Public Programs
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2026 Fall Calendar
Sep
Series: Artists at the Institute
Monday, September 14, 2026, 6:30-8:00pm
Non-consenting collaborators
Speaker: Gala Porras-Kim
Series: China Project Workshop
Friday, September 18, 2026, 6:00pm
Alan Kennedy (Alan Kennedy Asian Art, Santa Monica) will present on the topic “Looking at Clothing in Chinese Painting.”
The discussion will be moderated by Jonathan Hay (The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU).
Please note this event takes place at the Silver Center for Arts and Science, 32 Waverly Place, Room 300.
RSVP for this in-person event to chinaprojectworkshop@gmail.com
Series: Roundtables
Monday, September 28, 2026, 6:00pm
“To Bear Witness”: The Art of Making Fractured Worlds from and beyond South Asia
Speakers: Roobina Karode, Artistic Director and Chief Curator, Kiran Nader Museum of Art, New Delhi; Joan Kee, Judy and Michael Steinhardt Director at The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; Dipti Khera, Associate Professor at the Institute of Fine Arts at NYU; Ritty Lukose, Associate Professor at the Gallatin School of Individualized Study at NYU; Cara Manes, Associate Curator, Department of Painting and Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, New York; and Fatima Quraishi, Assistant Professor of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University
Oct
Friday, October 2 - Sunday, October 4, 2026
Signs in Motion: Hieroglyphic Transformation from Late Period Egypt to Rome
Series: Paul Lott Lecture
Monday, October 5, 2026, 6:00pm
Lynn Meskell, Dept of Historic Preservation and Penn Museum, University of Pennsylvania.
Series: Conversations in Modern European Art
Friday, October 9, 2026, 10am-4pm
Workshop on Sculpture and Becoming
Speakers: Juliet Bellow, Program Director and Associate Professor of Art History, American University, Joanna Fiduccia, Assistant Professor of the History of Art, Yale University, Meredith Gamer, Associate Professor of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University, Carolina Mangone, Associate Professor of Art and Archaeology; Director, Program in Italian Studies, Princeton University, Elyse Nelson, Associate Curator of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Series: Conversations in Modern European Art
Friday, October 9, 2026, 6:00 pm
"Sculpting Prefiguration: Henri Bergson, Affinity, and the Insurrectionary Avant-Garde”
Speakers: Mark Antliff, Mary Grace Wilson Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University
Thursday, October 15, 2026, 6:00pm
Summer Projects Day 1
Series: Ancient Seminar
Thursday, October 22, 2026 at 6:00pm
Speaker: Patricia Eunji Kim, Assistant Professor, New York University
Nov
Series: Pre-Columbian Society of New York
Monday, November 2, 2026, 6:00pm
The Monuments of Native North America: Deep Time through Today
Speaker:Megan Kassabaum, Weingarten Associate Curator for North America, Penn Museum
Series: Conversations in Modern European Art
Thursday, November 5, 2026 6pm
Linda Nochlin Lecture co-sponsored by Conversations in Modern European Art
Bridget Alsdorf will lecture on her new book on love and collaboration in Scandinavian modernism.
Series: China Project Workshop
Friday, November 6, 2026, 6:00pm
Fan Zhang (Tulane University) will present on the topic “Monuments on the Border: Stone Stele and Que Gate Tower on the Han Dynasty’s Southwest Frontier.”
The discussion will be moderated by Jin Xu (Columbia University).
RSVP for this webinar to chinaprojectworkshop@gmail.com
Series: China Project Workshop
Friday, November 20, 2026, 6:00pm
Peng Xu (ShanghaiTech University) will discuss Wang Wenheng’s illustrations for Mao Ying’s 1620 edition of The Peony Pavilion (1598) and how they recast the heroine’s garden stroll as the perceptual logic of the play.
The discussion will be moderated by Michele Matteini (NYU/Institute of Fine Arts).
RSVP for this webinar to chinaprojectworkshop@gmail.com
Dec
Series: China Project Workshop
Friday, December 11, 2026, 6:00pm
Kathleen Ryor (Carleton College) will present on the topic "Seeing Plants in Ming China."
The discussion will be moderated by Vivi Xie (The Metropolitan Museum of Art).
RSVP for this in-person event to chinaprojectworkshop@gmail.com
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