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N provided by Arte al Día. and sculpture. His most recent bodies of work explore identity, design and has been exhibited in The Spring 2013 Visual Arts Program is also supported, in part, by public funds figuration, and dramatic narrative. Lehyt has exhibited extensively in group and solo shows in the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East. from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with Europe, South America, and New York, and is a recipient of the John Chilindron is a recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, enue,

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680 Park www.as to p: Richard Blanco. Image courtesy of Blue Flower Arts; Bottom: Image courtesy of Top: Luis Roldan. Image courtesy of Department of Visual Arts at Americas Society; left: Photo: Angel Jusay; Above: Mexican Room at Americas Society by Roey Yohai Johannes Vogt Gallery Bottom: Marta Chilindron. Image courtesy of Cecilia de Torres Ltd. /Book Presentation/ /PANEL DISCUSSION/ /Concert/ Join us for Americas Society’s special Culture series /Conversation & Concert/ /Exhibition/ p –Jl u2013y M onday, April 15, 7:00 P.M. T hursday, April 18, 6:30 P.M. T uesday, April 30, 6:00 P.M. Iconic and Emerging Figures from Latin America T uesday, May 28, 7:00 P.M. T uesday, June 18, 6:30 P.M. Aril Joanne Pottlitzer’s Symbols of Resistance: Friendship and Cosmopolitanism in Argentine Art and Literature Bolivian Baroque in Concert Featuring cultural legends paired with up-and-coming artists in Salon Series: Riverside Symphony Guided Tour with Exhibition Curator dynamic, interactive performances and events. /Concert/ The Legacy of Artists under Pinochet Contributors to the exhibition at St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University Alberto Ginastera (born in 1916 in Buenos Curator Gabriela Rangel leads a guided tour of the exhibition Xul Solar Pottlitzer, a New York-based producer, director, catalogue, Xul Solar and Jorge Luis 1160 Amsterdam Avenue, at 116th Street Aires) is the most important Argentine and Jorge Luis Borges: The Art of Friendship. T uesday, April 2, 7:00 P.M. /LITERATURE/ and translator, and a group of professional New Borges: The Art of Friendship, examine Meridionalis teams up with Clarion Society for a performance of classical music composer of the twentieth Admission: Free for AS Members; $10.00 for non-members. An Evening of Tango with Pablo York actors, present a dramatization based on the emergence of a cosmopolitan instrumental and choral works from one of the region’s great baroque Wednesday–F 5riday, May 1 –17 century. Musicologist Malena Kuss, leading narratives from her book-in-progress, the product movement during the cultural musical centers. The Jesuit missions that flourished in eastern Bolivia expert on Ginastera’s music, joins Riverside Mainetti, Nick Danielson, Adam Tully, effervescence that marked 1920s Latin American Iconic & Emerging Writers Symphony’s George Rothman and Anthony Korf in a discussion about /Concert/ Octavio Brunetti, and Pedro Giraudo of interviews with writers, playwrights, musi- during the eighteenth century are noted for their extraordinary cians, and visual artists in Chile. Pottlitzer’s book Buenos Aires. Panelists will discuss repertoire of greatly sophisticated sacred music that includes locally In celebration of Review’s forthcoming issue dedicated to iconic and the composer’s work illustrated with live performances. F riday, June 21 at Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College documents the influence of artists on the political the development of a distinct local composed and European pieces. emerging Latin American writers, join us for three evenings of In collaboration with Riverside Symphony East 68th Street, between Park & identity informed by the European R. Murray Schafer Celebration process that eventually led Chile back to a In collaboration with GEMS, Clarion Society, and the Office of the dynamic literary discussions, panels, and bilingual readings of original Admission: Free for AS Members; $10.00 for non-members. Lexington Avenues democratic system in 1990, and illustrates the avant-garde, which was epitomized work by legendary writers and new voices, as they explore past and at Central Park Lake by the friendship between artist Xul University Chaplain, Columbia University Young Argentine bandoneon master power of art on society. In English. current literary trends in the region. In Spanish and English; simulta- R. Murray Schafer is one of the most Solar and writer Jorge Luis Borges. Admission: Free for AS Members; $20.00 for non-members. /Concert/ Pablo Mainetti comes to Music of the Admission: Free for AS Members; $10.00 for non-members. neous interpretation available. influential living composers and sound Americas with an all-star cast of Speakers: Patricia Artundo (Museo T hursday, May 30, 7:00 P.M. artists. As part of Make Music New York, Xul Solar), Sergio Baur (Independent musicians. Mainetti has performed throughout the world as a soloist /Art & Poetry/ /CONVERSATION/ Americas Society presents a series of Scholar), Maria Kodama (Fundación Momenta Quartet: Music by Arthur Kampela and and in bands with legendary tango artists. In this concert his group : innovative outdoors events starting in the will perform original compositions and tango classics. Internacional Jorge Luis Borges). T hursday, May 2, 7 00 P.M. Wednesd ay, May 15, 7:00 P.M. Ileana Pérez Velázquez afternoon and ending at dawn on June 22 Moderated by Gabriela Rangel Visions of the Trilline A conversation between author Roberto Ampuero around Central Park Lake. In collaboration with Kaye Playhouse (Director of Visual Arts, Americas Momenta Quartet, praised by (Chile) and legendary writer Marcio Veloz Maggiolo critics for its excellence in Admission: Free for AS Members; $20.00 for non-members. Society). at King Juan Carlos Center, NYU Admission: Free 53 Washington Square South, Suite 214 (), moderated by Carmen performing the best of contem- Admission: Free for AS Members; Boullosa (; guest creative editor, Review 86). porary music, turns its attention In conjunction with the show Xul Solar and Jorge /Exhibition/ /Concert/ $10.00 for non-members. Luis Borges: The Art of Friendship, Mónica de la to composers Manena Contreras, : Torre (poet and translator), Cecilia Vicuña (visual /PANEL DISCUSSION/ Ileana Pérez Velázquez, and T uesday, July 2, 6:30 P.M. S unday, April 7, 4 00 P.M. Arthur Kampela for this exciting : /Concert/ artist and filmmaker) and Lila Zemborain (poet : Guided Exhibition Tour Codex I International Contemporary and critic), accompanied by Christopher Leland T hursday, May 16, 7 00 P.M. new music concert. Sa turday, April 20, 8:00 P.M. Assistant curator Christina Ensemble (ICE) Winks (translator), will read the poems especially Alvaro Enrique (Mexico), Valeria Luiselli (Mexico), Admission: Free for AS De León leads a guided tour Codex II: The Bishop’s Band commissioned for the exhibition’s catalogue, as and Edmundo Paz Soldán (Bolivia) discuss currents Members; $20.00 for ICE premieres new works commis- of the exhibition Xul Solar well as explain their composition process. The in Latin American literature and read selections of non-members. sioned by Americas Society from at Hispanic Society of America, Audubon Terrace and Jorge Luis Borges: The Art poems are inspired by Xul Solar’s San Signos, a book based on the their work. Moderated by Jorge Volpi (Mexico; renowned composers Du Yun (China), Broadway between 155th and 156th Streets of Friendship. artist’s astral voyages written in neo-creole. The event will be held in guest academic editor, Review 86). Alvin Lucier (U.S.), Paulo Rios (Brazil), The second concert in the Codex series /Concert/ and Aurelio Tello (Peru/Mexico) based on the music in Baltasar Martínez Spanish and English with a reception to follow. Admission: Free for features a selection of songs and dances S unday, June 2, 7:00 P.M. AS Members; $10.00 for Compañón’s Trujillo del Perú en el siglo XVIII, the earliest document from the Trujillo del Perú collection Free admission /Mneagazi LAUNCH/ on popular music on the continent, in the first of two Codex concerts. /Exhibition/ André Mehmari non-members. performed by The Bishop’s Band, F riday, May 17, 7:00 P.M. Admission: Free for AS Members; $20.00 for non-members. T hursday, April 18–Sa turday, July 20, 2013 directed by multi-instrumentalist and A solo concert by pianist André Mehmari, /Concert/ Review: Latin American Iconic & Emerging Xul Solar and Jorge Luis Borges: The Art of Friendship early music specialist Tom Zajac, with considered one of Brazil’s most talented soprano Nell Snaidas and a cast of /Concert/Seminar/ / / M onday, May 13, 7:00 P.M. Writers, No. 86 young musicians. Mehmari has created a PANEL Curated by Gabriela Rangel in collaboration with Lila Zemborain. dancers. A multimedia presentation Cuarteto Latinoamericano and Cuarteto Yaracuy The launch of Review 86 features editor Daniel language of great expressive power that T uesday, July 9, 7:00 P.M. : Xul Solar and Jorge Luis Borges: The Art of Friendship departs from Xul accompanies the music and dances M onday, April 8, 7 00 P.M. Shapiro, and guest editors Carmen Boullosa, and is defining Brazilian popular music in the Solar’s cosmopolitan friendship and vigorous exchange of ideas with inspired by the Codex. The Grammy-nominated Cuarteto New York Guitar Seminar at Mannes Borges & Translation Jorge Volpi, with readings by Gioconda Belli twenty-first century. Both a keyboard famed writer Jorge Luis Borges. Solar and Borges’ reciprocal influence Latinoamericano (Mexico), widely recognized Co-presented by Americas Society and GEMAS (Nicaragua) and Luis Rafael Sánchez (Puerto Rico). virtuoso and a skilled composer, Mehmari The opening faculty concert of the New York Guitar Seminar at Writers/translators Efraín Kristal, Suzanne Jill led them to produce exceptional individual and collaborative artistic as a leading proponent of ensemble music In collaboration with GEMS and Hispanic Society of America Copies of Review 86 will be available for sale at speaks in a luminous instrumental voice, Mannes returns to Americas Society. The Seminar offers classical Levine, Alfred MacAdam, and Alastair Reid works. The exhibition explores the public dimensions of their private from Latin America, in collaboration with the and his compositions have been performed guitar students the opportunity to join the world’s top performers, Admission: Free for AS Members; $20.00 for non-members. the event. discuss Jorge Luis Borges in translation and friendship that began in 1924, when they met while working at the Cuarteto Yaracuy, a young ensemble from by leading orchestras. pedagogues, and competition winners for a week of concerts, Borges the translator. In English. avant-garde magazine Martin Fierro, and features a selection of Solar’s Venezuela, performs music by Mignone, Admission for each program: Free for AS In collaboration with Spoleto Jazz master classes, rehearsals, and workshops. exquisite paintings, as well as publications, rare documents, manu- Nancarrow, and Shostakovich. Members; $10.00 for non-members. Admission: Free for AS Members; $10.00 for In collaboration with Mannes the New School for Music non-members. scripts, objects, and artistic interventions in books. Admission: Free for AS Members; $20.00 Special offer: $25 for all three evenings. Admission: Free for AS Members; for non-members. $20.00 for non-members. Admission: Free for AS Members; $20.00 for non-members. top: Carmen Boullosa. courtesy of the author; middle: Valeria Luiselli. Image courtesy of Top: Pablo Mainetti. Courtesy of the Artist; Middle: Image from Trujillo del Peru, Vol. 2; Tpuardoo : Ed Vilches, La constante amenaza ll, 1973. Image courtesy of Joanne Pottlitzer; topul : X Solar. Pan Arbol, 1954. Image courtesy of Museo Xul Solar; Bottom: Image from top: Xul Solar, draft of “Visions of the Trilline”, 1936. Image courtesy of Fundación Pan Alvaro Enrigue; Bottom: Cover of Review 86. Image courtesy of David Zink Yi and Hauser & top: Courtesy of Boosey & Hawkes; middle: Courtesy of the Momenta Quartet; Top: Image Courtesy of R. Murray Schaffer; Bottom: Sketch for the poster for the magazine bottom: Jorge Luis Borges. courtesy of Americas Society Bottom: Xul Solar. Pan ajedrez, ca. 1945. Image courtesy of Museo Xul Solar Trujillo del Peru, Vol. 2 Klub; bottom: Courtesy of the Artist Wirth. Cover design by José Negroni Bottom: Courtesy of Gal Oppido Proa, 1925. Image courtesy of Fundación Pan Klub /Book Presentation/ /PANEL DISCUSSION/ /Concert/ Join us for Americas Society’s special Culture series /Conversation & Concert/ /Exhibition/ p –Jl u2013y M onday, April 15, 7:00 P.M. T hursday, April 18, 6:30 P.M. T uesday, April 30, 6:00 P.M. Iconic and Emerging Figures from Latin America T uesday, May 28, 7:00 P.M. T uesday, June 18, 6:30 P.M. Aril Joanne Pottlitzer’s Symbols of Resistance: Friendship and Cosmopolitanism in Argentine Art and Literature Bolivian Baroque in Concert Featuring cultural legends paired with up-and-coming artists in Salon Series: Riverside Symphony Guided Tour with Exhibition Curator dynamic, interactive performances and events. /Concert/ The Legacy of Artists under Pinochet Contributors to the exhibition at St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University Alberto Ginastera (born in 1916 in Buenos Curator Gabriela Rangel leads a guided tour of the exhibition Xul Solar Pottlitzer, a New York-based producer, director, catalogue, Xul Solar and Jorge Luis 1160 Amsterdam Avenue, at 116th Street Aires) is the most important Argentine and Jorge Luis Borges: The Art of Friendship. T uesday, April 2, 7:00 P.M. /LITERATURE/ and translator, and a group of professional New Borges: The Art of Friendship, examine Meridionalis teams up with Clarion Society for a performance of classical music composer of the twentieth Admission: Free for AS Members; $10.00 for non-members. An Evening of Tango with Pablo York actors, present a dramatization based on the emergence of a cosmopolitan instrumental and choral works from one of the region’s great baroque Wednesday–F 5riday, May 1 –17 century. Musicologist Malena Kuss, leading narratives from her book-in-progress, the product movement during the cultural musical centers. The Jesuit missions that flourished in eastern Bolivia expert on Ginastera’s music, joins Riverside Mainetti, Nick Danielson, Adam Tully, effervescence that marked 1920s Latin American Iconic & Emerging Writers Symphony’s George Rothman and Anthony Korf in a discussion about /Concert/ Octavio Brunetti, and Pedro Giraudo of interviews with writers, playwrights, musi- during the eighteenth century are noted for their extraordinary cians, and visual artists in Chile. Pottlitzer’s book Buenos Aires. Panelists will discuss repertoire of greatly sophisticated sacred music that includes locally In celebration of Review’s forthcoming issue dedicated to iconic and the composer’s work illustrated with live performances. F riday, June 21 at Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College documents the influence of artists on the political the development of a distinct local composed and European pieces. emerging Latin American writers, join us for three evenings of In collaboration with Riverside Symphony East 68th Street, between Park & identity informed by the European R. Murray Schafer Celebration process that eventually led Chile back to a In collaboration with GEMS, Clarion Society, and the Office of the dynamic literary discussions, panels, and bilingual readings of original Admission: Free for AS Members; $10.00 for non-members. Lexington Avenues democratic system in 1990, and illustrates the avant-garde, which was epitomized work by legendary writers and new voices, as they explore past and at Central Park Lake by the friendship between artist Xul University Chaplain, Columbia University Young Argentine bandoneon master power of art on society. In English. current literary trends in the region. In Spanish and English; simulta- R. Murray Schafer is one of the most Solar and writer Jorge Luis Borges. Admission: Free for AS Members; $20.00 for non-members. /Concert/ Pablo Mainetti comes to Music of the Admission: Free for AS Members; $10.00 for non-members. neous interpretation available. influential living composers and sound Americas with an all-star cast of Speakers: Patricia Artundo (Museo T hursday, May 30, 7:00 P.M. artists. As part of Make Music New York, Xul Solar), Sergio Baur (Independent musicians. Mainetti has performed throughout the world as a soloist /Art & Poetry/ /CONVERSATION/ Americas Society presents a series of Scholar), Maria Kodama (Fundación Momenta Quartet: Music by Arthur Kampela and and in bands with legendary tango artists. In this concert his group : innovative outdoors events starting in the will perform original compositions and tango classics. Internacional Jorge Luis Borges). T hursday, May 2, 7 00 P.M. Wednesd ay, May 15, 7:00 P.M. Ileana Pérez Velázquez afternoon and ending at dawn on June 22 Moderated by Gabriela Rangel Visions of the Trilline A conversation between author Roberto Ampuero around Central Park Lake. In collaboration with Kaye Playhouse (Director of Visual Arts, Americas Momenta Quartet, praised by (Chile) and legendary writer Marcio Veloz Maggiolo critics for its excellence in Admission: Free for AS Members; $20.00 for non-members. Society). at King Juan Carlos Center, NYU Admission: Free 53 Washington Square South, Suite 214 (Dominican Republic), moderated by Carmen performing the best of contem- Admission: Free for AS Members; Boullosa (Mexico; guest creative editor, Review 86). porary music, turns its attention In conjunction with the show Xul Solar and Jorge /Exhibition/ /Concert/ $10.00 for non-members. Luis Borges: The Art of Friendship, Mónica de la to composers Manena Contreras, : Torre (poet and translator), Cecilia Vicuña (visual /PANEL DISCUSSION/ Ileana Pérez Velázquez, and T uesday, July 2, 6:30 P.M. S unday, April 7, 4 00 P.M. Arthur Kampela for this exciting : /Concert/ artist and filmmaker) and Lila Zemborain (poet : Guided Exhibition Tour Codex I International Contemporary and critic), accompanied by Christopher Leland T hursday, May 16, 7 00 P.M. new music concert. Sa turday, April 20, 8:00 P.M. Assistant curator Christina Ensemble (ICE) Winks (translator), will read the poems especially Alvaro Enrique (Mexico), Valeria Luiselli (Mexico), Admission: Free for AS De León leads a guided tour Codex II: The Bishop’s Band commissioned for the exhibition’s catalogue, as and Edmundo Paz Soldán (Bolivia) discuss currents Members; $20.00 for ICE premieres new works commis- of the exhibition Xul Solar well as explain their composition process. The in Latin American literature and read selections of non-members. sioned by Americas Society from at Hispanic Society of America, Audubon Terrace and Jorge Luis Borges: The Art poems are inspired by Xul Solar’s San Signos, a book based on the their work. Moderated by Jorge Volpi (Mexico; renowned composers Du Yun (China), Broadway between 155th and 156th Streets of Friendship. artist’s astral voyages written in neo-creole. The event will be held in guest academic editor, Review 86). Alvin Lucier (U.S.), Paulo Rios (Brazil), The second concert in the Codex series /Concert/ and Aurelio Tello (Peru/Mexico) based on the music in Baltasar Martínez Spanish and English with a reception to follow. Admission: Free for features a selection of songs and dances S unday, June 2, 7:00 P.M. AS Members; $10.00 for Compañón’s Trujillo del Perú en el siglo XVIII, the earliest document from the Trujillo del Perú collection Free admission /Mneagazi LAUNCH/ on popular music on the continent, in the first of two Codex concerts. /Exhibition/ André Mehmari non-members. performed by The Bishop’s Band, F riday, May 17, 7:00 P.M. Admission: Free for AS Members; $20.00 for non-members. T hursday, April 18–Sa turday, July 20, 2013 directed by multi-instrumentalist and A solo concert by pianist André Mehmari, /Concert/ Review: Latin American Iconic & Emerging Xul Solar and Jorge Luis Borges: The Art of Friendship early music specialist Tom Zajac, with considered one of Brazil’s most talented soprano Nell Snaidas and a cast of /Concert/Seminar/ / / M onday, May 13, 7:00 P.M. Writers, No. 86 young musicians. Mehmari has created a PANEL Curated by Gabriela Rangel in collaboration with Lila Zemborain. dancers. A multimedia presentation Cuarteto Latinoamericano and Cuarteto Yaracuy The launch of Review 86 features editor Daniel language of great expressive power that T uesday, July 9, 7:00 P.M. : Xul Solar and Jorge Luis Borges: The Art of Friendship departs from Xul accompanies the music and dances M onday, April 8, 7 00 P.M. Shapiro, and guest editors Carmen Boullosa, and is defining Brazilian popular music in the Solar’s cosmopolitan friendship and vigorous exchange of ideas with inspired by the Codex. The Grammy-nominated Cuarteto New York Guitar Seminar at Mannes Borges & Translation Jorge Volpi, with readings by Gioconda Belli twenty-first century. Both a keyboard famed writer Jorge Luis Borges. Solar and Borges’ reciprocal influence Latinoamericano (Mexico), widely recognized Co-presented by Americas Society and GEMAS (Nicaragua) and Luis Rafael Sánchez (Puerto Rico). virtuoso and a skilled composer, Mehmari The opening faculty concert of the New York Guitar Seminar at Writers/translators Efraín Kristal, Suzanne Jill led them to produce exceptional individual and collaborative artistic as a leading proponent of ensemble music In collaboration with GEMS and Hispanic Society of America Copies of Review 86 will be available for sale at speaks in a luminous instrumental voice, Mannes returns to Americas Society. The Seminar offers classical Levine, Alfred MacAdam, and Alastair Reid works. The exhibition explores the public dimensions of their private from Latin America, in collaboration with the and his compositions have been performed guitar students the opportunity to join the world’s top performers, Admission: Free for AS Members; $20.00 for non-members. the event. discuss Jorge Luis Borges in translation and friendship that began in 1924, when they met while working at the Cuarteto Yaracuy, a young ensemble from by leading orchestras. pedagogues, and competition winners for a week of concerts, Borges the translator. In English. avant-garde magazine Martin Fierro, and features a selection of Solar’s Venezuela, performs music by Mignone, Admission for each program: Free for AS In collaboration with Spoleto Jazz master classes, rehearsals, and workshops. exquisite paintings, as well as publications, rare documents, manu- Nancarrow, and Shostakovich. Members; $10.00 for non-members. Admission: Free for AS Members; $10.00 for In collaboration with Mannes the New School for Music non-members. scripts, objects, and artistic interventions in books. Admission: Free for AS Members; $20.00 Special offer: $25 for all three evenings. Admission: Free for AS Members; for non-members. $20.00 for non-members. Admission: Free for AS Members; $20.00 for non-members. top: Carmen Boullosa. courtesy of the author; middle: Valeria Luiselli. Image courtesy of Top: Pablo Mainetti. Courtesy of the Artist; Middle: Image from Trujillo del Peru, Vol. 2; Tpuardoo : Ed Vilches, La constante amenaza ll, 1973. Image courtesy of Joanne Pottlitzer; topul : X Solar. Pan Arbol, 1954. Image courtesy of Museo Xul Solar; Bottom: Image from top: Xul Solar, draft of “Visions of the Trilline”, 1936. Image courtesy of Fundación Pan Alvaro Enrigue; Bottom: Cover of Review 86. Image courtesy of David Zink Yi and Hauser & top: Courtesy of Boosey & Hawkes; middle: Courtesy of the Momenta Quartet; Top: Image Courtesy of R. Murray Schaffer; Bottom: Sketch for the poster for the magazine bottom: Jorge Luis Borges. courtesy of Americas Society Bottom: Xul Solar. Pan ajedrez, ca. 1945. Image courtesy of Museo Xul Solar Trujillo del Peru, Vol. 2 Klub; bottom: Courtesy of the Artist Wirth. Cover design by José Negroni Bottom: Courtesy of Gal Oppido Proa, 1925. Image courtesy of Fundación Pan Klub /Book Presentation/ /PANEL DISCUSSION/ /Concert/ Join us for Americas Society’s special Culture series /Conversation & Concert/ /Exhibition/ p –Jl u2013y M onday, April 15, 7:00 P.M. T hursday, April 18, 6:30 P.M. T uesday, April 30, 6:00 P.M. Iconic and Emerging Figures from Latin America T uesday, May 28, 7:00 P.M. T uesday, June 18, 6:30 P.M. Aril Joanne Pottlitzer’s Symbols of Resistance: Friendship and Cosmopolitanism in Argentine Art and Literature Bolivian Baroque in Concert Featuring cultural legends paired with up-and-coming artists in Salon Series: Riverside Symphony Guided Tour with Exhibition Curator dynamic, interactive performances and events. /Concert/ The Legacy of Artists under Pinochet Contributors to the exhibition at St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University Alberto Ginastera (born in 1916 in Buenos Curator Gabriela Rangel leads a guided tour of the exhibition Xul Solar Pottlitzer, a New York-based producer, director, catalogue, Xul Solar and Jorge Luis 1160 Amsterdam Avenue, at 116th Street Aires) is the most important Argentine and Jorge Luis Borges: The Art of Friendship. T uesday, April 2, 7:00 P.M. /LITERATURE/ and translator, and a group of professional New Borges: The Art of Friendship, examine Meridionalis teams up with Clarion Society for a performance of classical music composer of the twentieth Admission: Free for AS Members; $10.00 for non-members. An Evening of Tango with Pablo York actors, present a dramatization based on the emergence of a cosmopolitan instrumental and choral works from one of the region’s great baroque Wednesday–F 5riday, May 1 –17 century. Musicologist Malena Kuss, leading narratives from her book-in-progress, the product movement during the cultural musical centers. The Jesuit missions that flourished in eastern Bolivia expert on Ginastera’s music, joins Riverside Mainetti, Nick Danielson, Adam Tully, effervescence that marked 1920s Latin American Iconic & Emerging Writers Symphony’s George Rothman and Anthony Korf in a discussion about /Concert/ Octavio Brunetti, and Pedro Giraudo of interviews with writers, playwrights, musi- during the eighteenth century are noted for their extraordinary cians, and visual artists in Chile. Pottlitzer’s book Buenos Aires. Panelists will discuss repertoire of greatly sophisticated sacred music that includes locally In celebration of Review’s forthcoming issue dedicated to iconic and the composer’s work illustrated with live performances. F riday, June 21 at Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College documents the influence of artists on the political the development of a distinct local composed and European pieces. emerging Latin American writers, join us for three evenings of In collaboration with Riverside Symphony East 68th Street, between Park & identity informed by the European R. Murray Schafer Celebration process that eventually led Chile back to a In collaboration with GEMS, Clarion Society, and the Office of the dynamic literary discussions, panels, and bilingual readings of original Admission: Free for AS Members; $10.00 for non-members. Lexington Avenues democratic system in 1990, and illustrates the avant-garde, which was epitomized work by legendary writers and new voices, as they explore past and at Central Park Lake by the friendship between artist Xul University Chaplain, Columbia University Young Argentine bandoneon master power of art on society. In English. current literary trends in the region. In Spanish and English; simulta- R. Murray Schafer is one of the most Solar and writer Jorge Luis Borges. Admission: Free for AS Members; $20.00 for non-members. /Concert/ Pablo Mainetti comes to Music of the Admission: Free for AS Members; $10.00 for non-members. neous interpretation available. influential living composers and sound Americas with an all-star cast of Speakers: Patricia Artundo (Museo T hursday, May 30, 7:00 P.M. artists. As part of Make Music New York, Xul Solar), Sergio Baur (Independent musicians. Mainetti has performed throughout the world as a soloist /Art & Poetry/ /CONVERSATION/ Americas Society presents a series of Scholar), Maria Kodama (Fundación Momenta Quartet: Music by Arthur Kampela and and in bands with legendary tango artists. In this concert his group : innovative outdoors events starting in the will perform original compositions and tango classics. Internacional Jorge Luis Borges). T hursday, May 2, 7 00 P.M. Wednesd ay, May 15, 7:00 P.M. Ileana Pérez Velázquez afternoon and ending at dawn on June 22 Moderated by Gabriela Rangel Visions of the Trilline A conversation between author Roberto Ampuero around Central Park Lake. In collaboration with Kaye Playhouse (Director of Visual Arts, Americas Momenta Quartet, praised by (Chile) and legendary writer Marcio Veloz Maggiolo critics for its excellence in Admission: Free for AS Members; $20.00 for non-members. Society). at King Juan Carlos Center, NYU Admission: Free 53 Washington Square South, Suite 214 (Dominican Republic), moderated by Carmen performing the best of contem- Admission: Free for AS Members; Boullosa (Mexico; guest creative editor, Review 86). porary music, turns its attention In conjunction with the show Xul Solar and Jorge /Exhibition/ /Concert/ $10.00 for non-members. Luis Borges: The Art of Friendship, Mónica de la to composers Manena Contreras, : Torre (poet and translator), Cecilia Vicuña (visual /PANEL DISCUSSION/ Ileana Pérez Velázquez, and T uesday, July 2, 6:30 P.M. S unday, April 7, 4 00 P.M. Arthur Kampela for this exciting : /Concert/ artist and filmmaker) and Lila Zemborain (poet : Guided Exhibition Tour Codex I International Contemporary and critic), accompanied by Christopher Leland T hursday, May 16, 7 00 P.M. new music concert. Sa turday, April 20, 8:00 P.M. Assistant curator Christina Ensemble (ICE) Winks (translator), will read the poems especially Alvaro Enrique (Mexico), Valeria Luiselli (Mexico), Admission: Free for AS De León leads a guided tour Codex II: The Bishop’s Band commissioned for the exhibition’s catalogue, as and Edmundo Paz Soldán (Bolivia) discuss currents Members; $20.00 for ICE premieres new works commis- of the exhibition Xul Solar well as explain their composition process. The in Latin American literature and read selections of non-members. sioned by Americas Society from at Hispanic Society of America, Audubon Terrace and Jorge Luis Borges: The Art poems are inspired by Xul Solar’s San Signos, a book based on the their work. Moderated by Jorge Volpi (Mexico; renowned composers Du Yun (China), Broadway between 155th and 156th Streets of Friendship. artist’s astral voyages written in neo-creole. The event will be held in guest academic editor, Review 86). Alvin Lucier (U.S.), Paulo Rios (Brazil), The second concert in the Codex series /Concert/ and Aurelio Tello (Peru/Mexico) based on the music in Baltasar Martínez Spanish and English with a reception to follow. Admission: Free for features a selection of songs and dances S unday, June 2, 7:00 P.M. AS Members; $10.00 for Compañón’s Trujillo del Perú en el siglo XVIII, the earliest document from the Trujillo del Perú collection Free admission /Mneagazi LAUNCH/ on popular music on the continent, in the first of two Codex concerts. /Exhibition/ André Mehmari non-members. performed by The Bishop’s Band, F riday, May 17, 7:00 P.M. Admission: Free for AS Members; $20.00 for non-members. T hursday, April 18–Sa turday, July 20, 2013 directed by multi-instrumentalist and A solo concert by pianist André Mehmari, /Concert/ Review: Latin American Iconic & Emerging Xul Solar and Jorge Luis Borges: The Art of Friendship early music specialist Tom Zajac, with considered one of Brazil’s most talented soprano Nell Snaidas and a cast of /Concert/Seminar/ / / M onday, May 13, 7:00 P.M. Writers, No. 86 young musicians. Mehmari has created a PANEL Curated by Gabriela Rangel in collaboration with Lila Zemborain. dancers. A multimedia presentation Cuarteto Latinoamericano and Cuarteto Yaracuy The launch of Review 86 features editor Daniel language of great expressive power that T uesday, July 9, 7:00 P.M. : Xul Solar and Jorge Luis Borges: The Art of Friendship departs from Xul accompanies the music and dances M onday, April 8, 7 00 P.M. Shapiro, and guest editors Carmen Boullosa, and is defining Brazilian popular music in the Solar’s cosmopolitan friendship and vigorous exchange of ideas with inspired by the Codex. The Grammy-nominated Cuarteto New York Guitar Seminar at Mannes Borges & Translation Jorge Volpi, with readings by Gioconda Belli twenty-first century. Both a keyboard famed writer Jorge Luis Borges. Solar and Borges’ reciprocal influence Latinoamericano (Mexico), widely recognized Co-presented by Americas Society and GEMAS (Nicaragua) and Luis Rafael Sánchez (Puerto Rico). virtuoso and a skilled composer, Mehmari The opening faculty concert of the New York Guitar Seminar at Writers/translators Efraín Kristal, Suzanne Jill led them to produce exceptional individual and collaborative artistic as a leading proponent of ensemble music In collaboration with GEMS and Hispanic Society of America Copies of Review 86 will be available for sale at speaks in a luminous instrumental voice, Mannes returns to Americas Society. The Seminar offers classical Levine, Alfred MacAdam, and Alastair Reid works. The exhibition explores the public dimensions of their private from Latin America, in collaboration with the and his compositions have been performed guitar students the opportunity to join the world’s top performers, Admission: Free for AS Members; $20.00 for non-members. the event. discuss Jorge Luis Borges in translation and friendship that began in 1924, when they met while working at the Cuarteto Yaracuy, a young ensemble from by leading orchestras. pedagogues, and competition winners for a week of concerts, Borges the translator. In English. avant-garde magazine Martin Fierro, and features a selection of Solar’s Venezuela, performs music by Mignone, Admission for each program: Free for AS In collaboration with Spoleto Jazz master classes, rehearsals, and workshops. exquisite paintings, as well as publications, rare documents, manu- Nancarrow, and Shostakovich. Members; $10.00 for non-members. Admission: Free for AS Members; $10.00 for In collaboration with Mannes the New School for Music non-members. scripts, objects, and artistic interventions in books. Admission: Free for AS Members; $20.00 Special offer: $25 for all three evenings. Admission: Free for AS Members; for non-members. $20.00 for non-members. Admission: Free for AS Members; $20.00 for non-members. top: Carmen Boullosa. courtesy of the author; middle: Valeria Luiselli. Image courtesy of Top: Pablo Mainetti. Courtesy of the Artist; Middle: Image from Trujillo del Peru, Vol. 2; Tpuardoo : Ed Vilches, La constante amenaza ll, 1973. Image courtesy of Joanne Pottlitzer; topul : X Solar. Pan Arbol, 1954. Image courtesy of Museo Xul Solar; Bottom: Image from top: Xul Solar, draft of “Visions of the Trilline”, 1936. Image courtesy of Fundación Pan Alvaro Enrigue; Bottom: Cover of Review 86. Image courtesy of David Zink Yi and Hauser & top: Courtesy of Boosey & Hawkes; middle: Courtesy of the Momenta Quartet; Top: Image Courtesy of R. Murray Schaffer; Bottom: Sketch for the poster for the magazine bottom: Jorge Luis Borges. courtesy of Americas Society Bottom: Xul Solar. Pan ajedrez, ca. 1945. Image courtesy of Museo Xul Solar Trujillo del Peru, Vol. 2 Klub; bottom: Courtesy of the Artist Wirth. Cover design by José Negroni Bottom: Courtesy of Gal Oppido Proa, 1925. Image courtesy of Fundación Pan Klub /Book Presentation/ /PANEL DISCUSSION/ /Concert/ Join us for Americas Society’s special Culture series /Conversation & Concert/ /Exhibition/ p –Jl u2013y M onday, April 15, 7:00 P.M. T hursday, April 18, 6:30 P.M. T uesday, April 30, 6:00 P.M. Iconic and Emerging Figures from Latin America T uesday, May 28, 7:00 P.M. T uesday, June 18, 6:30 P.M. Aril Joanne Pottlitzer’s Symbols of Resistance: Friendship and Cosmopolitanism in Argentine Art and Literature Bolivian Baroque in Concert Featuring cultural legends paired with up-and-coming artists in Salon Series: Riverside Symphony Guided Tour with Exhibition Curator dynamic, interactive performances and events. /Concert/ The Legacy of Artists under Pinochet Contributors to the exhibition at St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University Alberto Ginastera (born in 1916 in Buenos Curator Gabriela Rangel leads a guided tour of the exhibition Xul Solar Pottlitzer, a New York-based producer, director, catalogue, Xul Solar and Jorge Luis 1160 Amsterdam Avenue, at 116th Street Aires) is the most important Argentine and Jorge Luis Borges: The Art of Friendship. T uesday, April 2, 7:00 P.M. /LITERATURE/ and translator, and a group of professional New Borges: The Art of Friendship, examine Meridionalis teams up with Clarion Society for a performance of classical music composer of the twentieth Admission: Free for AS Members; $10.00 for non-members. An Evening of Tango with Pablo York actors, present a dramatization based on the emergence of a cosmopolitan instrumental and choral works from one of the region’s great baroque Wednesday–F 5riday, May 1 –17 century. Musicologist Malena Kuss, leading narratives from her book-in-progress, the product movement during the cultural musical centers. The Jesuit missions that flourished in eastern Bolivia expert on Ginastera’s music, joins Riverside Mainetti, Nick Danielson, Adam Tully, effervescence that marked 1920s Latin American Iconic & Emerging Writers Symphony’s George Rothman and Anthony Korf in a discussion about /Concert/ Octavio Brunetti, and Pedro Giraudo of interviews with writers, playwrights, musi- during the eighteenth century are noted for their extraordinary cians, and visual artists in Chile. Pottlitzer’s book Buenos Aires. Panelists will discuss repertoire of greatly sophisticated sacred music that includes locally In celebration of Review’s forthcoming issue dedicated to iconic and the composer’s work illustrated with live performances. F riday, June 21 at Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College documents the influence of artists on the political the development of a distinct local composed and European pieces. emerging Latin American writers, join us for three evenings of In collaboration with Riverside Symphony East 68th Street, between Park & identity informed by the European R. Murray Schafer Celebration process that eventually led Chile back to a In collaboration with GEMS, Clarion Society, and the Office of the dynamic literary discussions, panels, and bilingual readings of original Admission: Free for AS Members; $10.00 for non-members. Lexington Avenues democratic system in 1990, and illustrates the avant-garde, which was epitomized work by legendary writers and new voices, as they explore past and at Central Park Lake by the friendship between artist Xul University Chaplain, Columbia University Young Argentine bandoneon master power of art on society. In English. current literary trends in the region. In Spanish and English; simulta- R. Murray Schafer is one of the most Solar and writer Jorge Luis Borges. Admission: Free for AS Members; $20.00 for non-members. /Concert/ Pablo Mainetti comes to Music of the Admission: Free for AS Members; $10.00 for non-members. neous interpretation available. influential living composers and sound Americas with an all-star cast of Speakers: Patricia Artundo (Museo T hursday, May 30, 7:00 P.M. artists. As part of Make Music New York, Xul Solar), Sergio Baur (Independent musicians. Mainetti has performed throughout the world as a soloist /Art & Poetry/ /CONVERSATION/ Americas Society presents a series of Scholar), Maria Kodama (Fundación Momenta Quartet: Music by Arthur Kampela and and in bands with legendary tango artists. In this concert his group : innovative outdoors events starting in the will perform original compositions and tango classics. Internacional Jorge Luis Borges). T hursday, May 2, 7 00 P.M. Wednesd ay, May 15, 7:00 P.M. Ileana Pérez Velázquez afternoon and ending at dawn on June 22 Moderated by Gabriela Rangel Visions of the Trilline A conversation between author Roberto Ampuero around Central Park Lake. In collaboration with Kaye Playhouse (Director of Visual Arts, Americas Momenta Quartet, praised by (Chile) and legendary writer Marcio Veloz Maggiolo critics for its excellence in Admission: Free for AS Members; $20.00 for non-members. Society). at King Juan Carlos Center, NYU Admission: Free 53 Washington Square South, Suite 214 (Dominican Republic), moderated by Carmen performing the best of contem- Admission: Free for AS Members; Boullosa (Mexico; guest creative editor, Review 86). porary music, turns its attention In conjunction with the show Xul Solar and Jorge /Exhibition/ /Concert/ $10.00 for non-members. Luis Borges: The Art of Friendship, Mónica de la to composers Manena Contreras, : Torre (poet and translator), Cecilia Vicuña (visual /PANEL DISCUSSION/ Ileana Pérez Velázquez, and T uesday, July 2, 6:30 P.M. S unday, April 7, 4 00 P.M. Arthur Kampela for this exciting : /Concert/ artist and filmmaker) and Lila Zemborain (poet : Guided Exhibition Tour Codex I International Contemporary and critic), accompanied by Christopher Leland T hursday, May 16, 7 00 P.M. new music concert. Sa turday, April 20, 8:00 P.M. Assistant curator Christina Ensemble (ICE) Winks (translator), will read the poems especially Alvaro Enrique (Mexico), Valeria Luiselli (Mexico), Admission: Free for AS De León leads a guided tour Codex II: The Bishop’s Band commissioned for the exhibition’s catalogue, as and Edmundo Paz Soldán (Bolivia) discuss currents Members; $20.00 for ICE premieres new works commis- of the exhibition Xul Solar well as explain their composition process. The in Latin American literature and read selections of non-members. sioned by Americas Society from at Hispanic Society of America, Audubon Terrace and Jorge Luis Borges: The Art poems are inspired by Xul Solar’s San Signos, a book based on the their work. Moderated by Jorge Volpi (Mexico; renowned composers Du Yun (China), Broadway between 155th and 156th Streets of Friendship. artist’s astral voyages written in neo-creole. The event will be held in guest academic editor, Review 86). Alvin Lucier (U.S.), Paulo Rios (Brazil), The second concert in the Codex series /Concert/ and Aurelio Tello (Peru/Mexico) based on the music in Baltasar Martínez Spanish and English with a reception to follow. Admission: Free for features a selection of songs and dances S unday, June 2, 7:00 P.M. AS Members; $10.00 for Compañón’s Trujillo del Perú en el siglo XVIII, the earliest document from the Trujillo del Perú collection Free admission /Mneagazi LAUNCH/ on popular music on the continent, in the first of two Codex concerts. /Exhibition/ André Mehmari non-members. performed by The Bishop’s Band, F riday, May 17, 7:00 P.M. Admission: Free for AS Members; $20.00 for non-members. T hursday, April 18–Sa turday, July 20, 2013 directed by multi-instrumentalist and A solo concert by pianist André Mehmari, /Concert/ Review: Latin American Iconic & Emerging Xul Solar and Jorge Luis Borges: The Art of Friendship early music specialist Tom Zajac, with considered one of Brazil’s most talented soprano Nell Snaidas and a cast of /Concert/Seminar/ / / M onday, May 13, 7:00 P.M. Writers, No. 86 young musicians. Mehmari has created a PANEL Curated by Gabriela Rangel in collaboration with Lila Zemborain. dancers. A multimedia presentation Cuarteto Latinoamericano and Cuarteto Yaracuy The launch of Review 86 features editor Daniel language of great expressive power that T uesday, July 9, 7:00 P.M. : Xul Solar and Jorge Luis Borges: The Art of Friendship departs from Xul accompanies the music and dances M onday, April 8, 7 00 P.M. Shapiro, and guest editors Carmen Boullosa, and is defining Brazilian popular music in the Solar’s cosmopolitan friendship and vigorous exchange of ideas with inspired by the Codex. The Grammy-nominated Cuarteto New York Guitar Seminar at Mannes Borges & Translation Jorge Volpi, with readings by Gioconda Belli twenty-first century. Both a keyboard famed writer Jorge Luis Borges. Solar and Borges’ reciprocal influence Latinoamericano (Mexico), widely recognized Co-presented by Americas Society and GEMAS (Nicaragua) and Luis Rafael Sánchez (Puerto Rico). virtuoso and a skilled composer, Mehmari The opening faculty concert of the New York Guitar Seminar at Writers/translators Efraín Kristal, Suzanne Jill led them to produce exceptional individual and collaborative artistic as a leading proponent of ensemble music In collaboration with GEMS and Hispanic Society of America Copies of Review 86 will be available for sale at speaks in a luminous instrumental voice, Mannes returns to Americas Society. The Seminar offers classical Levine, Alfred MacAdam, and Alastair Reid works. The exhibition explores the public dimensions of their private from Latin America, in collaboration with the and his compositions have been performed guitar students the opportunity to join the world’s top performers, Admission: Free for AS Members; $20.00 for non-members. the event. discuss Jorge Luis Borges in translation and friendship that began in 1924, when they met while working at the Cuarteto Yaracuy, a young ensemble from by leading orchestras. pedagogues, and competition winners for a week of concerts, Borges the translator. In English. avant-garde magazine Martin Fierro, and features a selection of Solar’s Venezuela, performs music by Mignone, Admission for each program: Free for AS In collaboration with Spoleto Jazz master classes, rehearsals, and workshops. exquisite paintings, as well as publications, rare documents, manu- Nancarrow, and Shostakovich. Members; $10.00 for non-members. Admission: Free for AS Members; $10.00 for In collaboration with Mannes the New School for Music non-members. scripts, objects, and artistic interventions in books. Admission: Free for AS Members; $20.00 Special offer: $25 for all three evenings. Admission: Free for AS Members; for non-members. $20.00 for non-members. Admission: Free for AS Members; $20.00 for non-members. top: Carmen Boullosa. courtesy of the author; middle: Valeria Luiselli. Image courtesy of Top: Pablo Mainetti. Courtesy of the Artist; Middle: Image from Trujillo del Peru, Vol. 2; Tpuardoo : Ed Vilches, La constante amenaza ll, 1973. Image courtesy of Joanne Pottlitzer; topul : X Solar. Pan Arbol, 1954. Image courtesy of Museo Xul Solar; Bottom: Image from top: Xul Solar, draft of “Visions of the Trilline”, 1936. Image courtesy of Fundación Pan Alvaro Enrigue; Bottom: Cover of Review 86. Image courtesy of David Zink Yi and Hauser & top: Courtesy of Boosey & Hawkes; middle: Courtesy of the Momenta Quartet; Top: Image Courtesy of R. Murray Schaffer; Bottom: Sketch for the poster for the magazine bottom: Jorge Luis Borges. courtesy of Americas Society Bottom: Xul Solar. Pan ajedrez, ca. 1945. Image courtesy of Museo Xul Solar Trujillo del Peru, Vol. 2 Klub; bottom: Courtesy of the Artist Wirth. Cover design by José Negroni Bottom: Courtesy of Gal Oppido Proa, 1925. Image courtesy of Fundación Pan Klub /Book Presentation/ /PANEL DISCUSSION/ /Concert/ Join us for Americas Society’s special Culture series /Conversation & Concert/ /Exhibition/ p –Jl u2013y M onday, April 15, 7:00 P.M. T hursday, April 18, 6:30 P.M. T uesday, April 30, 6:00 P.M. Iconic and Emerging Figures from Latin America T uesday, May 28, 7:00 P.M. T uesday, June 18, 6:30 P.M. Aril Joanne Pottlitzer’s Symbols of Resistance: Friendship and Cosmopolitanism in Argentine Art and Literature Bolivian Baroque in Concert Featuring cultural legends paired with up-and-coming artists in Salon Series: Riverside Symphony Guided Tour with Exhibition Curator dynamic, interactive performances and events. /Concert/ The Legacy of Artists under Pinochet Contributors to the exhibition at St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University Alberto Ginastera (born in 1916 in Buenos Curator Gabriela Rangel leads a guided tour of the exhibition Xul Solar Pottlitzer, a New York-based producer, director, catalogue, Xul Solar and Jorge Luis 1160 Amsterdam Avenue, at 116th Street Aires) is the most important Argentine and Jorge Luis Borges: The Art of Friendship. T uesday, April 2, 7:00 P.M. /LITERATURE/ and translator, and a group of professional New Borges: The Art of Friendship, examine Meridionalis teams up with Clarion Society for a performance of classical music composer of the twentieth Admission: Free for AS Members; $10.00 for non-members. An Evening of Tango with Pablo York actors, present a dramatization based on the emergence of a cosmopolitan instrumental and choral works from one of the region’s great baroque Wednesday–F 5riday, May 1 –17 century. Musicologist Malena Kuss, leading narratives from her book-in-progress, the product movement during the cultural musical centers. The Jesuit missions that flourished in eastern Bolivia expert on Ginastera’s music, joins Riverside Mainetti, Nick Danielson, Adam Tully, effervescence that marked 1920s Latin American Iconic & Emerging Writers Symphony’s George Rothman and Anthony Korf in a discussion about /Concert/ Octavio Brunetti, and Pedro Giraudo of interviews with writers, playwrights, musi- during the eighteenth century are noted for their extraordinary cians, and visual artists in Chile. Pottlitzer’s book Buenos Aires. Panelists will discuss repertoire of greatly sophisticated sacred music that includes locally In celebration of Review’s forthcoming issue dedicated to iconic and the composer’s work illustrated with live performances. F riday, June 21 at Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College documents the influence of artists on the political the development of a distinct local composed and European pieces. emerging Latin American writers, join us for three evenings of In collaboration with Riverside Symphony East 68th Street, between Park & identity informed by the European R. Murray Schafer Celebration process that eventually led Chile back to a In collaboration with GEMS, Clarion Society, and the Office of the dynamic literary discussions, panels, and bilingual readings of original Admission: Free for AS Members; $10.00 for non-members. Lexington Avenues democratic system in 1990, and illustrates the avant-garde, which was epitomized work by legendary writers and new voices, as they explore past and at Central Park Lake by the friendship between artist Xul University Chaplain, Columbia University Young Argentine bandoneon master power of art on society. In English. current literary trends in the region. In Spanish and English; simulta- R. Murray Schafer is one of the most Solar and writer Jorge Luis Borges. Admission: Free for AS Members; $20.00 for non-members. /Concert/ Pablo Mainetti comes to Music of the Admission: Free for AS Members; $10.00 for non-members. neous interpretation available. influential living composers and sound Americas with an all-star cast of Speakers: Patricia Artundo (Museo T hursday, May 30, 7:00 P.M. artists. As part of Make Music New York, Xul Solar), Sergio Baur (Independent musicians. Mainetti has performed throughout the world as a soloist /Art & Poetry/ /CONVERSATION/ Americas Society presents a series of Scholar), Maria Kodama (Fundación Momenta Quartet: Music by Arthur Kampela and and in bands with legendary tango artists. In this concert his group : innovative outdoors events starting in the will perform original compositions and tango classics. Internacional Jorge Luis Borges). T hursday, May 2, 7 00 P.M. Wednesd ay, May 15, 7:00 P.M. Ileana Pérez Velázquez afternoon and ending at dawn on June 22 Moderated by Gabriela Rangel Visions of the Trilline A conversation between author Roberto Ampuero around Central Park Lake. In collaboration with Kaye Playhouse (Director of Visual Arts, Americas Momenta Quartet, praised by (Chile) and legendary writer Marcio Veloz Maggiolo critics for its excellence in Admission: Free for AS Members; $20.00 for non-members. Society). at King Juan Carlos Center, NYU Admission: Free 53 Washington Square South, Suite 214 (Dominican Republic), moderated by Carmen performing the best of contem- Admission: Free for AS Members; Boullosa (Mexico; guest creative editor, Review 86). porary music, turns its attention In conjunction with the show Xul Solar and Jorge /Exhibition/ /Concert/ $10.00 for non-members. Luis Borges: The Art of Friendship, Mónica de la to composers Manena Contreras, : Torre (poet and translator), Cecilia Vicuña (visual /PANEL DISCUSSION/ Ileana Pérez Velázquez, and T uesday, July 2, 6:30 P.M. S unday, April 7, 4 00 P.M. Arthur Kampela for this exciting : /Concert/ artist and filmmaker) and Lila Zemborain (poet : Guided Exhibition Tour Codex I International Contemporary and critic), accompanied by Christopher Leland T hursday, May 16, 7 00 P.M. new music concert. Sa turday, April 20, 8:00 P.M. Assistant curator Christina Ensemble (ICE) Winks (translator), will read the poems especially Alvaro Enrique (Mexico), Valeria Luiselli (Mexico), Admission: Free for AS De León leads a guided tour Codex II: The Bishop’s Band commissioned for the exhibition’s catalogue, as and Edmundo Paz Soldán (Bolivia) discuss currents Members; $20.00 for ICE premieres new works commis- of the exhibition Xul Solar well as explain their composition process. The in Latin American literature and read selections of non-members. sioned by Americas Society from at Hispanic Society of America, Audubon Terrace and Jorge Luis Borges: The Art poems are inspired by Xul Solar’s San Signos, a book based on the their work. Moderated by Jorge Volpi (Mexico; renowned composers Du Yun (China), Broadway between 155th and 156th Streets of Friendship. artist’s astral voyages written in neo-creole. The event will be held in guest academic editor, Review 86). Alvin Lucier (U.S.), Paulo Rios (Brazil), The second concert in the Codex series /Concert/ and Aurelio Tello (Peru/Mexico) based on the music in Baltasar Martínez Spanish and English with a reception to follow. Admission: Free for features a selection of songs and dances S unday, June 2, 7:00 P.M. AS Members; $10.00 for Compañón’s Trujillo del Perú en el siglo XVIII, the earliest document from the Trujillo del Perú collection Free admission /Mneagazi LAUNCH/ on popular music on the continent, in the first of two Codex concerts. /Exhibition/ André Mehmari non-members. performed by The Bishop’s Band, F riday, May 17, 7:00 P.M. Admission: Free for AS Members; $20.00 for non-members. T hursday, April 18–Sa turday, July 20, 2013 directed by multi-instrumentalist and A solo concert by pianist André Mehmari, /Concert/ Review: Latin American Iconic & Emerging Xul Solar and Jorge Luis Borges: The Art of Friendship early music specialist Tom Zajac, with considered one of Brazil’s most talented soprano Nell Snaidas and a cast of /Concert/Seminar/ / / M onday, May 13, 7:00 P.M. Writers, No. 86 young musicians. Mehmari has created a PANEL Curated by Gabriela Rangel in collaboration with Lila Zemborain. dancers. A multimedia presentation Cuarteto Latinoamericano and Cuarteto Yaracuy The launch of Review 86 features editor Daniel language of great expressive power that T uesday, July 9, 7:00 P.M. : Xul Solar and Jorge Luis Borges: The Art of Friendship departs from Xul accompanies the music and dances M onday, April 8, 7 00 P.M. Shapiro, and guest editors Carmen Boullosa, and is defining Brazilian popular music in the Solar’s cosmopolitan friendship and vigorous exchange of ideas with inspired by the Codex. The Grammy-nominated Cuarteto New York Guitar Seminar at Mannes Borges & Translation Jorge Volpi, with readings by Gioconda Belli twenty-first century. Both a keyboard famed writer Jorge Luis Borges. Solar and Borges’ reciprocal influence Latinoamericano (Mexico), widely recognized Co-presented by Americas Society and GEMAS (Nicaragua) and Luis Rafael Sánchez (Puerto Rico). virtuoso and a skilled composer, Mehmari The opening faculty concert of the New York Guitar Seminar at Writers/translators Efraín Kristal, Suzanne Jill led them to produce exceptional individual and collaborative artistic as a leading proponent of ensemble music In collaboration with GEMS and Hispanic Society of America Copies of Review 86 will be available for sale at speaks in a luminous instrumental voice, Mannes returns to Americas Society. The Seminar offers classical Levine, Alfred MacAdam, and Alastair Reid works. The exhibition explores the public dimensions of their private from Latin America, in collaboration with the and his compositions have been performed guitar students the opportunity to join the world’s top performers, Admission: Free for AS Members; $20.00 for non-members. the event. discuss Jorge Luis Borges in translation and friendship that began in 1924, when they met while working at the Cuarteto Yaracuy, a young ensemble from by leading orchestras. pedagogues, and competition winners for a week of concerts, Borges the translator. In English. avant-garde magazine Martin Fierro, and features a selection of Solar’s Venezuela, performs music by Mignone, Admission for each program: Free for AS In collaboration with Spoleto Jazz master classes, rehearsals, and workshops. exquisite paintings, as well as publications, rare documents, manu- Nancarrow, and Shostakovich. Members; $10.00 for non-members. Admission: Free for AS Members; $10.00 for In collaboration with Mannes the New School for Music non-members. scripts, objects, and artistic interventions in books. Admission: Free for AS Members; $20.00 Special offer: $25 for all three evenings. Admission: Free for AS Members; for non-members. $20.00 for non-members. Admission: Free for AS Members; $20.00 for non-members. top: Carmen Boullosa. courtesy of the author; middle: Valeria Luiselli. Image courtesy of Top: Pablo Mainetti. Courtesy of the Artist; Middle: Image from Trujillo del Peru, Vol. 2; Tpuardoo : Ed Vilches, La constante amenaza ll, 1973. Image courtesy of Joanne Pottlitzer; topul : X Solar. Pan Arbol, 1954. Image courtesy of Museo Xul Solar; Bottom: Image from top: Xul Solar, draft of “Visions of the Trilline”, 1936. Image courtesy of Fundación Pan Alvaro Enrigue; Bottom: Cover of Review 86. Image courtesy of David Zink Yi and Hauser & top: Courtesy of Boosey & Hawkes; middle: Courtesy of the Momenta Quartet; Top: Image Courtesy of R. Murray Schaffer; Bottom: Sketch for the poster for the magazine bottom: Jorge Luis Borges. courtesy of Americas Society Bottom: Xul Solar. Pan ajedrez, ca. 1945. Image courtesy of Museo Xul Solar Trujillo del Peru, Vol. 2 Klub; bottom: Courtesy of the Artist Wirth. Cover design by José Negroni Bottom: Courtesy of Gal Oppido Proa, 1925. Image courtesy of Fundación Pan Klub /Book Presentation/ /PANEL DISCUSSION/ /Concert/ Join us for Americas Society’s special Culture series /Conversation & Concert/ /Exhibition/ p –Jl u2013y M onday, April 15, 7:00 P.M. T hursday, April 18, 6:30 P.M. T uesday, April 30, 6:00 P.M. Iconic and Emerging Figures from Latin America T uesday, May 28, 7:00 P.M. T uesday, June 18, 6:30 P.M. Aril Joanne Pottlitzer’s Symbols of Resistance: Friendship and Cosmopolitanism in Argentine Art and Literature Bolivian Baroque in Concert Featuring cultural legends paired with up-and-coming artists in Salon Series: Riverside Symphony Guided Tour with Exhibition Curator dynamic, interactive performances and events. /Concert/ The Legacy of Artists under Pinochet Contributors to the exhibition at St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University Alberto Ginastera (born in 1916 in Buenos Curator Gabriela Rangel leads a guided tour of the exhibition Xul Solar Pottlitzer, a New York-based producer, director, catalogue, Xul Solar and Jorge Luis 1160 Amsterdam Avenue, at 116th Street Aires) is the most important Argentine and Jorge Luis Borges: The Art of Friendship. T uesday, April 2, 7:00 P.M. /LITERATURE/ and translator, and a group of professional New Borges: The Art of Friendship, examine Meridionalis teams up with Clarion Society for a performance of classical music composer of the twentieth Admission: Free for AS Members; $10.00 for non-members. An Evening of Tango with Pablo York actors, present a dramatization based on the emergence of a cosmopolitan instrumental and choral works from one of the region’s great baroque Wednesday–F 5riday, May 1 –17 century. Musicologist Malena Kuss, leading narratives from her book-in-progress, the product movement during the cultural musical centers. The Jesuit missions that flourished in eastern Bolivia expert on Ginastera’s music, joins Riverside Mainetti, Nick Danielson, Adam Tully, effervescence that marked 1920s Latin American Iconic & Emerging Writers Symphony’s George Rothman and Anthony Korf in a discussion about /Concert/ Octavio Brunetti, and Pedro Giraudo of interviews with writers, playwrights, musi- during the eighteenth century are noted for their extraordinary cians, and visual artists in Chile. Pottlitzer’s book Buenos Aires. Panelists will discuss repertoire of greatly sophisticated sacred music that includes locally In celebration of Review’s forthcoming issue dedicated to iconic and the composer’s work illustrated with live performances. F riday, June 21 at Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College documents the influence of artists on the political the development of a distinct local composed and European pieces. emerging Latin American writers, join us for three evenings of In collaboration with Riverside Symphony East 68th Street, between Park & identity informed by the European R. Murray Schafer Celebration process that eventually led Chile back to a In collaboration with GEMS, Clarion Society, and the Office of the dynamic literary discussions, panels, and bilingual readings of original Admission: Free for AS Members; $10.00 for non-members. Lexington Avenues democratic system in 1990, and illustrates the avant-garde, which was epitomized work by legendary writers and new voices, as they explore past and at Central Park Lake by the friendship between artist Xul University Chaplain, Columbia University Young Argentine bandoneon master power of art on society. In English. current literary trends in the region. In Spanish and English; simulta- R. Murray Schafer is one of the most Solar and writer Jorge Luis Borges. Admission: Free for AS Members; $20.00 for non-members. /Concert/ Pablo Mainetti comes to Music of the Admission: Free for AS Members; $10.00 for non-members. neous interpretation available. influential living composers and sound Americas with an all-star cast of Speakers: Patricia Artundo (Museo T hursday, May 30, 7:00 P.M. artists. As part of Make Music New York, Xul Solar), Sergio Baur (Independent musicians. Mainetti has performed throughout the world as a soloist /Art & Poetry/ /CONVERSATION/ Americas Society presents a series of Scholar), Maria Kodama (Fundación Momenta Quartet: Music by Arthur Kampela and and in bands with legendary tango artists. In this concert his group : innovative outdoors events starting in the will perform original compositions and tango classics. Internacional Jorge Luis Borges). T hursday, May 2, 7 00 P.M. Wednesd ay, May 15, 7:00 P.M. Ileana Pérez Velázquez afternoon and ending at dawn on June 22 Moderated by Gabriela Rangel Visions of the Trilline A conversation between author Roberto Ampuero around Central Park Lake. In collaboration with Kaye Playhouse (Director of Visual Arts, Americas Momenta Quartet, praised by (Chile) and legendary writer Marcio Veloz Maggiolo critics for its excellence in Admission: Free for AS Members; $20.00 for non-members. Society). at King Juan Carlos Center, NYU Admission: Free 53 Washington Square South, Suite 214 (Dominican Republic), moderated by Carmen performing the best of contem- Admission: Free for AS Members; Boullosa (Mexico; guest creative editor, Review 86). porary music, turns its attention In conjunction with the show Xul Solar and Jorge /Exhibition/ /Concert/ $10.00 for non-members. Luis Borges: The Art of Friendship, Mónica de la to composers Manena Contreras, : Torre (poet and translator), Cecilia Vicuña (visual /PANEL DISCUSSION/ Ileana Pérez Velázquez, and T uesday, July 2, 6:30 P.M. S unday, April 7, 4 00 P.M. Arthur Kampela for this exciting : /Concert/ artist and filmmaker) and Lila Zemborain (poet : Guided Exhibition Tour Codex I International Contemporary and critic), accompanied by Christopher Leland T hursday, May 16, 7 00 P.M. new music concert. Sa turday, April 20, 8:00 P.M. Assistant curator Christina Ensemble (ICE) Winks (translator), will read the poems especially Alvaro Enrique (Mexico), Valeria Luiselli (Mexico), Admission: Free for AS De León leads a guided tour Codex II: The Bishop’s Band commissioned for the exhibition’s catalogue, as and Edmundo Paz Soldán (Bolivia) discuss currents Members; $20.00 for ICE premieres new works commis- of the exhibition Xul Solar well as explain their composition process. The in Latin American literature and read selections of non-members. sioned by Americas Society from at Hispanic Society of America, Audubon Terrace and Jorge Luis Borges: The Art poems are inspired by Xul Solar’s San Signos, a book based on the their work. Moderated by Jorge Volpi (Mexico; renowned composers Du Yun (China), Broadway between 155th and 156th Streets of Friendship. artist’s astral voyages written in neo-creole. The event will be held in guest academic editor, Review 86). Alvin Lucier (U.S.), Paulo Rios (Brazil), The second concert in the Codex series /Concert/ and Aurelio Tello (Peru/Mexico) based on the music in Baltasar Martínez Spanish and English with a reception to follow. Admission: Free for features a selection of songs and dances S unday, June 2, 7:00 P.M. AS Members; $10.00 for Compañón’s Trujillo del Perú en el siglo XVIII, the earliest document from the Trujillo del Perú collection Free admission /Mneagazi LAUNCH/ on popular music on the continent, in the first of two Codex concerts. /Exhibition/ André Mehmari non-members. performed by The Bishop’s Band, F riday, May 17, 7:00 P.M. Admission: Free for AS Members; $20.00 for non-members. T hursday, April 18–Sa turday, July 20, 2013 directed by multi-instrumentalist and A solo concert by pianist André Mehmari, /Concert/ Review: Latin American Iconic & Emerging Xul Solar and Jorge Luis Borges: The Art of Friendship early music specialist Tom Zajac, with considered one of Brazil’s most talented soprano Nell Snaidas and a cast of /Concert/Seminar/ / / M onday, May 13, 7:00 P.M. Writers, No. 86 young musicians. Mehmari has created a PANEL Curated by Gabriela Rangel in collaboration with Lila Zemborain. dancers. A multimedia presentation Cuarteto Latinoamericano and Cuarteto Yaracuy The launch of Review 86 features editor Daniel language of great expressive power that T uesday, July 9, 7:00 P.M. : Xul Solar and Jorge Luis Borges: The Art of Friendship departs from Xul accompanies the music and dances M onday, April 8, 7 00 P.M. Shapiro, and guest editors Carmen Boullosa, and is defining Brazilian popular music in the Solar’s cosmopolitan friendship and vigorous exchange of ideas with inspired by the Codex. The Grammy-nominated Cuarteto New York Guitar Seminar at Mannes Borges & Translation Jorge Volpi, with readings by Gioconda Belli twenty-first century. Both a keyboard famed writer Jorge Luis Borges. Solar and Borges’ reciprocal influence Latinoamericano (Mexico), widely recognized Co-presented by Americas Society and GEMAS (Nicaragua) and Luis Rafael Sánchez (Puerto Rico). virtuoso and a skilled composer, Mehmari The opening faculty concert of the New York Guitar Seminar at Writers/translators Efraín Kristal, Suzanne Jill led them to produce exceptional individual and collaborative artistic as a leading proponent of ensemble music In collaboration with GEMS and Hispanic Society of America Copies of Review 86 will be available for sale at speaks in a luminous instrumental voice, Mannes returns to Americas Society. The Seminar offers classical Levine, Alfred MacAdam, and Alastair Reid works. The exhibition explores the public dimensions of their private from Latin America, in collaboration with the and his compositions have been performed guitar students the opportunity to join the world’s top performers, Admission: Free for AS Members; $20.00 for non-members. the event. discuss Jorge Luis Borges in translation and friendship that began in 1924, when they met while working at the Cuarteto Yaracuy, a young ensemble from by leading orchestras. pedagogues, and competition winners for a week of concerts, Borges the translator. In English. avant-garde magazine Martin Fierro, and features a selection of Solar’s Venezuela, performs music by Mignone, Admission for each program: Free for AS In collaboration with Spoleto Jazz master classes, rehearsals, and workshops. exquisite paintings, as well as publications, rare documents, manu- Nancarrow, and Shostakovich. Members; $10.00 for non-members. Admission: Free for AS Members; $10.00 for In collaboration with Mannes the New School for Music non-members. scripts, objects, and artistic interventions in books. Admission: Free for AS Members; $20.00 Special offer: $25 for all three evenings. Admission: Free for AS Members; for non-members. $20.00 for non-members. Admission: Free for AS Members; $20.00 for non-members. top: Carmen Boullosa. courtesy of the author; middle: Valeria Luiselli. Image courtesy of Top: Pablo Mainetti. Courtesy of the Artist; Middle: Image from Trujillo del Peru, Vol. 2; Tpuardoo : Ed Vilches, La constante amenaza ll, 1973. Image courtesy of Joanne Pottlitzer; topul : X Solar. Pan Arbol, 1954. Image courtesy of Museo Xul Solar; Bottom: Image from top: Xul Solar, draft of “Visions of the Trilline”, 1936. Image courtesy of Fundación Pan Alvaro Enrigue; Bottom: Cover of Review 86. Image courtesy of David Zink Yi and Hauser & top: Courtesy of Boosey & Hawkes; middle: Courtesy of the Momenta Quartet; Top: Image Courtesy of R. Murray Schaffer; Bottom: Sketch for the poster for the magazine bottom: Jorge Luis Borges. courtesy of Americas Society Bottom: Xul Solar. Pan ajedrez, ca. 1945. Image courtesy of Museo Xul Solar Trujillo del Peru, Vol. 2 Klub; bottom: Courtesy of the Artist Wirth. Cover design by José Negroni Bottom: Courtesy of Gal Oppido Proa, 1925. Image courtesy of Fundación Pan Klub /Book Presentation/ /PANEL DISCUSSION/ /Concert/ Join us for Americas Society’s special Culture series /Conversation & Concert/ /Exhibition/ p –Jl u2013y M onday, April 15, 7:00 P.M. T hursday, April 18, 6:30 P.M. T uesday, April 30, 6:00 P.M. Iconic and Emerging Figures from Latin America T uesday, May 28, 7:00 P.M. T uesday, June 18, 6:30 P.M. Aril Joanne Pottlitzer’s Symbols of Resistance: Friendship and Cosmopolitanism in Argentine Art and Literature Bolivian Baroque in Concert Featuring cultural legends paired with up-and-coming artists in Salon Series: Riverside Symphony Guided Tour with Exhibition Curator dynamic, interactive performances and events. /Concert/ The Legacy of Artists under Pinochet Contributors to the exhibition at St. Paul’s Chapel, Columbia University Alberto Ginastera (born in 1916 in Buenos Curator Gabriela Rangel leads a guided tour of the exhibition Xul Solar Pottlitzer, a New York-based producer, director, catalogue, Xul Solar and Jorge Luis 1160 Amsterdam Avenue, at 116th Street Aires) is the most important Argentine and Jorge Luis Borges: The Art of Friendship. T uesday, April 2, 7:00 P.M. /LITERATURE/ and translator, and a group of professional New Borges: The Art of Friendship, examine Meridionalis teams up with Clarion Society for a performance of classical music composer of the twentieth Admission: Free for AS Members; $10.00 for non-members. An Evening of Tango with Pablo York actors, present a dramatization based on the emergence of a cosmopolitan instrumental and choral works from one of the region’s great baroque Wednesday–F 5riday, May 1 –17 century. Musicologist Malena Kuss, leading narratives from her book-in-progress, the product movement during the cultural musical centers. The Jesuit missions that flourished in eastern Bolivia expert on Ginastera’s music, joins Riverside Mainetti, Nick Danielson, Adam Tully, effervescence that marked 1920s Latin American Iconic & Emerging Writers Symphony’s George Rothman and Anthony Korf in a discussion about /Concert/ Octavio Brunetti, and Pedro Giraudo of interviews with writers, playwrights, musi- during the eighteenth century are noted for their extraordinary cians, and visual artists in Chile. Pottlitzer’s book Buenos Aires. Panelists will discuss repertoire of greatly sophisticated sacred music that includes locally In celebration of Review’s forthcoming issue dedicated to iconic and the composer’s work illustrated with live performances. F riday, June 21 at Kaye Playhouse at Hunter College documents the influence of artists on the political the development of a distinct local composed and European pieces. emerging Latin American writers, join us for three evenings of In collaboration with Riverside Symphony East 68th Street, between Park & identity informed by the European R. Murray Schafer Celebration process that eventually led Chile back to a In collaboration with GEMS, Clarion Society, and the Office of the dynamic literary discussions, panels, and bilingual readings of original Admission: Free for AS Members; $10.00 for non-members. Lexington Avenues democratic system in 1990, and illustrates the avant-garde, which was epitomized work by legendary writers and new voices, as they explore past and at Central Park Lake by the friendship between artist Xul University Chaplain, Columbia University Young Argentine bandoneon master power of art on society. In English. current literary trends in the region. In Spanish and English; simulta- R. Murray Schafer is one of the most Solar and writer Jorge Luis Borges. Admission: Free for AS Members; $20.00 for non-members. /Concert/ Pablo Mainetti comes to Music of the Admission: Free for AS Members; $10.00 for non-members. neous interpretation available. influential living composers and sound Americas with an all-star cast of Speakers: Patricia Artundo (Museo T hursday, May 30, 7:00 P.M. artists. As part of Make Music New York, Xul Solar), Sergio Baur (Independent musicians. Mainetti has performed throughout the world as a soloist /Art & Poetry/ /CONVERSATION/ Americas Society presents a series of Scholar), Maria Kodama (Fundación Momenta Quartet: Music by Arthur Kampela and and in bands with legendary tango artists. In this concert his group : innovative outdoors events starting in the will perform original compositions and tango classics. Internacional Jorge Luis Borges). T hursday, May 2, 7 00 P.M. Wednesd ay, May 15, 7:00 P.M. Ileana Pérez Velázquez afternoon and ending at dawn on June 22 Moderated by Gabriela Rangel Visions of the Trilline A conversation between author Roberto Ampuero around Central Park Lake. In collaboration with Kaye Playhouse (Director of Visual Arts, Americas Momenta Quartet, praised by (Chile) and legendary writer Marcio Veloz Maggiolo critics for its excellence in Admission: Free for AS Members; $20.00 for non-members. Society). at King Juan Carlos Center, NYU Admission: Free 53 Washington Square South, Suite 214 (Dominican Republic), moderated by Carmen performing the best of contem- Admission: Free for AS Members; Boullosa (Mexico; guest creative editor, Review 86). porary music, turns its attention In conjunction with the show Xul Solar and Jorge /Exhibition/ /Concert/ $10.00 for non-members. Luis Borges: The Art of Friendship, Mónica de la to composers Manena Contreras, : Torre (poet and translator), Cecilia Vicuña (visual /PANEL DISCUSSION/ Ileana Pérez Velázquez, and T uesday, July 2, 6:30 P.M. S unday, April 7, 4 00 P.M. Arthur Kampela for this exciting : /Concert/ artist and filmmaker) and Lila Zemborain (poet : Guided Exhibition Tour Codex I International Contemporary and critic), accompanied by Christopher Leland T hursday, May 16, 7 00 P.M. new music concert. Sa turday, April 20, 8:00 P.M. Assistant curator Christina Ensemble (ICE) Winks (translator), will read the poems especially Alvaro Enrique (Mexico), Valeria Luiselli (Mexico), Admission: Free for AS De León leads a guided tour Codex II: The Bishop’s Band commissioned for the exhibition’s catalogue, as and Edmundo Paz Soldán (Bolivia) discuss currents Members; $20.00 for ICE premieres new works commis- of the exhibition Xul Solar well as explain their composition process. The in Latin American literature and read selections of non-members. sioned by Americas Society from at Hispanic Society of America, Audubon Terrace and Jorge Luis Borges: The Art poems are inspired by Xul Solar’s San Signos, a book based on the their work. Moderated by Jorge Volpi (Mexico; renowned composers Du Yun (China), Broadway between 155th and 156th Streets of Friendship. artist’s astral voyages written in neo-creole. The event will be held in guest academic editor, Review 86). Alvin Lucier (U.S.), Paulo Rios (Brazil), The second concert in the Codex series /Concert/ and Aurelio Tello (Peru/Mexico) based on the music in Baltasar Martínez Spanish and English with a reception to follow. Admission: Free for features a selection of songs and dances S unday, June 2, 7:00 P.M. AS Members; $10.00 for Compañón’s Trujillo del Perú en el siglo XVIII, the earliest document from the Trujillo del Perú collection Free admission /Mneagazi LAUNCH/ on popular music on the continent, in the first of two Codex concerts. /Exhibition/ André Mehmari non-members. performed by The Bishop’s Band, F riday, May 17, 7:00 P.M. Admission: Free for AS Members; $20.00 for non-members. T hursday, April 18–Sa turday, July 20, 2013 directed by multi-instrumentalist and A solo concert by pianist André Mehmari, /Concert/ Review: Latin American Iconic & Emerging Xul Solar and Jorge Luis Borges: The Art of Friendship early music specialist Tom Zajac, with considered one of Brazil’s most talented soprano Nell Snaidas and a cast of /Concert/Seminar/ / / M onday, May 13, 7:00 P.M. Writers, No. 86 young musicians. Mehmari has created a PANEL Curated by Gabriela Rangel in collaboration with Lila Zemborain. dancers. A multimedia presentation Cuarteto Latinoamericano and Cuarteto Yaracuy The launch of Review 86 features editor Daniel language of great expressive power that T uesday, July 9, 7:00 P.M. : Xul Solar and Jorge Luis Borges: The Art of Friendship departs from Xul accompanies the music and dances M onday, April 8, 7 00 P.M. Shapiro, and guest editors Carmen Boullosa, and is defining Brazilian popular music in the Solar’s cosmopolitan friendship and vigorous exchange of ideas with inspired by the Codex. The Grammy-nominated Cuarteto New York Guitar Seminar at Mannes Borges & Translation Jorge Volpi, with readings by Gioconda Belli twenty-first century. Both a keyboard famed writer Jorge Luis Borges. Solar and Borges’ reciprocal influence Latinoamericano (Mexico), widely recognized Co-presented by Americas Society and GEMAS (Nicaragua) and Luis Rafael Sánchez (Puerto Rico). virtuoso and a skilled composer, Mehmari The opening faculty concert of the New York Guitar Seminar at Writers/translators Efraín Kristal, Suzanne Jill led them to produce exceptional individual and collaborative artistic as a leading proponent of ensemble music In collaboration with GEMS and Hispanic Society of America Copies of Review 86 will be available for sale at speaks in a luminous instrumental voice, Mannes returns to Americas Society. The Seminar offers classical Levine, Alfred MacAdam, and Alastair Reid works. The exhibition explores the public dimensions of their private from Latin America, in collaboration with the and his compositions have been performed guitar students the opportunity to join the world’s top performers, Admission: Free for AS Members; $20.00 for non-members. the event. discuss Jorge Luis Borges in translation and friendship that began in 1924, when they met while working at the Cuarteto Yaracuy, a young ensemble from by leading orchestras. pedagogues, and competition winners for a week of concerts, Borges the translator. In English. avant-garde magazine Martin Fierro, and features a selection of Solar’s Venezuela, performs music by Mignone, Admission for each program: Free for AS In collaboration with Spoleto Jazz master classes, rehearsals, and workshops. exquisite paintings, as well as publications, rare documents, manu- Nancarrow, and Shostakovich. Members; $10.00 for non-members. Admission: Free for AS Members; $10.00 for In collaboration with Mannes the New School for Music non-members. scripts, objects, and artistic interventions in books. Admission: Free for AS Members; $20.00 Special offer: $25 for all three evenings. Admission: Free for AS Members; for non-members. $20.00 for non-members. Admission: Free for AS Members; $20.00 for non-members. top: Carmen Boullosa. courtesy of the author; middle: Valeria Luiselli. Image courtesy of Top: Pablo Mainetti. Courtesy of the Artist; Middle: Image from Trujillo del Peru, Vol. 2; Tpuardoo : Ed Vilches, La constante amenaza ll, 1973. Image courtesy of Joanne Pottlitzer; topul : X Solar. Pan Arbol, 1954. Image courtesy of Museo Xul Solar; Bottom: Image from top: Xul Solar, draft of “Visions of the Trilline”, 1936. Image courtesy of Fundación Pan Alvaro Enrigue; Bottom: Cover of Review 86. 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N provided by Arte al Día. and sculpture. His most recent bodies of work explore identity, design and has been exhibited in The Spring 2013 Visual Arts Program is also supported, in part, by public funds figuration, and dramatic narrative. Lehyt has exhibited extensively in group and solo shows in the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East. from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with Europe, South America, and New York, and is a recipient of the John Chilindron is a recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, enue,

v the City Council. Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and the Art the Anonymous Was a Woman prize, a Joan Mitchell Award, A coa.org

- Forum Fellowship, Harvard University. and a Civitella Ranieri Artist Residency in Umbria, Italy. Admission: Americas Society Members Only Event. Admission: Americas Society Members Only Event. Visit www.as-coa.org/calendar for details. Visit www.as-coa.org/calendar for details.

680 Park www.as to p: Richard Blanco. Image courtesy of Blue Flower Arts; Bottom: Image courtesy of Top: Luis Roldan. Image courtesy of Department of Visual Arts at Americas Society; left: Photo: Angel Jusay; Above: Mexican Room at Americas Society by Roey Yohai Johannes Vogt Gallery Bottom: Marta Chilindron. Image courtesy of Cecilia de Torres Ltd. CULTURE PROGRAMS CULTURE April /Literature Funders / A N E T O G The Spring 2013 Literature Program and magazine are made possible by

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#5634 the generous support of The Reed Foundation, and in part, by an award from p R Z

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I NI P PO the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts . N Me mbers Only Event Series A de M July S a O G R

. l R N P F E with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State U P O Join us for an exciting series of exclusive members only events! Visit Phi Admission & Tickets Legislature, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partner- www.as-coa.org/membership for updates. 2013 ship with the City Council. a mericas society Americas Society Members: 680 Park Avenue (at 68th Street) /CONVERSATION & READING/ New York, NY 10065 Free! Wednesday, April 24, 7:00 p.m. - www.as coa.org Register online using your personal login. Visit www.as-coa.org/calendar and Richard Blanco and Gustavo Pérez Firmat General Information select the event you would like to attend to reserve your tickets. A conversation and reading with Cuban- 212.628.3200 American Richard Blanco, the featured poet at No n-Members: President Barack Obama’s second inauguration /Studio & GALLERY VISIT/ Unless otherwise noted, all events take place at Americas Society and /Music Funders / and recipient of the prestigious Agnes Lynch are wheelchair accessible. tickets available Online. T uesday, May 14, 6:00 P.M. The MetLife Foundation Music of the Americas concert series is made possible Starrett Award, and Pérez Firmat, acclaimed Visit www.as-coa.org/calendar, select the event you would like to attend, by the generous support of Presenting Sponsor MetLife Foundation. author and cultural critic (The Havana Habit). LUIS ROLDAN and click the non-member registration link to purchase tickets. In English. The Spring 2013 Music Program is also supported, in part, by an award from at Henrique Faria Fine Art the National Endowment for the Arts, and in part, by public funds from the Co-presented with the Cuban Cultural Center 35 East 67th Street, 4th Floor BECOME A MEMBER TODAY! New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City of New York Colombian artist Luis Roldan represented his country at the 53rd Council, and Clarion Society. In-kind support is graciously provided by the Admission: Americas Society Members Only Event. Venice Biennale. He studied Art History at the Ecole du Louvre (Paris), Join us! Visit www.as-coa.org/membership or call us at 212.277.8359. Mexican Cultural Institute of New York and the Bolivian American Chamber Visit www.as-coa.org/calendar for details. and Architecture at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogota, -coa.org Enjoy exclusive benefits as a Friends Association Member. of Commerce. Americas Society commissioned works by Alvin Lucier, Aurelio Colombia). He has exhibited extensively in Colombia and the United Americas Society individual members share a deep interest in the region, Tello, Du Yun and Paulo Rios with funds provided by Argosy Foundation States, and has won numerous awards such as the Luis Caballero www.as actively participating in culture and public policy programs that explore Contemporary Music Fund, Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, and Meet the M EMBers ONly VISUAL ARTS SERIES Award (Bogota, Colombia) and the National Award in Visual Arts current events in the region. Composer’s Commissioning Music/USA program, which is made possible by This new and exclusive members-only series curated by Director of (Colombia). He lives and works in New York City and Bogota, All Americas Society members enjoy free admission to our culture programs generous support from the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, the New York Visual Arts Gabriela Rangel offers a behind-the-scenes experience with Colombia. and exclusive access to meet-the-artist receptions. Additional benefits include City Department of Cultural Affairs, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, three outstanding contemporary Latin American artists at their New Admission: Americas Society Members Only Event. member rate admission to our public policy programs, guest admission, and the Helen F. Whitaker Fund. York City galleries. Join us for insightful conversations with artists Luis Visit www.as-coa.org/calendar for details. VIP invitations, subscriptions to our publications, and more. Roldan (Colombia), Cristobal Lehyt (Chile), and Marta Chilindron (Uruguay) about their creative process while viewing their most recent /Studio & GALLERY VISIT/ works. A reception follows each event. Join us for new MEMBERS ONLY EVENTS! Th ursday, June 6, 6:00 P.M. See details in this brochure and visit www.as-coa.org/membership for updates. /Studio & GALLERY VISIT/ MARTA CHILINDRON T uesday, April 23, 6:00 P.M. at Cecilia de Torres Ltd. We look forward to welcoming you as an AS member! 140 Greene Street /Visual Arts funders / CRISTOBAL LEHYT

10065 Since the beginning of her career,

Y Xul Solar and Jorge Luis Borges: The Art of Friendship is made possible by the at Johannes Vogt Gallery

N Argentine-born, Uruguayan-raised generous support of the Ministry of Culture of the Government of the City of 526 West 26th Street, Suite 205 Chilindron has focused on issues of Buenos Aires, Aeropuertos Argentina 2000, the Diane and Bruce Halle Chilean-born, New York-based artist space, time, and perspective. Based Foundation, Erica Roberts, Alejandro Quentin, Eduardo Grüneisen, Fundación Cristobal Lehyt works in different media in New York since 1969, her work

w York, Rozenblum, and Veronica Zoani de Nutting. In-kind support is graciously including drawings, photography, video, is informed by sculpture and e

N provided by Arte al Día. and sculpture. His most recent bodies of work explore identity, design and has been exhibited in The Spring 2013 Visual Arts Program is also supported, in part, by public funds figuration, and dramatic narrative. Lehyt has exhibited extensively in group and solo shows in the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East. from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with Europe, South America, and New York, and is a recipient of the John Chilindron is a recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, enue,

v the City Council. Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and the Art the Anonymous Was a Woman prize, a Joan Mitchell Award, A coa.org

- Forum Fellowship, Harvard University. and a Civitella Ranieri Artist Residency in Umbria, Italy. Admission: Americas Society Members Only Event. Admission: Americas Society Members Only Event. Visit www.as-coa.org/calendar for details. Visit www.as-coa.org/calendar for details.

680 Park www.as to p: Richard Blanco. Image courtesy of Blue Flower Arts; Bottom: Image courtesy of Top: Luis Roldan. Image courtesy of Department of Visual Arts at Americas Society; left: Photo: Angel Jusay; Above: Mexican Room at Americas Society by Roey Yohai Johannes Vogt Gallery Bottom: Marta Chilindron. Image courtesy of Cecilia de Torres Ltd. CULTURE PROGRAMS CULTURE April /Literature Funders / A N E T O G The Spring 2013 Literature Program and magazine are made possible by

I Review ia, P TI TA h O A

S C ulture Programs

#5634 the generous support of The Reed Foundation, and in part, by an award from p R Z

l – AID T

I NI P PO the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts . N Me mbers Only Event Series A de M July S a O G R

. l R N P F E with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State U P O Join us for an exciting series of exclusive members only events! Visit Phi Admission & Tickets Legislature, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partner- www.as-coa.org/membership for updates. 2013 ship with the City Council. a mericas society Americas Society Members: 680 Park Avenue (at 68th Street) /CONVERSATION & READING/ New York, NY 10065 Free! Wednesday, April 24, 7:00 p.m. - www.as coa.org Register online using your personal login. Visit www.as-coa.org/calendar and Richard Blanco and Gustavo Pérez Firmat General Information select the event you would like to attend to reserve your tickets. A conversation and reading with Cuban- 212.628.3200 American Richard Blanco, the featured poet at No n-Members: President Barack Obama’s second inauguration /Studio & GALLERY VISIT/ Unless otherwise noted, all events take place at Americas Society and /Music Funders / and recipient of the prestigious Agnes Lynch are wheelchair accessible. tickets available Online. T uesday, May 14, 6:00 P.M. The MetLife Foundation Music of the Americas concert series is made possible Starrett Award, and Pérez Firmat, acclaimed Visit www.as-coa.org/calendar, select the event you would like to attend, by the generous support of Presenting Sponsor MetLife Foundation. author and cultural critic (The Havana Habit). LUIS ROLDAN and click the non-member registration link to purchase tickets. In English. The Spring 2013 Music Program is also supported, in part, by an award from at Henrique Faria Fine Art the National Endowment for the Arts, and in part, by public funds from the Co-presented with the Cuban Cultural Center 35 East 67th Street, 4th Floor BECOME A MEMBER TODAY! New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City of New York Colombian artist Luis Roldan represented his country at the 53rd Council, and Clarion Society. In-kind support is graciously provided by the Admission: Americas Society Members Only Event. Venice Biennale. He studied Art History at the Ecole du Louvre (Paris), Join us! Visit www.as-coa.org/membership or call us at 212.277.8359. Mexican Cultural Institute of New York and the Bolivian American Chamber Visit www.as-coa.org/calendar for details. and Architecture at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogota, -coa.org Enjoy exclusive benefits as a Friends Association Member. of Commerce. Americas Society commissioned works by Alvin Lucier, Aurelio Colombia). He has exhibited extensively in Colombia and the United Americas Society individual members share a deep interest in the region, Tello, Du Yun and Paulo Rios with funds provided by Argosy Foundation States, and has won numerous awards such as the Luis Caballero www.as actively participating in culture and public policy programs that explore Contemporary Music Fund, Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, and Meet the M EMBers ONly VISUAL ARTS SERIES Award (Bogota, Colombia) and the National Award in Visual Arts current events in the region. Composer’s Commissioning Music/USA program, which is made possible by This new and exclusive members-only series curated by Director of (Colombia). He lives and works in New York City and Bogota, All Americas Society members enjoy free admission to our culture programs generous support from the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, the New York Visual Arts Gabriela Rangel offers a behind-the-scenes experience with Colombia. and exclusive access to meet-the-artist receptions. Additional benefits include City Department of Cultural Affairs, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, three outstanding contemporary Latin American artists at their New Admission: Americas Society Members Only Event. member rate admission to our public policy programs, guest admission, and the Helen F. Whitaker Fund. York City galleries. Join us for insightful conversations with artists Luis Visit www.as-coa.org/calendar for details. VIP invitations, subscriptions to our publications, and more. Roldan (Colombia), Cristobal Lehyt (Chile), and Marta Chilindron (Uruguay) about their creative process while viewing their most recent /Studio & GALLERY VISIT/ works. A reception follows each event. Join us for new MEMBERS ONLY EVENTS! Th ursday, June 6, 6:00 P.M. See details in this brochure and visit www.as-coa.org/membership for updates. /Studio & GALLERY VISIT/ MARTA CHILINDRON T uesday, April 23, 6:00 P.M. at Cecilia de Torres Ltd. We look forward to welcoming you as an AS member! 140 Greene Street /Visual Arts funders / CRISTOBAL LEHYT

10065 Since the beginning of her career,

Y Xul Solar and Jorge Luis Borges: The Art of Friendship is made possible by the at Johannes Vogt Gallery

N Argentine-born, Uruguayan-raised generous support of the Ministry of Culture of the Government of the City of 526 West 26th Street, Suite 205 Chilindron has focused on issues of Buenos Aires, Aeropuertos Argentina 2000, the Diane and Bruce Halle Chilean-born, New York-based artist space, time, and perspective. Based Foundation, Erica Roberts, Alejandro Quentin, Eduardo Grüneisen, Fundación Cristobal Lehyt works in different media in New York since 1969, her work

w York, Rozenblum, and Veronica Zoani de Nutting. In-kind support is graciously including drawings, photography, video, is informed by sculpture and e

N provided by Arte al Día. and sculpture. His most recent bodies of work explore identity, design and has been exhibited in The Spring 2013 Visual Arts Program is also supported, in part, by public funds figuration, and dramatic narrative. Lehyt has exhibited extensively in group and solo shows in the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East. from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with Europe, South America, and New York, and is a recipient of the John Chilindron is a recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, enue,

v the City Council. Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and the Art the Anonymous Was a Woman prize, a Joan Mitchell Award, A coa.org

- Forum Fellowship, Harvard University. and a Civitella Ranieri Artist Residency in Umbria, Italy. Admission: Americas Society Members Only Event. Admission: Americas Society Members Only Event. Visit www.as-coa.org/calendar for details. Visit www.as-coa.org/calendar for details.

680 Park www.as to p: Richard Blanco. Image courtesy of Blue Flower Arts; Bottom: Image courtesy of Top: Luis Roldan. Image courtesy of Department of Visual Arts at Americas Society; left: Photo: Angel Jusay; Above: Mexican Room at Americas Society by Roey Yohai Johannes Vogt Gallery Bottom: Marta Chilindron. Image courtesy of Cecilia de Torres Ltd. CULTURE PROGRAMS CULTURE April /Literature Funders / A N E T O G The Spring 2013 Literature Program and magazine are made possible by

I Review ia, P TI TA h O A

S C ulture Programs

#5634 the generous support of The Reed Foundation, and in part, by an award from p R Z

l – AID T

I NI P PO the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts . N Me mbers Only Event Series A de M July S a O G R

. l R N P F E with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State U P O Join us for an exciting series of exclusive members only events! Visit Phi Admission & Tickets Legislature, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partner- www.as-coa.org/membership for updates. 2013 ship with the City Council. a mericas society Americas Society Members: 680 Park Avenue (at 68th Street) /CONVERSATION & READING/ New York, NY 10065 Free! Wednesday, April 24, 7:00 p.m. - www.as coa.org Register online using your personal login. Visit www.as-coa.org/calendar and Richard Blanco and Gustavo Pérez Firmat General Information select the event you would like to attend to reserve your tickets. A conversation and reading with Cuban- 212.628.3200 American Richard Blanco, the featured poet at No n-Members: President Barack Obama’s second inauguration /Studio & GALLERY VISIT/ Unless otherwise noted, all events take place at Americas Society and /Music Funders / and recipient of the prestigious Agnes Lynch are wheelchair accessible. tickets available Online. T uesday, May 14, 6:00 P.M. The MetLife Foundation Music of the Americas concert series is made possible Starrett Award, and Pérez Firmat, acclaimed Visit www.as-coa.org/calendar, select the event you would like to attend, by the generous support of Presenting Sponsor MetLife Foundation. author and cultural critic (The Havana Habit). LUIS ROLDAN and click the non-member registration link to purchase tickets. In English. The Spring 2013 Music Program is also supported, in part, by an award from at Henrique Faria Fine Art the National Endowment for the Arts, and in part, by public funds from the Co-presented with the Cuban Cultural Center 35 East 67th Street, 4th Floor BECOME A MEMBER TODAY! New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City of New York Colombian artist Luis Roldan represented his country at the 53rd Council, and Clarion Society. In-kind support is graciously provided by the Admission: Americas Society Members Only Event. Venice Biennale. He studied Art History at the Ecole du Louvre (Paris), Join us! Visit www.as-coa.org/membership or call us at 212.277.8359. Mexican Cultural Institute of New York and the Bolivian American Chamber Visit www.as-coa.org/calendar for details. and Architecture at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogota, -coa.org Enjoy exclusive benefits as a Friends Association Member. of Commerce. Americas Society commissioned works by Alvin Lucier, Aurelio Colombia). He has exhibited extensively in Colombia and the United Americas Society individual members share a deep interest in the region, Tello, Du Yun and Paulo Rios with funds provided by Argosy Foundation States, and has won numerous awards such as the Luis Caballero www.as actively participating in culture and public policy programs that explore Contemporary Music Fund, Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, and Meet the M EMBers ONly VISUAL ARTS SERIES Award (Bogota, Colombia) and the National Award in Visual Arts current events in the region. Composer’s Commissioning Music/USA program, which is made possible by This new and exclusive members-only series curated by Director of (Colombia). He lives and works in New York City and Bogota, All Americas Society members enjoy free admission to our culture programs generous support from the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, the New York Visual Arts Gabriela Rangel offers a behind-the-scenes experience with Colombia. and exclusive access to meet-the-artist receptions. Additional benefits include City Department of Cultural Affairs, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, three outstanding contemporary Latin American artists at their New Admission: Americas Society Members Only Event. member rate admission to our public policy programs, guest admission, and the Helen F. Whitaker Fund. York City galleries. Join us for insightful conversations with artists Luis Visit www.as-coa.org/calendar for details. VIP invitations, subscriptions to our publications, and more. Roldan (Colombia), Cristobal Lehyt (Chile), and Marta Chilindron (Uruguay) about their creative process while viewing their most recent /Studio & GALLERY VISIT/ works. A reception follows each event. Join us for new MEMBERS ONLY EVENTS! Th ursday, June 6, 6:00 P.M. See details in this brochure and visit www.as-coa.org/membership for updates. /Studio & GALLERY VISIT/ MARTA CHILINDRON T uesday, April 23, 6:00 P.M. at Cecilia de Torres Ltd. We look forward to welcoming you as an AS member! 140 Greene Street /Visual Arts funders / CRISTOBAL LEHYT

10065 Since the beginning of her career,

Y Xul Solar and Jorge Luis Borges: The Art of Friendship is made possible by the at Johannes Vogt Gallery

N Argentine-born, Uruguayan-raised generous support of the Ministry of Culture of the Government of the City of 526 West 26th Street, Suite 205 Chilindron has focused on issues of Buenos Aires, Aeropuertos Argentina 2000, the Diane and Bruce Halle Chilean-born, New York-based artist space, time, and perspective. Based Foundation, Erica Roberts, Alejandro Quentin, Eduardo Grüneisen, Fundación Cristobal Lehyt works in different media in New York since 1969, her work

w York, Rozenblum, and Veronica Zoani de Nutting. In-kind support is graciously including drawings, photography, video, is informed by sculpture and e

N provided by Arte al Día. and sculpture. His most recent bodies of work explore identity, design and has been exhibited in The Spring 2013 Visual Arts Program is also supported, in part, by public funds figuration, and dramatic narrative. Lehyt has exhibited extensively in group and solo shows in the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East. from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with Europe, South America, and New York, and is a recipient of the John Chilindron is a recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, enue,

v the City Council. Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and the Art the Anonymous Was a Woman prize, a Joan Mitchell Award, A coa.org

- Forum Fellowship, Harvard University. and a Civitella Ranieri Artist Residency in Umbria, Italy. Admission: Americas Society Members Only Event. Admission: Americas Society Members Only Event. Visit www.as-coa.org/calendar for details. Visit www.as-coa.org/calendar for details.

680 Park www.as to p: Richard Blanco. Image courtesy of Blue Flower Arts; Bottom: Image courtesy of Top: Luis Roldan. Image courtesy of Department of Visual Arts at Americas Society; left: Photo: Angel Jusay; Above: Mexican Room at Americas Society by Roey Yohai Johannes Vogt Gallery Bottom: Marta Chilindron. Image courtesy of Cecilia de Torres Ltd. CULTURE PROGRAMS CULTURE April /Literature Funders / A N E T O G The Spring 2013 Literature Program and magazine are made possible by

I Review ia, P TI TA h O A

S C ulture Programs

#5634 the generous support of The Reed Foundation, and in part, by an award from p R Z

l – AID T

I NI P PO the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York State Council on the Arts . N Me mbers Only Event Series A de M July S a O G R

. l R N P F E with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State U P O Join us for an exciting series of exclusive members only events! Visit Phi Admission & Tickets Legislature, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partner- www.as-coa.org/membership for updates. 2013 ship with the City Council. a mericas society Americas Society Members: 680 Park Avenue (at 68th Street) /CONVERSATION & READING/ New York, NY 10065 Free! Wednesday, April 24, 7:00 p.m. - www.as coa.org Register online using your personal login. Visit www.as-coa.org/calendar and Richard Blanco and Gustavo Pérez Firmat General Information select the event you would like to attend to reserve your tickets. A conversation and reading with Cuban- 212.628.3200 American Richard Blanco, the featured poet at No n-Members: President Barack Obama’s second inauguration /Studio & GALLERY VISIT/ Unless otherwise noted, all events take place at Americas Society and /Music Funders / and recipient of the prestigious Agnes Lynch are wheelchair accessible. tickets available Online. T uesday, May 14, 6:00 P.M. The MetLife Foundation Music of the Americas concert series is made possible Starrett Award, and Pérez Firmat, acclaimed Visit www.as-coa.org/calendar, select the event you would like to attend, by the generous support of Presenting Sponsor MetLife Foundation. author and cultural critic (The Havana Habit). LUIS ROLDAN and click the non-member registration link to purchase tickets. In English. The Spring 2013 Music Program is also supported, in part, by an award from at Henrique Faria Fine Art the National Endowment for the Arts, and in part, by public funds from the Co-presented with the Cuban Cultural Center 35 East 67th Street, 4th Floor BECOME A MEMBER TODAY! New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City of New York Colombian artist Luis Roldan represented his country at the 53rd Council, and Clarion Society. In-kind support is graciously provided by the Admission: Americas Society Members Only Event. Venice Biennale. He studied Art History at the Ecole du Louvre (Paris), Join us! Visit www.as-coa.org/membership or call us at 212.277.8359. Mexican Cultural Institute of New York and the Bolivian American Chamber Visit www.as-coa.org/calendar for details. and Architecture at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Bogota, -coa.org Enjoy exclusive benefits as a Friends Association Member. of Commerce. Americas Society commissioned works by Alvin Lucier, Aurelio Colombia). He has exhibited extensively in Colombia and the United Americas Society individual members share a deep interest in the region, Tello, Du Yun and Paulo Rios with funds provided by Argosy Foundation States, and has won numerous awards such as the Luis Caballero www.as actively participating in culture and public policy programs that explore Contemporary Music Fund, Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, and Meet the M EMBers ONly VISUAL ARTS SERIES Award (Bogota, Colombia) and the National Award in Visual Arts current events in the region. Composer’s Commissioning Music/USA program, which is made possible by This new and exclusive members-only series curated by Director of (Colombia). He lives and works in New York City and Bogota, All Americas Society members enjoy free admission to our culture programs generous support from the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, the New York Visual Arts Gabriela Rangel offers a behind-the-scenes experience with Colombia. and exclusive access to meet-the-artist receptions. Additional benefits include City Department of Cultural Affairs, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, three outstanding contemporary Latin American artists at their New Admission: Americas Society Members Only Event. member rate admission to our public policy programs, guest admission, and the Helen F. Whitaker Fund. York City galleries. Join us for insightful conversations with artists Luis Visit www.as-coa.org/calendar for details. VIP invitations, subscriptions to our publications, and more. Roldan (Colombia), Cristobal Lehyt (Chile), and Marta Chilindron (Uruguay) about their creative process while viewing their most recent /Studio & GALLERY VISIT/ works. A reception follows each event. Join us for new MEMBERS ONLY EVENTS! Th ursday, June 6, 6:00 P.M. See details in this brochure and visit www.as-coa.org/membership for updates. /Studio & GALLERY VISIT/ MARTA CHILINDRON T uesday, April 23, 6:00 P.M. at Cecilia de Torres Ltd. We look forward to welcoming you as an AS member! 140 Greene Street /Visual Arts funders / CRISTOBAL LEHYT

10065 Since the beginning of her career,

Y Xul Solar and Jorge Luis Borges: The Art of Friendship is made possible by the at Johannes Vogt Gallery

N Argentine-born, Uruguayan-raised generous support of the Ministry of Culture of the Government of the City of 526 West 26th Street, Suite 205 Chilindron has focused on issues of Buenos Aires, Aeropuertos Argentina 2000, the Diane and Bruce Halle Chilean-born, New York-based artist space, time, and perspective. Based Foundation, Erica Roberts, Alejandro Quentin, Eduardo Grüneisen, Fundación Cristobal Lehyt works in different media in New York since 1969, her work

w York, Rozenblum, and Veronica Zoani de Nutting. In-kind support is graciously including drawings, photography, video, is informed by sculpture and e

N provided by Arte al Día. and sculpture. His most recent bodies of work explore identity, design and has been exhibited in The Spring 2013 Visual Arts Program is also supported, in part, by public funds figuration, and dramatic narrative. Lehyt has exhibited extensively in group and solo shows in the U.S., Europe, and the Middle East. from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with Europe, South America, and New York, and is a recipient of the John Chilindron is a recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, enue,

v the City Council. Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship and the Art the Anonymous Was a Woman prize, a Joan Mitchell Award, A coa.org

- Forum Fellowship, Harvard University. and a Civitella Ranieri Artist Residency in Umbria, Italy. Admission: Americas Society Members Only Event. Admission: Americas Society Members Only Event. Visit www.as-coa.org/calendar for details. Visit www.as-coa.org/calendar for details.

680 Park www.as to p: Richard Blanco. Image courtesy of Blue Flower Arts; Bottom: Image courtesy of Top: Luis Roldan. Image courtesy of Department of Visual Arts at Americas Society; left: Photo: Angel Jusay; Above: Mexican Room at Americas Society by Roey Yohai Johannes Vogt Gallery Bottom: Marta Chilindron. Image courtesy of Cecilia de Torres Ltd.