— 11:00 am
Jay Levenson
MOMA and Colombia
Dates:
Saturday 29 september
Schedule:
11 a.m.
Place:
MAMBO - Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá
Prices:
Regular fee to the Museum.
Contact:
educacion@mambogota.com
Jay A. Levenson has served as the Director of the International Program at The Museum of Modern Art, New York since 1996, where he manages the museum’s exchange and research programs in relation with institutions in other countries.
Prior to that he was Deputy Director for Program Administration at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, where he helped prepare such major exhibitions as Africa: The Art of a Continent and China: 5000 Years. He has served as guest curator for a number of exhibitions, including Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration(1991) and The Age of the Baroque in Portugal (1993) for the National Gallery of Art, and Encompassing the Globe: Portugal and the World in the 16th and 17th Centuries (2007) for the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington. A graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School, and awarded a PhD. in art history by the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University, he has held positions both as a curator and museum administrator and as an attorney.
Image:
Panoramic view of the show by Alexander Calder, 1970
Photo: Hernán Díaz
Jay A. Levenson has served as the Director of the International Program at The Museum of Modern Art, New York since 1996, where he manages the museum’s exchange and research programs in relation with institutions in other countries.
Prior to that he was Deputy Director for Program Administration at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, where he helped prepare such major exhibitions as Africa: The Art of a Continent and China: 5000 Years. He has served as guest curator for a number of exhibitions, including Circa 1492: Art in the Age of Exploration(1991) and The Age of the Baroque in Portugal (1993) for the National Gallery of Art, and Encompassing the Globe: Portugal and the World in the 16th and 17th Centuries (2007) for the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Washington. A graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School, and awarded a PhD. in art history by the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University, he has held positions both as a curator and museum administrator and as an attorney.
Image:
Panoramic view of the show by Alexander Calder, 1970
Photo: Hernán Díaz
The Museum of Modern Art has enjoyed a long and productive relationship with Colombia and its museums. MoMA’s earliest acquisitions of works by Colombian artists were made by the young Lincoln Kirstein, who travelled through South America in 1942-43 and assembled what was to become the historical core of the Museum’s permanent Latin American collection. The talk will focus not only on MoMA’s collection but also on the travelling exhibitions sent by its International Program to Colombia in the 1960s and 1970s and their reception there. It will conclude with an overview of the Program’s current Latin American research initiative and its connections to Colombia.
