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Oscar Muñoz Visualizes the Invisible 

by Lauren Moya Ford May 11, 2022May 12, 2022

The Colombian artist’s first US retrospective is a meditation on memory and seeing.

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How Pop Became Political for Artists Across the Americas

by Lauren Moya Ford December 6, 2021December 6, 2021

From North to South America, artists used the bold colors, figuration, and appropriated imagery of Pop Art, but with a biting political message.

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Inside Luis Jiménez’s American Southwest

by Lauren Moya Ford November 23, 2021November 23, 2021

Born to an immigrant family in El Paso, Texas, Luis Jiménez grew up in a world dominated by cowboys, cactus, and rattlesnakes, all of which appeared in his art.

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How Leo Steinberg Saw the Profound Importance of Prints Before Most

by Lauren Moya Ford February 15, 2021February 19, 2021

“If you’re going to do art history,” Steinberg declared, “you’d better know what your artists were looking at. And that has to include prints.”

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Diedrick Brackens Explores the Warps and Wefts of Black and Queer Histories

by Lydia Pyne October 21, 2020August 31, 2021

In darling divined, Brackens teases out the symbolism, allegory, and parable long associated with global cosmologies of tapestry weaving.

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A Museum Educator Asks How We Can Feel Closer to Art

by Siobhan McCusker April 30, 2020October 21, 2020

With the teaching galleries at the Blanton Museum now being closed, as a museum educator there I can’t but help ponder how an art experience of close looking with our eyes, our bodies, and our breath might translate in our post-pandemic future.

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Conserving the Art and Legacy of Spain’s First Recorded Female Artist

by Lydia Pyne March 16, 2020March 16, 2020

Once the official sculptor in the court of the last Habsburg king, Luisa Roldán is easily the most famous sculptor you’ve never heard of.

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An Avant-Garde Magazine That Promoted the Indigenism Movement

by Lauren Moya Ford March 4, 2020August 23, 2021

Amauta affirmed the rights and political demands of Latin America’s indigenous groups and recognized their cultures as vital and authentic alternatives to Hispanicized, colonial narratives.

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Joiri Minaya’s Tropical-Inflected Critiques of Colonialism

by Lauren Lluveras December 19, 2019December 30, 2019

In unifying contemporary tropical realities with histories of colonization, Minaya demonstrates how imperialist attitudes survive in the discourse and commodification culture surrounding tropical tourism.

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Subverting the Whiteness of Antiquity

by Lydia Pyne September 2, 2019August 30, 2019

Lily Cox-Richard questions — and successfully subverts — a long-held association between the aesthetic qualities of classical sculptures with physical whiteness.

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Mapping Non-European Visions of the World

by Lydia Pyne August 14, 2019August 30, 2019

Maps drawn by Indigenous artists at the behest of the Spanish in the 16th century illustrate the amalgamation of visual traditions during the early years of contact between Indigenous groups and colonizers.

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How Latin American Artists Have Used Language to Political and Poetic Effects

by Annelyse Gelman May 21, 2019August 30, 2019

The artworks in Words/Matter suggest that language is not simply ethereal and cerebral, but infinitely malleable, corporeal, and tactile.

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