April
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
September
Step Right Up! Benefit for the BGC Scholarship Fund
6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Exclusive preview of exhibition, 18 West 86th Street; Cocktail Party and Performances, 38 West 86th Street
Event, BGC Scholarship Fund
Public Opening of Circus and the City: New York, 1793-2010
11:00 am – 5:00 pm
18 West 86th Street
Event, Community
Public Opening of The Islands of Benoît Mandelbrot: Fractals, Chaos, and the Materiality of Thinking
11:00 am – 5:00 pm
Event, Community
Symposium: Beyond Representation: an Interdisciplinary Approach to the Nature of Things
1:30 pm – 6:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Symposia, Academic Programs
October
Open House for Seniors: October (Gallery Event)
11:00 am – 3:00 pm
18 West 86th Street
Event, Seniors
Evening for Educators (Gallery Event)
4:00 pm – 6:30 pm
18 West 86th Street
Event, Educators and Schools
Joan-Pau Rubiés
Ethnographic Images in the Late Renaissance, East and West
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Seminar in Cultural History
Melissa Calaresu
Eating Ice-Cream on the Streets of Naples: Materiality and Ephemerality in the History of Food
12:00 pm – 1:45 pm
Seminar Room, 38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Brown Bag Lunch
Circus Amazons: The Culture of Female Equestrianism in New York City, 1865–1930 (Gallery Event)
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Event, Lectures
Symposium: Circus and the City: New York, 1793-2010
1:30 pm – 4:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Symposia, Academic Programs
Christine Göttler
Constructing a Global Interior: The Imagery of Collections and Collecting in Early Seventeenth-Century Antwerp
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Seminar in Cultural History
Family Day: Cirkus in Wonderland! (Gallery Event)
11:00 am – 4:00 pm
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
Yves Porter
Potters of Kâshân (Late 12th-Early 14th c.)
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Ravi and Seran Trehan Lectures in Islamic Art and Material Culture
Zhao Feng
Silks from West and East: A Study on the Textiles from TAM170, Astana, Turfan, Xinjiang
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Seminar in Comparative Medieval Material Culture (China, Islam, Europe)
November
Michael Rowlands
The New Chinese Museology: Shifting Geographies of Power, Development, and Heritage
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Indigenous Arts in Transition Seminar
Glass Plates and High-diving Horses: Photographers of the American Circus (Gallery Event)
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Event, Conversation
Open House for Prospective Students
11:00 am – 1:00 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Event, Tours
Steven Pincus
Spanish American Trade, Patriot Politics and the Shaping of the British Empire
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Seminar in Cultural History
Symposium: Playing with Modernism: Historical Perspectives on Children and Design
2:00 pm – 5:15 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Symposia, Academic Programs
Circus Posters: From Wood Type to “The Greatest Show on Earth” (Gallery Program)
2:00 pm – 2:45 pm
38 West 86th Street
Event, Gallery Talk
Songs from the High Wire, Introduced by Leon Botstein (Gallery Program)
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Event, Concert
Laura Auricchio
Hero and Villain: Lafayette’s Legacies
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures on 18th- and 19th-Century French Decorative Arts and Culture
Laura Wexler
In Order to Form a More Perfect Likeness: Frederick Douglass, Photography and the Image of the Nation
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation Seminar in New York and American Material Culture
CANCELLED: Drawing from My Mind’s Eye: Dorothea Rockburne in Conversation with David Cohen, introduced by Nina Samuel (Gallery Event)
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Event, Conversation
December
Open House for Prospective Students
11:00 am – 1:00 pm
BGC, 38 West 86th Street
Event, Tours
Heather Ecker
Tradition, Innovation, and Tradition Again in Hunting Practices in the Mediterranean Region, 10th-14th Centuries
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Ravi and Seran Trehan Lectures in Islamic Art and Material Culture
Aden Kumler
The Ordeals of Substance: Material Economies of Passion and Probation in the Middle Ages
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Seminar in Comparative Medieval Material Culture (China, Islam, Europe)
P. T. Barnum and Ralph Waldo Emerson: A Confluence of Influence (Gallery Program)
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Event, Lectures
Jeffrey Quilter
Archaeology, Museums, and Tourism in Contemporary Peru
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Museum Conversations
Practical Fractals: Chaos Theory in Architecture and Design with Paola Antonelli and Jimena Canales (Gallery Program)
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Event, Conversation
Modern Magician: Calder’s Circus and the Invention of the Mobile (Gallery Program)
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Event, Conversation
January
Herman Ootics, the Clown: History, Culture, and Clowning
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Event, Lectures
Open House for Seniors: January (Gallery Program)
11:00 am – 3:00 am
18 West 86th Street
Event, Seniors
The Circus In America (Gallery Program)
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Event, Lectures
Larry Silver
India Ink: Imagery of the Subcontinent in Sixteenth-Century Europe
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Seminar in Renaissance and Early Modern Material Culture
Drawing on Mandelbrot: A Conversation with Artists James Siena and Joan Waltemath, Moderated by Brett Littman (Gallery Program)
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Event, Conversation
Family Day: Carnival of the Elephants (Gallery Program)
11:00 am – 4:00 pm
18 West 86th Street
Event, Family Day
Daniel Harkett
The Studio and the Salon: Artists, Masculinity, and Sociability in the Early Nineteenth Century.
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures on 18th- and 19th-Century French Decorative Arts and Culture
Daniel Smail
An Anthropology of Goods in Mediterranean Europe, 1330-1450
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Seminar in Cultural History
Suspended in Thin Air: The Future of the Circus in America (Gallery Program)
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Event, Gallery Programs Lecture
February
Jessica Goldberg
Mining Medieval Sources: Documents as Texts, Documents as Objects in the Cairo Geniza
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Seminar in Cultural History
Tobias Locker
Paris—Potsdam—Paris: Gilt Bronzes ‘à la française’ in Prussia and the Circulation of Knowledge
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures on 18th- and 19th-Century French Decorative Arts and Culture
Christopher Brown
The New Ashmolean
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Museum Conversations
Béla Kapossy
Rousseau’s, and Other Relics: Material Memories in Later Eighteenth-Century Switzerland
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Seminar in Cultural History
Karin Roffman
The Double Dream of Things: John Ashbery as a Poet and Collector in his Hudson Home
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz Foundation Seminar in New York and American Material Culture
March
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Modern Design History Seminar
Catherine Whalen
The Gift of Criticism: Paul Hollister's Writings and the Ascendancy of Studio Glass
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, The Paul and Irene Hollister Lectures on Glass
Janet Berlo
"Prime Objects" of the Gods? Replications and Transformations of Navajo Sandpainting Imagery
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Indigenous Arts in Transition Seminar
April
Opening of Salvaging the Past: Georges Hoentschel and French Decorative Arts from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
11:00 am – 5:00 pm
18 West 86th Street
Event, Community
Opening of Confluences: An American Expedition to Northern Burma, 1935
11:00 am – 5:00 pm
18 West 86th Street
Event, Community
Academic Programs, Symposia, Conference
Rebecca Zorach
Friedman's Pencil and Kant's Tattoo: Graphic Arts, Global Utopias, and the Acheiropoetic Social
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Seminar in Renaissance and Early Modern Material Culture
Panel Discussion: Archaeology and Material Culture
Ian Hodder, Tim Murray, and Alain Schnapp
12:00 pm – 2:00 pm
Lecture Hall, 38 West 86th Street
Event, Academic Programs
Event, Educators and Schools
Event, Educators and Schools
Iris Foundation Awards Luncheon for Outstanding Contributions to the Decorative Arts
12:00 pm – 2:30 pm
Colony Club, 564 Park Avenue, New York City
Event, Iris Awards
Alexandra Lange
Founding Mothers: Architecture Criticism from Mariana Van Rensselaer to Esther McCoy, Ada Louise Huxtable, and Jane Jacobs
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Modern Design History Seminar
Keynote Lecture: Hoentschel in Context
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Symposia, Academic Programs
Academic Programs, Symposia, Academic Programs
Study Day: Revelations in Conservation: The Georges Hoentschel Collection (Gallery Program)
9:30 am – 4:30 pm
38 West 86th St
Event, Study Day
Symposium: Kitchen and Table in Early Modern Europe and Colonial America
9:30 am – 6:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Symposia, Academic Programs
David Roxburgh
Baysunghur’s Garden Party and Other Tales: Conceptualizing Artistic and Cultural Production in Early Timurid Herat
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, Ravi and Seran Trehan Lectures in Islamic Art and Material Culture
May
Gallery Talk and Wine Tasting: Illuminating Hoentschel: A French Tastemaker and His World (Gallery Program)
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
18 West 86th Street
Event, Gallery Talk
Family Day: A Journey through Burma (Gallery Program)
11:00 am – 4:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Event, Family Day
Gaye Blake-Roberts
Wedgwood Majolica—A Response to Fashion
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, The Joan Stacke Graham Lectures
Open House for Seniors: May (Gallery Program)
11:00 am – 2:00 pm
18 West 86th Street
Event, Tours
Dressing for the Faubourg St. Germain: Fin de Siècle Fashion in Proust (Gallery Program)
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Event, Lectures
Event, Concert
A Botanical Treasury: Plant Fibers, Forest Resources, and the Culture of Tea in Northern Burma (Gallery Program)
Introduced by Erin Hasinoff
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
18 West 86th Street
Event, Gallery Talk
June
Burmese Dinner and Lecture: Listening as Knowing: The Significance of Sound Among the Nagas (Gallery Program)
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
38 West 86th Street
Event, Gallery Programs Lecture
Hoentschel’s Ceramics: Mysteries of Origin and Style (Gallery Program)
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Event, Conversation
Open House for Seniors: June (Gallery Program)
11:00 am – 2:00 pm
18 West 86th Street
Event, Tours
July
Family Day: Carving Marvelous Mementos (Gallery Program)
11:30 am – 4:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Event, Family Day
Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World’s Fairs, 1851–1939 (Gallery Program)
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Event, Gallery Programs Lecture
May
Family Day: A Journey through Burma (Gallery Program)
11:00 am – 4:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Event, Family Day
Gaye Blake-Roberts
Wedgwood Majolica—A Response to Fashion
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Academic Programs, Seminar Series, The Joan Stacke Graham Lectures
Open House for Seniors: May (Gallery Program)
11:00 am – 2:00 pm
18 West 86th Street
Event, Tours
Dressing for the Faubourg St. Germain: Fin de Siècle Fashion in Proust (Gallery Program)
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Event, Lectures
Event, Concert
A Botanical Treasury: Plant Fibers, Forest Resources, and the Culture of Tea in Northern Burma (Gallery Program)
Introduced by Erin Hasinoff
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
18 West 86th Street
Event, Gallery Talk
June
Burmese Dinner and Lecture: Listening as Knowing: The Significance of Sound Among the Nagas (Gallery Program)
6:00 pm – 7:30 pm
38 West 86th Street
Event, Gallery Programs Lecture
Hoentschel’s Ceramics: Mysteries of Origin and Style (Gallery Program)
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Event, Conversation
Open House for Seniors: June (Gallery Program)
11:00 am – 2:00 pm
18 West 86th Street
Event, Tours
July
Family Day: Carving Marvelous Mementos (Gallery Program)
11:30 am – 4:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Event, Family Day
Inventing the Modern World: Decorative Arts at the World’s Fairs, 1851–1939 (Gallery Program)
6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
38 West 86th Street
Event, Gallery Programs Lecture
