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Julie Schwietert Collazo

Julie Schwietert Collazo is a bilingual writer interested in overlooked people, places, and stories, especially in Latin America. Find out more about her work at www.collazoprojects.com.

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Students Fight Proposed Cuts to the Humanities at SUNY Stony Brook

by Julie Schwietert Collazo June 9, 2017June 8, 2017

To mitigate an anticipated budget shortfall of $1.5 million, Stony Brook University has slated multiple humanities programs for consolidation, including suspending admission of new majors to the Theatre Arts department.

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Occupy Museums Hosts a Faux Graduation Ceremony at the Whitney Museum

by Julie Schwietert Collazo May 8, 2017May 9, 2017

Last Friday, Occupy Museums held a “counter-commencement” at the Whitney Museum of American Art that called attention to student debt and “speculative investment in art and culture.”

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A Small but Steadfast Group of Artists Gathers in NYC to Protest Trump’s Anti-Arts Agenda

by Julie Schwietert Collazo April 21, 2017April 21, 2017

The Artists Rise Up protest secured prime art world real estate near Lincoln Center in New York, but drew only a couple dozen passionate protesters.

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Tania Bruguera Pulls Work from Show at Bronx Museum, Claiming It’s Complicit in Cuban Censorship

by Julie Schwietert Collazo January 27, 2017January 28, 2017

The National Museum of Fine Arts of Havana has declined to send artworks to the Bronx Museum as planned, and Tania Bruguera says it “has neglected to tell the whole story.”

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The Challenge of Making US Museums Multilingual

by Julie Schwietert Collazo January 4, 2017

Which languages should institutions prioritize? Should choices be based on current patrons or on visitors they’d like to reach?

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Amnesty International Calls for Release of Cuban Dissident Artist

by Julie Schwietert Collazo October 3, 2015

Earlier this week, Amnesty International issued an urgent call for the release of Cuban graffiti and performance artist Danilo Maldonado Machado, also known as El Sexto.

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An Artwork Forces Us to Face Mexico’s Disappeared Students

by Julie Schwietert Collazo August 7, 2015August 10, 2015

People who have the luxury of not being directly affected by the world’s many injustices often feel fatigued by so much bad news.

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In the Face of Violence, a Mexican Artist Finds Sanity in Stereotypes

by Julie Schwietert Collazo January 30, 2015January 29, 2015

When Mexico City artist Saner started talking with Jonathan LeVine Gallery about his first solo show with the space, the 43 students in the rural town of Ayotzinapa, Mexico, who would be disappeared by military and police in late September 2014, were still going about their daily lives.

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Artists Put Faces to the Missing Students of Mexico

by Julie Schwietert Collazo November 5, 2014November 5, 2014

When 43 students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers College of Ayotzinapa, Mexico, were “disappeared” by police on September 26, it didn’t take long for residents of the town, and then the state of Guerrero, and then the nation at large to head to the streets to express their rage and sorrow and demand answers.

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At the Guggenheim, Three Critical Takes on Latin America

by Julie Schwietert Collazo September 29, 2014September 29, 2014

Let’s start by saying, just in case it’s not obvious, that there’s something nearly impossible about conceptualizing and mounting a show as wide in its thematic and geographic scope as Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today, curated by Pablo León de la Barra.

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