Past Events
Monthly Poetry Series
Wendy’s Subway Reading Series
Chris Nealon, Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal, Ada Smailbegović, Jackie Wang
Public Programs
May 10, 2017
May 10, 2017
Journey into a French Material…
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
Frédéric Joulian
Research / Academic
May 8, 2017
May 8, 2017
From Maiolica to Majolica: The…
The Majolica International Society Lecture
Julius Bryant
Research / Academic
May 3, 2017
May 3, 2017
Enlightened Princesses
Caroline, Augusta, Charlotte, and the…
Joanna Marschner
Research / Academic
April 27, 2017
April 27, 2017
Wendy’s Subway Reading Series Event
Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Layli Long Soldier, Wendy Xu
Public Programs
April 26, 2017
April 26, 2017
From Design Studio to Marketplace:…
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
Lesley Miller
Research / Academic
April 25, 2017
April 25, 2017
Behind the Seams
Women, Fashion, and Work in Nineteenth-Century France
Susan Hiner
Research / Academic
April 19, 2017
April 19, 2017
Blue Chip Artists, Glassy Thinkers,…
The Paul and Irene Hollister…
Susie J. Silbert
Research / Academic
April 13, 2017
April 13, 2017
Texts and Textiles
The Iris Foundation Awards Lecture
Marie-Louise Nosch
Research / Academic
April 4, 2017
April 4, 2017
Earwitness Thomas Kuhn
The Interview in Historical Research
Anke te Heesen
Research / Academic
March 29, 2017
March 29, 2017
Hanbok in Modern and Postmodern Times
Fashion, Counter-Fashion, and Anti-Fashion
Minjee Kim
Research / Academic
March 28, 2017
March 28, 2017
Getting Art and Science Together…
An Exhibition History
Anke te Heesen
Research / Academic
March 28, 2017
March 28, 2017
Teaching Game Design for Museums
Matt Parker, Barry Joseph, Marco Castro Cosio
Research / Academic
March 27, 2017
March 27, 2017
Where Books and Fabrics Merge
The Endbands of the Eastern Mediterranean Bookbindings
Georgios Boudalis
Research / Academic
March 23, 2017
March 23, 2017
Thinking About Cultural Heritage Now
The Work of the Penn Cultural Heritage Center
Brian I. Daniels
Research / Academic
March 21, 2017
March 21, 2017
Alumni Spotlight Lecture—Keep the Research on Your Right
Teaching, Writing, and Curating as Tributaries
Ezra Shales
Research / Academic
March 21, 2017
March 21, 2017
POSTPONED—An Intellectual History of Financing Scholarship
Emily J. Levine
Research / Academic
March 15, 2017
March 15, 2017
The Archaeology and History of Colonial Peru
The Case of Magdalena de Cao Viejo
Jeffrey Quilter
Research / Academic
February 23, 2017
February 23, 2017
Keys to the H Blocks
The Materiality of Conflict and…
Louise Purbrick
Research / Academic
February 22, 2017
February 22, 2017
In Enemy Hands
Captive Bodies in Ancient Mesoamerican Art
Caitlin Earley
Research / Academic
February 21, 2017
February 21, 2017
From the Antipodes to the Met
Transformative Processes in Yolngu Art
Howard Morphy
Research / Academic
February 21, 2017
February 21, 2017
Industry, Aluminum, and Orfèvrerie in Second Empire France
Amy F. Ogata
Research / Academic
February 15, 2017
February 15, 2017
Cultures of Conversation “Keyword” Panel
Conserving 9/11
Zainab Bahrani, Jan Seidler Ramirez, Mark Wagner, Steven Weintraub, Ittai Weinryb
Research / Academic
February 1, 2017
February 1, 2017
Insect Artifice
The Making of Joris Hoefnagel’s Four Elements
Marisa Bass
Research / Academic
January 31, 2017
January 31, 2017
And One King to Rule Them All?
Investigating Religious and Political Landscapes…
Uthara Suvrathan
Research / Academic
January 30, 2017
January 30, 2017
Book Launch — In Space We Read Time
On the History of Civilization and Geopolitics
Karl Schlögel, Mark Mazower, Peter N. Miller
Research / Academic
January 24, 2017
January 24, 2017
‘The Great Kosmos of All Armenia’
On the Sarcophagus of Isaac
Benjamin Anderson
Research / Academic
January 18, 2017
January 18, 2017
Foreign Phobia & the American…
The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond…
Jack Tchen
Research / Academic
December 13, 2016
December 13, 2016
Diamonds, Sugar, and Art
Flemish Merchants in the Early Modern World
Christina Anderson
Research / Academic
December 7, 2016
December 7, 2016
Staging Evidence
Scene of a Crime: Mobilizing Evidence
Pearson | Shanks
Public Programs
December 5–9, 2016
December 5–9, 2016
Staging Evidence
Pearson | Shanks at Bard Graduate Center
Pearson | Shanks
Public Programs
December 5–9, 2016
December 5–9, 2016
Textiles in the Historic Interior
A Look at Curatorial, Conservation, and Interpretive Issues
Deborah Lee Trupin
Research / Academic
November 30, 2016
November 30, 2016
Walking with Whitman
Mobile Learning in Brooklyn Heights
Jesse Merandy
Research / Academic
November 29, 2016
November 29, 2016
Charles Percier and the Invention…
Ulrich Leben
Public Programs
November 29, 2016 – December 8, 2014
November 29, 2016 – December 8, 2014
Between Construction and Invention: Theories…
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
Jean-François Bédard
Research / Academic
November 15, 2016
November 15, 2016
Beyond the Renaissance Palace
The Material World of Sixteenth-Century Artisans and Shopkeepers
Paula Hohti
Research / Academic
November 10, 2016
November 10, 2016
Out of Whole Cloth
Exploring Balinese Textiles in the Mead-Bateson Collection
Urmila Mohan
Research / Academic
November 9, 2016
November 9, 2016
A Parisian Residence of the…
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
Ulrich Leben
Research / Academic
November 9, 2016
November 9, 2016
Redefining Color at Hôtel Beauharnais
The Restoration of the Furniture…
Ulrich Leben
Research / Academic
November 3, 2016
November 3, 2016
The Protection of Cultural Heritage in Italy
A Short History and Some Current Issues
Salvatore Settis
Research / Academic
November 2, 2016
November 2, 2016
Cultures of Conservation “Keyword” Panel
Digging into Central Park’s Layered Past
Hilary Ballon, Richard W. Hunter, Christopher J. Nolan, Nan A. Rothschild, Jessica Walthew
Research / Academic
November 1, 2016
November 1, 2016
Mind in the Making
Reflection and the Artisanal in the Material World
Maggie Jackson
Research / Academic
October 27, 2016
October 27, 2016
Whitney Stories
Humanizing the Museum through Digital Storytelling
Elyse Mallouk
Research / Academic
October 26, 2016
October 26, 2016
Netherlands Institute for Conservation Art and Science
An Integrated Approach Towards Understanding…
Robert van Langh
Research / Academic
October 19, 2016
October 19, 2016
Real and Metaphoric Spaces
Perspectives and Positions in the…
Viola König
Research / Academic
October 19, 2016
October 19, 2016
Luxury Object Artisans in the Ancient Andes
Coca and Metal Producers in…
Alicia Boswell
Research / Academic
October 5, 2016
October 5, 2016
Jamestown and Beyond
Using Digital Technologies to Visualize…
Lisa Fischer
Research / Academic
September 28, 2016
September 28, 2016
Multiple Authors
Ceramics, Celebrity, and Shaping Notions…
Malcolm Baker
Research / Academic
September 15, 2016
September 15, 2016
Toward an American Indian Abstract
The Art and Politics of Mary Sully
Philip Deloria
Research / Academic
September 14, 2016
September 14, 2016
Weaving Modernism
Postwar Tapestry between Paris and New York
Kay Wells
Research / Academic
August 24, 2016
August 24, 2016
Couples in Architecture
Design by Marriage
Tod Williams and Billie Tsien
Public Programs
June 16, 2016
June 16, 2016
The Colors of Alvar Aalto and Artek
Influences and Evolution
Harald Arnkil
Public Programs
June 9, 2016
June 9, 2016
Curator’s Spotlight
Frontier Shores: Collection, Entanglement, and…
Shawn Rowlands
Public Programs
June 7, 2016
June 7, 2016
Rococo for the Spanish Court
The Interiors of Mattia Gasparini…
Tobias Locker
Research / Academic
May 4, 2016
May 4, 2016
‘Bold design and bolder ornaments’:…
The Majolica International Society Lecture
Miranda Goodby
Research / Academic
May 4, 2016
May 4, 2016
Wine, Women, and the Glory of Venice
Masterpieces of Renaissance Glass
Dora Thornton
Research / Academic
April 28, 2016
April 28, 2016
Diasporas of Art and ‘The Great Forgetting’
Violence and the Visual Unconscious…
Debora L. Silverman
Research / Academic
April 27, 2016
April 27, 2016
Mistake or Transgression? A History of Scandalous Clothing
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
Denis Bruna
Research / Academic
April 19, 2016
April 19, 2016
Saturday Sessions—Designing Dining
Session III: Framing Food: Plates and Pictures
April 16, 2016 – January 24, 2017
Saturday Sessions—Instruments Inside Out
Session III: In Time: Collaborative Sound
April 16, 2016 – January 24, 2017
Bringing Back The Sheaves
Agrarian Life and Material Culture…
Brent D. Shaw
Research / Academic
April 13, 2016
April 13, 2016
Saturday Sessions—Instruments Inside Out
Session II: Strung Out: Violin Making
Tours / Education
April 9, 2016
April 9, 2016
Scotch Myths
The Furniture of Charles Rennie Mackintosh Re-appraised
David Jones
Research / Academic
April 7, 2016
April 7, 2016
Global Things: Trade and Material…
The Iris Foundation Awards Lecture
Giorgio Riello
Research / Academic
April 5, 2016
April 5, 2016
Saturday Sessions—Instruments Inside Out
Session I: Woodshopping Woodwinds
Tours / Education
April 2, 2016
April 2, 2016
‘The best Rubarbe is that…
Rhubarb and the Imagination of…
Anne T. Gerritsen
Research / Academic
March 29, 2016
March 29, 2016
The Meaning of Glass: What…
The Paul and Irene Hollister Lectures on Glass
Dedo von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk
Research / Academic
March 22, 2016
March 22, 2016
Climate and Commodities
Material Exchanges between West Africa and Europe, 1000–1300
Sarah M. Guérin
Research / Academic
March 21, 2016
March 21, 2016
Conservation Conversation—A Multiplicity of Voices
The Structure of Preservation at…
Gabrielle A. Berlinger, David Favaloro
Research / Academic
March 15, 2016
March 15, 2016
The Art, Praxis, and Power of Oral History
Mary Marshall Clark, Amy Starecheski
Research / Academic
February 24, 2016
February 24, 2016
Wolf King of Glorious Memory
Culture and Ideology in Twelfth-Century…
Abigail Krasner Balbale
Research / Academic
February 23, 2016
February 23, 2016
Cultures of Conservation “Keyword” Panel
Minimalist, Post-Minimalist, and Conceptual Art
Francesca Esmay, Sherri Irvin, Jeffrey Weiss, Glenn Wharton, Ivan Gaskell
Research / Academic
February 23, 2016
February 23, 2016
A Dictator’s Evil Decor
Reflections on Writing Hitler at Home
Despina Stratigakos
Research / Academic
February 17, 2016
February 17, 2016
Making Space: Museums and Craft…
The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond…
Namita Gupta Wiggers
Research / Academic
February 2, 2016
February 2, 2016
Sun King to Moon King:…
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
Robert Wellington
Research / Academic
January 26, 2016
January 26, 2016
Nam June Paik and Fluxus:
International Artist, Experience, and Insight
Inhee Iris Moon, Miwako Tezuka
December 10, 2015
The Analysis of Organic Colorants…
Case Studies from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Nobuko Shibayama
Research / Academic
December 7, 2015
December 7, 2015
Scandinavian Home Sense and Sensibilities
Judith Gura, Erica L. Warren
Public Programs
December 3, 2015
December 3, 2015
Between China, Iran, and Byzantium:
The Türks in Inner Asia…
Sören Stark
Research / Academic
December 2, 2015
December 2, 2015
Textile Conservation at Historic Royal Palaces:
A 100-Year History
Charlotte Gamper
Research / Academic
November 19, 2015
November 19, 2015
Literature Spotlight:
Writing Before Reading: The Narratives of Play
Leonard Marcus
Public Programs
November 19, 2015
November 19, 2015
Material Culture, Academic Research, and the University Museum
Nancy Netzer
Research / Academic
November 18, 2015
November 18, 2015
Toys in Context:
Sweden, Scandinavia, and the Digital World
Colin Fanning, Barry Joseph, and Juliet Kinchin
Public Programs
November 12, 2015
November 12, 2015
Parasols and Pagodas:
Lacquer Furniture and East West…
Tian Chun
Research / Academic
November 10, 2015
November 10, 2015
Concert:
Were I a Little Child:…
George Hemcher, Helena Liljeblasd, and Robert Osborne
Public Programs
November 8, 2015
November 8, 2015
Workshop—Fustat and the World in the Year 1000
Fustat and the World in the Year 1000
Research / Academic
November 6, 2015
November 6, 2015
Color Matters:
Synthetic Dyes in Early Meiji Japanese Prints
Stephanie Su
Research / Academic
November 4, 2015
November 4, 2015
Touching Skin:
Why Medieval Readers Rubbed and Kissed their Manuscripts
Kathryn M. Rudy
November 4, 2015
Literature Spotlight:
Picture Books, Toys and Other…
Karen Hewitt, Laura Ljundkvist, and Leonard Marcus
Public Programs
October 29, 2015
October 29, 2015
Design by the Book:
Illustrating the Ritual Classics
François Louis
Research / Academic
October 27, 2015
October 27, 2015
Cultures of Conservation ‘Keyword’ Panel:
Conserving an Alutiiq Kayak
Research / Academic
October 27, 2015
October 27, 2015
Family Festival:
Swedish Wooden Toys
Marionetteatern, ConstructionKids, and Phyllis Chen
Public Programs
October 24, 2015
October 24, 2015
A Digital Enlightenment: Experiments in…
The Françoise and Georges Selz…
Anne Higonnet
Research / Academic
October 13, 2015
October 13, 2015
From Pets to Plastics:
The Material Culture of Everyday Life
Katherine C. Grier
Research / Academic
October 12, 2015
October 12, 2015
From Analog to Digital: 1965-2015,…
Barbara London, LoVid (Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus)
Public Programs
October 8, 2015
October 8, 2015
Building Transnational Historical Archaeologies of the Modern World
Timothy Murray
Research / Academic
October 7, 2015
October 7, 2015
The Glass Sliver:
Transparency and Dystopia in German Design
Freyja Hartzell
Research / Academic
October 5, 2015
October 5, 2015
Thinking with a Photograph: Alexander…
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J.…
Marni A. Sandweiss
Research / Academic
September 29, 2015
September 29, 2015
From Material to Digital:
New Directions in Material Culture and Museum Studies
Haidy Geismar
Research / Academic
September 24, 2015
September 24, 2015
Angelica’s Book:
Material Culture and the Power of Reading
Brendan Dooley
Research / Academic
September 14, 2015
September 14, 2015
Stuffed and Stiffened:
Multilayered Garments, X-Rays, Revealed Secrets
Jenny Tiramani
Public Programs
June 11, 2015
June 11, 2015
Historical Depictions of Information Technology in Popular Culture
Howard Besser
Public Programs
May 14, 2015
May 14, 2015
(Post)musings from the Edge:
Being an Indigenous Curator in Pacific Paradise
Paul Tapsell
Research / Academic
May 6, 2015
May 6, 2015
Global, Comparative, International, Transnational, and Connected Histories:
Is the Methodological Tail Wagging…
Peter Baldwin
Research / Academic
April 29, 2015
April 29, 2015
The Return of Curiosity: What…
Iris Foundation Awards Lectures
Nicholas Thomas
Research / Academic
April 21, 2015
April 21, 2015
Creating the Ideal:
Dressing and Installing Costume Exhibitions
Tae Smith
Public Programs
April 16, 2015
April 16, 2015
The Art of Encryption:
Music-Image-Text in Michael Maier’s Alchemical…
Donna Bilak
Research / Academic
April 15, 2015
April 15, 2015
Elephant in the Room? Majolica…
The Majolica International Society Lecture…
Martina Droth
Research / Academic
April 14, 2015
April 14, 2015
Is a Crocodile a Work of Art?
Seeing Objects in the Early…
Paula Findlen
Research / Academic
April 8, 2015
April 8, 2015
From Industry to Art:
Collecting and Exhibiting Textiles at…
Dilys Blum
Research / Academic
April 1, 2015
April 1, 2015
Conservation Conversation:
“Conservation and the Future”
Salvador Muñoz Viñas, Paul Eggert
Research / Academic
March 31, 2015
March 31, 2015
Hiding in Plain Sight:
The 20th-Century Apartment House in New York
Andrew S. Dolkart
Research / Academic
March 25, 2015
March 25, 2015
Architecture, Art, and Liturgical Space in Postwar America
The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond…
Gretchen Townsend Buggeln
Research / Academic
March 17, 2015
March 17, 2015
‘The Magnificent Seven’
The Great Fāṭimid Rock Crystal Ewers
Jeremy Johns
Research / Academic
March 5, 2015
March 5, 2015
Conservation Conversation:
“Conserving Indigenous Objects and Cultures”
Miriam Clavir, Jim Enote
Research / Academic
February 25, 2015
February 25, 2015
Vernis Martin: French Lacquer of the 18th Century
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
Monika Kopplin
Research / Academic
February 24, 2015
February 24, 2015
Isabella d’Este’s Painted Service by Nicola d’Urbino:
From Creation to Display.
Valerie Taylor
Research / Academic
February 23, 2015
February 23, 2015
Relay and Delay:
Triumphal Processions in the Era of the Post
Shira Brisman
Research / Academic
February 4, 2015
February 4, 2015
Videoconference Series:
“Technical Art History and Materials…
Erma Hermens
Research / Academic
January 26, 2015
January 26, 2015
Trouble the Water:
Superstorm Sandy and the Preservation of Place
Christopher Mulé
Research / Academic
January 21, 2015
January 21, 2015
Videoconference Series:
“Technical Art History and its…
Georg Josef Dietz
Research / Academic
January 12, 2015
January 12, 2015
Videoconference Series:
Technical Art History: “Damage”
Ivan Gaskell
Research / Academic
December 15, 2014
December 15, 2014
Videoconference Series:
Technical Art History: “A Farewell to the Humanities?”
Arjan de Koomen
December 8, 2014
Interchanges, Workshop Dynamics and Material Matters:
The Case of Norman Palermo
Ruggero Longo
Research / Academic
December 4, 2014
December 4, 2014
Turned on by a Touch:
The Light Switch and Everyday Life
Sandy Isenstadt
Research / Academic
December 3, 2014
December 3, 2014
Ransom in the Early Modern Mediterranean:
Exchanging Muslim for Christian Captives
Research / Academic
December 1 – November 10, 2014
December 1 – November 10, 2014
From Ancient to Modern, Interdisciplinary…
Paula Hohti, Eva Andersson Strand, Luise Ørsted Brandt, and Miguel Ángel Andrés-Toledo
Research / Academic
November 19, 2014
November 19, 2014
From Analogue to Digital:
Documenting the History of Computer-generated Art and Design
Douglas Dodds
Public Programs
November 18, 2014
November 18, 2014
Faith and Fate:
Researching the Occult in Islamic…
Rachel Parikh
Research / Academic
November 11, 2014
November 11, 2014
The Spanish Farthingale:
Women, Fashion, and Politics…
Amanda Wunder
Research / Academic
November 5, 2014
November 5, 2014
Technical Art History:
Art and Science, a Marriage Made in Heaven?
Erma Hermens
Research / Academic
November 3, 2014
November 3, 2014
Panic in the Parlor:
Reporting and Reading Pictorial Newspapers…
Joshua Brown
Public Programs
October 30, 2014
October 30, 2014
Signal Images:
Art and Telegraphy in Post-Revolutionary France
Richard Taws
Research / Academic
October 28, 2014
October 28, 2014
Unbinding Conservation:
Observations on the Past, Present,…
Alexis Hagadorn
Research / Academic
October 27, 2014
October 27, 2014
Paying for the Sultan’s Pouf:…
Georges Selz Lectures on 18th-…
Clare H. Crowston
Research / Academic
October 21, 2014
October 21, 2014
Atmosphere and Art: Kulturgeschichte, Period…
The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond…
Kathleen Curran
Research / Academic
October 14, 2014
October 14, 2014
Intimate Heritage:
Recent Trends in Japanese History Museums
Jordan Sand
Research / Academic
October 13, 2014
October 13, 2014
Dog Soldiers Don’t Need Picasso:
Recovering the Indigenous Materiality of…
Castle McLaughlin
October 8, 2014
Blending Handwork and Thought:
Henry Wilson’s Designs for Silver
Roisin Inglesby
Research / Academic
October 7, 2014
October 7, 2014
Rarity-Booty-Furnishing:
Textiles from the Islamic World…
Barbara Karl
Research / Academic
October 6, 2014
October 6, 2014
Material Culture as the Economic…
Pre-industrial Europe and Global Trade
Francesca Trivellato
Research / Academic
October 1, 2014
October 1, 2014
Conserving Royal Treasures:
Secrets of the Workshop
Yannick Chastang
Research / Academic
September 8, 2014
September 8, 2014
Restoring Troubled Water:
Andrew Revkin in Conversation with…
Mary Miss, Charles Vörösmarty, Andrew Revkin
Public Programs
June 19, 2014
June 19, 2014
Sonidos Amazónicos:
An Evening of Colombian Music and Poetry
Juan Carlos Galeano, Francisco Roldán, Olfary Gutiérrez
Public Programs
May 29, 2014
May 29, 2014
Design for a Better World
Paul Makovsky, Lucy Salamanca, Andreas Vaa Bermann
Public Programs
May 20, 2014
May 20, 2014
Symposium—
Majolica: A World View
Rebecca Wallis, Oliva Rucellai, Yassana Croizat-Glazer, Cristina Ramos e Horta, Susan Weber, Orsolya
Research / Academic
May 16, 2014
May 16, 2014
Beads and Buttons from Briare:…
The Paul and Irene Hollister Lectures on Glass
Ines Rotermund-Reynard
April 29, 2014
Case Study in Collaboration:
Conserving Thousands of Lost Medieval Hebrew Manuscripts
Judith Olszowy-Schlanger, Michelle Chesner
Research / Academic
April 24, 2014
April 24, 2014
Material Culture:
The Concept and its Use in Historical Perspective
Nathan Schlanger
Research / Academic
April 23, 2014
April 23, 2014
Reflections of Rulership in Wari Tapestry-woven Tunics
Susan Bergh, Nicola Sharratt
Public Programs
April 22, 2014
April 22, 2014
Symposium—Objects and Power:
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Medieval…
Abigail Balbale
April 11, 2014
Figure/Ground: Curating Waterweavers
Jorge Lizarazo, Susana Mejía, José Roca, Gregory Volk
April 11, 2014
The Painted King:
Art, Activism, and Authenticity in Hawai’i
Glenn Wharton
Research / Academic
April 9, 2014
April 9, 2014
Twelfth-Century Architecture as Incipient Globalism:
Egypt, India, and Medieval Ethiopia
Finbarr B. Flood
Research / Academic
April 8, 2014
April 8, 2014
Twelfth-Century Architecture as Incipient Globalism:…
Iris Foundation Awards Lecture
Finbarr B. Flood
Research / Academic
April 8, 2014
April 8, 2014
Symposium—
Material Reformations: Towards a Material Culture of Protestantism
Research / Academic
April 3, 2014
April 3, 2014
Classical Spies:
American Archaeologists with the OSS…
Susan Heuck Allen
Research / Academic
April 2, 2014
April 2, 2014
Les derniers goûts de France:…
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
Max Tillmann
Research / Academic
April 1, 2014
April 1, 2014
From Legible Text to Magical Pattern
Arabic Inscriptions in Muslim and Christian Spain
Abigail Balbale
March 5, 2014
How To Do Things with…
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
Birgitt Borkopp-Restle
Research / Academic
February 25, 2014
February 25, 2014
Design Futures:
Service Design for Social Innovation
Lara Penin
Research / Academic
February 19, 2014
February 19, 2014
Conserving Relics of the Classical Past:
Civic Bodies and the Preservation…
William Stenhouse
Research / Academic
February 12, 2014
February 12, 2014
Material Matters:
Early Scientific Inquiry in Archaeology…
Francesca Bewer, Laurent Olivier
February 11, 2014
“Intimately and Unquestionably Our Own”:
A Curator’s Perspective on An American Style
Public Programs
January 23, 2014
January 23, 2014
Eighteenth-Century Architectural Drawings in Context:
A Study Day at the…
Tours / Education
January 16, 2014
January 16, 2014
Village Vanguards:
The Karasz Sisters, Djuna Barnes,and their Milieu
Public Programs
January 9, 2014
January 9, 2014
A Dutch Mystic in the New World
Reverend Everardus Bogardus (1607-1647) and His Callings
Willem Frijhoff (Early Modern History, Free University, Amsterdam)
Research / Academic
January 1, 2014
January 1, 2014
Men of Labor and Leisure:
Defining Masculinity in Georgian Portraiture and Fashion
December 19, 2013
Fowler at Fifty:
Museum Collections and the Challenge of the Contemporary
Marla C. Berns
Research / Academic
December 10, 2013
December 10, 2013
Polychromatic Pleasures:
Decorating with Color in Nineteenth-Century France
Laura Kalba
Research / Academic
December 3, 2013
December 3, 2013
Towards Autonomous Design:
The Ornament Print in the…
Femke Speelberg
Research / Academic
November 20, 2013
November 20, 2013
“Ghost of Fashion Past:
Material Culture and the Debris…
Giorgio Riello, Sarah Scaturro
Research / Academic
November 12, 2013
November 12, 2013
Symposium—Exhibitions Research Teaching:
The Bard Graduate Center at Twenty
Research / Academic
November 8, 2013
November 8, 2013
Objects of a Passion:
Exhibiting Fashion and Dress in the Museum
Amy de la Haye
Research / Academic
October 2, 2013
October 2, 2013
Connoisseurship:
The Rembrandt Paradigm” and “Small…
David Bomford, Carlo Ginzburg,
Research / Academic
September 10, 2013
September 10, 2013
Inventing the Modern World:
Decorative Arts at the World’s Fairs, 1851–1939
Public Programs
July 25, 2013
July 25, 2013
Baysunghur’s Garden Party and Other…
Ravi and Seran Trehan…
David Roxburgh
Research / Academic
April 30, 2013
April 30, 2013
Friedman’s Pencil and Kant’s Tattoo:
Graphic Arts, Global Utopias, and the Acheiropoetic Social
Rebecca Zorach
April 10, 2013
The Double Dream of Things:…
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond…
Karin Roffman
Research / Academic
February 27, 2013
February 27, 2013
Rousseau’s, and Other Relics:
Material Memories in Later Eighteenth-Century Switzerland
Béla Kapossy
Research / Academic
February 20, 2013
February 20, 2013
Paris—Potsdam—Paris: Gilt Bronzes ‘à la…
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
Tobias Locker
Research / Academic
February 12, 2013
February 12, 2013
An Anthropology of Goods in Mediterranean Europe, 1330-1450
Daniel Smail
Research / Academic
January 30, 2013
January 30, 2013
The Studio and the Salon:
Artists, Masculinity, and Sociability in…
Daniel Harkett
Research / Academic
January 29, 2013
January 29, 2013
India Ink: Imagery of the…
Imagery of the Subcontinent in Sixteenth-Century Europe
Larry Silver
Research / Academic
January 23, 2013
January 23, 2013
Archaeology, Museums, and Tourism in Contemporary Peru
Jeffrey Quilter
Research / Academic
December 12, 2012
December 12, 2012
The Ordeals of Substance:
Material Economies of Passion and…
Aden Kumler
Research / Academic
December 5, 2012
December 5, 2012
Hero and Villain: Lafayette’s Legacies
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
Laura Auricchio
Research / Academic
November 27, 2012
November 27, 2012
Glass Plates and High-diving Horses:
Photographers of the American Circus
Public Programs
November 8, 2012
November 8, 2012
The New Chinese Museology:
Shifting Geographies of Power, Development, and Heritage
Michael Rowlands
Research / Academic
November 7, 2012
November 7, 2012
Eating Ice-Cream on the Streets of Naples:
Materiality and Ephemerality in the History of Food
Melissa Calaresu
Research / Academic
October 11, 2012
October 11, 2012
Symposium—
Beyond Representation: an Interdisciplinary Approach…
Research / Academic
September 27, 2012
September 27, 2012
Public Opening of The Islands of Benoît Mandelbrot:
Fractals, Chaos, and the Materiality of Thinking
September 21, 2012
Object Lab:
Chipstone’s 21st Century Curatorial Initiative
Jonathan Prown
Research / Academic
April 25, 2012
April 25, 2012
Majolica and Maiolica in Victorian England
The Joan Stacke Graham Lectures
Timothy Wilson
April 24, 2012
Legislating Space and Re-placing God:
Rabbinic Spatiality after the Destruction…
David Kraemer
Research / Academic
April 18, 2012
April 18, 2012
When Fashion Set Sail: Maritime…
The Françoise and Georges Selz…
Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell
Research / Academic
April 3, 2012
April 3, 2012
Wrapping Gelé:
Contemporary Manifestations of West African Headwear
Victoria Rovine
Public Programs
March 29, 2012
March 29, 2012
The Courtauld Wallet:
Metal, Marriage and Mongols in Medieval Mosul
Rachel Ward
Research / Academic
March 27, 2012
March 27, 2012
Clothed in Words:
An Evening with Harriet Walter
Introduced by Helen Willams Drutt English
March 22, 2012
Textual Threads:
Crafting Ekphrasis in the Iberian Worlds (15th–17th c.)
Alessandra Russo
Research / Academic
March 21, 2012
March 21, 2012
Media Walls:
From Mid-Century Domesticity to Smart Home Environments
Research / Academic
February 29, 2012
February 29, 2012
Encountering Asia in Eighteenth-Century France
Kristel Smentek
Research / Academic
February 28, 2012
February 28, 2012
The Making of Style:
Introducing French Decorative Arts to New York
Ulrich Leben
Public Programs
February 23, 2012
February 23, 2012
Conversation and Collaboration:
Strategies to Cultivate Meaningful Engagement with Cultural Audiences
Research / Academic
February 22, 2012
February 22, 2012
Seeing Cecil Beaton:
New York Milliners, Part II
Ellen Christine, Rod Keenan, and Jennifer Ouellette
Public Programs
February 16, 2012
February 16, 2012
From the Inside Out! The…
Tehran Lectures in Islamic Art and Material Culture
Julia Gonnella
February 14, 2012
Study Day:
Fashion and Millinery for the Opera
Barbara Cohen-Straytner, Lesley Weston, Janet Linville, and Tom Watson
Public Programs
February 10–12, 2012
February 10–12, 2012
The Actress as Artist’s Muse:
Sarah Bernhardt, Eleonora Duse, and Ellen Terry
Peter Trippi
Public Programs
February 9, 2012
February 9, 2012
Earth, Metal, Paper, and Silk:…
Seminar in Comparative Medieval Material…
Andrew Watsky
Research / Academic
February 8, 2012
February 8, 2012
Symposium—
Anthropology of Expeditions: Travel, Visualities, After-Lives
Research / Academic
February 2, 2012
February 2, 2012
The Order of the Third Bird:
Documents and Considerations
D. Graham Burnett, Sal Randolph
Research / Academic
January 25, 2012
January 25, 2012
Cardinal Mazarin: A Great Collector…
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
Isabelle de Conihout
Research / Academic
January 24, 2012
January 24, 2012
The Hatmaker’s Muse:
New York Milliners, Part I
Moderated by Phyllis Magidson
Public Programs
December 15, 2011
December 15, 2011
Khirbet al-Mafjar or Qasr Hisham?…
Tehran Lectures in Islamic Art and Material Culture
Donald Whitcomb
Research / Academic
December 13, 2011
December 13, 2011
With Every Christmas Card I Write:
American Holiday Songs 1900–1960
Public Programs
December 11, 2011
December 11, 2011
Francesco Mochi: Stone and Scale
Seminar in Renaissance and Early Modern Material Culture
Michael Cole
November 30, 2011
Bellangé, Ebénistes à Paris: A…
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
Sylvain Cordier
October 25, 2011
A Mad Hatter’s Logic:
Stephen Jones in Conversation with…
Stephen Jones, Patricia Mears
October 20, 2011
Implements Correspondingly Peculiar: Slavery, Plantation…
The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond…
Seth Rockman
Research / Academic
October 19, 2011
October 19, 2011
Beyond the Old Silk Road:
International Influences in Glassmaking in…
Florian Knothe
Research / Academic
October 11, 2011
October 11, 2011
Doris Duke’s Shangri La:
Architecture, Landscape, and the Islamic Arts
Research / Academic
October 5, 2011
October 5, 2011
For the Royal Pleasure:
French Furniture made for the…
Ulrich Leben
Research / Academic
October 4, 2011
October 4, 2011
Being English:
An Exploration of Identity Through…
Chris Gosden
Research / Academic
September 21, 2011
September 21, 2011
How Jesus Celebrated Passover:
Some Early Modern Readings of the Last Supper
Anthony Grafton
Research / Academic
September 7, 2011
September 7, 2011
Massimo and Matter:
Shaping the Knoll Identity
Moderated by Alice Twemlow
Public Programs
June 2, 2011
June 2, 2011
Suzanne Tick and Hazel Siegel:
Material Thinking
Moderated by Matilda McQuaid
Public Programs
May 25, 2011
May 25, 2011
The “Pleasures of Surprise” in…
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
Susan Taylor-Leduc
Research / Academic
April 27, 2011
April 27, 2011
Heritage as Therapy:
The Materiality of Uplift in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Research / Academic
April 20, 2011
April 20, 2011
The Body in the Library:
Structure and the Collection of…
David Hancock
Research / Academic
April 13, 2011
April 13, 2011
Twine and Braid:
Origins, Materials, and Meaning of the Chilkat Robe
Evelyn Vanderhoop
Public Programs
April 8, 2011
April 8, 2011
The Mahogany Connection: From…
The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond…
Jennifer L. Anderson
Research / Academic
April 6, 2011
April 6, 2011
Symposium—Objects of Exchange:
Social and Material Transformation on…
Research / Academic
April 1, 2011
April 1, 2011
Forms of Distraction:
Towards a Decorative Imagination in Eighteenth-Century France
Mimi Hellman
Research / Academic
March 30, 2011
March 30, 2011
A Refined Eye:
Important Collections and Connoisseurship…
Moderated by François Louis
Public Programs
March 24, 2011
March 24, 2011
Eyes of the Flaneuse:
Women Photographers and New York City, 1890s-1940s
Mary Woods
Research / Academic
March 16–26, 2011
March 16–26, 2011
Drawing on the Past:
The Persistence of Ornament: Cloisonné in Contemporary Jewelry
Jamie Bennett, Jeanette Caines, Jeannine Falino
Tours / Education
March 11, 2011
March 11, 2011
Drawing on the Past:
Activating the Legacies of Native…
Moderated by Aaron Glass
Public Programs
March 10, 2011
March 10, 2011
Filled with Hidden Meaning:
Sacred Iconography and Buddhist…
Karl Debreczeny
Public Programs
March 3, 2011
March 3, 2011
The Crystalline Body: Fragments of…
Paul and Irene Hollister Lectures on Glass
Jeffrey Schnapp
Research / Academic
March 2, 2011
March 2, 2011
Needling: Embroidery and Satire in…
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
Melissa Hyde
Research / Academic
February 16, 2011
February 16, 2011
The Artist in the Exchange:
Charles Edenshaw, Master Haida Carver
Margaret Blackman
Research / Academic
February 10, 2011
February 10, 2011
The Warp and Weft of History:
Raphael and Le Brun…
Tristan Weddigen
Research / Academic
February 8, 2011
February 8, 2011
Scholar Zhang Peeks at Yingying:
Pictorial Aspects of Cloisonné and…
Claudia Brown
Research / Academic
February 3, 2011
February 3, 2011
The Hand of God and…
Craft and Collaboration at Arnstein Abbey
Jeffrey F. Hamburger
Research / Academic
December 1, 2010
December 1, 2010
From Gilding to Whitewash:
Aesthetics and Ethics of Distraction…
Finbarr Barry Flood
Research / Academic
November 17, 2010
November 17, 2010
A Ducal Inventory in Sixteenth-Century Portugal:
From the Caribbean to China
Nuno Senos
Research / Academic
November 10, 2010
November 10, 2010
Art’s Struggle with Judaism:
Medieval and Early Modern
David Nirenberg
Research / Academic
November 3, 2010
November 3, 2010
Gian Vincenzo Pinelli (1535-1601) and His Library:
Book Collecting and the Republic…
Angela Nuovo
Research / Academic
October 27, 2010
October 27, 2010
Do Objects have Ethnicities?: Race and Material Culture
The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond…
Fath Davis Ruffins
Research / Academic
October 20, 2010
October 20, 2010
Symposium—The Cisneros Seminar in the…
Rethinking Material Culture from the…
Research / Academic
October 12–14, 2010
October 12–14, 2010
The Materiality of Style:
The Case of Ivories from…
Marian Feldman
Research / Academic
October 6, 2010
October 6, 2010
Cosmopolitan Cosmetics:
Shiseido and Early 20th Century Japanese Advertising Design
Gennifer Weisenfeld
Research / Academic
April 21, 2010
April 21, 2010
Thinking About Things:
Studying Material Culture and Reading Objects
Margaretta Lovell
Research / Academic
April 7, 2010
April 7, 2010
What Galileo Saw and How:
Glass and its Challenges for…
Sara J. Schechner
Research / Academic
March 25, 2010
March 25, 2010
Writing the History of Polish Jews:
the Case of Emanuel Ringelblum
Samuel D. Kassow
Research / Academic
March 17, 2010
March 17, 2010
Hydraulic Engineering, Emperorship, and Ecology…
Evidence from the Visual Arts
Heping Liu
Research / Academic
March 10, 2010
March 10, 2010
Aby Warburg’s ‘Mnemosyne Atlas’:
The Story of an Unfinished Project
Claudia Wedepohl
Research / Academic
February 24, 2010
February 24, 2010
Medieval Reliquaries:
‘Minor Arts’ of Major Importance
Cynthia Hahn
Research / Academic
January 27, 2010
January 27, 2010
Citizenship and Style:
Interwar French and German Homes
Leora Auslander
Research / Academic
January 20, 2010
January 20, 2010
The Artisanal Guitar:
Craft and Community in a Neoliberal Age
Kathryn M. Dudley
Research / Academic
December 2, 2009
December 2, 2009
Reflecting on Silver:
Manufacture, Markets, and Meaning in Early New York
Marybeth DeFilippis, Beth Carver Wees, Ubaldo Vitali and Debra Schmidt Bach
Tours / Education
November 20, 2009
November 20, 2009
Germany in the World, 1600-2000:
Thinking About a New Project
David Blackbourn
Research / Academic
November 11, 2009
November 11, 2009
The Art of Illumination:
The Limbourg Brothers and…
Timothy Husband
Research / Academic
November 4, 2009
November 4, 2009
Changing Attitudes Towards Power and Palaces:
Architecture Between Umayyad ‘Desert…
Thomas Leisten
Research / Academic
October 28, 2009
October 28, 2009
Flatbush in the Seventeenth Century
Ruth Piwonka, David Voorhees, and Peter N. Miller
October 22, 2009
Symposium—Dutch New York Between East and West:
The World of Margrieta van Varick
Research / Academic
October 19–20, 2009
October 19–20, 2009
Trajectories of Value in Pintupi Painting
An Incomplete History of an Aboriginal Painting Movement
Fred Myers Anthropology, New York University
October 14, 2009
The English Press and the…
Juliet Fleming (English, New York University)
Research / Academic
September 23, 2009
September 23, 2009
Illuminating Hoentschel
A French Tastemaker and His World
Ulrich Leben
Research / Academic
November 30, 1999
November 30, 1999
