Curators in Conversation: Edward J. Sullivan, Helen Gould Shepard Professor in the History of Art; the Institute of Fine Arts and College of Arts and Sciences, NYU

November 8 2026 5:00pm - 6:30pm

Join curator and scholar Edward Sullivan for an engaging talk about the powerful and evocative artwork of Belkis Ayón. Sullivan will examine Ayón’s prints in the context of 20th-century Cuban art, exploring its relationship to the work of pioneering Afro-Cuban artists such as Wifredo Lam. He will also consider Ayón’s artistic legacy and its continuing impact on contemporary art today. Discover the rich symbolism, striking visual language, and cultural significance of Ayón’s groundbreaking prints while gaining fresh insights from a leading expert in Latin American art.

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Exhibition Support

Intermittent Islands: Four Caribbean Women Artists is made possible with support from the Leir Foundation, the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation, the Rosewater Family, the IFPDA Foundation, the Schultz-Williams Family, the Katherine C. and David E. Moore Exhibition Fund, and the Director’s Circle of the Katonah Museum of Art: Paul Bird and Amy Parsons, Tara and Jeffrey Coniaris, Mike Davies, Isabelle Harnoncourt Feigen, Linda Nordberg, Rebecca Samberg, and Richard and Audrey Zinman.

The Katonah Museum of Art is proud to be a grantee of the Leir Foundation, the Fred and Donna Nives Foundation, the James Rosenquist Foundation, ArtsWestchester with funding made possible by Westchester County government with support of County Executive Kenneth W. Jenkins and the Board of Legislators, and by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature.