Joan Miró, Modern Art, and the Legacies of (Art) Historical Archives

This event will be in Spanish and English with captioned translations.

The curators of the exhibition “Miró-ADLAN: An Archive of Modernity” will be joined by Anne Umland (MoMA) and Marko Daniel (Fundació Joan Miró) for an hour-long conversation about the position of Joan Miró within the history of modern art, his role in promoting new art in Barcelona and New York, the spaces in which his work was exhibited during the decade of the 1930s, and the importance of archives (personal and institutional) in mapping the relations between artists and the local contexts in which they produced and exhibited their work.

Participants:

Marko Daniel (Director, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona)

Anne Umland (The Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Senior Curator of Painting & Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York)

Muriel Gómez-Pradas (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya)

Joan Minguet Batllori (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

Jordana Mendelson (New York University)