Past Events
Ancient Migration and Beringian Collections…
Brooke Penaloza-Patzak
November 17, 2021
Shape
Nicholas De Godoy Lopes, Geoffrey Ripert, and Hadley Jensen
June 19, 2021
Curated and moderated by Chinatown Art Brigade
June 17, 2021
Rhythm
Nicholas De Godoy Lopes, Geoffrey Ripert, and Caspar Meyer
June 16, 2021
Color
Nicholas De Godoy Lopes, Geoffrey Ripert and Jennifer L. Mass
June 8, 2021
Harley Ngai Grieco, Jennifer Tobias
May 20, 2021
The Leon Levy Foundation Lectures…
Seth Schwartz
May 19, 2021
Curated and moderated by Chinatown Art Brigade with Marlon Dylan Herrera, Yin 英, and Pati Rodriguez
May 17, 2021
Disability Cultures, Creativity, and Consciousness
Dr. Therí A. Pickens
May 15, 2021
“A Map is Not the…
Hadley Jensen, Rapheal Begay & Juliana Fagua Arias
May 13, 2021
How Brooks Brothers Once Clothed Enslaved People
Jonathan Michael Square
May 11, 2021
The Leon Levy Foundation Lectures…
Seth Schwartz
May 11, 2021
Curated by Gregory Sholette with Nandini Bagchee, Libertad Guerra, and Todd Ayoung
May 6, 2021
The Leon Levy Foundation Lectures…
Seth Schwartz
May 4, 2021
The Iris Foundation Awards Lecture
Sanchita Balachandran
April 27, 2021
Jennifer Tobias, Bard Graduate Center Library Artist-in-Residence
April 23, 2021
A Short History of Beringian…
Brooke Penaloza-Patzak
April 22, 2021
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Harley Ngai Grieco Bard Graduate Center Library Artist-in-Residence
April 16, 2021
“Exhibiting” the Assemblage of Contemporary Migration
Yannis Hamilakis
April 1, 2021
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Lia Markey & Stephanie Porras
March 17, 2021
Applied Arts Training in New York City, 1800–2020
Jennifer Tobias
January 21, 2021
A Virtual Event
Caroline Constant & Emma Cormack
October 17, 2020
A Virtual Event
Jennifer Goff & Emma Cormack
September 24, 2020
A Virtual Event
Cloé Pitiot & Nina Stritzler-Levine
August 27, 2020
A Special Event for Members
Cloé Pitiot & Nina Stritzler-Levine
June 25, 2020
Contemporary Reflection Series
June 11, 2020
Collaboration to Independence in the…
June 4, 2020
Black Art and Activism in Early-20th-Century Paris
May 7, 2020
Objects and Their Pedagogical Promise since Comenius
Ann-Sophie Lehmann
April 28, 2020
The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond…
Mary Marshall Clark and Amy Starecheski
April 16, 2020
Creating Hearts of Our People: Native Women Artists
Jill Ahlberg Yohe
April 15, 2020
Adventures in Art, Fashion, and Design
Chris Breward
April 14, 2020
Contemporary Reflection Series
April 9, 2020
The Iris Foundation Awards Lecture
Sanchita Balachandran
March 31, 2020
Contemporary Reflections Series
March 28, 2020
Spotlight on Eileen Gray’s Materials
A Gallery Tour Series
March 18, 2020
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
Sarah R. Cohen
March 17, 2020
Breaking Ground: Architecture, Gender, Activism
March 5, 2020
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
Hannah Williams
March 3, 2020
The Paul and Irene Hollister Lectures on Glass
Mark Peiser
February 25, 2020
Images of Industry from a Contested Heartland
Preston McLane
February 21, 2020
Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in Jewish Material Culture
Miriam Frenkel
February 19, 2020
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
David Pullins
February 18, 2020
Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in Jewish Material Culture
Miriam Frenkel
February 12, 2020
Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in Jewish Material Culture
Miriam Frenkel
February 5, 2020
The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond…
Michelle Erickson
January 21, 2020
Lucia Cuba, Fawn Krieger, and Otto von Busch
December 12, 2019
The Sensorial Construction of Rome…
Susanna Caviglia
December 5, 2019
Fashion, War, Displacement, and Immigration
December 5, 2019
Transcultural Processes on the Iberian…
Stefan Heidemann
November 18, 2019
Rikki Byrd, Rhea Combs, Tanisha C. Ford and Eric Darnell Pritchard
November 14, 2019
Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
November 8, 2019
Fashion and Labor in Nineteenth Century France
October 28, 2019
Marissa Nuncio, Minh-Ha T. Pham, Elizabeth Wissinger and Sara Ziff
October 24, 2019
Data Science for Art History and Art Conservation
Robert G. Erdmann
October 22, 2019
Visual Culture and National Identities…
Sophie Kurkdjian
October 17, 2019
Some Reflections on the Bauhaus at 100
Paul Betts
October 17, 2019
The Lee B. Anderson Memorial…
Matthew M. Reeve
October 16, 2019
French Fashion, Women and the First World War
October 16, 2019
The Excavations and the Reconstruction…
Yannos Kourayos
October 10, 2019
Women Designers: Chanel, Lanvin, Boué…
October 10, 2019
Campbell McGrath, Elodie Ghedin, and Anni Dorsen,
October 3, 2019
The Gayer-Anderson Twins and Their Works on Paper
Natalia Di Pietrantonio
October 2, 2019
Margaret H. Darrow, Kate Strasdin, April Calahan and Cassidy Zachary
September 19, 2019
The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond…
Charmaine A. Nelson
September 10, 2019
French Fashion, Women and the First World War
September 7, 2019
Making The Sogdians
Process, Product, and the Exploration…
Kimon Keramidas and Julie Bellemare
May 8, 2019
Creating and Curating The World between Empires
Art and Identity in the…
Blair Fowlkes-Childs and Michael Seymour
April 22, 2019
Politics and Culture in Latin American Graphic Design
April 22, 2019
The Iris Foundation Awards Lecture
Laurie A. Wilkie
April 16, 2019
Public Education Course: Highlights in…
American Corporations and Countercultures: Postwar Graphic Design
April 15, 2019
The Paul and Irene Hollister Lectures on Glass
Sandy Isenstadt
April 2, 2019
Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
March 28–29, 2019
Americana Redux
Materializing Multiculturalism during the United States Bicentennial
Catherine Whalen
March 18, 2019
Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in Jewish Material Culture
Zeev Weiss
March 5, 2019
Ancien, Nouveau et Antique
Display and Connoisseurship in a Princely Ceramics Collection
Kee Il Choi Jr.
February 28, 2019
Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in Jewish Material Culture
Zeev Weiss
February 26, 2019
Seventeenth-Century Authorship, Material and Textual
Oded Rabinovitch
February 20, 2019
Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in Jewish Material Culture
Zeev Weiss
February 19, 2019
A Digital Recreation of the…
A Contribution to the Early…
David Schwittek and Sally Webster
February 5, 2019
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
Laure de Margerie
January 29, 2019
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
Willa Z. Silverman
January 23, 2019
Giotto, Gold, and the Global Trecento
Transcultural Perspectives on the Fourteenth Century
Vera-Simone Schulz
November 20, 2018
The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond…
Charmaine A. Nelson
November 13, 2018
Design Revivals in the Twentieth Century
November 9, 2018
Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
November 1, 2018
Documenting Convergence, Divergence, and Co-existence…
Jisgang Nika Collison
October 23, 2018
The Long View
Sharon E. J. Gerstel
October 9, 2018
Blending Nature and Design
Vanessa Sellers
October 3, 2018
Spider Woman’s Children
Navajo Weavers Today
Lynda Teller Pete, Barbara Teller Ornelas
September 17, 2018
Neither Natural Nor Artificial
Material Worlds in Assyrian Scholarship
Eduardo A. Escobar
September 11, 2018
Artist Conversation
Installations by Bard Graduate Center Library Visiting Artists
Karen Mainenti and Spencer Merolla
August 16, 2018
Opening Reception
Installations by Bard Graduate Center Library Visiting Artists
Karen Mainenti and Spencer Merolla
August 1, 2018
Language Weavers
Francesca Capone, Martha Tuttle, Sarah Zapata; Moderated by Jill Magi
June 28, 2018
Women in Art Publishing: Collaborative Networks
Corina Reynolds (Small Editions), Karen Kelly & Barbara Schroeder (Dancing Foxes Press),Tammy Nguyen
May 31, 2018
Intelligent Futures
Rob Giampietro and Jonathan Lee in Conversation , Moderated by Rachel Abrams
May 23, 2018
New Discoveries in American Majolica
The Majolica International Society Lecture
Laura Microulis
May 2, 2018
Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
April 18, 2018
The Art of the Jewish Family, Lecture 3
Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in Jewish Material Culture
Laura Arnold Leibman
April 12, 2018
Between Philosophy, History, Science, and Literature
Annotated Books from the Library of Otto Neurath
Friedrich Stadler
April 11, 2018
Technology, Wondrous or Fatal
Seventy Years of Giedion’s Mechanization Takes Command
Sokratis Georgiadis
April 3, 2018
Writers Who Publish
Anna Gurton-Wachter & MC Hyland (DoubleCross Press), Isabel Sobral Campos (Sputnik & Fizzle), and Le
March 29, 2018
Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in Jewish Material Culture
Laura Arnold Leibman
March 28, 2018
How America Met the Jews
Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in Jewish Material Culture
Hasia Diner
March 22, 2018
Ingenious Inventions and the Secrets of Nature
The Marvels of Alexander the…
Elly Truitt
March 19, 2018
The Limits and Possibilities of…
Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in Jewish Material Culture
Ellen Smith
March 15, 2018
Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in Jewish Material Culture
Laura Arnold Leibman
March 14, 2018
Type, Paper, Glass, and Screws
Reading Surfaces and the Materialities of Communication
Jonathan Senchyne
March 12, 2018
Exoticizing in the Enlightenment
A Global History of Switzerland in Objects
Noémie Etienne
February 19, 2018
Designing Legacy
Marie-Antoinette and Josephine as Garden Patrons
Susan Taylor-Leduc
February 7, 2018
Savonnerie Carpets: Stages of Power
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
Wolf Burchard
February 6, 2018
The Circle and the Rectangle
Indigenous Art, Canadian Residential Schools,…
Ruth Phillips
January 17, 2018
Concert: The Early Music Revival…
Exhibition Closing Celebration
Abendmusik – Violin and Viola da gamba String Band
January 6, 2018
Carnegie, Capital, and the Kaiser
An Intellectual History of Financing Scholarship
Emily J. Levine
December 6, 2017
Bhowani Junction
Guest curated by Rochona Majumdar, introduced by Debashree Mukherjee
December 1, 2017
“Are we getting closer? Are we there yet?”
Mapping the Spaces of Poetic Inquiry
Jeanette Lynes
November 29, 2017
Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
November 27–28, 2017
Quantifying Kissinger
Computational Analysis and Data Visualization in Historical Interpretation
Micki Kaufman
November 15, 2017
Rediscovering Édouard Lièvre (1828–1886): A…
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
Olivier Hurstel
November 14, 2017
Re-examining Ethnological Materials and Ethnographic Accounts
Claire Heckel
November 13, 2017
Designer’s Spotlight Tour
Drawing Conclusions: Designing the John Lockwood Kipling Exhibition
Jeremy Johnston
November 2, 2017
Material Culture and Rabbinic Isolation
A Cultural Ecology Perspective
Azzan Yadin-Israel
October 25, 2017
Hopi Pottery Tales
Historic Museum Collections and Pueblo Pottery Futures
Lea S. McChesney
October 19, 2017
Class Divides
Reading, Writing, and Jewish Daily Life through Graffiti
Karen B. Stern
October 18, 2017
Cabinetmakers of German Origin in Eighteenth-Century Paris
A Chapter in European History…
E. Ulrich Leben
October 9, 2017
Glass, Paper & Print, Textiles, Silver, Ceramics!
October 5, 2017
Inessential Colors: A History of…
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
Basile Baudez
October 3, 2017
Materials, Affordances, and Possibilities in Vernacular Architecture
Jerry D. Moore
September 18, 2017
Artistic Skills and the Hierarchy…
A Chinese Theme through Muslim and European Eyes
Joan-Pau Rubiés
September 14, 2017
Revisits and Thick Description
Understanding the Legacy of Socialist…
Carol Yinghua Lu
August 28, 2017
Monthly Poetry Series
Wendy’s Subway Reading Series
Chris Nealon, Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal, Ada Smailbegović, Jackie Wang
May 10, 2017
From Maiolica to Majolica: The…
The Majolica International Society Lecture
Julius Bryant
May 3, 2017
Julian Talamantez Brolaski, Layli Long Soldier, Wendy Xu
April 26, 2017
From Design Studio to Marketplace:…
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
Lesley Miller
April 25, 2017
Fashion, Counter-Fashion, and Anti-Fashion
Minjee Kim
March 28, 2017
Where Books and Fabrics Merge
The Endbands of the Eastern Mediterranean Bookbindings
Georgios Boudalis
March 23, 2017
Thinking About Cultural Heritage Now
The Work of the Penn Cultural Heritage Center
Brian I. Daniels
March 21, 2017
Alumni Spotlight Lecture—Keep the Research on Your Right
Teaching, Writing, and Curating as Tributaries
Ezra Shales
March 21, 2017
The Case of Magdalena de Cao Viejo
Jeffrey Quilter
February 23, 2017
From the Antipodes to the Met
Transformative Processes in Yolngu Art
Howard Morphy
February 21, 2017
And One King to Rule Them All?
Investigating Religious and Political Landscapes…
Uthara Suvrathan
January 30, 2017
Diamonds, Sugar, and Art
Flemish Merchants in the Early Modern World
Christina Anderson
December 7, 2016
A Look at Curatorial, Conservation, and Interpretive Issues
Deborah Lee Trupin
November 30, 2016
The Françoise and Georges Selz…
Jean-François Bédard
November 15, 2016
Beyond the Renaissance Palace
The Material World of Sixteenth-Century Artisans and Shopkeepers
Paula Hohti
November 10, 2016
Out of Whole Cloth
Exploring Balinese Textiles in the Mead-Bateson Collection
Urmila Mohan
November 9, 2016
Redefining Color at Hôtel Beauharnais
The Restoration of the Furniture…
Ulrich Leben
November 3, 2016
A Short History and Some Current Issues
Salvatore Settis
November 2, 2016
Mind in the Making
Reflection and the Artisanal in the Material World
Maggie Jackson
October 27, 2016
An Integrated Approach Towards Understanding…
Robert van Langh
October 19, 2016
Sponsored by the Trehan Research…
October 14, 2016
Luxury Object Artisans in the Ancient Andes
Coca and Metal Producers in…
Alicia Boswell
October 5, 2016
Toward an American Indian Abstract
The Art and Politics of Mary Sully
Philip Deloria
September 14, 2016
The Majolica International Society Lecture
Miranda Goodby
May 4, 2016
Diasporas of Art and ‘The Great Forgetting’
Violence and the Visual Unconscious…
Debora L. Silverman
April 27, 2016
Mistake or Transgression? A History of Scandalous Clothing
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
Denis Bruna
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
The Paul and Irene Hollister Lectures on Glass
Dedo von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk
March 22, 2016
Material Exchanges between West Africa and Europe, 1000–1300
Sarah M. Guérin
March 21, 2016
Conservation Conversation—A Multiplicity of Voices
The Structure of Preservation at…
Gabrielle A. Berlinger, David Favaloro
March 15, 2016
Wolf King of Glorious Memory
Culture and Ideology in Twelfth-Century…
Abigail Krasner Balbale
February 23, 2016
Cultures of Conservation “Keyword” Panel
Minimalist, Post-Minimalist, and Conceptual Art
Francesca Esmay, Sherri Irvin, Jeffrey Weiss, Glenn Wharton, Ivan Gaskell
February 23, 2016
Nam June Paik and Fluxus:
International Artist, Experience, and Insight
Inhee Iris Moon, Miwako Tezuka
December 10, 2015
Case Studies from the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Nobuko Shibayama
December 7, 2015
Textile Conservation at Historic Royal Palaces:
A 100-Year History
Charlotte Gamper
November 19, 2015
Literature Spotlight:
Writing Before Reading: The Narratives of Play
Leonard Marcus
November 19, 2015
Toys in Context:
Sweden, Scandinavia, and the Digital World
Colin Fanning, Barry Joseph, and Juliet Kinchin
November 12, 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
October 29, 2015
Family Festival:
Swedish Wooden Toys
Marionetteatern, ConstructionKids, and Phyllis Chen
October 24, 2015
The Françoise and Georges Selz…
Anne Higonnet
October 13, 2015
From Analog to Digital: 1965-2015,…
Barbara London, LoVid (Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus)
October 8, 2015
Thinking with a Photograph: Alexander…
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J.…
Marni A. Sandweiss
September 29, 2015
From Material to Digital:
New Directions in Material Culture and Museum Studies
Haidy Geismar
September 24, 2015
(Post)musings from the Edge
Being an Indigenous Curator in Pacific Paradise
Paul Tapsell
May 6, 2015
Global, Comparative, International, Transnational, and Connected Histories:
Is the Methodological Tail Wagging…
Peter Baldwin
April 29, 2015
The Majolica International Society Lecture
Martina Droth
April 14, 2015
Conservation Conversation:
“Conservation and the Future”
Salvador Muñoz Viñas, Paul Eggert
March 31, 2015
Hiding in Plain Sight:
The 20th-Century Apartment House in New York
Andrew S. Dolkart
March 25, 2015
Architecture, Art, and Liturgical Space in Postwar America
The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond…
Gretchen Townsend Buggeln
March 17, 2015
Conservation Conversation
“Knowledge in the Making: Reconstructing…
March 3, 2015 – February 21, 2017
Conservation Conversation:
“Conserving Indigenous Objects and Cultures”
Miriam Clavir, Jim Enote
February 25, 2015
Vernis Martin: French Lacquer of the 18th Century
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
Monika Kopplin
February 24, 2015
Isabella d’Este’s Painted Service by Nicola d’Urbino:
From Creation to Display.
Valerie Taylor
February 23, 2015
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
December 4, 2014
Ransom in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Exchanging Muslim for Christian Captives
Daniel Hershenzon
December 1 – November 10, 2014
From Ancient to Modern, Interdisciplinary…
Paula Hohti, Eva Andersson Strand, Luise Ørsted Brandt, and Miguel Ángel Andrés-Toledo
November 19, 2014
From Analogue to Digital:
Documenting the History of Computer-generated Art and Design
Douglas Dodds
November 18, 2014
Atmosphere and Art: Kulturgeschichte, Period…
The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond…
Kathleen Curran
October 14, 2014
Dog Soldiers Don’t Need Picasso:
Recovering the Indigenous Materiality of…
Castle McLaughlin
October 8, 2014
The New York Silver Society Lecture
Roisin Inglesby
October 7, 2014
Material Culture as the Economic…
Pre-industrial Europe and Global Trade
Francesca Trivellato
October 1, 2014
Restoring Troubled Water:
Andrew Revkin in Conversation with…
Mary Miss, Charles Vörösmarty, Andrew Revkin
June 19, 2014
Sonidos Amazónicos:
An Evening of Colombian Music and Poetry
Juan Carlos Galeano, Francisco Roldán, Olfary Gutiérrez
May 29, 2014
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
April 24, 2014
An Interdisciplinary Approach to Medieval Islamic Material Culture
April 11, 2014
Figure/Ground: Curating Waterweavers
Jorge Lizarazo, Susana Mejía, José Roca, Gregory Volk
April 11, 2014
Twelfth-Century Architecture as Incipient Globalism:…
Iris Foundation Awards Lecture
Finbarr B. Flood
April 8, 2014
Arabic Inscriptions in Muslim and Christian Spain
Abigail Balbale
March 5, 2014
Civic Bodies and the Preservation…
William Stenhouse
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
January 23, 2014
A Dutch Mystic in the New World
Reverend Everardus Bogardus (1607-1647) and His Callings
Willem Frijhoff (Early Modern History, Free University, Amsterdam)
January 1, 2014
Men of Labor and Leisure:
Defining Masculinity in Georgian Portraiture and Fashion
December 19, 2013
Museum Collections and the Challenge of the Contemporary
Marla C. Berns
December 10, 2013
Polychromatic Pleasures
Decorating with Color in Nineteenth-Century France
December 3, 2013 – December 31, 1969
Polychromatic Pleasures:
Decorating with Color in Nineteenth-Century France
Laura Kalba
December 3, 2013
Friedman’s Pencil and Kant’s Tattoo:
Graphic Arts, Global Utopias, and the Acheiropoetic Social
Rebecca Zorach
April 10, 2013
Rousseau’s, and Other Relics:
Material Memories in Later Eighteenth-Century Switzerland
Béla Kapossy
February 20, 2013
Paris—Potsdam—Paris: Gilt Bronzes ‘à la…
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
Tobias Locker
February 12, 2013
India Ink: Imagery of the…
Imagery of the Subcontinent in Sixteenth-Century Europe
Larry Silver
January 23, 2013
Hero and Villain: Lafayette’s Legacies
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
Laura Auricchio
November 27, 2012
The New Chinese Museology:
Shifting Geographies of Power, Development, and Heritage
Michael Rowlands
November 7, 2012
Eating Ice-Cream on the Streets of Naples:
Materiality and Ephemerality in the History of Food
Melissa Calaresu
October 11, 2012
An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Nature of Things
September 27–29, 2012
Public Opening of The Islands of Benoît Mandelbrot:
Fractals, Chaos, and the Materiality of Thinking
September 21, 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
April 18, 2012
When Fashion Set Sail: Maritime…
The Françoise and Georges Selz…
Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell
April 3, 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
March 21, 2012
Conversation and Collaboration:
Strategies to Cultivate Meaningful Engagement with Cultural Audiences
February 22, 2012
Seeing Cecil Beaton:
New York Milliners, Part II
Ellen Christine, Rod Keenan, and Jennifer Ouellette
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
February 10–12, 2012
The Actress as Artist’s Muse:
Sarah Bernhardt, Eleonora Duse, and Ellen Terry
Peter Trippi
February 9, 2012
Earth, Metal, Paper, and Silk:…
Seminar in Comparative Medieval Material…
Andrew Watsky
February 8, 2012
Documents and Considerations
D. Graham Burnett, Sal Randolph
January 25, 2012
Cardinal Mazarin: A Great Collector…
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
Isabelle de Conihout
January 24, 2012
Khirbet al-Mafjar or Qasr Hisham?…
Tehran Lectures in Islamic Art and Material Culture
Donald Whitcomb
December 13, 2011
Francesco Mochi: Stone and Scale
Seminar in Renaissance and Early Modern Material Culture
Michael Cole
November 30, 2011
Georges Hoentschel’s Predecessors
October 28, 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
October 19, 2011
Beyond the Old Silk Road:
International Influences in Glassmaking in…
Florian Knothe
October 11, 2011
How Jesus Celebrated Passover
Some Early Modern Readings of the Last Supper
Anthony Grafton
September 7, 2011
The “Pleasures of Surprise” in…
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
Susan Taylor-Leduc
April 27, 2011
Twine and Braid:
Origins, Materials, and Meaning of the Chilkat Robe
Evelyn Vanderhoop
April 8, 2011
Forms of Distraction:
Towards a Decorative Imagination in Eighteenth-Century France
Mimi Hellman
March 30, 2011
A Refined Eye:
Important Collections and Connoisseurship…
Moderated by François Louis
March 24, 2011
Eyes of the Flaneuse:
Women Photographers and New York City, 1890s-1940s
Mary Woods
March 16–26, 2011
Drawing on the Past:
The Persistence of Ornament: Cloisonné in Contemporary Jewelry
Jamie Bennett, Jeanette Caines, Jeannine Falino
March 11, 2011
The Crystalline Body: Fragments of…
Paul and Irene Hollister Lectures on Glass
Jeffrey Schnapp
March 2, 2011
Needling: Embroidery and Satire in…
Françoise and Georges Selz Lectures…
Melissa Hyde
February 16, 2011
The Artist in the Exchange:
Charles Edenshaw, Master Haida Carver
Margaret Blackman
February 10, 2011
The Hand of God and…
Craft and Collaboration at Arnstein Abbey
Jeffrey F. Hamburger
December 1, 2010
From Gilding to Whitewash:
Aesthetics and Ethics of Distraction…
Finbarr Barry Flood
November 17, 2010
A Ducal Inventory in Sixteenth-Century Portugal:
From the Caribbean to China
Nuno Senos
November 10, 2010
Gian Vincenzo Pinelli (1535-1601) and His Library:
Book Collecting and the Republic…
Angela Nuovo
October 27, 2010
Do Objects have Ethnicities?: Race and Material Culture
The Mr. and Mrs. Raymond…
Fath Davis Ruffins
October 20, 2010