Please join us for a talk with Senior Curator Emeritus Dr. Marcus Burke about his recently-opened exhibition The Colorful World of Pancho Fierro, Afro-Peruvian Painter. Dr. Burke will discuss Fierro’s vivid depictions of Peruvian society, highlighting the extraordinary upward social mobility that was possible in nineteenth-century Lima, as well as the trans-Pacific networks of exchange that carried Fierro’s watercolors across the globe. The talk will also examine the scientific studies of these works recently completed by a team of scientists from Nottingham Trent University in the UK, casting Fierro’s watercolors in a new light.

In 2023–24, numerous exhibitions marking the 50th anniversary of death of Pablo Picasso (1881-1973) took place around the world. New York witnessed important interventions held at the Guggenheim Museum, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and MoMA, in addition to the exhibition currently on view at the Hispanic Society, Picasso and Spanish […]