IFA-Frick Symposium on the History of Art
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.
2021 Symposium on the History of Art
Friday, April 16, 2021, 3:00–5:00 p.m.
Friday, April 23, 2021, 3:00–5:00 p.m.
Friday, April 30, 2021, 3:00–5:00 p.m.
Friday, May 7, 2021, 3:00–5:00 p.m.
The Symposium will be held via Zoom, with live captioning during each session. Registration for this free program is open from mid-March until the final session on the website of the Institute of Fine Arts.
Details and Registration Program
2020 Program | 2019 Program | 2018 Program | 2017 Program
2016 Program | 2015 Program | 2014 Program | 2013 Program
Historic information relating to the Symposium may be found in our Archives.
Digital Art History Symposia
Technological Revolutions and Art History: A Four-Part Symposium, 2020-21
Searching Through Seeing: Optimizing Computer Vision Technology for the Arts, 2018
Emerging Scholars Symposia
Above and Beyond: Ceiling Painting in the History of Art, 2019
Wider Worlds: Art and Audience under the Spanish Crown, 2018
Negotiating Art and Narrative, 2017
Full Circle: The Medal in Art History, 2017
Furniture and Domestic Interior, 2017
Art and War: New Perspectives, 2016
Local Heroes: Artists and the Importance of Place, 2013
Center Symposia
For more information, see Center for the History of Collecting: Symposia
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