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
October
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
