The Institute of Fine Arts is your destination for the past, present, and future of art.

The Institute: your destination for the past, present, and future of art. The Institute is a thriving center of advanced research and graduate teaching in art history, archaeology, and art conservation.

Join us for "Super/Natural: Excess, Ecologies, and Art in the Americas," the Third Annual Symposium of Latin American Art Presented by the Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) and the Rewald Endowment and co-sponsored by the Center for the Humanities at the Graduate Center, CUNY on Thursday, April 19th at the Graduate Center ...

Our program consists of three years of classroom education followed by a nine-month internship at a cultural heritage institution. Students typically specialize in one of six specialties within conservation: paper, photographs, books, paintings, objects, or …

Aug 8, 2024 · This fall Lowinger will teach a seminar on the conservation of outdoor public art and will examine a broad range of artwork types in New York City and the Hudson Valley with the students, including freestanding sculpture, tile murals, and mosaics.

The first year introduces students to an understanding of materials and technology, with a heavy emphasis on direct observation utilizing the collections of major New York City museums. Art History studies start with an introductory methodologies course (Foundations I) …

Series: Pre-Columbian Society of New York The Interconnected Mesoamerican World Speaker: Claudia Brittenham, PhD Professor of Art History and Director of the Center for Latin American Studies, The University of Chicago. learn more about the Pre-Columbian Society of New York Virtual RSVP for the Pre-Columbian Society of New York webinar

To take courses at the Institute, you must be pursuing a graduate degree at NYU or be a Visiting Student from another university's graduate art history program as part of the inter-university doctoral consortium.

The Institute of Fine Arts can trace its origins to the founding of New York University. In 1831, the painter Samuel F. B. Morse, later famous as inventor of the telegraph, became the university's first Professor of Fine Arts, teaching both the practice and history of art.

Through detailed, object-based study and historical and theoretical interpretation, our degree program provides a rigorous experience supported by interaction with the leading scholars of the Institute, New York University and exceptional access to museums, curators, conservators, and archaeologists in New York and world-wide.