Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

Puerto Rican journalist and professor Félix Jiménez comments on the “spatial” concept of the MSA (Manifestación Sintetista Actualizada) group and the freedom that it provides artists who participate in exhibitions that are not inhibited by any [...]

Puerto Rican professor and journalist Félix Jiménez comments on the space run by the art collective MSA (Manifestación Sintetista Actualizada), which organized an exhibition in 1986 paying tribute to the VII Bienal de San Juan del Grabado [...]

Manuel Pérez-Lizano, a Spanish critic who lived in Puerto Rico for some time, reviews the exhibition, Arte en function, organized by the MSA (Manifestación Sintetista Actualizada). The platform of the group maintains that anything on exhibition is [...]

This document is a promotional pamphlet for the event “Poema del Pueblo” organized by the MSA (Manifestación Sintetista Actualizada) on the occasion of May Day or International Workers’ Day. The pamphlet urges participants to bring pen and [...]

This promotional pamphlet for the exhibition space of the MSA (Manifestación Sintetista Actualizada) contains a number of drawings, as well as commentaries, by some of the participating artists, including Daisy Mora, Jenny Gill, and Kendallman [...]

This advertising flyer includes a list of the artists who participated in the Galería M.S.A. (Manifestación Sintetista Actualizada) [Manifestation of Synthetism Today] during the exhibition called the M.I.S.A. (Manifestación Internacional [...]

This is an article written by journalist Lorelei Albanese, in which she reviews the exhibition, Amor Sex Anarquía [Love Sex Anarchy] (1986), held at the Galería M.S.A. (Manifiesto Sintetista Actualizado) [Manifesto of Synthetism Today], and [...]

Spanish critic Manuel Pérez-Lizano reviews the group exhibition, Arte y Política [Art and Politics], which was organized in 1988 by the Galería M.S.A. (Manifiesto Sintetista Actualizado) [Manifesto of Synthetism Today] during the VIII Bienal de [...]

Puerto Rican writer Felix Joaquín Rivera interviews the artists Teo Freytes and Yrsa Dávila, who are both members of M.S.A. (Manifestación Sintetista Actualizada) [Manifestation of Synthetism Today], a nonprofit organization that provides space [...]

The poet Iván Silén writes about what Puerto Rican painting is and aspires to be. He believes that painting in Puerto Rico has become “insulated” and has been seriously harmed by foreign “isms.” He mentions that certain artists are the [...]