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Humoral Variations: Galen and his Modern Interpreters

Exhibition Event

This virtual event is co-presented by The Center for Ballet and the Arts at NYU and ISAW. Registration is required at: https://humoral-variations.eventbrite.com

Brooke Holmes and Jennifer Homans discuss the theory and imagination of the four humors and the fluid body in Galen and his predecessors in antiquity, before turning to modern ideas of the humors in George Balanchine’s The Four Temperaments (1946) and contemporary artist Martha Friedman’s dynamic sculpture “Pore” (2015), made in collaboration with the dancer and choreographer Silas Riener.

This virtual event is in connection to ISAW’s exhibition The Empire's Physician: Prosperity, Plague, and Healing in Ancient Rome on view now.

A Zoom link will be provided upon registration. Closed captioning (CART) will be provided. If further accommodations are required, please email Courtney Sams at courtney.sams@nyu.edu.

The Empire's Physician: Prosperity, Plague, and Healing in Ancient Rome is made possible by generous support from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) and the Leon Levy Foundation. Additional support provided by Dr. Angelo D. Reppucci.