Events Archive

2016

January 29, 2016
China Project Workshop
Speaker:Julia Orell, Postdoctoral Fellow, Academia Sinica presented on the German-language historiography of Chinese art

February 8, 2016
La Dolce Villa! Student Projects at La Pietra
Speakers:
Joy Bloser & Bermet Nishanova, Various textile projects
Emily Cohen, Acton Library survey
Shannon Mulshine, Folded paper screen project
Harry DeBauche, Polychrome sculpture project
Christine Haynes, Outdoor stone sculpture project
Rebecca Gridley, Outdoor stone sculpture and gilded wooden lantern projects
Sarah Mastrangelo & Hae Min Park, Paintings survey and treatment projects

February 9, 2016
Daniel H. Silberberg Lecture Series
Speaker: Heghnar Watenpaugh, Associate Professor of Art History, University of California, Davis
Title: Palmyra 1915-2015: Historic Preservation, Urbanism, and Violence

February 11, 2016
Digital Art History in Practice
Organized by the NYC Digital Art History group and hosted by the Institute of Fine Arts.
More information and a list of speakers

February 11, 2016
Pre-Columbian Society of New York Lecture Series
Speaker: Timothy W. Pugh, Professor of Anthropology, Queens College and the Graduate Center, CUNY
Title: Power and Planning in the Ancient Maya City

February 12, 2016
New York Bronze Age Colloquium
Speaker: Lorenzo D'Alfonso, ISAW-NYU
Title: "New insights in Central Anatolia after the fall of the Hittite Empire: reconsidering the early stages of Phrygia and the Neo-Hittite polities"

February 16, 2016
Colloquium on Art in Spain and Latin America
Speaker: Ananda Cohen Suarez, Assistant Professor, Department of History of Art and Visual Studies, Cornell University
Title: Painted Archives: Murals of Colonial Peru

February 18, 2016
Seminar on Greek and Roman Art and Architecture
Speaker: Sadie Pickup, Lecturer, Art and Architecture from Antiquity to the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Christie’s Education, London
Title: Aphrodite and her Footwear: Sandals & Slippers for a Goddess

February 23, 2016
IFA Alumni Careers Panel
Speakers:
Clare Davies, Assistant Curator, Middle East, North Africa, and Turkey,Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Norman L. Kleeblatt, Susan and Elihu Rose Chief Curator, The Jewish Museum
Alexandra Munroe, Samsung Senior Curator of Asian Art, and Senior Advisor, Global Arts, Guggenheim Museum
Tricia Y. Paik, Curator of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis Museum of Art
Moderated by Patryk Tomaszewski, second-year Art History MA candidate

February 24, 2016
Situating Iranian Modern and Contemporary Art
Organized by the Grey Art Gallery
Speakers:
Layla S. Diba, Independent Scholar and Curator
Maryam Ekhtiar, Associate Curator of Islamic Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Massumeh Farhad, Chief Curator and Curator of Islamic Art, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery

February 25, 2016
Seminar on Greek and Roman Art and Architecture
Speaker: Zeev Weiss, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Title: Houses of the Wealthy in Roman and Late Antique Sepphoris

March 3, 2016
NYU Curatorial Collaboration Panel Discussion
Moderated by  Ksenia M. Soboleva, co-organizer of the NYU CC, this panel discussion comprises of a conversation with IFA curators  Tiffany Apostolou, Adam Dunlavy,  Ellis Edwards,  Kathleen Robin Joyce,  Rachel Vorsanger, and Steinhardt BFA honors artists  Annie Carroll,  Dae Young Kim,  Susanna Liguori,  Paula Rondon, and  Rebecca Salmon.
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March 4, 2016
Latin American Forum
A Dialogue About Antonio Dias
Panelists: Lilian Tone, curator, Museum of Modern Art, Department of Painting and Sculpture
Brian Bentley, PhD Candidate, IFA
Claudia Calirman, John Jay College, CUNY, Professor of Art History
Alejandra García, artistic director Galeria Nara Roesler, New York, and editor of Antonio Dias (2015)
Moderated by Edward Sullivan, Helen Gould Shepard Professor in the History of Art; Institute of Fine Arts and College of Arts and Sciences

March 8, 2016
Daniel H. Silberberg Lecture Series
Speaker: Andre Dombrowski
Title: Monet's Seascapes and the Tides of History

March 10, 2016
Pre-Columbian Society of New York Lecture Series
Speaker: Lois Martin, Independent Scholar
Title: THE “COATLICUES” AS THE CHICOMECOATLS: Rattlesnakes, Corn & Aztec Science

March 11, 2016
New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
Speaker: Joanne Murphy, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Title: Death in Bronze Age Pylos

March 17, 2016
New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
Speaker: Metaxia Tsipopoulou, Ph.D., Director Emerita, Hellenic Ministry of Culture, National Archive of Monuments; and Director of the Petras excavations
Title: 'What gives a meaning in life, gives a meaning in death (Antoine de Saint Exypery): The Pre- and Protopalatial cemetery at Petras, Siteia"

March 23, 2016
Colloquium on Art in Spain and Latin America
Speaker: Nuno Senos
Title: The exotic as a problem in 16th-century Portugal

March 25, 2016
China Project Workshop
Speaker: Jeffrey Moser, Assistant Professor, Dept. of History of Art and Architecture, Brown University
Speaker will assess the potential of skeumorphy as a conceptual device for integrating histories of Chinese bronze and ceramic manufacturing.

March 29, 2016
Artists at the Institute
Speaker: Suzan Frecon
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March 31, 2016
Seminar on Greek and Roman Art and Architecture
Panelists:
Gregory Nagy, Harvard University
Dora Vassilikou, Athens Archaeological Society
Nanno Marinatos, University of Illinois-Chicago
Angelos Chaniotis, Princeton University
Ioannis Mylonopoulos, Columbia University
Michael Cosmopoulos, University of Missouri-St. Louis
Title:" Archaeological Discoveries that Changed Greek History: The Athens Archaeological Society"
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April 1, 2016
Great Hall Exhibitions Opening Event
Artist Charles Simonds in conversation with Richard Shiff
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April 2, 2016
Dwellings: Charles Simonds and 1970s New York
Full schedule and a list of speakers
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April 4, 2016
New York Renaissance Consortium Sponsored Lecture
Speaker: Machtelt Brüggen Israëls
Title: Cataloguing the Berenson Collection: The Case of the Lorenzetti

April 5, 2016
Daniel H. Silberberg Lecture Series
Speaker: Ewa Lajer-Burcharth
Title: Strolling Time: Drawing in Eighteenth-Century Paris

April 7, 2016
Selinunte Presentation
Speaker: Clemente Marconi, James R. McCredie Professor in the History of Greek Art and Archaeology; University Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU

April 8, 2016
China Project Workshop
Speaker: Katherine Tsiang, Associate Director, Center for the Art of East Asia, University of Chicago
Presentation on the use of virtual reality techniques in an exhibition of early Buddhist sculpture

April 12, 2016
The Great Hall Display Case Exhibition Series: Artists Talk with IFA Alumna and Curator, Lisa Banner.
Artists:
Timothy Hawkesworth
William Hempel
Beatrice Pediconi
Riccardo Vecchio
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April 14, 2016
Pre-Columbian Society of New York Lecture Series
Speaker: James A. Doyle, Assistant Curator, Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Title: Creation Narratives on Ancient Maya Codex-Style Ceramics in the Metropolitan Museum

April 15 and April 16, 2016
IFA-Frick Symposium

April 18, 2016
Crossing Boundaries: Making World Art History
About the Series: “Crossing Boundaries: Making World Art History” is the first of a series of workshops aimed at providing a space for creative thinking, where ideas and views can be shared and tested, and cross-institutional collaborations can be formed.
By invitation only.

April 19, 2016
Artists at the Institute
Speaker: Jack Whitten
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April 21, 2016
Guest Lecture
Speaker: Satish Padiyar, Senior Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century European Art, The Courtauld Institute
Title: Surprises. Temporality and Fragonard
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April 23, 2016
Pop Up Graduate Student Symposium
New Research on Early Chinese Paintings at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sponsored by the China Project Workshop
Full schedule and a list of speakers
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April 26, 2016
Colloquium on Art in Spain and Latin America
Speaker: Irene V. Small, Assistant Professor of Art and Archeology, Princeton University
Title: Poor Image and Meta-Medium: Hércules Florence and the Invention of Photography in Brazil

April 30, 2016
ISLAA Symposium
Realisms: Politics, Art, and Visual Culture in the Americas

May 3, 2016
Seminar on Greek and Roman Art and Architecture
Speaker: Luca Giuliani, Humboldt University and Wissenschaftskolleg, Berlin

May 6, 2016
China Project Workshop
Speaker:Olga Panova , Russian University of the Humanities, Moscow
Title: Early Northern Song Painting as a Social Practice through the Lens of Liu Daochun's Evaluations of Song Painters of Renown

Monday, May 9, 2016
Crossing Boundaries: Making World Art History
About the Series: “Crossing Boundaries: Making World Art History” is the first of a series of workshops aimed at providing a space for creative thinking, where ideas and views can be shared and tested, and cross-institutional collaborations can be formed.
By invitation only.
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May 10, 2016
Mentoring and the Museum
A Conversation on Art and Leadership with Michael Shapiro and Timothy Rub

Wednesday, May 11, 2016, 6:00 PM
Annual Samuel H. Kress Lecture
Speakers: Laurence Kanter, Chief Curator and Lionel Goldfrank III Curator of European Art at the Yale University Art Gallery
Irma Passeri, Associate Conservator of Paintings, Yale University Art Gallery
Title: The Conservation of Early Italian Panel Paintings at Yale: Past and Present

May 18, 2016
New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
Speaker: Judith Weingarten, British School of Archaeology in Athens
Title: "The Transformation of Minoan Monsters”

September 8, 2016
Pre-Columbian Society of New York Lecture Series
Speaker: Anna Blume, Professor, State University of New York, FIT
Title:Ancient Architecture in the Mississippi Valley: Monumentality Seen and Unseen

Tuesday, September 13, 5:30-7:30 PM
Works-in-Progress
Speaker: Laura Corey, Institute of Fine Arts PhD Candidate
This event is only open to the Institute's community

September 15, 2016
Freedom as Form - Co-presented by Performa Institute and the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Speakers: Nandipha Mntambo and Gavin Jantjes
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September 19, 2016
Time-Based Media
Speaker: Pip Laurenson, Head of Collection Care Research, Tate, London, UK
Title: Can Artworks Live in a Museums Collection?
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September 20, 2016
Artists at the Institute
Artist: Leslie Hewitt

September 21, 2016
Archaeological Research at Selinunte
Speaker: Clemente Marconi, James R. McCredie Professor in the History of Greek Art and Archaeology; University Professor; Director, The Institute of Fine Arts Excavations at Selinunte
Title: Archaeological Research at Selinunte

September 26, 2016
Crossing Boundaries
Speakers: Various
Title: Access & Engagement
By invitation only

September 26, 2016
Time-Based Media
Speaker: Reinhard Bek, Conservator of Contemporary Art - Bek & Frohnert LLC, New York
Title: A Question of Kinethics
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September 27, 2016
Summer Projects Series
Speakers: Various
Title: Digging Deeper: Conservation in the Field

September 28, 2016
The Roberta and Richard Huber Colloquium on the Arts and Visual Cultures of Iberia and the Iberian Colonial World
Speaker: Reva Wolf, Professor, Art History,SUNY New Paltz
Title: "Your Brother, Paco":  Goya and Freemasonry

October 3, 2016
Time-Based Media
Speaker: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Artist, Mexico-Canada
Title: Best practices for conservation of media art from an Artist’s perspective
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October 6, 2016
Steven Scher Lecture
Speaker: Ulrich Pfisterer, Chair of General Art History, Ludwig-⁠Maximilians-⁠Universität München Institut für Kunstgeschichte Zentnerstr
Title: Chardin's Apes. Numismatics and the Science of Observation

October 7, 2016
China Project Workshop
Speaker: Micki McCoy, History of Art Department, University of California, Berkeley
Moderated by: Elena Pakhoutova, Rubin Museum of Art
Title: Thinking with the Kharakhoto Astral Mandala

October 13, 2016
Pre-Columbian Society of New York Lecture Series
Speaker: Barbara Mundy, Professor of Art History, Department of Art History, Fordham University
Title: “The Fate of the Sacred Book of the Ancient Americas”

October 14th, 2016
Publishing Art History Digitally: The Present and Future
More information and a list of speakers
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Saturday, October 15, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm - CLOSED SESSION
Publishing Art History Digitally: The Present and Future

October 17, 2016
Time-Based Media
Speaker: Christiane Paul, Associate Professor, School of Media Studies, The New School, New York; Adjunct Curator, New Media Arts, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Title: Conserving Context: Approaches to Preserving Digital Art
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October 18, 2016
Latin American Forum
Speakers: Alejandro Anreus, Tony Bechara, Pepe Karmel
Title: Geometric Abstraction in the Americas: Carmen Herrera and Her Art Worlds
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October 19, 2016
Great Hall Exhibition Opening Event
Artist: Martha Friedman
Panel Discussion: Some Hags
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October 20, 2016
New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
Speaker: Eleni Hatzaki, Associate Professor of Mediterranean Archaeology, University of Cincinnati
Title: Fluidity and Stasis in the Cityscape of Late Bronze Age Knossos

October 21, 2016
Greek and Roman Seminar on Art and Architecture
Speaker: Ann Kuttner, Associate Professor of History of Art, University of Pennsylvania Title: In Stony Mirrors: Spectatorship, Performance, and Roman ‘Historical Relief’

October 24, 2016
Time-Based Media
Speaker: Tina Rivers Ryan, Curatorial Research Assistant, Modern and Contemporary Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Title: Some More Beginnings: On the History of Time-Based Media Exhibitions
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October 26, 2016
Pre-History and Modern Art Panel
Speaker: Maria Stavrinaki, Associated Professor, Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne
Title: The Earth without Man from Cézanne to Pierre Huyghe
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October 27, 2016
Speaker: Tapati Guha-Thakurta, Director and Professor in History, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
Title: Contesting Careers of the Art Work and the Religious Icon in Contemporary India

November 1, 2016
Kirk Varnedoe Memorial Lecture
Speaker: Jacqueline Lichtenstein
Title: On Judging works of art I. - Who are the right judges ?

November 3, 2016
Praska Visiting Professor Lecture
Speaker: Lawrence Becker, Judith Praska Distinguished Visiting Professor in Conservation and Technical Studies
Title: Technological Choice: The Casting of Metal Sculpture in Asia

November 4, 2016
Crossing Boundaries
Speakers: Various
Title: Access & Engagement
By invitation only
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November 4, 2016
Daniel H. Silberberg Series Lecture
Speaker: Hou Hanru
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November 7, 2016
Conservation Center Workshop

November 7, 2016
Time-Based Media
Speaker: Mona Jimenez, Associate Arts Professor/Associate Director; Moving Image Archiving and Preservation Program, New York University
Title: Art in an Ecosystem: Media Art Communities & Conservation
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November 9, 2016
Works-in-Progress
Speaker: Barry Flood, William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of the Humanities, Institute of Fine Arts and College of Arts and Sciences - NYU
This event is only open to the Institute's community

November 9, 2016
ISLAA-HORNA Panel
Speakers: Various
Title: Kati Horna and Women Photographers in Exile

November 10, 2016
Pre-Columbian Society of New York Lecture Series
Speaker: Heidi King, Adjunct Professor, The Cooper Union; former Research Associate in the Art of the Americas, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Title: "A Group of Inka Miniatures in Gold and Silver from the Far South Coast of Peru"

November 11, 2016
China Project Workshop
Speaker: George Fan, Independent Scholar, will speak on his project to reconstruct the Qianlong collection of archaic bronzes Moderator to be announced.

Monday, November 14, 2016, 6:00 PM
Time-Based Media
Speaker: Deena Engel,  Clinical Professor; Associate Director of Undergraduate Studies for the computer Science Minors programs Department of Computer Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences; New York University
Title: Source Code Analysis in the Conservation of Software-based Art
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November 15, 2016
Daniel H. Silberberg Lecture Series
Speaker: Amy Powell
Title: The Indifferent Face of Landscape

November 16, 2016
Great Hall Exhibition Performance
Susan Marshall & Company in
World Premiere - Two Person Operating System

Thursday, November 17, 2016, 5:30 PM
Conservation Center: Summer Projects Series - Looking Closer
Speakers: Various

November 18, 2016
New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
Speaker: Sharon R. Stocker, Research Associate, University of Cincinnati, and Jack L. Davis, Carl W. Blegen Professor of Greek Archaeology, University of Cincinnati
Title: A Prince of Pylos: The Tomb of the Griffin Warrior

November 21, 2016
Time-Based Media
Speakers: Daniel Rozin, Associate Arts Professor, Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), NYU
and
Christine Frohnert , Conservator of Contemporary Art, Bek & Frohnert LLC, New York; Adjunct Professor & Time-Based Media Art Conservation Curriculum Development Program Coordinator, Conservation Center of The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Title: Creating Digital Interactive Sculptures for the Long Run Daniel Rozin in Conversation with Christine Frohnert
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November 22, 2016
Kirk Varnedoe Memorial Lecture
Speaker: Jacqueline Lichtenstein
Title: On Judging Works of Art II. -The Esthetic Value of Originality, Authenticity, Uniqueness

November 28, 2016
Time-Based Media
Speaker: Kate Lewis, Media Conservator; Peter Oleksik, Associate Media Conservator; Ben Fino-Radin, Associate Media Conservator
Title: Media Conservation at MoMA
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November 29, 2016
Works-in-Progress
Speaker: Clemente Marconi, James R. McCredie Professor in the History of Greek Art and Archaeology; University Professor; Director, The Institute of Fine Arts Excavations at Selinunte
This event is only open to the Institute's community.

November 30, 2016
Greek and Roman Seminar on Art and Architecture
Speaker: Nathan Arrington
Title: Style and Status in Early Athens

Thursday, December 1, 2016, 6:00 PM
Great Hall Exhibition Panel Discussion
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December 5, 2016
Time-Based Media
Speaker: Joanna Phillips, Conservator, Time-based Media, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Title: Implementing Time-based Media conservation in Museum Practice
Location: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bonnie J. Sacerdote Lecture Hall— Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education
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December 5, 2016
Aphrodisias Lecture
Speaker: Roland R. R. Smith
Title: Archaeological Research at Aphrodisias 2016

December 6, 2016
Memory Spaces Collaborative Conference

December 6, 2016
Artists at the Institute
Artist: Jennie C. Jones
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December 8, 2016
Works-in-Progress
Speaker: Stephanie Caruso, Institute of Fine Arts PhD Candidate
This event is only open to the Institute's community

December 8, 2016
Pre-Columbian Society of New York Lecture Series
Speakers: Caitlin Earley, Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Assistant Professor, University of Nevada, Reno
Title: To Have and to Hold: Captive Bodies and Captive Power in Ancient Maya Art

December 9, 2016
China Project Workshop
Speaker: Zoe Kwok, The Art Museum, Princeton University
Moderated by: Freda Murck, independent scholar
Topic: Will speak on a planned exhibition on the theme of banqueting

December 13, 2016
Kirk Varnedoe Memorial Lecture
Speaker: Jacqueline Lichtenstein
Title: On judging works of art III. - Forgers and experts

December 14, 2016
The Roberta and Richard Huber Colloquium on the Arts and Visual Cultures of Iberia and the Iberian Colonial World
Speaker: Felipe Pereda, Fernando Zóbel de Ayala Professor of Spanish Art, Harvard University
Title: Crime & Illusion. Art as Testimony in Early Modern Spain

December 16, 2016
New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
Speaker: Professor Peter M. Day, Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield, UK
Title: Late Mycenaean Transport Jars and Commodity Movement in Political Context: New evidence from the Argolid