe II (2014) and Lorenzo Lotto. Portraits (2018). Since March 2017 is the director of the Prado Museum.
He has been a Fulbright fellow at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University (1994-1995) and Andrew Mellon Professor at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts of the National Gallery of Art in Washington (2008-2010).
He is the author of several books and dozens of articles on Spanish and Italian Renaissance art and member of the Scientific Committee of the Fondazione Tiziano in Pieve di Cadore and the editorial boards of several magazines. In 2017 was awarded the Mongan Prize by Harvard-Villa I Tatti University.
Francisco J. R. Chaparro is an art historian based in Madrid, Spain. He was a Fulbright scholar to the US between 2011-2013. In 2019 he completed the PhD program at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, where he defended a dissertation on Goya supervised by Jonathan Brown and Robert Slifkin. Francisco has held intern and research positions at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, MoMA, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Met, and The Hispanic Society. A graduate of the Certificate in Curatorial Studies offered by NYU and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, his most recent academic work includes his participation in the catalogue of an upcoming exhibition on Goya's graphic work at The Met.
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Tuesday, February 9, 2021 at 6:00pm
- March
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- April
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- May
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