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IDSVA students and alumni joined artists, scholars, and educators at SECAC 2026 for several days of presentations, intellectual exchange, and community connection.

A significant new chapter in doctoral education for artists and creative thinkers.

The IDSVA community made an extraordinary showing at the University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo for the Pacific Association for the Continental Tradition (PACT) 17th Annual Meeting, a three-day conference titled Metamorphosis, held October 8–10.

A Panel Discussion Celebrating the Special Issue of Philosophy Today Saturday, November 14, 2026 | 12:00 PM EST Online via Zoom | Free and open to the public

We recently returned to a toast offered by IDSVA President Simonetta Moro and IDSVA Professor Dejan Lukic at the 2024 gathering, The Ethos of Care, hosted by the IDSVA Alumni Association in New York City in 2024.

IDSVA PhD Candidate, Nicole M. Crawford has been appointed Executive Director of Old Dominion University's Barry Art Museum in Norfolk, Virginia.

This October and November, students and alumni of the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts are presenting, chairing, and exhibiting work at conferences spanning the country and beyond.

IDSVA alumna Dr. Keren Moscovitch has been appointed Acting Chair of the Humanities and Sciences Department at the School of Visual Arts (SVA), marking a new chapter in a career that brings together scholarship, artistic practice, teaching, and academic leadership.

A new special issue of Philosophy Today dedicated to the Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo is now available online and in print. Simonetta Moro, President of IDSVA, and Santiago Zabala of ICREA/Pompeu Fabra University co-edited the issue.

Learn more about our 2026 Year in Review.

"Our Knives Will Save Us: Dispatches from a White Mountain Apache Chef" published by Penguin Random House was named a nonfiction book “Everyone Will Be Reading This Summer” by the New York Times.

IDSVA alumn, Dr. Gabriel Reed, appointed as Interim Director of School at IDSVA, effective August 1, 2026.

June is residency time at IDSVA! As part of the Topological Studies in art and philosophy, we traveled with our PhD students to Rome, Tuscany, Athens, and Venice. Along the way we were joined by extraordinary visiting faculty such as...

Dear Friends, On May 3rd we celebrated IDSVA’s 13th Commencement and the fourteen graduates receiving their PhDs in Art Theory, Philosophy, and Aesthetics. Their dissertations show how the most diverse and original ideas can take root and blossom into new knowledge.

We are pleased to announce that Dr. Adam Antonio Montoya has been awarded the 2026 IDSVA Ted Coons Dissertation Prize for the dissertation On Phantom Country: The Crypt Æsthetics of a Wilder West, directed by Dr. Dejan Lukic. The award was conferred at the IDSVA Commencement ceremony in New York City at the Morgan Library Auditorium on May 3, 2026.