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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…

Aristocrats, Tarts, and Wastrels in 1932 Barcelona: The Private Lives of Josep Maria de Sagarra

King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center 53 Washington Square South, New York

In 1930, Barcelona—an old industrial city straining under a military dictatorship—was enjoying the financial spoils of both World War I neutrality and the building explosion of the 1929 Universal Exposition. Yet a crucial political change was about to take place. When the Republic was declared in 1931, a new bourgeoisie began to supplant the old. With ironic detachment, Josep Maria…