Events

Events organized by AHNCA

About AHNCA

Founded in 1993, the association today has more than 250 members. AHNCA's goal is to foster communication and collaboration among all who are interested in art and visual culture produced between 1789 and 1914.
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Virtual Salon—Orientalism: Between Fact and Fantasy

November 5, 2026 7:00 pm
Please join us on Thursday, November 5th at 7PM Eastern Time for a Virtual Salon on Orientalism: Between Fact and Fantasy, an exhibition on view at The Met through February 2027. The event will feature the three curators of the show, which is the first at The Met dedicated to Orientalism and the first major collaboration between the Departments of European...
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AHNCA/NCAW Virtual Salon: “Painting Conservation and Art Historical Practice”

September 29, 2026 7:00 pm
Please join us on Tuesday, September 29 at 7pm ET for the Virtual Salon, “Painting Conservation and Art Historical Practice.” Two eminent painting conservators, Joyce Hill Stoner and Amber Kerr, will discuss the issues that guide their approaches to restoration, fruitful collaborations with colleagues across the field, and how art historians can engage with their work to enrich their own research. Isabel L. Taube, Co-Managing Editor, and Kimberly Orcutt, Executive Editor, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide will moderate this online event, organized by NCAW, and part of a series cosponsored by AHNCA and the Dahesh Museum of Art....
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Virtual Salon: Exhibiting Mary Cassatt

April 17, 2026 12:00 pm
Please join us on Friday, April 17 at 12pm Eastern Time for a Virtual Salon on several exhibitions featuring Mary Cassatt that mark the centenary of her death. Curators from the Musée d’Orsay, National Gallery of Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Saint Louis Art Museum, and the National Portrait Gallery, London, will discuss their exhibitions...
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Spring 2026 Issue of Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide Available

The spring 2026 issue of Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide is now live! Head over to www.19thc-artworldwide.org to check out new articles and book and exhibition reviews. Below is the table of contents: NCAW Spring 2026, Vol. 25, Issue 1Editors’ Welcome Articles Outsiders: Black Harem Eunuchs in Gérôme’s Orientby Brigid M. Boyle Harriet Hosmer and the Anatomy of Neoclassical Sculptureby Elizabeth Keto Recipient...
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2026 Mervat Zahid Cultural Foundation Prize Winners

The Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2026 Mervat Zahid Cultural Foundation Prize, of the Dahesh Museum of Art, given for a distinguished presentation at the 23rd Annual Graduate Student Symposium in Nineteenth-Century Art, held on March 14, 2026. This year, two individuals received the award: Nathanaël Lapierre, Northwestern University, for “‘It...
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Twenty-Third Annual Graduate Student Symposium in Nineteenth-Century Art: Keynote Lecture

March 14, 2026 2:55 pm
“Machine in the Garden: Aesthetic Infrastructure and the Paris Exposition Universelle 1867”Amy F. OgataProfessor in the Department of Art HistoryUniversity of Southern California Distinguished RespondentS. Hollis ClaysonProfessor Emerita of Art History and Bergen Evans Professor Emerita in the HumanitiesNorthwestern University Register: tinyurl.com/AHNCAgrad-symposium...