Breakfast with the Director Fri, Jan 27, 2023, 8:30–10 am

Breakfast with the Director

Fri, Jan 27, 2023
8:30–10 am

Two people wearing dark coats stand together looking at artwork. The artwork is a row of yellow shields made from a school bus side, the text on the bus is in Spanish.
Two people wearing dark coats stand together looking at artwork. The artwork is a row of yellow shields made from a school bus side, the text on the bus is in Spanish.

Installation view of no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art In The Wake Of Hurricane Maria (Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, November 23, 2022-April 23, 2023). From front to back: Miguel Luciano, Shields / Escudos, 2020; Gabriela Salazar, Reclamation (and Place, Puerto Rico), 2022. Photograph by Ryan Lowry

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Floor 8, Trustee Room

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For this edition of our semiannual Breakfast with the Director, no existe un mundo poshuracán artist Miguel Luciano will join Adam D. Weinberg, the Whitney’s Alice Pratt Brown Director, for an engaging conversation about his practice.

Miguel Luciano (b. San Juan) is a New York–based multimedia artist whose work explores themes of history, popular culture, and social justice through sculpture, painting, and socially-engaged public art projects. His work is currently on view in no existe un mundo poshuracán: Puerto Rican Art in the Wake of Hurricane Maria. Luciano was an inaugural artist-in-residence in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Civic Practice Partnership Artist Residency Program (2018–21). He is currently a faculty member at the School of Visual Arts and Yale University School of Art.