Yve-Alain Bois, Professor in the
School of Historical Studies, will give the 2020 A.W. Mellon
Lectures in the Fine Arts at the National Gallery of Art in
Washington, D.C.
The lecture series, titled "Transparence and Ambiguity: The
Modern Space of...
On April 26, the Institute celebrated the life and work of
Irving Lavin with an all-day event
that began with a series of scholarly discussions in the morning,
followed in the afternoon by personal remembrances.
Professor Irving Lavin (1927–2019) was an art historian
distinguished by his conviction that the study of the history of
art was the study of the history of ideas. One of the ideas he
found most exciting was the idea, born in 1930, of the
Institute...
This essay was first presented in Italian in a dialogue with
the physicist Tullio Regge, former Professor in the School of
Natural Sciences, as the fifth episode in a television series
“Dietro lo Specchio,” broadcast by RAI 2, in Turin,
Italy...
On March 14, 2018, Yve-Alain Bois,
Professor in the School of Historical Studies, was honored with the
distinguished title of Chun-tu Hsueh Chair Professor at Nanjing
University. Recognized for his expertise in the study of
20th-century European and...
The Onassis Cultural Center New York has won the Global Fine Art
Awards’ 2017 Youniversal Award, the audience award determined by
popular vote. The exhibition A World of Emotions: Ancient
Greece, 700 B.C.—200 A.D., co-curated by Angelos
Chaniotis...
Yve-Alain Bois, Professor in the
School of Historical Studies, discussed Picasso's complex
relationship with abstraction with Artsy's Abigail Cain,
saying “I thought that it was a very interesting thing. If someone
as fearless as Picasso could...
Many of the images we associate with the plague actually depict
leprosy or smallpox. In fact, there are very few images of the
Black Death from the time of the scourge.
Monica H. Green, former Member in
the School of Historical Studies, is among the...
Sharon Gerstel, Member (2010-11) in the School of Historical Studies, has been awarded the Maria Theocharis Prize by the Christian Archaeological Society in Greece.
Yve-Alain
Bois, Professor in the School of
Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study, will a
give a public lecture, “Matisse’s Scale: What’s with the
Bamboo Stick?,” on Friday, May
5, which will take place at 5:30 p.m. in
Wolfensohn...
