Panel Conversation: Buenos Aires Modern, 1935–1950

Join Assistant Curator Dana Ostrander for a discussion with art historian Megan A. Sullivan on the exhibition Buenos Aires Modern, 1935–1950.

Part of the Sam Fox School Public Lecture Series.

Please note that Natalia Brizuela is no longer able to participate in this panel as originally scheduled.

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This panel is preceded by a member and WashU preview at 4:30 pm and is followed by the public opening of the fall exhibitions at 6:30 pm.

About the Participants

Dana Ostrander is an art historian specializing in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with research interests in art of the Americas, global modernism, and art by historically marginalized makers. In addition to Buenos Aires Modern, 1935–1950 (2026), her first major exhibition, she has curated an extensive reinstallation of the Kemper Art Museum’s nineteenth-century galleries, Reframing the 19th Century (2024). Prior to her arrival at the Museum in 2023, she helped organize exhibitions on a range of topics, among them Brazilian modernism, art of the Machine Age, and photography by women artists. Her publications include Buenos Aires Modern, 1935–1950 (2026), an essay on Grete Stern in Dynamic Entanglements in Visual Culture: Jewish Latin American Artists (forthcoming), an essay on Geraldo de Barros in Modernism, Art, Therapy (2024), and a set of essays in Our Selves: Photographs by Women Artists from Helen Kornblum (2022). Ostrander earned her PhD in art history from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Megan A. Sullivan teaches modern and contemporary art from Latin America in the Department of Art History at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Radical Form: Modernist Abstraction in South America (Yale University Press, 2022) and co-editor of A Companion to Modern and Contemporary Latin American and Latina/o Art (Wiley-Blackwell, 2021). Since 2023, she had served as co-editor of the journal ArtMargins (MIT Press).