Public Programs @ The Institute
Series: Conversations in Modern European Art
Workshop on Sculpture and Becoming
Speakers: Juliet Bellow, Program Director and Associate Professor of Art History, American University, Joanna Fiduccia, Assistant Professor of the History of Art, Yale University, Meredith Gamer, Associate Professor of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University, Carolina Mangone, Associate Professor of Art and Archaeology; Director, Program in Italian Studies, Princeton University, Elyse Nelson, Associate Curator of European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Friday, October 9, 2026, 10am-4pm
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Schedule
10:00 – 10:15 AM Welcome and Introductory Remarks
Emmelyn Butterfield-Rosen, Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Ara H. Merjian, Professor of Italian Studies, New York University
10:15 – 11:15 AM
Carolina Mangone, “Non-finito and Formlessness in Early Modern Stone Sculpture”
11:15 – 11:30 AM
Coffee
11:30 AM – 12:30 PM
Joanna Fiduccia, “Matter Without a Master”
12:30 – 1:30 PM
Lunch
1:30 – 2:30 PM
Meredith Gamer, “Cut, Carve, Fold, Fill: William Hunter’s Sculptural Dissections”
2:30 – 3:30 PM
Elyse Nelson, “‘Little Floral Souls’: Sculptural Propagation in Rodin’s Studio”
3:30 – 3:45 PM
Coffee
3:45 – 4:45 PM
Juliet Bellow, Title to be announced
4:45 – 5:00 PM
Closing conversation
5:00 – 6:00 PM
Break
6:00 PM
Keynote —Mark Antliff, “Sculpting Prefiguration: Henri Bergson, Affinity, and the Insurrectionary Avant-Garde.”
Read more about the Keynote lecture, which is open to the public.
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