Celebrating the release of Telenovela: A Reader, featuring a panel conversation with the publication’s co-editors Aimé Iglesias Lukin and Mariano López Seoane. Telenovela: A Reader brings together artworks, archival documents, and multidisciplinary essays that examine telenovelas through the lenses of art history, sociology, anthropology, comparative literature, performance studies, and visual studies. Expanding on the themes explored in the exhibition, the publication considers the telenovela as a cultural form that has shaped collective imaginaries across Latin America and its diasporas. The program will feature a panel conversation with the publication’s co-editors Aimé Iglesias Lukin, director and chief curator of Art at Americas Society, and Mariano López Seoane, director of the Graduate Program and ISLAA fellow in Latin American Art at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, as well as the publication authors. Together, they will discuss the publication’s central themes, research, and the broader questions raised by Telenovela.
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