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Ehrenkranz Public Programs
The Institute: your destination for the past, present, and future of art.
We look forward to welcoming our community to the Institute's robust public programming schedule. This spring we will be offering in-person events as well as continuing our online access to accommodate participants from around the globe. Please note all in-person guests attending events at the James B. Duke House must be in compliance with NYU's COVID-19 vaccination requirements and be prepared to present proof of compliance. Please review the University's COVID guidelines in advance of your visit. We also encourage you to explore our archive of past lectures.
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Thursday, February 2, 2023 at 6:00pm
Series: Silberberg Lecture
Speaker: John Marciari, Charles W. Engelhard Curator, Head of the Department of Drawings and Prints, and Curatorial Chair, Morgan Library & Museum
Title: Drawing Trouble: Fakes, Forgeries, and the Complications of Connoisseurship.
learn more about John Marciari's talkFor as long as there has been an art market, fakes and forgeries have been sold, infecting the minds of consumers and critics with questions and doubts. Inspired by a recent rash of fake old master drawings that have appeared on the market, curator John Marciari looks in this lecture at some of the techniques used by forgers from the Renaissance to the present, and at some of methods (and coincidences) that have been used to uncover those deceptions. While expressing the need for connoisseurial expertise in navigating the field, he also reflects on the ways in which forgeries disrupt not only the market but also the scholarship on master drawings.
John Marciari is the Charles W. Engelhard Curator, Head of the Department of Drawings and Prints, and Curatorial Chair at the Morgan Library & Museum. His recent publications include the exhibition catalogues Guercino: Virtuoso Draftsman and Drawing in Tintoretto’s Venice as well as essays, entries, and reviews in a range of exhibition catalogues and scholarly journals. His monograph, Sublime Ideas: Drawings by Giovanni Battista Piranesi, will be published in March 2023 to accompany an exhibition of Piranesi’s drawings at the Morgan.
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Friday, February 3, 2023, at 6:00pm
Series: China Project Workshop
Description: Jonathan Hay, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU and Michele Matteini, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU will present on The Place of Chinese Painting Studies Today: A Conversation across Generations.
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Saturday, February 4, 2023 at 2:00pm
Series: NYU String Studies Chamber Music Concert Series
learn more about the String Studies ChamberTwo masterpieces of chamber music literature will be performed on February 4 at the James B. Duke House. The Debussy Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp will be followed by a performance of the Schubert Quartet No,. 14 in D minor “Death and the Maiden." The program will be played without intermission and will last approximately one hour. Both works will be performed by students from NYU Steinhardt’s Instrumental Performance program.
Program
The Debussy Trio students:
Olivia Putenney, viola
Tiffany Wu, harp
Annie Jung, fluteThe Violin Sonata students:
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Monday, February 6, 2023, at 6:00pm
Series: Duke House Exhibition Opening
Title: Feliciano Centurión: Telas y Textos
learn more about the Duke House ExhibitionThe Institute of Fine Arts, New York University is pleased to present Paraguayan artist Feliciano Centurión’s third solo exhibition in the United States. Curated by Diana Cao, Tatiana Marcel, and Nicasia Solano, Feliciano Centurión: Telas y Textos provides an opportunity to examine the aesthetic and material interplay of text, fabric, and found objects in his oeuvre. We hope you will join the curators at 6:30 PM for a tour and discussion of the Spring 2023 Duke House Exhibition.
Feliciano Centurión: Telas y Textos showcases the artist’s embroideries on various readymade textiles executed between 1990 and 1994, highlighting the latter years of Centurión’s short, but prolific career. The four major works in the exhibition feature embroidered texts, juxtaposing floral images with both political and personal phrases. The accompanying archival display presents smaller textile works including the artist’s signature whimsical animal motifs and two sculptures from his Familia series.
The Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) provided funding and extensive archival and research support. The works on view are on generous loan from the ISLAA collection.
ISLAA
The Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) advances scholarship and public engagement with art from Latin America through its program of exhibitions, publications, lectures, and partnerships with universities and art institutions. Ariel Aisiks founded ISLAA in 2011 to raise the international visibility of art from Latin America. The pursuit of this goal has led to ISLAA’s involvement in more than 400 lectures and conferences, 30 books, and 20 large-scale exhibitions.
The Institute of Fine Arts at NYU
Since 1932 the Institute of Fine Arts has been dedicated to graduate teaching and advanced research in the history of art, archaeology, and conservation. The Duke House Exhibition Series brings contemporary art to the walls of the Institute’s landmarked James B. Duke House. The work is displayed in the beaux-arts interior of the former residence of the Duke family, juxtaposing the historic with the contemporary and inviting viewers to engage with both the past and the future of the Institute. Since 2019, the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) is proud to support the Duke House Exhibition Series to showcase the work of Latin American artists.
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Tuesday, February 7, 2023, at 6:00pm
Series: Pre-Columbian Society of New York
Speaker: Orlando Hernández Ying, Associate Curator, Hispanic Society Museum & Library, New York, NY
Title: “Castilla del Oro” and the Regional Evolution and Dissemination of Ancient Indigenous Metallurgic Iconography
learn more about Orlando Hernández Ying's talk Watch Ying's talk online [opens in new window]Description: “Castilla del Oro” was the name that Spanish settlers gave to the Central American territories from the gulf of Urabá in Colombia to the Belén River, in present-day Panamá. Stylistic similarities in the gold-copper casting along the Caribbean coasts of Colombia, Panamá, and Costa Rica, as well as in the West Indies, shed light on the seafaring vocation of Amerindian societies. This re-contextualization of the subject matter allows us to infer that the dissemination of the technical aspects of metallurgy traveled intimately intertwined with iconographic traditions that evidence traces of a pan-regional cultural exchange of cosmological ideas. This research aims at recreating the visual language and symbolism of these gold ornaments as they evolve and disseminate throughout the Isthmo-Colombian Area. Examples from the collection in the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art provide a unique opportunity to compare firsthand these enigmatic ornaments from the various cultures that inhabited the region.
Dr. Orlando Hernández Ying has dedicated over 20 years to museums and higher education. In his native Panama, Dr. Hernández was the head curator of the Anthropology Museum (MARTA) and held the position of National Coordinator of Museums where he oversaw 18 museums across the country. His trajectory in the U.S. includes collaborations with MoMA, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Dallas Art Museum, the Walters Museum, and the Historic New Orleans Collection.
Hernández Ying has taught at NYU, CUNY, Tulane University, and the National University of Panama. His academic training includes an MA in Museum Studies from NYU and a doctoral degree in Art History & Criticism from the Graduate Center City University of New York.
Dr. Hernández Ying is currently a Curatorial Associate at the Hispanic Society Museum & Library and simultaneously, has been conducting stylistic research on the metallurgy of the Ancient Americas. His essay “In the Absence of the Written Word:” Ancient Gold in the Isthmo-Colombian Area, is included in Michelle Rich. Ed. The Arts of the Ancient Americas at the Dallas Museum of Art, hot off the press and available now.
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Monday, February 13, 2023, at 6:00pm
Series: Craig Hugh Smyth Lecture
Speaker: Cammy Brothers, Associate Professor, Northeastern University
Title: Michelangelo, Giuliano da Sangallo, and the Anti-Canon
learn more about Cammy Brothers's talk Join us in-personfor Cammy Brothers's talk [opens in new window] Join us virtuallyforCammy Brothers's talk [opens in new window]Description: Much of the history of fifteenth and sixteenth century Italian architecture has been narrated in relation to the idea of canon formation. The protagonists of this narrative, Brunelleschi, Bramante, Antonio da Sangallo, Serlio and Palladio, are all seen as having made advances in the direction of establishing the true and correct formation of the classical orders. Later developments in classical architecture only further cemented this tradition. Despite the dominance of this interpretation, it omits the contribution of a number of prominent and important Renaissance and later architects, including but not limited to Giuliano da Sangallo, Baldassare Peruzzi, Raphael, Michelangelo, Giulio Romano, and later Borromini. Professor Brothers' talk will define this alternative tradition, particularly through the figures of Michelangelo and Giuliano, and argue that it constitutes an anti-canonical canon.
Cammy Brothers is an Associate Professor at Northeastern University, where she holds a joint appointment in Architecture and in Art & Design. She joined Northeastern in 2016 from the University of Virginia, where she held the Valmarana Chair and was Director of the Venice Program. She is the author of two monographs, Michelangelo, Drawing and the Invention of Architecture (2008) and Giuliano da Sangallo and the Ruins of Rome (2022). She has a third book project under way, “The Architectural Legacy of Islamic Spain,” which focuses on the cities of Granada and Seville in the aftermath of the reconquest.
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Wednesday, February 15, 2023, at 6:30pm
Series: The Roberta and Richard Huber Colloquium
Speakers: Dr. Irene Cioffi Whitfield
Title: Jean-Michel Basquiat: Wild Intuition
This program has reached capacity and registration has been closed. We are delighted by this positive response and hope you will join us for the next program in this series on Wednesday, February 22, 2023.
learn more about Irene Cioffi Whitfield's talkDescription: Today, Jean-Michel Basquiat’s position as one of the most innovative artists of the 20th century art is assured. In his wildly intuitive way, and while still a teenager, he knew exactly what was in store: “I’m going to be famous and I’m going to die young,” Basquiat was an explosive genius that worked at breakneck speed, as if gripped in a hurricane of creation. During his short life, which was extinguished by a heroin overdose at the age of 27, he produced nearly 2,000 paintings, drawings and sculptures, many of them on a gigantic scale. His themes were suitably grand: royalty, heroism and the streets. His artistic enterprise took in high and low and everything in between, and his ambition for personal legacy knew no bounds – he wanted to be king of the contemporary art world and he achieved this in his lifetime.
In terms of academic art history, he ascended to the highest echelons of painting practiced by Goya, Picasso, and Anselm Kiefer. The Undiscovered Genius of the Mississippi Delta of 1983 is one such work. Multi-layered in context and content, its complex meaning speaks across generations. All of Basquiat’s subjects are expressed in his singular and electrifying style – a brilliantly coloured mix of punk, cartoon, classical, linear, linguistic, and symbolic notation. Like the jazz musician Charlie Parker, who was one of Basquiat’s cultural heroes and features in his paintings, the artist’s extraordinary access to the ecstatic and destructive powers of creation extracted a terrible price on his perishable human life, but his body of work is everlasting.
Dr. Irene Cioffi Whitfield is a Jungian Analyst who is a member of The Independent Group of Analytical Psychologists in London, UK and the Jungian Psychoanalytic Association in New York City. Currently living and working in Italy, Irene received her Ph.D from the Institute of Fine Arts specialising in 18th Century Italian painting. Her work focuses on the intersection of art and psychology, especially the dangerous dynamics of the creative process. She has lectured internationally on the life and work of Jean-Michel Basquiat.
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Wednesday, February 22, 2023, at 6:30pm
Series: The Roberta and Richard Huber Colloquium
Speakers: Xavier F. Salomon
Title: Luigi Valadier in Nicaragua
learn more about Xavier F. Salomon's talk Join us in-personfor Xavier F. Salomon's talk [opens in new window] Join us virtuallyfor Xavier F. Salomon's talk [opens in new window]Description: In January 1767, the silversmith Luigi Valadier (1726–1785) exhibited—in his workshop on Via del Babuino near the Spanish Steps in Rome—a monumental monstrance “destined for a principal church of Mexico, that is in the Indies of Spain”. The following year, on 17 September 1768, Valadier exhibited in his workshop more objects destined for that same “principal church” in Mexico: candlesticks, chalices and three altar lecterns. These works of art have been considered lost and have remained untraced for more than two hundred and fifty years. This lecture presents, for the first time, the unexpected finding of thirty objects by Valadier in the Cathedral of León in Nicaragua, where they have remained—unrecognized—since the eighteenth century, and will present new information as to how the objects travelled from Europe to Central America.
Xavier F. Salomon is the Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator at the Frick Collection, since 2014. He was born in Rome and grew up between Italy and the United Kingdom. He was educated at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, where he received his BA in art history, his MA and PhD, with a thesis on ‘The Religious Artistic and Architectural Patronage of Cardinal Pietro Aldobrandini (1571-1621)’. He has worked in a number of museums in the United Kingdom and in the United States, most notably at Dulwich Picture Gallery in London (where he was the Arturo and Holly Melosi Chief Curator) and at The Metropolitan Museum of Art (where he was Curator of Southern Baroque in the Department of European Paintings). He has curated a number of exhibitions, on artists such as Guido Reni, Salvator Rosa, Van Dyck, Goya, Murillo, Canova, and Tiepolo. In 2014 he curated the monographic exhibition on Paolo Veronese at the National Gallery in London. He is currently working on a catalogue raisonné of the drawings of Paolo Veronese, on the catalogue of Spanish paintings at the Frick Collection, and on a monograph on the Venetian painter Rosalba Carriera.
- Thursday, February 23, 2023, 6:30pm
Title: Selinunte Lecture: New Discoveries
learn more about Selinunte Join us in-personfor the Selinunte lecture [opens in new window] Join us virtuallyfor the Selinunte lecture [opens in new window]Clemente Marconi is the James R. McCredie Professor in the History of Greek Art and Archaeology and University Professor at the Institute of Fine Arts–NYU; he is also Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Milan. A corresponding member of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei he is the director of the Institute of Fine Arts–NYU and University of Milan archaeological mission at Selinunte.
Andrew Farinholt Ward is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History at Emory University, specializing in the art, architecture, and archaeology of ancient Greece. He is also the Field Director for the Institute of Fine Arts–NYU and University of Milan archaeological mission at Selinunte, and the Supervisor of Excavations for the American Excavations Samothrace.
This past summer our mission was able to resume work at the Sicilian archaeological site of Selinunte, with an international team of nearly 60 collaborators. Major discoveries were made in the lab and in the field concerning the history of the Greek settlement and ritual activity in its main urban sanctuary, particularly during the crucial first generations following its foundation. The mission has also embarked on a new collaborative project with the German Archaeological Institute to study Selinunte's Temples A and O, the results of which are already changing the way we understand these temples and the role of the acropolis before their construction.
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Thursday, February 2, 2023 at 6:00pm
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- Wednesday, March 1, 2023, 6:00pm
Title: Celebrating the publication of The Story of NFTs: Artists, Technology, and Democracy by Amy Whitaker and Nora Burnett Abrams
Moderated by Matthew Israel
learn more about The Story of NFTsPlease join the IFA in conversation with alumna Nora Burnett Abrams(’15), Mark G. Falcone Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver and NYU Steinhardt faculty Amy Whitaker to celebrate their new book The Story of NFTs: Artists, Technology, and Democracy, co-published by Rizzoli and MCA Denver in March 2023. Alumnus Matthew Israel, author of A Year in the Art World and formerly Commissions Lead Open Arts at Meta, will introduce the speakers and serve as moderator for a discussion of the potential impact of NFTs in the arts.
The Story of NFTs: Artists, Technology, and Democracy explores the history and future possibilities of blockchain and NFTs in the arts, and serves as a foundational text spanning the roots of NFTs in art history, specifically conceptual art practice, and the many intersecting stories of NFTs—knowledge stories, artist stories, democracy stories. The authors take the reader through the key concepts of NFTs and the underlying technology of blockchain, including their origins, their surprising connections to the history of artmaking and art collecting, and their potential to radically reshape the art world. The book invites the reader to engage with this new technology, to understand its connections to the longer arc of art history, and to help shape its future.
Amy Whitaker holds a PhD in political economy as well as an MBA from Yale, an MFA in painting from the Slade School of Fine Art, and a BA in art and political science from Williams College. A longtime blockchain researcher in the arts, she wrote the NFT primer for the 2022 Art Basel Market Report and is the author of numerous academic and general articles on blockchain. She is the author of four books, including Museum Legs, Art Thinking, and Economics of Visual Art, in addition to The Story of NFTs with Abrams. Whitaker is an associate professor in visual arts administration at NYU Steinhardt. She lectured previously at the Institute as part of the Conservation Center’s Topics in Time-based Media Art Conservation series, supported by the Mellon Foundation.
Nora Burnett Abrams is the Mark G. Falcone Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. Among the youngest museum directors in the country, Abrams moved into the director role after nearly a decade as the organization’s lead curator. Her curatorial approach has been instrumental in bringing MCA Denver to where it stands today as a thought-leader in the field and incubator of ambitious and fresh ideas and projects. Her career began as an Exhibitions Assistant at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and was soon followed by the Graduate Curatorial Assistant role at the Grey Art Gallery at NYU. Since arriving in Denver in 2010, Abrams has organized over 40 exhibitions and authored or contributed to over a dozen accompanying publications. She has taught art history at New York University and lectured throughout the country on modern and contemporary art. She holds art history degrees from Stanford University (BA), Columbia University (MA), and the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University (PhD 2015).
Matthew Israel is a curator, writer, and PhD (IFA, ‘11) art historian. Matthew was most recently Commissions Lead of Open Arts at Meta, where he helped lead Meta’s global art commissioning program and guided how contemporary artists engaged with Meta’s products. From 2019 through 2021, Matthew was Co-Founder and Chief Curator of Artful and from 2011 to 2019, Matthew was the founding Director of The Art Genome Project at Artsy and later was Artsy’s Head Curator. Matthew is the author of three critically-acclaimed books on contemporary art: Kill for Peace: American Artists Against the Vietnam War (2013); The Big Picture: Contemporary Art in 10 Works by 10 Artists (2017); and A Year in the Art World: An Insider’s View (2020), which will be released in paperback this June.
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Thursday, March 2, 2023, 6:00pm
Series: IFA Contemporary Asia
IFA Contemporary Asia is pleased to present A Conversation with Oscar yi Hou and Eugenie Tsai, moderated by Catherine Quan Damman.
learn more about The Story of NFTsPresented on the occasion of the Brooklyn Museum’s current exhibition Oscar yi Hou: East of sun, west of moon, yi Hou will discuss his work’s engagement with histories both personal and cultural, and the representation of queer, diasporic kinship and identity.
Oscar yi Hou: East of sun, west of moon is the artist’s first solo museum exhibition, and is presented as part of the Brooklyn Museum’s annual UOVO Prize. yi Hou highlights the depth and multiplicity of queer Asian American subjects by recasting himself and close friends as popular characters and historical figures from both Western and East Asian cultures. Drawing from layered references that range from Hollywood film stills, East Asian art objects, to the media franchise Dragon Ball, yi Hou develops his own iconography of the “Chinese cowboy” that subverts the stereotyped, racializing signifiers of Asian American representation in Western visual history.
This discussion seeks to situate yi Hou’s practice in relation to broader questions about the limits and complexities of identity, as well as the political stakes of representation in a time of heightened racial antagonism and visibility. The artist will be joined in conversation by Eugenie Tsai, John and Barbara Vogelstein Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum, and Catherine Quan Damman, Linda Nochlin Visiting Assistant Professor at the Institute of Fine Arts.
Oscar yi Hou is an artist and writer based in Brooklyn, NY. He was born and raised in Liverpool, England. Alongside his solo exhibition East of sun, west of moon at the Brooklyn Museum, yi Hou is recipient of the third annual UOVO Prize in 2022. In 2021 he presented A sky-licker relation and A dozen poem-pictures at James Fuentes, New York and JamesFuentes.Online, respectively. His work has also been included in exhibitions at the Royal Academy, UK; Asia Society, New York; T293 Gallery, Rome, Italy; Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles; and Sprüth Magers Online.
Eugenie Tsai is the John and Barbara Vogelstein Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum. Prior to joining the Brooklyn Museum, she was the Director of Curatorial Affairs at MoMA P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center and held several positions at the Whitney Museum of American Art. As an independent curator, Tsai worked on projects for the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Berkeley Museum; and the Princeton University Art Museum.
Catherine Quan Damman is the Linda Nochlin Visiting Assistant Professor of Art History at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, where she teaches and advises graduate work on feminist and queer approaches to global modern and contemporary art. She is completing her first monograph, Performance: A Deceptive History, with the support of a 2022–2023 ACLS Fellowship, and is a frequent contributor to Artforum and other publications.
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Friday, March 3, 2023, 6:00 – 8:30pm
Night of Ideas 2023 at the Institute of Fine Arts
Co-presented by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Ukrainian Institute of America, the Institute of Fine Arts, and Villa Albertine
Title: Environmental Challenges and Land Rights
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Tuesday, March 7, 2023, at 6:00pm
Series: Pre-Columbian Society of New York
Speaker: Severin Fowles, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Barnard College, Columbia University
Title: Capturing Images in Eighteenth-Century New Mexico: Comanche Rock Art as a Theater of War
learn more about Severin FowlesDescription: During the eighteenth century, an extraordinary artistic tradition arose among the Indigenous equestrian societies of the Great Plains. Characterized by iconographic celebrations of the exploits of warriors, the “Plains Biographic Tradition” included elaborately painted tipis and bison hide robes, and it eventually culminated in the famous ledger art of the nineteenth century. The largest and most diverse corpus of imagery, however, was created as petroglyphs on rock faces across the American West. In this presentation, I share the results of a decade-long effort to document a sprawling landscape of Plains Biographic Tradition rock art created by the Ancestral Comanche during their early eighteenth-century forays into the Taos region of New Mexico. Hundreds of incised panels depicting battle scenes, bison hunts, and horse raids have been recorded, revealing evidence of repeated Comanche efforts not just to archive their military prowess but also to artistically appropriate the rock art of their opponents. Collectively, the images invite us to ask: can images, no less than their human makers, be taken captive?
Severin Fowles is an anthropologist whose scholarship combines archaeological methods with perspectives drawn from Critical Indigenous Studies, Art History, Religious Studies, and Material Culture Studies to reimagine the history of the American West. He has directed excavations at archaeological sites spanning ten thousand years—from the camps of early foragers, to Ancestral Pueblo villages, to a Spanish colonial plaza community, to a 1960s hippie commune—and he has directed major surveys, including a decade-long rock art survey of the Rio Grande del Norte National Monument and an ongoing survey of late pre-colonial and early colonial agricultural landscapes, the latter conducted on behalf of Picuris Pueblo in support of their struggle to reclaim land and water. He is the author of An Archaeology of Doings: Secularism and the Study of Pueblo Religion (School for Advanced Research, 2013), which critically examined how secular understandings of “religion” have structured archaeological accounts of non-modern Indigenous communities, and he is the co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of Southwest Archaeology (Oxford, 2017), the widest-ranging consideration of the intellectual history and theoretical commitments of archaeology in the American Southwest.
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Wednesday, March 8, 2023, at 6:00pm
Title: Celebrating the new publications of Thomas Crow and Robert Slifkin
California Countercultural Lives--and How They Mattered for Art
learn more about Thomas Crow and Robert SlifkinOur most recent books have converged on exemplary figures based in the San Francisco Bay area, where the international counterculture achieved its most concentrated and resonant expressions. The careers of these artists extend from the earliest origins of that great social experiment into its less conspicuous but powerful persistence into the decades that followed the 1960s. For all the attention that the art of this period has received, neither the region nor the rebellious individuals it fostered have been given their due, with art history the poorer for that oversight.
Thomas Crow is the Rosalie Solow Professor of Modern Art at the Institute of Fine Arts.
Robert Slifkin is a Professor of Fine Arts at the Institute of Fine Arts.
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Tuesday, March 21, 2023, at 6:00pm
Series: Artists at the Institute
Speaker: Jordan Casteel
Title: Jordan Casteel Painting the Landscape
learn more about Jordan Casteel Join us in personfor Jordan Casteel's talk [opens in new window] Join us Virtuallyfor Jordan Casteel's talk [opens in new window]The sensory influence of a landscape has the capacity to connect or divide us, to inform our movements through space and the manners in which we relate to our surroundings, and to one another. Jordan Casteel sources her subject matter from her own photographs of the people of color who share and shape an environment, directly informing her own accessibility to the collective experience. This lecture will explore the ways in which her various landscapes–from Harlem to the Catskills–have informed her practice.
Jordan Casteel (b. 1989, Denver, CO) received her BA from Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA for Studio Art (2011) and her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT (2014). In 2020, Casteel presented a solo exhibition titled Within Reach at the New Museum, New York, in conjunction with a fully illustrated catalog published by the institution. Other recent museum solo exhibitions include Jordan Casteel: Returning the Gaze, presented at the Denver Art Museum, CO (2019), and the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University, CA (2019–20). In recent years, Casteel has participated in group and permanent collection exhibitions at institutional venues such as The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (2021 and 2022); Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (2022); The Modern, Fort Worth, TX (2022); Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (2022); Pérez Art Museum Miami, FL (2022); Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA (2021); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA (2021); Art Institute of Chicago, IL (2021); Crystal Bridges, Bentonville, AR (2021); Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (2020); Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort, Netherlands (2020); Baltimore Museum of Art, MD (2019); MoCA Los Angeles, CA (2018); Studio Museum in Harlem, NY (2017 and 2016); and MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (2017). Casteel is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (2021).
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Wednesday, March 22 2023, at 6:00pm
Series: Silberberg Lecture
Speaker: Jennifer Stager, Assistant Professor of Art History at Johns Hopkins
Title: Accounting for Colors
learn more about Jennifer Stager Join us in personfor Jennifer Stager's talk [opens in new window] Join us Virtuallyfor Jennifer Stager's talk [opens in new window]Description: Ancient Greek philosophers sought to understand the phenomenon of color as an index of the visible world, explorations shaped by the ubiquity of material colors used by ancient artists to craft art and architecture in many different materials and media. Such colors demanded regular maintenance and care, acts of engagement far beyond the initial moment of artistic production. Making with material colors also required a complex supply chain involving the labor of many different people, often including enslaved people working in mines and artists’ workshops. Focus on materials and color rather than primarily shape and form in the study of the art of Mediterranean antiquity brings these expanded temporalities of making to the fore, both the labor that precedes making and that which persists after an object’s initial production. In turn, this shifts our attention from the named individual artist who has been at the methodological center for much of art history to the distributed and collective work of making and maintaining art. Reproductive technologies are a component of this collective work in their capacity to expand access to, circulate, and forge memories of images. Reproductions have also often selected for shape and form rather than the material particularity of colors. At other times, however, reproductions have been critical spaces for adding back colors to offer new forms of materialization and to craft new sensorial experiences. Accounting for colors, thus, opens up a series of connected theoretical questions about labor, time, collectivity, and care that inflect how we make sense of the world.
Jennifer Stager is a writer and art historian in the Department of History of Art at Johns Hopkins University. She is the author of Seeing Color in Classical Art: Theory, Practice, and Reception from Antiquity to the Present (2022) and, with Leila Easa, Public Feminism in Times of Crisis: From Sappho’s Fragments to Viral Hashtags (2022).
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Saturday, March 25, 2023 at 2:00pm
Series: NYU String Studies Chamber Music Concert Series
learn more about the NYU String Studies Chamber Music Concert Series RSVP requiredfor the NYU String Studies Chamber Music Concert Series [opens in new window]Two masterpieces of chamber music literature will be performed on March 25th, Bacewicz's Fourth String Quartet will be followed by a performance of Schubert's Trout Quintet. The program will be played without intermission and will last approximately one hour. Both works will be performed by students from NYU Steinhardt’s Instrumental Performance program.
Program
Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)
String Quartet No. 4 (1951)
Jessica Gehring and Jade Schoolcraft, violins Matthew Ryan, viola
Victoria Lin, celloFranz Schubert (1797-1828)
Piano Quintet in A Major, D. 667 “Trout” (1819)
Logan Chiang, violin
Isadora Banyai, viola
Zoe Hale, cello
Lindsey Joslin, bass
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Wednesday, March 28, 2022, 6:00pm
Series: Samuel H. Kress Lecture
Speaker: Barbara H. Berrie, Head of the Scientific Research Department and Senior Conservation Scientist at the National Gallery of Art
Title: Shimmery and Shiny: pigments used to depict light
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Description: Early modern artists desired mimetic effects, striving to depict glossy silk, reflective armor, or translucent flesh. The artist and author Leon Battista Alberti (1402-1472) said depicting gold using other materials was a sign of artistic skill. Using analysis of pigments, this presentation seeks to question whether painters tried to exploit the inherent optical qualities of pigments, such as lustre or transparency, to imitate the visible world.Barbara H. Berrie is head of the scientific research department and senior conservation scientist at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. She provides scientific and technical support to all aspects of conservation and preservation of the National Gallery’s collections. She also studies history of use of artists’ pigments.
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Thursday, March 30, and Friday, March 31, 2023
The Seventh Annual Symposium of Latin American Art
Making Space, Making Place: Marking the Americas
learn more about The Seventh Annual Symposium of Latin American Art RSVP requiredfor The Seventh Annual Symposium of Latin American Art [opens in new window]The Seventh Annual Symposium is presented by the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA), the Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, the Institute for Latin American Studies, and the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University.
This event was advised by Dr. Edward J. Sullivan, Helen Gould Sheppard Professor in the History of Art at the Institute of Fine Arts; Dr. Lisa Trever, Lisa and Bernard Selz Associate Professor in Pre-Columbian Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University; Dr. Jerónimo Duarte-Riascos, Assistant Professor of Latin American and Iberian Cultures; and Dr. Alexander Alberro, Virginia Bloedel Wright Professor of Art History at Barnard College and Columbia University.
Keynote lectures by Dr. Adriana Zavala, Andrew W. Mellon Professor, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery, and Associate Professor, History of Art, Studies in Race, Colonialism and Diaspora, Tufts University and Dr. Delia Cosentino, Associate Professor, History of Art & Architecture, DePaul University. Dr. Adriana Zavala and Dr. Delia Cosentino are the co-authors of the forthcoming publication, Resurrecting Tenochtitlan: Imagining the Aztec Capital in Modern Mexico City (University of Texas Press).
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Friday, April 14, 2023 at 9:30am
Series: The IFA / Frick Collection Symposium on the History of Art
The Symposium will be held via Zoom. Live captioning will be provided. Registration for this free program is required.
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Tuesday, April 18, 2023 at 6:00pm
Series: NY Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium
Speaker: Jeffrey S. Soles, Department of Classical Studies, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Title: The Rise and Fall of a Rich Minoan Town in Crete: 50 Years of Greek-American Collaboration Excavating at Mochlos
learn more about The Seventh Annual Symposium of Latin American Art RSVP requiredfor the Aegean Colloquium [opens in new window]Description: Settled as early as 3100 BCE, the small village of Mochlos grew into an important town in the Middle and Late Bronze Age partly because of its location on an important trade route that connected the Aegean to the Near East and allowed its inhabitants to prosper, and partly because of its function as a center of production that met the needs of the surrounding population and travelers passing through on ships. It also came to play an important role in the religious activities of the region and was a sacred place to those who lived there and to many visitors who came as pilgrims to its shrines.
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Friday, April 14, 2023 at 9:30am
2023 Calendar
Connect to the latest thinking about the arts from ancient times to tomorrow’s prospects. Become part of the conversation, choose from our extensive range of lecture series, special lectures, panel discussions, workshops, and conferences.
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