Roberta and Richard Huber Colloquium, Spring 2020

Friday, March 4, 2020

A Couturier at Court: Making Spanish Fashion in the Age of Velázquez

Amanda Wunder, Associate Professor, City University of New York; Lehman College and The Graduate Center

This talk goes behind the scenes at the Royal Palace in seventeenth-century Madrid to reconstruct the life and work of a long-forgotten tailor who dressed the court of Philip IV and whose creations—immortalized in Diego Velázquez’s greatest works—shaped the look and legacy of Golden-Age Spain.

LATIN AMERICAN FORUM

Recurrent short talks, panel discussions and back-to-back conversations featuring the work of emerging and established artists and scholars

ANNUAL SYMPOSIUM OF LATIN AMERICAN ART

Annual two-day symposium presenting state of the art talks from emerging and established artists and scholars in the United States and Latin America

DUKE HOUSE EXHIBITION SERIES

The Duke House Exhibition Series brings contemporary art to the walls of the Institute’s landmarked James B. Duke House. (Website in Construction).

SOUTH AND ABOUT!

Informal series of workshops showcasing in-progress research projects and peer-to-peer feedback amongst emerging scholars in New York City and surrounding areas

HUBER COLLOQUIUM ON IBEROAMERICAN ART

Series of lectures bringing scholars to explore subjects relating to the arts and material cultures of Spain and Spanish/Portugese-speaking Latin America

EVENTS CALENDAR

Photo Credits: María Magdalena Campos Pons, Bin Bin Lady, The Papaya, 2005. Courtesy of the artist and Gallery Wendi Norris, San Francisco