Yale Bulletin and Calendar

October 19, 2001

Volume 30, Number 7

Curators to discuss museum's
changing focus on Latin America

The organizers or curators of major international museum exhibitions, including the Guggenheim Museum's soon-to-be-opened "Brazil Body & Soul," will take part in a campus symposium Friday and Saturday, Oct. 26 and 27.

Titled "Grand Expositions: Iberian and Latin American Modernisms in the Museum," the symposium will explore the change in critical perspectives on historical modernisms and will feature panels on avant-garde art and literature, as well as women artists.

The symposium will begin on Friday at 2 p.m. with a panel discussion on "Brazilian Modernism in the Museums." Panelists include Edward Sullivan of New York University, who organized the Guggenheim's "Brazil Body & Soul"; Paulo Herkenhoff of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, who organized "The São Paulo Bienal"; Jorge Schwartz of the Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil, who organized "Brasil, 1920-1950" in Valencia; and Tiago C.P. dos Reis Miranda of the Comissão Nacional para las Comemorações dos Descobrimentos Portugueses in Lisbon, organizer of the exhibition "Olhares Modernistas" in the Museu do Chiado in Lisbon.

The discussion will be followed by a debate on the exhibitions by Kellie Jones, assistant professor of the history of art and professor of African American Studies, and Aracy Amaral of the Universidade de São Paulo.

Saturday's events will begin at 9:30 a.m. with a discussion of the topic "Two Grand: Literary Vanguards and the Expositions." Later, at 2 p.m., there will be a panel on "Three Grand: Museums and Things." Among the topics being explored in these sessions are women writers and the avant-gardes in Latin America; the avant-garde and revolution in Mexico; Brazilian modernism; the Luso-Hispanic avant-garde; encounters between the Catalan poet J. V. Foix and artist Salvador Dali; and Iberian and Latin American women artists.

The symposium will be accompanied by a book display in Sterling Memorial Library, 120 High St. This and other symposium events are free and open to the public.

K. David Jackson, professor of Portuguese, organized "Grand Expositions." The symposium is sponsored by the Kempf Fund, the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, the Council on Iberian and Latin American Studies, the Woodward Fund, the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, the Malcolm Batchelor Fund, the Department of the History of Art, Sterling Memorial Library, the Art and Architecture Library and the Whitney Humanities Center.

For further information, send e-mail to k.jackson@yale.edu.

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