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Miriam Basilio

Assistant Professor of Art History, Museum Studies


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: 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.

Select Publications:

 "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 Catalonia During the Spanish Civil War" in William H. Robinson, Jordi Falgàs, and Carmen Belen Lord eds. Barcelona & Modernity: Gaudí, Picasso, Miró, Dalí (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2006).

 Review of Jordana Mendelson's Documenting Spain: Artists, Exhibition Culture, and the Modern Nation, 1929-1939 in Catalan Review: International Journal of Catalan Culture (forthcoming)

 Entries on works by Tina Barney and John Currin in The Figurative Impulse: Works from the UBS Art Collection. (San Juan: Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico; Zurich: UBS AG, 2005).

 "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, 2005).

 "Neo-Concrete," "Otra Figuración" 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). ?"Reflecting on a History of Collecting and Exhibiting Work by Artists from Latin America," and short entries in Miriam Basilio, Fatima Bercht, Deborah Cullen, Gary Garrels and Luis Enrique Pérez-Oramas, Eds. Latin American and Caribbean Art: MoMA at El Museo. (New York: El Museo del Barrio and The Museum of Modern Art, 2004).

 "Satiric Line," (short entry) Hoptman, Jodi. Drawing from the Modern 1880-1945. (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2004). ?"The Alcázar of Toledo: Ritual, Tourism and Propaganda in Franco's Spain, 1936-1940," in Architecture & Tourism: Spectacle, Performance, and Space. D. Medina Lasansky, Brian McLaren, eds. (Oxford: Berg, 2004; Spanish Ed. Barcelona: Gustavo Gili, 2006).

 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.