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).
RSVP for this in-person event to chinaprojectworkshop@gmail.com
Oct
Series: Conversations in Modern European Art
Friday, October 9, 2026, 10am-4pm
Workshop on Sculpture and Becoming
Keynote Lecture: Mark Antliff, "Sculpting Prefiguration: Henri Bergson, Affinity, and the Insurrectionary Avant-Garde”
Nov
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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