Get an insider’s perspective of the recently published Mexico Theme Issue of The Wolfsonian’s Journal of Decorative and Propaganda Arts at our Miami launch and celebration of the volume on Friday, October 1 at 7pm at the museum. Join us for a conversation between two specialists on modern Mexican art as they discuss key currents in Mexican art and design that emerged from fields such as painting, stained glass, political caricature, architecture, and furniture design. Lynda Klich, guest editor of the issue and visiting assistant professor of art history, Hunter College, CUNY, is joined by Anna Indych-López, author of Muralism without Walls: Rivera, Orozco, and Siqueiros in the United States, 1927-1940, associate professor of art history, CCNY and CUNY Graduate Center. The discussion is followed by a reception and book signing, and is co-sponsored by The Cultural Institute of México in Miami as part of 3° Festival Mexico Miami.
In addition, there are planned launch celebrations of the Journal in both Mexico City and New York City. The Mexico City launch is on October 27, during the trip to Mexico City of The Wolfsonian–Florida International University Alliance (the museum’s international support group) and the Advisory Board. The launch takes place at Museo Franz Mayer and features a panel discussion titled “Nationalism and Internationalism in Modern Mexican Art and Design” with several Journal contributors: Lynda Klich; Rafael Barajas (editorial cartoonist); Karen Cordero Reiman (art historian, Universidad Iberoamericana); Alejandro Hernández Gálvez (architect); Ana Elena Mallet (independent curator); James Oles (art historian, Wellesley College); Federica Zanco (architectural historian, Barragan Foundation); and Carla Zurián de la Fuente (art historian, Instituto Nacional de Antropologia e Historia). The New York event is anticipated in March, and is currently in the planning stages.