Gallery and Bookshop Hours
Latinitudes
Apr 03, 2026 - Jul 18, 2026
(12pm)
CURRENT EXHIBITION
LATINITUDES
A Collection of Modern Architecture
Photographs by Leonardo Finotti
Curated by Michelle Jean de Castro
April 2–July 18, 2026
Opening April 2, 6–8 p.m.; gallery hours resume April 3
GALLERY AND BOOKSHOP HOURS
Wednesday–Saturday, 12–5 p.m.
Free admission, no reservations required—ring the doorbell for entry.
Image: Facultad de Ingeniería de Minas, Geología y Metalurgia (Faculty of Mining, Geology, and Metallurgical Engineering), Lima, Peru, designed by Walter Weberhofer, 1956–62. Photograph by Leonardo Finotti, 2016. © Leonardo Finotti
UPCOMING EVENTS
MILITARY GARDENS: Roberto Burle Marx in Brasília
Catherine Seavitt
Apr 30, 2026
(6pm)
Talk
Free; RSVP required
In this lecture, Catherine Seavitt explores two often overlooked episodes in the career of Roberto Burle Marx (1909–94): his absence from the original planning of Brasília in 1960 and his later association with Brazil’s military dictatorship through service on the Conselho Federal de Cultura. Seavitt argues that any discussion of Burle Marx and Brasília must take these histories into account. She considers, in particular, his later work for the military government in Brasília, including two ministry palace gardens and Praça dos Cristais, the large triangular plaza at army headquarters created with architect Oscar Niemeyer. Commissioned in 1967 as a military parade ground and inaugurated in 1973, Praça dos Cristais reveals the political context in which Burle Marx’s late work in the capital took shape.
The talk draws on Seavitt's book Depositions: Roberto Burle Marx and Public Landscapes under Dictatorship (University of Texas Press, 2023), supported by a grant from the Graham Foundation, and is presented in conjunction with Latinitudes: A Collection of Latin American Modern Architecture.
Catherine Seavitt is Meyerson Professor and Chair of the Department of Landscape Architecture at the University of Pennsylvania’s Stuart Weitzman School of Design. She is the faculty codirector of the McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology and creative director of the department’s LA+ Journal. A registered architect and landscape architect, she is a fellow of the American Society of Landscape Architects, the American Institute of Architects, the Council of Educators in Landscape Architecture, and the American Academy in Rome. Her research explores urban landscapes, post-industrial sites, toxicity, and inventive plant knowledge, with a focus on actionable responses to the climate crisis and decarbonization. Seavitt’s books include Depositions: Roberto Burle Marx and Public Landscapes under Dictatorship (University of Texas Press, 2023); Structures of Coastal Resilience, with Guy Nordenson and Julia Chapman (Island Press, 2018); and Four Corridors, with Guy Nordenson and Paul Lewis (Hatje Cantz, 2019).
Image: Roberto Burle Marx, aerial view of the Crystal Plaza garden for the Ministry of the Army with Oscar Niemeyer's Army Headquarters complex seen beyond, 1972, Brasília, Brazil. Courtesy of the Arquivo Público do Distrito Federal.
For more information on the exhibition, Latinitudes
A Collection of Latin American Modern Architecture, click here.
Bacalar Eco-Park Ⓒ Colectivo C733
The World Around Summit 2026
WATCH PARTY
May 09, 2026
(10am)
SATURDAY, MAY 9, 10 AM–5 PM CDT
CLICK HERE to register to attend the in-person live-stream watch party in Chicago at the Graham Foundation
CLICK HERE to buy tickets to attend in-person in New York at The Museum of Modern Art
CLICK HERE to register to live-stream the event
Join us at the Graham Foundation to watch the livestream of The World Around Summit 2026, taking place live at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. Co-curated by Beatrice Galilee and Martino Stierli, this all-day program convenes leading voices from architecture, design, and related fields to survey a year of architecture and design in a single day. Speakers present contemporary buildings alongside new projects and initiatives in landscape, climate intelligence, and design, with a focus on social and ecological justice. The 2026 World Around Summit is co-presented with The Museum of Modern Art.
An international and interdisciplinary lineup explores landscape and urbanism, material innovation, equitable futures, housing, museums, and community through The World Around’s signature format of short presentations. As part of the nonprofit’s mission to make its programming accessible to all, the summit is livestreamed globally.
PARTICIPANTS
Alejandro Aravena (Santiago, Chile), Tatiana Bilbao (Mexico City, Mexico), Gabriela Carrillo (Mexico City, Mexico), Marie Combette (Quito, Ecuador), François-Xavier Gbré (La Rochelle, France / Abidjan, Ivory Coast), Róisín Heneghan (Dublin, Ireland), Mariam Issoufou (New York City), Michael Kimmelman (New York City), Nguyễn Hải Long (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam), Daniel Moreno Flores (Quito, Ecuador), Trần Thị Ngụ Ngôn (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam), Piet Oudolf (Hummelo, Netherlands), Søren Pihlmann (Copenhagen, Denmark), Bas Smets (Brussels, Belgium), Peggy Weil (Los Angeles), Sara Zewde (New York City), Mohamed Salem Mohamed Ali (Smara Camp, Tindouf, Algeria)
Founded in 2020, The World Around (TWA) is a global nonprofit platform headquartered in New York, with a simple but ambitious mission: to rethink architecture. Taking the most critical issue of our time—the climate crisis—as the lens to view all of their activities, TWA connects with global institutions to craft unique public conversations that look beyond buildings to investigate the often-invisible forces that shape our homes, cities, landscapes, and lives. The World Around Summit 2026 is co-presented with The Museum of Modern Art.
To learn more about the 2026 Summit and browse past presentations, click here.
Bonnie Han Jones
Lampo Performance Series
May 16, 2026
(7pm)
Free; RSVP required—available April 29
Bonnie Han Jones has created a work inspired by the tradition of Korean pansori—a musical genre incorporating song, story, and gesture—and the sonic ritual practices of female Korean shamans (mudang).
a place where many people gather (soundings) is a quadraphonic performance that considers how sound, heard in shared listening spaces, transforms listeners' relationships to history, to each other, and to place. Jones draws on archival recordings and works with circuit-bent instruments, transducers, inductors, metal, glass, and voice.
Pansori is a compound of the Korean words pan 판 and sori 소리, the latter meaning "sound." Pan is thought to refer either to a song with many tones or to a situation where many people gather, reflecting the format of the pansori performance, which usually lasted three to eight hours and took place in public, communal spaces. The pansori singer is an oral historian, carrying the past into the present.
Bonnie Han Jones (b. 1977) is a Korean American improvising musician, poet, and educator working primarily with electronic sound and text. Her work is iterative and multidisciplinary, and typically involves building concepts through research and study and then moving these ideas through a variety of mediums, methods, and forms. She uses electronic music, recorded sound materials, text, video, performance, and score, with attention to listening and improvisation as a core theme and generative method. The work broadly explores noise, sonic identity, listening as thinking, and sound as knowledge.
Jones performs both solo and in a wide range of collaborative music, film, and visual art projects. She was a founding member of the Transmodern Festival and CHELA Gallery and has been a board member of the High Zero Festival collective. In 2010, she cofounded TECHNE with Suzanne Thorpe, an organization that develops anti-racist, feminist workshops focused on technology-based artmaking, improvisation, and community collaboration.
Jones has received commissions from the ICA, London, and the Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, and has presented her work throughout the United States, Mexico, Europe, and Asia. She was a 2018 recipient of the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award. Born in South Korea, Jones was raised on a dairy farm in New Jersey, spent years in Baltimore and Providence, and is currently based in Chicago.
Jones last performed for Lampo in December 2022 and is a contributing artist to the Lampo Folio.
Lampo, established in 1997, supports artists working in new music, experimental sound, and other interdisciplinary practices. The Chicago-based organization's core activity has been and remains its performance series. Rather than making programming decisions around tour schedules, Lampo invites selected artists to create and perform new work, and then the organization provides the space, resources, and curatorial support to help them fulfill their vision. Lampo also organizes artist talks, lectures, screenings, and workshops, and publishes written and recorded documents related to its series.
Accessibility: This event will be held in the ballroom on the third floor of the Madlener House, which is only accessible by stairs. The first-floor galleries and bookshop are accessible via outdoor lift. Please contact us at 312.787.4071 or info@grahamfoundation.org to make arrangements.
Note: Registration for Lampo programs is required, but does not guarantee entry. Capacity for this performance is limited. Doors open 30 minutes prior to the performance and seats are available on a first-come, first-serve basis for those registered in advance. Reservations expire 5 minutes before the performance start time, at which point seating will be released to the waitlist. Due to the popularity of the Lampo programs, performances quickly reach capacity. No late seating will be permitted.
Photo: Chris Grady
Constructing Latin America: Architecture, Politics, and Race at the Museum of Modern Art
Patricio del Real
Jun 25, 2026
(6pm)
Talk
Free; RSVP required
Patricio del Real presents his book, Constructing Latin America. Architecture, Politics, and Race at the Museum of Modern Art (Yale University Press, 2022)—a nuanced look at how, through architecture exhibitions, this New York institution became a key agent in cultural politics in the United States and in the consolidation of “Latin American architecture” as a modernist category. Del Real demonstrates how The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)’s curatorial activities generated and naturalized “Latin America” not only as a stylistic and cultural variant of international modernism but also as a racializing concept at a critical global conjuncture. The idea of “Latin American architecture” was seminal for the interpretation of modern architecture in the twentieth century and, moreover, for MoMA’s international projection as cultural arbiter in the Cold War period. It remains an active category that underpins studies on architectural modernism as a global phenomenon. Constructing Latin America was supported by a grant from the Graham Foundation in 2021. This talk is presented in conjunction with Latinitudes: A Collection of Latin American Modern Architecture by Leonardo Finotti, on view at the Graham Foundation through July 18, 2026.
Patricio del Real is known for his expertise in the field of architecture and architecture history, with a focus in the Americas. His work examines the intersections of buildings, politics and cultural identity. As an architectural historian, he contributes to a deeper understanding of the global dimensions of modernism, shedding light on its unique transformations and adaptations. One of his notable contributions is his focus on institutions and the transnational flows of ideas and practices and how these migrations have impacted both the development of architectural forms and the practices of architects in the second postwar period. Del Real is associate professor in the department of the history of art and architecture at Harvard University. Before his appointment at Harvard, he worked at The Museum of Modern Art’s architecture and design department on several temporary and collection exhibitions, and cocurated Latin America in Construction: Architecture 1955-1980.
Image: Louise Dahl-Wolfe, Fashion shoot in front of the Ministério da Educação e Saúde (MES), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, as published in, “Urban Cotton: For Being at Ease,” Harper’s Bazaar, May 1946
For more information on the exhibition, Latinitudes
A Collection of Latin American Modern Architecture, click here.
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