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“Nuestra Casa” showcases the best of the Hispanic Society Museum


The Hispanic Society Museum & Library (HSM&L) is about to launch “Nuestra Casa: Rediscovering the Treasures of The Hispanic Society Museum & Library,” an exhibit that reveals hidden gems from the museum’s extensive permanent collection that includes more than 750,000 objects.

Curated by Dr. Madeleine Haddon, the exhibition will open to the public from February 17 to April 17, 2022. The objects featured are part of the cultural institution’s permanent collection and help illuminate the wide range of arts, literature and history of the Iberian Peninsula and Latin America from ancient times to the present day.

One of the pieces that is on display. /Courtesy

During the recent renovation of the museum, a selection of these works toured the world, from the Prado National Museum in Madrid and the Palacio de Bellas Artes Museum in Mexico City to the Albuquerque Museum, the Cincinnati Museum of Art and , more recently, the Museum of Fine Arts. Now, with the opening of HSM&L’s newly renovated exhibition space in the East Building Gallery, these objects will be coming home for the first time in five years before many of them continue on to the Art Gallery of Ontario and the Royal Academy of Art. in London.

“Nuestra Casa…” shows that the HSML collection extends far beyond the El Greco, Goya and Sorolla artworks for which it has historically been known, to masterpieces within a variety of media by Latino artists. relatively unknown.

To evaluate and present these works through a new lens, HSM&L hired a new curator for this exhibition, Dr. Madeleine Haddon, curator and art historian at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

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Paintings by Hispanic artists stand out in the exhibition./Courtesy

“Our House only scratches the surface in terms of the variety of treasures that visitors will be able to come see at HSM&L once the museum fully reopens,” explains Dr. Haddon. “Visitors will leave knowing that the HSM&L has the most important collection in the United States to learn about the rich and diverse cultural heritage of the Spanish and Portuguese-speaking world.”

The works presented at Nuestra Casa, many of which have not been regularly presented at the Museum, have an origin that goes from Spain and Mexico to Puerto Rico, Peru and beyond, all in chronology from the 10th to the 20th centuries. . These works include the 19th-century watercolors of Pancho Fierro and Miguel Viladrich Vilá’s El hombre de Montevideo (1923-5), depicting people of color and racial diversity in colonial Latin America.

In addition, the exhibition will showcase works that have always been considered among HSM&L’s masterpieces, such as Francisco de Goya’s Duchess of Alba (1797) and Diego Velázquez’s Portrait of a Girl (c. 1638-42).

In detail:

What: Exhibición “ “Nuestra Casa: Rediscovering the Treasures of The Hispanic Society Museum & Library”

Where: The Hispanic Society Museum & Library – 613 155th street NY NY 10032

When: from February 17 to April 17. From Thursday to Sunday, from 12 to 6 pm

Information: https://hispanicsociety.org/


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