Celebrate the closing of the Kimmel Windows exhibition "Fighting Fascism: Visual Culture of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939)."
By NYU Special Collections
Date and time
Starts on Tuesday, October 10, 2023 · 5:30pm EDT
Location
Bobst Library | 2nd Floor | Room 251
70 Washington Square South New York, NY 10012
About this event
Miriam Basilio, Associate Professor of Art History and Museum Studies, Danielle Nista, Assistant University Archivist, and Alexia Arrizurieta, Curatorial Assistant, El Museo del Barrio discuss their collaboration as curators of Fighting Fascism: Visual Culture of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) From New York University Special Collections, Tamiment-Wagner Collections, Abraham Lincoln Archive. The exhibition, on view through October 10th at NYU's Kimmel Windows (566 La Guardia Place and West 3rd Streets), features posters, postcards, letters, and other items from the archive that was created by veterans and family members of American volunteers who fought to defend the Second Spanish Republic against a fascist military coup led by Francisco Franco. The exhibition was organized during a 2019 undergraduate art history seminar co-taught by Basilio and Nista, who collaborated with students to curate the exhibition based on their own archival research. Join us for a conversation about how archives, curation, and public art can be a catalyst for reflection about the dangers of efforts to overturn democratic elections, and the rise of fascism and dictatorships today.
