Public Programs

Series: Art in Advance

Wednesday, January 28, 2026, 6:00pm
Inside the 2026 Whitney Biennial

Marcela Guerrero, DeMartini Family Curator, Whitney Museum of American Art;  Drew Sawyer, Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography, Whitney Museum of American Art

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Conservation Workshop

Friday, January 30, 2026, 9:30am-5:00pm
Nanocellulose Gels for Greener Cleaning of Heritage Objects

This workshop will be held at the Conservation Center

This workshop is co-sponsored by NYU's Tandon School of Engineering and the University of the Basque Country

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Series: Southeast Asia Inititiave

Tuesday, February 3, 2026, 6:00pm

Lại Diệu Hà, artist, Nhi Lê, artist, Lumi Tan, curator, moderated by Catherine Quan Damman
Gender, Autonomy, and Performance in Vietnam: An Evening with Lại Diệu Hà and Nhi Lê

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Series: Roberta and Richard Huber Colloquium

Monday, February 9, 6:00pm

Lecture by Ignacio Szmulewicz, PhD Candidate, Architecture and Urban Studies at Catholic University
Three Pioneers of Latin American Art History in the United States: George Kubler, Pál Kelemen and Leopoldo Castedo

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Series: South-East Asian Connections: Art, History, and Archipelagos

Thursday, February 19, 2026, 6:30pm

Lecture by Jessica Rahardjo, Research Associate at the Khalili Research Centre, University of Oxford
Logics of Localisation: Vernacular Islamic tombstone traditions of Sumatra

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China Project Workshop

Friday, March 6, 2026, 6:00pm
Buddha Modern
Stanley K. Abe, Duke University

Series: Kirk Varnedoe Memorial Lecture

Thursday, March 12, 2026, 6:00pm
A Different Twentieth Century: Proposing Southeast Asian Art History Curatorially
Patrick Flores, Chief Curator of the National Gallery Singapore

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Series: Pre-Columbian Society of New York

Monday, March 23, 2026, 6:00pm
The Rabbit's Book: Reading the Princeton Vase in its Historical Context
Dr. Joanne Baron, Princeton University Art Museum

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Series: The Institutum Series on Southeast Asia

Wednesday, March 25, 2026, 6:00pm
Art and Everyday Life in Southeast Asia: A Case of Two Urban Centers
Geok Yian Goh, Nanyang Technological University Singapore

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Series: Steinhardt Strings

Saturday, March 28, 2026, 2:00 pm
NYU String Studies Chamber Music Concert Series

Series: Silberberg Lecture Series

Monday, March 30, 2026, 6:00pm
The Power of Art: The World Black Artists Made in the Americas
Ana Lucia Araujo, Howard University and Clark Art Institute

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Series: Southeast Asia Initiative

Monday, March 30, 2026
Curatorial Workshop with Ho Tzu Nyen, Artist and Curator of the Gwangju Biennale

Series: The Institutum Series on Southeast Asia

Tuesday, March 31, 2026, 6:00pm
P for Practice - Some notes on the 16th Gwangju Biennale
Lecture by Ho Tzu Nyen, Artist and Curator of the Gwangju Biennale

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Series: Artists at the Institute

Tuesday, April 7, 2026, 6:00pm
Saodat Ismailova

A conversation with artist Saodat Ismailova in conjunction with her solo exhibition opening at the Swiss Institute on January 21, 2026 and continuing until April 12, 2026

Series: Silberberg Lecture

Tuesday, April 14, 2026, 6:00pm
Photographing Sovereignty in the Transpacific Mineral Trade 
Monica Bravo, Princeton University

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Series: The Institutum Series on Southeast Asia

Wednesday, April 15, 2026, 6:00pm
Smuggling in the Straits of Melaka: Dissident Histories Eric Tagliacozzo, John Stambaugh Professor of History, Cornell University

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Series: South-East Asian Connections: Art, History, and Archipelagos

Thursday, April 16, 2026, 6:30pm
Faith in the Unknown
Anissa Rahadiningtyas, National Gallery Singapore

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Series: Steinhardt Strings

Saturday, April 18, 2026, 2:00pm
NYU String Studies Chamber Music Concert Series

Series: Kress Lecture

Tuesday, April 21, 2026, 6:00pm
A lecture by Dianne Modestini

Series: Conversations on Modern European Art

Wednesday, April 22, 2026, 6:00pm
Africaneries, or, Stylistic Dismemberment Anne Lafont, art historian and professor at École des hautes études en sciences sociales in Paris (EHESS)

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Series: Roundtables

Monday, April 27, 2026, 6:00pm
Weaving Histories into Futures: Art – People – Place
Speakers: Maia Nuku, and Dare Turner

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Series: Close Reading: Authors at the IFA

Wednesday, April 29, 2026
Lecture by Edward Sullivan

Series: Craig Hugh Smyth Lecture

Thursday, April 30, 2026 6:00pm
Lecture by Michael Cole, Columbia University

Series: Praska Lecture

Wednesday, May 6, 2026, 6:00pm
Lecture by Deborah Trupin