October 17–19, 2013
Hunter College
695 Park Avenue | Hunter North Building
Kossack Lecture Hall | 15 floor
New York, NY
Symposium: “Fashioning Identities: Types, Customs, and Dress in a Global Context”
October 17–19, 2013
Natalia Majluf: “Materiality. José Gil de Castro and the Portraiture of Things”
Thursday, October 17, 7pm
For information on Natalia Majluf’s keynote address and the “Fashioning Identities” Symposium’s full program of participants, please visit hunter.cuny.edu.
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Natalia Majluf is the Director of the Museo de Arte de Lima, Peru. She has curated exhibitions, lectured and published broadly on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Latin American art. She has co-authored La piedra de Huamanga: lo sagrado y lo profano (1998), La recuperación de la memoria. El primer siglo de la fotografía. Perú, 1842-1942 (2001), Tipos del Perú. La Lima criolla de Pancho Fierro (2008) Camilo Blas (2010) Carlos Baca-Flor (2013) and Sabogal (2013). Recent exhibition projects include Reproducing Nations: Types and Costumes in Asia and Latin America, ca. 1800-1860 (2006), Elena Izcue. Lima-Paris, années 30 (2008) and Fernando Bryce. Drawing Modern History (2011-2012). Majluf is currently participating in a collaborative research project on Peruvian painter José Gil de Castro (Lima, 1785-1837) with support from the Getty Foundation. She has held the Getty Curatorial Research Fellowship and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, as well as fellowships at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts in Washington D.C. and the University of Cambridge.
Natalia Majluf is a guest scholar of the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Visiting Artists and Critics program. The program brings key figures from Latin America to Hunter College to address topics in contemporary art and scholarship through talks with students and the New York community. In addition to this forum, Cisneros Visiting Artists and Critics conduct studio visits and seminar discussions with Hunter M.F.A. and M.A. students during their residency.
For more information about related events organized by Hunter College’s Department of Art and Art History and its initiatives supported by the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, please visit www.latinamericanartathunter.org.
