Events Archive
2011
January 20, 2011
Samuel H. Kress Lecture
Petria Noble, Head of Paintings Conservation, Mauritshuis, The Hague
Reconstructing Original Formats: Technical Examination of Rembrandt
January 25, 2011
The Daniel H. Silberberg Lecture Series
Susan Stewart, Professor of English, Princeton University
In View of Ruins
January 28, 2011
In-House Symposium
Lelia Packer, Lillian Stoner, and Rachel Kaplan
Presentations of current research by IFA students.
February 1, 2011
Silberberg Lecture Series
Christopher Heuer, Assistant Professor of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University
Dürer's Folds
February 3, 2011
The 5th Annual Kirk Varnedoe Memorial Lectures
Wu Hung, Spring 2011 Kirk Varnedoe Visiting Professor
Reading Absence: Three Moments in Chinese Art History
1644: Where Is the Broken Stele?
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February 7, 2011
The 5th Annual Kirk Varnedoe Memorial Lectures
Wu Hung, Spring 2011 Kirk Varnedoe Visiting Professor
Reading Absence: Three Moments in Chinese Art History
1860: Photography Defines China
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Friday, February 11, 2011
The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
Richard Janko
From Bronze Age to Iron Age: Linguistic Continuities and Discontinuities in the Aegean
Reservations required. To reserve email ifa.events@nyu.edu with “Aegean 2.11” in subject line.
February 15, 2011
The 5th Annual Kirk Varnedoe Memorial Lectures
Wu Hung, Spring 2011 Kirk Varnedoe Visiting Professor
Reading Absence: Three Moments in Chinese Art History
1985: Absence as Contemporaneity
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February 17, 2011
Colloquium on Spanish and Latin American Art and Visual Culture
Daniel Haxall, Assistant Professor, Department of Fine Arts, Kutztown University
Esteban Vicente, Abstract Expressionism, and the Spanish Legacy of Collage
February 22, 2011
The Daniel H. Silberberg Lecture Series
Carol Mancusi-Ungaro, Founding Director, Center for the Technical Study of Modern Art, Harvard Art Museums; Associate Director of Conservation and Research, Whitney Museum of American Art
The Elusive Original
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February 24, 2011
Artists at the Institute
Rachel Harrison
March 1, 2011
Artists at the Institute
Marina Abramovic
The Artist is Present
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March 3, 2011
Colloquium on Spanish and Latin American Art and Visual Culture
Diana Fane, Curator Emerita, Arts of the Americas, Brooklyn Museum
From Feather Shields to Coats of Arms: Iconographies of Place and Power in 16th Century Mexico
March 8, 2011
The Daniel H. Silberberg Lecture Series
Matthew Canepa, Assistant Professor of Art and Archaeology of Ancient Iran, Hellenistic Asia, and the late Roman Empire, University of Minnesota
Performances of Power and Topographies of Memory: Theorizing Competing Visual, Spatial and Ritual Technologies of Power in Hellenistic and Iranian Western Asia
March 10, 2011
Director's Extracurricular Seminar
Professor Wu Hung, Kirk Varnedoe Visiting Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University; Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History, East Asian Languages & Civilizations at the University of Chicago ; Director of the Center for the Art of East Asia, University of Chicago.
On the Verge of Absence
March 11, 2011
The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
Maria Iakovou
Copper routes, ports of export and regional gateways: Late Cypriot Settlement Histories and the loss of memory
March 19, 2011
Symposium in conjunction with the exhibition: Passion in Venice, Crivelli to Tintoretto and Veronese (The Man of Sorrows in Venetian Art) at the Museum of Biblical Art
New Perspectives on the Man of Sorrows: Art and Devotion in Renaissance Venice and the North
This event has been organized by IFA alumni William Barcham and Catherine Puglisi, co-curators of the exhibition.
For further information, please go to //arthistory.rutgers.edu/sorrows/index.html
March 25-26, 2011
Symposium: Photo Archives and the Photographic Memory of Art History, Part III
March 28th, 2011
A Special Seminar by Roberto Nardi
Monastery of Saint Catherine in Sinai: the Conservation of the Mosaic of the Transfiguration.
This event is not open to the public.
Click here for information about Dr. Nardi's upcoming Lecture at the Metropolitan Museum, and a video about the project.
April 1, - April 2, 2011
Symposium: Contemporary Transatlantic Dialogues: Art History, Criticism, and Exhibition Practices in Spain and the United States
April 5, 2011
The Daniel H. Silberberg Lecture Series
Dana Leibsohn, Priscilla Paine Van der Poel Associate Professor of Art, Smith College
Trading Histories: Foreign Things in Manila and in Mexico
April 7, 2011
Artists at the Institute
Mika Rottenberg
April 12, 2011
Colloquium on Modern and Contemporary Art from the Middle East and South Asia
Iftikhar Dadi, Professor of Art History at Cornell University and Artist
Inaugural Lecture: Between Global Media and the Urban Subaltern.
April 15, 2011
The Institute of Fine Arts-Frick Collection Symposium on the History of Art
To be held at the Institute of Fine Arts
April 15, 2011
The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
Panagiota Pantou
April 16, 2011
The Institute of Fine Arts-Frick Collection Symposium on the History of Art
To be held at the Frick Collection.
April 21, 2011
Colloquium on Spanish and Latin American Art and Visual Culture
James Oles, Senior Lecturer, Art Department and Adjunct Curator of Latin American Art, Davis Museum, Wellesley College
The Cézanne Effect in Latin America: From Rivera to Soto
April 26, 2011
Faculty Inaugural Lecture: Philippe de Montebello
A la recherche...d'un autre temps.
April 28, 2011
2011 Ettinghausen Memorial Lecture
Dr. Barbara Brend, Muhammad Juki's Shahnamah of Firdausi in Persia and India.
May 13, 2011
The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
Speaker and lecture title to be determined.
September 9, 2011
The China Project Workshop
Jonathan Hay, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
The center of Beijing and its imperial monuments ca. 1450: How did the urban and palace landscape differ from what we can still see today?
September 23, 2011
The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
Stephanie Budin, Lecturer, Rutgers University
Woman and Child Imagery from the Bronze Age Aegean
October 5th, 2011
Dr. Gabriela Siracusano, Academic Director of the Centre of Production and Research in Artistic and Bibliographic Conservation and Restoration of the Universidad Nacional de San Martín (Argentina)
Pigments and Power in the Andes Materials for the Sacred: Cultural and Historical Approaches to South American Colonial
Artistic Productions
October 6, 2011
Colloquium on Spanish and Latin American Art and Visual Culture
Stella Nair, Assistant Professor, University of California, Riverside
Architectural Paradigms of the Conquest: The Incas, the Spanish and the Church of Nuestra Senora de Montserrat
October 11, 2011
The Daniel H. Silberberg Lecture Series
Andreas Huyssen, Villard Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Columbia University
Urban Miniatures and the Feuilleton in Kracauer and Benjamin
October 13, 2011
Archaeological Research at Selinunte 2011
Clemente Marconi, Director of Excavations at Selinunte & James R. McCredie Professor in the History of Greek Art and Archaeology, Institute of Fine Art, New York University
October 14, 2011
The China Project Workshop
Jeehee Hong, Assistant Professor, Department of Art and Music Histories, Syracuse University
Commonalities between tombs and Buddhist sutra repositories during the 10th-14th centuries
October 14, 2011
The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
Michael Cosmopoulos, Professor, University of Missouri
October 18, 2011
Artists at the Institute
Paul Chan
October 27, 2011
Shifting Challenges in the Protection of Archaeological Heritage
A panel discussion organized by the American Federation of Arts in association with the Institute of Fine Arts–New York University and the Association of Art Museum Directors with generous funding from Michael J. Steinhardt, the Leon Levy Foundation, the Malcolm Hewitt Wiener Foundation, and the Hazen Polsky Foundation.
November 1, 2011
Director’s Extracurricular Seminar
Jennifer Raab, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Fine Arts, 2011-2013
The Art and Science of Detail: Frederic Church and Nineteenth-Century Landscape Painting
November 3, 2011
Artists at the Institute
Teresita Fernandez
Blind Landscapes
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November 5, 2011
"Presentism" workshop.
Click here for a full description and list of speakers.
November 9, 2011
Director’s Extracurricular Seminar
Lecture by Bernhard Jussen (Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main)
A Plea for an Iconology of Historical Research
November 10, 2011
Colloquium on Spanish and Latin American Art and Visual Culture
Javier Bonnin, Bonnin Orozco Arquitectos
The Intersection of Architecture and Expressions of Identity in Ponce, Puerto Rico
November 11, 2011
Panel discussion: Agustin Fernandez: New Voices Interpret an Artistic Voyage from Cuba
to Paris to New York
Panelists: Susan Aberth (Associate Professor of Art History, Bard College); Rocio Aranda (Curator, El Museo Del Barrio); Elizabeth Cerejido (Independent Curator); Abby McEwen (Assistant Professor of Art History & Archaeology, University of Maryland, College Park); Discussant: Edward Sullivan (Helen Gould Shepard Professor in the History of Art; Institute of Fine Arts and College of Arts and Sciences)
For more information please visit: www.agustinfernandez.net and //www.pintaart.com
November 11, 2011
The China Project Workshop
Bruce Rusk, Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Studies, Cornell University
Reignmakers: Ming Imperial Production and Its Imitators
November 15, 2011
The Daniel H. Silberberg Lecture Series
William Sherman, Professor of Renaissance and Early Modern Studies, University of York
The Reader's Eye: Renaissance Marginalia Between Illustration and Annotation
November 17, 2011
The Walter W.S. Cook Annual Lecture
A.A. Donohue, Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, Bryn Mawr College
Contradictions in Greek Naturalism
November 18, 2011
The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
Georgia Flouda, Visiting Research Fellow, Princeton University
December 1, 2011
Colloquium on Spanish and Latin American Art and Visual Culture
Luis Castañeda, Assistant Professor of Art History, Syracuse University
Museum, Monument, City: Archaeologies of Power in Modern Mexico
December 6, 2011
The Daniel H. Silberberg Lecture Series
Alicia Walker, Associate Professorof History of Art, Bryn Mawr College
Inscribing Sacred Space: Pseudo-Arabic and Holy Power at the Church of Hosios Loukas
December 8, 2011
Archaeological Research at Aphrodisias in 2011
Roland R.R. Smith, Director, Excavations at Aphrodisias; Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology & Art, University of Oxford; Research Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
December 9, 2011
The China Project Workshop
Colin Mackenzie, Senior Curator of Early Chinese Art, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
The renovation of the Chinese galleries at the Nelson-Atkins
December 16, 2011
The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
Thomas Tartaron, Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania