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2026 Calendar

Jan

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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Feb

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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Mar

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

Ancient Maya ceramic vessel with fine-line illustrations of a seated deity, a rabbit, and hieroglyphs.

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

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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, 12:00pm
The Shapes of Practice
Curatorial workshop with Ho Tzu Nyen, Artist and Curator of the Gwangju Biennale
(Duke House, East Basement Seminar Room)

In-person only, open to the IFA community, NYU Department of Art History students, and area graduate students.

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

Apr

Series: China Project Workshop

Friday, April 3, 2026, 6:00pm
Richard M. Barnhart, Yale University

Richard M. Barnhart will present a new project titled “An Anonymous Chinese Painting of Unknown Subject and Date.”

The discussion will be moderated by Jonathan Hay (Institute of Fine Arts, NYU).

Series: Artists at the Institute

Tuesday, April 7, 2026, 6:00pm
Saodat Ismailova
Amanat: Ecologies of Trust

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Series: The Institute of Fine Arts & The Frick Collection
Symposium on the History of Art

Thursday, April 9-10, 2026

The Frick Collection and the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University jointly sponsor the annual Symposium on the History of Art for graduate students in the northeastern United States. Speakers are nominated by their doctoral programs to present original research in any field of art history.

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Series: Silberberg Lecture

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

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

Series: Steinhardt Strings

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

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Pre-Columbian Society of New York

Monday, April 20, 2026, 6:00pm
The Powerful Beings of the Cupisnique-Chavín World
Hugo C. Ikehara-Tsukayama, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art-Cornell University

Series: Kress Lecture

Tuesday, April 21, 2026, 6:00pm
At My Easel: Thoughts After Fifty Years
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)