Gallery Conversation: Anonymity and Authorship in Two Portraits

A gallery talk on Friday, August 14, from 2 to 3 PM that digs into the stories behind two portraits whose subjects were nearly lost to history. Luce Curatorial Fellow Sofia Ortega-Guerrero leads the conversation in Gallery 263, using Diego Rivera’s portrait of Luz Jiménez (a master weaver and Nahua historian) and Albert Schindler’s depiction of Emmanuel Rio (an enslaved Afro-Brazilian musician taken to Vienna around 1820) to explore questions of anonymity, authorship, and representation. Free with museum admission, no registration required.