Visual Arts

Join Visual Arts at Americas Society for a panel October 16 with scholars discussing the Cuban writer-ethnographer in relation to the exhibition Lydia Cabrera and Édouard Glissant: Trembling Thinking.

Join Americas Society's Visual Arts for the October 9 opening of their exhibition focusing on the ideas developed by the prominent Caribbean thinkers.

To mark the opening of Lydia Cabrera and Édouard Glissant: Trembling Thinking, cocurators Julie Mehretu, Gabriela Rangel and Asad Raza, will discuss the Americas Society's new exhibition in a panel moderated by Hans Ulrich Obrist. 

The Brazilian artist Pedro Zylbersztajn will perform "brickwork" (2017), a physical record of the process of re/constitution of language.

Professor Iliana Cepero (The New School), independent cultural historian Celeste Olalquiaga, and artist Gustavo Prado will discuss specific incomplete architectural and urbanistic projects in Venezuela, Brazil, and Cuba, focused on interrupted and inconclusive buildings that account for transformations at the political and social level. 

In the context of Frieze Week, artist Juan Tessi will engage in a conversation with Verónica Flom, Exhibitions and Public Programs Coordinator at Americas Society, to discuss his most recent projects and exhibitions.

POSTPONED: Hoor Al Qasimi, president and director of Sharjah Art Foundation, and Gabriela Rangel, director and chief curator of Visual Arts at Americas Society, will present the recent publication Embodying, focusing on Hassan Sharif’s engagement with experimental performance from 1982–84. 

Academics, researches, and practitioners will join in a relevant discussion around public space though readings and examples of current cities of Latin America. 

Author Dr. Harper Montgomery will present her new publication The Mobility of Modernism in a discussion with Dr. Edward Sullivan.