Events

Talk with Erin Piñon: Eighteenth-Century Vernacular Images and the Making of an Armenian Icon

The Icon Museum and Study Center

Thursday, September 12, 12:30 pm Free Join us in welcoming Erin Piñon, Postdoctoral Fellow, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz. Erin is a specialist in early modern Armenian book arts and visual and material culture spanning Istanbul to Isfahan. She will discuss her current work, which aims to define the aesthetics of the diasporic condition between the […]

FREE

Hybrid Contemporary Russian Literature Book Group

Virtual +1 more

Sunday, September 15, 1:00 pm Free. New members always welcome. You can join in person or via Zoom. This month's book is The Ukraine by Artem Chapeye. The Ukraine is a collection of 26 pieces that deliberately blur the line between nonfiction and fiction, conjuring the essence of a beloved country through its tastes, smells, […]

Event Series Free First Sunday

Free First Sunday

The Icon Museum and Study Center

Enjoy free admission on the first Sunday of each month, courtesy of the Nypro Foundation.

Join us for a fun and free day at the Museum, where everyone can explore our iconic art collection in a whole new way!

Images within Images: Exploring Composite Icons

The Icon Museum and Study Center

The talk focuses on "composite icons"– icons consisting of two panels, usually made at different times, joined together by inserting the smaller icon into a larger panel. It presents the internal diversity of the phenomenon and reinterprets the act of insertion in order to provide a better understanding of this unusual way of reusing icons.

Free with admission

Lecture with Waldemar Deluga: Woodblocks from Mount Sinai

The Icon Museum and Study Center

Art historian Waldemar Deluga will discuss important 17th-century woodcut prints related to the monastery of St. Catherine in Sinai, Egypt. These works of art are included in the exhibition Printing Icons: Modern Process, Medieval Image on display at the Icon Museum and Study Center. Made in Lviv, one of the most beautiful cities in Central Europe, by Ukrainian artists, they are among the most rare examples of prints created in Eastern Christianity.

FREE

Closed for Thanksgiving

The Icon Museum and Study Center

The Museum will be closed on Thursday, November 28, for the Thanksgiving holiday. We will reopen to the public on Friday, November 29, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.