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2022 Calendar
- September
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Thursday, September 15, 2022, at 6:30pm
Series: Ancient Art and Archaeology
Title: The emergence of Roman monumental piazzas in the light of recent discoveries from Gabii and Rome
Speaker: Nicola Terrenato, Esther B. Van Deman Collegiate Professor of Roman Studies, University of Michigan
learn more about Nicola Terrenato's talk rsvp required for Nicola Terrenato's talk[opens in new window]Description: How did the Fora—the great piazzas of the Roman world—come into existence? We still know relatively little about this central element of Italian urbanism, which slowly developed over the course of the entire first millennium BCE. Greek colonial agorai, by comparison, evolved much faster and became monumentalized much sooner than their central Italian counterparts. New discoveries at various urban centers in Latium and Etruria are casting a new light on this complex issue. The lecture reports on recent work at Gabii and in Rome, to retrace the siting of these piazzas, as well as the emergence of distinctive elements of later fora. Pavements, colonnades, basilicas and shops all appeared slowly and tentatively, often much later than generally assumed. These new developments have broader implications for the history of Roman architecture.
Nicola Terrenato is the Esther B. Van Deman Collegiate Professor of Roman Studies at the University of Michigan. Since 2020, he also directs the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology. He studied at Rome and Pisa. He specializes in first millennium BCE Italy, in particular early Rome, northern Etruria and the Roman conquest. He directs the Gabii Project and the Sant’Omobono Project. Other interests include theories of state and empire formation, field survey and history of archaeology. He recently published The Early Roman Expansion into Italy, Cambridge 2019, which was awarded the 2021 Wiseman Book Award by the Archaeological Institute of America.
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Friday, September 16, 2022, at 6:00pm
Series: Pre-Columbian Society of New York
Speaker: David Tavárez, Professor of Anthropology, Vassar College Title: Rethinking Time and Cosmos in Central Mexico: New Insights from a Colonial Zapotec Corpus
learn more about David Tavárez's talk rsvp required for David Tavárez's talk[opens in new window]Description: In 1704-05, after one of the most ambitious campaigns against “idolatry” in the colonial Americas, Northern Zapotec communities in Villa Alta (Oaxaca) surrendered 102 calendrical manuals and four ritual song compilations. This presentation, based on the first comprehensive survey of these songs and manuals, presents new insights regarding Mesoamerican cosmology and the 260-day divinatory count. It also examines multiple connections between cosmological beliefs and ritual protocols in this corpus, and sections from two pre-Columbian codices in the Borgia group: Fejérváry-Mayer 1, and Borgia 29-32. This talk surveys a Zapotec cosmological theory that linked the 260-day count with a three-tiered cosmos, analyzes parallels between Borgia images and Zapotec cosmogonic events, notes similarly structured ritual protocols in the Zapotec corpus and the Borgia, and concludes with a colonial ancestor summoning protocol that references imagery found in Classic-Period Zapotec monuments.
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Tuesday, September 27, 2022, at 6:00pm
Title: Summer Projects Day I: Paintings and Objects Conservation
The Institute of Fine Arts invites you to an evening of presentations from current conservation students on their summer 2022 work projects.
learn more about Summer Projects Day 1 rsvp required for Summer Projects Day 1[opens in new window]Presentations will include:
Kayla Metelenis
Acton Collection Research Project: Examination of a trecento panel painting of Saint MichaelLaura Richter
Innate Degradation or Direct Intervention? Uncovering Changes to both a Lippo di Benivieni and Lee Krasner PaintingRuth Waddington
Repairing Canvas Tears and Tracing a Florentine Panel’s LifeLaura Bergemann
Conservation of a miniature gilded gondola at Villa la PietraMaria Olivia Davalos Stanton
From historic house to memorial museum: evaluating how we engage with objectsClare Misko
Ethical Considerations for Objects left in Memorial at the National September 11 Memorial & MuseumThere will be a brief question and answer session following the final presentation.
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Thursday, September 29, 2022 at 6:00pm
Series: Latin American Forum
Title: Eroticisms and Subversion in Latin America
A Panel with Cecilia Palmeiro, Duen Sacchi, and Jorge Sánchez Moderated by Mariano López Seoane and Bernardo Mosqueira
Introduction by Edward J. Sullivan, the Helen Gould Shepard Professor in the History of Art, the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
learn more about Eroticisms and Subversion in Latin America rsvp required for Eroticisms and Subversion in Latin America[opens in new window]Description: Feminist and queer activists, artists, and writers have long harnessed the forces of the erotic to energize and power their interventions. Presented by the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, and organized in conjunction with the exhibition Eros Rising: Visions of the Erotic in Latin American Art at the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA), this panel will examine the political applications and subversive potential of eroticism in contemporary Latin America through three case studies.
Reflecting on recent feminist activism in Latin America, the scholar, writer, and activist Cecilia Palmeiro will discuss the prospect of politicizing pleasure and eroticizing politics. In his presentation, the artist and writer Duen Sacchi will interrogate our erotic connections to the past, insinuating the possibility of an “ero-historiography” vis-a-vis colonial trauma and the pleasure of resistance. For his talk, the artist, writer, and lawyer Jorge Sánchez will address the intersection between Latinx and queer/cuir perspectives in the Americas. The panelists’ presentations will be followed by a discussion moderated by Mariano López Seoane and Bernardo Mosqueira, the curators of Eros Rising.
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Mariano López Seoane is a writer, researcher, and curator based in Buenos Aires and New York. He is currently the director of the Graduate Program on Gender and Sexuality at Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero in Argentina. He also teaches Latin American literature, cultural studies, and queer studies in the Department of Comparative Literature at New York University. López Seoane has curated and coordinated public programs for the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, the Buenos Aires International Book Fair, and Art Basel Cities. He has written extensively on contemporary Latin American literature and arts, focusing on the cultures of sexual and gender dissidents in the Americas, Latin American instances of queer studies and queer activism, and figurations of drug culture and drug-related violence in Latin American narrative, film, and visual arts. His publications include the volume of essays Donde está el peligro. Estéticas de la disidencia sexual (2022) and the novel El regalo de Virgo (2017).
Bernardo Mosqueira is a curator and writer based in New York and Rio de Janeiro. He is the ISLAA Curatorial Fellow at the New Museum. He is also the founder and artistic director of Solar dos Abacaxis, an institution for experimentation in art, education, and social transformation in Rio de Janeiro, and since 2011 he has directed Premio FOCO ArtRio, a national award for emerging artists. Mosqueira previously organized the performance festival Venus Terra and worked as a curator at Galeria de Arte Ibeu. Mosqueira has been curating exhibitions, editing books, teaching, and contributing texts to art publications since 2010; was awarded the Premio Lorenzo Bonaldi in 2017; and cofounded Fundo Colaborativo, the first emergency fund for artists in Brazil, in 2020. His recent exhibitions include Miriam Inez da Silva at the Museu da República, Brasília (2021); Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro: Eclipse at the Hessel Museum of Art in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (2021); and Daniel Lie: Unnamed Entities at the New Museum, New York (2022).
Cecilia Palmeiro is a scholar, writer, and activist. She holds a doctoral degree in Latin American literature and teaches at New York University in Buenos Aires and at Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (UNTREF) in Argentina. She holds a PhD in Spanish and Portuguese languages and cultures from Princeton University and specializes in contemporary Latin American cultural studies, with special attention to Argentine and Brazilian literature and gender studies. Palmeiro’s main interests are critical theory, intellectual history, and the relationship between art and politics. She has written a range of articles on contemporary Argentine and Brazilian literature and gender issues; has translated contemporary Brazilian literature into Spanish; and has published the books Desbunde y felicidad. De la Cartonera a Perlongher (2011), Correspondencia (2016), and Cat Power. La toma de la Tierra (2017). Palmeiro is also a founding member of the Ni Una Menos collective and an organizer of the International Feminist Strike.
Duen Sacchi is a Guaxu (trans) artist and writer who grew up in Aguaray, Gran Chaco, where he learned the arts of fire, words, and dyes. He sold beer, cleaned houses, traced roads, danced, and migrated. Sacchi completed the Independent Studies Program at the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art in 2015. He is part of the artistic team Río Paraná. He published Ficciones Patógenas (Brumaria, 2018/Rara Avis, 2020) and is currently guest editor at Terremoto. Sacchi actively participates in the transvestite and trans feminist, anti-racist, and Indigenous movements. He lives between the bush and the banks of the Río de la Plata.
Jorge Sánchez is an artist, writer, and lawyer from Puerto Rico, living in New York City, and serves as the curator in the Arts and Culture Team at the Center for Puerto Rican Studies of Hunter College. He is also the curator and arts coordinator of the University of Pennsylvania and The Mellon Foundation multidisciplinary initiative “Dispossessions in the Americas: the extraction of bodies, land, and heritage from la conquista to the present.” Sánchez has a double BA from Tufts University, a JD from Rutgers School of Law, and an MFA from New York University, and is admitted to the NY and NJ bars. His writings, photographs, and curatorial projects address Latinx, HIV/AIDS, queer/cuir perspectives, and sexual dissidence.
ABOUT THE LATIN AMERICAN FORUM
The Latin American Forum is a platform sustained in partnership with ISLAA that brings artists, scholars, and critics of the arts of the Americas to The Institute of Fine Arts, providing a platform for discussions and debates about diverse issues pertaining to contemporary arts and visual cultures throughout the hemisphere.
This series of public programs and events is coordinated by Edward J. Sullivan, Helen Gould Shepard Professor in the History of Art, the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, and organized by graduate students. Since partnering with ISLAA in 2011, NYU’s Latin American Forum has hosted more than thirty events.
The events calendar is subject to change. Please check this webpage for updates. Many of our recent lectures are available to watch online in our events archive.
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Thursday, September 15, 2022, at 6:30pm
- October
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Tuesday, October 25, 2022, at 6:30pm
Series: Walter W.S. Cook Lecture
Speaker: Patricia Berman, Theodora L. and Stanley H. Feldberg Professor of Art, Wellesley College
Title: The El Greco Effect in Fin-de-Siècle Scandinavia
learn more about Patricia Berman's talk rsvp required for Patricia Berman's talk[opens in new window]Description: The reception of El Greco as a proto-modernist in early twentieth-century Northern Europe invites questions concerning transnationalism, genealogy construction, and strategies of mediation. In 1888, the Danish artist Johan Rohde published the first article on El Greco to appear in Scandinavian art journals. Building on El Greco’s growing reputation in France and Spain, Rohde offered the artist as a proxy to criticize local tastes and institutional provincialism. The Nordic interest in El Greco grew in the years after 1900, especially after the publication of German critic Julius Meier-Graefe’s influential Spanische Reise (The Spanish Journey; 1910). Meier-Graefe’s Greco – the radical colorist, the cosmopolitan – was celebrated by Franz Marc in the Blue Rider Almanac and cited by critics throughout the Nordic countries. Perhaps paradoxically, given that Meier-Graefe aligned El Greco with Impressionism and that one of his principal concerns was color, his book contained no illustrations. Without direct access to original works, or to few of them, artists and critics nonetheless responded to the “effect” that characterizations of El Greco had on local art politics. Using El Greco’s reception history as a springboard, this talk considers how such art-historical mediation legitimized a burgeoning avant-garde in the North.
Patricia Berman is the Theodora L. and Stanley H. Feldberg Professor of Art at Wellesley College in Wellesley, Massachusetts and has also taught as a Professor II at the University of Oslo where she facilitated the research network “Munch, Modernism, and Modernity.” The recipient of fellowships from the American Philosophical Society, American Council of Learned Societies, The Bunting Institute (Radcliffe Institute), and the American-Scandinavian Foundation (where she serves as an advisory trustee), she has published eleven books and exhibition catalogues including James Ensor: Christ’s Entry into Brussels in 1889 (2002; Dutch trans. 2013); A Fine Regard: Essays in Honor of Kirk Varnedoe, (co-edited with fellow alum Gertje Utley, 2008); Munch|Warhol, and the Multiple Print (with fellow alum Pari Stave, 2013); and In Another Light: Danish Painting in the Nineteenth Century (2007, paperback 2013). Her exhibitions have included “Edvard Munch and Women” (1997); “Munch’s Laboratory; The Path to the Aula” (Munch Museum, 2011); “Luminous Modernism: A Centennial Retrospective of the Scandinavian Art Exhibition of 1912” (American Scandinavian Foundation, NY, 2011); and “The Experimental Self: Edvard Munch’s Photography” (seven venues, 2017-2021);. She is currently organizing an exhibition with fellow IFA alum Michelle Facos on Scandinavian art and design for the Frick Museum, Pittsburgh.
The events calendar is subject to change. Please check this webpage for updates. Many of our recent lectures are available to watch online in our events archive.
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Tuesday, October 25, 2022, at 6:30pm
- November
The events calendar is subject to change. Please check this webpage for updates. Many of our recent lectures are available to watch online in our events archive.
- December
The events calendar is subject to change. Please check this webpage for updates. Many of our recent lectures are available to watch online in our events archive.