Sharon Hecker lectures and organizes conferences on Italian modern and contemporary art.
She regularly speaks and conducts workshops on cultural heritage and issues surrounding due diligence, expertise, authenticity and attribution between art history, the art market and art law.
See below for recent and upcoming events.

WATCH NEW LECTURE: “Mutually Impressed and Distanced: Luciano Fabro’s Creative Collaborations with Women”. Magazzino Da Casa, Lecture at Magazzino Italian Art. April 3, 2021 watch

 

Dr. Hecker is available for curatorial projects, research, lectures, workshops and consulting.

PODCASTS

Remodeling a Lost Wax Technique: The Methods of Medardo Rosso. Brill. April 13, 2021 listen

The Art Elevator Episode #3 – Dr. Sharon Hecker on “Sculpture and Light.” The Art Elevator. Febuary 9, 2021 listen

The Modern Art Notes Podcast: Medardo Rosso. February 9, 2017 listen

INTERVIEWS & TALKS

The Italian Studies Program at the American University of Rome presents an open discussion with some of the authors of the volume Female Cultural Production in Modern Italy: Literature, Art and Intellectual History, edited by Sharon Hecker and Catherine Ramsey-Portolano. November 29, 2023. Read more

Curator, Law & Insurance. Il ruolo del curatore nell’istituzione museale:
prospettive, criticità e comparazione. Triennale Milano. October 12, 2023. Read more

Luciano Fabro Panel Discussion with Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Sharon Hecker, and Gedi Sibony. Paula Cooper Gallery. May 11, 2023. Read more

Poteri e nuove esposizioni: tra scelte e responsabilità. Università degli Studi di Milano. May 5, 2023.

Sharon Hecker will be speaking with Raffaele Bedarida (Cooper Union) on “Curating Fascism” at the American Academy in Rome, moderated by Marla Stone. The seminar is part of Università di Roma La Sapienza’s Summer School “The Cultural Heritage and Memory of Totalitarianism” directed by Franca Sinopoli and Franco Baldasso. June 17, 2022. Read more

Art and Law talk at the Università degli Studi di Milano. June 17, 2022. Read more

Harvard Art Museums Summer Institute for Technical Studies in Art (SITSA) graduate program. Sharon Hecker will be speaking together with SITSA director and historian of bronze sculpture practices Francesca Bewer, sculptor and archeometallurgist Andrew Lacey and Adam Lowe, mastermind of digital art FACTUM ARTE and Factum Foundation. June 13, 2022. Read more

European Postwar Contemporary Art Forum Book Talk: Sharon Hecker and Silvia Bottinelli, eds., Lead in Modern and Contemporary Art (Bloomsbury). June 2, 2022.

senzamargine. Passaggi nell’arte italiana a cavallo del millennio. June 10, 2022. Read more

Workshop on due diligence for art at the Master’s in Gestione Innovativa dell’Arte, Università di Pavia. May 27, 2022 Read more

Cultural Memory of Past Dictatorships: Narratives of Implication in a Global Perspective – Seminar Series and Symposium. Sharon Hecker and Raffaele Bedarida (The Cooper Union) Curating Fascism: Exhibitions and Memory from the Fall of Mussolini to Today. May 20, 2022.

CIMA international conference “Staging Injustice Study Days”. Sharon Hecker and Catherine Ramsey-Portolano “Milano Capitale Im-morale: the Prostitute as Literary and Artistic Symbol of Social Deviance”. April 30, 2022. Read more

“Building Gender Studies Networks in Rome” at the British School at Rome. Sharon Hecker and Catherine Ramsey-Portolano, “Female Cultural Production in Modern Italy: Literature, Art and Intellectual History. A new edited volume in progress”. March 24, 2022.

A recording of “The Production of the Self: Conversations about Marisa Merz” featuring a presentation by Sharon Hecker and Silvia Bottinelli. October 14, 2020. watch

L’importanza del materiale, delle tecniche e della provenienza di un’opera d’arte per una corretta due diligence. Quid Magazine.
April 1, 2020

Presentazione del libro “Female Cultural Production in Modern Italy”. Palazzo Ducale. February 8, 2024
LA PORTINAIA (CONCIERGE) di Medardo Rosso. Giornata di studio. Il Divisionismo, Pinacoteca della Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Tortona. June 9, 2023
Sharon Hecker’s lecture on Carla Subrizi’s “Note a Margini” to Gianfranco Baruchello’s Psicoenciclopedia Possibile at the Center for Italian Modern Art (CIMA), New York, introduced by Massimiliano Gioni, Director of the New Museum.
Mutually Impressed and Distanced: Luciano Fabro’s Creative Collaborations with Women. Magazzino Da Casa. 

April 3, 2021
Il valore del lavoro intellettuale femminile in Italia – di Sharon Hecker e Catherine Ramsey. March 7, 2021

A recording of “The Production of the Self: Conversations about Marisa Merz” featuring a presentation by Sharon Hecker and Silvia Bottinelli.

Philadelphia Museum of Art. 
October 14, 2020.
WHAT’S NEXT | Episode 2: On Curating.
May 23, 2020

WHAT’S NEXT? A Conversation between Generations: the Art World and its Future Challenges. April 27, 2020
Interview with Andrea Concas.
February 26, 2020

LECTURES

“Monuments without Heroes.” Lecture at NYU Casa Italiana Zerilli-Merimò. November 5, 2019
Medardo Rosso: Sight Unseen and Rosso’s Encounters with London. The Courtauld Institute, London. February 2, 2018
Talk by Sharon Hecker
at New York Studio School.
April 17, 2018
The Afterlife of Sculptures: Posthumous Casts in Scholarship, the Market,
and the Law. Catalogue Raisonné Scholars Association, New York.
May 1, 2018
Lecture at NYU Villa La Pietra, Florence. March 22, 2016
Medardo Rosso’s legacy for Arte povera. Lecture at the Center for
Italian Modern Art, New York.
February 9-10, 2015