The Institute of Fine Arts Live

Series: Ancient Seminar

Thursday, October 30, 2025, 6:30pm
Susanne Ebbinghaus, George M.A. Hanfmann Curator of Ancient Art and head, Division of Asian and Mediterranean Art, Harvard Art Museums
Approaching Celtic Art Across the Atlantic

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Series: The Kirk Varnedoe Visiting Professor Lecture

Tuesday, November 11, 2025, 6:00pm
Mary McLeod, Columbia University
The “Ordinary Made Extraordinary!”: Robert Venturi from Rome to Nantucket — Tradition, Vernacular Architecture, and the Shingle Style

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Series: Korea Initiative

Wednesday, November 19, 2025, 6:00pm
Pai Hyungmin University of Seoul
Fragments and Networks: Narratives for Modern Architecture in Korea

Made possible by The Korea Foundation. 

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Series: Walter W.S. Cook Annual Lecture

Friday, October 24, 2025, at 6:00pm
Anne Umland, Former Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Senior Curator in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art
Meret Oppenheim’s Fur Cup on Display: The Clover-Leafed Napkin and Other Telling Tales

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Series: Sam Wagstaff Photography Lecture

Tuesday, October 21, 2025, 6:00pm
Oluremi C. Onabanjo, Peter Schub Curator of Photography at The Museum of Modern Art
Photographic Portraits, Political Imagination

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Series: Close Reading: Authors at the IFA

Monday, October 20, 2025 at 6:00 pm
Thomas Crow
Making Sense of Marat

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Series: South-East Asian Connections: Art, History and Archipelagos

Thursday, September 25, 2025, 6:30pm
Mirjam Shatanawi
Indonesia’s Islamic heritage and the aftermath of colonialism