Recent Video Highlights

Sam Wagstaff Photography Lecture:
Deborah Willis, “Retelling Stories in Photography About the Black Civil War Soldier”

View the 2022 Sam Wagstaff Photography Lecture featuring Deborah Willis, PhD, University Professor and Chair of the Department of Photography & Imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, as she explores the crucial role of photography in (re)telling and shaping African American narratives of the Civil War, pulling from a dynamic visual archive that has largely gone unacknowledged.

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Samuel H. Kress Lecture:
"Rubens’ Het Steen: A Restoration in Context"
Larry Keith, Head of Conservation and Keeper, The National Gallery, London

The recent restoration of Rubens’ Het Steen landscape brought about a significant change in the appearance of the work, done in advance of its pairing with the Wallace Collection’s Rainbow Landscape. It also occasioned a program of interdisciplinary research by the Gallery’s conservation, scientific, and curatorial staff, work which has brought new understanding of its technique and evolution. The panel is yet another example of an unusual additive working method, perhaps unique to Rubens, a context which has been provided by the important research undertaken in recent years in New York, Vienna, Madrid, and elsewhere.

Watch Larry Keith, "Rubens' Het Steen: A Restoration in Context" online [opens in new window] Video still from Larry Keith's lecture showing details of xrays of a painting

IFA Contemporary Asia:
Traversing Multiple Realities of Contemporary American and Asian Art: Shahzia Sikander

Speakers: Professor Dipti Khera, Associate Professor of South Asian Art and Architecture at NYU; Dr. Kelly Baum, Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon Polsky Curator of Contemporary Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Professor Gayatri Gopinath, Director of the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at NYU; and Dr. Brinda Kumar, Associate Curator, Department of Modern and Contemporary Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Watch Traversing Multiple Realities of Contemporary American and Asian Art: Shahzia Sikander online [opens in new window] Video still from Zoom lecture showing a grid of all six women in discussion.

The Paul Lott Lecture:
Dr. Gus Casely-Hayford, Director of the V&A East, a new museum and collection center in London
"Title: "Making a Museum: Crafting a New V&A for East London"

Watch Dr. Gus Casely-Hayford, "Making a Museum: Crafting a New V&A for East London" online [opens in new window] Video still fropm online lecture showing male speaker with a slide of the V & A museum's architectural plans

Ancient Art and Archaeology:
Dan-el Padilla Peralta, Associate Professor of Classics at Princeton University “Sign and Sense in Mid-Republican Rome”

View this lecture which previews a manuscript in progress on the semiotics of the Roman Middle Republic. Inspired in conception and execution by Jurij Lotman and Boris Uspenskij's The Semiotics of Russian Culture, the manuscript scrutinizes those sign systems through which Romans and becoming-Romans of the Middle Republic communicated with each other and with the wider social and naturecultural world.

Watch Dan-el Padilla Peralta, "Sign and Sense in Mid-Republican Rome" online [opens in new window] Video still from online lecture showing male speaker and a slide of two gold coins
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