Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

This article tells the story of the first exhibition of women’s art held under the name, Frida Kahlo Salon, at the gallery directed by Lola Álvarez Bravo. The show brought together the works of 40 artists as dissimilar as Remedios Varo, Machila [...]

This article by Pablo Fernández Márquez analyzes the last two publications of the magazine Artes de México (numbers 17 and 18), which was then under the editorial direction of Rafael Salas Anzures. The first of these (17) deals with the pre- [...]

Less than a month after the death of Diego Rivera, the journalist and author Elena Poniatowska interviewed some of Rivera’s closest friends, colleagues, and family members, with the objective of recording their memories of the artist. Poniatowska [...]

The art critic Raquel Tibol, an Argentine native who arrived in Mexico in 1953, uses mural works in progress by David Alfaro Siqueiros, Jorge González Camarena, and Fanny Rabel, as examples of the vitality of the post-revolutionary pictorial [...]