June
Massimo and Matter: Shaping the Knoll Identity
Moderated by Alice Twemlow
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Event, Conversation
Women & Modern Architecture in Midtown
Guided by Matthew A. Postal
11:00 am – 1:00 pm
Meet at 11 at the northeast corner of Fifth Avenue and 43rd Street.
Event, Tours
New Room to Blue Room: Music of the Knoll Years
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
BGC, 18 and 38 West 86th Street
Event, Concert
Florence Knoll: Textiles as Interior Architecture
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Event, Lectures
Modern Furniture Conservation: Form and Material Challenges
Introduced by Earl Martin
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Event, Lectures
Designing Woman: How Florence Knoll Created the “Knoll Look” and Revolutionized the Modern Interior
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Event, Library Lecture
July
Book signing of the exhibition catalogue "Knoll Textiles, 1945-2010" with Irma Boom
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
BGC Gallery, 18 West 86th Street
Event, Community
Event, Gallery Talk
Event, Family Day
Photography and the Modern Interior
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Event, Gallery Programs Lecture
September
Anthony Grafton
How Jesus Celebrated Passover: Some Early Modern Readings of the Last Supper
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Lecture Hall, 38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Seminar in Cultural History
Event, BGC Scholarship Fund
Official Opening of Hats: An Anthology by Stephen Jones
11:00 am – 8:00 pm
BGC Main Gallery
Event, Community
Official Opening of American Christmas Cards, 1900-1960
11:00 am – 5:00 pm
BGC Focus Gallery
Event, Community
Chris Gosden
Being English: An Exploration of Identity Through the Collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Indigenous Arts in Transition Seminar
Event, Tours
October
First Tuesday Senior Tours
11:00 am – 2:00 pm
SEE DESCRIPTION FOR TOUR TIMES
Event, Tours
For the Royal Pleasure: French Furniture made for the Crown in France 1720-1792
Ulrich Leben
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
BGC Lecture Hall
Event, Gallery Talk
Donald Albrecht (Museum of the City of New York)
Tom Mellins (Independent Curator and Author)
Doris Duke’s Shangri La: Architecture, Landscape, and the Islamic Arts
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Modern Design History Seminar
Rituals of Generosity: An Early History of Christmas Gifts
Ellen Litwicki
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Event, Gallery Programs Lecture
Florian Knothe
Beyond the Old Silk Road: International Influences in Glassmaking in the 18th and 19th Centuries
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, The Paul and Irene Hollister Lectures on Glass
Michele Bacci
On the Making of Holy Places Along the Sea Routes of the Eastern Mediterranean
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Seminar in Comparative Medieval Material Culture (China, Islam, Europe)
Study Day: The Conservation of Historic Hats
Chris Paulocik
Edward Maeder
10:00 am – 5:00 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Event, Study Day
Seth Rockman
Implements Correspondingly Peculiar: Slavery, Plantation Goods, and the Politics of Design in Antebellum America
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Seminar in New York & American Material Culture
A Mad Hatter's Logic: Stephen Jones in Conversation with Patricia Mears
Stephen Jones
Patricia Mears
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Event, Conversation
Family Day: Hold onto your Hats!
12:00 pm – 4:00 pm
BGC, 18 West 86th Street
Event, Family Day
Open House for Prospective Students
11:00 am – 1:00 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Event, Tours
Sylvain Cordier
Bellangé, Ebénistes à Paris: A History of Taste in Early Nineteenth-Century France
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures on 18th- and 19th-Century French Decorative Arts and Culture
Ellen Rosand
Poppea’s Fortune
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Seminar in Cultural History
Evening for Cultural Colleagues
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
BGC, 18 West 86th Street
Event, Gallery Talk
Symposium: Upholsterers and Decorators in 19th Century France: Georges Hoentschel’s Predecessors
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Symposia, Seminar in Cultural History
November
First Tuesday Senior Tours
11:00 am – 2:00 pm
SEE DESCRIPTION FOR TOUR TIMES
Event, Tours
Hats: A Field Guide
Melinda Wax
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
BGC, 18 West 86th Street
Event, Gallery Talk
Study Day: Archives as Inspiration: Gretchen Fenston and Rodney Keenan
10:00 am – 4:30 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Event, Study Day
Open House for Prospective Students, November 13
11:00 am – 1:00 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Event, Tours
Ben Katchor
Reading in Public
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Library Lecture
Est-ce un chapeau? (The Surrealist Hat)
Dilys Blum
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Event, Lectures
Michael Cole
Francesco Mochi: Stone and Scale
6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Seminar in Renaissance and Early Modern Material Culture
December
Women Designers and Greeting Cards of the Arts & Crafts Movement
Anne Stewart O'Donnell
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Event, Gallery Programs Lecture
Open House for Prospective Students, December 4
11:00 am – 1:00 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Event, Tours
The Cisneros Seminar in the Material Cultures of the Iberoamerican World: Women Designers of the 20th Century, Shaping National Artistic Identities in Latin America
5:30 pm – 8:00 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Symposia, The Cisneros Seminar in the Material Cultures of the Iberoamerican World
With Every Christmas Card I Write: American Holiday Songs 1900–1960
2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
SEE DESCRIPTION FOR TIMES AND LOCATIONS
Event, Concert
Donald Whitcomb
Khirbet al-Mafjar or Qasr Hisham? Changing Perceptions of a Palestinian Monument
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Trehan Lecture in the Arts of the Islamic World
The Hatmaker's Muse: New York Milliners, Part I
Moderated by Phyllis Magidson
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Event, Conversation
January
An Iconology of the Textile in Art and Architecture: Review of a Project at the Art History Institute, University of Zurich
5:45 pm – 7:30 pm
BGC Lecture Hall
Event, Academic Programs
Isabelle de Conihout
Cardinal Mazarin: A Great Collector of Art and Books in Seventeenth-Century France
5:45 pm – 8:00 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures on 18th- and 19th-Century French Decorative Arts and Culture
D. Graham Burnett
Sal Randolph
The Order of the Third Bird: Documents and Considerations
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Seminar in Cultural History
Event, Educators and Schools
February
Reinhart Meyer-Kalkus
Voices of the People in the Berlin Phono Archive
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Seminar in Cultural History
Symposium: Anthropology of Expeditions: Travel, Visualities, After-Lives
Thursday, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Friday, 9:30 am – 6:00 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Symposia, Conversation
Andrew Watsky
Earth, Metal, Paper, and Silk: Assembling the Ensemble in Sixteenth-Century Japanese Tea
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Seminar in Comparative Medieval Material Culture (China, Islam, Europe)
The Actress as Artist’s Muse: Sarah Bernhardt, Eleonora Duse, and Ellen Terry (Gallery Event)
Peter Trippi
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
BGC Lecture Hall
Event, Lectures
Study Day: Fashion and Millinery for the Opera (Gallery Event)
Barbara Cohen-Straytner, Lesley Weston, Janet Linville, and Tom Watson
10:00 am – 2:00 pm
BGC Lecture Hall
Event, Study Day
Julia Gonnella
From the Inside Out! The Mamluk Throne Hall of the Citadel of Aleppo, Syria
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Trehan Lecture in the Arts of the Islamic World
Seeing Cecil Beaton: New York Milliners, Part II (Gallery Event)
Ellen Christine, Rod Keenan, and Jennifer Ouellette
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
BGC Lecture Hall
Event, Conversation
Robert Stein
Conversation and Collaboration: Strategies to Cultivate Meaningful Engagement with Cultural Audiences
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Mapping New Media
The Making of Style: Introducing French Decorative Arts to New York
Ulrich Leben
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Event, Gallery Talk
Open House for Seniors: February (Gallery Event)
11:00 am – 2:00 pm
SEE DESCRIPTION FOR TOUR TIMES
Event, Seniors
Kristel Smentek
Encountering Asia in Eighteenth-Century France
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures on 18th- and 19th-Century French Decorative Arts and Culture
Lynn Spigel
Media Walls: From Mid-Century Domesticity to Smart Home Environments
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Modern Design History Seminar
March
Family Day: There’s a Bird in My Hat! (Gallery Event)
12:00 pm – 4:00 pm
BGC Lecture Hall
Event, Family Day
Sussan Babaie
Nadir Shah’s Delhi Loot and the Eighteenth-Century Exotics of Empire
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Trehan Lecture in the Arts of the Islamic World
Sheila Canby
Iranian Art at the Time of Shah ‘Abbas II (1642–1666)
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Trehan Lecture in the Arts of the Islamic World
Hats in Motion: Lecture and "Hatwalk" (Gallery Event)
Oriole Cullen
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
BGC Lecture Hall
Event, Lectures
Staging Fashion: A Curator’s Perspective (Gallery Event)
Michele Majer
2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
BGC Lecture Hall
Event, Gallery Talk
A Fashionable Lyric: The Phoenix Quartet in Concert (Gallery Event)
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Event, Concert
Alessandra Russo
Textual Threads: Crafting Ekphrasis in the Iberian Worlds (15th–17th c.)
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Seminar in Cultural History
Clothed in Words: An Evening with Harriet Walter (Gallery Event)
Introduced by Helen Willams Drutt English
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
BGC Lecture Hall
Event, Performance
Rachel Ward
The Courtauld Wallet: Metal, Marriage and Mongols in Medieval Mosul
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Trehan Lecture in the Arts of the Islamic World
Jenni Sorkin
Ancient Modernisms
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Seminar in New York & American Material Culture
Wrapping Gelé: Contemporary Manifestations of West African Headwear (Gallery Event)
Victoria Rovine
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Event, Conversation
April
Open House for Seniors: April (Gallery Event)
11:00 am – 2:00 pm
SEE DESCRIPTION FOR TOUR TIMES
Event, Seniors
Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell
When Fashion Set Sail: Maritime Modes in Pre-Revolutionary France
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures on 18th- and 19th-Century French Decorative Arts and Culture
Rebecca Zorach
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
BGC Lecture Hall
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Seminar in Renaissance and Early Modern Material Culture
Hat Noir: Gallery Talk and Performance (Gallery Event)
Melinda Wax
Rebecca Allan
5:00 pm – 9:00 pm
BGC Lecture Hall and Symphony Space (Broadway & 95th St.)
Event, Concert
Steven Lubar
Connecting Collections to Curriculum
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, New Media Seminar
New York 20th Century Art and Design Fair (NYC20) Preview Party
6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
The Tent at Lincoln Center, Damrosch Park, West 62nd Street between Columbus and Amsterdam
Event, Community
Iris Foundation Awards Luncheon for Outstanding Contributions to the Decorative Arts
12:00 pm – 2:30 pm
583 Park Avenue at 63rd Street, New York City
Event, Iris Awards
David Kraemer
Legislating Space and Re-placing God: Rabbinic Spatiality after the Destruction of the Jerusalem Temple
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Seminar in Cultural History
Timothy Wilson
Majolica and Maiolica in Victorian England
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, The Joan Stacke Graham Lectures
Jonathan Prown
Object Lab: Chipstone’s 21st Century Curatorial Initiative
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
BGC Lecture Hall, 38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Museum Conversations
May
Nicholas Thomas
Out of Place: Art and History in Oceania
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Indigenous Arts in Transition Seminar
April
Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell
When Fashion Set Sail: Maritime Modes in Pre-Revolutionary France
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures on 18th- and 19th-Century French Decorative Arts and Culture
Rebecca Zorach
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
BGC Lecture Hall
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Seminar in Renaissance and Early Modern Material Culture
Hat Noir: Gallery Talk and Performance (Gallery Event)
Melinda Wax
Rebecca Allan
5:00 pm – 9:00 pm
BGC Lecture Hall and Symphony Space (Broadway & 95th St.)
Event, Concert
Steven Lubar
Connecting Collections to Curriculum
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, New Media Seminar
New York 20th Century Art and Design Fair (NYC20) Preview Party
6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
The Tent at Lincoln Center, Damrosch Park, West 62nd Street between Columbus and Amsterdam
Event, Community
Iris Foundation Awards Luncheon for Outstanding Contributions to the Decorative Arts
12:00 pm – 2:30 pm
583 Park Avenue at 63rd Street, New York City
Event, Iris Awards
David Kraemer
Legislating Space and Re-placing God: Rabbinic Spatiality after the Destruction of the Jerusalem Temple
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Seminar in Cultural History
Timothy Wilson
Majolica and Maiolica in Victorian England
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, The Joan Stacke Graham Lectures
Jonathan Prown
Object Lab: Chipstone’s 21st Century Curatorial Initiative
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
BGC Lecture Hall, 38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Museum Conversations
May
Nicholas Thomas
Out of Place: Art and History in Oceania
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Indigenous Arts in Transition Seminar
