Talk

MFA Fine Arts presents a lecture by the art historian Joan Kee titled “Extended Geometries of Afro Asia.”

Joan Kee is Judy and Michael Steinhardt Director and Professor at New York University’s Institute of Fine Arts and affiliated faculty at New York University School of Law. She focuses on how modern and contemporary artworks intersect with diverse phenomena from legal jurisdiction to theories of digital communication. Supported by fellowships from MoMA/Ford Foundation, the National Gallery of Art, the Clark Art Institute, the Kress Foundation and other institutions, Kee’s books include Contemporary Korean Art: Tansaekhwa and the Urgency of Method (2013) which brought international attention to postwar Korean abstraction, Models of Integrity: Art and Law in Post-Sixties America (2019), and The Geometries of Afro Asia: Art beyond Solidarity (2023), which won the 2024 Robert Motherwell Book Award. Kee is co-investigator of Building the Field of Modern Art History in Central Asia, supported by the Getty Foundation and co-organized with the Almaty Museum of Arts.

Talks is a series of lectures by artists, writers and scholars presented by MFA Fine Arts. Talks are held on Tuesdays at 3:00pm at 133 West 21st Street in Room 101C and on Zoom. Participation in the Q&A is limited to MFA Fine Arts students attending the lecture in person.

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