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Hispanic Society: “Gay Liberation–New York City Pride Parades 1975-1976” Book Presentation

Join us for a conversation with internationally recognized multi-media artist Francisco Alvarado-Juárez about his latest book, Gay Liberation: New York City Pride Parades 1975-1976, featuring images from Francisco’s 2025 exhibition, Out of the Closets! Into the Street!: New York City Pride March 1975-1976, which was exhibited at the Hispanic Society in 2025 as the second installation for Arte en el Alto Manhattan. Featuring 18 photographs, this exhibition showcased the racial and ethnic diversity of the early Pride parades and revealed the nuanced bonds of kinship formed among marchers from disparate backgrounds.

The conversation will be moderated by New York Public Library Director of Collection Development and Global Studies, Jason Baumann,

Francisco Alvarado-Juárez is an internationally recognized multi-media New York-based artist originally from Honduras. With over 50 individual and 90 group exhibitions, his oeuvre spans painting, installation, mixed-media, and photography. Francisco’s artwork is represented in museum collections around the world including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Everson Museum of Art, the Museo Universitario del Chopo in Mexico, and the Museo Pablo Serrano in Spain. Francisco has additionally won over 25 awards, including grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Pollock Krasner Foundation, the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, the Fulbright Program, and the Monson Arts Center.

Jason Baumann is the Susan and Douglas Dillon Director for Collection Development and Global Studies. He also coordinates the Library’s LGBTQ+ Initiative, for which he has curated a number of exhibitions, including Why We Fight: Remembering AIDS Activism and Love & Resistance: Stonewall 50. He is the editor of Love and Resistance: Out of the Closet into the Stonewall Era and The Stonewall Reader. Baumann received his MLS from Queens College, his MFA in Creative Writing from City College, and his PhD in English at the CUNY Graduate Center.

Hispanic Society: Panel Discussion on Sandy Rodriguez “Tierra Insurgente”

Join The Hispanic Society for a panel discussion with Sandy Rodriguez and invited guest speakers about her latest exhibition, “Tierra Insurgente”.

Tierra Insurgente is the first New York City solo exhibition by Los Angeles–based Chicana artist Sandy Rodriguez. The exhibition brings Rodriguez’s contemporary practice into dialogue with rarely exhibited maps, manuscripts, globes, and codices from the Hispanic Society’s historic collection. Rodriguez works on handmade amate bark paper using natural pigments derived from minerals, plants and insects, as her art is rooted in Indigenous Mesoamerican tlacuilo (painter-scribe) traditions. Her paintings, maps and codices collapse centuries of history into a single visual field, connecting early anticolonial uprisings with contemporary struggles around migration, policing, racial justice, and climate crisis.

This event is free of charge. Attendees are encouraged to arrive early to view the exhibition.

GUEST PANELISTS:

Diana Magaloni – Deputy Director at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Head Curator of the Department of Art of the Ancient Americas and Director of the museum’s Conservation Center. Specialist in Mesoamerican art and curatorial practice.

Veronica Pesantes – Writer, connector, thought leader, visionary, producer, curator, advisor, and art educator. Founder of Miami Art Hang and Decolonizing Project. Specialist in Latinx art and activism.

Ryan Pinchot – Exhibition Co-Curator and Senior Educator at the Hispanic Society. Specialist in Latin American visual culture, decoloniality, and environmental humanities.

Hispanic Society: “A Living Vision–The Sorolla Gallery at 100” Curator Talk

“A Living Vision: The Sorolla Gallery at 100” Curator Talk Series: Session 1 with Dr. Marcus Burke

Join us for a conversation with Dr. Marcus Burke focusing on the history of the Sorolla Gallery at the Hispanic Society. Come and learn more about the scenes depicted in each painting and Sorolla’s artmaking process.

Dr. Marcus B. Burke is Senior Curator, emeritus, at the Hispanic Society and a leading scholar of the works of Joaquín Sorolla.

Be sure to save the date for the remaining programs in this series:

Saturday, September 5th, 2026 3pm-4pm: The Sorolla Gallery at 100 Session 2
Saturday, September 12th, 2026 3pm-5pm: Screening and Director Q&A for The Man Who Painted Spain
December 2026: The Sorolla Gallery at 100 Session 4
March 2027: A Living Vision: The Sorolla Gallery at 100 Session 4

Hispanic Society: Catalogue Launch of Dominican Yorks

Join us to celebrate the catalogue launch of Dominican Yorks

Dominican Yorks was exhibited at the Hispanic Society in 2024 as the inaugural exhibition in the Arte en el Alto Manhattan series. Featuring works by Reynaldo García Pantaleón, Chiqui Mendoza, and Rider Ureña, this exhibition addresses themes of immigration, alienation, and spirituality.

For a chance to work with one of the artists from the exhibition, be sure to join us beforehand at 3pm on Audubon Terrace for a printmaking workshop led by Reynaldo García Pantaleón.

Admission is free. RSVP required.

Hispanic Society: Print-Making Workshop with Reynaldo García Pantaleón

Join teaching artist Reynaldo García Pantaleón in a print-making workshop inspired from our course, “Goya and the Art of Printmaking”

The program will be held outdoors on Audubon Terrace.

Be sure to stay afterwards for the Dominican Yorks Catalogue Launch taking place in the Sorolla Gallery at 5:30 where Reynaldo will be honored for his contributions to the exhibition which features Reynaldo’s work!