Past Events
See scheduled and upcoming department events here.
SPRING 2023
March 23: Legacy Russell
Executive Director & Chief Curator, The Kitchen
"BLACK MEME"
This lecture was not recorded.
February 23: Ananya Roy
Professor of Urban Planning, Social Welfar, and Geography, University of California, Losa Angeles
"Emergency Urbanism"
Lecture recording forthcoming.
SPRING 2022
February 16: Samantha Noël
Associate Professor of Art History and the Hawkins Ferry Endowed Chair in Modern and Contemporary Art,
Wayne State University
Celebrating the new book Tropical Aesthetics of Black Modernism
March 3: Kathryn Howley
Ancient Egyptian Art and Archaeology, IFA
"Ancient and Modern Body Worlds in Ancient Egyptian Art"
This lecture was not recorded.
March 24: Anna Arabindan-Kesson
African American and Black Diasporic Art, Princeton University
"Poems into Pictures: Representing the Song of Hiawatha in Black Diaspora Art"
This lecture was not recorded.
April 7: Mimi Braun, Annual Rosenblum Lecture
Distinguished Professor of Art History, Hunter College, The Graduate Center, CUNY.
"Harlequin, the Immigrant : A New Reading of Pablo Picasso's Family of Saltimbanques."
View Lecture Recording on NYU Stream >>
FALL 2021
October 7: Leila Amineddoleh
Art and Cultural Law, DAH Adjunct Faculty
"Cultural Heritage, the Law, and Looting."
View Lecture Recording on NYU Stream >>
November 4: Lisa Trever
Annual Alumni Lecture
Pre-Columbian Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
"Huaco Vision: Denaturalizing Lifelikeness in Ancient Peru."
This lecture was not recorded.
November 11: Nicole Fleetwood
James Weldon Johnson Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University
"Marking Time, Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration."