Wifredo Lam
Woman with Long Hair, 1938
Here’s a link to a review that appeared in today’s LA Times of the Wifredo Lam in North America exhibition. …
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*The Palais des Beaux Arts de Brussels, hosts Mapas Abiertos: fotografía contemporánea en América Latina (Open Maps: contemporary photography in Latin America).
*The Mattatuck Museum Arts & History Center located in Waterbury, Connecticut, is currently exhibiting, Merging Cultures, an exhibit featuring works from Latin Americans, both born in and outside of the…
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Eduardo Esquivel
La Peregrinacion, 2000Sir Oliver Krisch
“Tres Potencias” of the ReCortes Series, 2008
MOLAA’s permanent collection, A Bridge to the Americas presents works of art that reflect the diversity, individuality and universality of Latin American artists. Throughout the year, themes are rotated. Currently on view are Urban & Rural Landscapes, Political History and…
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Past March 12, 2007, The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced on its website, a “pioneering initiative to provide digital images to scholars at no charge.” This announcement has been immediately spread by the scholar blogosphere, as for example in the blog of The Chronicle of the Higher Education and The Attic.…
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…Perennial Treasures from the Gardens of the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
Picture this. Ancient Egypt. Cleopatra’s palace gardens.
“Mark Antony, did you tell the slaves to weed the iris bed?”
“No dear. I thought you were doing that with the gardener.”
“Really Mark Antony, you do amaze me. Do you not remember I had the…
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Daniel Lezama, a Mexican painter, is not afraid of taking on touchy and/or controversial subjects for his paintings. While there are some who praise him there are others who find his works, which are often nude depictions of working-class Mexicans (including children) offensive. His works are described as, “simultaneously violent…
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According to a recent report in artinfo.com Cuban art’s popularity is on the rise, both in the amount of attention it’s currently receiving and the dollars that collectors are spending on it. Check out the piece then come visit the museum so you can see for yourself the reason why Cuban…
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Here are two links that I found interesting and that touch on Latin American art. Enjoy!
*This story talks about wealthy Latin Americans purchasing more art than their North American counterparts.
*Recently the Senate passed a bipartisan bill that will allow for the creation of a National Museum of the American Latino. The…
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