Gallery Talk: From the Andes to the Caribbean

Sunday, March 5, join associate curator Horace D. Ballard for an in-depth discussion about one of the works in the exhibition "De los Andes al Caribe: El Arte Americano Desde el Imperio Español/From the Andes to the Caribbean: American Art from the Spanish Empire," on view until Sunday, July 30. Ballard will share insights about the ways in which the idea of “America” and the canon of American art are inseparable from the histories of Spanish colonialism across the hemisphere.

Featuring nearly 50 objects from Harvard Art Museums collections and the Carl & Marilynn Thoma Foundation, the exhibition explores how American material and mineral wealth fueled global trade, impacted modern politics and changed the course of visual history.