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- The Ancient World
- Conservation
- Modern and Contemporary Art
- • Artists at the Institute
- • Artists in Conversation
- • Colloquium for Modern and Contemporary Art from the Middle East and South Asia
- • Crossing Boundaries
- • Great Hall Exhibitions
- • IFA Contemporary Asia
- • Kirk Varnedoe Memorial Lectures
- • Latin American Forum
- • Points of Contact: New Approaches in Islamic Art
- • The Roberta and Richard Huber Colloquium on the Arts and Visual Culture of Spain and the Colonial Americas
- • Time-Based Media Art Conservation
- Annual Lecture Series
- Conferences and Workshops
- Medieval to Early Modern
- World Art
- • China Project Workshop
- • Crossing Boundaries
- • Colloquium for Modern and Contemporary Art from the Middle East and South Asia
- • IFA Contemporary Asia
- • Latin American Forum
- • Annual Symposium of Latin American Art
- • Points of Contact: New Approaches in Islamic Art
- • Works in Progress Series
- • The Roberta and Richard Huber Colloquium on the Arts and Visual Culture of Spain and the Colonial Americas
- January
- The events calendar is in the porocess of being updated. Please check this webpage for updates, or sign up for our mailing list.
- February
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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 talk Join us in-person Join us virtuallyFor 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
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 Saturday, March 25, 2023.
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 Exhibition RSVP requiredfor the Duke House Exhibition opening [opens in new window]The 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 Join us in-personfor Orlando Hernández Ying's talk [opens in new window] Join us virtuallyfor Orlando Hernández Ying's talk [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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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
Registration for this program will open closer to the date.
learn more about Xavier F. Salomon's talkDescription: 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.
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Thursday, February 2, 2023 at 6:00pm
2023 Calendar
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