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Feliza Bursztyn, a Colombian Sculptor Who Obliterated Norms

Avatar photo by Lauren Moya Ford December 13, 2021December 13, 2021

Bursztyn created vibrating, noisy kinetic sculptures out of scrap metal and cloth with a mix of sensual and disturbing energy.

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How Latinx Artists Were Shut Out Of Art History

Avatar photo by Valentina Di Liscia August 18, 2020September 10, 2021

Arlene Dávila’s Latinx Art: Artists, Markets, Politics considers the plights of Latinx artists through the lens of race and class disparities in both North and South America.

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Taking in Local Projects at Zona Maco, Latin America’s Largest Art Fair

by Layla Fassa February 7, 2020

Even with art on view from dozens of countries, I found myself most drawn to work from local Mexican artists and spaces.

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

Avatar photo 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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The Latin American History of Pop Art

Avatar photo by Brenna M. Casey April 12, 2019April 11, 2019

Featuring works from artists in Latin America and its diasporas, Pop América intervenes in long-held conceptions of Pop Art’s geographic consolidations in the US and UK.

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When Latin American Art Took a “Decolonial Turn”

by Nika Chilewich September 5, 2018September 4, 2018

An exhibition at Mexico City’s Museo Jumex argues that from 1960 and ’85, artists across Latin America created a “decolonial” cultural history. However, the use of the term is largely unclear.

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Childbirth and Menstruation in Defiant Art by Latin American Women

by Susan Silas July 11, 2018July 18, 2018

It is interesting that so many works in the Brooklyn Museum show Radical Women refer to the one form of power that men cannot dominate.

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102 Latin American Works Gifted to the Museum of Modern Art

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton October 20, 2016

In addition to the historic gift, the museum will establish a center for the study of modern art from Latin America.

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A Conversation on Latino Representation in US Art History Departments

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney January 4, 2016January 11, 2016

We spoke to Dr. Adriana Zavala, associate professor of art history and director of the Latino Studies program at Tufts University, about her research on the state of Latina/o representation in US art history departments.

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In Middle America, a Survey of Art from Latin America

by Sarah Rose Sharp December 23, 2015December 23, 2015

DETROIT — The central piece, and the one that immediately draws the eye when entering the main gallery of United States of Latin America at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, is a full wall mural by Minerva Cuevas entitled “America.”

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Bringing Latin American Masters of Kinetic and Light Art Out of Obscurity

by Charissa Terranova August 10, 2015August 14, 2015

HOUSTON — Twentieth-century kinetic and light art has long been the redheaded stepchild of the art world.

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Exploring the Contradictions in Latin American Modern Design

Avatar photo by Elisa Wouk Almino May 15, 2015May 17, 2015

The notion of the moderno, or modern, in Latin America is more associated with a mindset than a particular style.

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