Miriam Basilio
Assistant Professor of Art History, Museum StudiesEmail:
Phone: (212) 998-8565
Areas of Research/Interest
Art, propaganda, cultural property and national identity in Spain, modern Spanish and Latin American art, and the reception of Latin American art in the United States.
Fellowships/Honors
NYU Goddard Junior Faculty Fellowship - 2010
Centro de Estudios Hispanoamericanos, Fundación Carolina Travel Grant - 2003
Institute of Fine Arts, Lila Acheson Wallace Fellowship 1994 - 1998; 1999 - 2001
Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowships for Minorities - Honorable Mention List, 1999 - 2000
Fulbright Foreign Scholarship - for dissertation research in Spain 1998-1999
Program for Cultural Cooperation Between Spain's Ministry of Culture and US Universities Grant 1998
NYU King Juan Carlos I Center-Coca Cola Summer Grant - for Research in Spain 1998
Rockefeller Foundation/College Art Association Travel Grant 1995
Institute of Fine Arts, Levy Travel Fellowship 1994
"Picasso's Sueno y Mentira de Franco: A Response to Franco's Propaganda" in Picasso, Vinetas de batalla (Barcelona: Museu Picasso, forthcoming)
"Museums for the People: David Seymour's Photographs of The Duque of Alba's Palace in Madrid, 1936," in The Mexican Suitcase (New York: International Center of Photography, 2010)
The Evolving Canon: Displaying Latin American Art at The Museum of Modern Art, 1945-2004 (manuscript in progress)
Visual Propaganda, Exhibitions, and the Spanish Civil War (manuscript in progress)
"Esto lo vió Goya, esto lo vemos nosotros: Goya en la Guerra Civil Española." In Actas (forthcoming, Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, 2007).
“Catalans! Catalunya. Posters and Propaganda in Spanish Civil War Barcelona," in Barcelona and Modernity: Gaudi to Dali (Cleveland Museum of Art and New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, forthcoming 2006).
“Neo-Expressionism," “Identity Politics" and “Activist Art," (short entries) in Kantor, Jordan. Drawing from the Modern 1975-2005 (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, forthcoming).
“Neo-Concrete," “Otra Figuracion" and “Pandemonium" (short entries) in Garrels, Gary. Drawing from the Modern 1945-1970 (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2005).
“Field Notes from a 'Native Informant,'" in None of the Above, Contemporary Work by Puerto Rican Artists (Hartford: Real Art Ways in collaboration with the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, 2005).
“Satiric Line" (short entry) in Hoptman, Jodi. Drawing from the Modern 1880-1945 (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2004).
“The Alcazar of Toledo: Ritual, Tourism and Propaganda in Franco's Spain, 1936-1940," in Architecture and Tourism: Spectacle, Performance, and Space. D. Medina Lasansky, Brian McLaren, eds. (Oxford: Berg, 2004).
“Reflecting on a History of Collecting and Exhibiting," in Miriam Basilio, Deborah Cullen, Fatima Bercht, Gary Garrels and Luis Enrique Perez-Oramas, eds. Latin American and Caribbean Art: MoMA at El Museo (New York: El Museo del Barrio and The Museum of Modern Art, 2004): 52-68.
Catalogue entries in Voces y Visiones: Highlights from El Museo del Barrio's Permanent Collection (New York: El Museo del Barrio, 2003).“Genealogies for a New State: Painting and Propaganda in Franco's Spain, 1936-1940," in Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture, 24:3 (Nov. 2003).
With Paulo Herkenhoff and Roxana Marcoci, “A Tempo Lexicon," Tempo, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2002.
"Re-inventing Spain: Images of the Nation in Painting and Propaganda." Ph.D. Dissertation, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 2002.
Courses:
Topics in Museum Studies: Exhibiting Latin American Art in the United States, 1931-present (G49.3330)
Topics in Museum Studies: Blockbusters and Building Booms (G49.3330)
Topics in Museum Studies: Curating as Collaboration (G49.3330
Research Seminar (G49.3991)
