Announcement
Victoria Cabezas and Priscilla Monge: Give Me What You Ask For on View at Americas Society
The exhibition is curated by Miguel A. López (TEOR/éTica and Lado V, San José, Costa Rica). On view through May 4, 2019.
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Reconsidering Identity in Art
This is the kind of group exhibition that rarely happens in New York — a gathering of artists from different countries, cultures, generations, and aesthetic approaches focused on the construction of identity.
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Lydia Cabrera and Édouard Glissant: Trembling Thinking on View at Americas Society
The exhibition is curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Gabriela Rangel, and Asad Raza. On view through January 12.
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The Ancient Tradition of Maya Weaving in the 21st Century
Maya women in Guatemala continue to practice forms of backstrap weaving that have thrived in Central America for centuries, even adapting them to more contemporary uses like handbags.
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The Metropolis in Latin America, 1830–1930, On View at Americas Society
A rich visual narrative that documents the emergence of a modernist architectural language in six Latin American capitals.
Art
A Film Gathers a Beloved Brazilian Artist’s Intimate Audio Diaries
A Paixão de JL, screening this week at the New School, gathers the tapes José Leonilson recorded during the last three years of his life.
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Wielding Instruments Like Weapons, a Marching Band Sweeps Through Mexico City
Erick Meyenberg's The wheel bears no resemblance to a leg reflects on modern Mexican society as a machine powered by the mechanisms of the state.
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Collaborate with an Artist in a Xerox Performance
On May 24, the public is invited to make unusual xeroxes with the Brazilian artist Paulo Bruscky at the Americas Society.
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A Mexico City Marching Band Meets Political History at Americas Society in NY
An exhibition chronicles a collaborative project that took artist Erick Meyenberg and a local high school marching band to politically charged sites throughout Mexico City.
Announcement
‘Facundo de Zuviría: Siesta Argentina and other modest observations’ at Americas Society
Inspired by the vernacular architecture, design, and urban landscape of Buenos Aires, photographer Facundo de Zuviría (b. 1954) captures the intimate and often unnoticed details of daily life in his images of the Argentine capital. On view January 25 to April 1, 2017.
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A Forgotten 20th-Century Photographer Who Folded Her Work into the Fabric of Life
An exhibition at the Americas Society spotlights Kati Horna, who believed that the circulation of images, rather than the standalone photograph, could bring about social change.
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Exploring the Contradictions in Latin American Modern Design
The notion of the moderno, or modern, in Latin America is more associated with a mindset than a particular style.