Events Archive

2010

January 21, 2010
Colloquium on Spanish and Latin American Art and Visual Culture
Luis Pérez-Oramas, The Estrellita Brodsky Curator of Latin American Art, MoMA
Alejandro Otero, Abstraction as Lightning: Quae Pingi Non Possunt

January 22, 2010
In-House Symposium
Presentations of current work by IFA students.

February 4, 2010
The 4th Annual Kirk Varnedoe Memorial Lectures
David Joselit, 2010 Kirk Varnedoe Visiting Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, Carnegie Professor, History of Art, Yale
States of Form: Against Meaning

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February 5, 2010
Silberberg Lecture Series
Anne Dunlop
, Associate Professor, History of Art and Renaissance
Studies, Yale University
The Mongols and Early Italian Painting

February 11, 2010
The New York Regional Association for Conservation (NYRAC) Lectures
Kate Moomaw, Postgraduate Fellow in Conservation, Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden
A Condition Survey Methodology & Database for Plastic Objects at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
and
Roger Griffith, Associate Conservator, The Museum of Modern Art and
Margo Delidow, Sculpture Research Fellow, The Museum of Modern Art
Turn it On: Turn it Off---Lighting in MoMA’s Collection of Architecture and Design

February 16, 2010
The 4th Annual Kirk Varnedoe Memorial Lectures
David Joselit, 2010 Kirk Varnedoe Visiting Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, Carnegie Professor, History of Art, Yale
States of Form: Governing Images

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February 18, 2010
Colloquium on Spanish and Latin American Art and Visual Culture

Edward Sullivan, Helen Gould Shepard Professor in the History of Art, Institute of Fine Arts
Hatian Art after ca. 1945: A Trans-Continental Context

February 19, 2010
Silberberg Lecture Series
Martin Powers
, Professor of Art History, University of Michigan
The Cultural Politics of the Brushstroke

February 26, 2010
Silberberg Lecture Series
Christopher Heuer
, Assistant Professor of Art History, Princeton University
Dürer's Folds

March 3, 2010
The 4th Annual Kirk Varnedoe Memorial Lectures    
David Joselit, 2010 Kirk Varnedoe Visiting Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, Carnegie Professor, History of Art, Yale
States of Form: Plug-ins
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March 6, 2010
"Tout art s’apprend par art”
A Symposium in Honor of the Fiftieth Year of Colin Eisler’s Career at the Institute of Fine Arts
This event has been made possible through the generous support of the Samuel H. Kress Foundation and the Florence Gould Foundation.

March 12, 2010
Silberberg Lecture Series
Andrés Zervigón
, Assistant Professor of Art History, Rutgers
People Who Disliked Photographs. The Curious Case of Die Arbeiter-Illustrierte-Zeitung

March 31, 2010
Artists at the Institute
Andrea Zittel

April 5th, 2010
Nikos Hadjinikolaou, Professor of Art History at the University of Crete
El Greco’s View and Plan of Toledo: a Reconsideration
This lecture is open to the public. Seating will be on a first-come, first-served basis.
This lecture has been generously sponsored by the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (USA).

April 15, 2010
Colloquium on Spanish and Latin American Art and Visual Culture
Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro, Director, Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros
The Reinvention of European Abstraction in Argentina 1944-1950

April 16, 2010
The Institute of Fine Arts-Frick Collection Symposium on the History of Art
To be held at the Institute of Fine Arts.

April 17, 2010
The Institute of Fine Arts-Frick Collection Symposium on the History of Art
To be held at the Frick Collection.

April 20, 2010
Faculty Inaugural Lecture
Alexander Nagel, Professor of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts
Orientations in pre-European Art

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April 23, 2010
Silberberg Lecture Series
Romy Golan
, Professor of Art History, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Mirror Images/Eclipses: Italian Art in the 1960s

May 7, 2010
The Director’s Extracurricular Seminar
Professor David Joselit
, Kirk Varnedoe Visiting Professor, Institute of Fine Arts
Carnegie Professor, History of Art, Yale University
WITNESS: Spectatorship in Action

September 23, 2010
Colloquium on Spanish and Latin American Art and Visual Culture
Laura Bass, Associate Professor of Spanish and Latin American Studies, Tulane University
"Picturing Baroque Madrid: Social Geographies and Urban Curiosities"

September 28, 2010
"Anachronic Renaissance: a conversation with the authors"
Speakers: Alexander Nagel, Professor of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University Christopher S. Wood, Professor of History of Art, Yale University
Moderators: Patricia Rubin, Judy and Michael Steinhardt Director, Institute of Fine Arts
Marvin Trachtenberg, Edith Kitzmiller Professor of the History of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts

October 7, 2010
The Walter W.S. Cook Annual Lecture: Gary M. Radke, Dean's Professor of the Humanities, Syracuse University
"As will please the ladies": Planning Choirs, Kitchens, and Latrines in Fifteenth-Century Venetian Convents.

October 14, 2010
Colloquium on Spanish and Latin American Art and Visual Culture

Jo Labanyi, Director, King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center at NYU and Professor, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, NYU
"Noir Visuality in Spanish Cinema of the Early Franco Dictatorship: Complicating Regime Ideology”

October 15, 2010
Institute of Fine Arts' Conservation Center 50th Anniversary Symposium: Flashlight on Five Decades

October 19th, 2010
Silberberg Lecture Series
Boris Groys, Global Distinguished Professor of Russian and Slavic Studies, New York University; Professor of Art History, Philosophy and Media Theory, Staatliche Hochschule fur Gestaltung, Karlsruhe
"Rules of Repetition: Reflection of the Medium in the Time-Based Art"

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November 2, 2010
Silberberg Lecture Series
Dietrich Neumann, Royce Family Professor for the History of Modern Architecture and Urban Studies, Brown University
"A Skyscraper for Mussolini: Mario Palanti and Urban Planning in Fascist Rome"

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November 6, 2010
Symposium in Honor of Marvin Trachtenberg, Edith Kitzmiller Professor of the History of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts.

November 9, 2010
Colloquium on Spanish and Latin American Art and Visual Culture
Nuno Senos, Resident Director, CIEE Study Center Lisbon and Associate Researcher, Centro de História de Além-Mar FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
"Counter-curved Walls and National Identity in Brazil"

November 18, 2010
Archaeological Research at Aphrodisias 2010
Presented by Roland R.R. Smith, Director, Lincoln Professor of Classical Art and Archaeology, University of Oxford, Research Professor, Institute of Fine Arts;
and Esen Ogus, Field Director, Senior Research Scholar, Institute of Fine Arts

November 23, 2010
Silberberg Lecture Series
Pamela Smith, Professor, History Department, Columbia University
"Art, Science, and Techne: Practical Knowledge and the Written Word in Early Modern Europe"

December 2, 2010
Beat Brenk, Visiting Professor, Williams College
"Rhetoric, Ambition and the Function of the Cappella Palatina in Palermo"