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06/15/2026

The Hispanic Society was thrilled to participate in yesterday’s 🇵🇷 Thank you to everyone who came out to cheer, dance, march, and make it such a special day!

National PuertoRicanDay Parade

06/04/2026

During the Peninsular War, even ceramics took up the fight!

The popular ceramics made in Talavera de la Reina (Toledo) typically feature inscriptions, devotional imagery, and even love messages. However, they also encapsulate the struggles and hopes of the people who made them, becoming places where the community could express its values and, at times, political sentiments.

This pitcher in the Hispanic Society collection reflects the outpouring of patriotism that accompanied the resistance to the Napoleonic occupation of Spain, which lasted from 1808 to 1814 and was known as the Peninsular War or the Spanish War of Independence. The Spanish officer depicted on the central field of the pitcher receives a hero’s treatment, dressed in a fine uniform and surrounded by garlands and foliage.

The ceramics of Talavera developed from the 16th century onward, emerging from the encounter between local Spanish pottery traditions and decorative techniques introduced during the period of Islamic presence in the Iberian Peninsula. The use of tin-glazed surfaces, enriched with cobalt blue and other mineral pigments, gave these works their characteristic brilliance, while the region’s clays provided strength and durability. In this piece, the white glaze is applied in a thin layer allowing the warm tones of the underlying clay to subtly emerge.

Located in central Spain, Talavera de la Reina was one of the country’s most important ceramic production centers, supported by royal patronage under Philip II and buoyed by the arrival of Italian and Duch artisans who contributed to its distinctive style. Production flourished between the 16th and 18th centuries, but declined in the 19th century in the aftermath of the Peninsular War, continuing today at a much-reduced scale.

To see works that capture the revolutionary spirit of the 18th and 19th centuries, be sure to visit our current exhibition “Goya and the Age of Revolution,” on view through June 28th.

Please note: this Talavera pitcher is not currently on view, however other works of Talavera can be seen in our Ceramics Gallery

Pitcher, Spanish, 1808-9, War of Independence Series, Talavera de la Reina (Toledo)

05/31/2026

The Hispanic Society’s Amigos of the Library recently celebrated the launch of the Hispanic Society Poetry Center with a special evening of poetry and performance.

Guests enjoyed a stirring rendition of “En un lugar de la Sangre,” a suite for piano and poetic recitation by Chilean poet, composer, pianist, and draftsman David Rosenmann-Taub (1927–2023). Inspired by “Don Quixote,” the work reflects Rosenmann-Taub’s lifelong movement across poetry, music, and the visual arts.

For this special occasion, Yaissa Jiménez, a Dominican poet and performer who won the Copa América / Copa Continental de Slam Poetry Abya Yala in Rio de Janeiro, joined Álex “Apolo” Ayala, a Puerto Rican bassist, composer, arranger, and bandleader known for his virtuosic command of jazz, Latin jazz, and Afro-Caribbean musical traditions. Together, they brought Rosenmann-Taub’s suite into a new vocal and musical landscape, carrying a work first recited by the poet at the piano into the sound-world of New York’s Hispanic and Caribbean diasporas.

The program included remarks by Guillaume Kientz, Director and CEO of the Hispanic Society Museum & Library; Trustee James Blanco; and Ezequiel Zaidenwerg, newly appointed Head of the Poetry Center.

Presented beneath Joaquín Sorolla’s “Vision of Spain,” the evening marked an important preview of the Poetry Center’s future work in literature, research, public programming, and artistic collaboration.

Supported by the Corda Foundation, the Hispanic Society Poetry Center will deepen the museum’s commitment to the poetry and literary cultures ofthe Hispanic world.

05/21/2026

This year we’re celebrating the 100th anniversary of the installation of Joaquín Sorolla’s monumental mural series “Vision of Spain,” which opened to the public in 1926.

To mark the occasion, the Hispanic Society has launched an outdoor kiosk exhibition on Audubon Terrace dedicated to Sorolla’s masterpiece. Curated by Dr. Noemí Espinosa, Associate Curator at the Hispanic Society, “A Living Vision: The Sorolla Gallery at 100” tells the story behind one of the most recognizable sets of works in the Hispanic Society collection. Featuring rare photographs, reproductions of Sorolla’s sketches for the project, and excerpts from the artist’s letters, the exhibition gives visitors an inside view of the inspiring and at times arduous process of creating and installing the series.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a series of curator talks about Vision of Spain which will take place over the next year.

05/06/2026

Join us on Tuesday, May 12th for a live recording of the Uptown Voices podcast at the Hispanic Society! Hosts Octavio Blanco and Led Black will interview Dr. Niria Leyva-Gutierrez and Martin Collins of the Northern Manhattan Arts Alliance (NoMAA) about the upcoming Uptown Arts Stroll, which will kick off with a celebration at the Hispanic Society in June.

RSVP at nomaanyc.org

04/30/2026

On Friday, May 1st, the Hispanic Society celebrates International Workers’ Day with a performance program titled, “At Your Feet”. This program intends to provide rest, care, and healing to cultural workers through free reflexology sessions.

Reflexology is a therapeutic practice with documented benefits for hand and foot pain, anxiety, blood pressure, and sleep.

Sign up for your free 20-min session via the link in bio.

04/27/2026

Our IMLS textile conservation fellow Alena Mikhailova preparing a 20th c. mantón de Manila for storage 💃

04/25/2026

In honor of , we’re sharing some of the furry (and feathered, and scaly) friends you can see in our exhibition “Sandy Rodriguez: Tierra Insurgente”. While we’re sorry you can’t pet them, they love visitors! The exhibition is on view through June 28, open Thursday to Sunday, noon to 5pm. Reserve your tickets at the link in bio.

04/24/2026

As the photo world gathers in New York for The Photography Show () we are pleased to share this behind the scenes look at the meticulous process of preserving the negatives by Ruth Matilda Anderson in the Hispanic Society’s collection.

Ruth Matilda Anderson (1893-1938) was a pioneering photographer and a foundational figure for the Hispanic Society. As the Curator of Photography, she was commissioned by Hispanic Society founder Archer Huntington to travel to Spain to document regional culture. Along with an assistant, she rented a car and traveled to remote regions of Spain, transporting heavy camera equipment and extensive chemistry sets with her. The tens of thousands of negatives she produced form an invaluable record of rural life and local tradition in a rapidly changing Spain.

Thanks to the generous support of the Leon Levy Foundation, we have been working to digitize the Hispanic Society’s collection of negatives by this groundbreaking artist and scholar. With the help of , we’ve documented the process employed by our curators and archivists to preserve these negatives and share them with the public. Watch the full video on YouTube at the link in bio.

04/22/2026

from the Hispanic Society! Throughout history, people have turned to the earth as a source of natural remedies. In this work, contemporary artist Sandy Rodriguez presents a visual recipe for the treatment of “susto” (“fear”, “anxiety”, or “trauma) using plants found in the Huntington Botanical Gardens in San Marino, CA. The visual style is based on the Cruz Badiano Codex, a 16th century compendium of the medicinal plants found in the Americas. Though the Cruz Badiano Codex is part of a larger project by the Spaniards to identify the resources available in their newly conquered territories, it also preserves indigenous plant knowledge, and as such reflects a lived connection with ecology that stretches back for millennia in the Americas. In creating her work on handmade amate bark paper and using natural pigments (including some derived from plants noted in the recipe), Rodriguez carries this intimate and foundational relationship with nature forward into the present day.

Images 1 & 2: Sandy Rodriguez, “Plant Medicine No. 2 – For Treatment of ‘Susto’”, 2022

Image 3: Page from a facsimile of the Codex Cruz Badiano (original 1552)

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