Name the New York City institution with a collection of 750,000 objects— including rare books and masterpieces by Velàzquez, Goya and El Greco—founded in 1904 and housed in an early-20th-century beauxarts building with a grand main gallery awash in terra-cotta.
Stumped? If you've never visited or even heard of the Hispanic Society Museum & Library, you'd be forgiven: It's a hidden treasure in the northern reaches of Manhattan that, prior to small exhibitions in a temporary gallery this year, hadn't mounted a show in more than a decade. It had become, in the words of its director, Guillaume Kientz, “a closed institution.” But come January, the first phase
