2026 Shouky Shaheen Lecture | “The Life-Scale Revolution in European Painting” with Alexander Nagel, NYU Institute of Fine Arts

Join us for our 2026 Shouky Shaheen Lecture in Art History, “The Life-Scale Revolution in European Painting” with guest speaker Alexander Nagel, Craig Hugh Smyth Professor of Fine Arts at the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University. This lecture will take place on February 19th at 5:30 PM in room S150 of the Lamar Dodd School of Art.

Speaker Bio

Alexander Nagel is Craig Hugh Smyth Professor of Fine Arts at the Institute of Fine Arts. He is the author of Amerasia (with Elizabeth Horodowich) (ZONE Books, 2023), Medieval Modern (Thames and Hudson, 2012), The Controversy of Renaissance Art (University of Chicago Press, 2011), Anachronic Renaissance (with Christopher Wood) (ZONE Books, 2010), and Michelangelo and the Reform of Art (Cambridge University Press, 2000).

Shouky Shaheen Lecture Series

The Shouky Shaheen lecture is given annually at the Lamar Dodd School of Art by an internationally recognized artist or scholar at the Dodd. This lecture was established through the generosity of Doris Shaheen as a birthday gift to her husband, Shouky.