Americas Society - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Americas Society. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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“Tropical Is Political: Caribbean Art Under the Visitor Economy Regime” Exhibition
Tropical is Political: Caribbean Art Under The Visitor Economy Regime, curated by Marina Reyes Franco features 19 artists from the Caribbean sphere and its diasporas. Curator: Marina Reyes Franco Americas...More »
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“This Must Be the Place: Latin American Artists in New York, 1965–1975” Exhibition
Curated by Aimé Iglesias Lukin Assistant Curators: Mariana Fernández, Tie Jojima, and Natalia Viera Salgado Americas Society presents This Must Be the Place: Latin American Artists in New York, 1965–1975,...More »
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Terence Gower “The Good Neighbour”
Terence Gower was born in British Columbia, Canada in 1965. He studied at Emily Carr College, spent the early years of his practice in Vancouver, Cologne, and Mexico City, and has continued to show widely...More »
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Joaquín Orellana “The Spine of Music”
The first exhibition of the Guatemalan composer’s útiles sonoros (sound tools) in the United States, Joaquín Orellana: The Spine of Music presents these innovative instruments alongside the work of contemporary...More »
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Feliciano Centurión “Abrigo”
Americas Society presents Feliciano Centurión: Abrigo, the first solo exhibition in the United States of Paraguayan artist Feliciano Centurión (b. 1962, San Ignacio de las Misiones, Paraguay; d. 1996,...More »
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Alice Miceli “Projeto Chernobyl”
Curated by Gabriela Rangel and Diana Flatto Americas Society presents Alice Miceli: Projeto Chernobyl, a series of 30 radiographs produced in 2006-2010 and documenting the residual effects of the 1986...More »
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“Walls of Air: The Brazilian Pavilion at the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale” Exhibition
Curated by Sol Camacho, Laura González Fierro, Marcelo Maia Rosa, and Gabriel Kozlowski with the assistance of Diana Flatto and Carolina Scarborough “Walls of Air is a research exhibition model that...More »
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Victoria Cabezas and Priscilla Monge “Give Me What You Ask For”
Curated by Miguel A. López Americas Society presents Victoria Cabezas and Priscilla Monge: Give Me What You Ask For, curated by Miguel A. López (Chief Curator of TEOR/éTica and Lado V, San José, Costa...More »
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Lydia Cabrera and Édouard Glissant “Trembling Thinking”
Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Gabriela Rangel, and Asad Raza The official stories of national, ethnic, and historic identity are no longer convincing—today, these constructs have been fatally weakened...More »
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“The Metropolis in Latin America, 1830–1930” Exhibition
- Media: Drawing - Photography - Prints - Installation - Video installation
- 2018-03-22 - 2018-06-30
Organized by The Getty Research Institute Curated by Idurre Alonso and Maristella Casciato Americas Society presents The Metropolis in Latin America, 1830-1930, an exhibition that explores the impact...More »
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José Leonilson “Empty Man”
Curated by Cecilia Brunson, Gabriela Rangel, and Susanna V. Temkin In a world reverberating from the shockwave that AIDS sent through the 1980s, Brazilian artist José Leonilson (1957–1993) adapted...More »
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Erick Meyenberg “The wheel bears no resemblance to a leg”
Curated by Gabriela Rangel and Lucía Sanromán The exhibition Erick Meyenberg: The wheel bears no resemblance to a leg is the end result of the artist’s collaboration with members of the high school...More »
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Facundo de Zuviría “Siesta Argentina”
Curators Alexis Fabry and Gabriela Rangel Inspired by the vernacular architecture, design, and urban landscape of Buenos Aires, photographer Facundo de Zuviría (b. 1954) captures the intimate and often...More »
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“Told and Untold: The Photo Stories of Kati Horna in the Illustrated Press” Exhibition
Curated by Michel Otayek and Christina De León For several decades Kati Horna (née Katalin Deutsch, Budapest, 1912–Mexico City, 2000) photographed a cross-section of Mexico’s cultural life. As the first...More »
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Silvia Gruner “Hemispheres: A Labyrinth Sketchbook”
Americas Society present Hemispheres: A Labyrinth Sketchbook by Silvia Gruner, a solo show that revisits the work of the Mexican artist. Trained in the United States and Israel, Gruner is considered one...More »
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“Boundless Reality: Traveler Artists’ Landscapes of Latin America from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection” Exhibition
Americas Society and the Hunter College Art Galleries announce the opening of Boundless Reality: Traveler Artists’ Landscapes of Latin America from the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection, a selection...More »
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“Portraiture Now: Staging the Self” Exhibition
The National Portrait Gallery presents at the Americas Society Portraiture Now, a series of exhibitions that showcase some of the most creative twenty-first-century portrait artists. Portraiture Now:...More »
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“Moderno: Design for Living in Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela, 1940-1978” Exhibition
Latin American modern design in the mid-20th-century, one of the region’s most innovative chapters, is the focus of Moderno: Design for Living in Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela, 1940-1978, on view at Americas...More »
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“Spatial Acts” Exhibition
Americas Society is pleased to present Spatial Acts, a condensed selection of works by Esvin Alarcón Lam (b.1988, Guatemala), Elena Damiani (b.1979, Peru), Marcius Galan (b. 1972, U.S. and Brazil), and...More »
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Alexander von Humboldt “Unity of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt and the Americas”
Americas Society presents Unity of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt and the Americas, the first exhibition in New York to focus on the intrepid Prussian explorer, scientist, diplomat, and author. Alexander...More »
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“Within the Light Trap: Cruz-Diez in Black and White” Exhibition
Curated by Gabriela Rangel and assisted by Christina De León Venezuelan-born, Paris-based artist Carlos Cruz-Diez’s longstanding research in color has won him an international reputation as one of the...More »
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Cristóbal Lehyt “Iris Sheets”
Cristóbal Lehyt’s (b. 1973) approach to site-specificity questions the immediate perception of sight (and the site) as a device of cultural translation: what you see is not what you get. For Lehyt, site-specific...More »
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“Xul Solar and Jorge Luis Borges: The Art of Friendship” Exhibition
Xul Solar and Jorge Luis Borges: The Art of Friendship is an exhibition that explores friendship as a cosmopolitan agency, which informed Argentine art and culture through the intellectual exchange between...More »
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"Prussian Blue – Memory After Representation: Yishai Jusidman" Exhibition
Yishai Jusidman (b. Mexico City, 1963) finds in his new series an alternative way to address the meeting of collective memory and aesthetics in order to deal with major concerns of both contemporary memorials...More »
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"Gego: Origin and Encounter Mastering the Space" Exhibition
In commemoration of the one hundredth anniversary of artist, Gertrud “Gego” Goldschmidt (1912-1994), Americas Society will co-present Gego: Origin and Encounter, Mastering the Space with Sala Mendoza and...More »
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"For Rent: Consuelo Castañeda" Exhibition
"For Rent: Consuelo Castañeda" (Havana, Cuba, 1958) is the first of a series of three annual exhibitions from 2011–2013. The concept of "For Rent" transfers the use and symbolic value of the Americas...More »
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Arturo Herrera "Les Noces (The Wedding)"
Arturo Herrera: Les Noces (The Wedding) is an exhibition anchored by a digital projection—the artist's first work to incorporate sound and moving images. This two-channel projection is based on the 1923...More »
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"Shattered Glass" Exhibition
Shattered Glass is the result of an outstanding effort between the Americas Society Art Gallery and the Graduate Program in Art History at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), the Museo...More »
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"Art and Myth in Ancient Peru: The History of the Jequetepeque Valley" Exhibition
This exhibition organized by the Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI) presents an important selection of pre-Columbian objects that span from the time of the Cupisnique Culture to the Inca conquest. The pieces...More »
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"Media a la Minujín: some notes" Lecture
A lecture in conjunction with the exhibition Marta Minujín: MINUCODEs. Speakers: Judi Rodenbeck (Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art, Sarah Lawrence College) and Jose Luis Blondet (Co-curator) About...More »
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Marta Minujín "MINUCODEs"
Marta Minujín is a prominent voice of the Argentine neo-avant-garde art scene of the 1960s and 70s, with a brilliant international career that helped define the discussion about media, performance, and...More »
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Darío Escobar "PINTA Art Fair Launch" Artist Talk
The launch event for PINTA Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art Fair 2009 will feature Darío Escobar, a visual artist born and based in Guatemala City. Escobar will discuss his work and recent projects...More »
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Fernell Franco "Amarrados [Bound] "
Fernell Franco (Cali 1942-2006) is considered one of the few photographers who developed a distinct lyrical view of the shift towards modernity in Latin America. This exhibition is focused on the homonymous...More »
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"Dias & Riedweg...and it becomes something else" Exhibition
Mauricio Dias and Walter Riedweg, a duo of artists based in Rio de Janeiro, have fused visual and performance art to develop a cohesive body of video installations that delves into the poetic and critical...More »
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"Moon Tears: Mapuche Art and Cosmology" Exhibition
This exhibition elucidates the meaning of the symbolic, social, and artistic landscape of Mapuche culture and history. The Araucanians, known today as the Mapuche, successfully resisted European intrusion...More »
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Fernando Bryce "Dialogues between Artists and Curators from the Western Hemisphere"
Fernando Bryce has been chosen as pinta 2008's Honoree Artist. Bryce's artworks narrate alternative versions of history throughout a series a drawings that reproduce images, documents and texts, elaborating...More »
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Carlos Cruz-Diez "(In)formed by Color"
Americas Society will present Carlos Cruz-Diez’s first solo show in a major U.S. cultural institution. Focusing on the relationship between color and perception, the exhibition will increase the visibility...More »
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"The City in the 21st Century" Panel Discussion
Guests examine the circulation of ideas in architecture between New York, Montreal, Toronto, and Latin America highlighting recent contributions to the built environment. Panelists: • Anthony Kiendl,...More »
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"Philarmonic Orchestra of the Americas: Pre-Concert Conversation and Performance" Gala Concert
Americas Society is delighted to once again welcome Philharmonic Orchestra of the Americas' (POA) Director Alondra de la Parra, who will be joined by percussion Ensemble TAMBUCO in an intimate presentation...More »
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"The Andean Region at a Crossroads: Economic, Political, and Security Prospects" Art Talk
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"Diego Rivera: His Murals and the Construction of Mexican Nationalism" Panel Discussion
Panelists: Juan Rafael Coronel Rivera (Co-editor of Diego Rivera: the Complete Murals), Dr. Javier Garciadiego (President, El Colegio de México), and Dr. Robin Adèle Greeley (University of Connecticut). Participants...More »
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Melvin Charney "Between Observation and Intervention"
Melvin Charney's site-related installations, drawings, photographs and montages have raised questions and stimulated discussion on the nature of the city and the connections between people, the meaning...More »
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Graciela Iturbide "Torrijos: The Man and the Myth"
Torrijos: The Man and the Myth is a unique exhibition of never-before-published photographs of former Panamanian leader Omar Torrijos by Graciela Iturbide, one of Mexico's most celebrated photographers....More »