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The Boca Raton Museum of Art has announced that IFA alumna Ena Heller has been appointed as Director. She will begin her new role in February 2025.

Ena Heller Appointed as Next Director of the Boca Raton Museum of Art | Boca Raton Museum of Art Image Dr. Ena Hellar Press Release | Wed October 02, 2024 Boca Raton, Florida (October 2, 2024) – The Board of Trustees of the Boca Raton Museum of Art today announced the appointment of Dr. Ena Heller as the Museum’s next director. She will start in the position February 3, 2025. Ena will join ...

Institute alumna Jessica S. Hong has been appointed Chief Curator of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art's.

­­­­­Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art names Jessica S. Hong Chief Curator | Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art Kemper Museum is a free art museum in Kansas City, Missouri that presents global contemporary art.

IFA Professor Emeritus Marvin Trachtenberg will present passages from his study of the Pazzi Chapel in Florence on October 2, 2024. The event recognizes the publication of this new book on the subject, "Authorship of the Pazzi Chapel: reading/misreading the early texts."

The Pazzi Chapel, Legend and History - Villa La Pietra SummaryMarvin Trachtenberg, Edith Kitzmiller Professor Emeritus of the History of Fine Arts, NYU The Institute of Fine Arts, Authorship of the "Pazzi Chapel: reading/misreading the early texts"

Here is a feature on IFA alum Mattos Paschal in Old Gold & Black, the student-run newspaper of Wake Forest University.

Art alumna Mattos Paschal ‘14 shares her story in the world of art sales On Sept. 12, Wake Forest alumna Mattos Paschal (’14) — who currently works as head of sales management for classics at Christie’s Auction House in New York City — returned to campus to share her story “From Scales to the Sale Room” with students and faculty alike. Paschal’s visit inclu...

The Art Institute of Chicago has appointed IFA alumna Paulina Pobocha to Chair and Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art.

Art Institute of Chicago Appoints Paulina Pobocha to Chair and Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art | The Art Institute of Chicago Art Institute of Chicago Appoints Paulina Pobocha to Chair and Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Press  › Press Releases  › Art Institute of Chicago Appoints Paulina Pobocha to Chair and Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art Share FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASESeptember 19, 2024 CHICAGO—The A...

Next week, on September 27th, join Institute alumna Esther Bell at The Clark for a celebration of her exhibition "Guillaume Lethière." The exhibition, organized in partnership with the Musée du Louvre, is the first to investigate Lethière's extraordinary career. In the afternoon session, Institute professor Meredith Martin will present "Colonial Networks: Remapping the ‘Paris’ Art World in the French Antilles."

Guillaume Lethière Symposium Join us for a symposium in celebration of Guillaume Lethière. The exhibition, organized in partnership with the Musée du Louvre, is the first to investigate Lethière's ex

The Cleveland Museum of Art has appointed IFA alumna Andria Derstine as their new deputy director and chief curator.

Andria Derstine Appointed Virginia N. and Randall J. Barbato Deputy Director and Chief Curator at the Cleveland Museum of Art | Cleveland Museum of Art Cleveland, OH (September 9, 2024)—Following a robust international search, the Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) today announces the appointment of Andria Derstine as Virginia N. and Randall J. Barbato Deputy Director and Chief Curator.

IFA alumna Pippa Mott has been appointed CEO of WAMA.

Pippa Mott appointed as WAMA's CEO | WAMA - Australia’s National Centre for Environmental Art The WAMA Board are pleased to announce that Pippa Mott has accepted the role as WAMA’s first CEO, officially starting mid September.

Vilcek Foundation cofounders Ma**ca and Jan Vilcek have endowed The Ma**ca F. and Jan. T. Vilcek Associate Curator in the Department of Arms and Armor at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, a position held by IFA alumnus John Byck.

Vilcek Foundation cofounders endow new curatorial position at The Met - Vilcek Foundation John Byck is the Ma**ca F. and Jan T. Vilcek Associate Curator in the Department of Arms and Armor at The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

There have been some exciting new discoveries at Selinunte this season, featured in Heritage Daily.

New temple discovery at Selinunte Archaeologists have discovered a small temple complex adjacent to the monumental Temple C at Selinunte, Sicily.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced the 2024-2025 Met Fellowship Cohort, which includes multiple IFA alumni and students: Clara Maria Apostolatos, Francesca Ferrari, James Hughes, Peter Johnson, and Ruth Waddington.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art announces the 2024–2025 Met Fellowship Cohort - The Metropolitan Museum of Art On September 1, The Metropolitan Museum of Art will welcome thirty-nine fellows to take part in The Met’s 2024-2025 Fellowship Program. The cohort, comprised of eleven senior and twenty-eight junior scholars, join the Museum from approximately twelve countries including Brazil, Over During THE...

The Institute will welcome Rosa Lowinger and Karen Thomas as the 2024–2025 Judith Praska Visiting Distinguished Professors in Conservation. Lowinger is the Founder and Co-Chief Conservator of RLA Conservation and has over 30 years of experience as a conservator of sculpture, contemporary art, and historic buildings. Thomas is the sole proprietor of her private conservation studio, Thomas Art Conservation LLC, specializing in the treatment of Old Masters and 19th-Century paintings for private collectors, small institutions, and the art market. Lowinger and Thomas will teach in the fall 2024 and spring 2025 semesters, respectively.

Institute alumnus Daniel Schulman is the new new Executive Director of Jewish Museum Milwaukee.

New Jewish Museum Milwaukee director brings love of art, museums | Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle Daniel Schulman loves visiting Jewish museums, and he’s visited several in Europe. "I love Jewish museums because I learn so much from them,” he said. “There's so many different ways of doing programming, and of defining a museum as a Jewish museum. I think what's so great about them is how di...

IFA alumna Francesca Ferrari will be a 2024-2025 fellow at the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art.

The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art Announces Fellows for the 2024–2025 Academic Year - The Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Leonard A. Lauder Research Center for Modern Art, a leading research organization dedicated exclusively to the study of modernism and its global and historical contexts, announced its 2024–2025 Fellowships, marking the 10th anniversary of the Max Founded....

In this travel log for The New York Social Diary, Barbara Hodes encounters Professor Clemente Marconi in Sicily and provides an illustrated tour of his archaeological dig at Selinunte. You get a sneak peak into the Selinunte museum and the archaeological labs where you can individuals piecing together shards of pottery.

What's New In Rome is Old | New York Social Diary Barbara Hodes landed in Rome during a heat wave last month (what else is new?), with three days of shopping and culture on the agenda before heading south to the beach. What a relief!

Joan Kee has been named the Judy and Michael Steinhardt Director of the Institute of Fine Arts, effective August 19, 2024.

Joan Kee Named Director of NYU's Institute of Fine Arts A scholar of modern and contemporary Asian art, Kee applies a cross-disciplinary approach to research that includes the intersection of art, law, and digital information

IFA alumna Sarah Ganz Blythe has been named Cabot Director of the Harvard Art Museums.

Sarah Ganz Blythe New Harvard Art Museums Director | Harvard Magazine Assumes Harvard post in August

We are pleased to share that Institute PhD student Shannah Rose was recently awarded the Rome Prize.

North Cape May Native Heading to Rome After Winning Coveted Fellowship Imagine being able to live in Rome for five to 10 months, having been awarded the Rome Prize — a gift of “time and space to think and work.” You will receive a stipend, workspace and room and board at the American Academy in Rome’s 11-acre campus, as one of 31 American artists and scholars [...

Institute PhD student Blake Oetting will present his paper “Charting Art’s ‘World’: Bars, Openings, Afterparties” in the Whitney Museum's 2024 ISP Critical Studies Symposium on May 19.

2024 ISP Critical Studies Symposium The Critical Studies Symposium highlights the work of the six participants in this year’s Whitney Independent Study Critical Studies Program. Each presents a paper on their current research and three discussants respond.

IFA alumna Kara Felt has been appointed Curator of Photography at the San Diego Museum of Art.

New curator of photography at San Diego museum hopes to ‘inspire a sense of discovery’ Kara Felt is the new curator of photography for the San Diego Museum of Art

IFA PhD student Shannah Rose is a recipient of the 2024-2025 Rome Prize in the category of Renaissance and Early Modern Studies.

American Academy In Rome Announces Winners Of The 2024-25 Rome Prize The 2024-25 winners of the Rome Prize were announced today. Rome Prizes are given annually to leading American artists and scholars working in the arts and humanities.

48hills published an excellent review of "Portrait of a Woman: Art, Rivalry & Revolution in the Life of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard" by IFA alumna Bridget Quinn.

'Portrait of a Woman' tells of unlikely champ for 18th century art equality - 48 hills Bay Area-based author Bridget Quinn explains why she visited one of her subject's paintings 'every day for years.'

We are pleased to share this profile of Shan Kuang, who worked as the Samuel H. Kress Fellow in Paintings Conservation as well as associate conservator, research scholar and adjunct professor at the Conservation Center.

The Alchemist: Shan Kuang With each scan and brushstroke, a detail-oriented conservator proves that the past still matters

Congratulations to Alexander Nagel, Craig Hugh Smyth Professor of Fine Arts at the IFA, on being awarded a 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship!

Three NYU Faculty Awarded 2024 Guggenheim Fellowships A composer, a visual artist, and an art historian are among the 188 individuals from 84 academic institutions who have been awarded the prestigious fellowships.

The Archaeological Institute of America announced its 2024 fellows, which includes Institute alumna Rebecca Salem.

News - Introducing the 2024 AIA Fellowship Cohort - Archaeological Institute of America AIA News AIA News news from the AIA