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Events Archive
2014
January 17, 2014
The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
Adamantia Vassilogambrou, Ephoreia of Laconia
A new Mycenaean palace in Laconia: Excavations at Agios Vasileios
January 30, 2014
Seminar on Greek and Roman Art and Architecture
Francesco de Angelis, Associate Professor of Roman Art and Archaeology, Columbia University
Gods, Temples, and Visibility: Representing Ritual in Roman State Art
February 1, 2014
Mellon Research Initiative
Workshop on Digital Tools
Organized by Jonathan Hay, Deputy Director for Faculty and Administration; Ailsa Mellon Bruce Professor of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
February 5, 2014
Colloquium for Modern and Contemporary Art from the Middle East and South Asia
Afruz Amighi in conversation with Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi
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February 6, 2014
Colloquium on Art in Spain and Latin America
Jonathan Brown, Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
El Greco and Ribera: The Workshop as Factory
February 19, 2014
Rendez-vous: An International Seminar on French Art
Carole Blumenfeld, Research Fellow¸Palais Fesch-Musée des Beaux-arts d'Ajaccio
Marguerite Gérard, the most successful genre painter of her time
February 20, 2014
Colloquium on Art in Spain and Latin America
Adele Nelson, Assistant Professor of Art History, Temple University
A Genealogy of Modernism for Brazil: Mário Pedrosa and the Second São Paulo Bienal
February 21, 2014
The China Project Workshop
Qianshen Bai, Associate Professor, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Boston University
February 21, 2014
The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
Jerolyn Morrison, Doctoral Candidate, University of Leicester
The Art and Archaeology of Cooking: Late Minoan Mochlos and Papadiokambos
February 24, 2014
Mellon Research Initiative
Mellon Student Reading Group meeting
February 25, 2014
Latin American Forum
Mari Carmen Ramírez, Wortham Curator of Latin American Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Director, International Center for the Arts of Americas
Re-assessing Postwar Realisms: The Case of Antonio Berni
February 27, 2014
Seminar on Greek and Roman Art and Architecture
Ken Lapatin, Associate Curator of Antiquities, J. Paul Getty Museum
What's in a Name: Signatures on Classical Gems, Ancient and Modern
February 28, 2014
Mellon Research Initiative
Is Contemporary Art History?
Organized by Robert Slifkin, Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
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March 4, 2014
Latin American Forum
Roberto Tejada, Professor of Art History, Southern Methodist University, Dallas
Camera-Culture and Experience in São Paulo
March 6, 2014
The 8th Annual Kirk Varnedoe Lecture Series
Briony Fer, 2014 Spring Varnedoe Visiting Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
'States of Abstraction'
Lygia Clark and the problem of art
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March 7, 2014
The China Project Workshop
Hiromi Kinoshita, Associate Curator of Chinese Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art
March 11, 2014
The Daniel H. Silberberg Lecture Series
Eva Hoffman, Assistant Professor of Art and Art History, Tufts University
Connections Far and Wide: Translating Art and Culture in the Medieval Mediterranean World
March 13, 2014
The 8th Annual Kirk Varnedoe Lecture Series
Briony Fer, 2014 Spring Varnedoe Visiting Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
'States of Abstraction'
Abstraction and abjection: Eva Hesse and conditions of making
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March 14, 2014
Rendez-vous: An International Seminar on French Art
Frédérique Baumgartner, Lecturer and Director of M.A. in Art History, Columbia University
Women Artists in Hubert Robert’s Views of the Louvre’s Grande Galerie
March 14, 2014
The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
Thomas Strasser, Associate Professor of Art History, Providence College
Ice Age Sea Faring in the Mediterranean: Dramatic New Evidence from Southwest Crete.
March 25, 2014
The 8th Annual Kirk Varnedoe Lecture Series
Briony Fer, 2014 Spring Varnedoe Visiting Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
'States of Abstraction'
Abstraction’s ‘B’ side: Albers and Reinhardt
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March 26, 2014
The China Project Workshop
Shane McCausland, Reader in the History of Art in China, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London.
March 26, 2014
Artists at the Institute
Paul Pfeiffer
March 27, 2014
Judith Praska Distinguished Visiting Professor in Conservation Lecture
Alan Phenix, Scientist, The Getty Conservation Institute, Los Angeles
Some instances in the history of distilled oil of turpentine, the disappearing painters' material
This event is by invitation only.
April 1, 2014
The Daniel H. Silberberg Lecture Series
Julia Bryan-Wilson, Associate Professor of Art History, University of California, Berkeley
Zoo Mantras: Simone Forti in Rome
April 2, 2014
Mellon Research Initiative
Mellon Student Reading Group meeting
Open only to current IFA students.
April 4, 2014
The China Project Workshop
Roderick Campbell, Assistant Professor of East Asian Archaeology and History, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, NYU
April 8, 2014
Rendez-vous: An International Seminar on French Art
Jessica Fripp, Postdoctoral Fellow in Material and Visual Culture, Parsons The New School for Design, New York
Caricature and Rebellion in Rome in the Eighteenth Century
April 8, 2014
Artists at the Institute
Tania Bruguera
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April 10, 2014
Latin American Forum
Linda Rodriguez, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Art History, New York University
History and Art in Early 19th Century Cuba
April 11, 2014
Mellon Research Initiative
Materiality in Japan: Making, Breaking and Conserving Works of Art and Architecture
Organized by Anton Schweizer, 2012-2014 Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
April 16, 2014
Seminar on Greek and Roman Art and Architecture
Mark Wilson Jones, Senior Lecturer in Architecture and Director of Postgraduate Research, University of Bath
Temples, Orders and Gifts to the Gods in Ancient Greece.
April 22, 2014
The Daniel H. Silberberg Lecture Series
Alessandra Russo, Associate Professor, Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, Columbia University
Untranslatable Images?
April 23, 2014
A panel discussion in collaboration with the French Embassy in the United States
Protocols of Participation: Recent Models of Socially Engaged Art in the United States and Europe
Organized by Alexander Nagel, Professor of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU and Thomas Crow, Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU.
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April 25, 2013
IFA-Frick Symposium
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April 29, 2014
Excavations at Samothrace
Bonna D. Wescoat, Director of Excavations at Samothrace
From the Vantage of the Victory: New Research on the Nike Monument in the Sanctuary of the Great Gods, Samothrace
April 30, 2014
A special panel discussion moderated by David O'Connor, Lila Acheson Wallace Professor of Ancient Egyptian Art, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU; Co-Director, Yale University-University of Pennsylvania-Institute of Fine Arts, NYU Excavations at Abydos
Cultural Heritage in Troubled Times: War Damage, Pillaging, and Saving the Monuments
Speakers:
Matthew Adams, Senior Research Scholar, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU; Associate Director, Yale University-University of Pennsylvania-Institute of Fine Arts, NYU Excavations at Abydos
Zainab Bahrani, Edith Porada Professor of Ancient Near Eastern Art and Archaeology, Columbia University
Sarah Brett-Smith, Associate Professor, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Finbarr Barry Flood, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of the Humanities, Institute of Fine Arts and College of Arts and Sciences, NYU
Laurie Rush, Cultural Resource Manager, U.S. Army Cultural Research Center, Installation Management Command (IMCOM), Fort Drum, New York
Eman Zidan, Conservator, Egyptian Museum, Ministry of State for Antiquities Affairs; Visiting Student, Conservation Center, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Thursday, May 1, 2014, 6:00 PM
Colloquium on Art in Spain and Latin America
Terry Riley, Architect, Keenen Riley Architects
Architectural Innovation in Spain: Post-Bilbao and Pre-Crisis
May 5, 2014
A special event in conjunction with the spring 2014 Great Hall Exhibitions
A Conversation with Rachel Harrison and Linda Nochlin
May 6, 2014
Latin American Forum
Regina Silveira, Visual Artist, São Paulo
Regina Silveira in conversation with Edward Sullivan on her work and contemporary Brazilian art
May 8, 2014
Judith Praska Distinguished Visiting Professor in Conservation Lecture
Julie Wolfe, Associate Conservator in Decorative Arts and Sculpture Conservation, The J. Paul Getty Museum
Memory of Color: The Conservation of Roy Lichtenstein's Outdoor Painted Sculpture
May 9, 2014
The China Project Workshop
Eileen Hsiang-ling Hsü, Independent Scholar
May 10, 2014
Symposium in Memory of Evelyn B. Harrison
Opening remarks:
James R. McCredie and Randolph Harrison
Speakers:
Sheila Dillon, Professor of Art History and Classical Studies, Duke University; Editor-in-Chief, American Journal of Archaeology, Roman Portrait Statuary in Athens
Rachel Kousser, Associate Professor, Brooklyn College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, Damnatio memoriae in Hellenistic Athens
Carol Lawton, Professor of Art History and Ottilia Buerger Professor of Classical Studies, Lawrence University, Asklepios in the City Eleusinion
Alan Shapiro, W. H. Collins Vickers Professor of Archaeology, Johns Hopkins University; Acting Chair, Department of Classics, Alkamenes and Erichthonios Revisited
September 9, 2014
Latin American Forum
Modes of Defiance: Latin American Art, 1970 to the Present
A special panel in conjunction with the exhibition Bearing Witness: Art and Resistance in Cold War Latin America at John Jay College, curated by Roberto Visani, Estrellita B. Brodsky, and Pierre-Yves Linot, with the assistance of Lydia Shestopalova.
Speakers:
Joaquin Barriendos, Assistant Professor, Columbia University
Estrellita Brodsky, Independent Curator
Claudia Calirman, Assistant Professor, John Jay College of Criminal Justice
Jason Dubs, Museum Research Consortium Project Manager, The Museum of Modern Art
Moderated by Edward J. Sullivan, Helen Gould Shepard Professor in the History of Art, Institute of Fine Arts and College of Arts and Sciences, NYU
September 12, 2014
The Koons Effect
Organized by the Whitney Museum, on the occasion of the exhibition Jeff Koons: A Retrospective
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September 12, 2014
China Project Workshop
Susan Whitfield, Director of the International Dunhuang Project, British Library
The Silk Road Contextualised: Stupas, Silk and Slaves
September 23, 2014
The Seminar on Greek and Roman Art and Architecture
Jeffrey Hurwit, Philip H. Knight Professor of Art History and Classics, University of Oregon
Who Signed What? Artists and Signatures in Ancient Greece
October 2, 2014
Points of Contact: New Approaches to Islamic Art
Gülru Necipoğlu, Aga Khan Professor of Islamic Art, Department of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University
Persianate Images Between Europe and China: The “Frankish Manner” in the Diez and Topkapı Albums, ca. 1350-1450
October 7, 2014
Artists at the Institute
Charles Simonds
October 8, 2014
Summer Projects Day 2014: Digging Deeper: Conservation in the Field
A series of informal talks by Conservation Center students about their summer experiences on IFA-sponsored and co-sponsored archaeological excavations.
October 10, 2014
China Project Workshop
Susan Beningson, Assistant Curator of Asian Art, Brooklyn Museum
Bridging Past and Future: The New Chinese Art Galleries at the Brooklyn Museum
October 13, 2014
Discussion with Professor Lina Bolzoni (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa)
Organized by the New York Renaissance Consortium
October 14, 2014
The Contemporary Museum in Italy since 1990
PLEASE NOTE: This conference took place at NYU Villa La Pietra in Florence, Italy, and was livestreamed simultaneousy on the IFA website
This conference will bring together curators, cultural officials, scholars, and directors of museums and fondazioni to discuss the status of the Italian museum today. Click here for more information and a list of speakers.
October 16, 2014
IFA Archaeological Projects
October 17, 2014
The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
Lena Papazoglou-Manioudaki, Curator Emerita, Prehistoric Collection, Athens National Archaeological Museum.
Life and Death in Mycenaean Achaea: a new settlement and a tholos tomb on Mygdalia hill, near Patras
October 21, 2014
Works In Progress
Presentation by Katie Wright
October 21, 2014
The Daniel H. Silberberg Lectures
Zirwat Chowdhury, Visiting Assistant Professorof Art History and Humanities, Reed College
Architecture between Caricature and Failure
October 24, 2014
China Project Workshop Symposium
Painting under the Five Dynasties, Liao, and Northern Song Dynasties
October 27, 2014
Artists at the Institute
Simon Fujiwara
October 28, 2014
Works In Progress
Presentation by Professor Noemie Etienne.
October 28, 2014
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
October 30, 2014
The Daniel H. Silberberg Lectures
Caitlín Eilís Barrett, Assistant Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Archaeology Program, Cornell University
Identifying with the ‘Other’: Dining with Painted Pygmies in Pompeii
Thursday, November 6, 2014
Points of Contact: New Approaches to Islamic Art
Renata Holod, College for Women Class of 1963 Professor in the Humanities, History of Art Department; Curator, Near East Section, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania
A Tumulus in the Pontic Steppe: Reconstructing Ritual, Community and Polity in the early Thirteenth Century CE
November 7 – Saturday, November 8, 2014
Mellon Research Initiative
From ‘Surface’ to ‘Substrate’: The Archaeology and Art History of Material Transfers
Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Walter W.S. Cook Annual Lecture
Ian Wardropper, Director, The Frick Collection
The Notorious Guises: Portraits on a French Renaissance Enamel Plaque in The Frick Collection
November 13, 2014
Colloquium on Art in Spain and Latin America
Niria E. Leyva-Gutiérrez, Assistant Professor of Art History and Museum Studies, Long Island University
Transfigurations and Transformations: Religious Imagery in Seventeenth-Century Puebla
November 14, 2014
The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
Konstantinos Chalikias, Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History and Archaeology, University of Athens
Studying patterns of maritime connectivity and offshore island exploitation around Crete during the Bronze Age
November 18, 2014
Works In Progress
Presentation by Professor Alexander Nagel.
November 18, 2014
Latin American Forum featuring The Great Hall Exhibitions Artist Marta Chilindron
A Conversation with Marta Chilindron and Edward J. Sullivan
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November 20, 2014
Director’s Extracurricular led by IFA Students
A conversation with Sheena Wagstaff, Chairman of the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Works In Progress
Presentation by Rachel Kaplan.
November 25, 2014
Colloquium on Art in Spain and Latin America
Barbara Mundy, Professor, Art History, Fordham University
The death of Aztec Tenochtitlan, the life of Mexico City
December 1, 2014
This event is co-sponsored by the Department of Scientific Research, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Margaret Livingstone, Takeda Professor of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School
What Art Can Tell Us About the Brain
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Tuesday, December 2, 2014
The Daniel H. Silberberg Lectures
Joshua Shannon, Associate Professor, Contemporary Art History and Theory, University of Maryland
Photorealism: A History of Surfaces
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December 3, 2014, 5:30 PM
Works In Progress
Presentation by Patrick C. Salland.
December 4, 2014
Points of Contact: New Approaches to Islamic Art
Avinoam Shalem, Riggio Professor of the History of the Arts of Islam, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
A Receptacle for the Absent Body: The Chasuble of Thomas Becket in Fermo
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December 5, 2014
China Project Workshop
Tao Wang, Senior Vice President, Department Head, Chinese Works of Art, Sotheby's
Collecting Antiques, Collecting Friends: The Collectors of the Owl-Headed Hu
December 8, 2014
Archaeological Research at Aphrodisias in 2014
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 9, 2014
Latin American Forum
Conceptualism in Latin America: A Conversation with Luis Camnitzer, Alexander Alberro, and Robert Slifkin
Speakers:
Luis Camnitzer, Artist
Alexander Alberro, Virginia Bloedel Wright Associate Professor of Art History, Barnard College
Robert Slifkin, Assistant Professor of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Moderated by Edward J. Sullivan, Helen Gould Shepard Professor in the History of Art, Institute of Fine Arts and College of Arts and Sciences, NYU
December 11, 2014
Colloquium on Art in Spain and Latin America
Thomas Kaufmann, Frederick Marquand Professor of Art and Archaeology, Princeton University
Reflections on World Art History
December 12, 2014
The New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
Tristan Carter, Associate Professor of Anthropology, MacMaster University
All that glisters is not gold: EB II Mochlos in its Eastern Mediterranean Context
