Events Archive

2013

February 1, February 2, 2013
Duke House: A Case Study in Architecture, Decoration, and Art History
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February 6, 2013
Judith Praska Professorship Public Lecture
Christine Frohnert, Judith Praska Distinguished Visiting Professor in Conservation and Technical Studies, Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Power On: The Conservation of Electronic Media Art
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February 7, 2013
Current Trends in Medieval Art History
Beatrice Kitzinger
, 2012-2014 Mellon Fellow for Scholarship in the Humanities, Stanford University
The Instrumental Cross and the Work of the Gospels in Carolingian Manuscript Illumination

Friday, February 8, 2013, 2:30 PM
In-house IFA-Frick Symposium
Open only to the IFA community.

February 11, 2013
Mellon Research Initiative
IFA Student Reading Group
Open only to the IFA community.

February 12, 2013
The Daniel H. Silberberg Lecture Series
Christiane Gruber, Associate Professor of Islamic Art, University of Michigan
Violence's Vestiges: The Martyrs' Museum in Tehran 

February 13, 2013
Alumni Careers Panel
Open only to the IFA community.

February 14, 2013
New York Renaissance Consortium
Machtelt Israëls Researcher, History of Renaissance and Early Modern Art, University of Amsterdam
(Re)Constructing Piero della Francesca's Altarpieces for Borgo San Sepolcro

February 15, 2013
IFA Alumni Reunion
Open only to IFA alumni.

February 19, 2013
Artists at the Institute
Agnes Denes
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February 22, 2013
The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
Karen Polinger Foster, Professor, Yale University
The Adornment of Aegean Boats with Comparanda from Ancient to Modern Times 

February 22, 2013
The China Project Workshop
Nicholas Grindley
Moderated by Jonathan Hay, Institute of Fine Arts

February 25, 2013
Samuel H. Kress Annual Lecture
Claire Barry, Director of Conservation, Kimbell Art Museum
Sleight of Hand: Comparing the painting techniques in Caravaggio's Cardsharps and La Tour's Cheat with the Ace of Clubs at the Kimbell Art Museum

February 26, 2013
Latin American Forum sponsored by the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art
Monica Kupfer, Independent Researcher and Curator, Bienal de Arte de Panama
On the Map: Art in Central America since 1990

February 28, 2013
Current Trends in Medieval Art History
Holger Klein
, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
Spirited Matter and the Rhetoric of Enshrinement

March 1, 2013
The China Project Workshop
Alain Thote, École pratique des hautes études, Paris
Moderated by Lilian Tseng, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World
Early Chinese Manuscripts in Archaeological Context 

March 4, 2013
Mellon Research Initiative
IFA Student Reading Group 
For more information about the group click here.
Open only to current IFA students.

March 7 – March 8, 2013
Mellon Research Initiative
Mapping: Geography, Power, and the Imagination in the Art of the Americas 
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March 12, 2013
Artists at the Institute
Haim Steinbach
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March 14, 2013
Current Trends in Medieval Art History
Kirk Ambrose, Associate Professor, Art History Late Antique and Medieval Art, University of Colorado Boulder
An (Il)Legible Capital from Moutiers-Saint-Jean 

March 22, 2013
The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
Wolf-Dietrich Niemeier, Professor, former director of the German Archaeological Institute in Athens
The oracle sanctuary of Apollon of Abai/Kalapodi: cult continuity from the Mycenaean times to the Roman Imperial period in one of the most important sanctuaries of Ancient Greece

March 26, 2013
Seminar on Greek and Roman Art and Architecture
Tonio Hölscher
, Professor of Classical Archaeology, University of Heidelberg
The Trojan War in Archaic Greek Art: A Chapter on Greek Pessimism

March 28, 2013
Colloquium on Art in Spain and Latin America
Ronda Kasl, Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture before 1800, Indianapolis Museum of Art
Virtue Exemplified: Sovereignty and Salvation at the Cartuja de Miraflores

April 3, 2013
Archaeological Research at Abydos
David O’Connor, 
Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Ancient Egyptian Art; Co-Director, Yale University-University of Pennsylvania-Institute of Fine Arts, NYU Excavations at Abydos

April 4, 2013

Seminar on Greek and Roman Art and Architecture
François Lissarrague
, Professor, L'École des hautes études en sciences sociales (ÉHESS), Paris
Attic Vase-inscriptions: the Verbal and the Visual

April 5, 2013
The China Project Workshop
Denise Leidy, Curator, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Extreme Practices: Shakyamuni and other Ascetics in Buddhist Art  
Moderated by Hsueh-man Shen, Institute of Fine Arts

April 8, 2013

Current Trends in Medieval Art History
Jeffrey Hamburger, 
Kuno Francke Professor of German Art and CultureHarvard University
Script as Image

April 9, 2013
The Daniel H. Silberberg Lecture Series
Richard Clay, Senior Lecturer in the History of Art and Co-Director of the Heritage and Cultural Learning Hub, University of Birmingham (U.K.)
Iconoclasm and Violence in Revolutionary Paris, 1789-1795
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April 10, 2013
The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
Gerald Cadogan, Professor, British School at Athens
M & M’s. Myrtos and Malia: Middle Minoan entente cordiale? Or unitary state?

April 11, 2013

Colloquium on Art in Spain and Latin America
Richard Kagan, Professor, Department of History, Johns Hopkins University
The Spanish Craze: America Discovers and Displays Spanish Art, 1890-1930

April 12, – April 13, 2013

Mellon Research Initiative
Archaeology, Heritage, and the Mediation of Time
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Monday, April 15, 2013
Celebrating the Conservation of York Minster
Sarah Brown and Dr. Kate Giles 
"Preserving the Heavenly Jerusalem: Stone and Glass Conservation and Research at York Minster"

April 16, 2013
Latin American Forum sponsored by the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art
Krista Thompson
, Associate Professor, Northwestern University
"I was here, but I disappear”: Ivanhoe Martin and the Effect of Photographic Disappearance in Jamaica

April 17, 2013
Judith Praska Professorship Public Lecture
Carol Mancusi-Ungaro, Judith Praska Distinguished Visiting Professor in Conservation and Technical Studies, Conservation Center of the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Cues From Cy Twombly

April 18, 2013
Current Trends in Medieval Art History
Achim Timmerman, Associate Professor, Department of History of Art, University of Michigan
Vain Labors: Late Medieval Didactic Imagery in the French Maritime Alps

April 19, 2013
IFA-Frick Symposium
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April 30, 2013
New York Renaissance Consortium
Scott Nethersole
, Lecturer, The Courtauld Institute of Art
"My pain is ever before you": The Flagellation of Christ in fifteenth-century Florence.

May 3, 2013
The China Project Workshop
Joe Scheier-Dohlberg, Assistant Curator, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Moderated by Lulu Brotherton, SUNY, New Paltz

May 7, 2013
The Daniel H. Silberberg Lecture Series
Robert Hayden, Professor of Anthropology, Law and Public & International Affairs and Director, Russian and East European Studies, University of Pittsburgh
Intersecting Religioscapes: A Comparative Approach to Trajectories of Change, Scale, Competition, Sharing and Violence in Religious Spaces
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May 9, 2013
Seminar on Greek and Roman Art and Architecture 
Elizabeth Bartman
, President, Archaeological Institute of America
Henry Blundell and His Classical Marbles

May 14, 2013
Artists at the Institute
Julie Mehretu
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May 21, 2013
Institute of Fine Arts Graduation

September 17, 2013
The 7th Annual Kirk Varnedoe Lecture Series
Thierry de Duve, Fall 2013 Varnedoe Visiting Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Kant's 'Free play...' in Light of Minimal Art
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September 19, 2013
Exploring the Ancient World Archaeological Field Research at the Institute of Fine Arts: Archaeological Projects of the Institute of Fine Arts

September 26, 2013
Colloquium on Art in Spain and Latin America
Eduardo DouglasAssociate Professor of Art History, University of North Carolina
Points of Contention: The Sources and Development of Painting Traditions in Spanish America

September 27, 2013
The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
Robert B. Koehl, Professor of Classical and Oriental Studies, Hunter College
It’s a Dog’s Life: Canines in Minoan Culture

September 30, 2013
Mellon Research Initiative
Mellon Student Reading Group meeting
This event was open only to current IFA students.

October 1, 2013
Latin American Forum
Miriam Basilio
, Associate Professor of Art History and Museum Studies, NYU
The Evolving Canon: Latin American Art at MoMA 1945-55

October 3, 2013
Seminar on Greek and Roman Art and Architecture
Jas Elsner, Humfrey Payne Senior Research Fellow in Classical Archaeology and Art, University of Oxford; Visiting Professor of Art History, University of Chicago
Art and Rhetoric in the Arch of Titus

October 4, 2013 – October 5, 2013
Mellon Research Initiative
Art History and the Art of Description
Organized by Jas Elsner, Humfrey Payne Senior Research Fellow in Classical Archaeology and Art, University of Oxford; Visiting Professor of Art History, University of Chicago
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October 8, 2013
Rendez-vous: An International Seminar on French Art
Anne Lafont, Associate Professor of Modern Art History, University of Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée
Proposals for an Atlantic Portraiture: Paris, Philadelphia, Saint-Domingue around 1800

October 8, 2013
Artists at the Institute
Rob Pruitt

October 10, 2013
Director’s Extracurricular Seminar
Noémie Etienne, Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, 2013-2015, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Does Conservation challenge Art History? Diderot, Goethe and the Materiality of Artworks

October 16, 2013
A special lecture in conjunction with Architecture and Design Month
Jean-Louis Cohen, Sheldon H. Solow Professor in the History of Architecture, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Le Corbusier, an Atlas of Modern Landscapes

October 17, 2013
Colloquium on Art in Spain and Latin America
Ilona Katzew, Curator and co-Head of Latin American Art, Los Angeles County Museum
Eighteenth-Century Painting in Mexico: Thoughts on the State of the Field

October 18, 2013
The China Project Workshop
Michael Hatch, Department of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University

October 19, 2013
Tours of the James B. Duke House in conjunction with Architecture and Design Month

October 22, 2013
The 7th Annual Kirk Varnedoe Lecture Series
Thierry de Duve, Fall 2013 Varnedoe Visiting Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Joseph Beuys and the German Past, Tentatively
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October 23, 2013
Latin American Forum
A special panel discussion sponsored by the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art: Mexican Art in Focus: New Research in Mexican Art History, Celebrating the Publication of James Oles's ART AND ARCHITECTURE IN MEXICO
Speakers will include Edward J. Sullivan (Helen Gould Shepard Professor in the History of Art,Institute of Fine Arts, NYU), moderator, Barbara Mundy (Fordham University), Katherine Manthorne (CUYNY), Mary Coffey (Dartmouth), James Oles (Wellesley)
Please note: This event was held at the King Juan Carlos I Spain Center 
53 Washington Square, First-Floor Screening Room
New York, NY

October 24, 2013
The Walter W.S. Cook Annual Lecture
Emilie E.S. Gordenker, Director, Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis
Are Cross-Sections Boring? The Case of Saul and David

October 25, 2013
The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
Joost Crouwel, Professor Emeritus, University of Amsterdam
Recent Work at Early Helladic Geraki, Laconia.

October 29, 2013
The Daniel H. Silberberg Lecture Series
Marie-Helene Girard,Visiting Professor of French, Yale University
'Un autre monde très lointain et très inconnu': British Painters in Paris in 1855.
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October 30, 2013
Seminar on Greek and Roman Art and Architecture
Felix Pirson, Director, Deutsches Archaeologisches Institut – Istanbul
Conservation and Restoration Activities in Pergamon and Turkey

October 31, 2013
Colloquium on Art in Spain and Latin America
Luisa Elena AlcaláProfesora titular de Historia del arte, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
The Problem of the Canon and the History of Spanish Colonial Painting.

November 5, 2013
Latin American Forum
Gabriela Rangel, Director, Visual Arts, The Americas Society
Art and Politics in Venezuela 1960-80

November 7, 2013
Archaeological Research at Selinunte
Clemente Marconi, Director of Excavations at Selinunte; James R. McCredie Professor in the History of Greek Art and Archaeology, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU

November 8, 2013
Rendez-vous: An International Seminar on French Art
Chonja Lee, PhD Candidate, University of Zurich
L'Âme de Lotus: Floral Animations in French Art around 1900

November 11, 2013
Artists at the Institute
Benjamin Patterson
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November 12, 2013
The 7th Annual Kirk Varnedoe Lecture Series
Thierry de Duve, Fall 2013 Varnedoe Visiting Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
“This is art”: Anatomy of a Sentence
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November 15, 2013
The China Project Workshop
Zheng Yan, Professor of Chinese Art, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing

November 18, 2013
Richard Ettinghausen Memorial Lecture
Iranian Modernism: A Conversation
Speakers:
Lynn Gumpert, Director, Grey Art Gallery, NYU: Siah Armajani and Bijan Dowlatshahi 
Fereshteh Daftari, Curator and Scholar; co-Curator with Layla Dibaof the current exhibition Iran Modern, Asia Society: Parviz Tanavoli in context 
Edward Sullivan, Helen Gould Shepard Professor in the History of Art, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU: Alternative Modernities: Middle Eastern & Latin American Art in the Mid-20th Century

November 19, 2013
The Daniel H. Silberberg Lecture Series
Michael Ann Holly, Starr Director Emeritus of the Research and Academic Program, The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute
Painted Silence
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November 21, 2013
The Seminar on Greek and Roman Art and Architecture
Tasos Tanoulas, Greek Ministry of Culture, former director of the Propylaia Restoration Project, Athenian Akropolis
The Propylaia to the Athenian Akropolis: New Evidence about the Classical Building

November 22, 2013
The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
Nancy Thomas, Professor Emerita, University of Jacksonville
A Lion's Eye View from the Bronze Age

December 2, 2013
Mellon Research Initiative
Mellon Student Reading Group meeting
This event was open only to current IFA students.

December 3, 2013
Samuel H. Kress Lecture
Cecilia Frosinini, Coordinating Director of Art History, Opificio delle Pietre Dure
The Adoration of the Magi: The Fertile Mind of Leonardo da Vinci.

December 5, 2013
The Daniel H. Silberberg Lecture Series
Kaja Silverman, Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Professor of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania
Unstoppable Development

December 7, 2013
Mellon Research Initiative
Conservation and Its Contexts
Organized by Jim Coddington, Chief Conservator, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
For more information click here.

December 9, 2013
Rendez-vous: An International Seminar on French Art
Merel van Tilburg, Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre allemand d'histoire de l'art, Paris
Embroidery and Tapestry as History Painting in Belgium and France around 1900: Colonialist Exhibition Pieces by Hélène de Rudder and Georges Rochegrosse

December 9, 2013
Archaeological Research at Aphrodisias in 2013
Roland R.R. Smith, Director of Excavations at Aphrodisias; Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art, University of Oxford; Research Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Alexander Sokolicek, Field Director of Excavations at Aphrodisias, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU

December 12, 2013
Seminar on Greek and Roman Art and Architecture
Roland R.R. Smith, Director of Excavations at Aphrodisias; Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art, University of Oxford; Research Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
The Greek East under Rome: City Monuments and Political Ideology

December 13, 2013
The China Project Workshop
Lothar von Falkenhausen, Professor of Art History, University of California, Los Angeles

December 13, 2013
The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
Sara Levi, Associate Professor, University of Modena
New Evidence for Mycenaean Trade with the West