Documents of Latin American and Latino Art

Written by Enrique Salinas, this article was included in the cultural section of the Zacatecas (Mexico) newspaper Imagen, of which he was the editor. It reports the opening of the exhibition Barichara, lo visible de lo invisible at Galeria Arroyo de [...]

In this essay, the curator Carmen María Jaramillo discusses the work of Manuel Hernández in great detail, mentioning his artistic sense of place and his references to the context of art and the history of Colombia. Jaramillo describes Hernández as [...]

In this article Danilo Dueñas discusses the work of the Colombian artist Manuel Hernández in terms of its local context. Dueñas, who is also a Colombian artist, refers to the Argentine curator Carlos Basualdo’s definition of modernism and to [...]

The text, ¡Al Fin Pintura! (1976) [Painting, at Last!] was an introduction to the exhibition with the same name at the Galería Belarca in Bogotá, organized by Eduardo Serrano. This art critic emphasizes the acceptance of the drawing and the print [...]

This document makes some relevant points in the debate over abstract art in Colombia that was sparked by the monument to Bolívar, originally commissioned from the sculptor Édgar Negret by the Ministry of Public Works. In the article, the Colombian [...]

This anonymous article, published in Semana [Week] magazine, reports on the positive critical response to the 1957 exhibition of Puerto Rican art presented at the Riverside Museum in New York. The article also mentions several details about the event [...]

This brief document outlines the history of the Mexican American Liberation Art Front (MALAF). Written collectively by the member artists, it details the mission and goals of the group, linking its development as a critical mouthpiece of the [...]