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Events Archive
2018
Friday, January 26, 2018
Title: Frick In-House Symposium
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Speaker: Dr. Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya, Curator for North Africa and Iberia, Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar
Title: Visualizing Pilgrimage: Images of Mecca and Medina in the Collections of the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha
Abstract: Islamic pilgrimage routes have influenced the production of manuscripts, not only for those intended to be transported by pilgrims, but also for commercial transactions related to the pilgrimage itself. Pilgrimage and the mobility of the pilgrims has encouraged the development of manuscripts of several genres. These have played a role not only in the canonization of the rituals but also in the standardization of the sacred places’ representations and in the use of such manuscripts as instruments of devotion. Based on examples of representations of Mecca and Medina in manuscripts conserved in the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar, this lecture will attempt to demonstrate the variety of images of the holy sites – whether executed on scrolls, bound volumes or talismanic documents – as well as the different functions of such illustrations.
Dr. Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya is the Curator for North Africa and Iberia at the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qatar, where she curated several exhibitions including Hajj – The Journey through Art (2013 - 2014) in collaboration with the British Museum, Qajar Women (2015) and Imperial Threads: Motifs and Artisans from Turkey, Iran and India (2017-2018). She completed her Ph.D. in Islamic Art History and Archaeology at the Pantheon Sorbonne University in Paris and is specialized on the Western Mediterranean, manuscripts and pilgrimage-related devotional materials in the Islamic world. For the 2017-2018 Academic year, Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya has been undertaking a research project in Harvard university as a post-doctoral research associate, as part of the Aga Khan Programme for Islamic Art and Architecture. Dr. Chekhab-Abudaya taught Islamic Art at undergraduate and graduate levels for four years at the Pantheon Sorbonne and INALCO (2007-2011).
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Series: Works in Progress
Speaker: Colin Eisler on Durer's Genius of Syphilis: Melencolia I.
This event is only open to the Institute's Community
Friday, February 2, 2018 CANCELLED
Due to unforeseen circumstances, Salvatore Settis will not be able to be here on Friday, February 2, 2018 and the event has been cancelled. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Series: Greek & Roman Seminar
Speaker: Salvatore Settis, Scuola Normale Superiore
Title: "The Materiality of the Divine: Aniconism, Iconoclasm, Iconography”
Monday, February 5, 2018
Series: Works in Progress
Speaker: Julia Pelta Feldman on Charles Simonds and the 'Clay World'
This event is only open to the Institute's Community
Wednesday, February 7, 2018
Series: Medieval Art Forum
Speaker: Lucretia Kargère, Conservator, The Cloisters Metropolitan Museum
Title: Romanesque Polychrome Wood Sculptures: A New Wave of Technical Studies in Europe
Abstract: The scientific analysis of polychrome wood sculptures has developed exponentially in the last thirty years, revolutionizing our knowledge of the techniques employed in medieval times. Our understanding of Romanesque polychrome wood sculptures is still partial, admittedly behind the study of architectural sculptures. Despite their age and condition, a clear impetus to examine these objects is rising in a number of European countries revealing highly colorful works of art.
The lecture’s focal point is the technical examination of a group of French Romanesque sculptures both at The Metropolitan Museum and in France, as it fits into wider questions of typology, aspects of style and influences, dating, and workshop practices in Europe. The long material history of these objects challenges their study, but close examinations divulge significant clues as to their original aspects, relations to other arts, original liturgical functions, re-uses and adaptations.
Thursday, February 8, 2018
Title: First Annual Gayle Greenhill Photography Lecture
Monday, February 12, 2018
Series: Artists at the Institute
Speaker: Rachel Rose
Abstract: Rachel Rose (b. 1986) is among the foremost artists working with and in video today. Guided by research into such topics as vast as 19th century park design, cryogenics, to the American Revolutionary War, modernist architecture, and the sensory experience of walking in outer space, Rose’s work pinpoints what it is that makes us human, and how we seek to alter, enhance, and escape that designation.
Thursday, February 15, 2018
Series: Pre-Columbian Society Lecture
Speaker: Joanne Pillsbury, Andrall E. Pearson Curator of Ancient American Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Title: From the Heart of the Andes: On Creating Golden Kingdoms
Friday, February 16, 2018
Series: China Project Workshop
Speaker: Susan Naquin
RSVP: chinaprojectworkshop@gmail.com
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
Series: Works in Progress
Speaker: Ann Macy Roth will discuss "Working and Watching: Active and Passive Representations in Egyptian Art"
This event is only open to the Institute's Community
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
Samothrace Lecture
Speaker: Bonna Wescoat, Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Art History, Emory University; Director of Emory University and NYU Excavations, Sanctuary of the Great Gods, Samothrace
Monday, February 26, 2018
Series: Judith Praska Distinguished Visiting Professor in Conservation and Technical Studies Lecture
Speaker: David Saunders, British Museum
Title: "Seductive Light, Destructive Light: Balancing Presentation and Preservation of Works of Art"
Tuesday, February 27, 2018
Series: Silberberg Lecture Series
Speaker: Whitney Davis
Title: The Dancer and the Dance; or, The Projection and the Projected
Thursday, March 1, 2018
Series: Greek & Roman Seminar
Speaker: Alessandro Pierattini, University of Notre Dame
Title: "The Temple Before the Order: The Origins of Greek Temple Architecture”
Thursday, March 8, 2018
**Due to unforeseen circumstances, the event on Thursday, March 8, 2018 has been rescheduled to a later date. Please check back soon for more updates. We apologize for the inconvenience.** Series: Pre-Columbian Society Lecture
Speaker: Simon Martin, Senior Research Specialist, University of Pennsylvania Museum
Title: Entangled Tesserae: Looking at Classic Maya Political Society
Sunday, March 18, 2018, 5:00pm
Title: The Songs of Claude Debussy on the One Hundredth Anniversary of his Death
with Sylvie Robert & Steve Beck
This event is sold out
This event is canceled due to snow
Wednesday, March 21, 2018, 11:00am
Series: Works in Progress
Speaker: Kent Minturn will present "The Political Unconscious of Art Brut Materials"
This event is only open to the Institute's Community
Wednesday, March 21, 2018 (Rescheduled to April 4th)
Series: Medieval Art Forum
Speaker: William J. Diebold, Jane Neuberger Goodsell Professor of Art History, Reed College
Title: Displaying ‘German Greatness’ in Nazi Germany: The Middle Ages in the Exhibition 'Deutsche Größe' (1940-1942) and its Legacy
Abstract: Although it is not well known, the cultural-historical exhibition Deutsche Größe (“German Greatness” or “Grandeur”) was the most important museum display of the Nazi era. The show’s subject was the history of Germany from the early Middle Ages until the assumption of power by Adolf Hitler. Deutsche Größe was supported at the highest levels of the Nazi Party and its presentation of history was frankly ideological, but the show expressed that ideology through a series of ambitious and innovative display techniques. This lecture presents the exhibition, describes how it came about, and how it worked to shape an understanding of history that would serve Nazi goals. Special attention is paid to Deutsche Größe’s display of the art and culture of the Middle Ages, an area of history that was especially fraught and problematic for the National Socialists, and to the legacy of Deutsche Größe in several more recent German museum exhibitions (ranging in date from 1977 to 2006). Tuesday, March 27, 2018
Series: Silberberg Lecture Series
Speaker: Chrissie Iles, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator at the Whitney Museum
This lecture proposes a re-examination of the history of the projected image in American art since the 1960s, foregrounding darkness and black space as challenges to the whiteness of the gallery in political as well as formal terms. How can a multi-ethnic history of the moving image in contemporary art redefine the stakes of what constitutes cinematic space? How do issues of the body, identity, and subjectivity in historical projective installations read differently at a moment in which a new generation of moving image artists is challenging the norms of technological power and control, and re-configuring our relationship to self-representation, subjectivity, gender, and race?
Wednesday, March 28, 2018, 6:30am
Series: Works in Progress
Speaker: PhD Candidate Daniella Berman will present a portion of her dissertation "Aesthetics of Contingency: History and the Unrealized Paintings of the French Revolution"
This event is only open to the Institute's Community
Thursday, March 29, 2018
Series: Artists at the Institute
Speaker: Lee Ming Wei
Friday, March 30, 2018
Series: China Project Workshop
Speaker: Daniel Greenberg
Tuesday, April 3, 2018
Series: Works in Progress
Speaker: Hiroko Ikegami
Visiting Professor Hiroko Ikegami will present "Pop in Japan: Embracing America, Contesting Empire"
This event is only open to the Institute's Community
Wednesday, April 4, 2018
Series: Medieval Art Forum
Speaker: William J. Diebold, Jane Neuberger Goodsell Professor of Art History, Reed College
Title: Displaying ‘German Greatness’ in Nazi Germany: The Middle Ages in the Exhibition 'Deutsche Größe' (1940-1942) and its Legacy
Abstract: Although it is not well known, the cultural-historical exhibition Deutsche Größe (“German Greatness” or “Grandeur”) was the most important museum display of the Nazi era. The show’s subject was the history of Germany from the early Middle Ages until the assumption of power by Adolf Hitler. Deutsche Größe was supported at the highest levels of the Nazi Party and its presentation of history was frankly ideological, but the show expressed that ideology through a series of ambitious and innovative display techniques. This lecture presents the exhibition, describes how it came about, and how it worked to shape an understanding of history that would serve Nazi goals. Special attention is paid to Deutsche Größe’s display of the art and culture of the Middle Ages, an area of history that was especially fraught and problematic for the National Socialists, and to the legacy of Deutsche Größe in several more recent German museum exhibitions (ranging in date from 1977 to 2006). Thursday, April 5, 2018
Series: Greek & Roman Seminar
Speaker: Milette Gaifman, Yale University
Title: “The Two-dimensional and Three-dimensional in Greek Painted Pots.”
Monday, April 9, 2018
IV Annual Artist Discussion: Display Cases at the Institute of Fine Arts
Artists Nona Faustine, Kit White, and Anton Würth demonstrate a reverence for history in their practice of photography, painting, and printmaking. They will discuss their practice in the fourth Annual Artist Discussion for the exhibits in the Display Cases at the Institute of Fine Arts. Curator Lisa A. Banner moderates.
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Series: Works in Progress
Speaker: PhD Candidate Jennifer Buonocore will present "Dan Graham: Possible Poems, 1966-1969"
This event is only open to the Institute's Community
Thursday, April 12, 2018
Series: Pre-Columbian Society Lecture
Speaker: Sarahh Scher, Visiting Lecturer, Salem State University
Friday, April 13, 2018
Series: China Project Workshop
Speaker: Meimei Rado
RSVP: chinaprojectworkshop@gmail.com
Monday, April 16, 2018
Series: New York Renaissance Consortium
Speaker: Lorraine Karafel, Assistant Professor of Art and Design History, Parsons School of Design, and Interim Director, Parsons/Cooper-Hewitt MA Program in the History of Design and Curatorial Studies
Title: Raphael: Designs for Tapestries
Wednesday, April 18, 2018, 7:00pm
Title: Curating Global Contemporary Art: A Conversation with Lynn Zelevansky
Description: For the last thirty years, Lynn Zelevansky has been a leader in expanding and questioning the categories of modern and contemporary art. She has curated groundbreaking exhibitions of individual artists like Cildo Meireles (1990), Guillermo Kuitca (1991), Gabriel Orozco (1993), Yayoi Kusama (1998), and Hélio Oiticica (2016-2017). Her 1997 survey Sense and Sensibility: Women Artists and Minimalism introduced global artists such as Mona Hatoum, Jac Leirner, and Rachel Whiteread to an American audience. In 2004, Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form, 1940s-1970s presented varieties of postwar abstraction hitherto ignored in the United States, from Brazilian Neo-Concretism to the German “Zero” group. In 2009, she co-curated Your Bright Future: 12 Contemporary Artists from Korea. Speaking with NYU professor Pepe Karmel, Zelevansky, an IFA alumna (MA 1987), will discuss the challenges of curating global contemporary art, and her own journey from the Museum of Modern Art to the Los Angeles County Museum to the Carnegie Museum of Art, where she served as Director for the years 2009-2017.
Thursday, April 19 - Friday, April 20, 2018
Third Annual Symposium of Latin American Art
Super/Natural: Excess, Ecologies, and Art in the Americas
Monday, April 23, 2018
Series: Samuel H. Kress Lecture
Speaker: Rupert Featherstone
Tuesday, April 24, 2018
Kirk Varnedoe Memorial Lecture
Speaker: Lowery Sims
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Series: Works in Progress
Speaker: Günter Kopcke
This event is only open to the Institute's Community
This event has been postponed. Please check back for updates.**
Thursday, April 26, 2018
Series: Annual Alumni Careers Panel
This event is only open to the Institute's Community
Please join us in conversation at our Annual Alumni Careers Panel with four Institute graduates about their life and professional careers.
Followed by a reception
Panelists:
Adam Glick (MA ‘09), Associate Director, Annual Fund and Special Projects, Hudson River Park Friends
Marc Hajjar (MA ‘15), Associate Director, Business Development, Winston Art Group
Jessica Pace (MA/Conservation Certificate ‘12), Preventive Conservator, The Barbara Goldsmith Preservation and Conservation Department at New York University Libraries
Louisa Wood Ruby (MA ’88, PhD ’97), Head of Research, The Frick Art Reference Library
Moderated by Sanya Mirpuri, second-year Art History MA candidate
About the Panelists:
Adam Glick joined Hudson River Park Friends as Associate Director, Annual Fund and Special Projects in February 2018. Hudson River Park Friends is the designated fundraising partner of the Hudson River Park Trust and is an independent, non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to the completion, care, programming, and enhancement of 550-acre Hudson River Park. Adam previously worked as Senior Development Officer at the Brooklyn Museum and served as the inaugural Curator of Mad. Sq. Art, the public art program of the Madison Square Park Conservancy. He has also held positions at the Museum of Modern Art and New York's New Museum of Contemporary Art. He holds an MA in Art History from New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts and received a BA in Music and Art History from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Adam also serves on the Board of Governors of Idyllwild Arts Academy.
Marc Hajjar attended Washington University in St. Louis for his Bachelor's degree and received a Master’s in Art Business from Sotheby’s Institute prior to starting at the Institute of Fine Arts. He graduated from the IFA in 2015 with a Master's degree. While in his second year at the IFA, Marc worked in the Bids Department at Sotheby’s New York, where he was part of a small team handling the logistics and administrative processes of a live auction from registering bids to phone bidding. After Sotheby's, he accepted a position to manage the private sales and auction consignments at Winston Art Group, the nation's leading independent appraisal and advisory firm. He currently works in a business development and relationship management role at Winston Art Group while still overseeing select private transactions.
Jessica Pace is the Preventive Conservator at the Barbara Goldsmith Preservation and Conservation Department at New York University Libraries. She received her MA in Art History and Certificate of Advanced Study in Conservation from the Institute of Fine Arts Conservation Center at NYU, and her BA in Art History and Visual Arts from Barnard College. Prior to this role, she worked in objects conservation labs at the Brooklyn Museum, the American Museum of Natural History, and the Archaeological Exploration of Sardis in Turkey. Her current projects include devising accessible and economical housing for archival collections, creating training programs in preventive techniques for librarians and archivists, and improving housing and handling of materials during transport.
Louisa Wood Ruby is Head of Research at The Frick Art Reference Library where she runs both the Scholars’ Program and the Digital Art History Lab (DAHL). The Scholars’ Program aims to promote collaboration and facilitate the exchange of ideas and dissemination of new work among independent researchers while the DAHL seeks to increase awareness of methodological and scholarly trends in digital humanities and art history. Louisa received her Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts with a dissertation on the Drawings of Paul Bril, subsequently published by Brepols. Her articles on Netherlandish art have appeared in Burlington Magazine, Master Drawings, Journal of the Historians of Netherlandish Art as well as in Festschrifts, symposia proceedings and exhibition catalogs. She is currently working on an online monograph and catalogue raisonné of the drawings of Jan Brueghel the Elder in conjunction with Terez Gerszi of the Budapest Museum of Fine Arts, which will result in an exhibition at the Rockoxhuis in Antwerp in 2019.
Friday, April 27, 2018
IFA - Frick Symposium
Tuesday, May 1, 2018
Series: Silberberg Lecture Series
Speaker: Emine Fetvacı from the Department of Art and Architecture at Boston University
Lecture Title: The Album of the World Emperor: Cosmopolitan Collecting at the Ottoman Court of the Seventeenth-Century
Wednesday, May 2, 2018
Great Hall Exhibition Opening
Jamie Isenstein: Universe of Logs
Thursday, May 3, 2018
Series: Works in Progress
Speaker: Hannah De Corte will present "Painting as absorption. Looking at the textile of the canvas and its properties of absorption"
This event is only open to the Institute's Community
Friday, May 4, 2018
Series: Latin American Forum
Game Changers: Women Artists in 1970s Mexico. A conversation with Magali Lara and Mónica Mayer moderated by Carla Stellweg
Speakers: Magali Lara, Mónica Mayer, Carla Stellweg, Madeline Murphy Turner
Friday, May 11, 2018
*Cancelled - will be rescheduled in the Fall
Series: China Project Workshop
Speaker: Chenghua
Tuesday, September 11, 2018
Speaker: Gayatri Sinha
Title: Other Feminisms: Four Indian Women Artists
About the Lecture: Beginning in 1985, Nalini Malani, Nilima Sheikh, Arpita Singh and Madhvi Parekh organized exhibitions of their work in Bhopal, Bombay and Delhi, designing their own installations and commissioning catalogues. Three decades later they are viewed as the first if not the only women’s artist collective in South Asia. Coming together in their 40s, and working in an intensely patriarchal society, they addressed domestic and bodily experience along with political issues. Drawing from images of the female figure in Indian myth and history, they created a model for a new, transnational feminism.
Each artist developed her own unique language: the Chinese scroll and Persian-Indic miniature in Nilima Sheikh, painted rotating Mylar ‘prayer-wheels’ in Nalani Malani, the figure of the middle aged woman as witness in Arpita Singh, and an invented folk style in the work of Madhvi Parekh. Working individually and collaboratively, they combined grass roots feminism, classical Indian art, artisanal materials and theater design, defining an alternative artistic tradition, outside the canon of modernism, that could embody women’s experience.
About the Speaker: Gayatri Sinha is an art editor, critic and curator. Her primary areas of enquiry are in gender in contemporary and classical art, media and South Asian social history. She has taught at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Lady Shriram College, and the Bhau Dajji lad Museum, and is the founder of criticalcollective.in, India’s first web based archive and news magazine on art.
Her edited volumes include: Voices of Change: 20 Indian Artists (Marg, 2010), Art and Visual Culture in India 1857- 2007 (Marg Publications, 2009); Indian Art: an Overview (Rupa Books, 2003), Expressions and Evocations Contemporary Women Artists of India (Marg, 1996). She has written monographs on Krishen Khanna, Himmat Shah and M F Husain, and is currently editing a volume on modern and contemporary photography.
She has curated exhibitions in New Delhi, Mumbai, Frankfurt, Liege, Newark, Minneapolis, Shanghai, and Seoul, including: Part Narratives, 2017; Diary Entries, 2015; Water, 2013; Ideas of the Sublime, 2013; Cynical Love: Life in the everyday, 2011; Looking Glass: The Existence of Difference, 2010; Constructed Realities, 2010; Failed Plot, 2009; Public Places, Private Spaces: Contemporary Photography and Video Art in India, 2007-2008, Watching Me Watching India, 2006; Middle Age Spread: Imaging India 1947–2004, 2004; Vilas: The Idea of Pleasure, 2000; Woman/Goddess, 1998-2001; The Self and the World, 1997. http://www.csgsnyu.org/
This program has been co-sponsored by NYU's Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality.
Wednesday, September 12, 2018
Series: Pre-Columbian Society of New York Lecture
Speaker: Lisa Trever, Lisa and Bernard Selz Professor of Pre-Columbian Art, Columbia University
Title: Pre-Columbian Art History in the Age of the Wall
Monday, September 17, 2018
Series: South & About
Thursday, September 20, 2018
Speaker: Maria Stavrinaki, Associate Professor of History and Theory of Contemporary Art at the Université Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne
Title: Henri Matisse & Joan Miró: Two Moments in the Disjunctive Genealogy of Prehistory
Maria Stavrinaki is Associate Professor of History and Theory of Contemporary Art at the Université Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne. Her work focuses on the relations between art, human sciences and politics. Her recent publications include Dada Presentism : An Essay on Art and History (Stanford University Press, 2016) ; Le sujet et son milieu : huit essais sur les avant-gardes allemandes (Mamco, 2017) ; Contraindre à la liberté : Carl Einstein, les avant-gardes, l’histoire (Deutsches Forum für Kunstgeschichte/Les presses du réel, 2018). She is currently working on a book about « prehistorical modernity » and is cocurator of an exhibition on the same subject at the Centre Pompidou, Paris (opening 2019).
Monday, September 24, 2018
Series: Looking Closer: Conservation in the Museum
The Institute of Fine Arts invites you to an evening of presentations by current art conservation students about their summer experiences in museum laboratories and libraries.
Rachel Mochon
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Katherine Parks
American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY
New-York Historical Society, New York, NY
Catherine Stephens
Historic Book Structures Workshop, Wilmington, DE
American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY
New-York Historical Society, New York, NY
PAINTINGS CONSERVATION
Kristin Holder
A Portable Triptych by a Follower of Duccio from the Samuel H. Kress Collection at the Brooks Museum of Art in Memphis, TN: Freeing the Panels from their Cradles and a Historic Reconstruction of the Original, Conservation Center, New York, NY
OBJECTS CONSERVATION
Andy Wolf
The Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
TIME-BASED MEDIA
Taylor Healy
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
A question and answer session will follow the first three presentations and again after the last. Please join us for a light reception in the Loeb Room at the conclusion of the evening's program.
Wednesday, September 26, 2018
Series: Christine Poggi
Title: Stage at the Edge of the Sea: Picasso's Scenographic Imagination
This event is only open to the Institute's Community
Thursday, September 27, 2018
Greek and Roman Seminar
Speaker: Francesca Spatafora, Director of the Archeological Museum in Palermo “Antonino Salinas.”
Lecture Title: Colonial Encounters’ in Archaic Western Sicily
Please note that this lecture will be in Italian
Friday, September 28, 2018
Series: China Project Workshop
Speaker: Cheng-hua Wang, Princeton University
RSVP: chinaprojectworkshop@gmail.com
Tuesday, October 2, 2018
Series: Silberberg Lecture Series
Speaker: Anthony Vidler, Professor of Architecture, Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture, Cooper Union
Lecture Title: Architecture After the Rain: The Surrealist Turn in the Post-Atomic Era
Professor Anthony Vidler received his professional degree in architecture from Cambridge University in England, and his doctorate in History and Theory from the University of Technology, Delft, the Netherlands. Prior to his deanship and professorship at the Cooper Union, Professor Vidler taught at the Princeton University School of Architecture from 1965 to 93 and at UCLA from 1993 to 2001. His curatorial work has encompassed French Enlightenment architecture and postwar architecture in Britain. The recipient of awards and fellowships from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities and the Canadian Center for Architecture, Professor Vidler has published numerous books including Claude-Nicolas Ledoux: Architecture and Social Reform at the End of the Ancien Regime (MIT Press, 1990), The Architectural Uncanny: Essays in the Modern Unhomely (MIT Press, 1992), Warped Space: Architecture and Anxiety in Modern Culture (MIT Press, 2000) and Histories of the Immediate Present: The Invention of Architectural Modernism (MIT Press, 2008).
Thursday, October 4, 2018
Speaker: Pope.L, Artist
Friday, October 5, 2018 - 6:30pm
Contemporary Art and the Crisis of Globalization
Speakers include
David Joselit, CUNYSaloni Mathur, UCLA
Naeem Mohaiemen, Artist
Jennifer Ponce de León, University of Pennsylvania
Jolene Rickard, Cornell University
Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi, Cleveland Museum of Art
Xiaoyu Weng, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Schedule of Events
10:00amWelcome and Introduction of the first panel (Rob Slifkin & Andrew Weiner)
10:10-11:00
Ugochukwu-Smooth Nzewi, “Between the Margins and Altermodern: African Art and Global Contemporary”
11:00-11:50
Xiaoyu Weng: "Whose resistance? Poetry and Place Afar”
11:50-12:40
David Joselit, “Curated Cultures”
12:40-1:00
Panel discussion and Q&A moderated by Rachel Price
1:00-2:20
Lunch
2:20-2:30
Introduction to second panel (Pepe Karmel)
2:30-3:20
Saloni Mathur, “The World, the Art & the Critic: Global South Conjunctures”
3:20-4:10
Jennifer Ponce de Leon, “The Art of Rebellion in the Fourth World War”
4:10-4:30
Coffee break
4:30-5:20
Jolene Rickard, “The Global Indigenous Return – TO THE BUSH”
5:20-6:10
Naeem Mohaiemen, “A missing can of film”
6:10-6:30
Panel discussion moderated by Brynn Hatton
6:30-7:30
Reception
RSVP required for "Contemporary Art and the Crisis of Globalization"
Wednesday, October 10, 2018
Series: Latin American Forum
Title: Complexities and Complicities of the Gaze: A Conversation between Milagros de la Torre and Prof. Shelley Rice
Thursday, October 11, 2018
Annual Selinunte Presentation
Monday, October 15, 2018
Series: Judith Praska Distinguished Visiting
Professor in Conservation and Technical Studies Lecture
Speaker: Harriet Stratis
October 16, 2018
Series: Cook Lecture
Speaker: Dr. Dorothy Kosinski, The Phillips Collection
Title: ‘Artists help God create the world.’ Markus Lüpertz at The Phillips Collection/ Journeys and Return with Orpheus
Speaker Bio: Dr. Dorothy Kosinski is the Vradenburg Director and CEO of The Phillips Collection, a role she has served since 2008. Prior to joining The Phillips Collection, Dr. Kosinski worked at the Dallas Museum of Art, where she served in a number of capacities from 1995 to 2008, last as Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture. From 1985 to 1997, she lived in Basel, Switzerland and was the curator of the Douglas Cooper Collection of cubist art. She also served as an independent curator of major exhibitions at the Royal Academy of Arts, London; The Kunstmuseum Basel; The Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg; and The National Gallery in Prague. Dr. Kosinski has written and edited many books and catalogs on a variety of art topics including 19th Century Symbolism, Dada, Surrealism, 20th Century sculpture and contemporary art. In August 2013, Dr. Kosinski was appointed by President Barack Obama to the National Council on the Humanities. In December 2017, she was recognized by the Ambassador of Italy with the Order of the Italian Star, a distinction recognizing her outstanding contributions to the arts and promotion of Italian culture. She currently serves on the Board of the Sherman Fairchild Foundation and the Gwendolyn Morris Cafritz Foundation. Dr. Kosinski received a BA from Yale University and an MA and PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University.
Wednesday, October 17, 2018
Series: Medieval Art Forum
Speaker: Leslie Bussis Tait, Educator for Museum Teaching, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Title: Romanesque Art in the United States: Collecting, Display, Reception
Abstract: The acquisition of Romanesque art by American collectors and museums was most active in the early decades of the twentieth century. Early collectors such as Isabella Stewart Gardner, J. Pierpont Morgan, George Grey Barnard, and Arthur Kingsley Porter were influenced by their exposure to European monuments and the desire to establish a cultural equivalence in the United States. Parallel to the growth of U.S. museums, major universities fostered the scholarship of medieval art, with Meyer Schapiro writing the first dissertation in the U.S. on a Romanesque topic. The exhibition of architectural fragments in a contextual setting, such as The Cloisters, as well as increasingly ambitious museum exhibitions brought Romanesque art to broader audiences. No longer limited to Americans who were able to travel abroad, Romanesque art now displayed in the U.S. would have a profound impact on generations of scholars, students and artists through to the present day. Thursday, October 18, 2018
Series: Time-Based Media
Title: Programmed: Conserving Concepts
Speakers include:
Christiane Paul, Adjunct Curator of Digital Art, Whitney Museum of American Art
Carol Mancusi-Ungaro, Melva Bucksbaum Associate Director for Conservation and Research, Whitney Museum of American Art
Friday, October 19, 2018
Great Hall Exhibition Opening
Graphic Objects: Elaine Lustig Cohen’s Sculptural Works
The exhibition illuminates Lustig Cohen’s ventures beyond the picture plane, presenting a selection of reliefs and box-like sculptures. Less familiar than her graphic designs and public commissions, the sculptural works on view reveal Lustig Cohen’s interdisciplinary approach to art making. These objects transcend the boundaries between fine art and graphic design, form, and function. At the same time, the sculptures encapsulate the artist’s playful mobilization of geometric abstraction on three-dimensional forms.
Graphic Objects opens on October 19, 2018 and is on view through February 24, 2019. The exhibition runs in conjunction with Masterpieces and Curiosities: Elaine Lustig Cohen at the Jewish Museum, open until August 11, 2019.
Elaine Lustig Cohen (1927–2016) was widely celebrated in her life as a graphic designer, artist, art dealer, and archivist. Her multifaceted accomplishments encompass pioneering design projects that extended the aesthetic vocabulary of European modernism into an American context, including commissions with clients such as the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Jewish Museum, and architects Eero Saarinen, Philip Johnson, and Richard Meier; to exhibitions as an artist at Bard College, Exit Art, Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, Mary Boone Gallery (first solo show by a female artist); to founding the influential Upper East Side bookstore Ex Libris, specialized in avant-garde publications and ephemera. She enjoyed a renewed interest in her practice in later years, including receiving the 2011 AIGA Medal for her life’s work in design, as well as mounting exhibitions at LACMA, Los Angeles (2016); The Glass House, New Canaan (2015), P!, New York (2014), and Stanley Picker Gallery at Kingston University London (2017).
The exhibition was made possible through the generous support of Valeria Napoleone XX. It was curated by Francesca Ferrari, Kolleen Ku, Emily Shoyer, and Chao Chi Chiu.
Monday, October 22, 2018
Conservation Center: Summer Project Series 2018
La Dolce Villa! Student Projects at La Pietra
The Institute of Fine Arts invites you to an evening of presentations from current conservation students about their projects at Villa La Pietra, NYU's campus in Florence, Italy.
Wet cleaning of a tapestry from the Camera Blu
Andy Wolf & Taylor Healy
Conservation of a group of statues in the Villa gardens
Kristin Holder & Emma Kimmel
Stabilization and inpainting of paintings from the Camera Blu
Katherine Parks
Preventive conservation project including light monitoring, climate assessment, and proposals for strategies Book survey, treatment and rehousing
Rachel Mochon
Treatment of works of art on paper
Kristin Holder
Acton Catalog Project
A question and answer session will follow the first three presentations and again after the last. Please join us for a light reception in the Loeb Room at the conclusion of the evening's program.
Tuesday, October 23, 2018
Title: Staging Franco's Victory as Reconquest: The 1940 Exposicion de la Hispanidad
Dr. Miriam Basilio, Associate Professor of Art History and Museum Studies NYU
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Series: Works in Progress
Speaker: Prita Meier
Title: The Surface of Things: A History of Photography from the Swahili Coast
This event is only open to the Institute's Community
Friday, October 26, 2018
Series: China Project Workshop
Speaker: Yijun Wang, Columbia University
Title: Suzhou Style, Guangzhou Artisans?
Locating Suzhou Style at the Interface of Texts, Materials, and Craft Cultures
RSVP: chinaprojectworkshop@gmail.com
Tuesday, October 30, 2018
Series: PCSNY
Speaker: Rex Koontz, Professor of Art History and Director of the School of Art, University of Houston
Title: Classic Central Veracruz Art in Mesoamerican Art History
The art of Classic Central Veracruz (Mexican Gulf Coast, ca. 100–1000 CE) is best known through a remarkable elite portable sculpture tradition (the "yoke/hacha/palma" complex) and the monumental art of El Tajín. In their analyses of both the portable sculpture complex and the art of Tajín, scholars have stressed the central role of the Mesoamerican ritual ballgame. The ballgame, in turn, is understood as a largely static set of practices and symbolism across Mesoamerica. This static view of the ballgame, its related objects and the capital city of El Tajín is giving way to a more variegated historical understanding of the history of the yoke/hacha/palma complex as well as the slow emergence of El Tajín out of a heretofore little discussed regional culture. This presentation will summarize some of the more important aspects of this recent work and attempt to put that work in the context of larger issues in Classic period Mesoamerican history.
Friday, November 2, 2018
Norman Kleeblatt at Work: Conversations on a Curatorial Practice
Participants:
Daniel Belasco, Executive Director, Al Held Foundation
Maya Benton, Consulting Curator, International Center of Photography, New York
Mel Bochner, Artist
Emily Braun, Distinguished Professor, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY
Lisa Corrin, Director, Block Museum of Art at Northwestern University
David Joselit, Distinguished Professor, Art History PhD Program, CUNY Graduate Center
Deborah Kass, Artist
Mischa Kuball, Professor for Public Art/Spaces, Academy of Media Arts Cologne
Rhonda Lieberman, Writer and Artist
Courtney Martin, Deputy Director and Chief Curator, Dia Art Foundation
Steven Nelson, Director of the African Studies Center and Professor of African and African American Art History, University of California, Los Angeles
Lucy Partman, PhD Candidate, Princeton University
Joan Rosenbaum, Former Director, The Jewish Museum, New York
Ken Silver, Silver Professor of Art History, New York University
Robert Slifkin, Associate Professor of Fine Arts, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Joan Snyder, Artist
Calvin Tsao, Principal, Tsao & McKown Architects
Followed by a reception.
This program has been co-sponsored by the Al Held Foundation, New York.
Saturday, November 3, 2018, 4:30pm
The Art of Music: Concerts by NYU Steinhardt Strings
Program:
Ludwig van Beethoven Violin Sonata No. 10 in G Major, Op. 96 Meghan Todt Williams (Steinhardt MM '13), violin Markus Kaitila (Steinhardt MM '20), piano
Antonín Dvořák Piano Trio No. 4 in E minor, Op. 90, “Dumky” Zoe Dweck (Steinhardt BM '20), violin Julia Choi (Steinhardt BM '21), cello Isidora Vladic (Steinhardt MM '19), piano
Monday, November 5, 2018
Speaker: Antony Eastmond, Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London
Title: The Limits of Seljuk Art
About the Speaker: Antony Eastmond is AG Leventis Professor of Byzantine Art History and Dean & Deputy Director at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London. His most recent book, Tamta’s World (Cambridge, 2017), examined questions of gender, biography and art in eastern Anatolia and the Caucasus on the eve of the Mongol invasions. He also works on Byzantine ivories and the definition of art in the Byzantine periphery.
Tuesday, November 6, 2018
Speaker: Eric Michaud
Lecture Title: The Offspring of the Image. How Images improve the Italian People
About the Speaker: Eric Michaud, b. 1948, is Directeur d’études at the Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris, where he has been a faculty member since 1998. He holds the Professorship for Histories and Ideologies of Contemporary Art. Prior to joining the Ehess he was Assistant Professor and Associate Professor at the Marc Bloch University, Strasbourg (1972-1998). He served as a Visiting Professor at the The Johns Hopkins University, at Duke University, at the University of Virginia and at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Buenos Aires.
He completed his PhD at the University of Paris 1-Panthéon-Sorbonne in 1976 and his Doctorat d’Etat in 1995 at the same University. His research interests lie in the relationships between art, politics, propaganda and the anthropological notion of race.
His books include Les invasions barbares. Une généalogie de l’histoire de l’art (Paris, Gallimard, 2015 ; English transl. forthcoming), The Cult of Art in Nazi Germany (transl. Janet Lloyd, Stanford University Press, 2004), Histoire de l’art : une discipline à ses frontières (Paris, Hazan, 2005), Fabriques de l'homme nouveau, de Léger à Mondrian (Paris, Carré, 1997).
Thursday, November 8, 2018
BIOLOGICAL MATERIAL MATTERS in Works of Art
Speaker: Barbara Berrie, Head of Scientific Research, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA
Dr. Barbara Berrie’s work has focused on artists’ materials and methods. Her publications are varied and reflect a wide range of interests and responsibilities. She is particularly interested in painters’ materials and methods, and investigates artists use of color through the lens of scientific analysis.
This public presentation is part of ART BIO MATTERS 2018 whereby a small forum of art historians, curators, conservators, and scientists will explore future directions for the analysis of biological materials in works of art. More information can be found at www.artbiomatters.org.
Monday, November 12, 2018
Conservation Center: Summer Project Series 2018
Digging Deeper: Conservation in the Field
Tuesday, November 13, 2018
Series: Medieval Art Forum
Speaker: Michele Tomasi, Professor of Medieval Art, Université de Lausanne
Title: "Cultural Transfer and Artistic Emulation: Rinaldino di Francia, the Lupi Chapel (Padua), and Sculpted Altarpieces in Trecento Italy"
Abstract: The Franciscan basilica of Sant’Antonio in Padua is known above all for its architecture and its pictorial cycles. The sculptural decoration of the monument has been much less studied. Among the overlooked works is the altarpiece carved in 1379 by Rainaldino di Francia for the altar of the chapel of San Giacomo, founded by the Lupi family, and of which there are now four original statues in the Museo Antoniano. According to the contract, the altarpiece had to follow the model of the one existing on the main altar.
Rainaldino’s work has to be considered in the complex history of fourteenth-century Italian sculpted altarpieces. This lecture shows how the first marble altarpieces were created, not coincidentally, for patrons of French culture, and how the spread of this typology was then favored by a game of emulation or rivalry within the Dominican and Franciscan orders, and how the genre transformed by constant comparison with its pictorial equivalents. The Rainaldino altarpiece will thus be the starting point for a broader reflection on patronage, cultural transfer and artistic exchanges in Trecento Italy.
Photo Caption:
Rainaldino di Francia, sculptures from Sant’Antonio, Padua (photo: M. Tomasi)
Thursday, November 15, 2018
Speaker: Jørgen Wadum, Director of the Centre for Art Technological Studies and Conservation (CATS)
Lecture Title: Mobility Creates Masters - understanding artists’ mobility and early modern trade in artists’ materials.
Jørgen Wadum is Director of the Centre for Art Technological Studies and Conservation (CATS). He held the position as full Professor in Conservation & Restoration at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Amsterdam, 2012-2016. From 2005-2017 he was Director of Conservation at SMK and from 1990 through 2004 he was Chief Conservator at the Mauritshuis, The Hague. He has published and lectured extensively internationally on a multitude of subjects related to technical art history and other issues of importance for the understanding and preservation of our cultural heritage.
Monday, November 19, 2018
Series: Works in Progress
Speaker: Thomas Crow
This event is only open to the Institute's Community
Monday, November 26, 2018
Artists at the Institute: Andra Ursuta
Wednesday, November 28, 2018
Latin American Forum
Pop América: New Figuration in Brazil and Beyond ca. 1960
Dr. Esther Gabara, E. Blake Byrne Associate Professor of Romance Studies and Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University.
Dr. Claudia Calirman, Associate Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, in the Department of Art and Music.
Brian Bentley, PhD Candidate in Art History, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University.
The Latin American Forum is excited to present “Pop América: New Figuration in Brazil and Beyond ca. 1960,” a panel discussion addressing the complexity and diversity of the Pop phenomenon in the Americas. The panel features a conversation between Dr. Esther Gabara (E. Blake Byrne Associate Professor of Romance Studies and Associate Professor at Duke University); Dr. Claudia Calirman (Associate Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice); and Brian Bentley (PhD Candidate at the Institute of Fine Arts).The event takes the exhibition “Pop América,” curated by Dr. Gabara at the McNay Art Museum in San Antonio, TX; the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University; and the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art and opened on October 4, 2018, as a starting point to problematize the label ‘Pop” in the context of Latin America and the Caribbean, focusing especially on the case of Brazilian New Figuration. .
Esther Gabara is the E. Blake Byrne Associate Professor of Romance Studies and Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke University. A specialist in modern and contemporary Latin American literature and visual culture, she teaches a broad range of undergraduate and graduate courses that bring together research, theory, and practice, and introduce students to scholarly and artistic genealogies in the Global South. Gabara was the faculty guest curator of the exhibition, Pop América, 1965-1975, which will travel from the McNay Art Museum (San Antonio, 2018), to the Nasher Museum of Art (Duke, 2019), and the Block Museum of Art (Northwestern, 2019). Pop América was awarded the inaugural Sotheby’s Prize for curatorial innovation. Recent publications include essays for Un arte sin tutela: Salón Independiente en México, 1968-1971 (MUAC/UNAM, Mexico), La Raza (Autry Museum of the American West), and Revolution and Ritual: The Photographs of Sara Castrejón, Graciela Iturbide, and Tatiana Parcero (Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery). She published the monograph, Errant Modernism: The Ethos of Photography in Mexico and Brazil (2008, Duke University Press), and is completing a new manuscript, “Non-Literary Fiction: Invention and Intervention in Contemporary Art of the Americas.”
Claudia Calirman is Associate Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, in the Department of Art and Music. She is the author of Brazilian Art under Dictatorship: Antonio Manuel, Artur Barrio, and Cildo Meireles (Duke University Press, 2012), which received the 2013 Arvey Book Award by the Association for Latin American Art. She is a recipient of the Arts Writers Grant from Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation and has curated several exhibitions, including Basta! Art and Violence in Latin America (Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery at John Jay College, 2016). She is the author of “Pop and Politics in Brazilian Art” for the International Pop exhibition at the Walker Art Center, in Minneapolis.
Brian Bentley is a PhD candidate in modern and contemporary art of the Americas at the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, where he received his MA in 2013. He is currently writing a dissertation on Brazilian New Figuration and New Objectivity, 1963–1970. Bentley holds a BA Honours in Art History from McGill University and held Curatorial Assistant positions at NYU's Grey Art Gallery and the Brooklyn Museum. He served as curatorial researcher at El Museo del Barrio and The Whitney Museum of American Art, and co-curated Intimate Matters, an exhibition of work by NYU Steindhardt BFA students, in 2016. His writing is published in Paulo Bruscky: Artist Books and Films, 1970-2013 (Another Space, 2015). He was research assistant for Carolee Thea's On Curating II: Paradigm Shifts – Interviews with Fourteen International Curators (D.A.P., 2016) and Mário Pedrosa: Primary Documents (MoMA, 2015). He is currently co-organizer, for the fourth time, of the annual IFA-ISLAA Symposium for Latin American Art.
Thursday, November 29, 2018
Time-Based Media Lecture
Speaker: Gabriel Barcia-Colombo
Title: "Reality Augmented: Capturing and Archiving Memories through Digital Art"
Gabriel Barcia-Colombo, mixed media artist and Professor at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.
November 30, 2018
Anne Feng, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, spoke on the topic “Water, Ice, Lapis Lazuli: Metamorphosis of the Pure Land Tableau in the Tang Dynasty”.
The discussion was moderated by Wen-shing Chou, Hunter College
Sunday, December 2, 2018, 4:30pm-7:30pm
Title: *CANCELLED* Sylvie Robert Concert
Due to unforeseen circumstances, the concert has been cancelled. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Monday, December 3, 2018
Title: Archaeological Research at Aphrodisias 2018
Speaker: Presented by Roland R.R. Smith, Lincoln Professor of Classical Archaeology and Art, University of Oxford; Research Professor, The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU
Wednesday, December 5, 2018
Title: Burri, Caravaggio, and Neo Realism between Film and Canvas
Speaker: Emily Braun, Distinguished Professor of 20th Century American and European Art, Hunter College and the Graduate Center, CUNY.
Co-sponsored by NYU’s Institute of Fine Arts and Grey Art Gallery.
Thursday, December 6, 2018
Series: PCSNY
Title: How Do You Make an Iguana Tamale?
Speaker: Jennifer A. Loughmiller–Cardinal, PhD Candidate in Chemistry, University at Albany–SUNY
December 7, 2018
Tina Lu, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Yale University; Siyen Fei, Department of History; University of Pennsylvania; Shang Wei, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University; and Jonathan Hay, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University discussed the Xu Wei Project, a collaborative study of the sixteenth-century polymath, Xu Wei (1521-1593).
The discussion was moderated by Michele Matteini, Department of Art History, New York University
Saturday, December 15, 2018, 4:30pm
Title: Steinhard x Institute Chamber Music Concert
