HM&C Art Talks

HM&C Art Talks is a platform in which HM&C artists discuss their work with scholars, providing new insights into the artists and their practice.

These live events will take place on Zoom and will be recorded to be added to our digital archive found on HM&C Study Rooms.

Vargas-Suarez Universal & Tenzin D Lama
September 6th, 2024
Tenzin D Lama is a New York and Kathmandu based independent curator, art consultant, and archivist. She studied Sociocultural Anthropology at Columbia University and received her MA in Art Business from Sotheby’s Institute of Art with a focus in Curation and Collection Management.
Raquel Rabinovich and Angelina Medina
May 23rd, 2024
Angelina Medina is an emerging scholar in the field of modern & contemporary Latin American and Latinx art. Currently, she is pursuing her M.A. in art history at the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, where she co-curated Magali Lara: Interior Landscapes (2024). She has interned at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Jewish Museum; and the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian. She has delivered presentations at art history symposia organized by SUNY New Paltz and Arizona State University.
MANUEL AJA ESPIL AND KAREN GRIMSON
OCTOBER 5TH, 2023
Karen Grimson is the Curator for the Craig Robins Collection and the Director of Cultural Programming for the Miami Design District.
Marcia Grostein and Tie Jojima
July 21st, 2023
Tie Jojima is Associate Curator and Manager of Exhibitions of Art at Americas Society and a PhD candidate in art history at the Graduate Center, CUNY, specializing in modern and contemporary Latin American art. Jojima has worked on the organization of several exhibitions and their corresponding publications and public events, including Bispo do Rosario: All Existing Materials on Earth (2023), and Geles Cabrera: Museo Escultórico (2022). She has received fellowships and awards from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros travel grant, and the Graduate Center, CUNY. She has published academic and curatorial writings in journals including Vistas: Critical Approaches to Latin American Art (ISLAA), Arte & Ensaios, as well as at Americas Society and El Museo del Barrio.
Clara Maria Apostolatos & André Ricardo
July 8th, 2023
Clara Maria Apostolatos is a writer and historian of contemporary art of the Americas with a focus on Institutional Critique, urban photography, and the politics of memory.
Marcia Grostein and Bella Neyman
May 25th, 2023
Bella Neyman is an independent curator, historian, lecturer, and writer specializing in contemporary jewelry. She is the co-founder of NYC Jewelry Week (a city-wide celebration held annually in November) and holds a place on the Board of Art Jewelry Forum.
Alejandro Corujeira and Diana Flatto
January 11th, 2023 (Recording Available with English CC)
Diana Flatto is a currator and PhD candidate in the history of art and architecture at the University of Pittsburgh. Her current research examines the role of women and shaping anti-fascist visual culture between Argentina, Uruguay, and Europe during the 1930s and 1940s and will be supported by a Fullbright research Fellowship in Argentina in 2023. She was previously an assistant curator at the Americas Society, where she co-curated exhibitions of modern and contemporary art of the Americas including Joaquín Orellana: The Spine of Music and Alice Miceli: Projeto Chernobyl. She also hosted a series of interviews with contemporary artists, such as Gala Porras-Kim and Rafael Soldi, as part of the Americas Society’s In the Studio program.
Artists
Alejandro Corujeira and Diana Flatto
January 11th, 2023 (Recording Available)
Exhibitions
Juan Sánchez, Priscilla Monge, and Julia Vázquez
The live conversation was held on October 14th, 2022 (Recording NOT available) 8 - 11 September 2022
Julia Vázquez received a PhD from the Department of Art History & Archaeology at Columbia University in 2020. She has held internships and fellowships at numerous museums in the United States, France, Spain, and Italy, including the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum & Foundation. Most recently, she was the Curatorial Fellow for the Marisol Bequest at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and contributing curator to a forthcoming exhibition titled Marisol: A Retrospective. She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Lise Meitner Research Group at the Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome, Italy.